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My interest in ants changed my life while I was at work; I found my first solenopsis queen at my jobs yard, this make me realize that there is much more in life than just work; Now, I take periodically walks, I explore new areas and appreciate nature much more, helping me forget the daily responsibilities of life and be curious by even the smallest living creature.

My interest in ants has actually helped me get a position in a university entomology lab that specializes in ants! After all the time I've spent researching and keeping ants, turns out that I was able to use that to help my academic career! It's encouraged me greatly in academics as well as helped me deal with stress and anxiety by exploring the beauty of nature and just enjoying the wonderful world that we all live in.

Ants affected my life alot i told one of my friends all about ants, one day he told a school teacher about me and i got a job here , so now i teach about ants

By keeping and learning about ants I've decided to switch degrees and pursue Environmental Wildlife and Conservation in an effort to learn more about ants in the wild and their contribution to a healthy ecosystem. It keeps me distracted and healthy because Im out almost every weekend hiking with a backpack full of test tubes!

Wow, you have a LOT more ants than I thought

Keeping ants has made me appreciate nature and has made me walk outside alot more. I now walk outside with test tubes to catch queens. Ant love forever.

My interest in ants has made me become more interested in nature in general.

When they open their jaws it looks like they lock in place like a crossbow.

Ants have impacted my life by me now having a lot less tine over the weekends because I have to feed and clean my colonies! :-) I also just like to watch them and they can make a stressful day a lot better. Overall they have helped to increase my happiness even when I do have to worry about them now and again. Ants have also inspired me to consider pursuing a degree in Myrmecology later on, something I NEVER would have considered without learning everything I now know about them!

Because of ants I have become more responsible as a person and it has caused me to drop my video games obsession and go outside often. Because of them I want to become an entomologist. The aspect of creatures living together in one enormous family like a human but in perfect sync is one of the most interesting things I have ever seen

Well, ants have really helped my social life. I did not really know a lot of people going into a new school after moving, and ants helped me relate to other kids. Now I have a lot more friends and feel better. Ants make me happy and keep me motivated to go outdoors and I often look for hours. It helped me exercise more and helped my self-esteem. I don't have a colony yet, just one queen without any eggs. I never would have thought that a creature so small could have such a big affect on someone's life. Ants just helped me with everything.

I've found ant keeping has affected me in two ways, it's allowed me to pursue my interest in nature and wildlife when my family is against most pets, especially insects. Convincing them to keep one little ant queen was easy! Altough I will be interested to see how they feel when the colony grows. Its also made me far more aware of all the smaller parts of ecosystems and life. I now keep finding myself spotting fascinating ant species, and even tracing them back to their colonies I would have never found or cared about before. They are fascinating creatures and have been so glad to start keeping them!!!

This is my favorite ant channel

I WANT TO SEE DRACULA ANTS!!!!

My interest in ants has impacted the way i think about them because I used to think they were annoying but they are actually very interesting.

before getting in to ants didn't think bugs could really do much. but after seeing them more i've realized they pretty smart how to separate their waste and how they share food. it makes them seem a lot more human. and now i see this more and more in animals

Cricket: literally being eaten alive Narrator: continues talking about jaws getting in the way

Amazing video, awesome representation of their ability to ‘teleport’ at 4:53 😨

Nice video, best one so far. Your videos are like short documentaries. You keep progressing in every upload good job Jordan.

My interest in ants has impacted my life in many different ways, the main ones being: 1. that i no longer have any space in my bedroom for anything else to fit. 2. that most of my spare time is spent researching and studying the different ant species that i keep and are in my area. 3. that i can feed house pests like flies to my ants. & 4. No more fly spray!!!

By learning about ants, I have changed my outlook on them since, seeing them as beautifully amazing creatures rather than a stupid pest in my house. I have since changed to recognize every creature of nature, and know they are there for good reason. For example, I still fear and don’t like wasps, but, I know they are great prey to some of of favorite animals, which eat them and help them survive.

