What can I feed my harvester ants?
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Most food will do: cheese, bread, any sort of plant tissue
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Just imagine an army of ants with no queen. God Bless! quit the arrogance and realize all this beautiful nature was not created by chance or you. God Bless Love. Amen. Try praying and speaking to your Father God.
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All known species of potato bug are omnivorous (this means that, like you and me, they eat nearly everything) though in captivity most species do best on a mixture of dried feed/grains, fresh vegetables or fruit, human skin (old scabs), dead bugs or small animals. \nHere's a great article about keeping these insects as pets that you might want to read before considering them as a household member:\n\nhttp://www.potatobugs.com/articles/as_pets.html\n\nHope this helps!
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the guy above is right, corn. If you really want to drive them crazy make a corn meal dough with cornmeal,  boiling water and a dash of vanilla extract.
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Prey specialization and the predatory behavior of two European ant-eating zodariid spiders, Zodarion germanicum and Zodarion rubidum, were studied in detail. The spiders were offered 12 ant species and seven other insects (termites, beetles, aphids, silverfish, flies, crickets and grasshoppers). Study spiders turned out to be ant specialists as they were able to subdue many ant species but ignored all other insects, except termites, which they attacked but rarely subdued. The best capture success was obtained with medium-sized ants (e.g. Lasius and Formica). The predatory behavior of the zodariid spiders involves an attacking and a handling phase separated by a period of waiting at a safe distance. The attacking phase consisted of a very rapid lunge from the rear, followed by a bite on the most extended ant leg. After an attack, the spider retreated to a safe distance, perhaps an indication that natural selection has favored such caution in the presence of an aggressive prey. The spider waited until the ant ceased moving. Such predatory behavior, which limits contact with the predator and prey, is clearly an effective means of handling a dangerous prey.\n\nYou can find one from \nAustralia,Czech Republic,Greece,France,Hungary etc...
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No they do not follow the same path. They follow a pheromone trail path set by a forager ant. The ensuing ants will reinforce that path until the food finishes. Yes they know where they are going, as they will also follow the strongest and shortest pheromone trail path.\n\nAlso, through the observation of the sudden infestation of my house with literally hundreds of ants (probably its winter). They find sugar traces in my toilet sink (I was doing some soda and mentos experiment there) :P, and a box of opened cereal at the top of my fridge.\n\nDestroying a path of ants seem to work poorly, as they still continue... they seem to operate much more actively in the day and communicate with other ants with increasing frequency when they are in the trail. Ant poison (chemical but toxic food for ants, which they will feed the queens with) seems to work a few years back and my current batch of ants seem to be taking the bait...
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1) Bees pollinate flowers.\n\n2) Many different kinds of insects are food for other kinds of animals.\n\n3) Termites and other insects turn fallen trees and other dead vegetation into compost that fertilizes new trees and plants.\n\n4) Some people use bee venom to help joint and muscle pain.\n\n7) We get wax, honey, and silk from insects.\n\n6) Chocolate covered ants!
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mushrooms feed on decaying organic material, such as rotting logs and stumps. they also need water to survive.
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FIRST OF ALL I'M SORRY BUT I'M PISSING MY PANTS YOU ARE A TRIP!! IF THE TRAIL MIX WAS IN YOUR ROOM AND IT HAD ANTS IN IT I WOULD THROW AWAY ALL YOUR FOOD IN YOUR ROOM AND VACUUM YOUR ROOM REALLY GOOD SO THE ANTS DON'T CRAWL ON YOU WHEN YOUR SLEEPING THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM!!  IF YOUR NOT SICK NOW THEN I THINK YOU'LL BE FINE!! BUT RED ANTS WILL BITE YOU IF YOUR NOT CAREFUL CHECK YOUR SELF FOR (SMALL) RED MARKS IF YOU HAVE THEM THEN YOU WERE BITTEN BY THEM PUT CALAMINE LOTION ON AND YOU'LL BE OK!! IF YOUR NOT BETTER THEN CALL YOUR DOCTOR HE CAN PROBLEM HELP!!!......THE ANTS GO MARCHING ONE BY ONE....LOL
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Boric Acid\nYou can mix it with sugar for best results.\n\nMake sure no kids or pets contact it.\n\nIt has nothing to do with food/water, explaine aunt hills.  I have seen them with no food or water in sight.  Maby you are thinking of roaches.
