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Here you will find brief details of the latest series of updates.

Ant Stuff - A USA based ‘family run business’ that sells workers ants (no queens) and ant farms. Thanks (again) Zach ! :-)

Myrmecos.Net - A brilliant ant web site with a lot of awesome pictures. I fully recommend you check this site out.

Antstore - A company based in Germany that sells a large variety of ant colonies, ant farms and related products.

Live Foods Direct - A UK based company that sells a huge range of live foods which can be used to feed your ants.

Edu-Sci- A web site that sells, among other things, ant colonies with queens and the Vitamin Jelly insect food.

Ants Kalytta - Another German ant web site that sells whole colonies. (Thanks to Will Balcomb for this one.)

Myrstaden - A Swedish ant web site create by my friend Linus who was the first regular visitor/supporter of my web site when it was first created it back in 2000. “Myrstaden” means “The Ant Town” or “The Ant City”.

Thank you for visiting our web site. It is our intention to teach you the basics of myrmecology (the study of ants) whether you intend to keep captive ants of your own, or perhaps conducting a school project, or you just want to learn a little more about these fascinating creatures.

All pictures on this site, unless otherwise indicated, are provided by and used with the kind permission of Alex Wild. Do not use these pictures without the express permission of the original author. Thank you.

22 April 2010 - Kids Page added. I often get kids sending me pictures of their ant set ups or copies of projects on ants they have written for school, so I decided to give these kids the opportunity to allow them to submit their work for inclusion onto this web site. Click on the “Kids” link in the navigation bar above or click here for more details.

9 June 2010 - Kool Kid’s Dermestid forum page added. Kool Kid (also known as “Dermy”) is a friend of mine from Canada. Not only is he interested in ants but he keep dermestids colonies too. Please support Kool Kid by visiting his forum and read all about his dermys by clicking here. Thank you.

5 August 2010 - Broken Link to archived Lasius niger 1 journal repaired. Thank you Thomas2010 for pointing this out to me :-)