Keeping Ants as Pets 

People at the park : have a walk with their dogs Me : Walking my ant with a *leash*

This is so professional. Entertaining and informative. You sure know how to make quality content. Thank you, AntsAustralia.

Ants are a bit like little people :P

Your voice is so soothing!

Thank you Jordan, without the information you gave Ants Canada on the nuptial flights in Australia video i wouldn't have even known that ants where having their flights! The first day i looked for a queen i found two Meat Ants queens and i am eager for them to have their first generation of workers.

A compendium of varied and fascinating material. Thank you!

Such good content. Gotta love it

I want to thank you for the incredible work you are doing to bring ant consciousness to us via the most breath taking photography I have ever seen! Forget IMAX! I became interested some years ago after a documentary about the professor who studied ants (cannot remember his name sorry) and I started to respect the almighty industrious ant! I stumbled across your documentaries and am watching them to gain knowledge and respect for these amazing creatures. Thank you. I am going to have some surgeries and after I recover, might go and start a small ant project. I have dogs, parrots and it seems natural to have ants LOL Martha in Pennsylvania, USA

Really nice video ants aus, keep up the good work it's very educational :)

Watching your videos back to back Jordan. And now i'm a fan of Ants.

10:00 aww! Even ant queens can have sisters! c:

Love the video, keep up the good work! I love the informative content.

That was enjoyable. I do have a new found respect for them. Keep up the good work.

thanks man, you are not only entertaining to watch but are also making me really wanna start this awesome hobby

so good such beautiful wording a tear almost rolled down my face literally

Great video. High quality, good footage, good information. Cant wait for the next

Jordan, thanks loads for making these videos. You are really good at getting people interested in things! Thank you for being a teacher. You have pushed me over the edge of interest and I have decided to try to find a queen. Thank you!

keep doing what your doing and eventually you'll be a great source of information for ants and thanks for your help

This is well shot and much more interesting than the title would suggest. Good work gents.

That was an extremely well-produced and interesting video!

Great video man. Even though I am not personally interested in having an ant colony of my own, the video is so well done and informative that it's worth a watch!

Really love your content man! You and Ants canada are the best ( your videos are more informative) Keep up the good work :)

I know I'm late to the party, but I have 4 areas on little tables, shelves on my deck where I've been feeding small groups of ants for several weeks now. I've been feeding them coke, fruit, and today we are having thinly sliced lunchmeat. There are times I get the feeling they'd like to come to me. I know that sounds dumb, but I'm really enjoying the experience. I thought I was the only crazy person who enjoys this, so I'm delighted to explore and learn here on YT. Thanks for such great content!

Good work! I love your content!

Kudos Jordan. Brilliant video.

Professionally done, very entertaining.

Wooow! Is there a channel entirely for Ants... I've been interested in Ants and been exploring RU-vid for channels and there is a recommendation of this channel and I've subscribed immediately. This is the first ant channel ever seen on RU-vid but later I came up with many....I also came to know about Myrmecology and Formicariums...Thanks Ants Australia!

Fascinating and well done!

Nice video man! Good quality!

Loved the video! I really enjoyed your all in one but wondered what good shapes would look like for my design of course there is google and the wiki but a video on ant behaviors and habits and how it effects their nesting would be much appreciated.

If there is antscanada and ants Australia, where's Ants america or ants France

Very good and informative video!

You are such an awesome person!

I've been so interested in ants since I was very young, and now I'm finally doing what I've wanted to do for a long while, keep them.

"I am your Queen, look after me". Sounds like a spouse.

This is a great video. Would be interesting to learn more about how and why polymorphism arises in ants. Maybe you could do a video on that if you haven't already.

I thought Dracula ants fed off of their own offspring? Or maybe that is a different species I'm thinking of..

Can you do another video about your natural nest and maybe talk about problems that you've had since the last one? ty

I read some species only grow to a few hundred workers per colony in nature, would those colonies get much bigger in captivity?

I most certainly enjoyed your video. You antswered a lot of question. Thanks! :-D

Thank you for letting me watch

i wish u uploaded more i love these videos

Great explanations Jordon. I made the mistake of watching antscanada yesterday, a couple of hours later.....

Great video

Great Video

Ants are incredible and can give clues to the future of our society.

I love ants

this is a masterpiece

i actually really wanna start a colony but i wanna be sure its not a phase and that i really want to do it and i wanna educate myself first

Wow, that was interesting. nice job :)

Hi Jordan, I live in Melbourne and have recently formed a great interest in keeping ants (Thanks being to yourself and Mikey from AC). As i am new to ant keeping and relatively new to Victoria, I was hoping to pick your brains on few things more specific to our location. Let me know if i can contact you with some questions. Cheers, Great videos by the way, keep em coming :)

Wow. Nice video

awesome vid!

2:10 omg what kind of ant is that?! He looks like a freaking spider

great video, I'm really thinking about getting one.

+Ants Australia I have caught one queen 2 days ago, and one virgin queen landed on me today, I put it in a container with 4 males and she mated with one of them, now I have 2 of them, in a shoe box, I put then in 2 different test tubes don't worry, and I also put 2 holes in the show box (tiny holes) so air can get into it.

Are you gonna make another update video on your naturalistic setup as well as the ants?

Bravo pour apporter du contenu intéressant à voir et partager. Bonne continuation et merci :)

Awesome vid. I have a question- if i raised my first batch of workers in a test tube, then released them straight into a large plastic container filled with their prefered environment eg soil, wood and the left them outside? WOuld they survive? ( id feed them and they would have to be local ants of course )

when do the calomyrmex have the flights? i love them im in australia

Love the video :). Also have you ever wanted to have Myrmecia colony? or are they too hard to upkeep

hi Jordan, my son and I have got a winged queen, would you be able to help us identify what's species she is? my son loves your videos, thanks for the great content

Chess is in session. You make it so easy to catch a queen. Well, in my status I've always considered myself to be something like a Bishop.

