A STINGING ANT RAID Invaded My Home (They Ate Everything!) 

Greetings Ant Lovers/AC Family, I still cannot believe this happened! It's been a truly mind-blowing week! Hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed making it, and please remember to LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE (hit the BELL) if you did! I'd appreciate it a lot! Thank you! Ant love forever! So question: Should we try to bring back the Titans when we finally move into our new Ant House? (PS - This is not the Ant House. It's still just a rental home while waiting for our Ant House to finish.)

Well, i was always told not to leave food out in the reach of ants. It's a relief to know you can bribe them off. Those in my region are quite timid by comparison but i do think i'll leave them a cup of jam by their nest from time to time...

the way the jelly filled up the cracks in the tiles and formed little ant food troughs was awesome

Ants are actually really interesting creatures, it's so cool to see how ant colonies have different jobs for different ants

I really don’t like ants, but I love how interesting these videos are.

Ants: "Who are you?" AC Ants: "I'm you, but with a god."

The fact Iv just seen ants carry a dog food pellet is amazing it looks like they are carrying a mountain 🏔

3:15 the ant on the top was cheering without doing nothing

I'm just amazed how the ant's are so good at doing Society Edit: like why not? They have guard's, army's, and bus transport, or should I say, ant transport

2:15 The Titans, man it's so silly I feel so nostalgic for an ant colony, but I do! Thank you AC, your videos is a good mix of entertainment and education on ants.

I like to imagine these are descendants of the Titans. You feeding them is just helping them celebrate a homecoming party.

7:33 Like Shoppers at Walmart on black Friday

5:47 “making my way down town~” 🎶

I have actually had a similar experience when dealing with an ant swarm in my mother's kitchen. I have Mikey to thank for helping me come up with the idea of setting out a banquet for them out near their home but away from the house. amazingly, it worked. They ate the food i gave them and left my mother's kitchen alone. It's amazing to see Mikey trying this same thing and getting similar results. ♥

I can’t believe AntsCanada solved an insect problem by literally feeding them til they were satisfied lol

Everyone: AHHHHH WHERES THE BUG SPRAY Antscanada: wow so amazing…

I like how the super worm is so big that it takes about 65% of them had to carry the worm 😂

"How to get rid of an ant raid" Google: Use insecticide spray and ant baits Bing: Who needs the Olympics when you can watch ants competing against jelly and a superworm with Mikey as the commentator instead? Meanwhile the Marauders were like "Girls, legend tells that this is where the giant soft-skin who loves ants live. Let's stick around till it feeds us!"

The AntsCanada, Ant channel has inspired me to draw a map of the fictional Antiverse, and make a historical document of old maps as well as new maps. It'll be fun

@4:56 Look at them hitching a ride on their big brother hahaha.

You are now my favorite channel at first sight because you respect nature and your nice to the ants!

Hey Antscanada, I've a question and possible experiment idea. How do you thinks some ants would respond to prickly pear fruit and or products made from prickly pears? You know, things like jelly or syrup and such? Do you think the ants would like it?

I love the analogy at 7:27 “like shoppers at Walmart on Black Friday”

its actually scary how smart they are getting

There’s that one ant on the dog food pellet looking like they own that pellet lol

I used to hang around a parking lot and I would love feeding the pavement ants of which there were many. They would have a great time dragging bits of food down their nest entrance. I really miss them as I'm retired now, but I at least have the fond memories. 👍💯✌🇨🇦🐜🐜Ant love forever ❤!

I still can’t believe how big the super Majors are. They are terrifying but awesome as well

Marauder Ants: AC you got some Food? AC: I GOT YOU FAM

“Shoppers at Walmart on Black Friday” LOL 7:43

I love the line " Like shoppers from Walmart on black Friday " I was sitting there just laughing.

Most people: I have ants. Ants Canada: I have ants!

I like it how he just included the Walmart on black Friday 😅

I did something similar a couple summers ago. We had a rather large ant colony outside our front door and every night for a couple of weeks I left some fresh honeycomb and some canned dog food (didn't have any super worms 😉) and they never entered the house (unlike the previous summer). It was a pretty cool little experiment. They didn't come back the third summer, though.

Can you timelapse a jelly cup being eaten completely? I think that'd be neat to see.

Honestly if I knew ants were attacking my dogs, I don't think I'd ever think about appeasing the ants with food. Especially because the ants here are invasive species.

Randomly watching this even know my nose is itchy when I look at ants

him:heres some food the ants:ok bye The superworm:Where am i going the other superworm:NOOOO BABY

If they had continued to raid I might have used vinegar to "draw (invisible) lines in the sand" as it were. To this far and no further may you come!

