How do you feed small colonies?? Please help!
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:41 am
Hi! I'm a novice ant keeper struggling to understand feeding my new colony. I have a test tube with maybe 20 workers and a queen (small species). I've been giving them drops of honey, but haven't given them any protein because I'm not sure how. I can only buy meal worms in groups of 12, but they're not even going to eat half of one. I don't want to waste 11 meal worm lives. Ideally, I'd get a cricket leg, but how do I obtain such a treat?? I can catch insects outside but then run a greater risk of parasites or dare I say pesticides getting into my colony. Although I could try boiling them. What do you all do with new colonies? in the past I've just been able to steal from my dads fruit flies but now I'm in college and can't. Thanks for any advice!