Finally!! It is incredible that the jaws can be used as a flight technique, but from another thought, is it possible that the ant was just attacking the pen/stick you were holding? The flight technique was just a coincidence from the smooth surface?

i've been watching your videos recently and ive noticed you sound a lot happier/sure of yourself in these more recent videos, i dont know you personally but it makes me happy to hear that growth and excitement in your voice!!! keep up the great work

My interest in ants has given me so much since I began watching documentaries about them when I was only eight years old. It taught me to be patient and altruistic, and it has given me the chance to learn to respect and care for the planet earth’s envirnment and well being, but it also taught me about the ruthless side of nature. Overall, I believe ants have helped shape me into a better person and even now, eight years later, I still love to watch and keep them as pets! Love from Portugal!! :)

Cool! I haven't seen that before!

By keeping ants and doing research about them, ants and other insects have become less disturbing for me. I also come more into contact with nature, because I'm catching queen ants once they fly out. When I was young, I always used to kill ants. But now, i take care of my own colonies and I started loving every ant species in the world. I also do research. I do that on RU-vid (Ants Australia and AntsCanada), Google and my own observations.

I may only be in high school, but ants have changed my life so much. I have found that after I had started keeping my first ants, I was able to much more easily understand the needs of many creatures, and my mind was opened to looking after the personalities of each individual insect, and not just insects as a whole. Also, as much as I love bingeing on Ants Australia all day, Ant keeping is a real hobby that keeps me occupied in a meaningful way. Not just sitting at my desk all day.

Ant keeping has impacted my life hugely. I have been dealing with a depression for the past year now due to a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and bullying at school. I decided to take up ant keeping because I used to do a lot of ant keeping when I was younger, and to keep my mind off diabetes.

beautiful shot, great ants

Hello early today

Ants have impacted my life a lot. Going to school isn’t to bad, but it is a long, hard and slow process. But when I know that I can come home to my ants and watch and help them grow it gets me through the day. Cause I always have something to look forward to, and before i didn’t.

Answer:I go outside way more when i see an ant i pick it up and look at it i started keeping them and i love the fact that when im exploring i can always just find a new species and i also made some new friends.AntLOVE forever.

Do vids veakly

pls talk about meat ants

My interest in ants has led me to discover this channel. Your channel has shown me even more interesting things about ants. Thank you!

I'm in love with this video! It's SOOOOOO perfect!! Congrats!

Another fantastic video Jordan! Trap jaws are a tedious but very interesting species to keep, its crazy how much power they have behind those jaws.

You deserve much more subscribers. This is my favorite ant channel!

5:53 exactly! Now that i got 12 more eggs my 4 workers suddenly take crickets.. Before they ran from the dead food 😂

Ants have changed my life in many ways, the best one being introduced into this wonderful secret community of Ant-Lovers! I have learned so much. 💕

Ant keeping has impacted me in a calm manner by helping me relieve stress when watching them and now when ever I see a ant I be sure to get a good 10 second look at them to learn more.

My interest in "creepy crawlies" started when I was young and I have always been fascinated by them. The biggest impact on my life is that I passed that love to my child and it is something that we bond over.

Ants have impacted me in a way that gives me excitement and eagerness to venture out with my two boys (and sometimes mom) into the woods and fields looking for not only ants but any form of insect life that can teach the three us a thing or two! They definitely have given me more to look forward to spring and summer. - Thank you for posting today!

My interest in ants is important in my life. When I was a child I was fascinated by ants, there were several nests in my garden and I spent a lot of time observing their behavior, hunting cockroaches to feed them and defending them from the immense dangers. Now, a few years later, I'm a biologist. Ants are my hobby, I take long walks in nature to observe and photograph them, I not only learn incredible things, they relax and help me to eliminate stress.

the interest in ants has impacted life by making me care more about animal and actually see all insect in a different which i find really cool

This channel has ALOT of potential! Really hope you stick with it!

It has impacted my life by learning how interesting ants are and trying to give a positive description to people who don't like ants.

When I started ant keeping nothing really impacted my life until school started! I was new to this school and had made a few friends.. a few months later I started to see queens at school so I started to collect some.. my friends asked what I was doing and asked if they could join in! And now They’ve become ant lovers just like me and now we’re all just a group of ant loving friends! And now I have other people who aren’t even from my class just interested in ants and now I have questions like “Is this a queen?” Or “Can I have A queen?” It makes me happy I’ve been able to send some ant love to them

This is such a great video!!! You’re such an inspiration for me to start a collection of my own soon 🙌🏾

My interest in ants has impacted my life the most by tuning me into nature. Now wherever I go I am always thinking where there would be an ant colony, where a queen might start her founding chamber. I've found over 20 different colonies in my 1.1 acre yard and love to go into nature and find more.