The effort of keeping ants, my family would never let me do this

Man those supermajors are giant no wonder they are called the titans

you should've sent out an army from a super colony to fight back, this would be really cool!

Just based on the lighting, it looks like the ants that hitched a ride on the super major were the ones with the fullest gasters. Turned the super major into a food transport truck to maintain the line.

AC: "What would you do?" Me: "UNLEASH THE REPTILES!!!!!"

The small workers riding the super majors reminds me of people being transported by a tank

there's a carpenter ant colony inside my ceiling in my carport

I plan on documenting the colonies around my home. The old ant nest of what I believe to have been carpenters had ant crickets living with them.

“Sweet tantalizing juices”- talking dirty to the ants my g

My man using SCP ambience for ants

Dude, the way you approached the narrative for this cracked me up. Educational AND entertaining. Thanks for another great vid!

Me:"This is so scary and beautiful by watching this in a camera!" The Ants: *"it's about drive it's about power we stay hungry we devour take the works in ours and take what's ours!"*

4:52 that supermajors tottaly scared me man

I thought he would release another ant swarm and two colony will fight to the death😂

Man it’s been over a year since i been on this channel, sure feels good to be back .

When I was little I would feed the ants that lived within the walls of my home. I plan on raising a colony of what I believe to be carpenter ants and a few colonies of isopods as soon the spring is coming in a few weeks, and a few weeks later the nuptial flights will occur.

Watching them carrying the dog food really reminded me of the little spot sprites from Spirited Away.

“The flow of Anne came blowing in, like shoppers in Walmart on Black Friday” That part had me cracked up 😭😭😭

My family does this when there’s ants in our household my Mexican parents also put food outside so they can leave instead of killing every ant 😂

These invasions are just gonna be a monthly to quarterly thing and im here for it.

OK after watching this You are now going to be one of my favorite RU-vidrs

I love how some of the ants were riding the pellets guarding the carrying ants like they are carrying rifles

I love watching ant trails there is just something so satisfying about it. Also feeding them was a good idea, they’re just doing what they have to do to survive so providing them with what they want whilst also not exterminating them is a lot better.

Hello, AC can you make an update on all your ant colonies, that would be cool have a nice day 😁🐜

Every time I see those ants I get the chills

Oh my god that is so cute that the huge soldier ant is carrying these workers

You know you don't have to use chemicals to get keep ants away from your house certain plants and certain things will keep them away from your house it won't be 100% effective but you're keeping enough out so you don't have to worry about it like coffee grounds used coffee grounds work awesome to keep insects and critters out of your house it doesn't take much either after every time you use your coffee maker just go around and sprinkle a little bit around here edge of your house it works

Got to love the Ant-Infantry riding into battle on the back of their huge Ant tank-brothers :)

At the jelly cup it spilled on ants. Were buried alive but were saved.

There was a Ant horde on my House when there was alot of dirt but one of them managed to leave from they came

I love when you make videos.

4:21 I had no idea insects also had to wait on traffic lol

I love how your video intros are like a movie intro in a cinema 🤩

When you dumped that jelly cup those ants were like "We get to go home early today boys!"

Man, its been so long since ive seen one of your vids, and its been so great to watch your videos. Have a good one, AC.

So feeding is the solution to ants invasions? 🤯

Payday 2 ant tactics be like the super major is the get away van lol

I kind of want you to keep Marauder ants again I think it would be so cool

You are truly the ant Peacemaker

Yes, the ants just wanted to know their new neighbor, keep the colonies safe.

When the tiny ants ride on top of the big one looks like a taxi

A similar thing happened to us when we moved in about 3 years ago, and whatever food we left out would be covered in ants. You would often see ants on your hands, on your computer, on your laptop, on your phone, even on your toothbrush 😂 we bought a LOT of bug spray to get rid of them lol

can we just appreciate when antscanada does a intro it feels like a movie intro

Broke: Get rid of ants by using chemicals Woke: *Film and feed them* The ants hitching a ride on the majors and supermajors are lucky they don't have to pay for it like an Uber. And the Walmart Black Friday comparison is too spot on. I don't blame them, they got a 2 for 1 deal for jelly and a superworm

They just heard you were the right guy to go to for some sweet noms 💖💖💖 I can just picture the ants waving and photo bombing each other while Mikey films them, like "YEY!!!! WE'RE GONNA BE ON ANTSCANADA!!!" LoL 😂😂😂 *Ant Love, ForANTver* 💖💖💖💖

