Camponotus ants stopped eating

[jennhudgins]

Hello!
We have a camponotus colony of ants (we live in Michigan) that has stopped eating.

The setup is a formicarium and outworld. We had been putting honey and mealworms in the outworld and they had been eating from that for a few months. The ants are no longer eating mealworms. We have tried replacing the mealworms we have with different kinds of mealworms in case the old ones were bad. The amount of honey they have eaten has gone down a lot.

Right now they seem to have eggs, but no brood.

We are worried about them. Are we doing anything wrong?
Best wishes,
Jenn

[SYUTEO]

Feed them something else, if you feed them the same thing for some time, they will eventually get bored of eating it and will only accept other foods.

[PAants]

Feed them something else, if you feed them the same thing for some time, they will eventually get bored of eating it and will only accept other foods.

This. I keep two or three different things my ants eat and rotate them. It seems to work.

[jennhudgins]

Thank you. We will give rotating foods a try!