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Tell your teenager the world needs more people like him if we’re going to save the worlds insects. We need more entomologist.
👤bonnie76🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Actually there are two species that were made legal to ship in the US last year. More information (and for sale) here. [0]
[0] https://tarheelants.com/pages/ant-queen-and-colony-adoption
👤ApolloFortyNine🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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That is really interesting! I never had an ant farm, and I'm glad I didn't given what you've said.
Are ants similar to bees in that there's one egg-laying "queen" that you have to gather, or can you just gather a collection of individuals from a colony?
Your kid probably already knows about this, but have him check out the YouTuber AntsCanada. I'm not particularly into ants but I find his videos fascinating.
👤vishbar🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Yep, my son did buy his first colony from a local college kid, through the GAN Project: https://www.antscanada.com/queen-ants-for-sale/. Since he was away, his mom brought the colony to us, we met discreetly at a library, felt a bit like a spy transaction :-)
👤Jun8🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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This whole time I thought I did something wrong.
👤ethn🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Huh, this is certainly legal in Europe. You get colonies with a queen and some workers, even non-native species. Always asked myself if that wouldn't facilitate invasions of foreign species into the eco system because ants are pretty apt at escaping.
👤raxxorrax🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Can you ship fertile ants through UPS or Fedex?
👤kelnos🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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If you want a real ant farm, you need to either collect ants locally, or buy ants in person from someone who did themselves. And you'd better known the rules if you want to cross state lines with your ants.
(Source, I have a teenager who loooves ants and knows everything about them. He now has multiple species of ants that he keeps.)