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1. Introduction to raising ants?

The specific steps are as follows

1. Collect ants.

Ordinary ants will not reproduce unless you place a queen ant in your ant farm.

2A place where ants are raised.

Find a glass bottle of suitable size. Glass bottles are more convenient for observation. Remember to leave air holes on the bottle cap.

3Fill with soil.

Make sure the soil is loose so the ants can move around, and leave some space at the top to prevent the ants from climbing out of the jar.

4. Provide food and water.

Do not feed ants meat or other cooked foods, as this will attract pests to your enclosure.

5. Warmth.

Keep it in a room with a stable, comfortable temperature. Keep it out of direct sunlight, or the glass will overheat and kill the ants.

6Shake the bottle.

Shaking the bottle or handling it roughly can cause their tunnels to collapse, killing them. Be careful with ant farms.

7. Reduce light.

Ants like to be active at night, and they will dig ant holes at night. When you are not observing the ants, try to cover the black cloth.

2. Do you need ventilation holes to raise ants?

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When raising ants in test tubes, you need to pierce holes for ventilation. Ants also need oxygen. Of course, ants need oxygen. Secondly, test tubes, bamboo joints, acrylic, etc. are not sealed. Finally, cotton can also be breathable. Some test tubes are blocked with cotton after piercing holes, but don't block them too tightly because cotton is also breathable. Cotton can prevent ants from crawling out of the test tube.

3. How to raise black worker ants

Black ant breeding technology: preparation

Ants are social insects belonging to the animal kingdom, the phylum Arthropoda, the class Insecta, the order Hymenoptera, and the family Formicidae. There are many species of them, and they live together in groups. In a group, there are three grades: male ants, female ants, and worker ants. Soldier ants are a modified form of worker ants. Among them, female ants and male ants have wings, while worker ants and soldier ants do not have wings. Different ants have very different lifespans. Female ants live for 2-2.5 years, and some can live up to three years; male ants live for only 1-2 months, and worker ants and soldier ants live slightly longer than male ants, but only for 3-4 months. The body of an ant can be divided into three parts: the head, thorax, and abdomen. The body length is 1-20 mm. The body color is mostly dark, including brown, yellow, black, brown, red, blue, etc., and some also have stripes. The body surface may be dull or have a metallic luster, the body wall is elastic, the body is smooth, or has external growths such as dots, wrinkles, thorns, fine hairs, and hairs.

Selection of ants

In the breeding of ants, the selection of seed ants is very important, which is related to the subsequent economic benefits. The conditions that seed ants must have are: large size, strong, plump, bright color, non-toxic, wide adaptability, fast growth and development, easy to raise, strong reproductive ability, and high economic value. Whether the source of seed ants is purchased from units and individuals that provide seed ants, or local wild ants are selected for breeding, the selection work must be done well. It is necessary to select seed ants that are healthy, agile, uniform in body color, and uniform in size. There should be no mixed ants in the ant colony in the ant nest, the colony size should be uniform, and there should be a certain number of female ants and male ants.

Selection of farms

The site is an important material condition for the life of ants. The site can be roughly divided into two types of breeding: closed type at home and open type in the wild. If breeding in the wild, you should choose a forest with sufficient water source and high density of canopy; for indoor breeding, you can choose to build a shed in an empty room or on an empty land. Pay attention to keeping the air fresh, flowing, clean and well sealed indoors to prevent damage by rats, cockroaches and other ants. You can also use the balcony or corridor as a breeding site and set up a special breeding box or breeding rack for breeding.

Choice of feed material

1. Treatment of breeding soil

The soil placed in the ant breeding box or breeding rack is called breeding soil. Ants have the habit of building nests, laying eggs, hatching, and storing food and water on the soil surface. Therefore, the best breeding soil is garden soil, which must also be processed: remove impurities such as glass, small bricks, and stones, then break the garden soil after being exposed to the sun, and then coarsely crush and sieve it to increase its looseness before placing it in the breeding box or breeding rack.