Its like the ants are like " NO THIS MY TURN NO NO MY JELLY " its so funny

This episode was extremely interesting! Thank you AntsCanada! #AntLoveForever

What an awesome video Mikey! I really enjoy these videos where ants are like, “Girls! You are never going to believe who is staying in the neighbourhood! It’s Mikey from AntsCanada! Come on! We have to get him to notice us! We can all be famous!” Lol Haha! You know what I mean! Either some really cool ant just walks past you, where you are staying or 2 different ant army’s decide to go to war right in your back yard, or a colony of ants decide to go on a massive food hunt and raid right outside your door! They always make for fascinating videos. I love watching the ants all stopping dead in their tracks and then running over to that sweet, sweet river of juice, flowing from that jelly cup! I found it so amusing when so many ants were lined up, drinking from that juice and there was no more space for any other ants to be able to drink the juice, so there were a few ants standing on top of the ones that were able to drink from it, and it looked like those ants were peering down, in any little space they could see between the ants that were drinking and they were running back and forth, kind of like they were trying to find a space, any space big enough that they might fit into, to be able to get a taste of that sweet juice! I know they would have gotten their share eventually, but they were looking a bit impatient to me!! I love that you feed them and I love it even more that they were nowhere to be seen the next day! Not because you were trying to get rid of them, although I know that that was your end goal, but more because you made a video out of it, which is going to be viewed by over a million people eventually. Therefore each and every one of the people who watch this video, will see that ants do not need to be sprayed in order to get rid of them. Those ants were out in force for a purpose. They needed sustenance, for themselves and for the rest of their colony. They are no different from us in that respect. We all need food and a well balanced diet! You just showed all of us that once the ants got everything that they needed, they went back to their colony’s. You also showed us that you were more than likely able to speed up the process! After 3 days of foraging, the ants had to have amassed quite a haul for the colony, however, I didn’t see anything sweet and high in carbohydrates out of all the items they were carrying home. Of course I am aware that we only saw a small portion of the items the ants were able to find. However, I still think that you providing them with that sweet little tub of jelly and then with a fresh source of meat, which, like you said, is so important for the Queen to consume, so that she can continue to create many more eggs to ensure the longevity and the growth of the colony! So, while you may feel that it was probably a coincidence, I really think that you just gave them exactly what they needed and they could stop the hunt for now. If you had given food to the ants on the first or even second day, the chances are that they would have had to continue foraging for more food or they would have gratefully accepted a second offering of food from you! Seeing just how big of a hunting party was out foraging for food, makes me feel like that must be a huge colony, as you know better than I, and better than most, no colony sends out all of its ants for any reason, other than when they move the entire colony to a new location. I really wish I could write shorter comments! But once I get started……….!

The way the ants strike: just pure interest

In stead of getting rid of the ants you help them 😊 that's what everyone should do to every bug or animal

4:42 Supermajors are like bio-mechanical TANKS! It makes me wonder if any of the riders are specialists like "supermajor experts" within the colony that help maintain these massive infantry units. (How would Mike even know if individuals had such relationships or squadrons within a colony???) With this much organization, would such duties be random? It's got me thinking of it like a literal bio battalion. All their "weapons" and "technology" are like a warrior species or a football team: Remember the Titans!

9:27 aaaaaaaa don't grab me!!!

I wonder how great full and smooth they are rn lol

I like the way you think about life regardless of how small that life maybe I'm glad I found this channel

Little did they know they were raiding a diety of ants.

If you find where the nest is, you could leave food offerings close to it. That might keep them from wandering too far, i.e. to your house.

i used to feed the ants in the cracks of the Metropolitan Museum of Art building here in NYC whenever I went. I loved them. Yeah, silly, but that was how I rolled 20 years ago.

My mom has successfully kept ants out of her house for several decades at this point with the occasional pile of sugar in her backyard. Definitely a different species of ant, but still. She likes to keep the back door open and doesn't like killing animals (even bugs). When I was little, we had problems with ants until.. sugar bribe

I was thinking about possible reasons why this worked. Marauder ants probably live underground because they're vulnerable to next-level predators when they're on the surface. Maybe their strategy is to swarm out and grab what they can as fast as possible when they're hungry, then retreat and hide again once they have enough, and hope they weren't followed home by a hungry ant-eating animal. Your gift of jelly and protein filled their larder so they don't need to come out for a while.

couldnt believe the end honestly lol, for a second i tought ''he dreaming?''

That big superworm didn't have any friends but the ants were using teamwork, that's why they were able to beat the superworm, that's true teamwork makes the dream work

Une espèce incroyable , avec un comportement fascinant !