OMG! I love this!! These guys are like VERY native to my area, they are everywhere. Still your content and documentation about them surprises me. You are amazing dude.
A few people have brought this to my attention now. Must be the new audio software I was using. Still getting my head around it. Always looking to improve so thanks for the feedback!
i remember when you had 200 subcribers and you said you couldnt wait to keep camponotus consibrinis. look at your channel now, amazing watching it grow just like a colony. getting my first myrmecia next week KEEN
Empires of the Undergrowth is a ant sim by Slug Disco from the UK. Interestingly enough it features the Wood Ant (a genetically adaptive species called Formica eruptus)
I have wood ants all over by my house, I am praying I am able to find I queen to start a colony for my channel. For this is one of may favorite ants. Had a colony back in the early 2000s but I did not know how to house them, if only, I knew then what I know now. Till not to much but learning 😉 lol I will have to supply them with resin. The queen you talked about that took over another colony, I am luck to have gotten one late summer, and I am able to show them on my channel.
Love this video. You captured a great variety of the most diverse genus in the US and Canada. My one and only gripe is that you called male ants drones. This is wrong. Male honeybees are called drones, this is because they fly freely from one hive to the next and are allowed in to feed, spend the night, and be taken care of by worker honeybees no matter what hive they were originally born in. They essentially drone their way from hive to hive and really only serve the purpose of mating with queen honeybees on the rare occasions that they fly from the nest to mate. Actually a fair amount of the traffic coming and going from a honeybee hive are drone bees. This is similar in a way to how Army Ants reproduce. Like honeybees hives/colonies only spread by division. There are no single founding queens. When Army Ants are ready to divide the resident queen will produce several new queens that hang out in the nest waiting for males to come and mate with them. In army ants mating takes place within the nest because I don't think Army Ant queens are born with wing. In honeybees though, new queen bees are born with wings so they have to fly out and mate with several males within a few days of being born. In both cases it's beneficial that the males mating with these queens are not her immediate brothers so it's beneficial to have some genetic diversity among the males within the nest or hive.
Ive always wondered what kind of ants were all over my yard, now i know, and inadvertently it turns out that they are the slavers that ive heard about and was interested in learning more about! So thanks man! :)
Do they live in California?There is an ant colony I observe in my backyard that live in these two logs and underground and they kinds of look like these ants.
People also ask What do ants symbolize in Islam? Ants and bee are described as superorganisms because they work as a unified entity and working together to support the colony. The writer finds ants and bee symbolize laborious ethos of industriousness and discipline. Sura of Al-An'am; The Cattle (6:38) equate them in term of “community” or ummah in Islamic concept.
I loved this video! While I love Ants Canada and a bunch of other ant channels, when you do your documentary videos like these, I think they're the best ant videos on UA-cam.
I live in Canada and formica are usually considered as pests, but for us, and enthusiasts, its a study paradise! A lot of those ants were formica ulkei, found in Alberta Canada! Great video once again Jordan!
Thanks Daniel! Yep, they were literally everywhere I went! I've been meaning to identify all my findings. I'm pretty hopeless with North American ants though, well, anything outside of Australia really :)
Ilija Mitrevski have u looked into harpegnathos or ponera or even carabera.if u r interested see some videos on dorylus driver ants cus they r a cool sp
All I know is the organism processes the light into colors and what we see is what we process so if I see color red, my body processed light to help me see red
THIS VIDEO was great in quality please keep up the good work I can’t believe how good the image is you could go on tv and be fine it’s so good to see how your confidence has grown!
...Twice every year our house is invaded by ants. My brother is like their god with all the food he drops. Me? I go around with hairspray and herd them away. Then wipe everything down. I have proclaimed myself the Ant-gel of Death. Now I feel bad.
6:28 why do some ants have black heads and others red. Is it because the ants with red is major ants or what? PS u are my second favourite youtuber, keep up ur work. I love ur vids bye! Like this coment
Extremely well shot, high quality clips, without a doubt intriguing to all, and very informative. Once again you have exceeded my expectations Jordan, I am obsessed with these documentaries you create, I do hope you continue these documentaries, life can be hard and when someone you enjoy watching who posts after a while, it just.. Really feels good sometimes, and sorta rises your contentment at times. A moment to relax and enjoy watching what you consider content. Well done!
I love the detailed close up shots!! It’s mesmerizing to watch. My grandparents had a mound in their evergreen windbreak and I would watch them for ages during the summer. The sheer numbers were fascinating and it was a great way to observe the local species.
