All My Ants Update! +Exotic Ants Unboxing
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In this video we will go through ALL of my current ant colonies, and see how they are doing. We will go through all my native swedish ants, as well as my exotic messor queens. 😄 We will unbox the newest members to the collection, my new Polyrachis Rastellata colonie, from thailand.
⭕DISCLAIMER: I don't want anyone thinking I am all for the importation of exotic ants, but I am not all against it either. If you do your research, have the equepment/enviromental conditions and ofcource have the escape preventing safety you need for the ants, I think it is okey to import ants and keep them as pets. 👍However, keeping native colonies is much easier, more fun, and much less dangerous for your local eco-system, be responsable, and only buy from sustainable sellers who raise colonies from single queens.⭕
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Luv ur "outside food storage" (a.k.a hobbit house xD)
Nice video. Have been waiting for this one :)
Wow the quality is WAY over 5k subs you deserve at least 250k
Queens can take weeks to months to move locations. I suggest putting a cover on the new fresh test tube and a light that isnt too bright or too hot over the bad test tube. This would help speed up the process of moving queens
Where do you buy those test tubes?? There look so good
Haha he likes it but doesn’t respond
Maybe antscanada
AntsCanada is pricy
Ant nest
The fungi was caused mostly because you gave them food. According to Ants Canada, the queen has all its nutrients in it's muscles so you don't have to feed it unless its first brood comes.
Only for queens that are fully claustral
Most experienced antkeepers dont give a fuck to AC. Most times the best way for a queen to thrive is having addtional food sources
@@randomguy9841 First sentence is true, second is not.
Ive raised 20 Canponotus queens at a time and feeding them makes the first workers bigger, and makes the queen lay more so its better
First Ants Canada, then Ants Australia and now Ants Scandinavia... I didn’t know anything about ants.Now I’ve become a fan of those little, amazing creatures. I think Ants Scandinavia will be a good channel for me as I’m from Europe.
Same!
I actually caught my first queen (Camponotus spp.) crawling on my wall. My family is Norwegian, so maybe Scandinavians have special luck with ant keeping. Great video, keep them coming.
Great Video!
Thanks :D
Hi mate, great video. Do you feed your queens well before hibernating? Even if they are claustral, in extreme cold temperatures they might need that extra boost of some honey to keep them warm and fight off infection and fungus. As for the exotic ants, I believe responsible keeping of exotic ants by an adult is no problem if it is within the keeper's means to keep them contained. When you live in such cold temperatures it definitely can't be a problem if it is so different from their natural habitat, like you said they will die quickly in the cold. So don't worry about any hate you get for it :P
Thank you man! :) You seem like a resonable guy, and ye, I did feed them all I beliave, tho not alot, sinse some left over honey can produce a lot of mould ;)
Despite your best efforts at educating your audience on the right ways to procure exotic ant species, I feel that the very act of buying them makes it seem more like a justification than anything else. I haven't seen your recent videos, so I guess I'll have to update myself to figure out your approach to ant keeping. As you mentioned, do your research and keep ants! :)
Did you notice how you found a queen in winter? It was in your house. Exotic ants can do that too. They can escape and travel around your area. But even if they die, they can carry disease or parasites, which can be detrimental to the wildlife. Also, prenolepis imparis doesn’t hibernate over winter, and are in your area.
You could have used the nanitic and pupa from one of the dead queens and given it to the parasitic queen
Antknowledge parasitic queen need more workers and from 1 to 5 precise species. But it could work.
Cretaceous Monster usually a parasitic species will accept pupae from any species that lives in the area,and a couple pupae is better than none lol
Antknowledge the pupae, yes. The nanitics, no
Cretaceous Monster I’ve had queens accept callow workers thought it happened in non parasitic queens/small colonies
Antknowledge cool!
Cool video! One tip: for the young queens small chambers are better. Its more difficult for them to nest in a long testtube. I would put the cotten more in the near of the watertank so that the nestingspace gets smaller.
Okey, maybie I will do that :)
The queen might not actually be dead. Some queens go to a near death state and stay still after their nanitics. If you gave the nanitic honey and the worker gave food to the queen via trophalaxis, the Queeb might quote on quote "come alive"
When the virus Will be gone, I Will go to greece And catch myself an exotic queen
this video when I was 2 years ago and it’s still good and same I want some exotic ants
The Queen Will probably die from the vibrations when You go home.
U don't want to take ants from Greece, they are too small. I know because I live there.
I wouldn’t. This could lead to a catastrophic ecological disaster because ants adapt and they could replace the fauna of you’re region.
@@konstantinosnikolaidis1692 dude, what are you talking about? Greece has the biggest variety of ants of all europian countries and among them there are severall native camponotus and cataglyphis species that aren't small at all!
