u/Ok-Bumblebee-5105

I eat alot of sushi (raw fish) bone marrow and other meats however I always will end up sugar addicted as always

I’m. a bit worried that they have died for some reason because I usually never see one of the 11 workers wonder out for food, my feeding schedule works like this: I feed them mealworms on Friday then feed them on Monday then I feed them on Friday and the cycle goes.

has anybody noticed that the previous mealworm generation you have bought have way more worms than the new generations?

I really don’t know if I’m giving them enough protein, some people say that I gotta feed them once a week while others say two times a week, and I also don’t know how I should technically count two times a week if I feed them before the weeks usually start.

so i have 5 boxes with alot of mealworms in them, and they smell a certain smell that reminds me of cow poop, im wondering if this smell can harm my ant colony who is in the same room as them

so for context about 12 days ago i chaught over 17 lasius niger queens in a nuptial flight near my home, i catched the ones that tried to fly away which was all of those 17 ones, i left them alone for about 12 days and now i checked up on them and they all have wings and no eggs they might be infertile, what i do not understand at all is why would as many as 17 queens decide to fly away from their colony just to end up infertile.

has anybody else experienced something close to this

so im planning on buying 8 colonies of lasius niger with 5 to 10 workers in them, however i wonder if i will then need 8 plastic tubs so i can make a tubs and tubes setup, thats alternative 1, alternative 2 is that i buy 8 ant queens alone