🙂 Wood Ants were always my favorite local Eastern American Ants. Being about the same size of Carpenter Ants and colored red and black I always considered them red ants ? And through being rarer to find than Carpenter Ants finding t hem is always a great joy. Because each individual Wood Ant always possess such great personalities. Yes and unlike most Ants they can spray their poison !
These ants have so many positive attributes. Why is SLAVERS the first thing you mention in the title describing them? I have issue with that considering it's the last thing you mention about them in the video. Wood Ants are the ORIGINAL SLAVERS as apposed to whom or what? Good video other wise. Thank you.
Hi Jordan, I was just curious, what camera do you use to film your ants? (I am putting together a presentation about my Tetramorium Sp. E colony, and I need good footage!) Thanks!
David Atteboro may have done this one But I’d like yours better than his it’s definitely more detailed and enjoyable yeah I thought about I don’t know working for National Geographic or discovery channel I don’t maybe pitch some videos to them
As always an awesome video! Question: what type of equipment do you use to shoot your videos and audio? They look amazing, I want to make videos with that quality, could you give me your advice?
There's some of these ants in my backyard, and they won't leave my zucchini flowers alone >:( There's an abandoned ant hill too, and my cat loves rolling on the mound, lmao. We call her a dirt gremlin
Growing up in the forests of WA State, these huge ant piles were all over the place. Up to 3 feet tall, covered in pine needles, and just begging to be toppled with a stick. They used to steam like peat moss in the cooler spring and fall, inside the hill was indeed quite warm.
Hey Jordan could you help me out I have a crematogaster queen ant and she Is having her first niantics and looking at your other tutorials (which are great btw :3) I've seen that you give your ants some honey at first and them give them some crickets or such from outside and or buy them so do you boil everything you give them or do you just crush them and if they have been sprayed by pesticides does boiling them get rid of the pesticides? please respond thank you love you man
I got a scorpion that might've died from a bad molt, I'm not sure. So is Lasius out? I'm planing to catch one. Edit: I caught a lasius queen. I'm a first timer so how do take care of them? I already got it in a test tube set up and I want to know How often you have to water them if I use the ants Australia nests?
I love your behavioural observations. . . There are a species that live at my house that have a fascinating behaviour i habent seen the same species accomplish elsewhere. The day after a 'windstorm' these ants absolutely swarm and pick clean all my black house spider webs. The dust coating the webs prevents them getting stuck, the spider doesnt bother with such a small meal, the ants get a feast from all the discarded insect remains and the spider gets a clean web. . . Awesome
i dont keep ants has pets but i like to see this kind of videos, usually i see them invading my house, eating some bug, rests of food or just passing by, but today they were acting weird.... i saw a bunch of them dead in the bathroom (im sure i didnt spray them with poison) at the beggining there was only a few but after some hours it became a bunch, also others were just siting there moving his head like rubbing it on the floor what do you guys think they are acting like that?
if you put your hand next to a disturbed wood ant mound, they will curl their gastor underneath themselves, and spray formic acid in a relatively strong stream at your hand
Oh Thank God Jordan I've been waiting for another video and then I have it and also I want to know how many ant colony do you have now by the way I really love your videos ❤❤❤
My father-in-law had several wood ant mounds near his house a few years ago and they are definitely something you want to stay away from their bites are very painful
hi all i am an ant keeper in spain and i have a friend that want to start in australia we looked some australian shops but is all very expensive any one can say me the best option to buy an ant colony in australia and i know the best option is catch your own queen but it is not always easy when you start and also is slow start with just a queen. thanks !
Hey guys, hope this video was worth the wait! I’m now making videos full time so expect more regular content from now on :D
Ants Australia yes I have been waiting for this moment so long
Ants Australia congrats dude!
Could your next episode be a part 2 to tubs and tubes
Ants Australia love your videos dude
Ants Australia I have been waiting sense your last video!!!
OMG! I love this!! These guys are like VERY native to my area, they are everywhere. Still your content and documentation about them surprises me. You are amazing dude.
That's great to hear! Thanks :)
One question I live in a very cold area. Could I still have big headed ants as pets? They're not native to my area.
worlds end...you should really just have native to the area species really. its kind of ant keeping edicate.
@Magnus no it's ALWAYS (it's not always illegal...)
The sound volume seems very very low.
A few people have brought this to my attention now. Must be the new audio software I was using. Still getting my head around it. Always looking to improve so thanks for the feedback!