You’re so good at video recording, even better at editing, I’m so lucky my ants don’t have to hibernate... HALF A YEAR WITHOUT THEM !!!
Eyyyy, thanks dude :D Well, if I am good at video editing, then you must be a TOTAL GOD at digital AND IRL drawing!!
Some queens of Messor Barbarus don't stack all the eggs leaving some laying on the floor, it's normal. I think that it could be because Messor Barbarus are one of the ants with less vision and they don't realise that one egg is not stacked.
Weeell, it was first of all the wasmanni that did not stack them ;) And she has done that by now actually ;)
The dead Queen's larvie you could put for some other Queens for increase the workers number...It's much help for them.
I had a lot of luck this year: none of my lasius ants/queens died! Sadly, some Messor barbarus workers did die.
The overlapping gaster-segments are caused by low food reserves, I think. If you feed them, they will be okay again. What a great way to capture a (Myrmica) queen! I hope your Polyrhachis will do well!
Ye, the overlaping segments is a sign of that, and thats why she ate so much ;) Nice that you had soo much luck with the hibernation :D Awesome!
Yes i live in Finland and we have The same winter as you do and i have to some non native ants
Great videos! Keep going. Regards from ants in Croatia :)
Thanks man!!! :D
You live in such a beautiful place. I hope I can catch some nice Queens this year and start my own little colony . That is if my husband doesn’t get freaked out... 😃
Great video dude 😎
I love the "Hobbit's house" where you store your ants during the hibernation period 😁
11:02 the Illuminati 😱
9:43 you should add it in every video!! (Great job 👍)
Sorry for not sending you the connector from round to square test tube 😅
Thanks man! :D Ye, the "hobbit house" is it's name actually 😅
Hahahaha, but hold on, do you mean....that Nordic is THE Illuminati!?!?!?😱😂
Ye, I have recently while looking for exotic colonies, seen alot of people who dont research or think at all for that matter... So I felt like it was nessecairy :)
Haha, no probs man, as I said, it all went smooth with bluetac ;)
Nordic's logo was funny :D, it looked like a secret message or something!
For what concerns doing research before purchasing ants (and not only :D ) people don't look up sh*t and it is not just about exotic species but also the most common ones unluckily!
Ants Scandinavia he probably lost a lot of money
What do you mean?
Ants Scandinavia you should read my message box on IG and FB 😂😂😂 I should make a compilation!
I live in Sweden too! And this helped me so much! U earned a sub!
Var köper jag "acorn ants", temnothorax nylanderi för att vara mer exakt, men alla små kolonier som passar beskrivningen av acron ant funkar fint. Jag bor i områden där dessa myror ska finnas, men jag har knäckt alldeles för många ekollon utan att hitta någon myra, så jag har gett upp. Grym kanal!
Haha, ah vag vet hur du känner XD men lycka till!! Tack!
I believe I remember reading that if a queen ant doesn't collect her eggs into a pile, it is likely that she is unfertilized. I guess we can put that to the test now, lets see if those scattered eggs ever grow.
i live in Colorado and i cot two red ant queens
Jaye Leon cool!
Awesome video, All these people hating about keeping exotic ants i understand your pain cause i am from the uk and hibernation lasts 5 months here not quite 6 months but still a long time and a non hibernating species is so fun to keep :D keep up the awesome vids!
Yea dude, I am fully on the exotic team. Tho, native sp. are greeeeat for those not sure what to start with as they are releasable :)
@@AntsScandinavia Couldn't agree more my man :)
You get the fungi because u put shit inside the tubes, you dont need sand or anything for the queens to start to lay eggs :)
Love the vid, hope to see more soon!
im from singapore and I caught 5 Camponotus queens and 1 Colobopsis queen last week
Aaaaah, Awesome!!! :D
I caught yellow componotus queen it's very lovely
Wow! Thats cool! :D Is it maybie the camponotus turcestanus?
I love the species
My dad split open a log and there was a dead queen from hibernation ):
Really cool video, what is your favorite Swedish ant species?
Hmmmm, I would have to say formica fusca, dont know why, but their majors look soooo beautiful :D
Hehe yeet
I have some quite epic native ants 😊 at the moment I have a few queens in founding
2 Camponotus Niveisetosus
1 Messor capensis
1 Myrmicaria natalensis
1 Camponotus Cinctellus
From South Africa 😵😂👌🏼
Nice video!!! Waiting for it😉😀
Haha, ye it has been a while :D
Also check laws of where you live and are buying ants from to make sure you are not making an illegal purchase or are required to make a risk declaration. Keeping exotic species can pose a risk to your local environment.
yea thats why i dont like people keeping exotics
in the EU you can order ants online legally
I just got 2 queens (tuneel ant queen) i was so happy
Hej hej. I just found your channel and I'm so glad that I did. Your videos are awesome! The production quality amazes me! I'm thinking of starting my own ant colony so I'll be going queen hunting soon. Since I'm also in Sweden, if you are around Stockholm you could join me since I won't know what I'm doing anyways.
