Why do ant farm ants die?
Q. I was given an ant farm for my birthday. I set it all up, and we ordered the ants from the coupon that came with it. The ants built all their tunnels, and it was fun to watch. However, they all died, one by one over the course of a month, even though we gave them the food and water that the company told us to. If I order more ants, how do I keep them alive longer? Cynthia Wilson, Plainview A. The ants that you order with those ant farms are worker ants collected in the southern part of the United States. Worker ants cannot reproduce, and they do not live very long. Only the queen ant can lay eggs and reproduce; she continuously has new worker babies to replace the ones that die. So, without a queen ant in your colony, the ant farm cannot survive very long. Queen ants are located in a chamber in the very middle of the colony, so it is not always possible for the ant collectors to find them when they provide you with the ants for your farm. Ants do not experience time as we do, so if
