Zagone: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (16. Mai 2009 23:26)

These Messor barbarus certainly are drinking honey.

JimmyVe: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (17. Mai 2009 17:44)

First time i've seen it. (nothing is impossible with ants ;) ) Are you sure its honey and not just water ?

donbilbo: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (17. Mai 2009 19:17)

i read this thread and i gave my colony of Messor structor some pure honey to test. Two workers are eating it right now. So maybe it depends on species, maybe it depends on the honey youre using.

Zagone: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (18. Mai 2009 00:33)

Jimmy: On the description of the picture on Flickr where I found it, the owner of the ants say it's honey ( I'm assuming mixed iwht some water though), so that's really all I know. ^^;

JimmyVe: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (18. Mai 2009 20:49)

Oh okay, thanks.

I like this discussion very much. So we can say, Messor species dont need honey but some of them do eat it. You can try it out if you like.

Not sure they need it like other species do. If someone knows the answer to this ?

donbilbo: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (18. Mai 2009 21:01)

Ive also got Messor hesperius for 6-8 weeks now and i never gave them honey. They do really fine with seeds and dead insects.

Phasmid: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (18. Mai 2009 21:22)

Yes, there is no need for honey/sugarwater if you have seeds.
My M. barbarus will take sugarwater if it is realy concentrated, and if the sugarwater of another ant dries up then I give it to the messors and they seem to love it. They don't seem to like wet or bloody food (I boil and dry out insects for my messors, and they love it like this :) )

Zagone: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (20. Mai 2009 13:31)

My M. minor hespirius don't like anything dry, except seeds. they completely declined fishfood flakes, and they drag dry insects to the waste-dump. But fresh insects get dragged into the nest.

I wanna try wetting some of the fishfood flakes and see if they'll try them then.

EDIt: To address Jimmy's question I'll say that I'm pretty sure they don't need sugar-water. All the sugar they need they can get from their seeds.

JimmyVe: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (20. Mai 2009 15:17)

That is what i'm thinking, but i'm not a 100% sure of that. :)

Looks like i'm lucky with my Messor barbarus they eat anything i give them, wet, dry. :) I dont even cut the insects in two, like i do for most of my ants.

KjeldWie: Re: Messors don't eat honey do they? (7. Feb 2010 17:38)

But if they dont need honey- or sugerwater they need water, right, or theyle dehydrate, or dont they?

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