Ha first and thanks for the documentary it was nice knowing these facts and now time to bread ants on my walls so I can get rid of rats and other insects like mosquitoes
If going to die soon, why focus on 'keep working?' For what? Why not find out if there's more after -Afterlife as many say? Many have come across spirits in this life -in hauntings and realized is an Afterlife! Seek now before is too late my friend, seek now!
The level of coordination that most ants have is honestly very frightening and interesting at the same time the only other insect that I know that has this level of coordination is robber flies
ants live in anarchy.... that's why the corrupted mafia gov don't want you to know that anarchy is the best human society because it cannot be corrupted.
So this is how people feel when they find you... Strange... I wonder how you are in real life, probably one of those people who can talk about almost everything. It is always nice to have a chat with them.
@@morkujinirukandji4820 they look disgusting but they literally just make silk and 9/10 they won’t go near you they are so docile they probably won’t acknowledge your existence until you put it right on your nose
They don't seem as distant to me as this narrator. Many wasps look like ants with wings, and some drone ants do have wings and look just like wasps. The velvet "ant" is a wasp. Hymenoptera is a strange order.
I remember watching a documentary about ants when I was a kid, and in that show they talked about ants as being just as intelligent as humans, they have cities, roads, workers, doctors and of course soldiers but damn undertaker's too haha that's fuckin awesome, I'm under the impression now that ants are more intelligent because they know the importance of social distancing and medicine
@@Anyayowoki nope but they have to you and I have proof of it it makes me laugh every time I watch it you being forced to do thing for your ant masters like clean the bathroom sweep the floor make them pizza
I once saw an ant walking vertically upward towards a spider 3x its size and just smack it out of the way, really gave me an idea of how dangerous ants can be in the insect world
Shit, Dude... you answered a question I have been thinking about for weeks. There was a large wasps nest in a tree in my yard. Saw ants crawling in and out of it one day. Thought the ants and wasps had some symbiotic relationship. A few days later all activity in the nest stopped. Waited a few more days and took the nest down...looked inside...no one home. Thanks for giving mr the answer. Subscribed.
Those ants from “a bugs life” were just concealing their power amongst those grass hoppers so that no one will get suspicious of the TRUE HORROR that they are capable of doing
The Texas Blind Snake (R. dulcis) eats ants, ant larvae, and ant pupae, even Fire Ants. I've actually removed the tops of Fire Ant mounds and found Texas Blind Snakes inside the tunnels. Apparently, the ants can't seem to do a thing about it... Never found a dead snake before, or an eaten one.
My youngest brother, at the age of two, inadvertently sat on a fire ant mound. He just turned 50. I’ve never forgotten the incident and I don’t know if he remembers. It was at Lake Grapevine, Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. Mom grabbed him up and jumped in the water with him to get the ants off. It was a crazy experience. 🇺🇸
Lol I also live in the DFW area and as I kid I was picking dandelions when I picked one up near a fire ant colony, let's just say my hand was crawling with them. I still remember it to this day
You're talking like this is gonna happen to you- If you fall into a deep cave infested with ants, they're probably going to eat you alive. But other than that, I can't think of a reason to be so scared of them.
@@Mawingeno I've once accidentally swallowed a small bug of some sort and my cousin was once sleeping and a fly flew into her mouth and she started choking on it. It's really not that bad as long as you don't know what it is. Also remember the time I noticed an ant in my latte, pretty gross, but wasn't so gross before I knew it was a dead ant.
@@user-uz2ps4me3s a roach went into my mouth when i slept, and when i woke up i accidentally crunched and swallowed it, i got sick and my mouth wasnt really being nice
2:24 ants are far from the most ancient insect. Firebrats and silverfish are far more ancient and are found in the fossil record 385 million years ago. The first ant fossil is dated around 120 million years ago. Ants are a relatively recently derived family of hymenoptera insects. Hymenoptera have wings (or have a recent common winged ancestor) and undergo complete metamorphosis. Silverfish are a basal group of insects that lack wings and don't undergo any metamorphosis. Eutherian mammals (placental mammals like you and I) evolved 160 million years ago meaning that placental mammals likely predate ants by tens of millions of years.
