Nature Gift Store 1 Tube Live Ant Farm Ants Plus Ant Food-Bundle

Ants Alive! (though I thought they were dead because they were cold). I was so worried I emailed the company but by the morning there were two tubes of angry looking little ants just waiting for the ant farm at the kids' science fair! I emailed the company back immediately to say they were fine and I got an email right back. Based on my experience this seems like a great way to order ants and a responsive company to deal with.

I ordered these for my daughter for our new gel ant farm last week, they were not supposed to be here until closer to her birthday, but they hot here sooner, after paying for ants ($7) and even more for shipping ($8), which they were only mailed 1st class USPS not overnight or even priority, which at that postal rate, it should have been priority, they were received in a bubble envelope, so nothing to protect them from cold or heat, they say they guarentee them during that 7 day period, but weather changes and the heat of inside a mail truck for days!!! Come on, really, so mine got here early, so the weather guarentee doesn't even apply here based off the supposed delivery date because you first can't rely on weather reports 2 weeks in advance, which is what I was expecting, but it got here today, so over a week early, so how was I supposed to predict the weather everywhere they are traveling in between the 2000 mile journey of the address in WA state???? YOU CAN'T!! IT'S NOT LOGICAL!! AND all but 4 were dead. The rest were just pieces and parts of ant bodies, so either they ate each other or they got shaken around so hard they fell apart! Not the way you should ship them, if it's in the summer or winter. Nor should you have to pay $8 for a $1 shipping first class USPS cost. They also need to put VENOMOUS right up top on order details. Now the ants I bought last week now cost over $26 now plus shipping, that's more than $1 per ant, at that price they better be overnighted with a refrigerated pak.

Great seller. I ordered these at the same time as I ordered the ant habitat (didn't wait for the coupon) and they arrrived a few days later. I was paying close attention to the temperature but my first vial arrived with all the ants dead. Seller prompty shipped a replacement order and gave me TWO vials to ensure good results. We had only one dead ant in each, which I consider to be very good!I carefully read all of these reviews, as well as the reviews for the sand habitat I chose, and kept the ants in the fridge until they weren't moving. For me, that was 35 minutes. They don't have much mass so they warm up quickly, and when I brought them out and checked them at 20 minutes they got so warm they woke up completely and thus the second 15 minutes.Having read all of the reviews, I saw so many mentions of stings and ants escaping, I came up with a plan. I placed the ant farm in the BATHTUB before I opened the vial to put them in the paper funnel. I also wore leather gardening gloves. Everything everyone says about them crawling up the paper funnel is true. It is also the case that they wake up at different times. There's definitely a delay between the first ant coming out of the vial and the last. I made the funnel long and tall and jammed it all the way down (making sure it was wide enough that they could still get through it) and even put tape on the side so it would keep its shape. But having to bounce the funnel up and down to knock down the ants that were climbing up destroyed the opening at the narrow end, and they couldn't get out it anymore. So it didn't really work out!In messing with the funnel I noted that the few ants that fell into the tub couldn't climb its walls. So I felt safe (and, besides, should things really go south I could always turn on the faucet and dispose of them... but they couldn't climb the walls and that wasn't necessary). And ultimately I dispensed with the paper funnel idea and had my leather gloves and the vial and the ant farm-in-bathtub setup, and just took off the cap and tipped and tapped them into the opening. The ants that fell outside the habitat ran around my bathtub merrily and I scooped them up at a time at my leisure using the tip of the vial, and then tapped them from the vial into the opening. Every once in a while I would switch to a different opening, so that they were dispersed evenly. Having them run around harmessly was easy, and my five year old could stand outside the tub and watch from a safe distance. I don't know if everyone's bathtub would work as well, but I thought I'd pass the suggestion along. For us, it was a success!

One tube contained dead ants.The second tube was fine; the ants are superior.

!! **Read this tops part*** !!So i am a grown man so when i got my live ants i simply removed them from the instruction paper toss the paper to the side and tried to get them into my ant farm. This ended with me not only hunting down half the ants but getting BITE HARD a few times my hand hurt for like a hour i got bite so many times plus killed to of them trying to catch them. On that paper the instructions CLEARLY say to put the tube in the refrigerator for 10mins makes them cold and move very very slow tap the tube let the ants fall to 1 side than open and poor into your farm. Read instructions when dealing with something you know very little about lolThey where all alive when i got them a few where extra slow and will more than likely die very soon BUT it was 🔥 hot out in the high 80s when they where in a tiny tube in a package in a hot van than my mail box so cant be mad at that.Overall i was happy tube even had a queen in it hoping that is normal cause i just ordered a 2nd tube cause the very cheap farm i got "uncle Milton's" ant farm was sooo cheap and junk my queen escaped and so did a few other out the side panel holes ment for tubes but the covers the ants can push them right off. My mistake tring to fulfill a *childhood want* and getting the same farm i wanted as a kid....Fast shippingAnt all alive..

Bought 2 tubes with food and honey, at least half of them seem ok, arrived sooner than expected which was good. I was vary worried as these shipped to me in Alaska. 4 stars because some of them were dead, there is no queen (explained) and some of the live ones were missing parts. something I learned after buying them though is that these will not breed as they do not have a queen and can not just conjure a new one, so if you buy them and do not introduce a local queen they will die after meeting their lifespan (6 weeks - 6 months).