Yep, that was the one…THANKS!!! Those cards were so low quality.
There was a post recently on The Worst Things For Sale about a particularly sad Amazon review of an ant farm:
This ant farm works exceptionally well. The actual burrowing area for
the ants is sufficiently deep, yet narrow, so the ants are always
readily visible. My daughter was mesmerized by her new pets for a day or
two. Since then, I have been the primary beneficiary of this purchase.
Upon
receiving the ant farm in mid-June, my daughter and I gathered exactly
40 western harvester ants. For the first few days, they huddled together
on the top, covering the lens in the middle. Then, they began
tunneling–a lot. The gel held up well, for the most part. The only
problem was that the tunnels at the very bottom of the ant farm tended
to flood with moisture from the gel, causing the first few fatalities. I
drained it a couple times by first evacuating the ants into a temporary
container, then simply upending the ant farm. This didn’t seem to help
all that much, however, so I don’t suggest it. Ants are necessarily
subject to certain occupational hazards, it seems.
The ants lived
and worked happily for two months before beginning to die off
precipitously. In short order, only two ants remained. These kept each
other company for perhaps two weeks, after which the penultimate ant
died. The last survivor moved all the dead ants into the lowest chamber
of the ant farm, flush against the floor. Astonishingly, she wanders
among the dead in her makeshift tomb to this day, having now outlived
her comrades by approximately four months.
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It’s strange to have sympathy for ants, but hey we feel responsible for pets.
We have the "crazy ants’ in our neighborhood and they nest in potted plants or just about anywhere. The first time I disturbed them I was horrified to see them all rushing about to rescue the eggs and pupae, as if they were all screaming “SAVE THE BABIES, SAVE THE BABIES!” But now they are something of nuisance and I no longer care about their haphazard nest building. in the mailbox and nozzle of the garden hose.
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