ANTSTORE World of Ants

[miszt]

Thats one thing I will never buy to feed my ants....Cockroaches lol i always end up with at least 1-2 crickets/locusts hoping round my flat, wuldnt like a cockroach to get out eek lol

I think flour maggots mite be what we call Meal Worms?

[ant dude]

oh right,thanks jimmve and miszt for your help im not gonna feed my ants cockroaches iver!!! i mean i dont blame yer just looking at them makes me fill sick anouth lol. let alone buying them they are dirty, horrible, greasy, ugly looking things etc..........ol mealworms they are ok to feed ants, my rubras love them

sorry for off-topic by the way

[miszt]

u do need to vary their diet tho, just feeding them one kind of insect wont give them all the nutriants they need, partiucly amino acids and protiens

[ant dude]

yes i know that!!! and i do vary there diet with all of my ants such as fruits etc.......why would u get the impression that i just feed them this as im not that daft (sorry if i seem a bit aggresive lol)

[JimmyVe]

About the Cockroaches, i kill them when i arrive at home, boil them for a few seconds and if they dried up i freeze them in until needed, no change of escaping there. (i do this with all the insects i use to feed)

[ant dude]

i much rather prefer to give my ants live food, as in nature and that they kill there own food. but it depends on da species with me if there aggresive i let the ants kill the live food,but if not an aggresive ant and say its quite small aswell then thats when i kill live insects for my ants. i know this post is directed to miszt mainly but i fault i might aswell say somthink if thats ok

[JimmyVe]

I had a test with live food once, most of the colonies i keep could not catch a living fly (one that could not fly)... so i prefer to give dead insects.

[ant dude]

ok thats cool jimmve, but flys are a bit more different to most live insects,as they would make it a lot more differcult for the ants to catch and kill them lol:)

[JimmyVe]

Yes that is true but if you place a live cricket in the farm i don't think many species could catch it and it probably ends up killing some of you workers.

[ant dude]

hmmm but i tend not to use crickits for my ants so...........

[Purifier]

I feed my Diacamma pinkies and flys. I let the cocoons in the basin and wait until they hatch out. These flys survive maybe one or two days. They are very efficient in hunting flys

[KiamCameron]

Crickets killed your ants? They have never killed any of my ants when I put them in live hmm...

[JimmyVe]

I didn't tried it out myself (i only give them dead crickets). But i know they can hurt ore kill an ant.

[ant dude]

yes i have herd from other peoples expirnces of feeding crikets as live food to ants, an yes crickets do/can kill your ants. so if u feed them these best to give to your ants dead or just the one or somthink like that

[Ant mad]

Never had any problems with workers getting hurt but what seeds do Pheidole pallidula eat apart from sunflower.