Ant Room Tour | Sugar Ants 

I know it’s been a while...but finally, here’s a new video! My longest one yet 😅 Hope you guys enjoy it and thanks for your patience! Fingers crossed the travelling restrictions ease here in Melbourne soon. I'm itching to get outside shooting again! Planning on filming a doco on Australia’s iconic Jack Jumpers (Myrmecia pilosula) when I get the chance.

the legend.... HE IS BAAAACK AAAAA

Quality over quantity! It’s worth the wait. I’m always so impressed and captivated by your content!! 🐜

When the world needed him most, he vanished

I didn't think watching ants would be so nice

You know what, let's just take a second to just suck in all the good commentary, amazing film, and amazing ants.

By the looks of it nobody noticed the new evolving "bull leaf cutter ant" at 23:38

So much more informative, soothing, relaxing and less overly dramatic than your Canadian colleague.

Me: watches ants Canada Ants Australia: exist Me: there must be more....

You’re back! Ants Australia and Ants Canada 2 of my favourite ant channels Happy 100k mate

Awesome macro footage - as always - Jordan! These Camponotus Aeneopilosus look and behave a lot like the Camponotus Vagus I found this year, here in Austria, Europe. Very active ant species!

Did someone ask for an Ant Documentary film? no Was it totally Amazing? *YES* also congrats on 100k!

The Legend has returned, Jordan Dean! Thanks for featuring me on the video too :) I love Camponotus Nigreceps because of how they are big compared to other camponotus species. Having such vibrant colours and also the majors have strong mandibles holding many objects surrounding them. Also, I love how Camponotus work as a team, spraying formic acid and defeat their prey or even predators. However, they have repletes which would store liquids and regurgitate it to their young. That is why I love Camponotus Nigreceps, thank you so much for making a new video and can't wait for more :) Wish me luck in the giveaway!

I live in indonesia, my favorite camponotus species is camponotus gigas/dinomyrmex gigas.she is the biggest ant ever see in my life,she also the calmest and the greatest ant i ever keep in my life,when i gave her a drop of honey she immedietly drank the honey on the stick without disturb and sometimes she play and ran in my hand without biting me, when she play in my hand she does unthinkble action she scaning my hand with her antena like she said something to me,diffrent from my other camponotus queen when i try to feed them,they ran and pannic in the test tube. I raise her almost 4 monts when she get her first manitics ,i and my friend are so happy,when the manitics started to old they take all the queen jobs, the workers also smart like their mother when i open their conteiner, the worker then emerging from their the test tube and scanning the sky and started to follow the food where ever i put it,their are so cute when their following my hand. But short story this colony stated dying when the queen die because a lot of my friends watcing and disturb them every times,when the queen die i started to cry in my heart ,i feel bad to the colony.i have a hight hope to this colony because this camponotus queen is very rare and this queen was the smartest and the greatest queen ant i ever keeps and just die after 8 monts later, when i started to funeral her all of my friends joining and starting to donating because they very sad to me. Ok Thats my short story of my camponotus gigas ant,sorry if i had wrong word in this story ,thanks guys.

Nice! 👍

So this is the video we’ve been blessed with this year. By lord it is a blessing

Hi Jordan! My name is Jaydon and I am 11 years old. Thank you for all your videos. I am learning so much by watching them. My favourite sugar ant species is the Banded Sugar Ant because there are different castes, and the soldiers can be the same size as the queen. I also like the Golden Tailed Spiny Ant because of the pretty colours on them.

Return of the king. For what is my favorite species and why it has to be Camponotus aeneopilosus, first of all because of their beautiful coloration of black and gold, also I love how this particular species of Campo are really fast, especially for their size, also I love how they often use tandem running to help other members of the colony find food, also these guys are really interesting to watch. I also like how unlike a lot of other ants around my area they have majors which are really cool. I also find it really cool how some of the workers and majors act as repletes storing large amounts of liquid to use later. Unlike many of the other species of Campo these guys are really aggressive and will attack their prey ferociously without mercy, I personally find it really cool to watch them take down prey many times larger than them because as far as Camponotus go this species is a bit on the smaller side. Thanks for making such good documentaries and I wish all people who enter the giveaway Good Luck!

Yay after 7 months he is back.

My favorite species of sugar ant would be the banded sugar ant, they are so abundant in my area and they have a super extensive nest system, I like how the queens are easier to keep and easier to spot. Definitely one of my top 5 species of ant, from here in Australia.

