Yellow Meadow ants starter kit – founding nest

Become an ant keeper

This is the moment you stop watching nature from the sidelines and start keeping a living world of your own. With this kit you become an ant keeper: someone who slows down, looks closer and gets to watch a whole colony grow from a single queen.

Ant keeping brings a quiet kind of calm. A few minutes watching your ants dig, tend their brood and share food is a welcome pause in a busy day. It is full of wonder and full of learning, for children and grown ups alike, and every week there is something new to spot.

Everything you need, all in one box

This is an all in one starter kit. Everything you need to begin is included:

• Cartref Cyntaf v2 founding nest in Fern
• Test tube and tweezers
• Syringe
• Sugars
• Food bowl
• Magnification card

Meet Lasius flavus, the Yellow Meadow Ant

The Yellow Meadow Ant is one of the best species for beginners. They are calm, gentle and love an underground life, so you will see them build tunnels, tend their young and slowly turn their nest into an organised little world.

• Queens: one
• Colony size: up to 10,000 workers
• Queen size: 8mm
• Worker size: 2 to 4mm

Easy as 1, 2, 3

1. Scan the QR code
2. Set up your nest
3. Your ants arrive

Add your queen and live food for just 99p

The kit is £29.99. Add the queen and live food for only 99p more and she will be sent with your kit, ready to start her colony.

Prefer to wait, or buying as a gift? Choose the kit on its own and you will find a voucher code in the box. It lets you buy the queen and live food later for 99p plus shipping, whenever the time is right. Perfect for gifts.

Keeping ants that give back

Every purchase supports the Ant Antics Foundation, a registered community interest company.