Antboyuk

27/05/2024

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21/05/2024

🔥🐜 New Mini Honeydew feeding bowls 🐜🔥

These tiny little bowls are the ideal solution to providing your small colonies sugars, simply add a couple of drops of our HoneyDew and place into your outworld.
The central stem allows easy placement and removal with tweezers.

🔥 We’re including 4 for the intro price of £1.49 🔥

Happy ant keeping all 🐜🙂

These mini bowls are perfect for tiny colonies with their first workers, when they are too small for full blown feeders.Simply pop them in your outworld and add a couple of drops of Honeydew to satisfy their sugar requirements.The central stem allows easy placement and removal with your tweezers.Inc...

27/04/2024

Just had a quick peek at our resident Lasius N colony who live in our compost bin.
When I removed the lid, they have a lot of their larvae up on the surface cooling down and getting some air. It looks like they’ll be booming again this year 🥰🐜

10/03/2024

Our new Vision™️ outworlds, available in two sizes.

Featuring two front facing ports with copper tubing inserts to make connections a breeze.

The matt black base and back panel provide a stunning contrast to decor and allow for amazing photos, whilst also hiding any unsightly cables behind it.

The base is raised for your heat cable to be placed discretely underneath and has support struts to ensure full support of its contents.

A micro hole, 0.2mm, ventilated lid provides air circulation and the extra wide band of clear Perspex provides ample room for your chosen barrier to be applied.

The photos can’t do the copper accents justice, with these being a stunning metallic finish 😍

Only available at AntBoyUK 🐜

https://www.antboyuk.com

06/03/2024

🤗Website update in progress

Look out for our new product lines, including the Vortex and Vision outworlds and a new lineup of Macro nests for colonies of all sizes.

All nests are made from Perspex acrylic which offers huge advantages over 3D prints:
- more resilient, and can’t be chewed by even the most aggressive colonies.
- strip them down, wash with hot water and reuse as many times as you want. These last a lifetime.
- perfect ventilation to avoid stagnant air and keep your colony in peak health.
- no mould issues…ever.

Further updates to come. Happy ant keeping all 🐜

https://www.antboyuk.com

15/02/2024

Happy Valentines all 🥰🐜

26/01/2024

Two new personal colonies inbound…can’t wait to get them and see them grow 🤗🐜

Thanks to AntsDavey 👍🏻

13/12/2023

🎉🐜🎉 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 🎉🐜🎉

Just a quick thankyou for all your orders since our store reopened last week. You certainly know how to keep us busy 😊

Our website is continually being updated with stock of our market leading, UK manufactured antkeeping supplies made right here at AntBoyUK.

Check the store out here:

https://www.antboyuk.com

As long standing market pioneers we will also be adding new product lines in the new year to compliment the revolutionary ranges.

If you need any advice, please reach out to us and we’ll happily assist.

Happy antkeeping all 🐜😃

21/11/2023

🐜𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘵 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺🐜

The most recent and best documentary I’ve seen in years right here.
This confirms many things we know about ants, and tells us many things we don’t with first time footage of colonies and queens like never seen before.

Click the link, then open in your browser rather than just on FB. It’ll send you off on tangents a couple of times, simply close these and return to the original page to play.

Goose bumps for me….Enjoy 👍🏻🐜

David Attenborough travels to the Jura Mountains in the Swiss Alps, to find out about one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants live in peace.

16/10/2023

Every single time lol 😂🤣

29/09/2023

Might not look like much, but this is serous progress on the new workshop which will see us back in action in the near future.
It’s been an uphill battle after being let down on several occasions, but we are on the home straight.
Thanks for all your messages and bearing with us over this last year 🐜👍🏻

09/07/2023

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗕𝗼𝘆𝗨𝗞 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲:

Quick update from us, as you know we’ve been very quiet of late.
We turned our online orders off last year in anticipation of a move to a new workshop. The best laid plans are often accompanied by challenges, with us being let down on several fronts after decommissioning our machines.
During this lull it gave time for reflection, reflecting on the marketplace, what we add and where we want to be.
We’ve always taken immense pride in our main business purpose “INNOVATION, NOT REPLICATION”.
Over the years we have developed and been first to market with:
- Blackout covers
- Multilayer nests
- Leaf cutter pods with hydrostone hydration systems and smart stats
- Smart stats in nests which report to your phone- SmartNests™️
The list goes on, with the unimaginative manufacturers replicating our ideas as soon as they know they work. Don’t believe us?…check the dates on our posts vs others release dates.
It’s been noted that there’s been zero innovation since we pulled back, which was the exact position of the market when we joined and the key reason we decided to shake up a stagnant marketplace full of lazy manufacturers.
Small businesses can’t patent designs and ideas, we rely on our customer base and social media friends to appreciate the immense amount of true research and development new pioneering products require and to point out those copying in front of the public.
We will be back in the next couple of months with THE BEST ORIGINAL products in the marketplace. These are tested over many, many months before listing and accompanied by our years of ant keeping experience. Don’t forget, we were antkeepers before nest makers.
Thankyou for reading, all your amazing support over the years, our amazing reviews and all your messages over recent months.
We love you all 😘🐜
ABUK

