25 Live Red Harvester Ants for Ant Habitats - Live Arrival, Shipped Now - Perfect for Educational Science Projects & Interactive Ant Habitat Experience
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Style: 25 Live Ants
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- Live Ants: Includes 25 active and healthy red harvester ants, ideal for creating an interactive, lively habitat for educational projects or personal enjoyment. Does not include a queen.
- Fun and Entertaining: Ideal for science projects, class, or simply as a captivating hobby, these live ants offer an interactive way to observe nature's wonders up close. Delve into the world of these industrious creatures, witnessing their teamwork, tunneling prowess, and fascinating social behaviors.
- Ready for Your Ant Habitat: These ants are all set to explore and tunnel through your ant habitat. They come with clear instructions for easy setup, allowing you to witness these fascinating creatures create intricate tunnels, exhibit their natural behaviors, and enhance the learning experience.
- Easy to Care For: Our ants are easy to care for and incredibly engaging to watch. Bring an interactive experience to your ant habitat and enjoy hours of observation and learning with friends or family.
- Live Arrival: We take utmost care in packaging and shipping these ants to ensure they arrive at your location alive and healthy. **DO NOT ORDER if below 40 degrees or above 85 degrees in your area. Ordering during these temperatures will void our live arrival promise. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHECKING TEMPERATURES IN YOUR AREA to ensure ants arrive alive.**
Description
This set of 25 active and healthy red harvester ants brings a unique and engaging experience to any ant habitat, perfect for educational projects or personal enjoyment. These lively insects are ideal for science enthusiasts, classrooms, or hobbyists who wish to observe the wonders of nature up close. Watch as they demonstrate teamwork, tunneling skills, and intriguing social behaviors, creating a dynamic display of their industrious lifestyle. Ready for immediate exploration, these ants arrive with simple setup instructions, making it easy to observe them create intricate tunnels and exhibit natural behaviors that enhance learning. They are low-maintenance yet endlessly captivating, offering hours of interactive observation for family or friends. Carefully packaged to ensure they arrive alive, we recommend ordering only if your area's temperatures are between 40 and 85 degrees.
Product Dimensions: 10 x 1 x 6 inches
Item Weight: 0.639 ounces
Country of Origin: USA
Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Manufacturer: Nature Gift Store
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Style: 25 Live Ants
Good ants
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2025 by Mr.&Mrs.Barnett
Style: 25 Live Ants
I ordered these for my daughter for our new gel ant farm last week, they were not supposed to be here until closer to her birthday, but they hot here sooner, after paying for ants ($7) and even more for shipping ($8), which they were only mailed 1st class USPS not overnight or even priority, which at that postal rate, it should have been priority, they were received in a bubble envelope, so nothing to protect them from cold or heat, they say they guarentee them during that 7 day period, but weather changes and the heat of inside a mail truck for days!!! Come on, really, so mine got here early, so the weather guarentee doesn't even apply here based off the supposed delivery date because you first can't rely on weather reports 2 weeks in advance, which is what I was expecting, but it got here today, so over a week early, so how was I supposed to predict the weather everywhere they are traveling in between the 2000 mile journey of the address in WA state???? YOU CAN'T!! IT'S NOT LOGICAL!! AND all but 4 were dead. The rest were just pieces and parts of ant bodies, so either they ate each other or they got shaken around so hard they fell apart! Not the way you should ship them, if it's in the summer or winter. Nor should you have to pay $8 for a $1 shipping first class USPS cost. They also need to put VENOMOUS right up top on order details. Now the ants I bought last week now cost over $26 now plus shipping, that's more than $1 per ant, at that price they better be overnighted with a refrigerated pak.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020 by ArmySniper222
Style: 25 Live Ants