I love ants! they're so cute!

fascinating. Say when you have a ant colony and the winged new possible queens hatch what happens when you just keep them in your container? do you have to let them out or can the colony have more then one queen ? asking for my maybe new project.

Just wondering if I could have a bullet Queen if you have ever found one an extra one I have 47 queen ants and I would like to have another one stacked my collection as described in later videos they teach me so much

can you make a video on nuptial flights in Australia and i currently have 2 queen ants that i acquired in November (now) they appear to have black stripey abdomen gasters (whatever there called for queens) could you identify them for me if possible thanks.

I don't know if its the right place to ask that question but, what happens when the ant's colony becomes too large for their "place" and u don't want to expand it?

Great vid :)

How long do these pheromone trails last? What if the food source is depleted? Does the trail get overwritten? Erased?

Man i wish i had some pheidole esc ants out here i love the ant species with minor and major workers

what a cool video I always get emotional when hearing about ant keeping, I've tried it about 3 years ago, I researched whatever I could, and still managed to to accidentall kill both of my ant colonies, to this day I have no idea what I did wrong, except a botched a hibernation attempt, I dunno, maybe I let them out of the test tube too early, or maybe I feed them wrong honey or something, but I still remember when my ants died, I still get emotional when I look at empty formicariums I have, even though I cleaned them out, I don't think I'll ever have the courage to keep ants again. Anyway, I got off topic, very interesting video

Have you ever kept jumping ants?

Someone here knows the nuptial flight schedules for the Camponotus spp. and the Solenopsis spp of South America?(More concretely, Buenos Aires, Argentina). If you know, please answer me! Thank you... Ant Love forever

is there a way to halt the growth of your colony? Say it's gone to the size you want it to, and don't want it to grow larger. Is there a way you can stop the colony from expanding and kinda stay in it's current size?

One time I a little while ago at a fall festival with my family I got stung on the foot by some fire ants then like 10 giant nest I saw heck they could of been from the same colony in a corn field they were like 2 feat long and almost a foot high

Any suggestions on how i should look after Jack Jumpers? We have them here in Adelaide and i want to keep them.

7.32 calamertious? How do you spell it and cn you keep them as pets?

if you raise a colony in a small habitat and keep em in there Will the keep expending until te have No more room to move?

ive had a quees for a few weeks she finally is laying eggs but she still has here wings is this still a signe shes not mated or just a odd case

Hi, can you make a video all about hydrating? I am a bit confused and need help, for example how to hydrate the naturalistic setup with dirt. Do you just spray water on the dirt? Or is there some other way, or can you just have a nest and use test tubes for hydration in the out world? I have caught 4 queens and I'm not going to get a pre bought concrete nest. I will make a naturalistic nest and just confused how to hydrate. Thanks

What's a good tropical ant to keep?

Hey mate! I have recently watched some cool ant videos, and really want an ant farm. But what do you prefer? A natural ant setup? Or getting an formacarium and outworld sepperatly? I really want to know, i can't find anyone talking about it :D

hey, great video yeah can't wait to see how your colonies are getting alone right now

Do you know how long it takes for a cocoon to emerge as a worker? I've had a few cocoons for about 2 weeks, so that's why I was wondering

hello, i have a question about ant keeping. when you catch a queen does it have to be the same type of ant as the colony?

So many queens in your video and i can't find one where i live

I live in Perth, WA and I did not see in this video the species of ant that has invaded a corner of my balcony. I live on the Third floor!! I prepared a 50/50 mixture of honey and borax. Diluted it in some water and poured it on them. I also put some of it on a beer bottle cap. It didn`t work as ant bait. I think next time I need to reduce the amount of borax so it does not overpower the honey. The ants in my balcony are the ones that release a very nice aroma when you crush them between your fingers. Any suggestions on how to best exterminate them?

Hi Jordan my name is Hector. I am fairly new to ant keeping but since I started I have fallen inland ve with them. I recently purchased a small colony now a little over 100 strong but and advice on this particular species would be greatly appreciated. They are currently hibernating so I know theirs not much involved but to keep them moist but any other tips would be great also do you have any videos on this s species Aphaenogaster fulva

hey jordan, I've been watching your videos for a while and am interested in raising an ant colony. but I'm not good at finding queens and can't seem to find the nuptial flights of most ants in my specific area. I live on a vegetable farm a little southeast of melbourne. I've seen antscanada set up a community for entimology enthusiasts to sell and buy queens in their area and I was wondering if you did the same kind of thing.

nice video bro

perfect ! thank you for the vidéo =)

What is a good beginner ant (Australian) that doesn't have a nasty bite?

I caught a very large amount of small black ants. They have a ton of eggs but I don't know if they have a when. I have them in a big pickle jar with the sand and plant materials I got them from. Any pointers?

Ants Australia do you know the pre nuptial flight schedule of the golden spiny ant speicies or the Polyrhachis ammon speicies as i have a nest near my house and would very much like to have a queen of one thank you.

Ok it has been five years but. What do I do if I have alates, cause I do and summer is coming up. Like what time do I put them outside, for when they start flying cause I don't knoW when.

I don't compare ants Canada and ant Australia both love ants

I have a question, i have seen that when ana ant gets killed or dies, all the others come to take the body, what do they do with it?

I've got just under ten green headed ants in a wide and long container with no lid and no slipping agent (green headed ants can't climb plastic well) and I'm pretty sure that one isn't exiting the makeshift nest. Maybe she's a gamergate?

Hi my son wants to keep 🐜 as his pet. Can you advice which 🐜 should he starts with. He is 12.