4:28 I just love reaction of this ant! It's like "What, mate?? Oi, got a problem?!!"
i remember when you had 200 subcribers and you said you couldnt wait to keep camponotus consibrinis. look at your channel now, amazing watching it grow just like a colony. getting my first myrmecia next week KEEN
Great video Jordan. Keep up the great work
Empires of the Undergrowth is a ant sim by Slug Disco from the UK. Interestingly enough it features the Wood Ant (a genetically adaptive species called Formica eruptus)
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I love this documentary Jordan good job
Looking forward for the shop to open to buy some habitats
Great vid I've been waiting for a video for ages
Finally another video! I waited so long for this!
Thank you for making it on my birthday
Welcome back man!
that sap thing is interesting, i'm surprised there's not a species of carpenter ant that does that
Ants are truly fascinating creatures!
Do trap-jaw ants,leafcutter ants,army ants,bullet ants,meat ants,etc. next
I have wood ants all over by my house, I am praying I am able to find I queen to start a colony for my channel. For this is one of may favorite ants. Had a colony back in the early 2000s but I did not know how to house them, if only, I knew then what I know now. Till not to much but learning 😉 lol I will have to supply them with resin. The queen you talked about that took over another colony, I am luck to have gotten one late summer, and I am able to show them on my channel.
New video!!! You are the best ;)
You post FINALLY, im so happy, if only i dont missed three day... lol
Btw really cool vid hope your channel grows masive
Love this video. You captured a great variety of the most diverse genus in the US and Canada. My one and only gripe is that you called male ants drones. This is wrong. Male honeybees are called drones, this is because they fly freely from one hive to the next and are allowed in to feed, spend the night, and be taken care of by worker honeybees no matter what hive they were originally born in. They essentially drone their way from hive to hive and really only serve the purpose of mating with queen honeybees on the rare occasions that they fly from the nest to mate. Actually a fair amount of the traffic coming and going from a honeybee hive are drone bees.
This is similar in a way to how Army Ants reproduce. Like honeybees hives/colonies only spread by division. There are no single founding queens. When Army Ants are ready to divide the resident queen will produce several new queens that hang out in the nest waiting for males to come and mate with them. In army ants mating takes place within the nest because I don't think Army Ant queens are born with wing. In honeybees though, new queen bees are born with wings so they have to fly out and mate with several males within a few days of being born. In both cases it's beneficial that the males mating with these queens are not her immediate brothers so it's beneficial to have some genetic diversity among the males within the nest or hive.
MrILoveTheAnts so ur telling us that male ants are called king ants?
Fed some random wild ants earlier, wasn’t much of a swarm. Checked on them tonight and bam there’s atleast 200 ants on the jelly I fed them
well narated jordon well done,new subscriber now
Thanks :)
Ive always wondered what kind of ants were all over my yard, now i know, and inadvertently it turns out that they are the slavers that ive heard about and was interested in learning more about! So thanks man! :)
I went to this vid thinking it was actually gameplay of the game called "Empires of the undergrowth" 😂
OMG SO INTERESTING!!!!!
Where do you think would be the best place to look for wood ants when they have there nuptial flights
Keep the videos going
Ok, ima send you a couple of myrmecia desertorum queens, and when you make a vid about them PLEASE use the shin godzilla theme music. . .
Oh yes wood ants
awesome vide0
Pls post more videos
i thought you were gonna play empires of the undergrowth XD
me to LOL
Finally yess
Resin is how ants wash their hands,body
Resin is also their soap. and saviour
Where you in Yellowstone?
Huh no wonder the red wood ant queens I would find would keep dying without offspring
oh my gosh!!!!!
Love this video
New sub
Based ants
Do they live in California?There is an ant colony I observe in my backyard that live in these two logs and underground and they kinds of look like these ants.
lHAZARDx10 maybe,Formica ants often nest under logs
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What do ants symbolize in Islam?
Ants and bee are described as superorganisms because they work as a unified entity and working together to support the colony. The writer finds ants and bee symbolize laborious ethos of industriousness and discipline. Sura of Al-An'am; The Cattle (6:38) equate them in term of “community” or ummah in Islamic concept.
I loved this video! While I love Ants Canada and a bunch of other ant channels, when you do your documentary videos like these, I think they're the best ant videos on UA-cam.
This is such high quality! Usually studios take months and a whole team to make videos like this. Looking forward to the next one!
So true. The quality is amazing. Very impressed with this channel.
@@bigchunk1 but he takes decades to realise viodeo
@@assumjongkey1383 You might want to consider not paying him this quarter.
@@bigchunk1 what??
@@assumjongkey1383 wtf does that mean english please?
