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- Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:00 am
- Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
- Topic: When to introduce protein to a new colony
- Replies: 1
- Views: 154
When to introduce protein to a new colony
I have a 10 worker (second generation) colony of iridomyrmex bicknelli. I have been feeding them a diet consisting of honey for the past 2 weeks. I was wondering when I should start feeding them protein?
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:58 am
- Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
- Topic: trying to find more info on what honey pot ants eat
- Replies: 2
- Views: 130
Re: trying to find more info on what honey pot ants eat
I’m pretty sure they will eat ant sunburst nectar or honey. I think for proteins they will eat small things like flies or small bug pieces
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:13 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: A few Nanitics died
- Replies: 1
- Views: 60
A few Nanitics died
Hi guys recently my iridomyrmex sp queen’s pupae became nanitics. Currently there are about 14 workers, but a few of them drowned in the honey I have them (4 to be precise) I was wondering if this will majorly impact the colony since they are very vulnerable at the moment? Also if anyone has any adv...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:21 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Big red ant worker identification
- Replies: 3
- Views: 107
Big red ant worker identification
I found a pretty big red worker ant near the beach in Perth Australia. it has really long legs and is dark red in colour It also has decent sized mandibles and about three gaster segments It has pretty small eyes too It looks like it might be a ponerine ant if some kind but I can’t be sure It also l...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: What is this... long queen?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 567
Re: What is this... long queen?
I’ve caught one of these before too not quite sure what species it was
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:10 pm
- Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
- Topic: Will ant larvae eat ant jelly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 122
Re: Will ant larvae eat ant jelly
Yes my bullant queen hasn’t touched it either
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:08 am
- Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
- Topic: Will ant larvae eat ant jelly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 122
Will ant larvae eat ant jelly
Hi I have a semi claustral ant queen and I was running low on mealworms so I decided to try some ant protein jelly Link here https://www.antpark.com.au/essentials My queen has only one larvae and has been fed only mealworms since I caught it I was wondering if the queen will actually feed the jelly ...
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:12 pm
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Queens eggs haven’t hatched
- Replies: 3
- Views: 197
Re: Queens eggs haven’t hatched
Yay I checked and I think it has one larvae
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Messor queen?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 325
Re: Messor queen?
This might help
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates#Crematogaster
Or antweb.org
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates#Crematogaster
Or antweb.org
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:13 am
- Forum: The GAN Project (Global Ant Nursery)
- Topic: Looking for Queen Ant in Ohio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1447
Re: Looking for Queen Ant in Ohio
U could look for the massive 10 metre long ants that are exclusive to Ohio 