2. Making of Ant Nest

Ant nests can be made with fast food boxes. Make a few small holes in the ant box to facilitate the ants' entry, reproduction and nesting. Put some dried grass in the ant box and keep it loose. The amount of grass should be flush with the box mouth. It should not be too much or too little. At the same time, be careful not to cut the grass in the box. You can also put such ant larvae in fast food boxes. The green ant attractant on the ant larvae is the taste that ants like in nature, and the black one is a kind of oil, which can play a role in moisture prevention. This foldable modern ant larvae can make ants live in harmony like neighbors.

3. Anti-escape measures Ants have strong drilling and climbing abilities. As long as there is a little gap, they will drill out and escape in large numbers, and can climb walls tens of meters high. Therefore, in order to effectively prevent ants from escaping, some anti-escape measures can be taken: the most common is to dig an isolation ditch. Under normal circumstances, the activity radius of ants is 5-10 meters, and the farthest is about 30 meters. According to this situation, a ditch with a width of 40 cm on the top, 30 cm on the bottom, and a height of 20 cm on the outer wall can be dug around the ant farm. The inner wall is tightly covered with cement, and then filled with water, so that the ants can be prevented from escaping. When using this method, it is necessary to pay attention to clearing the debris accumulated in the ditch and the weeds and leaves floating on the water surface at any time to prevent the ants from crossing the ditch with the help of these things to escape.

2. Black ant breeding technology: breeding methods

At present, the commonly used breeding methods in my country include: wooden box breeding, breeding rack breeding, water-surrounded three-dimensional breeding, city pond breeding, plastic greenhouse breeding and forest breeding. The following are two common breeding methods recommended to farmers:

1. Wooden box farming method

The characteristics of wooden box breeding are: the wooden box is clean, easy to move, has good heat preservation and moisture retention performance, and can make full use of space, can be stored in overlapping manner, and increase the breeding volume. 1-2 layers of horizontal wooden frames can be set up in the wooden box to facilitate ants to build nests. The front of the box is divided into two parts by horizontal wooden bars. The left and right halves are blocked by iron mesh as ventilation windows. The middle part in the front is the entrance and exit for feeding, watering, and cleaning. A movable glass can also be installed to facilitate observation of ant activities. Food trays and water trays are placed on the horizontal wooden frames in the wooden box, so that ants can be raised.

2. Breeding rack breeding method

Nail a wooden shelf in the form of a shelf, build a circular water tank on the outside, and the inner side of the water tank should have a certain slope to prevent the ants from falling into the water and drowning. 50 nests of ants can be raised per cubic meter. This method of breeding ants is simple and easy to manage, and it is easy to breed indoors and outdoors.

There are many sources of this kind of ants on the Internet. I don't know which one is better. Find it yourself.

Method 2: Buy a plastic tank for raising turtles and put in sand, tiles and soil according to the season.

4. What are the steps to raise ants? Is it scientific?

1. When ants are in danger, they will bite with their two large teeth to attack or defend themselves. When biting, they will secrete formic acid (formic acid), which will stimulate the wound to become red, swollen and painful. Therefore, during the breeding period, do not come into direct contact with ants.

2. It only takes 15-20 days for ants to grow from eggs to adults, so after a period of breeding, the number of ants increases and the original ant nest can no longer bear the load, which will cause the nest to explode. After the nest explodes, you need to use a larger ant nest.

3. Never mix two ant colonies together, they will fight to the death, which is too cruel for the ants. So if your ants are captured instead of ordered, make sure they are all ants from the same nest.

4. Don't cover your ant farm - the ants will suffocate. If you must cover it, tie a paper towel with a rubber band and poke a few holes in it with a pin. Or use a fine wire mesh

5. How to breed ants so that they grow quickly?

1. Preparation: Open the lid of the Ant Workshop and use the small stick provided with the product to poke four holes in the gel that are roughly evenly distributed and about 20 mm deep to prompt the ants to dig holes there.

2. Put the ants in: For the delivered ants, insert one end of the tube containing the ants into the plug hole on the lid and wait for the ants to crawl in by themselves. For the ants caught in the wild, let the ants climb onto the grass sticks or small sticks, and then shake them into the ant workshop. Do not catch ants directly with your hands, as ants are very small and easily injured.

