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I’m starting a small colony of Formica ants, and I’m going to need to feed them soon. Thing is, I’m a bit squeamish around bugs. Is there any common household foods the ants can eat as an alternative to roaches or crickets?

Ok, now her nanitics have moved in with her outside the bottle. It seems that they find the space UNDER the bottle a more suitable home than INSIDE it. I dont know why they would choose that, as they’re a lot more exposed on the outside of it there. Is there a way to get them to move back inside?

Not exactly sure what exact species, but they’re definitely a Formica species. Maybe Formica Moki? Still not 100% sure.

So, when I caught my ant queen, I put her in a tiny, emptied-out shampoo bottle. Then, when I saw workers about a month later, I put that bottle in a jar with an olive oil barrier. I took the stopper out of the bottle so they could come out and forage. But then, a week later, I see the queen on the ...

I recently ordered an AC hybrid nest and an AC test tube portal. Thing is, I blew all my money on those. I don’t know if I’ll have gotten enough money for the (kinda expensive) outworld by the time I get enough workers. So I was wondering, can an AC test tube portal be used as a replacement for an o...

Well, when I thought she was camponotus, I went shopping for a hybrid nest. The camponotus one was out of stock, so I got Formica. So if it IS Formica, then I made the right choice.

So I found an ant queen wandering around Camp Whitsett in the high Sierras in early July 2019. She’s black with a red thorax, and I’m pretty sure she might be a carpenter ant. Anyone know the species? I put iCloud links to the images below. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bcf0OfBBmicO4ZcBHG9bHM5w h...