My little Myrmecologist!

Spring time is a wonderful time to study animals. Dylan is really into bugs (Typical boy!) So I bought him an ant farm and thought it would be fun to learn about them.

Now ant farms have changed over the years. When I was little they were green, filled with dirt, and you had to water and feed the ants. Well not anymore! Thanks to NASA and space age technology the new ant farms use a gel that was first used in space to provide nutrition for the ants. This makes having an ant farm really easy to maintain!

We received 30 harvester ants in the mail, but unfortunately a few died. At first I was a little sceptial because the ants were not doing a thing and looked sick

But soon they started working together and building tunnels. Now they are happy ants!
 

To learn about the ants we read Are you an ant?
 

And watched some Youtube videos on ants.

We also colored ants

and learned that A is for ant by gluing raisin ants on A!



Observing our ants!


Cool Ant facts:

Ants can carry up to 50 times their own weight!
They talk to each other by scent, sound, and touch through their antennae.
They poop!
All the ants are female in our antfarm no use for males! 
They are older than Dinosaurs!