3. Daily feeding: about 7 to 10 days, when the ants are resting, gently open the lid to let them get fresh air. When the ants are working, you can use the magnifying glass to observe the life secrets of the ants more closely.

4. Note: Do not feed the ants anything, because the gel in the Ant Workshop contains the nutrients and water that the ants need. Do not place the Ant Workshop in direct sunlight.

6. How to feed ants in winter?

The following are the methods for raising ants in winter

When you catch ants, you must also catch the queen ant. If the ant colony does not have the queen ant, it will die soon. In order to facilitate observation, you need to prepare a transparent tank for raising ants, and put in soil and sand for the ants to build nests. The food for ants is very simple, apples, pears, rice, insects, etc., which can be eaten by ants, and sufficient water must be provided.

When raising ants that you catch in the wild, it is best to catch the queen ant as well, because an ant colony without a queen will most likely gradually die, so you can usually find the queen ant by digging a little deeper.

7. Do you have any suggestions for beginners raising ants?

It is recommended that novices who are raising ants for the first time buy some cheap, easy-to-raise and adaptable ants. Newcomers who have just raised ants often lack basic knowledge of ant raising, have no experience and are curious, which leads to the death of all the ants. Therefore, novices who are just starting to raise ants should not choose ants that are more difficult to raise simply because they like to watch the predation scenes or the bright colors. They should start with ants that are more adaptable, and then move on to more difficult species after they are familiar with the knowledge of ant raising.

Newbies can refer to the [Ant Illustrated Book] for ant breeding with lower difficulty.

Common ant recommendations for beginners

Small ants (body size is about 2mm~6mm):

1. Pavement Ants:

Common ant species: Grass ants, double ridges ants

Recommended: Double-bone pavement ant

Degree of appreciation: ★★☆☆☆ (no differentiation but the color of the double ridges is quite good)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★★ (extremely fast)

Price range: ★★★★★ (very cheap, recommended to buy 2 after 2 hundred workers or above)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (large groups are very active)

Ferocity: ★★★★☆ (militant, often fights in the wild)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (omnivorous, relatively accepting of meat and vegetarian food)

Brief comment: Compared with the grassland pavement ant, the double-ribbed pavement ant is larger in size, has a more beautiful body color, and has strong predation cooperation, making it very suitable for newcomers.

2. Big-headed ants:

Common ant species: all kinds of big-headed ants (excluding Chinese four-segmented ants)

Recommended: Big head, wide section big head

Degree of appreciation: ★★★☆☆ (It has engineer function differentiation, and its size is relatively large among the common big heads)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★★☆ (Very cheap, it is recommended to buy 2 after 2 hundred workers or more)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (large groups are very active)

Ferocity: ★★★☆☆ (Although there are soldier ants, they are mainly responsible for cutting food and are not as ferocious as paving roads)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (omnivorous, relatively accepting of meat and vegetarian food)

Brief comment: The body of I. pygmaea is relatively large among the big-headed ants, and the price is also cheap. It is suitable for beginners to make multiple queens, and there is no need to worry about the death of individual queens.

3. Cleaver Ants:

Common ant species: Osaka ant, black-brown ant

Recommended: Osaka Abdominal Lift

Degree of appreciation: ★★★★☆ (The color of the ant is beautiful, and it is interesting to see it lift its buttocks)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★☆☆ (moderate price, recommended to buy 2 after 2 hundred workers or above)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (very active)

Ferocity: ★★☆☆☆ (Mostly vegetarian, not very strong in combat)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (Omnivore, vegetarian, prefer honey and rock sugar, some protein and meat per week is enough)

Brief comment: A very cute little ant who likes to lift his butt high. Very suitable for girls.

4. Leafcutter Ants:

Common ant species: two-color shield leaf-cutter ants, grain groove leaf-cutter ants, two-needle chest leaf-cutter ants

Recommended: Two-color shield leafcutter ant

Watchability: ★★★★☆ (One of the most cute ants, there is no cutest, only cuter)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★☆☆ (moderate price, recommended to buy 1 after 50 workers or more)

Activity level: ★★☆☆☆ (not very active and slow)

Ferocity: ☆☆☆☆☆ (Okay, this thing exists just for cuteness, what is ferocious? Is it delicious?)

