The Origin Story of My Favourite Ant Colony
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2023
- This ant colony of the species Meranoplus bicolor is my current favourite ant colony I'm currently keeping and in this video I take you through the journey if the colony's development starting from just a pregnant queen ant all the way to a complete colony. It is also a special ant species to me because we were the first to discover their existence in the country in which I live. Introducing the awesome Species 555! Ant love forever! This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution.
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Greetings AC Family, ok these ants are currently my favourite now! Haha! Hope you enjoy this journey through their life story from start to their current state. If you enjoyed this week's ant episode, hope you can remember to LIKE, SHARE, COMMENT, and SUSBCRIBE (pls hit the BELL icon and Select ALL) as it would truly mean a lot to me and help this channel out a lot. Thank you so much! Ant love forever!
As mentioned I'll be needing your help. VOTE by hitting LIKE for your choices for name and home below:
Name: The Spades
Name: The Arrows of Cupid
Name: The Spear Backs
Name: Kingdom 555
Name: The Spartans
Spade Knights ♠️ because of their abdomen shape
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Yes, let’s do this one. It would be really good name for them
Good idea 💡
SPADES KNIGHST
What about kingdom of spades?
From just finding the ants inside you're country and now you're taking care of them that is long way
Thank you. I can't believe it! What a dream! Ant love forever!
this comment above me is right ☝️
Antscanada you are the exactly the one who made me fall in love with ants because i remember as a kid i would drop water to ant hills when I was a kid but you inspired me not to kill them because they are fascinating creatures and without them our world would have not been it self you inspired me that Mikey and now you are saving different ant species and more cooler you discovered a new ant species itself so please Mikey continue what you are doing with the ants and Exactly you are my favorite ant youtuber and hope you reach 6M subs soon ❤️
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yea your right fr
bro antscanada should heart you
#AntLoveForever ❤
Same 🐜
You deserve praise as a content creator, setting up these different colonies and then telling their individual stories is just awesome. It gets me totally invested in every one of these colonies and I always find myself waiting for new updates on them. Getting to almost 5 million subs with such a niche hobby as ant keeping shows how good your storytelling is and how well you manage your channel.
Ants are more intelligent than given credit for
39 likes 1 reply. Lets fix that!
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Sure, putting ants through catastrophic failure situations on purpose one after the other just for views. What a great responsible owner.
A fun story of mine from about 2-3 weeks ago. I did not have to go anywhere to catch a queen ant, because her majesty herself paid me a visit. I spotted one crawling on my pillow. I caught her into a small plastic container, put a wet cotton ball in there with her and released her the next morning. Thanks Mikey for your videos because I would have no clue what to do with her, other than throw her out from my balcony and potentially kill her. I hope she was successfully mated and started her own colony. Also she seemed happy to be back in nature.
It wont prob kill it tbh
@@DUDEA-xd6nfso what do you do with it?
It's official, I'm coming to NEW JERSEY! Oct 22nd Antscanada Meet & Greet in New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸. Visit therchild.com to reserve your tickets now. Limited seating. Open to all ages. Ant love forever! 🐜
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Meet u there
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I still remember the blue ant 🐜 you found when you were on a vication. It would be cool if you have that blue ant species in your Ant house 😊
Yeah but Idk if they would survive in different conditions and it would be hard to own them as they probably need a wet/damp inveroment to survive happily
I'm pretty sure that the Blue Ant was just a Black Ant whose colour was a rare bad genetic that was made in her DNA, probably a form of Albinoism or Melanism which is a genetic disorder in her pigmentation (A.K.A: Melanin).
Edit: Didn't make sense in explanation
@@cherylwillding4873 Also he doesn't want to be responsible for introducing new invasive species to his country, so he only keeps ants caught locally.
@@cherylwillding4873theres automatic weather systems he has
I legit dont even like ants that much but I have been following this channel for LITERAL years. Learning about the world is interesting and the way ants act is very curious and interesting to me. Not even to mention this is quite the watch, entertaining, and nice background sound. Long term non-ant lover watcher, here for many more years. We nearing the 5Million AC-fam!