Pics of our original product posts when announced with dates highlighted for reference 🐜

09/09/2022

Of all the queens we could lose, our nation has lost our one and only queen 😢
Thank you for your service ma’am 🙌🏻

17/08/2022

🐜𝗨𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗩𝟮 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲🐜

After many months of development and testing we’re delighted to announce the release of our new Macro range 🤗

Featuring larger ports, huge hydration chambers, a choice of base colours and covers along with the revolutionary Seramis clay hydration upgrade this system allows for endless applications to cater for all your colonies needs.

Innovation not replication, only at AntBoyUK 🐜

More to follow 👍🏻

https://www.antboyuk.com/macro-nest

09/08/2022

Our resident Lasius N colony in our back garden is taking to the skies 🐜

02/08/2022

Our first time recording on a new podcast courtesy of Ant Holleufer with great intro advice for all new ant keepers 🐜

It’s a long one, bring butties and a flask 😉😂

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pqHMRZ5YQKqwrRuHs2pf9?si=b3f0Lq3vSr-XPIrpSnMvPQ

22/06/2022

A review from RobJsAnts of our Temno-Nest and the Mini Vortex outworld.

Purpose made for Temnothorax (Acorn Ant) colonies with unique ventilation and hydration to best suit their needs 😍🐜

Only available at:

https://www.antboyuk.com

Happy ant keeping all 😃

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28/05/2022

Some great new decoration added to the site today. Time to get creative with those outworlds 😍

Also added 100ml hydration bottles with 10x the capacity of the standard 10ml ones.

Happy ant keeping all 🐜

https://www.antboyuk.com/decoration

21/05/2022

Our V2 Macro s1 nest is launching this week with the following features:

- Four times the hydration capacity via a large natural cellulose sponge hydration chamber, for longer lasting nest hydration.

- BlackOut™️ design to provide darkness for your colonies. Includes options of red and black covers.

- Upgraded port to accept 13mm OD tubing, easily adapted to 10mm OD where required.

- Black base layer to make seeing eggs and brood development easier than ever.

As always, all our products are made here in the UK from genuine Perspex acrylic.

03/05/2022

Forbidden grapes 🤤😂🤣🍯🐜

24/04/2022

𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀

Over recent times we’ve seen both the wonderful highs and unfortunately a few of the lows within, what is a wonderful community overall.

With this in mind we’ve been working behind the scenes to bring the best names in the UK trade together, showing solidarity and working with one another to bring all our communities together to help and aid the overall growth of the hobby.

AntBoyUK
AntsDavey
High Tech Ants
and Tracy Thomas (aka The Ant Lady)

We’re delighted to announce our new joint group, Total Ant Keeping 🤗🐜

Hosted by four of the biggest names in the UK market, we aim to bring the community closer together in a safe and friendly environment where we can all share our love for the hobby.

Please come and join us with the link below 🐜🙂

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1015073559431794/?ref=sharehttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F1015073559431794%2F%3Fref%3Dshare&exp=dc78

29/03/2022

That’s the new home for our Polyrhachis Dives all set up. Time to get it in position on the heat ready for our new colony 🐜😍

15/03/2022

Feeding time for our Myrmecocystus Mexicanus “Honeypot ants” 🍯🐜

Their numbers are growing well, with more repletes now and just look how lovely those larvae are when given food 🥰

15/03/2022

Our teeny tiny Temnothorax Nylanderii “Acorn ants” have their first alates of the year.

They’re a little early, with these few early ones just being a test run for the main event later in the year 🐜🐜

13/02/2022

🤔😁🐜

12/02/2022

We love seeing our customers footage of their colonies booming in our setups 😍

Here we see a beautiful C. Nico colony using two of our medium Smart-Nests connected to two of our larger outworlds.

As pioneers of the Smart-Nest we’ve been giving hobbyists unprecedented information on their nest conditions directly to their phone app, as well as the integrated display.

Thanks for sharing Jose Fuentes, keep up the great work 🥰🐜

13/01/2022

Our Pheidole Noda and Camponotus Nicobarensis are both enjoying their new outworlds 😍🐜

These are the 160mm diameter Vortex outworlds

28/12/2021

Ant keepers at Hogwarts be like 🐜🍯🤣

24/12/2021

Wishing all our wonderful community a very merry Christmas 🎅🏻🎁🐜

Thank you so much for all your continued support 🤗

21/12/2021

Another of our gorgeous LC Smart-Pod™️ setups ready for dispatch.

All of our Smart-Nests™️ provide real time stats to your phone app even remotely when used with the gateway option.

Innovation not replication, only at AntBoyUK 🐜🍃