Karen

It's my understanding you can just get ants from outside. They won't live
forever, though. The ones they send you don't have a queen.

I just bought an Uncle Milton's ant farm, and threw out the coupon to get
ants, since surely I could find some. Well, I did, and they promptly left
the farm, figuring my sink was better territory. So if you find your own,
make sure they're too big to get through the airholes! Now, it looks like
I'd have to order a whole restocking kit and I don't want to do that. You're
supposed to find harvester ants, and mostly what we have here is fire ants;
definitely not something I want to have in the house!

If you find a source to order them from, let me know please.

Karen
kbmatlock@...

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:44:14 -0400
From: "Heather Woodward" <bacwoodz@...>
Subject: Ant Farm Question

I have an ant farm, that I would like to set up - I would like to find our
own ants. Has anyone else done this before - and have any tips. I read that
in order for the worker ants to feel like this is a real colony there needs
to be a queen. I can find lots of ants - but have yet to find the queen.
Any ideas - or experiece would be great!


Heather A. Woodward

[email protected]

http://www.antcam.com/info/faq/

There's an ant cam I haven't looked at yet.
I found this (and dozens of other sites which are calling me to click) by
google.com

ant farm queen order

What came up for the first site was a question about why a queen couldn't be
ordered by mail.

I'm going back to read.