Our daughter has been very enthusiastic about ants for the last few months:
- reading about them online
- watching videos of different ant species
- trying to figure out everything that makes specific ants unique
- playing most of the ant simulator games out there (although most focus on them battling)
So... we decided to get her an ant farm with harvesting ants (Messor Structor) for her birthday. Initially, the idea was that we could maybe have a video feed of our colony that is processed with AI to capture all the 'notable events', similar to how a Ring door camera works.
But our daughter thought it could be a livestream, instead! (I guess she's watched too much YouTube)
So we set that up, but we decided to take it a step further and create a directory of ant farm livestreams. There aren't many right now, and it's fairly curated to feature actual live content of ant colonies, not some weird stuff we saw when browsing through YouTube...
It is possible for you to add (or claim!) your ant colony livestream on the website to feature it as well.
We set up a newsletter so it would notify people about new livestreams to check out from time to time as they're added to the site.
What's next?
Well, out daughter wants to catch an ant queen in summer after her nuptial flight and start another colony.
And I've already realized that the hobby moves at a snails pace. While livestreams are nice as something to watch in the background, we'd like to create separate pages for any colony, where you could simply post image and text updates, which would send out notifications to those, who follow the journey.
If you enjoy observing ants as much as our daughter was, perhaps, give it a visit!
Our daughter's colony is featured at the top of homepage for now. 😅
Link: AntFarm.live