Feeding my Ants

Today, I fed my ants some honey and dried crickets.  ​I use a wooden stick to drop a bit of honey in the test tube.  Ants need both sugar and protein in their diets.  And because my Queen's now have nanitics (I like to call them worker ants), I have to make sure to feed them every second day.

Here are a couple of pics of my carpenter ants (in the test tubes).  These two Queens have 4 to 5 workers each so far.  They seem to be doing good and the eggs are getting larger.  I also have larvae, which can move its head to eat.  And then I have some in the last stage, as pupae that are getting darker, until they become black and after a day will become ants.

I added a picture below with the different stages: egg to larvae to pupae.

My favourite colony is this Queen below that now has 11 workers and still a lot of eggs,  larvae and pupae.  I'm hoping to add these to my Outworld within the next month when I have 25 workers. So I'll make sure to share some pictures of the move.