Everyone at school: *AAAAA NO ITS A BULL ANT* Me: *LIAR!*

There's no way I could pick just one. All the sugar ants are incredible. They're hardy, easy to keep and watch. Sugar ants are like that one aunty who always asks for a doggy bag for the leftovers and always has a stash of goodies in her fridge. It's a little bit embarrassing but everyone still loves her anyway :) Thanks for the great vid, Gratz on 100k and don't stay away so long next time. We all need our ant fix! ~dingo

I love your voice, it’s so calming, and the music is perfectly chill to make this not just super interesting but incredibly calm

You have no idea how happy I am that you have finally uploaded a video again. I really enjoy them.

My favourite sugar ant species is Camponotus ligniperdus. Its one of the biggest ant species in my country and also my first colony . These ants really got me into antkeeping. Sadly i also had a fungal outbreak after the first nanitics arrived, which killed the colony. I was really gutted when i saw that my Queen died but i kept the antkeeping hobby .Now i have a colony of harvesting ants (around 300 individuals) that i house in an all in one design that was inspired by your Video:). Thank you for your videos they are truly inspiring.

Yess Finally we got the best ant Chanel back!!

Omg YESSSS!!! I’ve been waiting for so long! The Vid looks amazing Jordan! Your content is awesome! Keep it up!

It's awesome that you're back with a new upload. Amazing footage as always!

Question giveaway answer: My favourite sugar ant species is Camponotus aeneopilosus, golden tail sugar ants. I have a colony of them in one of your amazing small ytong nests. I mainly like these because of their glorious looks. The queen doesn't have the golden abdomen hairs but that just makes her easily distinguishable. (p.s. I call her queen Marianne). The workers are very active and there are also soldiers, making an interesting cast in the species. They are very curious in the outworld and have made quite the mess, somehow managing to flip over the honey dispenser lol! I always love watching these guys (girls) explore and feast on the food I give them. I love the Aus Ants products and I would really like some more nests because I don't have that many colonies but many need a space upgrade. Thanks for reading my submission.

Nicely done! Looking forward to more uploads!

Just started watching your videos. It’s amazing to see how far you have come from the first videos to now. You sound much more confident and vary your pitch a lot more. Well done!

Welcome back! I’m glad to see a new video, ant youtubers seem to pop in and out of existence very quickly. Can’t wait to see more from you!!!

My favourite sugar ant species is the Camponotus Nigreceps because they have such cool colours and they are bigger then the average ant. Also I have just got into ant keeping and am searching for my first queen ant you have really inspired me to get into ant keeping and getting that next would be a big help. Also congrats on 100k keep up the great work

My favourite sugar ant species is Camponotus Lownei! I love how they're small and they're cute little ants! Their orangy black colour is beautiful and i really can't wait to get a queen! Their majors are beautiful too! These guys are underrated and I love to show my love for them

your quality and editing has increased exponentially!! reminds me of the old days of ants canada!! Very good work!! Extra credits for watching and mentioning other ants YTrs! You ROCK!!

Its been awhile, but im glad you're back. The production of your ant videos has always been my favorite, very clean looking and informative!

Just got a new acrylic nest from you definitely the best I ever got

All sugar ant species are amazing but my favorite is the classic camponotus consubrinus I love their color , how easy the colony is to keep and their different sizes I am just amazed at how ants can have workers and soldier

I really liked your video. The footage is amazing and you can really see how cute the ants really are! And with the music and your relaxing voice it's just so nice to watch and enjoy. Didn't mind the lenght too. Greetings from Germany

I find your content really good and I’ve watched all of your videos like 3 times.Can’t wait till your next upload

after 7 months......... the legend is back!

Actually my favorite ant species is the Odontomachus sp. which is the trapjaw ants, they are native to my country and they look unique from other ants.

Such a great video. Both informative and well edited. This is by far the best ant channel I've encountered. Not an ant "reality show". Just good ant content. Keep it up!

My favorite specie is the Camponotus nigriceps because of their size and the way their soilders head is shaped. It makes them loook sooo adorable. Kinda like mini hearts. They also remind me of the big headed ants known as phidole which is also one of my most favorite ants!

my favorite species of camponotus is one called camponotus irritans, an ant common in my area, and my very first species of ant i kept. what's interesting about them is that the queens look like camponotus lownei queens, but the workers, even after eclosing from their cocoons, tend to be a light yellow/golden colour, at least from my experience. i have no idea what the majors look like though. right now my colony is too small to have any majors, but i hope to see one soon! they also tend to raise their abdomen towards a threat and lay a single drop of mystery liquid on it. the ant then quickly flees and the liquid seems to irritate the threat, causing it to panic and run around, eventually exhausting it. i suspect this liquid might be formic acid, but since the ants drop so little at a time, i haven't got around to try and identify it. well, that's all i have to say. i hope i win the giveaway, and if i don't, i hope this at least helps someone get to know camponotus irritans!

