Accidentally stepped on an ant, and then watched a separate ant pick it up and carry it away, and then sat and watched a hour and a half long documentary lol
Lmao.. its been years I've been saying we're in someone's terrarium lol 😆 maybe God's, or something we don't understand but would call God anyway! 🤣🤣🐜🐜🐜
there's alot stranger things on youtube... how the fuck can anyone seriously enjoy watching someone else play Pokemon Go? I got bored playing that game after a day, can't even imagine watching that garbage.
I've learned more about ants in this documentary than I have in my entire life. Seriously, there were some things that I had no idea ants could do here.
And this is only ONE species of ants. Farmer ants are so cool!! Look up all the other species though. They’re amazing. Honeypot ants, army ants, weaver ants…there are over 12,000 different species!
That happen to me once except i was sleeping between the door and the cat food , and it was fire ants that i woke up to... all over my face and body , freaked me out
Well, not all kids are glued to X-Box or Wargames or whatever the latest Circus is. There was a kid in the Northwestern US who discovered the most complete fossilized specimen of some dinosaur ever found. He directed the dig (fossil was on his family's property) and lectured scientists at Universities on the finding, recovery and study of this fossil. He was 15. Julius Caesar was a general at 17. How old was Jean d'Arc (Joan of Ark for Americans) when she inspired and led an army, I think 17. One problem that Americans and to some extent the British, have is they try to keep their sexually mature teen aged children "children", too long. And go to great lengths to see that they are kept ignorant of the social and productive skills to handle adulthood.
My brother had one when we were young. He had a big aquarium where u could see all their tunnels. One night we came home and they had escaped! They were all over the house. 😲 And my Dad was soooo pissed off!! Lol 😁🤣
Used to love these kind of movies as a kid! I still am fascinated by them lol. I once was fixing a flower bed and got attacked by a colony of ants. I had rashes from the bites for DAYS! I don’t envy the people digging this up lol
@@nissanskyline985 they got the queen..aka the nucleus of the colony. Never mind a few hundred killed ..the queen and a handful of ants are what's needed
so, what can we learn from ants? **instant shoves a pitchfork through a colony* Ant colony: apocalypse! every ant for themselves! run! the end is nigh!
Get On the Ball Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill. Rather than move the ball, he decided to hit it where it lay. He gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from the spot. Everything but the golfball. It sat in the same spot. So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle. Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?" The other ant said "If we're gonna get out of this alive we better get on the ball"
As an ant keeper and aspiring entomologist, there are so many times I'm catching my self going "WHO DOESN'T KNOW THIS" and then I catch my self and say "barely anyone knows half of this"
@@doityourself329 LOL since then I've discovered house plants that don't require as much maintenance and now I own several. Like, various types of monsteras, marantas and cacti. They're pretty and perfect for those of us who suck at being plant parents lol
Absolutely fascinating little things. I love watching them. The other day a small one was trying to carry the dead body of a much bigger ant. He didnt give up. They are so organized,resourceful,& smart
Ants certainly are amazing. I always love hearing about all of the different types of them, and all of the different strategies they use to accomplish their goals. This documentary was particularly in-depth and taught me a lot of interesting information about the leaf cutter ants and ants in general. Thanks for that. Also, the old comment system is a welcome sight to see. The new comment system is an absolute train wreck.
@@ea1468 have you really never remembered a dream, I have plenty I remember. Just last night I was smoking the biggest blunt for a few hours at a party and was gonna pull a huge stunt at a mansion pointless but fun
It is amazing to think that with all our size, "intelligence", technology, science & communication, we STILL can't put a group of 20 people together without major differences of opinion yet here are TWO MILLION tiny ants ALL working together without a solitary problem.
This was an incredibly fascinating documentary! I found it after looking for ways to destroy fire ant colonies. I rarely watch documentaries as long as this one but it was well worth the time spent on it. The only part I did not watch was the preying mantis and the ants battle it out. I couldn't stand to see it so I turned my head until it was over.
Diatomeceous Earth (DE) works great. Just a little spread on an ant hill (even fire ant mounds) kills the ants, and they don't relocate. Inside your house and on your garden food, make sure you use Food grade Diatomeceous Earth. Read instructions. In fact, look it up on the internet. Don't inhale it or you'll find out why it kills ALL BUGS. Actually, we can end up with silicosis from inhaling too much. I had to deal with silicosis because I used the outdoor grade DE inside with and poofed too much off it along the walls in our home. The air conditioning kept the fine DE circulating in the air and I was inhaling it without knowing it. All bugs end up dying because they've walkes through the DE fine dust. They clean their legs. The DE goes into their stomach and basically cuts them up internally. I took care of my parents roach and spider problem. They had earwicks and silver fish, and carpet beetles, too, in addition to mole crickets and fire ants outside. We moved into a place that was 40+ years old. Criminey! There were not only roaches, there were also Wolf spiders, Brown Recluses, and other bugs inhabiting the place. Pest control service was a joke. I used DE inside and out. The only bugs we see now are small and dead. I haven't had to put down DE since last summer. Thank God!
I appreciate ants and have the greatest respect for them. I lived in an apartment where ants were a seasonal problem. I used bleach spray as a deterrent to eliminate their trails, and direct new paths away from my home. I NEVER used insecticides, and never sprayed them directly. When you live near an ant colony, you have to learn to get a long. Live and let live They are more helpful to the planet than my species. We destroy, they maintain.
