How To Catch A Queen Ant 

they GROW wings the alates are born with wings in other words if you saw an ant without a wing it will never have a wing

Super-ant (like supper-man but an ant)

Same but not with my sister there was like 100 and i was like whaaaaat ok why the ants have wings and LEFT LEFT that sucked

Used to find many many queens all over my yard and I thought they were just some weird type of ant and mushed them cause they were squishy and had squishy butts. Now that I’m grown and realise they literally were all queens....... I could’ve been rich... there were like Atleast 50 of them each day, I thought it was a colony....

I know this comment is ancient but when i was about 12 at my old apartment complex there was an old tree in the front of the yard with a huge hole by the trunk, and there was a wood fence it wasnt big it was just holding the lawn in place because the lawn was higher than the side walk and it was a "highway" for black carpenter ants that were living in the tree, i used to catch bugs and put them by the nest entrance and watch the workers attack and bring them back to nest, one day i went into my yard and it was full of flying ants (at the time i didn't even know they were ants let alone undergoing their nupital flight) but it was amazing to see 100s of ants flying around on a warm summer evening, that was the one and only time ive witnessed a nuptial flight, now 16 years later i still i live in the same town i saw the nupital flight in but a different apartment complex, been interested in raising camponotus pennsylvanicus for a few years now but have had no luck whatsoever finding a queen, it truly seems like a fun and rewarding hobby if i could just get started..

Good thing you didn't end up on how to basic's videos

+Achilleas kousios he probably already ended up in that zone already xD

+Lucas Varela luckily i didnt

Unfortunately, Carpenter ants only use ant-sized furniture :P

Jonathan Rhodes Ba-Dum-Tss xD

Your taking fishing for like to a new level

Zombiesprestigious 2016 good luck!

Zombiesprestigious 2016

How's the ant keeping going, man

@@Draikedraikei doubt they’re still active on that channel

@@bouenyfolefack3489 the last part got me :D

And the spooders

I think scorpions are only in the desert area not like Brisbane where I live. Never seen one

Texas has em in plenty too.

Wings Of Drawing I live in tassie and there are a fair few scorpions despite being in an area with lots of plants and water.

ikr exeped I itched

yeah by the way tho a fireant craweld to my arm

Lmao

Klipss TV Cool am i not allowed to play it or something?

Klipss TV aight

Lel

KawaiiVictini1 we don't give a crap we will help them

Es gibt hier Skorpione....

Depends on where you live but Rainbow, black or green ants are good to start off with.

If I saw a scorpion idk if I'd be like OMG A SCORPION IT LOOKS SO COOL or AHHHH A SCORPIAN I never saw a scorpian in real life before

ye, 420 moment

How did it go?

I pray for you that within those 5 years, those queen's were fertile

Yeah. It really is!

Agreed... I wouldn't mind having it as a pet!

Mew Twaila is that Ciel I see

Vinegaroon ehm...

Agree!

rip

nope

ha me lol

It seems gross and too much work, but its fun to watch.

same

Yes you are a special snowflake. No one in the world would have thought of this

Oh god your right

What was that? Had to be a piece of forest litter hanging from a strand of spider silk.

Damn that is creepy

It’s not the spiders and scorpions and ants that scare us... It’s those emus We never won that war against them

what about magpies the demon bird

Yeah... I know i am late, but kangaroos will try to bait you to a body of water and attemp to drown you, and they are quite effective. Only creature which won't hurt you is celler spider, or as they call them 'daddy longleg'

@@eminemforever8271 Its the maggies

lamo all the ants in my area dont realy leave the colony rains 5/7 days

@@Tuna224th they're prob dead lol

@@aquables Since these last three years have passed and the dirt mound containing the ants has faded away I am of the belief that you are correct.

@@Tuna224th they're prob like move to another place cuz the larvae cannot survive that many water.. or they drowned

Kaylle PH I would like to assume they just moved on but let’s be honest they ain’t comin back

:o Well at least your plant will be well nourished.

Yeah, I would think so. Much warmer than it is here. Try looking at some ant keeping forums. I know Rhytidoponera will be flying there fairly soon.

R.I.P Queen ant Destroyed in the WWE fighting a fly trap

+FuckMotheringVampire | Best comment I've read so far ahahaaahaahah

+-PrestonF Li- 😂😂😢😢

Thanks Arthur!

If it's a single queen colony then yes, there would be no ants being created, and so, the colony would slowly diminish.

+MoPro Uploads you're an animal rights activist aren't you?