Thank you soo much Alber! Really means a ton :). Message me on Instagram and we can talk more!
Those tubes are awesome especially the insert! Sadly they don't sell them anymore...
only give that lasius umbratus that has too few host workers only pupa the workers will fight and that parasite i believe is a lasius fuliginosus but it could be umbratus and black umbratus are pretty common you will be supprised good vid!
weeeell, I have had succes with workers too :) But ye, pupae is more fail safe :)
I live in Australia and were not allowed exotic animals but I think we have the best ants in the world. great video
So there is an Ants canada, Ants Australia, Ants Africa, And now Ants scandanavia.
Nice video!
Great video
well i didnt relize that camponotus vagus wasnt a native spizes so its kinda a exoite ant but ya there fine
Amazing Video, But i really disagree with buying exotic ants as it could potentially cause ecological harm!
Overall its great and i learned some more things about ants!
Please hit 2000 Subs Soon!
Thank you so much for respecting my Opinion about exotic ants :D Hope I won't get some hate comments about it 😅,
glad that I can teach :)
Hahahaha, ye I hope so too XD
(btw, if you want to try to change my mind, feel free to do so, just comment what you really think about the whole "exotic ants" thing, and I will read it :) I always want to hear different perspectives :D)
Ants Scandinavia the whole argument with that is that, if they somehow happen to get free or you let them go, they could drive out all of the native ants in your area by fighting with them and competing for food
did you wantch my video? Because in that I said that, if they escape, they will die of the extreme winter cold. Plus, IF they survive here, they will not be able to establish new colonies because, well, they are the only colony.. However, I still need to be very responsable, and so do everyone else keeping non native ants, sinse I can not say for sure, 100% guarantee that they will die, but it is at least a high probability. Thanks for you consern :)
Thats a good point
Ants Scandinavia is it just me that when u are typing the comment u got so triggered that why some of ur words are spelled with errors.
The 2nd Queen is not dead!! she is hibernating. Antscanada said that it looks like its dead but alive!!! It takes 12 days to move again.
i managed to only carpenter ant cause all t he other smaller species are really hard to see
Great video lots of info :-) :-);-)
Thanks man!
yes a swedish ant channel GÖTT
Såklart! Visste du att Nordic Ants också är Svensk ;)?
Is antsrus a good place to buy a Queen?
Hmmmmm my messor Wasmanni hasn’t laid any eggs but I have sand in the testube so the eggs might be camouflaged in the grains of sand and my red head doesn’t have any workers but she has loads of eggs and brood can’t wait to have my first worker.
Nice! :D Ye, mine has around 10 workers now
I am from Philippines. Where can i get those square test tubes?
Where have you bought the test tube? and the ytong block? I have recently moved to Stockholm and restart all my ants' setup, thank for helping out!!!
Are you able to put the suffering worker and brood to the other same species queen?
where did you buy an exotic ant species?
awesome video!!! thanks
No, thank you! :D
Hey ants Scandinavia, I have caught a Carpenter ant in savannah Georgia but I’m not entirely sure if she is fertilized. I saw her flying in my room with both her wings however her gaster is massive. Idk what to do.
Hmmm, most likely if she was "flying" she is not fertile, however I can be wrong! There is only one way to know for sure and that is to put her in a test tube. Campos can take a while to lay any eggs, so if she is fertile she lives, if not she will probably die :/ But I would try :)
Where i live was Pheidole is the most common
Wow!! Thats awesome!
What's your favorite Messor (specie?)? Mine is Messor Hebraeus
At the moment, I would say Wasmanni :D
This season i caugth 6 queens, all from different species. I have a solenopsis geminata Queen who has a bunch of pupae, i also have an odontomachus erythrocephalus Queen, a pheidole one, a solenopsis fugax and i caugth a polyrachis and dorymyrmex insanus but they both died :(
I am 100% Against keeping exotic ants species under any circumstances. But you do you man, I can't change your opinions, But I will encourage you.
Thanks for respecting my oppinion. And i do understand why you think like you do. Where are you from?
@@AntsScandinavia Australia
Well, if you live in the most dense species populated area in the world, you dont NEED to have exotic ants... In queens land there are over 1400 sp. and here in sweden? 79..... Yea, its that bad...
@@AntsScandinavia Yeesh. Okay I understand. And I live in The South West.
okey, still like 420 more species than here :P I am jelaous as ***
Friendly reminder that in the US there are federal laws preventing people from buying exotic ants.
I caught a Solenopsis geminata queen
Bull ant season just ended I have a bull ant queen with 14 eggs !
