Red Ants

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OK i have a few questions yesterday i was out looking to start an ant farm and i found red ants about an inch long well i put them in a tupperware container with dirt and i fed them and then put thwm in a dark place overnight in the morning i took them out and they were on a rock i put in hte farm do these ants dig if they dont how or where would i find the queen and my other question is how do i build an ant farm thats big enough to support a queen and its easy to build and cheap cause i only have $28 to spend

-- David Hill Nickname:The Skedar Slayer (Dahill2002@yahoo.com), April 21, 2002

Answers

Might look at:

Ant Rearing Univ. Arizona, http://insected.arizona.edu/antrear.htm Ant Farm, http://www.antcam.com/antfarm/howtobuild/

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), April 21, 2002.


Red ants an inch long???? Where do you live? LQ

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), April 21, 2002.

Actualy ive been studying the ants they are kinda brown and what do they eat they arent eating little peices of jello i put in the cage they arent eating the sugar what do they eat

-- David Hill (Dahill2002@yahoo.com), April 21, 2002.

Try a few little pieces of cooked minced (ground?) meat. Recognise that a healthy living colony will need a queen ant - the worker ants can't produce young. Follow up on the link you were given above - and again, where do you live (what country, what state is close enough - that will give people an idea about what kind of ants you may have). I mean, I KNOW at least three different kinds of ants like that, but I'm in Australia, so it probably doesn't apply.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), April 22, 2002.

ok i did some more studying they are either red ants or amozon ants they are brown orange some have dark red heads some are bigger then the others some are smaller then the others they arent eating thelittle peices of jello i put in the ant farm they arent eating the sugar or the honeyham or the fish food and today i put in a love bug and they dont seem to be attacking it and no one has really help me on my second question cause ive seen those sights

-- David hill (dahill2002@yahoo.com), April 23, 2002.


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