Frozen Food
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- Jadeninja9
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Frozen Food
Do you need to remove the heads of insects when feeding the ants, even though the insect is already frozen and can't move? If so, why?
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Re: Frozen Food
No, why should you? It's not like you could make it any more dead than it already is.
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Re: Frozen Food
Yeah that's what I was thinking lol
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Re: Frozen Food
If you think you've caught a vampire beetle you might do so - just to be sure
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Re: Frozen Food
you remove the head so that it is easier for the ants to get to the insides. I also chop another section to make it easier.
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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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.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Frozen Food
oh shoot. Well next time I feed them I'll do that lolidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:24 pmyou remove the head so that it is easier for the ants to get to the insides. I also chop another section to make it easier.
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Re: Frozen Food
can you feed them the head though, since it's frozen?idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:24 pmyou remove the head so that it is easier for the ants to get to the insides. I also chop another section to make it easier.
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Re: Frozen Food
Does freezing them kill any bacteria on them? Also should you pre crush the feeder insects or food?Jadeninja9 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 7:09 pmcan you feed them the head though, since it's frozen?idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:24 pmyou remove the head so that it is easier for the ants to get to the insides. I also chop another section to make it easier.
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Re: Frozen Food
Yes, cutting them open or squish them a bit is always helpful for young colonies.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:24 pmyou remove the head so that it is easier for the ants to get to the insides. I also chop another section to make it easier.
Yes, I do feed my ants bee larvae and the head is actually one of the parts they're most interested in, probably because the entire brain is basically raw protein.
It probably doesn't kill all of the bacteria but to get rid of them all you would have to disinfect it (which would be very bad for the ants because disinfecting agents are usually quite toxic for them).Idahoantguy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:04 amDoes freezing them kill any bacteria on them? Also should you pre crush the feeder insects or food?
Also bacteria aren't a problem, the ants can deal with them. As long as the freezing kills any mites that might be on the food it's fine.
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