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Blood meal, sulfur, Cayenne pepper, mothballs\nAll work but have to be refreshed often.
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I work at a pet store and we sell tarantulas we feed them one cricket a day.make shure not to put to many cricket in with the spider because they can eat the spider.
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Oh dear lord! Don't feed them food coloring!!!! Thats a terrible idea. They need sugar water. And it needs to be replaced every few days. They can get sick if its old. \n\nRECIPIE:\n\nUse one part ordinary white cane sugar to four parts water. \n\n\nIt's not necessary to boil the water. The microorganisms that cause fermentation don't come from the water; they are transported to the feeder on hummingbird bills. \n\n\nStore unused syrup in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. \n\nThis mixture approximates the average sucrose content (about 21%) of the flowers favored by North American hummingbirds, without being so sweet it attracts too many insects.
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This is a really good and very legitimate question. I recently posted a question of my own on how best to get rid of an invading army of tiny brown ants that are very definitely making my kitchen their personal playground (and worse). But the reality is that I do not want to kill them at all. I want them to go away, ideally outside where they belong. But insects don't tend to think in such terms. They go where the food is, whatever that food source may be. And I imagine they prefer my nice, warm, dry kitchen to the elements they have to contend with outdoors. Vexing.\n\nAnyway, your point is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. How is it that we rationalize the degrees of murder we commit? Killing humans is wrong, except in times of war or self-defense (kill or be killed). But is even that moral? Killing some animals is perfectly okay (so-called livestock is slaughtered without further examination of the morals -- or lack of same -- involved). Hunters are legally permitted to shoot up the woods (in season) for deer, rabbits, what have you. But kill a cat or dog and you're pure evil, right? It's okay to hunt, torment and ultimately kill that terrified fox (pip pip, what!) but if you dare to harm one of the hounds doing the chasing and tearing apart of said fox, you're up on charges for animal cruelty, right?\n\nAnd the so-called vermin (rodents, bugs, etc.), well, they evidently don't deserve to live in the first place, do they? Says who? There are degrees of cruelty even as there are degrees to the pecking order that determines which creatures are worthy of life and which are marked for death. People who go out of their way to step on bugs are sick, even evil. But what of exterminators doing the job they're paid for? And, even more disconcerting, what about me trying to find the best method to rid myself of (a euphemism for KILL) these pesky ants in my kitchen? I can tell you it doesn't make me feel very good about myself when I reflect upon it... but I can also tell you I am determined to have them removed. I'm not proud of that but I am, at least, being honest with myself.\n\nAgain, a nice provocative question and one that has given me pause... Thinking is a decidedly good thing. Thanks.
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put a small inclined plane by the ants. they will want to climb up the inclined plane.then put a bucket at the end of they inclined plane.they will go in the bucket and there you go.
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none  , lay me on the ground in the woods,I want to get back in the food chain as fast as posible
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Knowing the food habits of the particular ant species is important in ant management because it may enable the location and elimination of the food that is attracting the ants to the site, it can help to locate foraging trails to track the ants back to their nest, and it can help to choose an effective bait. \n\nAnts feed on many different types of food. Some species will feed on practically anything; others may limit their food to a narrow range. Ants infesting structures are typically feeding on "people food," both food in storage (sugar, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc.) and food from spills and garbage. But they may also be preying on other insects or scavenging on dead insects in windows or lights.\n\nFood preferences are often seasonal. When the queen is actively laying eggs, worker ants typically gather protein- based foods for the queen. At other times they may ignore protein foods completely and restrict their foraging to sugars and greases. \n\nMany ants obtain sugar by feeding on honeydew, a sweet substance secreted by aphids and other plant-sucking insects. They often defend these insects from predators and tend them as if they were their personal food supply. Indoor infestations of ants are occasionally traced to large populations of aphids on outdoor foundation plants or indoor houseplants.