Catch QUEEN ANTS in your BACKYARD 

Have you tried black-lighting yet? If so, tell me your findings! Went for a different type of style this video, thinking of switching it up every so often :D ► ► JOIN MY NEW DISCORD SERVER: discord.gg/5Tse5Aj Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/enderants?fan_landing=true Extra special thanks to AntopiaHK for being my first Patron. Go subscribe to his RU-vid channel because he’s making comeback after almost a year of not uploading! AntopiaHK: ru-vid.com/show-UC-p0UH-esVQM9qW65bukTuA So I've done it everyone, I made a Discord! Come chat with myself, fellow ant keepers, and MEE6 because at the time of writing this, its only me and this bot. Be psyched for the next video, because it will definitely be my LONGEST video to date. (watch it be like an hour long lolol). I've been recording this colony since April, and holy ants, will it be an exciting one. That's all I have to say for now, you can catch me on Instagram updating my story everyday, and Discord now that I have a server. Check the 'Community Tab' once in a while too, as I'm trying to post more on there. See you soon everyone, and bestest of luck catching queen ants!

I like the new “live” footage and “vlog” type footage.

for those interested in some extra info I just found: "Ants are most attracted to UV wavelengths of 420-490nm. Most fluorescent black light bulbs will get you near the bottom of this range"

Damn... I might just have to try black lightning 👀

Black lighting is super great for catching queens, so hopefully more people get into it. Really well put together video as usual 👍

In my experience black lighting is very efficient for getting queens, I do it all the time. Great vid btw!

Low key, I wasn’t expecting a new video so soon.

I’ve never clicked on a video so fast

Wow this was a really good video, black lighting works so well, would definitely have to try this out! Audio and filming was great as usual!

Great video! Some people put the black light and white light together, to catch more ants. It works better if the lamp hangs at a height of one or two meters, or more, so that more wings can see it from a distance and be attracted, and the sheet also has a hanging side.

Really sweet video! Love the chill and natural vibes with some live footage. Hope me being a patron motivates others :).

Great production man and congrats on getting a sponsor!

Nice new vid! I was so excited when I saw that a new vid would be out today on your insta.

These videos keep on getting better love em keep up the good work!

what size of acrylic containers do you use for your ant colonies and what camera and macro lens do you use? Thx

Yes I’m so happy he finally uploaded another video

Hey, awesome video, I found your channel just a few days ago and I've been binging your latest videos. Amazing content, happy to see "another fellow ant youtuber" as you say so just wanted to congratulate the amazing content you put out.

Found this link from the Discord! Greatly helpful video!

I like how excited you seem to be showing us your stuff.. love it mate honestly

Ah! good old "fix with rocks", Cool video as always.

great video, where do you buy the acrylic cubes?

Few months ego I was very picky with watching RU-vidrs but I started giving chance to other RU-vidrs too and I am glad I did I watched few of your videos and I am looking forward for next one. Hope newly coughs queens do well.

Oh and I saw all the black lighting adventures! :)))

Great video! I might try to make a black light video myself

Great Video as always, Keep up the good work!

This has been super helpful for me!!! thanks man!!

how much watts do you need for it to work? above 120watts?

Your setup is very cool and I’m getting my first queen ant soon so I am doing this setup.

Amazing videos! Please could you tell me what sized test tubes you use. They look like the perfect size for my ants. Thx :)

I love your vids man I think u deserve more views likes and subs 😊

i was searching for videos on blacklighting for queens and you just uploaded one lol

Awesome video sir!!

ant video making me want to play kerbal space program. lol

extreme wrinkle brain plays

There's a species here in Brazil that looks uncannily similar to these possibly Thief Ant specimens. The alates are *notoriously* attracted to light (any light) and unbelievably numerous. There's a few days every year where the base of every street light is covered in this shifting yellow carpet, and if you forget your windows open, you'll find literally thousands of them inside. 99% males, and you'd be hard pressed to spot the females in the squirming mass, covered by a dozen horn dogs trying to get their slice of heaven before perishing. I once saw a Toad come by one of the posts and gorge for a good couple hours. The thing could barely walk when it decided to leave.

epic video nice glass box i really like that epic video indeed

great informative video - encourages me to try black lighting

U have ender ants getting lots of queen ants and u have me where i get no queen ants :(

How do you move your ants from your tubs and tubes setups into a larger formicarium (THA fortress, AC hybrid nest, or larger aquarium naturalistic setup, etc.)?

