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[justanotheramy]

She thinks they're cute.

She's nearly 8 now, and currently has 3 garden snails and a whitefringed weevil imprisoned in jars — she likes my ants, but because she's not allowed to hold them she gets bored quickly.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

hmmmmm, I can nearly taste a learning experience coming up in the near future for you  . But in all actuality, maybe you could teach her about your ants and if her love of insects carries on, at a later age, even offer her the chance to hold an ant. This is just advice, so take it with a grain of salt, but you truly do have a once in a lifetime opportunity crawling around in your hands.  

[justanotheramy]

Ha! She loves ants, and handles them plenty — just doesn't have the patience for captive ant maintenance, and I don't want her mauling my poor ants!

Apologies for the Instagram link, but I can't get vids to upload here — this is an "ant friend" she captured in a 5mL specimen container on a Friday… and then forgot about in her school backpack. I found the poor thing when I was packing lunch Monday morning. Thought she (ant) probably needed hydration and a snack before re-release at the original abduction site:
https://www.instagra...m/p/B8XZb44j-TI

Last year kiddo spent a week rallying her friends to build a protective moat of twigs and sticks around the entrance of an ant nest… in one of the most high-traffic areas of the school playground