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aphids
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:32 pm
by kateroid
i am soon getting a lasius colony and i need to know what species of aphids can be milked by ants and i need to know how they look like.i need to know if lasius species milk aphids
Re: aphids
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:33 am
by AusAnts
kateroid wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:32 pm
i am soon getting a lasius colony and i need to know what species of aphids can be milked by ants and i need to know how they look like.i need to know if lasius species milk aphids
If you are trying to feed them carbohydrates which is what the ants get from the aphids. you could use honey or sugar water as an alternative.
I am not familiar with lasius but i would guess that they would milk aphids.
Re: aphids
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:34 pm
by kateroid
i am not trying to feed them manually. i am going to have aphids because it is less work to do and is more natural way to feed them
Re: aphids
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:13 am
by heyhowie
Do you have live plants in the formicarium? Aphids produce their honeydew from the sap of trees/plants.
Re: aphids
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:03 pm
by kateroid
yes i have plants in my terrarium
Re: aphids
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 12:41 pm
by Ants4fun
‘Lasius’ will milk a variety of aphids, scale bugs, meally bugs, and more. You can attempt to introduce them into your vivarium, but there is no guarantee they will actually farm them.
Re: aphids
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:45 pm
by antnest8
Aphid farming can work for your ants but in the wild they also use other scources of sugar.
Re: aphids
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:20 pm
by kateroid
I have formica fusca ants instead of the lasius ants and i need to know soon if they can farm scale insects
Re: aphids
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:05 pm
by antnest8
Formica fusca is known for farming insects.
Re: aphids
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:12 am
by kateroid
thank you for the help!!!