How to Build an Ant Habitat
Instructions for building a small, inexpensive habitat to study ant behavior.
Educational materials for Ants in Space were developed by the Center for Educational Outreach, Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with BioServe Space Technologies (University of Colorado), Stanford University, and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Download: How to Build an Ant Habitat
Related Content
-
Ants in Space
Mission Page
Ants are able to coordinate their activities, even though no single ant (not even the queen) directs their behavior. How do they do it? Build your own ant habitat and compare the search behaviors of ants on Earth to those living on the ISS.
Funded by the following grant(s)
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
This work was funded by grant number GA-2013-108 from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc., (CASIS) through NASA cooperative agreement number NNH11CD70A.