Based on a 2003 NASA experiment to study animal life in space, AntWorks® gel habitats are something to behold! Watch ants create 3-D tunnels in this special, translucent nutrient gel. As the gel provides food and water for the ants, they require no care - the perfect pet!
Featured in TIME Magazine's 'Best Inventions' 2005 issue and a 2006 Teachers Choice award, AntWorks® gel habitat is a great gift for all ages. Just add ants (send away for ants or catch your own) and watch them work in the clear gel. Each AntWorks® habitat also comes with magnifying lenses and an instructional / interesting ant facts booklet. Use the extreme zoom lens (included) and you can see the hairs on their little ant heads - very cool!
Simply insert ants into the translucent nutrient gel, secure the lid and let the 3-D tunneling show begin! Either collect your own ants or order a colony to be delivered to your home. (ordering details included in packaging)..
The AntWorks habitat is filled with a highly nutritious non-toxic gel into which you prod little starting point holes in the AntWorks gel to get the tunnel network started. Now get out into the garden or park and catch about 15 ants to populate the colony, or just have them delivered to your home for $3.00 from www.antsalive.com with the enclosed order form. Put them in the AntWorks, replace the lid... and watch as your ants create their AntWorks mini empire. Within days the ants will burrow out an amazing pattern of channels, each clearly visible in cross-section through the walls of the container. Besides providing a safe ecologically-correct habitat, the gel also provides the ants' food and water. Maintenance is minimal. You simply need to open the lid for a moment every now and again to aerate the interior of your AntWorks habitat and occasionally clean the top of the AntWorks Habitat.
Features:
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Sturdy and nice looking acrylic container measures 14 x 16.5 x 3cm (6.5x5.5x1.25 inches) -
The perfect educational gift for all ages -
Worker ants conveniently carry those who have passed away to the top for easy disposal.
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Hours or fascination for everyone
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Get up close and personal with the enclosed jeweler's lens
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Order form enclosed for Utah's finest ants!
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Gel can be reused with more ants
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Average life expectancy is 6 months!
Contains:
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AntWorks
Habitat with gel -
Jeweler's lens -
Magnifying glass
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Plastic rod to start the holes in the AntWorks Habitat or use to catch ants
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Instruction manual
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Coupon for Utah's finest ants
Ant Facts No 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". Ant Facts No 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.
Ant Facts No 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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