Almost Done!

I took a picture this morning that clearly shows the near fully developed ants. Notice the darker colored pupae and how most of them are stacked at the bottom of the pile of developing ants. I counted nearly 30 some odd pupae in this chamber alone. Looks like I'll be needing to make a bigger ant farm soon!

Some yogurt drink, stale bread, apple, oat flakes, and some old dead bugs were on the menu this morning. By this evening, the only thing that was different about this picture was the addition of a dead ant in the yogurt drink. Either the ants are too full already or they just don't like the stuff I'm feeding them. They must be eating something judging from the large number of soon-to-be adult ants.

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I'm still trying to figure out what exactly the ants like to eat. Here we have a platter of some steel cut oatmeal, a bit of spring roll wrapper, a nice big dead bug, a piece of Chinese medicine-like dried fruit that is good for your throat, and some nice sweet grapefruit juice.

Some of ants seem to like the grapefruit juice but it's not an overwhelming success like I expected. They really, really like freshly killed mosquitos, especially ones that are freshly gored on my blood. Every time I put a plump mosquito in, it's gone in 60 seconds.

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