My Living Ant World Best Ants UK Blog! Live queen ants care guide.

Welcome to My Living Ant World Best Ants UK. We are a team of 5 passionate ant keepers who dived into ant keeping more than two decades ago.

How to look after a Lasius Niger (Black Garden Ant Farm at home)? What Are The Easiest Ants For Beginners? Ant Keeping For Beginners.

How to look after a Lasius Flavus (Yellow Meadow Ant Farm at home)? This is one of the best ant species for beginners and is easy to keep.

How to look after a Messor Barbarus (Harvester Ants)? The Messor Barbarus also known as the Red Harvester Ants suitable for beginners.

Fire ants-Myrmica rubra, are captivating creatures that offer a glimpse into the intricate world of ants. NOT suitable for kids under 10.

Learn how to set up a live queen ant farm safely with Best Ants UK. Prepare the nest, hydrate it correctly, acclimate your ants after delivery and connect the test tube without stressing the queen.

Benefits of Antkeeping: A Unique Pet Choice in the UK. Why Keep Ants as Pets? Starting Your Ant Colony. Caring for Your Ants. Best Ants UK.

Some websites say Lasius flavus are polygynous, so beginners put ten or twenty queens in one nest and lose nearly all of them. The claim is half true. We put 250 freshly mated queens together for 30 days with unlimited food, and 41 were killed by other queens. Here is what really happens, why the first workers decide which queen survives, and why multi-queen flavus works in a meadow but never in a formicarium. Plus exactly how many queens you should actually start with.

What really happens in your first year of ant keeping? Month by month, from a lone queen in a test tube to a thriving colony — the honest timeline from the UK's ant specialists since 1997.

Caught a queen ant on Flying Ant Day 2026? Here's exactly what to do in the first hour, how to set up her test tube, and how to raise your first workers — from the UK's ant-keeping specialists since 1997.