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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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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