Agree 100 % we had lots out on our patio...then they discovered the house, got jars and kept everything locked up, used citronella to ruin their tracks... never got rid of them all from inside but it was quite cool watching them outside (they did break up the patio tiling but it was quite old a anyway) they're fascinating.
Maybe not the most politically correct thing to say on an ant doc but I was getting rid of an invasion in a place Id moved into. I' d made bait w boric acid mixed w sugar in water. Tge mix was in a plastic container. I ended- up morbidly fascinated watching their behavior. After enough ants had wound- up in the pool the newbies indeed were making a raft of the dead bodies the tried to get back up the sides of the container.
@@vickiezaccardo1711 not sure what that has to do with being politically correct, but blowing up and killing ants is a great pastime. I’ve been bitten many times by fire ants and have blown up quite a few mounds with gasoline and then any remaining ants, I scalded with super hot, boiling water. Little bastards lol
Absolutely fabulous video!! I hope research like this can give some validity to life other than just human. I watch my driveways ants do their colony thing all of the time. They're so neat to have around!
It's amazing to see how they all work together as one industrious unit. Every citizen of the colony has a role to play and they stick to it no matter what. Be interesting to find a human-sized alien race like the ants, but one that could communicate through a proper language and advance themselves technologically. They'd either try take over the universe or be the shining example of a peaceful society.
They don't stick to it no matter what, check out my previous comment. Colony gets very large and some stop working but if you take those lazy ants and start them in a new colony by themselves they start working their little asses off again!!!! Amazing!
Would've been too much work to balance predator prey mechanics. It also would have interfered with tests. Besides, I doubt the soldiers complain that their home is not getting constantly sacked.
No!! You want the ants to die and start freaking out,at least they took some fungus from the chambers which made the solder as to protect their eggs. i think that's enough!!!
dude thats so cruel to the ants. your so mean to ants. why are you even here if you want ant wars? sure its intruiging but you shouldn't do it unexpectedly
This is amazing. Sat down and watched the whole thing. I recently got myself one of these colonies, but it only has about 100 workers. i must say, the queens are MASSIVE.
Now that I've watched this and started to watch the movie Antz, its funny as fck. Z is talking to a therapist and is like 'my dad left me when I was a larva he just flew away' and 'it's hard being the middle child of a family of 5 million' 🤣🤣 gosh I love Ants/z. K, back to the movie..........
NO WAAAAAAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE💖🖤💗 MOVIES WHEN MY 21 YR OLD WAS A LIL' LARVAE 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 (shout outs to JLo, Woody Allen, Sylester Stallone, Sharon Stone, etc) dvd's in my storage)
That's exactly what she's for. She has no authority. She's not like Queen Elizabeth. She was produced from another colony, was a princess ant and once she finds a mate, she becomes queen and just gets gang banged.
LosAngeles323 thats actually hardly true...she was just a whore in her young years (for about a day-which is =to human college years), she stored the sperm basically forever and then yea she is held captive by her daughters. They say what she does and when..more like a cinderella story without the handsome prince.Check out Ants Canada's "POV of a queen mother ant" - very enlightening!1
@@iviscruz1323 yeah, she has all her meals brought to her, she is cared for and groomed daily and has hundreds of guards protecting her, I wouldnt want to move anywhere either.
I keep saying, "Wow!" out loud. I am so impressed. Thank you for doing the study. Thank you for uploading this tremendously great documentary on these ants. I subscribed to your channel for more. I've added your video to my Nature playlist.
Yeah they truly are similar to how we humans worked and continue to work in manufacturing technology but the big difference (which they fail to mention) is what they take from the environment they give back twice as much with ZERO pollutants and they dont screw each other over for damn percentage.
We fail to realize that if we work together instead of putting others down to maintain a status we would have achieved greater things by now. Instead, we part too much effort into hindering education for all and slowing the potential of our growth. With poverty, poor education, and industrialization of our world, we're kind of slowing down our own chance at truly evolving.
No self expression, no autonomy and zero freedom. Yay, communism! People work together just fine and have been doing so since day 1. Gobleki tepe and the pyramids took coordination as did raising crops or bringing dinner home.
Amazing video and project - what bothered me this morning was when they moved the colony, they set up a "typical" colony in lab. Very good for study, but after a few weeks, it would have been nice if they presented a problem the ants couldn't be expected to solve - to let them think outside the box completely. I would have liked to see what happened, how the ants evolved with an insurmountable issue.
***** what i meant by it is one ant is not smart but a collection of them act as a brain with intelligence think of each ant as a neuron one of them wont do anything endless told by another to do something it all starts with the chemicals and ends with them to but its everything that makes the colony a working place like a brain
"hey Fred?" "yeah, Earl?" "They glued a radio onto my back, Fred." "OK, just go out an cut some leaves. We'll get back to our poker game when they loose interest in us."
These really are amazing creatures. They are much more successful than we are at the present time. They will probably be here long after we are gone. Their caste system is both elegant and disturbing at the same time. I find their symbiosis with the fungus truly remarkable. We have much to learn from them. 'THEM!'
+neiio I think if they were our size, that would be a sufficient predicate for them to wipe us out... even with our technology', ants have the advantage of the "hive-mind", no issue with self-sacrifice, an ability to rapidly reproduce, they have tough exo-skeletons and they're something like 20X stronger than a human on a size-adjusted basis. They would also be burrowing super deep underground if they were our size, so our conventional weapons would be effectively useless to target the hive queens...
This is absolutely spectacular and intriguing to watch!! Thank you for the video. It was amazing to see how the ants tackle complicated problems with the simplest forms of solution.