I live in Canada and formica are usually considered as pests, but for us, and enthusiasts, its a study paradise! A lot of those ants were formica ulkei, found in Alberta Canada! Great video once again Jordan!
Thanks Daniel! Yep, they were literally everywhere I went! I've been meaning to identify all my findings. I'm pretty hopeless with North American ants though, well, anything outside of Australia really :)
Ants Australia if you'd like, send me a photo of each ant through Instagram @dan_cantin and ill ID them for you.
I live in alberta... :DDDDD WOOD ANTS YEY!! my fav ants live here!!!! btw does anyone know do red wood ants live here? aka formica rufa?
@@mr.lugnut44 they live in Europe :)
Great video as always Jordan, can't wait for the local Meat Ant video!
Thanks Eli! Can't wait to make it :)
Ant Invasion OMG YOUR HERE ITS LIKE AN AMAZING ANT GATHERING
Ants Australia can't wait for a Myrmecia pilosula update! Good job Jordan
@@stanleylittlejohn2265 Yes It Is :D 🐜 🇦🇺 🐜👽 🐜 🇺🇸
Formica is definetly my favourite genus.
Ilija Mitrevski have u looked into harpegnathos or ponera or even carabera.if u r interested see some videos on dorylus driver ants cus they r a cool sp
The Indian Antkeeper Yeah, I just like Formica because it's simple, everywhere yet does cool thing. It's also one of my first queens.
Ilija Mitrevski oh I see that is nice.if u r interested checkout my channel ;)
@@rohithvkrishnan5269 your a fucking asshole for that. Why'd you promote your own channel tf
My favorite genus is acromyrmex a leaf cutter genus
There’s a game called empires of the undergrowth lol
I have a feeling he was referencing that
Hi today I just caught 3 green head ants and a sugar ant queens. I live in Australia NSW
hey !
i love all your videos !!
i have a question ! :p
can ants see colors like us ? :p
keep it up !
john wolf if I'm not wrong they can't see wavelength of red orange
The Indian Antkeeper huh? What about an apple? It is red
All I know is the organism processes the light into colors and what we see is what we process so if I see color red, my body processed light to help me see red
Oh wait, I didn't read the comment thoroughly
i cant see green-brown light
This is not the empires of the undergrowth i wanted but its good
Yay new video ALSO CONGRATS 40K! formica are some cool ants wish we had them and myrmecia
THIS VIDEO was great in quality please keep up the good work I can’t believe how good the image is you could go on tv and be fine it’s so good to see how your confidence has grown!
...Twice every year our house is invaded by ants. My brother is like their god with all the food he drops. Me? I go around with hairspray and herd them away. Then wipe everything down. I have proclaimed myself the Ant-gel of Death. Now I feel bad.
This channel deserves way more subscribers
Glad you think so :)
This is a great presentation. Loved it and it helped me better nderstand a few aspects of Wood Ants. Thank you!
These videos are better than 90% of nature shows on TV.
6:28 why do some ants have black heads and others red. Is it because the ants with red is major ants or what?
PS u are my second favourite youtuber, keep up ur work. I love ur vids
bye!
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aaaaaaaa welll now i know
Great video I'm in northern New Mexico nd I believe I have a few formia queens
Extremely well shot, high quality clips, without a doubt intriguing to all, and very informative. Once again you have exceeded my expectations Jordan, I am obsessed with these documentaries you create, I do hope you continue these documentaries, life can be hard and when someone you enjoy watching who posts after a while, it just.. Really feels good sometimes, and sorta rises your contentment at times. A moment to relax and enjoy watching what you consider content. Well done!
I love the detailed close up shots!! It’s mesmerizing to watch. My grandparents had a mound in their evergreen windbreak and I would watch them for ages during the summer. The sheer numbers were fascinating and it was a great way to observe the local species.
Sounds are kinda low...
#NotificationSquad
5:57 That looks kinda cute.
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KEEP UP THE *insane* WORK!!! XD
ps congrats on 40k subs
🙂 Wood Ants were always my favorite local Eastern American Ants. Being about the same size of Carpenter Ants and colored red and black I always considered them red ants ? And through being rarer to find than Carpenter Ants finding t hem is always a great joy. Because each individual Wood Ant always possess such great personalities. Yes and unlike most Ants they can spray their poison !
These ants have so many positive attributes. Why is SLAVERS the first thing you mention in the title describing them? I have issue with that considering it's the last thing you mention about them in the video. Wood Ants are the ORIGINAL SLAVERS as apposed to whom or what? Good video other wise. Thank you.
11/10 Quality content.
