CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Is raising ants profitable? How is it now? (Is raising ants profitable? How is it now?)

1. What are the costs and profits of ant breeding?

Ants are a special breeding industry with small investment, quick results and rapid development. Ants can reproduce from one nest to about 200 nests every year. Due to the small investment and low cost, they can be raised in their spare time and make an annual profit of 2,000-3,000 yuan.

2. 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.

3. How is the market for ant breeding?

Ant farming is a relatively niche farming industry. Before farming, you did not find the right customers to sell to and sign a contract. After the farmed commercial ants come out, it is difficult to find a market. And the customer demand is relatively small. Generally, it is used for auxiliary purposes of medicine and health and fitness. It is recommended to enter the industry with caution if you just follow the trend of farming without making detailed plans.

4. Does Ant Forest make money?

It doesn't make money. But the energy earned can be transformed into doing a little bit of public welfare for those in need, helping those in need, and enriching people's spare time.

5. Is Ant Forest profitable?

Alipay Ant Forest is a public welfare project, which cannot make money and has no income. However, when the energy of Ant Forest reaches a certain amount, trees can be planted. Although the user is a virtual account, the platform will plant a real account in the desert area after you successfully exchange, which is considered to help protect the earth. Therefore, the significance of playing Ant Forest cannot be measured by money alone.

6. What are the benefits of raising ants?

Raising ants can bring great economic value, and can be used as medicine, which can help relieve patients' pain.

Common harvester ants on the market are artisan harvester ants, native harvester ants (advanced), and needle-hair harvester ants.

Harvester ants are relatively easy to keep, feeding mainly on seeds (available in ant shops), but all ants require protein to reproduce, so occasionally feeding them some live food can help boost production.

Harvester ants are known for being easy to keep and clean, requiring only seeds and water to grow for a certain period of time.

For beginners, native is the best, followed by artisan and finally guard hair. Guard hair individuals are too small and not differentiated, so the ornamental value is poor. Native has differentiation and is better for ornamental value, but native is prone to dead work. Generally, large colonies are bought. It is not recommended to buy with a low budget (below 200).

Suitable for people: Newbies who are lazy and like cleanliness

7. What are the economic benefits behind ants planting trees?

There is a carbon trading market behind this. Carbon trading is a huge market that many companies are eyeing. Everyone wants to benefit from it. For example, Musk has earned more than 2 billion yuan. The Ant Forest, which we are familiar with, has already made huge profits from it. According to the total value of the current ecosystem, the total value has reached 11.306 billion yuan.

So what is the deal?

Now more and more countries are on the track of rapid development. Some countries have to sacrifice the environment for development. Some countries are relatively developed but have very poor awareness of environmental protection. Many polluting behaviors and gas emissions have had a negative impact on the world's ecosystem. So in 1997, relevant personnel from various countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The main purpose is to protect the human ecosystem and promote sustainable development.

8. What are the benefits of raising ants?

The benefit of raising ants is that it can increase income.

Formicidae, belonging to the order Hymenoptera of the class Insecta. Ants are omnivores, mostly black, brown, yellow or red, with smooth bodies or with thorns, carvings and tumors, with different morphologies and different social divisions of labor. Generally, there are four different types of ants in a group, namely queen ants, male ants, worker ants and soldier ants. Most female ants and male ants have wings, while worker ants and soldier ants are wingless.