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False honey pot ants

Post: # 31434Post Winteranter21
Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:39 am

If you ever raised a colony of these how do you stop them from climbing out of the outworld they seem to just run through baby powder and rubbing alchol any suggestions?

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Re: False honey pot ants

Post: # 31436Post idahoantgirl
Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:42 am

Winteranter21 wrote:
Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:39 am
If you ever raised a colony of these how do you stop them from climbing out of the outworld they seem to just run through baby powder and rubbing alchol any suggestions?
I odnt use rubbing alcohol, as I was having the same trouble with my tetramorium colony. I just sprinkle some dry baby powder onto a plate, and the dip a cotton ball in it and dab it all over the walls of the outworld. this creates a very thin very difficult to climb barrier.
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile

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