Honey and Sugary Liquids

[JoeHostile1]

Giving honey to new colonies is risky because some species of ants specifically and some individual ants can get stuck in the honey and die. Which you really don’t want if you only have a few workers. So if you go with honey you don’t want to just give them a huge blob until your sure your species can handle it.

I offer my ants honey, but normally just give them sugar water. Which I mix 50% sugar/50% water. I then either soak a cotton ball in it to give them. Or I make a sugar water testube and leave it in their outworld.

[AntsDakota]

I find Lasius and Camponotus very nimble around honey, and rarely get stuck in it.