The First Law of Antkeeping says:
"If there is a container with ants in it, and you open it, ants will come out of it."
I think we should revise it:
"If there is a container with ants in it, and you open it, or maybe even if you don't open it, ants will come out of it."
@futurebird Antwrangling? LOL
I had similar luck with stick bugs.
@thejikz @futurebird Say more! I would have thought stick bugs would be easier to wrangle given their size
@futurebird @mauve Blackberry leaves! Very happy to find that, we have abundance of that in the PNW (washington state) year round. They were very low maintenance altogether. Moisten once a day, feed fresh leaves, and they decompose that into what smells like soil.
@thejikz @mauve @futurebird it took me until the second half of the post (the one that mentions bugs) to understand that "baby" here does not refer to a cat as it usually does
@mauve @futurebird I think I miscalculated the baby dynamic, apparently they can squeeze through gaps in lids that arent perfect sealled (Meant for reptile cage, screen topped 10 gallon glass). Also they self replicated and there were eggs everywhere in the bottom. The indicator that they had hatched was baby stick bugs found on wall near aquariumr, which were found by tracing back stickbugs on the couch or other surfaces near... :D
I think they are related to gremlins as I had wetted the cage and fed them after midnight.