Discover the Fascinating World of 'Insect Specials'

Please note:

This product excludes 3-5 caterpillars. The caterpillars are shipped by the breeder from England. You order the caterpillars that belong to the package yourself by using the coupon provided with the product (only shipping costs with PayPal/credit card). This can be done from March to September.

Butterfly breeding kit

Your own butterfly garden at home

Become part of nature and witness the wonder of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly (painted lady). Up close and personal!

Breeding

In the butterfly garden, you breed your own butterflies. You order the butterflies with the enclosed coupon and only need to pay the shipping costs for them (with PayPal/credit card). You can immediately get started with the wonderful process from caterpillar to butterfly!

Shipping and care

The package is in stock and we can ship it every working day until 4:30 PM. The shipping of the caterpillars is separate from the shipping of the breeding net with the enclosed coupon (for only shipping costs with PayPal/credit card). The caterpillars are shipped by our breeder from England. Generally, the shipping time for the caterpillars is about one week.

Now you can really get started. Breeding butterflies can be done from March to September. The aim is to send 5 caterpillars, with a guarantee that you will receive at least 3 and that these will be bred into healthy butterflies.

First, the caterpillars get their own food (included) so they can grow well. Then they hang upside down in crystal-like spun cocoons. In the final phase, they emerge as beautiful butterflies. Observe them for a few days and then release them.

Usage

The butterfly garden is reusable and, after the butterflies have flown out, also a perfect home for other insects such as ladybugs, praying mantises, or stick insects. The product can therefore be used multiple times to study nature more closely.

What's included in the Butterfly Kit

- Foldable and openable 30 cm Habitat
- Pipette for feeding the caterpillars
- Coupon for requesting the caterpillars (you only pay shipping costs with PayPal/credit card)
- Instructions, simple multilingual user manual. Detailed booklet in English.

Decorating Set

Complete decorating set for a terrarium or other enclosure. Contents of the set:

- Large artificial ivy plant - 50cm long
- Sand-loam mixture - 400gr
- Decorative stones - 200 gr

With this decorating set, you give your new pet a safe environment (with many sheltered resting places), and it also gives your terrarium a very natural look!

Please note, this product does not include a terrarium. The insect terrarium is available here.

Ant mask  

Introduction  

With this cool ant mask, you'll see the world like a real insect. The compound eyes are incorporated into two beautiful lenses. The compound lenses consist of multiple small lenslets, allowing you to see everything in small parts. Additionally, everything appears red through these glasses. Just like ants, you now only see one hue.

How to use  

You can easily flip the compound lenses forward or backward. This allows you to see everything in red normally or to look with compound eyes like a real insect. Recommended for children aged 4 and above.

Specifications  

• This red ant mask gives you an ant's view of the world


• Specially designed compound lenses that can be flipped back and forth


• Lightweight, high-quality mask


• Safe and durable


• 14 cm wide and approximately 13 cm high
   



 
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Tree Bark Substrate

A great product to cover the bottom of your terrarium/enclosure. This natural product provides a beautiful aesthetic and will delight your animals.

Supplied in a bag weighing approximately 100 grams. This is sufficient to cover the bottom of our terrariums. Of course, it can also be used to furnish our arenas.

Ants Are Heroes

With every ant set or individual ant colony purchased, you receive a full-colour instruction booklet. Therefore, "Ants Are Heroes" is no longer necessary.

But whether you have purchased a product from antfarm.co.uk or are simply interested in the life of ants, this booklet will help you with background information about your ants.

You can find ants everywhere around you: in the garden, in the forest, under stones, sometimes even in your home. They are often seen as pests, but in doing so, we do these animals an injustice. An old saying goes: 'Go to the ant, consider its ways and be wise' (King Solomon, Proverbs 6:6 from the Bible). You will find that the more you see of these creatures, the more you will appreciate them. You can truly learn from them. An ant colony is a wonder of nature.

In this booklet, you will find all sorts of interesting facts and background information about ants. Good to know when studying ants, but also useful for, for example, a presentation or talk.

Happy reading!

Jan-Peter Oudenampsen

Ant Farm Starter Set

The best foundation for starting to cultivate your own ant colony can be found in this starter set!

The biggest challenge of the hobby is getting started. How do you ensure that your queen, with a few workers, grows into a healthy, large colony? The 'Ant Dock Station' in combination with the arena makes this much easier.

In addition to the excellent shelter and robust character of the 'Ant Dock Station', you can now also provide your ants with the correct temperature. At the end of the Dock, there is a recess where the 1-meter heating cable fits precisely (optional to order separately). By correctly positioning the heating cable, you can provide the test tube with your ant colony with the correct temperature. Now your ants will be nice and warm, even during the cold periods of the year! With the right temperature, your colony will grow the fastest, and that's what you want!

The Dock where you place the test tube can thus be seen as the nesting area, which is normally underground. Warmed by the sun, protected by the earth, and ventilated for the ants. This is all incorporated into the Dock. The Arena is the above-ground part. In this outdoor living area, which the ants can access via the transport tube, the ants can collect their food (which you place there once a week) and dispose of their waste.

How cool is it to be able to closely follow the ants' cooperation and the transport through the tube.

This starter set is suitable for all types of ants. Don't have a colony yet? Then you can choose from different types above, including food, and order them at great promotional prices. The heating cable and arena setup can also be ordered above.

Contents of the set

- Ant Dock Station
- Town Square Arena (15x10x9cm)
- Ant-Blox test tube connector
- Stopper cap
- Connection hose
- Instructions in the video and on our YouTube channel
- Printed booklet 'Ants are heroes' with instructions on how to properly start the hobby of keeping ants as pets