Wooow! Awesome man! :D I am so jelaous!
I also live in sweden and we never do that tradition
NICE!!
If eggs scattered it means that the queen might not be fertile
She has multiple workes now ;) Thanks anyways!
I have messos barbaros
iridomermix beckneli is really common in the land down under
Phidole are quit common too, as well as rhytidonopera.
Great video 👍 loved it
Thanks man!
Ants Scandinavia np bud :)
I'm in north America in winter and I found a queen ant
Wow, tahts dope!
SO NAMY ANT CHANNELS FROM SWEDEN!! En like för alla svennar
Njaaa, det är väl bara jag och nordic va?
I would love to see some native scandinavian ants though
Coming ;)
I got me 4 Prenolepis imparis today
Oh, is that the "Winter ant"? Thats awesome! I wish we had them here as well ;)
Please help. I tried to keep ant queens and they both drowned in their testube because of leaks in the cotton.
Ants Scandinavia thank you
You're a speedcuber?! Nice! What cubes do you own?
Hahaha, well, my record is 1m, but that was last year, I just had them for decoration XD Aaaand the only speedcube I have is a cheap 7dollar budget cube so ye XD (nice spotted tho ;)
5:07 its lasius mixtus not umbratus :)
I caught 54 Tetramorium queens
did you put the myrmica queen in hibernation? i have a manica queen, which has eggs, but no workers. i dont want to lose her ;(( maybe she die in hibernation and dont get it... i love this species and also this queen, because it was a very lucky catch ^^
Wooow, Manica!! Awesome bro! I would wait untill she has her first workers, as the eggs and larvae will die in hibernation most likely. Or, you can put her into halfhibernation (maybie 16*C) when she has them to larvae, that way she feels that the temperature is dropping and will maybie not lay more eggs. If she has a worker to start with in spring, she will lay muuuch more eggs then, so wait rather for her to get one at least! :)
@@AntsScandinavia yes, manica is beatiful ^^ thx for the tipps, ill try to find a bit colder place for her. i wrote you on instagram a message :))
From where do you buy ants
I caught my First Lasuis neoniger
Niiice!! How do you know it is a NEOniger???
Ants Scandinavia well I got told by some random guy online if I believe my channnels called ants Michigan I have 5-4 subs can u check for me
Ants Scandinavia if u scroll down a bit there I am with 6 subs
Mate, please share where you bought square test tube. :-)
Description m8 ;)
Damn, me never check descs on mobile, sorry haha! and thx :-)
I caught Pseudolasius
Why is every testube having soil in it, can you do a video about that please because my queen died in testube last week and i dont know why.
Hmm, ye I am planning on a antkeeping basics video, so ye, i will :)
Ty a lot
I’ll never hibernate my Camponotus Pennsylvanicus. The seller never has to do this anyways. The risks are too high 🤢 🤮
What are the second ants called(the dead queen )?
Lasius Flavus :)
Wow😱😱😱😱
Ahaaa! Preeeetty cool! 😱
I get they wouldn't survive outside but the problem is that they could either carry desieses, or they could hide somewhere warm in the winter(like a house)
PLEASE don't keep exotic ants, it also teaches others that its ok.... but good vid mate
I know it is a problem, although to say "no" is not the solution. There is ALWAYS gonna be guys not buying responsable, so, if you can't beat them join them, and guide them the right way : )
Thanks for that last "but good vid mate" really warms my heart, you atleast show respect of oppinion, compared to others XD
I caught four messor spp queens but none of them are having eggs i had them over 4 days. Can somebody help me.I check on them once a day and i keep them in a dark closet
WhiteTiger 987k don’t check on them every day that’s unhealthy also make sure there are little to no vibrations messor are very sensitive so check them every 1 to 2 weeks
@@piesaurus6008 One of them made eggs how can i know that they are fertile
@@user-zq8lm7dv5u wait and be very patient if they hatch the queen is likely fertile it is hard to tell when/if they hatch because when they first hatch they are still the size of eggs
Do you feed them cooked or raw chicken??
Can't remember, tho I dont think it matters. I think this was cooked tho :)
Hey dude great video
Thanks bee man! :D ;)
And i took your advice and i am starting to edit my videos
Awesome!
I will let you know when i hit 50 subs
Okey ;)
i cot pheidole sp colony :-)
Do u watch antscanada
Yes, ofcourse :D
Then you should know that you shouldn’t keep exotic ants under ANY circumstances
Well, I guess you disagreeing with me, is the same as me disagreeing with him?
Yup, it is the same
Ants Scandinavia I got your back! :)
Which country are you from?
I have an exotic species of Acrobat Ants and I did a lot of reserch
Awesome, what species is it?
My crematogaster queen died in hibernation
Ah, thats sad :(