Seen this down to £7 ish before but not this low. Probably because a lot of the ant species are in hibernation at the moment but can still order some on online if not wanting to wait a couple of months until they wake up.
15 comments
Crapweasel
29 Jan 17#1
Great price, but it's kind of a shame that ants (/ant eggs) aren't included. You're not exactly going to marvel at how a colony operates and constructs tunnels, with a paltry one or two ants collected from the garden!
POWYSWALES
29 Jan 171#2
Ant colonies can be long-lived. The queens can live for up to 30 years, and workers live from 1 to 3 years. Males, however, are more transitory, being quite short-lived and surviving for only a few weeks.[60] Ant queens are estimated to live 100 times as long as solitary insects of a similar size.
POWYSWALES
29 Jan 17#3
Told it is best to order a queen ant with several workers if you want to see how ants really behave.
Angry Kelvin to POWYSWALES
29 Jan 17#4
Yeah this matches what I have researched.
I bought this item a week ago and 75 workers (from a popular auction site), they were active for first day getting used to layout, between feeding chamber and the nest itself but since then have become quite lethargic.
I've now ordered another nest and a queen with a few workers, hoping for a bit more activity.
'Ants Canada' youtube channel is helpful, if nothing but extremely enthusiastic about ants!
Polar1
29 Jan 17#5
Unless there is a queen all the ants will die.
nadhaw to Polar1
29 Jan 172#7
We didn't know.. Got 10 from the garden... They lasted 2 days.. Found it horrible.. Kids hated it..
hoglet
29 Jan 172#6
Cruel. Cold.
Gabi
30 Jan 174#8
I thought you could only get Ants that came with Decs. :smile:
spatter
30 Jan 17#9
Ant my kind of thing....cold
kidou
30 Jan 17#10
I found some in my pants so I used those
akkybadi
30 Jan 17#11
so how can i order a queen and 150 workers ? or is it best to have 2 queens ?
Rom to akkybadi
31 Jan 171#13
Does having two queens usually work out well for one of them?
irodeludo
30 Jan 17#12
Is it me or has the price gone up?
Angry Kelvin
31 Jan 17#14
Some species can have more that one queen, myrmica rubra (fire ant) for example can.
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I bought this item a week ago and 75 workers (from a popular auction site), they were active for first day getting used to layout, between feeding chamber and the nest itself but since then have become quite lethargic.
I've now ordered another nest and a queen with a few workers, hoping for a bit more activity.
'Ants Canada' youtube channel is helpful, if nothing but extremely enthusiastic about ants!