Farming Ants

[fredg]

The Ants are doing very well with their livestock. The Blackfly are looking very plump.

 

[Masdevallia]

Nice pics. Did you just find a stalk of a plant with aphids on it and decided to put it in, or do you have a live planted vivarium?

 

[nimbulan]

But alas, Fred, you have no Nepenthes for those ants to feed!

 

[fredg]

Nice pics. Did you just find a stalk of a plant with aphids on it and decided to put it in, or do you have a live planted vivarium?

The Ants have several farms around the garden. Last year I had to remove a farm of theirs in some Dactylorhiza.

I must admit I did chuckle a the thought of me having a vivarium

 

[fredg]

But alas, Fred, you have no Nepenthes for those ants to feed!

So true nim, there's always a bright side to everything

 

[Masdevallia]

I have a small vivarium planted where I have a colony of L. niger growing, and had trouble trying to get aphids to grow on the plants. (Of course they swarm on my orchids and cps)