My Sweet Ant Farm

Part of the the haul of sweet birthday loot I received last week was this neat ant farm - funnily enough, I was about to buy myself one. It’s one of those filled with “space age gel”, which I suspect is really just blue agar, but perhaps some ant farmer reading this can tell me.

The little strings of bubbles in the above image show where I’ve poked a few starter tunnels in the gel for my future pets. I’m tremendously excited to get the ant farm up and running (’farm’ is really a misnomer, because I don’t think my ants will produce any commercially viable products). The problem is, I don’t have any ants. So I built myself this crude jam-filled ant trap, and stuck it by my outdoor bin. Err… it hasn’t caught any ants yet.

Still, I live in hope. Apparently you can buy ants online, but come on. The damn things outnumber humans a million to one. How hard can it be to find some ants? Anyway, the instructions that came with my super-deluxe space age gel ant farm also warned me:

Sounds like a challenge!

13 comments February 26th, 2008