Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2009 14:04:17 GMT 1
I'm creating this thread because Dane had a great idea ;D! He suggested that we put a feeding chart for ants. What we do is list all of the food products you have fed to your ants then I will modify this post and add them to the list. I will exalt you for good food products. If you write down sugar water please write what is in your recipe. something like 1 part sugar 3 parts water. Also please add which species of ants this is for.
THE LIST:
Lasius Niger Likes:
Nesquick Banana Milkshake Dust
Pear
Wood Lice
Dry gravy granules
Grapes
Wotsit crisps
Cricket
Locust
Wax worm
Cake
Flies
Mealworm
Caterpiller
Dead workers from other spicies
Bluebottle fly
Maggots
Mosquitos
Shredded pork
Papaya
Pineapple
Cookies
Cockroach
Satsuma
Pieces of jam sandwich
The sweet liquid that aphids produce ( honeydew)
Dry dog and cat food or wet.
Greenfly
Blackfly
Caterpillars
Beef OXO cube
fish food
Lasius Niger dislikes:
Expired cornbeef and hash
Dried Chinese herbal throat medicine
Uncooked rice spring roll wrappers
Steel cut oatmeal
peas
Lasius Flavus likes:
Lasius Flavus dislikes:
Acrobat ants Like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Winged queen ants
Acrobat ants dislike:
Carrots
Tent caterpillars
Messor barbarus
Likes:
Small seeds (finch seeds)
Poppy seeds
Cooked chicken
Fish food flakes
Apifonda (think its a type of sugar that is fed to bees)
Meal worms
Dislikes:
Honey or sugar water
Dead flies (mine have never taken one anyway)
Carpenter ants Like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Marshmellow
Just honey
Moths
Winged queen ants
Carpenter ants dislike:[/b]
Mealworms
Pharoh ants like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Pharoh ants dislike:
M.Minimum likes:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Potato chips
M.Minimum dislikes:
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Common orange ants like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Potato chips
Cookie
Common orange ants dislike:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Honey water 1 part honey 4 parts water
Syrup water 1 part syrup 4 parts water
Apple
Carrots (didn't like them)
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Tent caterpillars (didn't like them much)
Grapes
Marshmellows
Wasps
Myrmica Rubra Likes
Maggots
Dry gravy granules
Sugar water 5%
Spiders
Wasps
Mealworm
Cricket
Wax worm
Satsuma
Flies
Garden Pea
Moths
Marshmallow
Lasius Flavus workers
Ant jelly
Dead Cockkroachs
Honey
Myrmica Scabrinodis workers
Dead Bumble Bee
Lace-wings
Myrmica Rubra Dislikes
Bird pellets
Millet sprray (bird seed)
Tetramorium Likes
Jello
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Cookie
Tetramorium Dislikes
Contributars: Flavus101, joestones,Steleiarnnot, Dane, Lanky, antbug, Kool Kid, Animal123, Lasius, Drew
Special thanks to Dane who had this idea. ;D
THE LIST:
Lasius Niger Likes:
Nesquick Banana Milkshake Dust
Pear
Wood Lice
Dry gravy granules
Grapes
Wotsit crisps
Cricket
Locust
Wax worm
Cake
Flies
Mealworm
Caterpiller
Dead workers from other spicies
Bluebottle fly
Maggots
Mosquitos
Shredded pork
Papaya
Pineapple
Cookies
Cockroach
Satsuma
Pieces of jam sandwich
The sweet liquid that aphids produce ( honeydew)
Dry dog and cat food or wet.
Greenfly
Blackfly
Caterpillars
Beef OXO cube
fish food
Lasius Niger dislikes:
Expired cornbeef and hash
Dried Chinese herbal throat medicine
Uncooked rice spring roll wrappers
Steel cut oatmeal
peas
Lasius Flavus likes:
Lasius Flavus dislikes:
Acrobat ants Like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Winged queen ants
Acrobat ants dislike:
Carrots
Tent caterpillars
Messor barbarus
Likes:
Small seeds (finch seeds)
Poppy seeds
Cooked chicken
Fish food flakes
Apifonda (think its a type of sugar that is fed to bees)
Meal worms
Dislikes:
Honey or sugar water
Dead flies (mine have never taken one anyway)
Carpenter ants Like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Marshmellow
Just honey
Moths
Winged queen ants
Carpenter ants dislike:[/b]
Mealworms
Pharoh ants like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Pharoh ants dislike:
M.Minimum likes:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Potato chips
M.Minimum dislikes:
[/b]
Common orange ants like:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Apple
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Potato chips
Cookie
Common orange ants dislike:
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Honey water 1 part honey 4 parts water
Syrup water 1 part syrup 4 parts water
Apple
Carrots (didn't like them)
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Tent caterpillars (didn't like them much)
Grapes
Marshmellows
Wasps
Myrmica Rubra Likes
Maggots
Dry gravy granules
Sugar water 5%
Spiders
Wasps
Mealworm
Cricket
Wax worm
Satsuma
Flies
Garden Pea
Moths
Marshmallow
Lasius Flavus workers
Ant jelly
Dead Cockkroachs
Honey
Myrmica Scabrinodis workers
Dead Bumble Bee
Lace-wings
Myrmica Rubra Dislikes
Bird pellets
Millet sprray (bird seed)
Tetramorium Likes
Jello
Sugar water 1 part sugar 3 parts water.
Syrup water 1 part syrup 3 parts water
Honey water 1 part honey 3 parts water
Fly
Praying mantis
Mosquitos
Crickets
Worms
Cookie
Tetramorium Dislikes
Contributars: Flavus101, joestones,Steleiarnnot, Dane, Lanky, antbug, Kool Kid, Animal123, Lasius, Drew
Special thanks to Dane who had this idea. ;D