camponotus sericeiventris, even though the golden seems to be a very big attracting factor, that's not the reason i like these carpenter ants, (i personally prefer silver like camponotus planatus) the reason I like these carpenter ants, is because of their behavior, odd shape, and enormous size, here in Mexico, its quite common to find them foraging around the tree trunks, they almost never step on the ground, being strictly arboreal, it makes it extremely difficult to find the queens, since they are looking for nesting ground, on the tree tops. now, you may notice they have extremely large and meaty legs, making them extremely tanky. its unusual to find workers foraging, i assume its because they are a tropical species, which means they hardly ever need repletes to store food for a drought or for the winter, making it so that soldier ants, are the ones foraging, while the workers stay inside and tend to the queen and brood, quite an opposite for most ant species. They also have an uncommon trait for most sugar ants, great vision, because of the fact that they are exclusively arboreal, they have to fight for every inch of branch, them being one of the largest ants around (larger than even the dinosaur ants neoponera), makes it extremely difficult to tap every millimeter of branch with their antennae on the looks for invading small ants, so instead, they use their eyesight, to spot the intruder almost immediately and completely cease an attack. this trait, that is owned by ants like pseudomyrmex, gives the large ants an extreme advantage for territorial superiority, unlike crematogaster or azteca, who compansate their size by their large numbers and short temper. i hope i can find a queen in the near future, even though they fly on the tree tops, me and some friends have figured a way to bring them down. and that is, a light. using a bright light and a white surface, we plan to bring down the queens during their nocturnal flights. since ants and other insects, are attracted to light because of their eyes, which is not a common use to gather queen ants, but we hope it is effective.

I absolutely love your videos and am so glad that I found you while stuck in lockdown. I've gotta say that my favourite Sugar ant species is the golden tail, I remember when I first saw one while doing my entymology unit, I always thought that they looked awesome with the dark black body and golden end. The shine of the golden hairs is something that always caught my eye, the way most of the sugar ants are very social and interact with each other more than a lot of people would think ants would. The way a young colony sticks close and slowly gains confidence makes me feel like raising a colony would be a much more exciting and I have to admit that before I found your channel and videos that I didn't have as much of an appreciation for ants as I do now, just looking at the complex social structure and the way they work together to deal with any issues really shows just how great they are. While I am in lockdown I've been looking for a new hobby/skill to develop, and now I'm 100% convinced that my ideal hobby is with ants, I'm looking forward for lockdown easing so I can go to some parks to try and capture some queens and get myself a starting colony! Keep up the fantastic videos and absolute respect for spending your time educating everyone on how ants aren't just a pest and are very useful and interesting to watch. (I promise I didn't want to type a comment this long going in..) Love your work dude and congrats on 100k so glad I could be apart of it 👌😃😄

One of my favorite ants is Camponotus sericeiventris, I think these golden ants are the most beautifull of them all I also love how they have many diffrent sizes and how they almost always look so chilled out

once you can, can you do a video on australia's green pony ants? there doesn't seem to be much info online

You alive mate?

Once I got the notification! I clicked so fast! Yay I love your vids, so easy to follow and understand!

He's back!! I missed you so much :) really great video.

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When next video?

The quality of this video is insane! Very informative and enjoyable

Hes BACK welcome back mann I joined a little other a month ago and I love the videos I've watched only every one

We will be waiting for your return! Love your videos! The quality is just so good!

My favorite sugar ant (my favorite ant in general) is camponotus consobrinus because when i was just getting into ant keeping i spent months looking for queens and a couple of days before i was about to give up ant keeping, i went on my last search for a queen and i couldn't find one so i went to have a shower and go to sleep in the bathroom was a banded sugar ant queen so i ran to my room and grabbed a test tube and caught her. She now has 100 workers and i own many ant species. If i won id use the ytong nest to house my new myrmecia pyriformis queen. Also thanks for all the motivation to keep ants! great video!

I enjoy your style, story telling and video quality. Thank you!

Such a lovely video, Jordan. I greatly appreciate the time and effort you take to really make your videos captivating. This Fall, here in Utah, I came across two Camponotus novaboracensis queens while at an amusement park. I couldn't believe my eyes! I have raised them since then and they have to be the fastest growing Camponotus colonies I have ever had. Camponotus are such a wonderfully hyperdiverse genus.

I love Camponotus consibrinus! I am actually keeping a small colony of these ants currently and they too were my first colony of ants ever that I raised from a queen! I love these ants because of their bright orange bodies and their large headed major workers that are almost as big as the queen! Thanks Jordan! I love the videos keep it up!

