okay so here we are with another review of a toy that teaches in this case the
lifecycle of an ant it's by safariology and there are four components life cycle
of the ant is part of a series that I'm doing on toys that teach and this is for
four years old and older from Safari limited it's a choking hazard for kids
three and under so this one does have small parts the eggs for example here
would be very easy for a toddler to swallow so you'll need to supervise your
little ones this also includes larvae ants are very similar in organization to
honeybees and they are related believe it or not and you also get a pupae here
so and that's my favorite part we're going to take these out and I'm
gonna show them to you one by one you also get an adult ant looks like a
worker to me even though there is a queen much like there would be a queen
bee and there's a queen egg but it is not included in this kit the components
are hand painted just as with the other safari ology pieces and on the back
again if your child likes to read and get more facts there's some explanation
here on the back details about the company Miami Lakes Florida Safari
limited com I purchase these at full price on Amazon so in the first part
here we have a clutch of eggs the queen ant will lay these eggs inside the
ant colony and usually that's underground somewhere protected maybe
it'll be a little moist there and these are pretty good they look like they're
kind of smooshed together and sometimes you'll see ants going across the
sidewalk for example carrying these in their mandibles and that they move from
one location to another ants are cool their organization is very
complicated so once those little eggs hatch out now you've got larvae now the
larvae are gonna be fed by nurse ants so the foragers just like foraging
honeybees will go out and about and get resources and bring them into the net
colony and then there will be ants within the colony that will attend to
these little larvae and they'll feed them and then they'll grow and grow until
they are large enough to spin themselves into
cocoons that's when we get the pupa stage here this is my favorite part the
surface texture on this thing is really cool that ant is so alien like inside
its little cocoon in there and a pupa stage they don't require any feed or
anything else so sometimes you will also see worker ants carrying these from one
place to another and the cool thing about ants you is kids are familiar with
them you can almost can't go anywhere without seeing ants and you can even
keep an ant farm if you wanted to here's the adult and it's pretty formidable
looking it's a black ant of course has the antennae six legs it is an insect
and the segments of the abdomen are pretty well defined here strong
mandibles for cutting flesh of small animals or cutting away vegetation some
ant species are omnivorous so they eat vegetables and small animals including
other insects so these things are very cool the set is pretty interesting the
segments are all here if you've got a curious little one that wants to know
about ants this is a good kit and again this is kind of rubbery so this one will
hold up to some abuse I think so if you've got a four or five year old that
tosses their toys around this kit has nothing in it that I see as being a
problem for breaking and here we have it pretty good inexpensive just like the
others and there are four components again the eggs to the left the larvae the
pupae and then of course the adult ant
you can take kids outside and lift a rock and find ants dig under leaves and
see ants with worms and other things very interesting it's going to certainly
add to the collection of safari ology pieces here so thanks for watching I
definitely recommend this one I like the pupa the best and I hope you
benefited from my review much appreciated