ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

hi Max,
normally not, i haven't had one ant that was trapped in it. Don't use a dish to big.

good luck

[maxfly]

Hey Jimmy thanks to some help, I see your photo in your diary(pallidula), i see that u use dish with sponge, now use it with sponge only for water ?and without sponge for honeymix?, or u use always drop on the stone to give honeymix like in photo?

sorry for bad english

I hope u understand me

Thanks
Max

[JimmyVe]

i understand my English is not so good ether.

with sponge for water (not necessary) and without the sponge for honey mix. sometimes i drop a little one a stone to give it to them. small colonies don't need much honey-water. i give them fresh 2-3 times a week.
If you have other questions, just ask.

greets

[maxfly]

Thanks a lot, I learning some tips from u Jimmy, now is cleary, for now have not other question but i think that I'll have soon....

soon...
Max

[JimmyVe]

hi Max,
You have to start somewhere, when i started i had a lot of questions. And many people helped me, so I'm doing it now. (and I'm learning everyday, there are still a lot off things i don't now about ants)

but there are something you just have to learn by trying.

Greets

[maxfly]

Hello everyone, I have not found information around on this, but the earthworm is eatable for the ants?

see pic

[web]http://it.geocities.com/entomologymelchionda/verme.html[/web]

Greet

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Max

[needforfreedom]

lol Iv tried to feed my ants earthworms and have found that worms are much tougher than i ever thought! Never could kill them!

[maxfly]

@NeedfF.

But have u tried to give them already dead and in small pieces? could be interesting because is very easy to cultivate earthworms...

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Max

[JimmyVe]

a small colonie could not kill them, but if you kill the worm before giving to your ants, they probably eat them!

[maxfly]

I will try and say us if this worms will be appreciates.


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Max

[briangray4]

i have a small garden where i live and the ants seem to be constantly "walking" across the same stretch of ground
I decided to move alarge bin from a particular area and found worms centipedes louses and ants all crawling around...
allmost like they were sharing the same damp stretch of ground

[maxfly]

Centipedes is armored, and in more, have repellent fluid as formic acid, that do stay away the ants.

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Max

[Psychosimian]

So you can feed them ham, dead insects (after putting them in boiling water for 1 or 2 seconds), live insects (from nature - not a shop, because of risk of illness) and Honey water?

The honey water can go in the feeding disk but without the sponge? So every few days do you put the honey water in the dish without the sponge during the day, then take the dish out and clean it in the evening and then put the sponge and fresh water back in?

[maxfly]

Actually, I have discovered, probably isnt a great discovery for many esperts, but my lasius very like a dying fresh small insect las a mosquitos and very little drosophile, they kill and finish'em and carried on in the nest. Dead and cut insect are not appreciated, instead very like honey-water mix.

Actually I not use the dish, but small container as pills give it honey-water but not directly mixed with soil. They grub it in a micro-hole.

I use this scheme:

|--soil--|
|honey|-->container
|cotton|
|_____|

My ants are a sterter lasius niger colony, and actually they dont like any dish or any artifice because bit diffident.

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Max