One popular and unusual toy of old was a live ant farm. For just a few dollars, you could own a tank filled with actual ants and watch them establish their own colony. Ant farms were also popular in ...

I don’t know if others in my generation, when we were kids, landed one of those Milton Bradley Ant Farms like I did and actually tended to it long enough to see a “society” emerge. It may be I was ...

Observing insect colonies in their natural state has always been a scientific interest for humans, whether it’s bees, butterflies or ants. A toy formicarium released in the 1950s helped bring ant ...

Jacob Lemanski gazes with pride at an enormous ant farm he built. At least it used to be an ant farm – the diminutive tenants all froze to death during a recent winter storm. But an order of worker ...

Ant farms were first invented as a way for researchers and scientists to study how ants behave and interact with each other, but it wasn’t long before they became popular educational toys. They’re ...

Ant colonies are surprisingly complex and definitely worthy of scientific observation. This was the basic premise behind the original ant farms (antariums) introduced in the late 1950s. From ads in ...