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I'll figure something out. Hard to believe how fast carpenter ants are.

The problem with the feeding chute is getting their garbage back out. My tweezers won't fit in there, and even if they did, it would require the ants to pile their trash right under it, and I'm afraid they're not that cooperative. :lol: My other thought is to put the food in a spare test tube and th...

Ok, so I have two colonies of Camponotus right now, both with 5-10 workers. I've been feeding them every few days and they seem to be doing well. At the moment, I have them in test tubes attached to an AC test tube portal (one for each, so they're separate, of course). I've been dropping their food ...

Interesting. In the wild, I've always found ants go crazy for dry dog food. I've not tried feeding it to a captive colony, though.

I think it was organic which means pesticides free right? Organic means nothing. It's a buzzword companies use to market products because they know it's popular right now. If anything, organic could well mean there's less quality control, not more (at least as far as human health goes). In terms of...

Thanks, guys. I'll try that.

First of all, I recommend you check up on your ants a lot less. Sounds like you checked at least 3 times in one day? You can easily leave the food in there for 3 days without it growing any dangerous molds. Dragging the leg into the nest is not uncommon, they might actually want the queen to help t...

Update: So, both colonies have four or five workers now. As far as I can tell, they ate the honey I provided, so I waited several days, then offered them both a cricket leg (canned crickets from a pet store), dipped in a small amount of honey again. I'm not entirely sure what to do now, though. I'll...

Well, I went ahead and fed them. I attached two AC test tube portals, one to each of the tubes, with the other entrances plugged, and put a little drop of honey near the exit of their tubes. I was hoping to see them venture out to check out the honey, but they didn't emerge while I was watching. I a...

So, I have two Camponatus novaeboracensis queens and they're doing well so far. Their first generation of workers are mostly in the pupa stage right now. But, I noticed this past Sunday (today being Monday here) that at least one worker had emerged in each tube. Thus far, no others have emerged from...