You my friend are a legend this is my first ever comment on UA-cam and your videos are worth it thank you souch for what you do for this community and for ant science and ant husbandry for fans around the world cheers Harold from Australia I've always been interested in ants and watching your videos has made me love them
I think name for the colony should keep 555 in the name, and their setup should be something in the quantity of five, for example five little islands connected to eachother or something. I really like the idea of keeping everything 5 related, especially because this species is number 555 in the Phillippines but also because of that soon AC channel will reach the milestone of 5 million subs. I think its a great idea. Ant love forever ❤
Ik how much you hear this but i really cant thank you enough AC you got me into ant keeping and have taught me so much! I would also like to say how much i ADORE these ants, I cant explain it i love when you post and always tune in to watch it but the feeling i got when you show cased this queen was AMAZING it was like i raised her myself and considering I'm very new to the hobby so none of my queen have laid eggs yet so that was awesome! ANT LOVE FOREVER
I can't wait to hear more about this colony, I recently made a satellite nest for my ants and all i had to do is put a roach and they came flooding in. There's over 1000 of them and I can't wait to use your tips to make them thrive more.
Do your best to grow the Species 555 colony much bigger, I think they could be called the 555th Hunters, Spiny/Spiky Hunters or The Spades which I like the most.
#AntLoveForever ❤
I like The Spades.
I like the hunters
🎉
I always knew what the species was meranoplus bicolor, but still, the fact you were the first to document them in the country is incredible
Congratulations Mikey!!! I knew you would get that recognition. ❣ I am looking forward, so much, to Species 555 moving into their new home!
Congratulations for finding the 555th species in the Philippines I saw you in the news
It makes me so happy to see Species 555 growing and becoming a strong colony!! I can't wait to see them move into their new home and expand.
note that, this species makes tiny but not large mounds. the mounds are like little funnel like bumps on the ground with the entrance in the center so making open concept style terrarium would be the the best choice. So something like a lush jungle with a type of soil and sand mix substrate.
Congrats AC!! If you hadn’t already, you’ve secured your spot in Ant History!
So happy the colony is thriving. Good job at keeping them 😊
I remember when you first found these ants I love them they look so cute and fuzzy 😂😂❤❤ I love your content and have been watching your videos for years I love how far you have come over the years ❤❤❤
Oh wow! The larve has fuzz too! I don't know why, but I just loved seeing that. I love this species.
My daughter voted to names them “Rose Cutie” colony. Thank you Hagd enjoying the videos together
555 should be named after you. 🌟🐜🌟
Justifying why it should be named after the narrator is because he selected and set up a visually documented experiment.
I appreciate how you filmed, experimented, did observations, whilst you narrated this, to educate us mere humans.
I am still interested of what kind of species are these ants idk ehat species they are even from the spines i still don't know them
I like how the queen looks like 🌟🐜🌟👑🏰
A well deserved recognition, Congratulations on 555 . an ants Canada setup will allow us to follow the growth of The Spades. 🐜❤
I haven't watched you in years, im gonna go watch your videos and try and catch up. You inspired my "ant obseesion" for almost a full year quite a while ago
Approaching the big 5M subscribers. Well done my man! And I'm very happy that you managed to find a fertile queen for the beautiful and special species 555.
For a colony home, I'd personally love to see a Mordor or Mount Doom type enclosure for them.
I love Learning about ants! I am so happy my first queen has larvae!
Ant love forever ❤️
Antscanda, your the best 👌 I love your ant colonies! ❤ #ANTSFOREVER
I didn't know how to message you to express my appreciation for all that you taught me about ants. So I commented on your most recent. I am not even an ant enthusiast but I find the channel so fun.
Today during a drive in residential area a winged insect flew on my windshield. I was going slow, so it didn't impact the insect or anything. I didn't think much of it until I came to a rest stop and noticed the insect doing a peculiar thing, tearing its wings off. I went a little slower and watched the insect progress with a side eye and climb under my wipers.
I checked and yep, I had a queen land on her nuptial flight, on my windshield and decide that was somehow her safe place. I safely grabbed her and deposited her somewhere safer than my car in order for her to start building her own kingdom. Without your channel I would have never thought anything of it or bothered with her highness. I wouldn't even have known I was dealing with royalty.
