Weird Fire Ant Food Preferences

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olopyben11

Weird Fire Ant Food Preferences

Post: # 4450Post olopyben11
Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:05 pm

I have a small colony of Solenopsis Invicta that is about 15-20 workers strong at the moment. With all other things they just eat what they can, they'll eat fruits and candy and everything sweet and sugary, but when it comes to protein they are extremely picky. I've tried super worms, meal worms, crickets, roaches, etc. The only protein foods they will willingly eat are turkey, dog food, and cricket food. I try to mostly feed them turkey, but it dries up and gets hard relatively quickly. I don't really trust how healthy the other two options are for ants. Does anyone else have a similar issue with their ants?

GriffinAnt

Re: Weird Fire Ant Food Preferences

Post: # 4458Post GriffinAnt
Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:25 am

try protein jelly , even thou my messor barbuors and lisus niger queens are in thier hybernation tubes they love it as do my darkling beatles which i keep as food for my ants. well the worms anyhow not tryed them on beetle yet.

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