My interest in ants impacted my life by making me go outside more and becoming more active, I used to stay indoors playing video games all day, but since I discovered ant keeping I am always studying and observing ants and other insects

It impacts me by my fears for insects and I now look for ants on the ground and now admire them.

I have problems with panic attacks and depression, and the one thing that helps me more then my mountain of pills is feeding my ants and watching there cheer joy and appreciation, I love watching them quickly racing back to there mother and queen and almost fighting each other for the right to feed there mother. I can watch them for hours. My ants are one of the best things that happened and impacted my life in such a great way!

It’s impacted me because I have become more aware of the environment, especially the world of small insects. Ants have not only made me more interested about them, but also more interested in insects in general.

My interest in ants has impacted my life in that it made me more aware of how delicate and perfectly balanced the nature you are trying to emulate is, and how complex natural structures are.

My interest in ants changed and adapted my lifestyle in a very positive way. The responsibility it is, and the honour to care for unique families of animals is a privilege as it has given me an experience and the opportunity to mature myself and learn to care for not only myself, but others in my care too :)

One of the best things about this channel is audio. The music is not over the top and not over dramatic. Not to mention your voice

Ant keeping has not only improved my life overall, but has also further broadened my love for all sorts of animals as i learn about the impact that ants have on both animal and plant life. ant keeping has improved my personal development by allowing myself to take responsibility by feeding the ants and cleaning their outworlds as well as exposing me to an amazing community of ant keepers on the various ant keeping facebook pages that allow me to interact and engage with fellow ant keepers about the growing hobby in Australia and the rest of the world. Ant keeping also acts as an escape from reality for me as i am currently a high school student in year 12 and i can go through a few rough times with the heavy loads of studying involved, yet when i watch the ants in m outworld it puts me at ease watching each ant working their own job. Ant keeping is truley the best hobby i have come across and cannot wait to dive further into the amazing world that is ant keeping.

Since starting to keep ants and learn more about them, it has brought me back to my nature loving roots. Just by taking a few minutes out of my day and enjoying the world around me.

Ant videos and such of your type of content have impacted me in a very special way. It started to me when I first realized the diversity of nature, and how much ants were. Growing up as a middle school kid, I realized the impressive styles and it helped me keep a better lifestyle rather than just playing games and doing homework all day. Now I have a reason to feel more free and helpful with my decisions so I could go out and be fresh in my days.

I’m lovin these trap jaw videos! Keep it up ya legend

finally a new video and not only that but also showcasing my favorite spieces

Antkeeping made me meet new people and made me find out that my country has a great antkeeping community from all ages. It's great to share knowledge and fascination with this group whilst keeping all kinds of ants and learn more about nature and its secrets!

Love the music and the shots you use, as well as the great content! Keep it up! Would love to see Dracula ants, spiny ants or furnace ants in next tour.

Any keeping has been an awesome experience so far, it really has been quite fascinating. I’m currently keeping 6 colonies, and it’s been a great way of stress relief just watching them as I’m currently doing my HSC... Thanks heaps for all of the content, keep it up 💪👍

Ant have distracted me by keeping my gaze on the ground even in a conversation and have even given me a friend who also enjoys ant keeping just as much as I do.

I'd love to see more of your Bull Ants, and I'd love to learn more about honey ants as well. loving the videos. keep it up!

Literally my favorite type of ant. I just found one about an hour ago on accident while I was working! First one I have found since I became a fan of them so I was unreasonably excited

Answer to the question; Learning about ants and making them homes has made me feel more happy and caring. Ants take up a lot of my time as well because I can watch my ants and ant videos for hours! I am a new subscriber to you channel!

I enjoyed every second of this video! Thumbs up!😁

Ant keeping hasn't just changed my life, ant keeping has become my life, my passion, my sun..... Most people say ants are just bugs but they are so much more....

I have found that keeping ants has helped me be more creative and allowed me to build and make new worlds for my ants. Living in a small appartment ants area great pets and can build some amazing worlds in a small space!

My interest for ants has made me and my girlfriend have a new hobby! Raising ants and observing them grow/work is one of the greatest experiences one can have!

ant impacted my life by making me more interested in their little society and i walk more on the sidewalks to keep and eye out for queen ants when i go somewhere

Keeping ants has impacted me as a person because I used to think they were pests, but now they are my favourite creature. It has also turned me to learn about other insects such as termites, springtails, crickets and so much more!

