Doubts: First round of worker ants

[ShadowAnts86]

Hi, AC FORUM! I have good news! My Camponotus colony had his first round of worker ants!
I saw the tutorial on the first round of worker ants that Mikey uploaded to the AntsCanada YouTube channel and i don´t understand it very well. So... i have some questions!

QUESTIONS:

1: I should feed them 5-7 days later that the first worker ant arrived?

2: How often should i feed them? Every two or three days?

3: Where i can get a cricket leg? Because the crickets in my garden could have pesticides or insecticides and if i go to my local pet store i can´t ask just for one or more cricket legs...

4: Which foods do you reccomend? Fruit, insects, veggies, a dead worker ant from another spp.?

I await your response,
Shadow Ants

[Nathant]

A cricket's leg isn't the only part that is edible. As long as you cut it open, your ants will do fine on it.

[Cale3459]

1. Watch for when they are leaving the nest to forage and feed them then.
2. I just make sure to have food available every few days. The larger the colony gets the more often you will need to feed.
3. Your local pet shop should have crickets as feeders for reptiles. I told mine that I was feeding ants and she gave me small soft body crickets. I rip the heads off to expose the insides for them to make it easy and to keep my ants from being injured by a live jumping cricket. You can also get wingless fruit flies from pet shops.
4. My Camponotus penn. love honey, apples, crickets, and fruit flies as their most common items and then I switch it up with other items whenever I feel like it. I keep water in a test tube at all times and sometimes I will add a second one with some sugar mixed in as a treat.

[shaky33]

I found fruit flies are the perfect little meal for my nanitics.