That’s great! Have them come to you, Lol. Just found ur channel. I have a channel myself, love urs and keep up the great work 👍 you have a new sub, your channel definitely seems like one that’s ganna hit big in the near future. Nice close up at 15:44 👌

10:29 where can i get these containers from?

dude ur content is very entertaining

Thanks for the idea! I found 7 ant queens! But, I did not use a black light, I used a normal LED light bulb

Hey!! I bought a blacklight a week after watching this video, and in one day I caught 46 Pheidole Tysoni queens! I didn’t expect to get this result with just a bedsheet and 25$ blacklight. Now I have more queens than I ever thought I would have, especially pheidole (my favourite genus). I think i commented before when it was uploaded, but i cant find it lol.

cool trick. thx

great video I will surely use this method :D

i dont even need to move out of my home the moment a flight happens i just gotta peak over my pool and theres already atleast 20 queens in there to scoop out lol.

Hello. Do you know what is the white stuff ants bring to the colony? The pheidoles here bring some flat white things and litter it on the colony. Not any mealy bugs or larvae though. It's flat.

yay new vid!!!!!!!

I didn’t have a white blanket but I still caught ladybugs and little orange insects .

ik this is 2 years late but i just started getting into ants now. Where did you get your containers from? The ones which your colonies are in

wow your first sponsor congrats dude and you grew up so fast it seems Edit: I actually just bought from ant depo using ur code

I was wondering, if no cord is really long enough, is it possible to use a blacklight flashlight and then lay it sideways on the table? or would that not work?

can you use led strip lights with a certain combination to create the “black light” color? or does it have to be a specific UV creating black light?

i tried your method and bought the exact same black light and the funny part is we almost got the same bugs that appeared june beetles appeared sadly no queens but a few drones arrived so i guess thats a good sign that flights have happened in my area on a october but i only got 2 drones.

Great guide :)

Hey how many queen ants did you got from that ?

Pretty cool idea. 👍

Hi, I've got a queen and a few workers but I'm unsure if they are Solenopsis Xyloni or S. Invicta. Do you have any tips on how to differentiate them? Region is San Diego

holy crap is this cringey, but this is so funny and amazing in a good way, this needs to be your video style for live feeding and tests from now on

One time ants grew a colony in my shoe

Trying blacklight setup for first time tonight

YES A DISCORD!!!

People think I'm weird because I'm a 44 year old man that loves fungus and insects.

If you put a container under the black light and put a layer of olive oil on the rim the queens that break off their wings can’t escape. Thus if you go out an hour or 2 after you put out the light you will have a lot of queens that are easy pickings. I caught 5 using this method

I love those nests. I can get them at dollar tree. Thanks bro.

Cool dude

I love your vids

I think all those queens you caught died (6:02) due to a lack of water, because you kept them in bare and dry test tubes, just making sure you recognize your mistake so it doesn’t happen again. I do love this video though

Nice vid 😃

Do I blacklight after it rains only or at anytime?

Im never gonna do this because yesterday I accidentally caught 3 queens, so I'm in no need for them

5:50 Yo spinnin male ant chad

cool Video and a great idea :D

Satisfying video :)

Where did you get the outworld containers for your ants? BTW great video

Ayy new vid

I tryed it before but i need the same ant spieces to mate with but sadly they died

Great vid Sadly nuptial flights have ended in my area but I did catch some queens

This gave me an IDEA

I used this technique too but only found winged queens.

Nice vid.

Awesome video 👍 and I actually caught a new queen ant at first I was about to kill and feed to my fire ants after one day she had eggs and so I was like you know I'll keep her and now she has so many eggs

That’s Cool!

I really like this kind of video's

Let's catch ants! Brings nothing to catch them. Leave the stuff outside ahead of time. 5D chess.

Cries in not having a back yard(nor front yard)

how do i give wild ants a queen black garden ant?

*:51 where did you get those natural set ups tho

Hey Ender Ants do you have advice for keeping Solenopsis molesta. Good video

I airieady found one bye testing if it has a stinger

Where do you get your containers

just found your channel, m subbed at 8.91k subs

Its me from tik tok the guy who follows u on all things I wanted the grapes to be feeder to ants remember I'm trying to grow my channel it's doing terrible

Does it have to be black light or can i use a normal light

it cold have also been from dehydration, that your aletes dies.

Put an water in the test tube so the queen live so long😊😊

Wheres the water for the ants in the test tubes

Can you use a bright led?

I've gotten 3 queens walk into my house 😂 great vid man btw the discord link doesn't work for me