@MasterSubLink No, that's only half right. Using that we can tell that some things are older than other, but the actual age. Try to find the exact method they hlysed to get that exact number. There is none. The reseaon they just decided it was so absurdly high is because if it isn't, the theory of Eveloution wouldn't make sense. It's like lying to keep a lie alive.
Ant: "Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing."
who the hell would be afraid of butterflies? Theyre so cute. bumble bee's and praying mantises are equally adorable. These 3 insect are the only ones i would feel completly safe holding and petting cause theyre freaking adorable
a bumble bee stung me for walking to the bus before and nobody was around me so yes it did it unprovoked praying mantis are the greatest predator out of all insects when it comes to 1v1 combat u consider these 2 species to be cute and you have experience holding them?? I hope we never meet
Actually bees are quite aggresive and actively attack other pollinators, which is why we're becoming more and more dependent on them. They're killing all the other pollinators.
I feel complete revulsion towards any type of insect, ironically ants are the only type I can think of that doesn't give me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe because they are not hairy and that reduces the fear factor. And also them being ground-bound and silent is also big help in not being bothered by them. Plus ants always seem so focused on doing their own thing you get the feeling they are really "not all that into you", at least compared to other insects.
You really don't have anything to OFFER the ants. They can't scavenge anything from your body, they don't want to eat your blood or skin, you're intensely dangerous... the only thing ants would want is your garbage. Most people don't really care about that. Ants are, generally, really chill if you're not disturbing their colony. Fire ants, on the other hand, go nuts when they detect a mammal's breath and actively try to find and kill it.
"Ants keep the heads of the enemies they kill" huh, seems kind of like a hunter taking a deer head as a trophy and hanging it on a wall, i know its another ant but i don't think they would care.
I love these videos but the way you pull your coffee away from the machine when it’s done makes me so anxious 😂😂 not sure if you’ve ever heard that before, but I just had to mention it lol
The skull collection is probably a "bluff" so an attacker will think that the colony has more ants than there actually are or as a deterrent by giving attackers a glimpse of their future
Well lol, I DON'T think bugs are THAT sophisticated and THAT level of cultured to even understand the meaning behind such symbols.. let alone a species(the ants)to use the skulls for THOSE types of purposes. But if they were... makes me wonder just how far they are from making horror navels and inventing space travel. . . lmao, JUST thought of something! maybe the reason they go around collecting skulls is because they read too much Shakespeare! To be.. or NOT to be! THAT is the question that plagues all ant kind!. . . BUT!. . since we cant answer that question yet... then we'll just have to keep the skulls of our fallen as a souvenir until we can think of something... in the mean time, these skulls shall serve as inspiration!(lmao)
@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy how is keeping a skull collection "sophisticated" lol? That sarcasm was just cringey. It's literally the easiest thing you can do. Besides imagery with heads is very prevalent among insects, for example caterpillars stacking past molts of their heads and wearing them as a hat to appear larger and more intimidating, hornets massacring bee hives to move into and leaving only the heads outside to ward off reclaiming bees with the smell of death, etc. That aside, ants understand death much better than any insect, the colonies have dedicated undertakers who distance themselves from the rest of the colony because they know death can be caused by disease, tbh if 2020 was any indication they understand death and epidemiology far better than most Americans do lol.
@@atrumluminarium That's what am TALKING about by sophisticated! and no... its not just collecting skulls that I was aiming at for the reason why I thought it was sophisticated. I just meant.... its sophisticated because they would UNDERSTAND AND HAVE some sort of meaning behind collecting skulls to a level PROBABLY comparable to a fricking cave man. And then there's all of the other things you just brought up. they seem to understand death very well... like we do. . seems like we've got planet of the apes figured all wrong. its probably going to be planet of the ants(or maybe the list of those other insects you just mentioned)real soon. . .
