Has anyone else got an ANT WORLD? Please come and talk ants with me

[FrannyandZooey]

Right we finally scraped together about 25 nervous looking ants and introduced them to their spacious new accomodation. Several promptly died and the rest spent a couple of days running around, much to ds's delight:

"We've got PETS!"

"Mummy look they are having a RACE!"

"Those two are very funny they just bumped HEADS!"

"Now they are having an ANT CIRCUS!"

So I was thinking this has got to be one of the best things anyone had ever bought him. Now on day 5 the ants are

well

I don't know where they are. They have gone somewhere. Underground? There is a tunnel. It doesn't seem to have ants in it. There is bugger all sign of life. Is this it? Are the first few days the only time you get to see them doing anything? Or have we killed them all? What do I tell ds?

oh arse I have spelt accommodation wrong. Possible twice.

Now,
did you leave it on a window sill?

We too loved our ants
watched them for ages
they even had eggs!!!!

Then we left them on a window sill
and fryed them

or perhaps they are just shy?!

No they are on the dining room table

they might be shy

are they still alive that is the question??

doesn't sound very hopeful

have you got a microscope lens thingy to stare through?

ah

somewhere

what if I just see a kind of ant graveyard though? I don't know if my nerves are up to it?

But then,
we killed ours
so perhaps i'm not the best person to talk to

Did you feed them?

Be prepared
It's not a nice sight

perhaps they had a huge party
and now are sleeping it off?!!

Where did you get the ants from?

Ds1 has had one for ages but don't know where to buy the ants and have lost the leaflet which came with it. Did you just get them from the garden??

yes we fed them yesterday

are they sleeping off their feast of one pinhead sized piece of apple do you reckon?

i think they're in my green wheelie bin. i'll tell them to go home

I caught mine
in the garden
hours of fun

saffy yes we did, but I can get you the address off the leaflet if you like?

Yes....maybe they planned an escape

it is like the Marie Celeste of the ant world

Perhaps they are hiding

and watching you right now??!!

what you think I am in Franny World?

oooooooooh

We did find a few crawling on the window sill
very small opening in the casing...

Have you watered them?

erm

don't know, will consult dp

I have been in bed for 2 days and I wake up to a fridge full of sludgy vegetables and a load of missing ants

Poorly?

i in bed mon and tues poorly

Cucumber big pool of green water in tray

better now, i hope?

Good luck with the ants

ps. if table near window
direct sulight...
ants won't be very happy

THREE peppers with white beards, I had

yes I was actually strewth, that was bad indeed

ok the ants are about 3 foot away from the window. I would say they get direct sunlight on them in the early evening for a bit. Will this just make them a bit sad or will it injure them? I don't think there is anywhere in my house that ants can live that doesn't get direct sunlight. I don't have a very big house

oh btw they have a teatowel shade if that makes any difference

tea towel shade makes diFFerence....i should think.....

maybe you got aduff lot of ants?

or perhaps you got a bunch of old aged ones?

(by no means suggesting that the two are linked...... duffers and old)

get some hardy ones from your garden

lol bearded peppers