See, I am interested in creating an ant farm. I want it to last, so I need a queen. (Without a queen, no new ants will be born, so the colony will die pretty quickly.) I’ve heard that in the absence of a queen, the worker ants will raise a new queen(s). This leads me to think that, if I go out and collect a lot of workers from a single colony and put them in the ant farm (a jar, filled with sand), they will produce a queen themselves, and so the colony will survive. However, previous attempts have not gone so well. Can anyone tell me why this is?