Easy Glass Jar Ant Farm - How to Make - Fun Easy Cheap Free - Complete Guide! 

The pavement ants looked to be a species of Lasius, and the larger, black ants, which you called carpenter ants, were actually a Formica species.

If anyone does this, remeber to free them in the same place you catched them from , because they dont like having no queen

One thing you might want to change on the ant farm is the black paper. You can put see-through red plastic on it so you can watch them, but the ants will think it is still dark, since they can’t see red.

Here’s a tip! If you catch ants put them back where they came from because if they have no queen, they will die, Instead wait for spring time between 12pm- 3 pm find a Queen ant, then you can raise an ant colony from scratch and you won’t have to worry about the ants dying, here are some tutorials: Catch Queen ants - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WfaK8TvM0qA.html Identify Queen ants:- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XXs9BLdgoBY.html Overall tutorial *important* - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o1421IyFKuU.html Also, Ant colony’s grow very slowly and you won’t need to worry about constantly getting them bigger habitats

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Hi from India🇮🇳 Lots of love ❤

Ok we will do it !! Thanks for guiding

Nice set of videos on your channel. Enjoyed this one as I loved ants as a kid.

I like the bottle in the middle technique..

This is amazing. Im on my way to the park to collect some ants!

Another use for jars! Epic..

Thank you for showing your videos 😊

Cool, we will have to try this!

thanks

thank you for the video

Love your funny pictures, especially the ant with beard! 😂

Very creative dude.. thanks for an interesting video

I work with kids and i think this will be a nice project to work with them. Thanks a lot

This is so awesome

Thank you you really helped me :D

Wow thx

Thanks sir, ur really good for a small channel. U got 1 subscriber more 😁.

Thank you!

I did this it work

Thank you i can make 💞💞

I’m thinking about making an ant farm cause it’s fun to make a hobby!

You have seed shrimp in the one jar - awesome 👏

Cool video

If you found queen ant and put it into the jar. Do you need to free the queen ant at the place where u found her back?

O nice work 👍👍👍

I like this vid because it is verey simpel

Thanks, I wanted to adopt ants and see what they doin

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The ants will die off pretty quick as they have no queen and brood to look after, a worker ants job is o protect and feed the queen and her brood to ensure the growth of their colony, these ants will die off pretty quick and its rather pointless without a queen, i keep ants myself and i have multiple species, a few of them are still in test tube set ups until they outgrow their current tube, ants only need to be given a space suitable for their size with a bit room to grow, i got one of my queens back in march and she now has 30+ workers, august 16th i caught my own queen and she now has 4 workers with a pile of brood, ot does take time for them to grow over the years, this is actually an alright idea aslong as you add humidity to it and a source of water for them to drink, sugars for energy and protein (crushed bugs) to help with brood growth

for my first and only and farm i used a pickle jar 🤣 it was big but worked.

Kinda thinking of making something like this, do you have any extra tips?

This is a great experiment for little kids. Seeing as it will only last for a few weeks to a few months. In a way its like living art. However actually raising an ant colony from a single queen is so much more fun. Also red translucent film works best for keeping the ants in the dark because ants cant see in the red spectrum. That way you can watch and even record their progress. This would actually be a decent setup with a few tweaks for a queen founding chamber. #1. Id use a plastic container for the center piece & poke a bunch of pin holes on the bottom sides and a larger hole on the lid for a straw to fit snug into. Then Id fill the small container with cotton or sponge pieces to retain water. #2. Id drill larger holes in the lid 1 for the hydration straw and another to lead to a nearby outworld with vinyl tubing. For feeding #3 make sure to premoisten the soil used to prevent tunnel collapse. Also pack the soil down slightly for the same reason. A well maintained captive colony can on average live 4-10 years. A very rewarding and therapeutic hobby! I recently learned about a helpful tool for collecting ants called an insect aspirator. A little bit safer than the insect vacuum which can result in rapid dehydration.

Which thing they eat what things we feed them plz tell me

1:08 I find that peanut butter works, just takes a longer time and a few applications!

