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AntWorks With LED Illuminator Base
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Sturdy acrylic container measures 14 x 16.5 x 3cmThe perfect educational gift for all agesComes with everything you needOrder form enclosed for Utah's finest ants!Get up close and personal with the enclosed jeweler's lensWorker ants conveniently carry those who have passed away to the top for easy disposal. Gel can be reused with more antsLife expectancy is 6 months! Parts: Container with gel; LED Illuminator Base; Jeweler's lens; Magnifying glass; Plastic rod; Instruction manual; Coupon for Utah's finest antsStrongly recommend to use Harvester ants from Utah. Local ants are too lazy sometimes. The ants here are from there.
An ant colony on your desktop? You bet! Based on a NASA Space shuttle experiment to see how ants would tunnel in micro-gravity, AntWorks is a self contained ant habitat that requires no additional food or water.
Simply insert ants into the clear nutrient gel, secure the lid and let the 3-D tunneling show begin! Either collect your own ants or order via mail (ordering details included in packaging)..
The Ant Works is filled with a highly nutritious non-toxic gel into which you prod four little holes to get the tunnel network started. Now get out into the garden or park and catch about 15 ants to populate the colony. Put them in the Ant Works, replace the lid... and watch. Within days the ants will burrow out an amazing pattern of channels, each clearly visible in cross-section through the walls of the container. Maintenance is minimal. Besides providing a safe ecologically-correct habitat, the gel also provides the ants' food. You simply need to open the lid for a moment once a month to aerate the interior.
Fact 1:
Ants are one of the oldest living creatures on earth. Like sharks, they haven't changed much in millions of years. Nature got it right first time, proving the old axiom "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Fact 2:
Ants are the world's strongest creature in relation to their size. They can carry 10-20 times their bodyweight. They are also the longest living of all insects.
Fact 3:
At any given moment, there are at least 1015 ants living on earth. (That's a number so large -- and involving more zeros than is polite to use in mixed company -- that there isn't even a word for it. A lot is just woefully inadequate.) Anyway, that represents 0.1% of all the planet's insects.
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