It has helped me get through a lot of things I struggle with anxiety and depression but it keeps me distracted, It has also made me become more aware of how much ants affect the ecosystem

As always great video Jordan

my interest in ants has changed from what i knew about them before and now has changed so much. in the summer i go outside for more than an hour a day just watching how they move and interact. ants have made me do lots of more outdoor activity's like going hiking to look for queens and look at how the ants make progress over the coarse of a while.

When i started keeping ants 🐜 it gave me a wider view of the world around me and helped me improve myself by not wasting my spare time and gave me something to study and love

Beautiful video, loved it

I have made two friends who love your channel becouse of ants and I never knew that there were so many species of ants that's how ants have impacted my life

loved it as always :D

Ants have had a great impact on my life. At the begining I was afraid of insects but I started watching videos on RU-vid about them until I could overcome it to the point that I have my own colony of ants! Thanks to this I met people from my town who love ants and made very good friends! :)

I have spent a lot of money on ant keeping supplies, formicariums and queens. My friends all ask my to ID species they find, and I've meet new people. I have also begun to lose my arachnophobia from become interested in some spiders, and I now keep a colony of termites. Ant keeping has impacted me in so many ways.

The reason ants have impacted my life is that they have enabled me to not only look at species of insects the same way but also now arachnids ( I had a major phobia of them) . Because in eco-systems they all depend on each and every individual species in order to survive. always liked other animals like reptiles, mammals, amphibians, birds and much more. But now I spend a lot of my time learning about ants. And all the other creatures that often go unnoticed. I have even just recently started my own ant colony! So I am glad that I have been able to change my view on these little guys as well as other creatures.

My interest in ants has dramatically impacted my life in a few ways. First off, it got my off of the couch and killed my video game addiction, and made me love nature, and find joy in "the little things". Secondly, it made me meet a whole new world of hobbyists, who are all SO helpful. In fact, I made quite a few new friends through antkeeping. This hobby has definitely changed my life for the better!

Interacting with ants has allowed me to get close to and watch one aspect of biology that has always fascinated me as I enjoy animals that live in colony's and I have always liked the way the hyeracy in ant colony's have worked

My interest in ants has inspired me to this year go out and found my first colony of ants. It has also allowed me to branch out and watch many new channels and people I never knew about like this one. I cant wait to find my first queen.

Ants have affected my life in that they have led me down a path of exploring new things and learning more, the ant keeping hobby has also helped me build a stronger bond with my freinds when we interact about ants and share our colonies and other ant related things.

By keeping ants I learned to watch even at the tiniest animals and insects and that such an small creature can be more intresting than even a whale

Ants made me aware of nature more than before. Getting more interested and curious about insects and animals such as tarentula, scorpions and more. They made me really curious about the tiny world under our feet

It has changed my life, ants entered my dreams shortly after entering my life, It’s changed the way I see the world around me, oriented me towards the diversity in this world opened me to a whole new side of life and it’s shaping the way I see my future, I now want to word with theses animals and share their amazing adaptation with others by showing them first hand what theses animals are capable off

Discovering ants has helped get me out and active again after struggling with depression. not only that, but they've helped show that not only fluffy and cuddly pets help with mental health, I now recommend ants and other invertebrate to people who feel stressed anxious or lonely, but can't afford to get a dog or cat! So far it's worked every time!

I've once had a fear of ants. Once I started watching your videos, it slowly gave me confidence against ants. Now I have over 5 colony's of ants. Thanks so much Jordan! Ants really had a huge impact on my life.

Ants have changed my life by letting want to find other friends that maybe interested in ants to and whenever i see it rain or when i take a stroll around the park, i always take my test to look for a queen. It makes me want to hike a lot more just to find a queen ant.

Dude, I had a good feeling today your going to post!! :)

My interest in ants has impacted my life in many ways ! I'm way more interested in biology and nature now, so it has impacted my studies, and I even want (like you) to spread this interest to other people, so I started talking about it and now I even make videos on RU-vid to share this passion.

Happy 420 and these are my favorite type of ants!!!

My interest in ants has made me understand even the tiniest creatures can change the world as some species of ants spread seeds helping the biosphere this has taught me so much about our planet and animals

By learning about ants I appreciate what they in our ecosystem I love watching work