Exhibit ants and ...

[urbpan]

The St Louis Zoo's insectarium was very impressive. Check out this climbing structure for the leafcutter ants!


Plants were provided for the ants to cut up and bring to their fungus farm.




The insectarium also exhibited less exotic insects, like these fly larvae cleverly displayed in an open raccoon skull.

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[darkest-diary.livejournal.com]

My nearby zoo doesn't have an ant farm. It's awesome.

Okay, ew on the larvae! lol

[froganon.livejournal.com]

Larvae in raccoon skull- very cool.
And the ant farm.

Brought back some memories.
Some of the kids in my class got ant farms.

My phobic mother wouldn't hear of such a thing so I dug up my own and kept it outside in a jar, black paper, cheese cloth cover, the whole nine. Fed them sugar etc. No leaves though. These were black "sidewalk ants." I must have gotten a queen because there were babies after a bit too.

After awhile, phobic mother wouldn't hear of them residing in a jar on the front porch either.

Phobic fifth grade teacher made me release my jar of green mold I had collected from between the sidewalk cracks that was growing too. She said it "smelled."

My young life was full of phobic adults. What troubles I had!