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Ant Farms aren’t just for children anymore. AntWorks habitat consists of a nutrient and supplement rich blue gel. The gel arrives as a solid. You capture about 15 ants, and add them to the gel. You can watch them dig an endless maze of tunnels. Using the included magnifying glass and extreme zoom lens, you can observe their behavior in minute detail.

AntWorks Illuminated Ant Habitat also features an LED light-up base to highlighs the tunnels and may also be used as a night-light.

There is hardly any maintenance at all since the AntWorks is an ecologically correct habitat and the gel provides all the food the ants will need. Once a month however you will need to open the lid to aerate the interior.

NASA designed this ant colony in the early days of the US space program. The idea they had was for astronauts to take a colony of ants into space to study their behavior in a zero gravity.