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Zoology should always be taught with plenty of pets, menagerie resources, and with aquaria, aviaries, apiaries, formicaries, etc., as adjuncts.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

The formicaries of the two species are often in close contact, so that the nature of the soil is precisely the same.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

On one occasion, a swarm was about to take place in one of my formicaries.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James