Myrmica colony not liking honey

[AntsDakota]

I feed my Myrmica colony honey and most workers inspect it and decide that it's not worth sharing with the colony. I gave them brown sugar water and they don't like that either! What do I feed them?

[TheRealAntMan]

Experiment with them. Myrmica are smaller ants and they might be finding the honey to thick. Try some honey water or hummingbird nectar. If those don’t (which I doubt they won’t) work maybe try fruit like apple, watermelon, or even banana.

[ClashOwenBash]

Sugar water works for me

[idahoantgirl]

They may also just be at a stage of their development where they don’t need much food, or they are just eating when ur not watching

[idahoantgirl]

Also are you providing them with protein?

[AntsDakota]

Also are you providing them with protein?

They don't have any larvae so I just feed them a fly every once and while, so the queen still keeps laying eggs.

[AntsDakota]

They may also just be at a stage of their development where they don’t need much food, or they are just eating when ur not watching

They have about 80 workers.

[AntsDakota]

Experiment with them. Myrmica are smaller ants and they might be finding the honey to thick. Try some honey water or hummingbird nectar. If those don’t (which I doubt they won’t) work maybe try fruit like apple, watermelon, or even banana.

Lasius ants love honey and the Myrmica species I have is many times larger than Lasius. They're almost as big or just as big as Formica, depending on the size of the Formica worker.

[idahoantgirl]

still, young colonies (80 is still very small) go through phases of not needing as much. I would keep on providing different sources of sugar and protein and don't worry. They aren't going to forget how to eat