Please browse through our carefully selected school bug keeping kits. We have chosen  top products that we believe will be easiest to keep in schools for classroom use, and for the children to look after and learn from.

You can of course buy them for home use too as they make for great pets for children and are a great way to  encourage and support children’s interest in the natural world.

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Live Ants for the Classroom.

Ants are easy to keep if you get the right species. You will need to purchase additional accommodation for your ants, but we have included links and advice to help you out for providing your ants with everything they will need for a long healthy life.

Lassius niger
Black garden ant

From AntsRus – a perfect starter kit for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner

A queen with a brood of ten to twenty workers.

This is a great starter kit with one of the easiest starter species out there.

Full instructions come with your purchase.

£14.97

AntsRus
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Lassius flava
Yellow meadow ant

From AntsRus – another perfect starter kit for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner

A queen with a brood of five workers.

An easy starter kit with a pretty ant.

Full instructions come with your purchase.

£12.99

AntRus
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Messor bouvieri
Harvester ant

From AntsRus – a step up from the common garden black ant and yellow meadow ant for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner

A queen with a brood of ten to twenty workers. This is a hardy species from Europe, and needs a drier environment.

Full instructions provided on purchase.

£22.99

AntsRus
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Camponotus ligniperda
Carpenter ant

From AntsRus – a very interesting starter kit for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner

A queen with a brood of five to ten workers.

This is a great starter kit with one of the larger starter species out there.

Full instructions come with your purchase.

£23.99

AntsRus
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Myrmica rubra
Red ant

From Best Ants UK – a perfect starter kit for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner – some experience

A queen with a brood of twenty to thirty workers.

This is a great starter kit with easy starter species.

These are great fun to watch and very active ants.

£25.99 + delivery

Best Ants UK
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Camponotus herculeanus
European carpenter ant

From Best Ants UK – a large starter species for your classroom, or even a new pet to keep at home.

Difficulty level: beginner to some experience

A queen with a brood of 1-5 workers.

£23.99 + delivery

Best Ants UK
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Messor barbarus
Harvester ant

From Best Ants UK – a larger colony of Messor barbarus: European harvester ant.

Difficulty level: beginner – some experience.

A queen with a brood of twenty to thirty workers. This is a hardy species from Europe, and needs a drier environment, but can be tricky.

£31.99 + delivery

Best Ants UK
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Nick Baker’s Ant World

This is a great starter housing setup. Your children can watch the ants going about their daily lives in this easy to use product.

Make sure to cover the sides after viewing as ants have a natural preference to nest in dark places.

This kit is suitable for more moisture loving species like the common black ant: Lassius niger, and the yellow meadow ant: Lassius flava.

£12.99

Order it from here

Other carefully selected ant suppliers.

We have a few ant traders that we recommend who may have other species you are looking for if nothing above takes your fancy.

These traders will also be able to supply you with related husbandry and care items.

When it comes to housing for ants, the Nick Baker setup, brilliant as it is, is not really suitable for all species of European ant. This is why we have a small list of dedicated ant traders below for you to browse through.

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