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TippyDisc911
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First time feeding!

Post: # 34773Post TippyDisc911
Sun Apr 01, 2018 12:16 pm

I recently bought meal worms for my ants (yesterday) and know that I have to keep them cool or they will become bettles and stuff but anyways, I have a queen and one worker with some larve... how do I feed them their first meal of mealworms?
Keeping:
Formica subsericea: 10 workers
Tetramourium Immigrans: 12 workers
solenopsis molesta: 25-30 workers

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Dream species: Atta Texana

Mortamir
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Re: First time feeding!

Post: # 34777Post Mortamir
Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:29 pm

I would take a couple of mealworms and put them in freezer for a bit. Once they are dead I would take one of them cut it in 3 to 5 pieces and put them in an area your workers can access them.
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TippyDisc911
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Re: First time feeding!

Post: # 34778Post TippyDisc911
Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:23 pm

Should I make a mini outworld
Keeping:
Formica subsericea: 10 workers
Tetramourium Immigrans: 12 workers
solenopsis molesta: 25-30 workers

"The ant's a centaur in his dragon world"-Ezra Pound

Dream species: Atta Texana

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idahoantgirl
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Re: First time feeding!

Post: # 34783Post idahoantgirl
Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:01 pm

Yup. Feeding in the tube is not recomended.
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

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antnest8
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Re: First time feeding!

Post: # 34797Post antnest8
Mon Apr 02, 2018 7:50 am

for one worker i would only do it with one mealworm
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