Fungus-Farmer Diet in a Large Feeding Dish
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Fungus-Farmer Diet

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TrapJaw Labs' Fungus-Farmer Diet
Fungus-farming ants don't eat the "food" you give them. They carry it back to the nest, use it to cultivate a fungus garden, and it's that garden which feeds the colony. You aren't really feeding your ants, you're feeding their fungus! This is our own blend of plant materials for fungus-farming ant species, built around what we have found to work best for our fungus-farmers over the years.

Fungus-Farmer DietVariety Of Plant Material

Cutting Optional

Most fungus-farmers will cut soft plant material when they have to, but they prefer to scavenge what is readily available if possible. Small colonies especially prefer material they don't have to cut.

Variety

Colonies can become picky about foods that get used over and over, Acromyrmex and Atta in particular. A blend gives them several different materials to choose from instead of the same thing every week, preventing them from "growing tired" of what you're offering.

Feeding

Put a small amount out in the foraging area as needed. One of the benefits of this being a dried mix is that it lasts for a very long time in your ants' Foraging Area.

Ants That Farm Fungus
TrachymyrmexAs Needed

The northernmost fungus-farmer on Earth. We keep T. septentrionalis, which gathers plant detritus rather than cutting leaves.

AcromyrmexAs Needed

We keep A. versicolor, the leafcutter of the Sonoran Desert. They are the most likely of the three to get picky about a repeated food.

AttaAs Needed

A. texana is on our Care Advisor. Established colonies cut their own leaves, though a small one still takes material it doesn't have to.

What they forage in the wild, how the garden actually works, and the humidity that keeps it alive.

Not for human consumption.

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Fungus-Farmer Diet

TrapJaw Labs' Fungus-Farmer Diet
Fungus-farming ants don't eat the "food" you give them. They carry it back to the nest, use it to cultivate a fungus garden, and it's that garden which feeds the colony. You aren't really feeding your ants, you're feeding their fungus! This is our own blend of plant materials for fungus-farming ant species, built around what we have found to work best for our fungus-farmers over the years.

Fungus-Farmer Diet Variety Of Plant Material

Cutting Optional

Most fungus-farmers will cut soft plant material when they have to, but they prefer to scavenge what is readily available if possible. Small colonies especially prefer material they don't have to cut.

Variety

Colonies can become picky about foods that get used over and over, Acromyrmex and Atta in particular. A blend gives them several different materials to choose from instead of the same thing every week, preventing them from "growing tired" of what you're offering.

Feeding

Put a small amount out in the foraging area as needed. One of the benefits of this being a dried mix is that it lasts for a very long time in your ants' Foraging Area.

Ants That Farm Fungus

TrachymyrmexAs Needed

The northernmost fungus-farmer on Earth. We keep T. septentrionalis, which gathers plant detritus rather than cutting leaves.

AcromyrmexAs Needed

We keep A. versicolor, the leafcutter of the Sonoran Desert. They are the most likely of the three to get picky about a repeated food.

AttaAs Needed

A. texana is on our Care Advisor. Established colonies cut their own leaves, though a small one still takes material it doesn't have to.

T. septentrionalis' Species Spotlight →

What they forage in the wild, how the garden actually works, and the humidity that keeps it alive.

Not for human consumption.

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