troopstar
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| 05 Jun 2013 05:24 PM |
Ok so today I went outside to look for Lasius Flavus queens in my neighborhood's small park. When there I found a small colony of Pheidole megacephala and I went ahead and dug it up. For a second I thought I would never find the queen, so I left and went to look somewhere else in the park, after 3 minutes of looking I returned to the area and when I dug about like 5 pounds of sand, I found the queen! I took a few minor workers and a lot of majors, but I never got the chance to get the brood since they where totally invisible in the light colored sand. So this is what I need help with. I put a wet cotton boll in their container but I don't know what to feed them. I don't know what to feed the workers and the queen. Will sugar water do or should I try getting aphids for them to suck up the sap from them?
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| 05 Jun 2013 05:25 PM |
qq i stepted on them qq i knuw rihjtada |
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| 05 Jun 2013 05:26 PM |
| Sugar, Sugar cubes, ants dont like water |
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| 05 Jun 2013 05:34 PM |
| Actually ants can't swim in water, but it doesn't mean they fear it. I squeezed the cotton to make sure it didn't fill the whole container with water. And plus, adult ants cannot digest solid material or organic objects such as bread, meat, seeds, other ants. All this is just for the larvae, and the ants, I think drink the blood of their victims and feed it to the rest of the colony. Well this species isn't carniverous, so they drink honeydew which is made by Aphids. Sugar cubes is solid and their mouths aren't strong enough to break it down with their jaws. |
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