So thanks.
In June, I caught a solenopsis invicta queen (imported fire ant) and everything has been going well so far. She had workers one week ago so I am super exited. Last Sunday I fed them a little piece of jello, so they should be well fed. Today I got 25 Dubia roaches so this week I'll feed them it. Antscanada you have inspired me to love ants more than ever. I have learned so much from your videos and we will keep inspiring others. I got an Antscanada Starter kit for solenopsis so when my colony has to move in, I will have their setup ready. Please tell me if there are any tips I should now. By the way watch my UA-cam videos they're pretty epic.
jello isnt actual food for ants btw.
Maybe one day he could do a tutorial on making big enclosures and terrariums
I DIDN'T KNEW MIKEY BUSTOS IS ANTSCANADA! I binged on this channel before and returned as I got myself a colony and followed his every advice to take care of my ants carefully. This is big to me as I'm a half filipino and mikey bustos has become a part of my childhood.
I saw this man on the news bro this makes it 100 times better.
I study deep sea stuff but entomology is also a deep love of mine. Getting to see ants in such close detail is an absolute blast. I want to get a setup to raise some ants. I have a pet praying mantis at the moment named Roger.
Hi Mikeeeeey, I'm surprised that you've been in another channel, "Ants Canada",
your videos from the last 10 years saved me, and mold for what I am today, I survived that day because of your videos, it's so good to see you again, difinitely gonna watch your videos. much love Mikey B. ☺️
Ok, the coloring on these lil gals is lovely and that rough looking shell sorta looks like wood.....And they are an odd mix of spiky n fuzzy two things i never thought should go together.
You should call them the 555 Fighters, or Triple 5 Fighters. For the terrarium, I suggest a mini mountain range, with water on one side of the mountains, and the ants living on the other side, so its like a dam. You could have that half of the water be like Volcania's, with cleaning fish and other critters
I love these little critters!
At first glance they look so cute because of that heart shaped Gaster❤... But looking a little closer you notice those vicious looking spikes on the thorax and realize there's something more sinister going on😈
This video was actually really nice. The colony is amazing. I'm sure you'll feed the ants something nice when they get a setup.
I love how detailed you put information about this ants since recently Philippines shocked on this one of a kind discovery of new ant species in our country and everyone surely wants to know how you made it! Hoping for fellow Filipino’s to support this hobby of yours
I am such a huge fan of your work! I got into ant keeping because of your videos and I have 8 upcoming colonies!
Wow this is just amazing mickey so happy to a new species added to the channel ❤ every year, another great ant colony and story.. love it ❤
He’s had this colony for a while but I feel you
Yup
Hes name is mikey not mickey 💀
@@abocado121 Mouse, club house!
@@RazelolGaming 💀
This channel is the only channel I watches once a week.
New vid, lets goo🙌 appreciated your work and love the ants 💜
I think that you should keep the colony name liked with 555 just because it just matches it but you should call the queen "The queen of hearts"
Hello ants Canada! I found a colony of ant species 555 at a partner school I go! These are also native!
The Black Thorned Worriors because of the thorns on their backs and it shows how they are a strong colony! Hopefully, mine is picked and thank you AntsCanada for your good videos! 😁
Well my Saturday morning was made with this video and a cup of coffee. Alway find joy in your videos! Cheers AC Family!😊
I love your video's. You have taught me so much about ants and what to look for in different species
9:33 i think this is proof that some ant queens might register you as their care taker, and might know that all their food comes from you. Even deep in the nest never to be seen again she knows youre always taking care of her
These ants are keeping me subscribed. They're so unique!
This channel inspired my love of ants, I was so happy when I first found a queen I was so happy.
Mikey, you are one of a kind. This video, like every other, was AMAZING 🤩. I hope you reach 5M really soon, as you deserve it. Good luck!
Wow. This was soo good. Very educational. Thank you 🙏🏽♥️
I'm super invested in seeing how this particular colony grows :)
Super bow
This army should be called “Triple 5 Souljas” (homage to the 00’s brand ‘Triple Five Soul’) this was the best era for our generation!!! And it’s an iconic Canadian brand 😉
On the road to 5M subscribers!!! Go get it Mikey
A bit late for the name... but I'd go with the Lima Legion (Lima is tagalog for Five, for those who don't know), as an homage to the species number, and country of origin.
