... but not every ant truly lives.

Today we ordered ants to go in our new ant farm as well as caterpillar larva (larvae?) to go in our new butterfly pavilion. We discussed how we would eventually free the butterflies (not sure how that's going to work in Missouri winter but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it). Imogen asked if we would free the ants as well. I said no, they would live out their lives in our ant farm and eventually die. Genevieve said, "Every ant dies... once in a lifetime."