Amazon Minimum Age: 8 Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Toy Brand: Fascinations EAN: 0032309268904 Feature: Watch ants work together to create a habitat Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Item Dimensions: Array Label: Fascinations Manufacturer: Fascinations Manufacturer Maximum Age: 99 Manufacturer Minimum Age: 8 Model: ANTW1 MPN: FANTW1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fascinations Studio: Fascinations
Product Features:
• Watch ants work together to create a habitat • translucent gel allows the viewer to see all goings on • Gel provides ants with food, water and housing medium • Use local ants or order some by mail • Comes with an educational booklet and simple instructions; Ants not included
Editorial Review:
Fascinations Antworks is the first and only ant habitat to be tested in zero gravity. It provides a total ecosystem for ants and uses a non-toxic blue gel which makes it easy to watch the ants digging their network of tunnels. It includes container, ant catcher, magnifier and activity guide.
Customer Reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: great for whole fam! Comment: First, this is much much smaller than I expected. But it is really great! I got it for my 7 year old nephew, and the whole family loved it! it's really fun to watch all the tunnels grow, and how "3D they are. Now that the ants are dead, it is kept up for display. Customer Rating: Summary: Disposable Comment: I bought one of these and ordered the ants from the website. It was pretty interesting for a while; the ants made tunnels just like in the picture. But after a while they just started making a big empty space next to the outer wall, and it wasn't quite as cool to watch.
The ants lasted a few months, but I couldn't figure out how to get the dead ones out - their friends had carried them to a chamber down near the bottom. I ended up throwing it out, which really seemed like a waste. I wish they provided a way to refill it. Customer Rating: Summary: first ant farm that works! Comment: I bought this at an insect museum last week for my 8 and 5 year old boys. Ordered the ants the same day and they arrived, very healthy and active, in one week. We dumped them in and they started to tunnel into the starter holes within about 3 hours. Now, 2 days later they have started tunneling their own holes, in addition to zig-zagging around connecting the starter holes we punched for them. I really wish now that I had purchased the type that you can connect multiple habitats. But, since we've never had any luck with ant farms before, I didn't want to pay the extra cost for that kind over the single habitat variety. I have put the illuminator on their Christmas wish list, as well as another habitat with green gel. If you or your kids are fascinated with ants, you probably won't be disaapointed with this product! Customer Rating: Summary: great gift! Comment: I bought this for my 7 yr. old nephew and he looooooves it! It looks just like I thought it would. Customer Rating: Summary: Fascination Antworks Comment: I ordered this for my son's 2nd grade class. We got the ants on a Friday and will take the farm on Monday. all weekend my son has been so curious about what the ants will do next. He has been very excited to get up each morning to see what the ants have done overnight. I know the class will like to watch it too.