Great seller. I ordered these at the same time as I ordered the ant habitat (didn't wait for the coupon) and they arrrived a few days later. I was paying close attention to the temperature but my first vial arrived with all the ants dead. Seller prompty shipped a replacement order and gave me TWO vials to ensure good results. We had only one dead ant in each, which I consider to be very good! I carefully read all of these reviews, as well as the reviews for the sand habitat I chose, and kept the ants in the fridge until they weren't moving. For me, that was 35 minutes. They don't have much mass so they warm up quickly, and when I brought them out and checked them at 20 minutes they got so warm they woke up completely and thus the second 15 minutes. Having read all of the reviews, I saw so many mentions of stings and ants escaping, I came up with a plan. I placed the ant farm in the BATHTUB before I opened the vial to put them in the paper funnel. I also wore leather gardening gloves. Everything everyone says about them crawling up the paper funnel is true. It is also the case that they wake up at different times. There's definitely a delay between the first ant coming out of the vial and the last. I made the funnel long and tall and jammed it all the way down (making sure it was wide enough that they could still get through it) and even put tape on the side so it would keep its shape. But having to bounce the funnel up and down to knock down the ants that were climbing up destroyed the opening at the narrow end, and they couldn't get out it anymore. So it didn't really work out! In messing with the funnel I noted that the few ants that fell into the tub couldn't climb its walls. So I felt safe (and, besides, should things really go south I could always turn on the faucet and dispose of them... but they couldn't climb the walls and that wasn't necessary). And ultimately I dispensed with the paper funnel idea and had my leather gloves and the vial and the ant farm-in-bathtub setup, and just took off the cap and tipped and tapped them into the opening. The ants that fell outside the habitat ran around my bathtub merrily and I scooped them up at a time at my leisure using the tip of the vial, and then tapped them from the vial into the opening. Every once in a while I would switch to a different opening, so that they were dispersed evenly. Having them run around harmessly was easy, and my five year old could stand outside the tub and watch from a safe distance. I don't know if everyone's bathtub would work as well, but I thought I'd pass the suggestion along. For us, it was a success!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2020 by waldorf_curric
Style: 25 Live Ants+Food
Lots of dead ants upon arrival :(
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2025 by hailey watson hailey watson
Style: 50 Live Ants
Ants Alive! (though I thought they were dead because they were cold). I was so worried I emailed the company but by the morning there were two tubes of angry looking little ants just waiting for the ant farm at the kids' science fair! I emailed the company back immediately to say they were fine and I got an email right back. Based on my experience this seems like a great way to order ants and a responsive company to deal with.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2025 by amand
Style: 50 Live Ants +Honey+Food
Bought 2 tubes with food and honey, at least half of them seem ok, arrived sooner than expected which was good. I was vary worried as these shipped to me in Alaska. 4 stars because some of them were dead, there is no queen (explained) and some of the live ones were missing parts. something I learned after buying them though is that these will not breed as they do not have a queen and can not just conjure a new one, so if you buy them and do not introduce a local queen they will die after meeting their lifespan (6 weeks - 6 months).
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Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2025 by faust faust
Style: 25 Live Ants
Preface this disaster, I want to note that it was a nice fall day when my ants arrived in the mail, and I actually was outside as the postman handed me the package- there was no time for us to commit this heinous act of ant catastrophe. We have owned 3 (yes I said 3) ant colonies- all of which have led to the death of over 60 ants..... I was found guilty of the first two colonies. I am innocent on colony number 3. Colony number 1 (Alone in the Desert)- This was the ant farm where you had to purchase the sand.. and remember to water them .. and feed them....... I did not remember to water and feed them, thus they starved. Colony number 2 (Psychedelic Blue Lunar Craft)- This any farm was made of the blue gel and had a color-changing light at the bottom. The gel served as the water and food, and the ants tunneled through it. It was awesome- and then we decided to put a cheese-it as a "science experiment".... note putting bread in a small, enclosed area that contains a moist gel is not a good idea. Colony number 2- (Psychedelic Blue Lunar Craft 2)..... We ordered ants from this vendor. All but 1 were dead when they arrived. I couldn't kill him... so now he lays on top of the small piece of carrot that was in the ant tube in his Psychedelic Ant Mansion.... I am thinking about dropping down some anti-depressents and liquor to cope with the isolation...
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Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020 by Amazon Customer