Ant Colony – Part 1

For Christmas last year, Isabel got a gel ant farm for a gift and the company where you get the ants from doesn’t ship in winter. So we had to wait 6 months for the idle temperature.

I ordered the ants and we got them last night, and her little colony has been busy during the night.

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They have already begun to add tunnels to the starter holes we put in before the ants were added to the colony.

The green gel is supposed to sustain the ants inside. So we’ll see how that goes.
Right now she has about 30 ants with what appears to be 2 queens.

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The base of her colony lights (with batteries or an adapter) up so you can really see the
tunnels as the ants dig.