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How many ants should my ant queen have before I put her in the ac outworld she currently has about 6-8?
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Your colony should be introduced to an outworld at the first worker. Use the drinking straw technique, and never feed your ants inside the tube.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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What is the drinking straw technique? I'm new to ant keeping
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And how should I introduce my colony to the outworld?
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Use a one inch section of drinking straw wedged between the exit cotton that is plugging the tube and the side of the tube. This makes a cozy tunnel for them. Then place the whole tube in an outworld (a tupperware container with a barrier will do. ) SImply leave food outside the tube in the outworld and they will forage when they get hungry.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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