Former Calgarian Zachary Liu builds a community of ant lovers [Video]

It turns out that one of the tiniest creatures of them all is turning into a growing community across the country.

Zachary Liu is a business man living in Toronto. He started a company called Canada Ant Colony and estimates there are 30,000 ant keepers across Canada with more than 1,000 in Calgary.

Liu launched his business in early 2019 when he was just 14.

“I used to be the type of person where you’d come over and then there’d be 500 butterflies in the living room,” he said. “I have loved animals all my life and it just happened to be that ants, when I was little, they were the one that kind of caught me the most.”

Liu says he started his company because he had a hard time finding different species of ants for his collection. Now he carries a wide variety but has to follow strict government guidelines.

“It’s …