GC19Y58 BIG BEARS ANTS HOUSE (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by BIG BEAR.

GC19Y58 ▼

A cache by BIG BEAR. Message this owner

Hidden : 3/4/2008

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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A NICE VIEW OF THE RIVER AN EASY WALK UP

Professor Austin is perhaps best known as the inventor of the "Ant House." 16 June 1931 is the date of the Ant House patent. The number of persons who today recall having had or seen one of these formicaries is extraordinary. At the peak of their production in the mid-1930s as many as 400 ant houses were said to have been shipped out of Hanover in one day. Each house contained approximately 150 ants. The house consisted of two pieces of glass about 8 1/2 x 10 l/2 inches set into a wooden frame about 1 1/4 inches deep, filled with soil from half to three quarters the height of the glass. The more elaborate nests had villages or gardens painted on the glass or wooden palaces above the soil with passageways and turrets for the ants to crawl about. Below "ground level" the tunneling was exposed to view. In 1937 Professor Austin paid $4.00 a quart for ants to boys who brought them in alive. Carpenter ants were his preference as they were the largest and most interesting. ANTS LOTS OF ANTS THIS CACHE IS A PAY BACK FOR ALL THE CACHES I HAVE FOUND WITH 10000000 ANTS IT NOT THAT BAD HAVE FUN BIG BEAR