There seems to be no end in what you can buy through the mail. Ants, butterflies, frogs and ladybirds can be delivered to your door in secure packages. Ready to be dropped into your readymade bug habitat brought from your local toyshop or possible also delivered by the mail carrier. As cities get bigger and nature gets farther away we are bringing it back to live in our living rooms. Also it might be something to do with us, the parents, trying to recapture our childhood, reliving our experience with our ant farms that we had 20 to 30 years ago. The ant farms nowadays are amazing contraptions, nothing like the glass cases with a book on top to keep the ants in. Nevertheless they still do the same thing. That is to provide a living experience for our kids. Everything comes in the mail, ants delivered separately.
The main drawback from buying an ant farm is the time it takes to get your ants. After buying the farm and setting it up you send your certificate back to the company and then your ants are delivered. You cannot buy the whole thing ready to go sort of thing. It is a two-stage process. And this waiting game kind of takes the excitement out of the project. As ants are temperature sensitive the companies usually only post the ants when the weather is favorable. That means if it gets too cold you end with a packet of dead ants. Also there is no queen ant with the colony so the ants are short lived. They can't reproduce so they die off as there are no baby ants to take over.
We will look at four different ant farms that you can receive through the mail. The first is Uncle Milton's Ant Farm Village. This is three separate ant farms hence the name village. They are all joined with Antway Connector Tubes and the ants climb up Ant Stairs to get from one farm to another. Nevertheless they are all quite small and one is circular so if the ants are hiding in the middle you can't see them. The idea behind the three habitats is to start with one and join the others as the colony gets bigger but there is only one problem with this and that is, no queen ant. Like the other farms they all have plastic models of the standard farm on top so anybody looking at it will work out it is a farm. The main problems with this model seems to be the construction with some people having trouble putting it together and others saying there were too many holes in the containers so the little ants could break free and make a run for the garden.
The main drawback from buying an ant farm is the time it takes to get your ants. After buying the farm and setting it up you send your certificate back to the company and then your ants are delivered. You cannot buy the whole thing ready to go sort of thing. It is a two-stage process. And this waiting game kind of takes the excitement out of the project. As ants are temperature sensitive the companies usually only post the ants when the weather is favorable. That means if it gets too cold you end with a packet of dead ants. Also there is no queen ant with the colony so the ants are short lived. They can't reproduce so they die off as there are no baby ants to take over.
We will look at four different ant farms that you can receive through the mail. The first is Uncle Milton's Ant Farm Village. This is three separate ant farms hence the name village. They are all joined with Antway Connector Tubes and the ants climb up Ant Stairs to get from one farm to another. Nevertheless they are all quite small and one is circular so if the ants are hiding in the middle you can't see them. The idea behind the three habitats is to start with one and join the others as the colony gets bigger but there is only one problem with this and that is, no queen ant. Like the other farms they all have plastic models of the standard farm on top so anybody looking at it will work out it is a farm. The main problems with this model seems to be the construction with some people having trouble putting it together and others saying there were too many holes in the containers so the little ants could break free and make a run for the garden.
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