Or maybe Lima Hunters
Those ants are so cute !
Thanks for the videos :)
Interesting to know that these gentle ants can take down an entire wasp for food.
I also found a queen of Meranoplus bicolor in May, and she has larvae now. I love to see the queen being so gentle.
YYYEEEEEESSS IVE BEEN WAITING THE WHOLE DAY!!!
I loved the new video, Mikey! I can't wait to see what your plans next for them! Keep up the amazing work. #AntLoveForever 🐜 ❤
I love your ant videos and i started watching with the Phoenix empire.
YOUR MY FAVORITE UA-camR!!!!!! And good job on Raising a full colony of maranoplus bicolor
You have to give them a really good kingdom these are cool looking ants, probably will be my new favorite species can’t wait to see how they grow in numbers 👏🏾👏🏾
I swear, why doesn't this dude make a netflix series by now
So glad the ants are doing well! 😁 Looking forward to the next video! 😁
Fun fact: Antscanada was shown in news on the Philippines bc i watched it and saw Mikey and I screamed so loud
You are an absolute legend, your name will go down is history as the guy who found a new species of ants in his own backyard.
Just placed an order on your website! Can't wait for it to arrive!
I love it ants Canada its great❤ keep it up and the species 555😊
I'd like to start an ant colony of my own, however I have a very good reason not to lol. That reason is also how I found your channel oddly enough. I have cats that love your channel, because of the small insects running around on the screen. And they would also not let an ant colony live in my home without them destroying it. So I will leave it up to the 'experts' to raise ants. I couldn't even have a sea monkey tank without them knocking it down.
Congrats! 555 is good timing!
Antscanada, i really used to like watching your carpenter ants like the redwood warriors, but now i have found my new favorite ants in the channel, so please keep making more videos about these ants(i know there are still carpenter ants coming soon😁).
Its so cool to have discover your own ant
You should try to get leaf cutters or bullet ants again
i would want to see bullet ants grow into a big colony. My friend saw 5 bullet ants when he went to the amazon.
Was waiting so long for it 🎉
So proud of you
#AntLoveForever
I think we should name them Canadants ❤
Hearing 555 so much makes me recall domino's 555 deal. We should call this colony the domino's
Awesome video. Earned my subscription!
(4:30 on the right) I love all the black crazy ant photo bombs LMAO! They have popped up in every one of your videos for the past several weeks!
You Should Name Them Spyky Boi
Liver
I think you should keep them as species 555! I like that name!
I have to agree. I was gonna change my user but POI-266 really stuck with me.
I have these in Texas,they are POWERFUL in my yard because they have a colony of 10-25 2 inches next to a 100-500+fire ant colony and we’re thriving
Watching your videos from Cavite Philippines. Ants Love Forever!
can we call them the fuzzball since their fuzzy⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄
It looks like they have little spiky capes lol.
Whoa, I saw ur face in the Philippine news can't believe I saw it u were on the news for Philippines
"Man finds new species of ants in his backyard, Mickey"
Just saw you in the news. Congratss Ants Canada!!!
I think you should name this ant colony the cupid's devils!
Why isn't this the top comment?
Yes!
Awesome colony! I think you should call them the FiveFiveFighters.
Love your videos, man
Ants Canada you helped me take care of my ant and know better about ants 🐜 tysm🎉
They are some really adorable ants, Mikey! Thank you for sharing them with us! 💖
Idea: when there ant colony gets really big, u should put them back into the wild as so the species DOENST go extinct.
Its kindaaaaaa more complicated than that kiddo
@@Fatherless12yrsoldmuch more complicated that just releasing them
@@Fatherless12yrsold*Vietnam war flashbacks* Then cut to a fire ant laughing menacingly.
People who were here when he had th OG Fire ants ⬇️
Me bro
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Me to
Rip
Me
rip the Fire Nation
I like the idea of a floating island concept, connected by vines, though it's likely a logistical nightmare.
I just recently knew that you are a Filipino content creator. Keep up the good work❤