Food requirements: ★★★☆☆ (omnivorous, carnivorous. Please note that live food cannot be fed to the 5-scum of the cute war)

Comment: Another kind of little ant that girls love, cute in appearance, cute in actions, and powerful in attack... Cute~

Medium-sized ants (body size is about 6mm~9mm):

1. Camponotus ant:

Common ant species: Nicobar bow-backed ant, yellow-spotted bow-backed ant

Recommended: Nicobar Ant

Degree of appreciation: ★★★★☆ (There are 3 types of differentiation: small, medium and large, and the colors are all very beautiful)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★☆☆ (Affordable price, recommended to buy 1 after 50 workers or more)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (very active)

Ferocity: ★★★☆☆ (Large groups are still very fierce)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (Omnivore, vegetarian, prefer honey and rock sugar, some protein and meat per week is enough)

Brief review: One of the most suitable ants for newcomers, with strong adaptability, powerful reproductive ability, and beautiful body color. Except for its small size, other aspects are almost perfect.

2. Polythorny Ants:

Common ant species: Pseudo-black spiny ant, Mei's spiny ant

Recommended: Pseudo-Blackthorn

Degree of appreciation: ★★★☆☆ (very stylish, especially the sentinel pose is so cool)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★★★ (very cheap, it is recommended to buy a community with 2 or more workers)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (very active)

Ferocity: ★★★★☆ (Strong desire to attack, especially when the nest is threatened)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (Omnivore, vegetarian, prefer honey and rock sugar, some protein and meat per week is enough)

Brief comment: This needs to be emphasized. What about the Mimicrysalis? Many people recommend it as a new ant. Personally, I think that the Mimicrysalis is not suitable for newcomers for the following reasons: 1. The Mimicrysalis can spin silk, and many newcomers buy Mimicrysalis out of ignorance and keep them in acrylic nests. As a result, it doesn't take long for the Mimicrysalis to make you experience what it's like to be a full-screen mosaic version of Teacher Cang. Second, newcomers prefer to see the situation inside the nest, while the most suitable nest for the Mimicrysalis is the ecological nest, and the situation inside the nest is almost invisible. At the same time, the Mimicrysalis plays with its unique living habits, such as sentinel guarding and nesting process, and newcomers are least interested in these.

3. Disc-abdomen ants:

Common ant species: Shure's ant, carved ant

Recommended: Shure Belly

Degree of appreciation: ★★☆☆☆ (very distinctive hunchback, worker ants are not differentiated)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★★★☆☆ (The price is relatively cheap, it is recommended to buy a community with 100 workers or above)

Activity level: ★★☆☆☆ (more of a homebody, nocturnal)

Ferocity: ★★★☆☆ (very strong in combat, but a bit of a homebody)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (omnivorous, carnivorous, prefers mealworms, egg whites, fish, etc.)

Brief review: These ants are very adaptable, and their larvae can eat by themselves, which is quite unique. However, their nocturnal nature makes them rather homebodies, so they are not recommended for beginners.

4. Harvester Ants:

Common ant species: Native harvester ants, artisan harvester ants

Recommended: Native harvester ants

Degree of appreciation: ★★★★☆ (There are many different shapes and beautiful colors)

Reproduction speed: ★★★★☆ (very fast)

Price range: ★☆☆☆☆ (more expensive, it is recommended to buy a colony of 1 or more workers)

Activity level: ★★★★☆ (Quite active, with worker ants patrolling the activity area)

Ferocity: ★★☆☆☆ (omnivorous, collects seeds, relatively weak attack power)

Food requirements: ★★★★☆ (Omnivorous, needs to be fed meat regularly, cannot be fed only seeds)

Brief comment: It has a large body shape differentiation, reproduces quickly, is drought-resistant, and keeps the nest relatively clean, making it very suitable for office workers and people on long-term business trips. However, its price is not very affordable.