Leaf Cutting Ant Forum

One of the benefits of having a large greenhouse facility is I can grow all of the food for the ants for the winter in the big glass area that is heated. More than that, I have basically all of their favourite foods from Trinidad. So it is very easy to go pick a couple of banana leaves and share them around the colonies of ants. Its nice to give them the same food as they gather in Trinidad.

I have been thinking hard about this and Im going to give up the remainder of my garage if there is any left with an upcoming project to setting up a tropical greenhouse with heaters, lights, misters the lot. i know its not an easy thing to do but the garage is mine,(coming from the boss) lol so just want to dedicate everything to them. I've always loved growing plants so it's a good fit!!

Good idea I went graden center today see if they had lemon trees for sale or limes as hear the atta like cut the leaves but. They had none left so like your idea I'll have to start trying get food what they cut in the wild all the eaves were I am from gone or the trees been cut ready for spring

Caution!! Be very careful of feeding leaf material from Garden Centres or nurseries. They very often use systemic insecticides which are taken up by the plant and held in their leaves. This means that any insect eating (or in our case, cutting) the leaves is killed, long after the insecticide was added. This warning also applies to florists especially.

Oright thanks for the info I'll pass the. I'll stick to ones on your food list then

thank you it helped me a lot!

I love try banna leaves see what they do but no hear lol wish banna had seeds lol