Our NextSwarm Cricket Mash Ant Food is an easy way to provide your ants with freshly preserved protein food without having to feed live insects. The smooth pate is made using only the freshest Silent crickets (Gryllus assimilis are native to the West Indies) and has been gently steamed to ensure that nutritional value, flavour and aroma are preserved. In addition, we added more high-quality protein sources plus vital vitamins and minerals to ensure this Cricket Mash Ant pâté provides essential nutrients to keep your unique ants healthy and active all the time.
At Best Ants UK, we know how important it is to maintain a balanced diet for your colonies, and our Cricket Mash Jam offers just that. Mashed Silent crickets have the same nutritional value, making it an all-in-one delicious and healthy meal for your ants. Try NextSwarm Cricket Mash Ant Food today and watch your ants thrive! Order now and give your ant colony the nutrition boost they need.
How to feed your ants Cricket Mash and Protein Jelly? Video instructions
We recommend using the Nextswarm Cricket Mash Ant Food for a healthy colony along with our Best Ants Protein Jelly twice a week. Pour a small amount (depending on colony size, so start with smaller and increase if necessary) over a tiny cotton ball, tinfoil bit or feeding dish and place it into the ant's outworld.
Remove any leftovers after 2 days as Cricket Mash keeps its properties for up to 2 days.
We tested with Lasius, Myrmica, Messor (Harvester ants), Pheidole, Camponotus (Carpenter ants), Aphaenogaster, Crematogaster species, Weever Ants and many more. Ants love it!
Not suitable for Trap Jaw Ants (Odontomachus), Harpegnathos Venator or any hunting ant species that require live food.
The syringe contains 5ml lasting around a month (depending on the ant colony). Once opened, use it within a month. Please keep it in the fridge (2-8 °C).
The jar contains 30ml (35g). *Portioned and frozen lasting around 4-6 months (depending on the ant colony). Once opened, use it within 4 days so portion in small doses and freeze immediately.
Keep refrigerated all the time (2-8 °C).
*Portioned and frozen using the nugget mould. Spread the Cricket mash evenly filling all the mould's openings and freeze. Feed small colonies (with up to 50 workers) one nugget twice a week.
DO NOT forget to discard any remains after 2 days or fungus may appear.
How to portion using the mould video? Coming soon.
Nutritional information: Typical Values per 100g:
Protein 30.3g; Fat 10.3g; Carbohydrate 19.5g (of which sugars 15.0g); Fibre 13.0g
The most widely used live food in the world for ants and lizards to eat is crickets. Our soft Cricket Mash Ant Food pâté is easier to digest than live food and provides a long-lasting source of energy for your ants and their brood.