My latest creation is an ant farm made of 2 liter pop bottles, some sand (a combination of soil/sand from our yard and sandbox sand), some tubing laying around the lab (can get that in the pet department),a couple of lids from lab-type water squirt bottles (you can just make a hole in the cap of the popbottle but be sure to seal around it where the tubing goes through). Oh, yes, and of course ants and ant food. The very expensive ant food I've been using is vending-maching Rice Crispie Treats. They seem to like them a lot. I put half the ants in one side and half in the other. They have all moved into one side and keep the food on the other. They do walk across the tubing.
I ordered the ants from Carolina Biological but you can order them from a lot of places. Of course, they don't ship queens. In the summer you can collect ants. These are carpenter ants - big ones. Don't use tiny ones - there's no way to keep them in.
I'm having so much fun watching them.
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