Okay, here is my moral dilemma. My daughter has wanted an ant farm for a while now, and seeing as she has been very well behaved this last week, unlike the previous week when she was doubling as a moody dragon, we decided to get her one. It was nicely packaged and it was great fun making the plaster of Paris mould, it came with gloves and mouth mask, and she looked like a real little scientist. As far as educational goes this rocks! Even I am getting into it, you can watch the ants nesting, feeding and laying eggs and can buy other sets in the range, link them up and create a whole ant world. There is an interconnecting Ant Circus, Ant Mine, Ant Jungle, Worm Farm and Eco Dome. Great! But it was pointed out to me that maybe taking twenty ants out of their natural environment was, well, maybe a tad cruel. What are your thoughts? Is it ant prison or ant utopia?
Friday, July 10, 2009
Ant farming
Okay, here is my moral dilemma. My daughter has wanted an ant farm for a while now, and seeing as she has been very well behaved this last week, unlike the previous week when she was doubling as a moody dragon, we decided to get her one. It was nicely packaged and it was great fun making the plaster of Paris mould, it came with gloves and mouth mask, and she looked like a real little scientist. As far as educational goes this rocks! Even I am getting into it, you can watch the ants nesting, feeding and laying eggs and can buy other sets in the range, link them up and create a whole ant world. There is an interconnecting Ant Circus, Ant Mine, Ant Jungle, Worm Farm and Eco Dome. Great! But it was pointed out to me that maybe taking twenty ants out of their natural environment was, well, maybe a tad cruel. What are your thoughts? Is it ant prison or ant utopia?
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Sounds like a lot of fun though for the life of me I wonder why I would want to watch ants become ants. I suppose one can always learn and yes, twenty ants is not cruel
ReplyDeleteI have just, at great cost, nuked the zillions of ants carrying my house away, morsel by morsel. Cruel? Just a tad more than an ant farm, perhaps. What a brilliant idea. Now you could, of course, diversify and start farming earthworms too. Not only can you watch them squirm, but get great compost too.
ReplyDeleteI wish you had told me before you nuked them, no one could moan if I rescued them from a certain death and then re-homed them in 5 star luxury lol
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