Ant Essentials
A growing movement dedicated to connecting ant keepers and providing accurate information around the hobby, sourced by you.
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Lets Grow The Ant Keeping Community Together
Ant Essentials had an amazing run and quickly become one of the most trusted legal ant vendors in Europe. We decided to shift gears from interactions between vendor and buyers to serve the worldwide community as a whole. Providing free ant keeping information.
Have a look at our most recent community care sheets
- Pheidole pallidulaA care sheet for the species Pheidole pallidula written by bincksants
- How To Raise Camponotus – A Complete GuideOverview Camponotus is one of the most widespread genera of ants in the entire world, they span every continent (except Antarctica) and have taken up a variety of different shapes and sizes. Most ant keepers must have come in contactContinue reading “How To Raise Camponotus – A Complete Guide”
- How Ant Essentials BeganAs with many of us within the hobby, it all started with test tubes. Ordering about twenty and equipped with the knowledge I had gained from watching hours of Ants Canada videos I was waiting in anticipation for the famousContinue reading “How Ant Essentials Began”
How Ant Essentials Began
As with many of us within the hobby, it all started with test tubes. Ordering about twenty and equipped with the knowledge I had gained from watching hours of Ants Canada videos I was waiting in anticipation for the famous nuptial flights, only a few months away. The time came when the garden was carpeted…
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What We Do
We provide a free to use care sheet database containing global species guidance. Download our care sheet template, fill it out and email it to us at info@antessentials.com to submit your own work to the data base.
We offer a free copy of the Ant Essentials Ant Keeping Course to everyone who supports us on Patreon. We also help them to get a accurate identification for any ant they catch via our crowd sourced ant ID system, as well as many other benefits.
We are dedicated to growing our care sheet data base to expand into all diffrent hobbies. By working with brands and influencers to make information free and easily accessible.
We Strive To Connect Hobbyist World Wide
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“Excellent Great for Beginners!“
Not tried any competitor books but this is perfect for me as a beginner, seems to have everything I need to know, definitely recommend!
Zac
“Good book“
It is a pretty nice book. I recommend you to read it.
Rens
“Best ant keeping guide on the market“
This is cheaper, better, more content full and easier to understand than the ants Canada handbook and other competitors I have tried, this is truly the best ant keeping handbook on the market. I would recommend to beginners and experts alike, exotic and native keepers alike and children and adults truly and amazing e book
Felix
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