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How many honey I have to melt in the water??
you dont need to mix honey with water, just a drop about the size of a pin/wall-tack is more than enough for a smaller colony :) sugar needs to be mixed with water, one tea-spoon with a few drops of water to make a syrupy solution
in deed, you can give the honey pure. ;) but also give them fresh water.
hmmm....... I always thought honey would be too heavy...
I will try honey by itself - thanks guy's.
You may also try to mix honey with egg yolk - ants will have proteins and energy in one meal, so they won't need many insects. I give them a few insects anyway, but honey with egg is their main food source.
Will try tonight :)
Thnx tail_
that is true but than you have to refresh it every day, eggs go bad fast.
Or use maple sirup. Thats the best....my ants LOVE it!
Just wondering here.. As im about to hibernate my ants and have just fed my queen her last spidey for the year.. Should i still be putting Honey in with them?? Also if i do.. what about Egg Yoke ???
@Steve: You have lasius niger? And it's already a colony?! Through the winter they don't need proteins, they are not raising any more larvae. So, no Egg Yoke or something that may get bad. But you can put in some honey. I take a Q-Tip, throw the wool away and fill the stick with honey. So they have enough (depends on colony size) and it doesn't go bad that fast.
But normally some ants are already full of honey, you can see it clearly if you look at their back.
Important for hibernation is, that only larvae exist. If you steadily decrease the temperature, queen stops laying eggs, pupae hatch and larvae hibernate.
They hibernate 5 to 6 months
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