MoPro Uploads knew it.. it's an ant. now yeah, in some cases it's not a good idea and they have feelings to. but Queen Ants will try to rebuild a new colony and sometimes the old colony (if its a one ant colony) might be taken over by a new queen.

+MoPro Uploads stfu

The colony would die. If i'm wrong then it will start dying slowly until there's none left.

Thank you!

+Ants Australia is ther a king at

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Thanks a lot!

+Trace LaCasto Your*, and lack of ability to spell fits you just right.

Fucking autocorrect 😆 this is what I get for turning off my keyboard for the touch screen.. Btw well played

Romo Sapien a

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FIGHTS IN THIS COMMENT SECTION

Romo Sapien k

+Maximus Alcott I'll do my best :)

That's some words .

"unfortunately"

+clorox bleach your everywhere

Hey bro what part of Ireland are you from?

Ants Ireland Meath/Dublin :D

@@extriotic place is flooded with ants pal

Those typically are drones or male ants.

@@zacksmith3398 Not exactly. They ARE drones but many of them (probably half) are also queens. They fly, mate in mid-air, the drones then die and as explained in the video, the mated queens generally fall to the ground and shed/bite off their wings.

@@American-Plague do they come from the same nest?

@@Ratigan2 Yes but other nests of the same species nearby are also flying at the same time so the ones from the same nest aren't necessarily mating with each other from the same nest.

@UCIgOc_9Is2DbzKboNqH3n8g Thanks. But if they were to inbreed... would it be a problem? I'm sorry if I'm asking too many or unnecessary questions.

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+Von Hoenhine Happy to help. You probably won't see any flying at this time of the year. Try lifting up rocks and logs instead, I've been finding plenty doing this recently.

Glad to help :)

your the best one ive watched all the others arent that good :)

@@tylerbennetch1815 update onbthe colony?

Omg that's so cool XD;

It's illuminati :-P

I know i realised it too

It might be some cobweb

Omd

Glad to help :)

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STEP AWAY FROM THE QUEEN'S GUARD!!!

I damned the queens

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. (Add the next line of the song.)

That's great to hear :)

OH MY GOD

Please tell me i wanna see a colony rise!

+xXHunter PlaysXx Google the kinds of ants in your area and spring is the best time usually

No way you live in Chicago >.>

his voice is boring

duh thats litterally what i was saying

shut the fuck up

who and why? elaborate.

fuk up

Yes, spring is one of the best times for queen searching.

Is this time also good in germany

You threw it away? LOL! What do you mean?

kweli05 i didnt threw it away. my mom did i really hope she killed it!

cary Blues I'm just joking with you. It's just funny the way you said it.

okay?

+cary Blues the f*ck! Not cool! You should have let her go outside and made sure she wasn't hurt! Or you could ha e kept her because even if you don't want her plenty of people will buy the queen for a good amount of money!!!

Good luck :)

Wish i was an expert on this but i guess anything that's close by. Unfortunately my closest ant-y neighbors are tropical fire ants but that doesn't stop me ow.

If you are from Australia, I'd say Iridomyrmex, but that genus may not exist in your region. So it really depends on where you live and what species inhabit your area.

There's JUST small black harmless ant where I live

The ants that live around your area because they're already native to your area

Neveda

@@crispers702 ya find any

@@dixon4487 No i dint

Glad you enjoyed the video :)

+Silver Poppy I'm glad I could help :)

+Ants Australia :D

NightmareXXOO cool hows it going so far?

Did it work

Yes the ants will die if the queen dies

but what if you get a new queen from the same species? Will the ants just kill her?

It isn't Goning to work because all colonies have a different scent to identify one on other. Even if they are the same species the queen unless she is parisitic then it isn't going to work

Pop Tart Aight ty

It will

Yes, spring is one of the best times for queen searching.

are green ants easy to take care of

They are a little difficult as queens are semi-claustral. It's also hard to differentiate queens with workers too. So catching queens can be tricky. Iridomyrmex are very beginner friendly. They usually fly in Spring. Shouldn't be too hard to find some now.

do you think there will be any in my back yard? we have many ant hills

Potentially, they're an abundant genus, almost all over Australia.

+LoLFace Hope it helps :)

+William 2001 Thanks William :)

I thought the footage was stock!

No, it's not stock. Only original footage on this channel.

Ivy Goliath Of course!

yes and no, That queen is now safe away from other colonies and predators but now she has the chance to create a big colony.

Ivy Goliath no you should have squashed the durn thing to a pulp

Thanks Mike. Just keep looking, you'll find one eventually.