aphids
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Re: 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.
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Re: aphids
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
Do you have live plants in the formicarium? Aphids produce their honeydew from the sap of trees/plants.
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yes i have plants in my terrarium
Re: aphids
‘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
Aphid farming can work for your ants but in the wild they also use other scources of sugar.
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Re: aphids
I have formica fusca ants instead of the lasius ants and i need to know soon if they can farm scale insects
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Formica fusca is known for farming insects.
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How To Identify Ants
Re: aphids
thank you for the help!!!
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