Thx this was so helpful I am starting my second ant farm my first died in about a day

Thanks soon ama Make one but where i live i dind see no Ant hills and no queens just many workers any heading in my neighbors lawn what do i do?

cool

Question, can somebody awnser this for me. Can you just fill a regular container with nothing inside and fill with dirt and set and ants in it, will they still survive like in the video even though u wont be able to see there tunnels??

Please should I put queen ant

necro, but cool video i made one after watching thanks!

I would love Just putting a queen in, and when i get to many ants then i buy a cage, do you think this Will be a good idea

Could i use a plastic jar for the middle?

Can you do it with a plastic food container instead of a jar? Because i don't have any spare jars atm. Also, any tips for finding ants? I can't seem to find any

Can i do the same thing with 1 queen?

Oh my gosh thank you so much i thought we need a Queen to prt ants but this js different

Do you have to have the little jar in the middle?

Catching queen ants in my opinion is a much better option. You get to see the eggs laid and the transformation, along with the queen's first workers. Also, an ant colony is sustained and will grow until years after catching the queen. I own a colony of Camponotus Discolor with a queen and workers, and they are very fun!

Do you add water to the dirt so they can dig, or can they just do their thing without moisture in the dirt?

How does one go about getting a queen for a larger set up? Would love to do this!

can you use sand instead of dirt and soaked papertowels instead of cotton balls?

i am only able to catch 3 ants before they escape, are 3 enough for some sma tunells

I like your content even that toilet flush video ahahhaha! Btw as far as i could remember i put a cotton ball on the ventilation hole so the ants wont escape and no other smaller ants could enter. But im not sure if the cotton could prevent the Pharoah ants from entering.

When you put dirt in there do you put sand in there wait I mean can you put sand in there or does it have to be dirt

Love how he forgot the queen.

can i use a plastic small jar?

When I did it the tunnels were not very clean like yours, the ant left some sand on the glass so i can't see them very clear, Any one knows why?

Hi,I have a question,what do I do when my jar starts to smell

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The second ants looks more like a polyrachis or Lasius Niger maybe a Formica fusca depending where you live

"here are some ants, they look motivated and ready to dig tunnels" The ants : "JFC !!!! THE END IS NEAR ! WHATS HAPPENING !? "

what do you do when the ants die? how do you replace them

i did remeber when i was a kid and did get alot of ants on a jar and even if those werent leafcutter ants i feed them only leafs so they died in a week or two most likely for starvation,then i putted a spider inside the jar and the ants just attacked it and that spider looked traumatized fr lol also if they didnt had brood (so no queen) leaf cutter ants cant do fungus from what i know

Oh

That Steven King movie where the guy fills his ant farm from an old Indian graveyard and got demon ants, lol.

I wonder what would happen if I only put a queen ant in the terrarium

Thanks! I wanted to make it and thanks to you i could!😊 But i think it would be cool to watch different ants fight😅

can you start a colony without the queen?

If the ants don’t have a queen they will die so you’re not being very smart that’s OK you just gotta use your brain😊😅❤

Why would they need the little jar in the center?

What if you put something in the farm and then left it out it might take a while but there will be a lot of ants and probably even a queen

but i create a ant farm but the water and food ant did not eat

Maybe you need a queen ant too

Do you need a queen to make a ant nest?

Do I really need multiple jars

Water and food are once a week?

Do this work for fire ants?

Did you damp the sand

Try puting a queen ant

You might need a queen ant.its better not to lie

Noice

I can never do this my home has no soil or sand and no ant hills.☹️

Do you need the middle jar or no if you dont need to see in as well

Are like 10 - 20 ants enough to start tunneling? And with only this many ants how long will my jar last?

Me when he use wild dirt: that's ur first mistake

You need a queen.

Imagine those people who do this and forget about the ant nest entirely, the ants will succumb and the whole colony will be dead

Lasius niger group looks like neoniger, and formica fusca group for the larger one

they could be black crazy ants

So I don't need a queen ant?

Now for some dirt, I have some dirt over here.

What are the ants from Indiana Jones called? Are they real? That would be a real man's ant farm.

I know a prego jar when i see one you cant fool me

I dit it ....but my ants dint make any tunnel . Why I dont know? It was fire ants I guess . I dont think it works for all ants💔💔💔

Help me I can’t find dirt in my house and jam he,p me!