Your ants really need seeds, maybe you can put them into a test tube. It's eassy to clean a test tube and thear is a large dry area.
My colony stores the seeds in the test tube, i guess they want the seeds close to them. My colony doesn't eat many insects atm, i hope they don't like them (seeds are less work

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@spore, i heard also of the game about 2 years ago from a teacher. She told us much about Spore and i'm looking forward to play it. The only problem is my PC, to old i guess. Maybe it's time to buy another one specially for spore :p .