My favorite sugar ant species is definitely Camponotus Lownei! I love the contrast between the color of their legs and bodies. Such a cool ant colony. Can't wait for your next video, I finally became a patron! Take care.

SUPER excited to see you're back and making videos again :) As far as my favorite Campo species, that'd have to go to Camponatus Saundersi because of their amazing ability to explode into a sticky, foul smelling, sticky liquid to halt predators and other ants. While not native to Sydney where I am, as they're found in Malaysia, I still remember reading about them a few years ago and being fascinated.

My favorite species of sugar ant is definitely the Camponotus suffusus because of its very very shiny and vibrant bodies. All the variations of colors are my favorite, whether it is golden, orange or brown. The queen is absolutely beautiful too a red mark on the thorax. I have seen so many in Australia and they are the best ones, always easy to spot.

I like the European species Camponotus ligniperdus. They are a slow growing but large species ( for Europe ). I like their ruby red thorax and this can also be seen on their petiole and and beginning of their abdomen. They are also quite easy to feed , they love dried up mealworms and sugar water. They are diurnal and quite active in their outworld. Their major castes can be quite large with large heads.

my favourite typeof sugar ant is camponotus consibrinus! Because it was the first specie I ever caught and my favourite teacher (R.I.P) Was the one who really got me into ant keeping and he had a camponotus colony so it holds a special place in my heart!

Camponotus inflatus, love the repletes. I am fascinated by the order and complexity of ant social roles, and how many different ways they problem solve. I love that ants are so incredibly dedicated to the good health of their colony, inspiring and comforting! Beautiful footage of your ants, thankyou.

I’m happy you uploaded I’ve been waiting for so long!

I love the camponotus auriventris. I like their semi transparent gasters that reflect UV light to prevent overheating while hunting during the day. Their unique shiny colour makes them beautiful.

OMG FINALLY ANOTHER ANT ROOM TOUR!!! :DDD Congrats on 100k! My favourite species of carpenter ants has to be Camponotus novaeboracensis. I just love their unique reddish-brown and black colour, especially when they cluster together in their nests. They are found throughout the usa and Canada. I don't live in either places but I really hope one day I can and keep a colony. The Majors of this species look gorgeous with their black heads and red thorax. They also have repletes and aquapletes like most other carpenter ants. They nest pretty much everywhere, under logs and stumps, sometimes inside tree stems, in dead branches on the ground and under bark, boards, or even under stones. They have also been known to eat away the dead and/or diseased parts of tree stems and branches where they nest. As a result, the trees actually grow faster and healthier than others! Such a unique and extraordinary specie of ants.

Again such a great video. Truly amazing work! Keep it up

my favourite species of sugar ant is Camponotus nigriceps as the size of their massive soldier ants fascinates me!

I really much enjoy your content and it was what let me to trying antkeeping out myself. Keep it up!

your videos are always worth the wait

my favorite type of sugar ant is that of camponotus lowney, i love the stripes on their back. Also the color viability between older and younger ants, the clear white of their brood is, in my opinion, quit beatifull. I especially liked the story of the queen and the fact that she survived with only 2 functional legs! the video was done incredibly well and made my day a whole lot better! I hope my English is good enough and you can read it! Have a nice day everyone!

Glad to have you back, sir!

I just wanted to say it's great you're still making videos. Your content is my favorite ant content on youtube and you do a great job with your videos. I'm new to ant keeping so I don't think I can make use of a nest right now, but just to participate, I will say I like your banded sugar ants. For some reason, the queen looks very cute the way she moves around like a dog moving her head around communicating with her ants. They also look quite unique from most other monochromatic species, with a distinct thorax that looks like a heater core. I like in general how sugar ants are not picky with their diet. I can see why you like that colony so much.

My Favourite Sugar Ant Species Is The Banded Sugar Ant. I Love Them So Much Because I Grew Up With Them And I Always Used To Just Watch Them For Hours. And I Would Love To See What Goes On In Their Nest! These Ants Are Perfect For Me Because I Am A Night Owl And So Are They! I Wish To One Day Own A Colony Of My Own.

My favorite sugar ant is Camponotus Auriventris. Its very beautiful in the light with a kind of blue shimmering color. Also it is not too shy and eat almost anything as well as being non nocturnal - making it super easy and fun to interact with the colony. Congratulations on 100k followers!

Good to see another video coming from Australia 🇦🇺... Not many Aussie ants information on RU-vid... Love hearing about the sugar ant 🐜 my favourite is camponotus consobrinus, they mostly nocturnal and teach their sisters how to forage.. But I love the intelligence they show when blocking up other ants nests, plus easy to keep not to fussy with food...

