{"id":1446,"date":"2020-10-06T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepingbugs.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:52:50","slug":"are-ants-a-danger-to-tarantulas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepingbugs.com\/are-ants-a-danger-to-tarantulas\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Ants A Danger For Tarantulas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When you keep a tarantula, it can happen that one morning you find ants infesting your tarantula enclosure. When ants crawling in your house is one thing, but infesting your pet enclosure can become quite pesky. Ants definitely like an enclosure that is warm and has a good layer of substrate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ants can be very tedious to have in your house, but you probably ask yourself if this is an immediate problem when they are in your tarantula enclosure? So, are ants a danger to tarantulas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ants can be a real danger and are one of the biggest threats to tarantulas kept as pets in enclosed spaces. Although a few ants in your tarantula enclosure may not be an immediate problem, when ants infest your spider enclosure can eventually kill your tarantula. Especially during the sensitive moulting of tarantulas ants are a serious risk for your spider. Where some ant species may not cause any problems, many ants species will and therefore should be removed immediately<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why are ants a danger to tarantulas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You would think that tarantulas don’t have enemies that are smaller than themselves. But it seems like ants can be a real danger to tarantulas. So let’s have a closer look at why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In nature, tarantulas avoid contact with ants and tarantula rarely have burrows found near an ant colony. And although herbivorous ants seldom pose a danger, omnivorous and carnivorous ants (and that are many species of ants!) are a real danger. A single ant is not a real problem. It is the marauding armies, the number of ants, that pose the real threat to our beloved tarantulas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ant armies can dismantle anything edible and don’t exclude tarantulas. And the problem is that tarantulas don’t have any defence against these ants. In nature, they would quickly flee the scene to make a burrow somewhere else. However, with our tarantulas kept in contained spaces, there is nowhere to run to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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