Ants In Our Pants!
For Christmas Noah got an ant farm from his Aunt Nikki. At first I was a little surprised and not exactly in the fun, excited way. Then I found out that to get the ants for the farm you had to order them BY MAIL. Again, not excited – but, we did. We sent away for the special ants that eat the special gel in this modern ant farm. Did you know insects can be MAILED?!!?
Well the ants arrived and we put them in their new home (and by “we” I mean Walter). Although they looked like big, mean, red ants, I figured so long as they were in the farm it really didn’t matter. Once they got acclimated though and started to make this joint their home we all became fascinated. It’s so interesting to watch them – from a distance – and see how they make tunnels and problem solve. The very first tunnel they built went right into the wall of the farm. D’oh! They’ve gotten used to the surroundings though and this is what they’re up too…
Here’s what it looks like from a little further back. Damn, ants, they can’t get anything right – we told them to spell Noah. They are missing the o and the a and the h is upside down! Just kidding, we have no idea what N4 is or where they think they’re going!
February 9th, 2010 at 8:56 am
Those ants are fricking humongous! *shudder* More power to you!
On second thought….my cats would be fascinated by all this activity. Hmmmm.
February 13th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
So what happens when they eat all the gel?
February 26th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Joel, they usually die before the farm is completely dug. You can buy new ants but I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that! We have quite a few casualties already though…