Ant Farm
[6+]

Ants are fascinating! Watch the world's tiniest engineers dig tunnels, build roads, and erect bridges. See them plan and construct highways and subways - moving mountains right before your eyes. It's a fascinating peek into the secret world of ants.

This is the Original Uncle Milton's Ant Farm, recipient of the Toy Institute of America's Toy of the Century Award. First available in 1956, over 20 million have been sold. The farm features an escape proof design, antports for connecting additional Ant Farms, and an extra-wide, stable base.

Contents:

• Ant Farm with 4 connecting Antports
• Tunneling sand
• Antway travel tube
• Ant Watcher's Manual
• Stock certificate to send for ants (or you can catch your own from your garden)

Habitat measures 22 x 14 x 1.5 cm.

Age: 6+

Ants, one of the most successful groups of insects, are of particular interest because they form advanced colonies. They belong to the order Hymenoptera, and are close relatives of the sphecid wasps. The first known ants appeared sometime during the Cretaceous period, and it is believed that they evolved from the wasps that had appeared during the Jurassic period. They are physiologically distinguished mainly by having six legs, sharply elbowed antennae, and by having a bead-like pedicel formed from the first few abdominal segments, which in wasps are joined to the thorax. Ants are mostly wingless, which varies between individuals in a colony rather than between species.