so are your colonies in spherical pods, or different ?

I've had a sphere kit for few years, without actually setting it up, my buying it coincided with all the red ant nests in the garden apparently vanishing. All we have now are really tiny black ants that apparently will escape from the pods/antspheres.

There are lots of big (relatively speaking) above ground nests where i walk the dogs, they started cropping up a few years back when we had a wet winter where it rained every single day for 4 months. But again really tiny black ants. I guess they could adapt to the wet weather and the reds couldn't.

Fascinating things to watch in action. I had one of the cheapo flat panel colonies for a while, till the ungrateful little buggers decided to escape :-)

I have often thought I could expand the original sphere kit with 3d printed stuff, just need some ants. lol