Volume 41, Number 1, January 1995:
Collection and Maintenance of Ants

Text-only version


Cover Photo: Digging into a mound of Foormica podzolica near Bovill, Idaho in October. This mound is about 2.5m by 0.7m. The mound is somewhat flattened as the colony was preparing for winter. At this time, the mound has no external tunnels since the ants have allowed them to be closed by rainfall.

Collection and Maintenance of Ants to Use for Teaching
by Roger D. Akre, Laurel D. Hansen, and Elizabeth A. Myhre

and

Studying Ants: A Beginning
by Mark B. DuBois

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- collection
- maintenance, observation ant farm
- maintenance, classroom use
- project observations
- literature cited
- books for children on ants

Studying Ants: A Beginning
by Mark B. DuBois
- males, queens and worker ants
- establishing a colony
- caring for young
- growth of an ant colony
- ant senses
- gardening ants
- harvester ants
- parasitic ants
- acrobat ants
- army ants
- questions, activities and investigations with ants
- further reading