Insect Lore Tube of Ants | 25 Live Western Harvester Ants | Grown in USA | Instructions Included

We bought these February 15th with mostly all surviving upon arrival (I think we had 23 live ones). It is now April 25th and we still have about 12 ants. They are dying off little by little but it’s been fascinating to watch them for as long as we have. I would recommend buying these ants. Just make sure you have a good ant farm and switch out their food every couple of days or so. Also, be sure to refrigerate them before putting them in the ant farm and move directly from the refrigerator to the ant farm. They are super fast. They were extremely thirsty at first, all crowding the water sponge in our ant farm. They seem to like all fruits and granola bars (except ones with cinnamon).Update 07/14/2024:We still have 10 live ants. Was not expecting them to survive this long. We’ve had them for 5 months tomorrow.Update 11/17/2024:We still have 5 live ants. These ants are hardy! We’ve had them for 9 months now!Update 02/16/2025:We still have 3 live ants! I can’t believe it. We received them a year and a day ago! One year anniversary with these little ones. lol. I never expected them to last this long. If you have a Costco membership, I recommend feeding them the organic Aussie bites. They love them and I almost feel like perhaps that is why they keep going on.FINAL Update 04/10/2025:The final three ants have died. These ants almost made it 14 months with us, which way surpassed my expectations. My kids are now asking me if we can get more…

We followed the instructions that were in the packet. 10-15 min in frigefor an easy transition into grandson ant farm. Well we notice there ae only 3 living ants the others ones were dead.I just received my package on 5.19.25 @ 7:08 pm and today is 5.22.25 the queen ant is dead now.My grandson is not happy neither am I. I purchase these ants as a surprise to Celebrate his outstanding school year. The picture tells it all, we are very Disappointed.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:My daughter got an ant farm and we ordered ants from another company. It took almost 2 weeks for them to arrive and when they did, all but five were dead. We live in Texas so finding a time when it wasn't too hot was tricky.We found these ants on Amazon and they would arrive in 2 days so we took our chances. I'm happy to report that most of the ants survived and are alert and active. Do be very careful when handling them though. Definitely put them in the fridge for 10 minutes and be ready to put them in your ant farm as soon as they're out of the fridge. We are excited and hopeful to enjoy watching these little critters!

All ants are dead. They were just delivered-right to my front door. They weren’t in a hot mailbox. I literally picked them up 1 minute after they were delivered. In fact it isn’t even showing as “delivered” yet. We have ordered ants 3 other times over the yrs & have never had this happen. Very disappointing

The shipping took a full week... so only about half were still alive by their arrival. As for the survivors, they are definitely entertaining and busy little ants and have settled into their new home well so far.

Seems like reviews are mixed on this so I took that into consideration when buying. I estimated the order time when I thought I’d be home. It worked out and I met the ups dude in the driveway and put these fugggers in the fridge after a few minutes upon arrival.About 8 minutes for the first tube and there were around six dead ones. The other tube was in for right around 10 minutes and they entered the farm in a different spot. It took them awhile to get moving and I thought they all might be dead. All but five from that tube survived.I’m not sure if they’re overstocking the order but I’d estimate I have around 45 live ones who are digging and exploring.Hope some of this helps. I didn’t know anything about ants before I bought this

I was home when these were delivered, and every single ant is dead. Not ONE living creature in two tubes. A complete waste of money.

Bought two tubes. One tube was completely dead when I opened the package. The other tube, half died after putting in the fridge for 10 minutes.. the other half are thriving though. Sad that i bought 50 ants and only have 15 alive..