My favorite Camponotus ant type is just the simple carpenter ant native to North America, because they are super easy to find and raise.

Firstly congrats on 100k subs, also your content is at such a high quality that the wait is worth it. Also for the competition my favorite sugar ant species has the be the banded sugar ants because they are the species I have a queen for and is my first attempt at a larger species

I actually remember mistaking a large sugar ant nest for a bull ant nest when I was younger because they were so big. I also remember running across a sugar ant queen once when I was walking, I live kind of out of town, and it's the only time I can remember seeing a queen. Love the videos and keep up the good work.

Incredible content as usual Jordan! I grew up in Point Lonsdale - down the west peninsula from Melbourne - and was constantly surrounded by Camponotus Consobrinus. While they seem to be the most common, you've gotta love a classic. I have super early memories of building "houses" for them out of lego! Much too early to understand how a nest and colony functions - I was preoccupied by making sure that their homes had living rooms and kitchens. It's no surprise that I'm fascinated by ant keeping nowadays and it's gotta be the humble Banded Sugar Ant that takes the cake for me - for old times sake!!

Hey Jordan, im currently in Western Australia and an aspiring ant keeper, I really love your channel as it’s soo interesting learning all these interesting things about the ants native to our country and it’s soo easy to tell how much effort and love you put into each video along with raising your colonies which has inspired me to get one of my own hence why I would like to be considered for the give away. Although only just learning about them in this video I really like the campanotus suffusus ants! I didn’t consider the fact that a species would have ants that all looked notably different which I think is really cool, that way in it’s young stages you could name the first generation ants individually which would be soo cool and would bring you emotionally closer to the ants. This video has actually made me decide I want to specifically try and obtain a suffusus queen as my first since I just love them soo much in this video.

I love the Banded Sugar ant because of how funny they are like when they drag the stubborn ants out of the nest when they forage🤣🤣

The amount of work you put into these videos is amazing. :D

I was very glad to see you upload a video because we can always count on quality content from you. Thank you! My favourite species of suger ant would be the black-headed sugar ant (Camponotus nigriceps). I think they look amazing, especially the queens thorax! And every species capable of producing soldiers gets an automatic bonus point from me.

I am very happy that you're back🙂

These works of art make the wait between videos worth the wait. My favorite species of Camponotus: Camponotus cruentatus. They are one of Europes largest species and have such a beautiful colouration. The dark grey/black with red accents on the thorax/gaster and legs makes the stunning to look at. Also, I love how they can process Urea and use it as a food supplement. I am currently keeping a small colony of these beauties (1queen, 3 workers and a promising amount of brood) and they have been just a joy to keep so far.

I have always loved the black headed sugar ant. There were always nests of them around my grandparents place as a kid and I would enjoy watching them rush about I never knew much about any keeping back then but I always loved the little guys!

My favourite kind of camponotus is by far camponotus consobrinus. I love how pretty there colours and patterns are. I also that they are a slower developing colony which made it perfect for my first queen (that’s probably why I’m a bit bias towards them). Btw so happy to see you upload again, loved the vid

My son's favourite sugar ant is Camponotus consobrinus as we have a small but growing colony at home! We love feeding them flies and meal worms and they absolutely love honey. At the moment, the soldiers in the main chamber have stored the honey as repletes and we enjoy watching them share the food with the workers and queen. We've noticed that any honey they don't eat, they cover in sand substrate from their out-world, perhaps as a way to store it for later? Has been a great way to teach my kids about how ants social structure works and teach them plenty of new latin words. Congrats on 100k subscribers! We really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks, Tim and Theo

Missed your videos, glad to see that!

The first one you talk about it’s really cool and amazing

Love this channel, keep up the good work!

this is sooooooooooooooooooooo nice to watch, so satisfying - watching the ants dart around

Hey, so great to see an episode again! My favourite Sugar Ant species is Camponotus herculeanus. The colony I have is one of the first I ever had, they are growing quite well and constantly since two years ago when I started Ant-keeping, and have been a dream-species for me. What I like about them is probably a different reason than many other people's cases, but I love just how "normal" they are. They look very beautiful, but not exotic, they are pretty big, but not the biggest ant species, they are very calm, they move in a seemingly more thoughtful way than many other species. They can endure very low temperatures, and therefore inhabit places where not many other European species set foot in. They are all-rounders which are wellsuited for their environment, and that's why I love them. I especially liked your Colony with the injured queen, that's such a beautiful story, and shows your great compassion for the weak! Have a good time and stay healthy, Greetings from Germany!

Man its been a while since I saw one of these but welcome back

Such an exciting video JD family !