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SolenopsisKeeper
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Aphids

Post: # 88032Post SolenopsisKeeper
Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:08 am

Hello!
If I find a plant with tons of aphids, and caltipillars, how long do I need to raise the aphids until they are pesticide free?
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Antloverhuman
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Re: Aphids

Post: # 88050Post Antloverhuman
Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:02 am

I think you will have to get them inside and give them a special enclosure to ensure no other pesticides from outside come. Then you will have to wait maybe a couple of months of raising them and feed some to wild colonies and see if they have any effects on them
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Re: Aphids

Post: # 88072Post SolenopsisKeeper
Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:31 am

Antloverhuman wrote:
Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:02 am
I think you will have to get them inside and give them a special enclosure to ensure no other pesticides from outside come. Then you will have to wait maybe a couple of months of raising them and feed some to wild colonies and see if they have any effects on them
A “special enclosure”, as a can with plants they usually eat? I can grow the plants from seeds, and will Camponotus farm aphids or eat them.
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Re: Aphids

Post: # 88126Post Antloverhuman
Sat Feb 12, 2022 12:12 am

Yeah a can will work. I don't know if they will eat the aphids but maybe one worker ant will discover that their poop is tasty and all other ants will stop eating them and eat the sweet poo :lol:
Ants I have-
camponotus compressus colony- the shadow warriors.
Pls just let me have a tetramorium colony

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Re: Aphids

Post: # 88143Post SolenopsisKeeper
Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:26 pm

Antloverhuman wrote:
Sat Feb 12, 2022 12:12 am
Yeah a can will work. I don't know if they will eat the aphids but maybe one worker ant will discover that their poop is tasty and all other ants will stop eating them and eat the sweet poo :lol:
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Re: Aphids

Post: # 88247Post AntsLuxembourg
Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:02 am

SolenopsisKeeper wrote:
Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:08 am
Hello!
If I find a plant with tons of aphids, and caltipillars, how long do I need to raise the aphids until they are pesticide free?
I would say, if you have a plant that you grew and they like, you could move some over and see if they increase in number. That way they will be pesticide free at some point. ;)
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