formicarium
formicary

A formicarium owner may well make use of two or more security measures.

This can be done by putting a black towel over the formicarium.

The ants in this type of formicarium are very easily seen.

They are applied to the side of the formicarium to prevent escape.

Often, containing ants inside a formicarium can be a challenge.

For the first 3 days, a formicarium owner has to let the ants get used to their new environment.

A formicarium, designed primarily for the study of ant colonies.

A formicarium is usually an enclosed by a transparent box made of glass or plastic.

This is known as a formicarium.

He was a prolific inventor and designed much of his own equipment, including a novel type of formicarium.

This practice allows owners to reset the formicarium and observe their ants dig tunnels all over again.

Formicarium, with species of ants.

Another way of preventing the ants from escaping is to place the entire formicarium in a shallow container of water, creating a moat.

Uncle Milton's Ant Farm, a popular commercial formicarium.

However, some formicarium owners shake their formicarium every few days so the tunnels cave in.

Whether ants dig or not (e.g. tree ants) a formicarium can be designed so that it is free-standing, and not enclosed or lidded like a vivarium.

The first commercially-sold formicarium was introduced around 1929 and patented in 1931 by Frank Austin, an inventor and professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.

In or about 1439, Nider, a witch-hunting priest, in his Formicarium, speaks of a false Jeanne at Cologne, protected by Ulrich of Wirtemberg, (the Metz chronicle has 'Comte de Warnonbourg'), who took the woman to Cologne.