Custom Canyon Foraging Area 9 (9x5x5) keeping ants White quartz sand substrate coating

White quartz sand substrate coating to highlight your ants and their feeding activities

Insufficient heating is the #1 cause for failure in our experience helping others raise these ants

Pogonomyrmex badius are also well known for being the only North American species of the Pognomyrmex genus that is polymorphic (Cole 1968)

It is common knowledge that adult ants cannot ingest solid foods but in the case with this species that is not true

Features such as a two-sided nest

Custom Canyon Foraging Area 9 (9x5x5) keeping ants White quartz sand substrate coatingThis is a medium foraging area style with raised platforms and other decor fitting of a higher elevation area in the same space. This provides additional surface area for ants to foraging on, and a second level of areas for feeding dishes.