Fascinations AntWorks Illuminated Blue Review
After watching my 5-year-old daughter learn so much and enjoy her butterfly garden, i.e. Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden, my husband and I decided to try an ant farm as she's keen on observing ants in their habitat. I read all the glowing reviews here on Amazon and decided to try it out. We have been very pleased with our purchase - the ants can be ordered online (ordering with the enclosed order form via snail mail takes a lot longer) and will arrive within a couple of days (some of the websites where one can order live harvester ants, the type recommended for this ant farm are [...]), so with pre-planning, the ants can be timed to arrive around the time of the ant farm.
The kit arrives with a booklet containing clear and user-friendly directions as to what to do with the ants. These are harvester ants and they can BITE, so I would advise an adult to handle the ants instead of children. There's a stick provided and one will have to poke about 4 holes in the gel (I'd recommend making the holes in the gel closer to the glass for easy observation). Once the ants start tunneling (how soon this occurs varies - for us it took a couple of days, our friend who also ordered this kit reported tunneling activity soon after putting the ants in). The directions advise opening the top to let oxygen in at certain intervals - please be aware that the ants will start swarming quickly to the top so please ensure no children are near and that the ants do not get out. No queen ant is provided so there's no risk of new ants hatching and moving around. The gel is also the ants' food, and finally, the ants themselves will last a couple of weeks for the duration of an ant's lifespan. The illuminated light on this kit makes this a fascinating science(biology) experiment and provides a glimpse into the life of ants. I'd recommendThe Life Cycle of an Antas a companion book to this ant farm. Highly recommended!
Fascinations AntWorks Illuminated Blue Feature
- Fascinations designs product to illustrate many magical aspects of our world
- Watch as your ants explore, discover, and develop new territories
- Kit includes instruction booklet with ant order coupon
- You Must Order Ants to inhabit habitat
- Then add your ants and see them transform your design into their own creative patterns
Fascinations AntWorks Illuminated Blue Overview
The Antworks Habitat and the Antworks Illuminator are all in one box. It includes a removable LED Illuminator with power adaptor, nutrient gel, magnifying glass, extreme zoom lens, ant catching/tunnel starting tool, and instruction booklet with interesting facts about ants. The ants not included, order form enclosed on back page of booklet. Item dimensions: 6.5 ? x 6 ? x 1.25 ?.
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Customer Reviews
Wonderful (if you like ants) - Lew Craig - Payson, AZ, USA
I bought this little ant farm not expecting too much. It came quickly and I ordered ants which came in about 4-5 days. I followed the directions by refrigerating the ants for 10 min. then dumped the ants into the "farm." The ants ran around like chickens with their heads cut off for half a day. When I work up the next morning, the ants had dug a tunnel and were starting to go horizontal. The genius of this is that the gel is clear, so you can see everything the ants do. Now, about five days later, the ants have totally excavated the entire gel, just like you see in the pictures. It is fascinating and my grandchildren went nuts over it. My wife, who wasn't excited about having ants in the house, loves it.
I have heard that some people have had ants arrive dead. When they first arrived, I thought some were dead, but they all eventually started moving around. I had the ants sent to my PO box so they wouldn't be exposed to a hot mail box (I live in Arizona). So far, the ants are doing great.
I wish the farm was larger, maybe twice as big, but I am surprised at how fascinating they are even in this small farm. This has been educational and great fun. Highly recommended.
WOW!!! - Tasha - Idaho
I got the ant farm for my 5 year old step-daughter last Christmas. She is facinated with bugs and anything and everything that has to do with them. This is a truly an amazing and educational item!!! My step-daughter loves it and so do I!!!!
I love it more than my son! - E. Dammen -
This is an awesome product. The ants are busy and the tunnels look so cool in the gel. My 2-year old can pick it up without disturbing them too much. It comes with a little magnifying glass so you can really see how they chew up the gel and make the tunnels. I would recommend buying the ants directly from the Lifeworks website instead of using the order form, then popping them in the fridge for a few minutes to slow them down before you put them in. After that you only need to crack it open once a week or so to give them air, but they seem to go to sleep in the evenings so I don't worry about them escaping. It is really a fascinating toy!
This ant farm ROCKS ! - KP - New York, USA
I totally recommend you get this ant farm. It was a gift for my 34 year old sister! She had as much fun with it as a 9 year old would. It is so amazing watching the ants build and interact with eachother. It also came with a really great pamphlet with very interesting facts about the ants.
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