@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy they are hive minds, or scientifically eusocial insects. Multicellular organisms hence the name, are made of many different cells, so in distant times those cells were independent organisms but later evolved to create colonies, and then the whole multicellular organisms. Now enhance the scale, instead of little cells, imagine a creature that is part of the bigger organism. There is no leader in ant colony, they all participate in eusocial cognitive work, the queen is just a title given by humans, in reality it's just a reproductive "organ".
@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy what he says is true. The reason why ants appear smart is because they arent separate minds. We have "smart humans" because each humans thinks differently than another. But having a dumb or smart ant isn't an issue in colonies since they are just instructed to do the most logical and intelligent decisions. I believe there is a word for it "emergence"? (That could very well be wrong.)
that doesn't mean they killed it. Ants are know for being necrophagous, they eat everything that's left behind. They also eat humans bodies with pleasure, and that's probably one of their best food.
@bananapalmtree Wrong, 60 million shades of wrong. Climate change isn't human extinction event worthy, it's just extremely disastrous. Economies will crumble, millions will die, and many people will move up north. It's life changing-ly terrible, but not at all likely to end humanity's existence. Now I do think it should be prevented at all costs because the economic fallout and subsequent flooding will be dangerous and destabilizing, but for fucks sake. Also this is a video on ants, on a comment about an ant with a glock. Why the fuck are you even bringing this up?
Ants: *EVERY INSECT ARE SCARED OF ME! EVEN SPIDERS* Humans: *one thumb ur dead* Other kinds of ants: *Oh really.. 300+ ANTVENGERS ATTACK!* Humans: *one spray of acid you’re dead*
Basically imagine someone less than half your height, with anger issues, being able to lift you up over their head with one hand and throwing you across a whole football field. Extra points if you imagine them as an army veteran or somthing.
@@gamesandspace Human poachers: Whatever game you are playing won't work, you can't defeat us. Animals: We know, we know but he can *Gustave the bulletproof man killer crocodile enters*
Thank you for posting this video I enjoyed it Here in New York City listening and learning. I I already know ants are smart but I didn't know they very intelligent in creating a civilized Colony Society.
ants are some of the most badass animals on earth. they keep other bugs as cattle, wage war on other ants and termites and even keep them as slaves, and can take down animals 100 times their size. not to mention death by ants seems like the absolute worst ways to die
I was like : OWWW MOM IM WEARING RUBBER SHOES NEXT TIME NOT SANDLES THESE ANTS ARE SO BIG!! OMG!!! I LOST MY SANDLE!! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WALK mom: its ok 😭😭😭 Me: GOTTA GO FAST FAST FAST FAST FAST!!!
Actual- there is a reason for concern of living ants having the scent of dead ones. As there is a fungus that kills ants and resurrects them taking control of their body to infect the rest of the ant colony. So in the ant world a zombie apocalypse is a real treat.
@@MrCmon113 you ever play The Last of Us? The cordyceps fungus in game? Yeah thats a fictional super cordyceps. Cordyceps fungi practically turn ants into incubator zombies.
@@parapanofff Reason for this suspicion is because the person doing the "talking" wears a mask and doesn't look like he's doing the talking. Looks recorded, and thus the person wearing the mask is a voice-over. I can't assume this is true or not. I've never seen the person talking without a mask. 🤔
Woah did you know wasps kill ticks... The circle of hate or just murder of anything that aren't ants including still somehow Ants > wasp Wasps > ticks Ants > ticks Ants by far have an advantage
You just told me that ants have their own society and have the capability to comprehend their environment and will kill anything in their way along with being able to functionally speak to one another and then you say “see you later” “Here is how ants have the complete capability to take over the world, bye”
@@vang-toulee8351 no what i meant was we did the same thing as ants also ants cant conquer the world because of their queens they only live so long and wgen they die the colony dies