Hi Jordan, I was just curious, what camera do you use to film your ants? (I am putting together a presentation about my Tetramorium Sp. E colony, and I need good footage!) Thanks!
Hey thanks Jordan!!!:) I have a formica ant with 5 workers, but its workers do not venture out very much... What should I do?
David Atteboro may have done this one But I’d like yours better than his it’s definitely more detailed and enjoyable yeah I thought about I don’t know working for National Geographic or discovery channel I don’t maybe pitch some videos to them
but can they study torah?
As always an awesome video! Question: what type of equipment do you use to shoot your videos and audio? They look amazing, I want to make videos with that quality, could you give me your advice?
Queen ants killing each other would make for an interesting TV series, sort of like 'Game of Thrones' but with bugs 😂
There's some of these ants in my backyard, and they won't leave my zucchini flowers alone >:(
There's an abandoned ant hill too, and my cat loves rolling on the mound, lmao. We call her a dirt gremlin
Growing up in the forests of WA State, these huge ant piles were all over the place. Up to 3 feet tall, covered in pine needles, and just begging to be toppled with a stick. They used to steam like peat moss in the cooler spring and fall, inside the hill was indeed quite warm.
They are Beautiful I think they're the same ones I saw were hiking in Utah? Are quite big and absolutely gorgeous and color
Hey Jordan could you help me out I have a crematogaster queen ant and she Is having her first niantics and looking at your other tutorials (which are great btw :3) I've seen that you give your ants some honey at first and them give them some crickets or such from outside and or buy them so do you boil everything you give them or do you just crush them and if they have been sprayed by pesticides does boiling them get rid of the pesticides? please respond thank you love you man
I got a scorpion that might've died from a bad molt, I'm not sure. So is Lasius out? I'm planing to catch one.
Edit: I caught a lasius queen. I'm a first timer so how do take care of them? I already got it in a test tube set up and I want to know
How often you have to water them if I use the ants Australia nests?
These are my first ants I've found queens for, and so my first colony attempt! Thanks for the video, it was very helpful!
I love your behavioural observations. . . There are a species that live at my house that have a fascinating behaviour i habent seen the same species accomplish elsewhere. The day after a 'windstorm' these ants absolutely swarm and pick clean all my black house spider webs. The dust coating the webs prevents them getting stuck, the spider doesnt bother with such a small meal, the ants get a feast from all the discarded insect remains and the spider gets a clean web. . . Awesome
i dont keep ants has pets but i like to see this kind of videos, usually i see them invading my house, eating some bug, rests of food or just passing by, but today they were acting weird....
i saw a bunch of them dead in the bathroom (im sure i didnt spray them with poison) at the beggining there was only a few but after some hours it became a bunch, also others were just siting there moving his head like rubbing it on the floor
what do you guys think they are acting like that?
Gday jordan Can you Do a video on Where to find queen ants in australia and what time to find them??? Thanks Pricey.
Awesome video! I currently have a parasitic queen with workers. And I have the same Formica queens shown in the video
Oh speaking of empires of the undergrowth! there is a game named "Empires of The Undergrowth"
if you put your hand next to a disturbed wood ant mound, they will curl their gastor underneath themselves, and spray formic acid in a relatively strong stream at your hand
Love your videos bro. Informative and isn't all about making money off the hobby!
I caught a formica fusca queen last week, im juat hoping she's fertilized
Yay more content but my other Chanel ants wa is gonna take over
Also a moment of silence for my 3 queen green ant colony
R.I.P
The wood horns are drowning out your voice - making the volume fluctuate strangely.
Oh Thank God Jordan I've been waiting for another video and then I have it and also I want to know how many ant colony do you have now by the way I really love your videos ❤❤❤
Hmm is it possible to make a trapjaw or weaver ant video? I love those 2 species. Ps. Great vid!!
My father-in-law had several wood ant mounds near his house a few years ago and they are definitely something you want to stay away from their bites are very painful
Some ants enslave, some farm fungi, some herd livestock. Wtf
I dislike the fact that Ants Canada over shadows Ants Australia. I like this channel more
"I am wood, stupid"
Ah a man of culture, I see
hi all i am an ant keeper in spain and i have a friend that want to start in australia we looked some australian shops but is all very expensive any one can say me the best option to buy an ant colony in australia and i know the best option is catch your own queen but it is not always easy when you start and also is slow start with just a queen.
thanks !
More people should "shoot" animals like you did in the end of the video instead of what they usually do. Good on you man
Empires of the undergrowth??
Was that on purpose on the game or no?