Abstract: A light fitting accessory for a transparent walled formicarium filled with clear, ant-nutritious tunneling gel. The formicarium has a basal cavity formed by a base wall raised within the sidewalls and the accessory housing is received as a manual push fit in the cavity enabling easy, modification free, retrofit of the accessory to form a single unit with the formicarium. Walls of the housing incline together towards a top providing a wedge shape and have external surfaces formed with vertically extending friction ribs which frictionally engage cavity walls of the formicarium. The housing mounts narrow beam LEDs shining upwardly into the formicarium and concealed below a front, opaque wall of the housing.

Abstract: An ant sculpture is formed by removing a block of nutritious gel having with a network of ant tunnels from a formicarium container; placing the block in an p.v.c bag that serves as a release liner; and stuffing the bag containing the gel block back into the container. The tunnel network is then filled with a transparent epoxy resin which is permitted to harden in the tunnel network; the bag containing the gel body with set epoxy removed from the container and, the gel is then separated so that the hardened epoxy forms an ant sculpture replicating the network of ant tunnels. The epoxy resin is Bisphenol A epoxy resin.