Formicarium

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Bear, 07.05.2018 9:12

Colleagues, has anyone bred ants? what types? In what formicariums?

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14.01.2019 16:46, KCN

At my dacha (Ukraine, steppe zone, 150 m from the river) live Camponotus sp., in an old stump from a cherry tree with a diameter of 45 cm. I found it while uprooting a stump to install a fence, it was on the border. The uterus lived at the very bottom, in a chamber inside a tree stump. I decided not to destroy the ants.
I dug a hole 60 cm deep in a convenient place, placed the stump obliquely so that the sun from the south warmed the side surface, covered it with bark and logs (there were many moves between the bark and the wood), and buried everything at 30%, formed a hill with a gentle southern slope. Mulched with green hay.
After the "move", I fed a month with sugar syrup, as for bees 50% sugar, 10 ml per day.
As a result, the goosebumps did not go hungry for the winter.
I hope to meet you in the spring.

Later, when clearing the remains of a wooden fence, I found temporary Campanotus dwellings in old poles, but they were empty. They were cavities connected by tunnels.

In general, during my school years I kept a black garden ant in a 3-liter jar with 50% black soil and 50% coarse river sand. I closed it with an ordinary nylon lid with a hole to which a metal mesh from some kind of filter is glued.
Murashi lived happily ever after and even had years of winged males and females. He fed me sugar syrup, diluted honey, and white boiled chicken. Eat dog / cat / fish food.

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