Last Christmas I was given AntWorks. I was excited (I wanted it) and I immediately sent my check for $6 off to a company (forget who) to get my ants. I eagerly anticipated their arrival, but alas it was not meant to be. My $6 check was cashed, but no ants ever came.

It took me a year to get over this betrayal. AntWorks was gathering dust on my shelf and I never really gave it a shot, so shortly before New Years I search for and found the best site online to buy ANTS – AntsAlive.com. I was kind of worried if they’d actually show up alive but they came today in a vial, 25 in total. Awesome! ANTS!

I got them into AntWorks as soon as possible because they were probably starving, but they all made it through alive which was good news.

I’m planning on cataloging my ant farm as time goes on. They’re supposed to tunnel through the gel in the AntWorks enclosure – it actually doubles as their food, so it should end up looking pretty cool when it’s illuminated.

I’ll see how this first one goes. Down the line I’d like to wrig up a time-lapsed movie of the ants tunneling. There’s definitely some cool AntWorks videos on YouTube already.

Checkout my flickr photoset – ANTS! for updates.