Hi Matt! I’ve finally got something insightful to comment about! You were right, in most species of ant (there are always exceptions in nature), all of the classes of ant are female. The way males are made are through the nurse ants providing them with a certain amount of nutrients during their larvae stage. This is actually how all classes are made, for example, the warrior ants are fed much more during the larvae stage than a worker ant. Often male larvae are eaten if extra nutrients are needed for the nurses’ sister ants and there is no food. You were also right in saying that male ants are the ones that fly. Their sole purpose is to breed during a nuptial flight (usually a queen has a single nuptial flight). After which the queen stores all the semen gathered during her nuptial flight within her body which she will use to fertilise her eggs for as long as she is able to produce a good amount of eggs. Once she starts slowing down, the nurse ants will make a new queen, again through nutrition, to kill and replace the current queen. If you wan to know why the queen can’t fly after her first nuptial flight, it’s because she consumes her flying apparatus in order to gain extra nutrients in starting her colony. Oh and also! Ants are eusocial! That’s very interesting because it means that the colony population work so well together that they are essentially one organism. Another species that is eusocial are honey bees (interestingly, most bee species are solitary and don’t have colonies at all!). A mammal example of eusocial behaviour is in naked mole rats.
One thing though: most species dont breed their own new queen. If she dies, the colony dies. There are some species that are capable of inbreeding and thusly extend their lifetime, but afaik they are a minority. Fun fact: the longest proven lifespan of a single queen was over 28 years
Thank you for taking to the time to explain the all of this. I wondered about it every time I squished the little bastards sneaking into my home. Seriosly though, Excellent response.
Day 16 of asking Matt's editors to please extend the end of the video about 6.9 seconds past the actual content so that the two thumbnails of suggested videos only appear when there's nothing important going on.
There is to the best of my knowledge only one family of ants that can jump. The fittingly named Jack Jumper ants. Other than that trapjaw ants are know to catapult themselve around by using their spring loaded jaws anaigst the ground. But that can't really be described s "jumping". It's more "being thrown around at near random". However, based off appearance the ant you are controling seems to be a red wood ant or maybe a carpenter ant. Regardless, both species are incapable of jumping.
@@FoxDog1080I stayed in a gîte on a family holiday when I was 8, and we had an ant infestation in the kitchen, so fourmis was one of the first uncommon French words I learned🐜
Empires of the Undergrowth is another ant colony sim, more like the old school ant game RCE referenced at the start fo the vid. this one reminds me of Ancestors
Most ants in the nest are sisters. The males are winged as well as the potential queens. When they mate they fly out and mate in the sky. Mile high club. Anyway, they come down males die and newly pregnant ants form new nests. Most ant species have multiple queens that found a nest. Single queen species are rarer and evolutionary more recent. Truss me I’m an ecologist.
Interestingly, in some species the queens mate with males from multiple colonies, so the ants in that colony are technically half-sisters. Real Science just did a deep dive into leafcutter species, and scientists think the genetic diversity may have something to do with the size diversity within the colony.
I heard that ants are essentially bees but more specced into colony builds? Or that they have a common ancestor in which one went off and took to the skies, the others dug underground...
Aside from the Jack Jumpers that some other comments have mentioned, there's another jumping species of ant: Harpegnathos Saltator. They look nothing like the ants in this game though.
So cool! Those devs really popped the hell off with the graphics on this one! Honestly, I never can predict what’s gonna played on RCE’s channel, but that’s why I like it here :)
What if parker git bit by an ant instead of a spider? We'd have gotten Ant-man, your friendly neighbourhood wall crawler, capable of leaping vast distances, with the strength to lift 10-50 times his own weight. The only difference would have been the webbing. Who'd have thunk it
If he saw every ant species I am pretty sure his favourite would be the weaver ants, because they made a structure with themselves called a bridge, which they also can use as a crane.
Ladybugs don't normally bite... But a swarm swept right past me while I was on my bike once and... Yeah. They can bite. And it can sting a bit. Especially while going through an entire swarm.
As someone who has been keeping ants for years, I found this amazing lol, and decently accurate for a game (In terms of ant behaviour), I dont think many people understand how intelligent some ant species are, some ant species such as Banded Sugar ants have teachers, and some ants farm, have cattle, doctors, ants that shoot, some ants have boxing matches to dispute territory, AND SO MUCH MORE. I could write for hours lol.
Hello Mr. Real Civil Engineer! As a fellow (electrical) engineer I highly suggest a Minecraft mod called Nomifactory. It basically adds all kinds of engineering to the game and its very in depth. It takes a very long time to complete but I would love to see you give it a go, I think you would really enjoy it!
This looks like Total War: Ants with some exploration elements. I wish it was more ant-like. Like get you to tag ants for tasks and control what ants get produced by the queen. Plus switch between other ants in the colony so you could play as a soldier and not just a scout.
Ladybirds might be able to bite but I’ve picked up and moved them hundreds of times in my life, they’ve never bothered me : ) The eat aphids so whenever we had trouble with those in the garden or greenhouse Id move lady birds to the same plant, always seems to help
@@gabrielRcorrea3 Just British vs American names for the same thing, the small red and black spotted insect :P Ladybird is the British name, Ladybug is the American
It is interesting that anything made in Unreal, while it looks AMAZING fidelity-wise, somehow always look like they are made in Unreal. IDK what it is, but it's like the rendering system has some telltale signature I can't put my finger on. But you can always tell when something is made in Unreal Engine, regardless of how photoreal it feels.
What else is even comparable? In terms of graphical fidelity. To my knowledge, its the only engine that really gets photorealistic, and as such, that carries a sort of signature in and of itself. Take this with a grain of salt as im not on the up and up when it comes to photorealistic engines.
@@ProfessorOfLogicAtUnvOfScience You are right for game engines, but graphics engines for rendering movies can beat Unreal in terms of photo realism, but even for ones that are comparable to Unreal's graphics Unreal stands out. Some people have modified Unity to have graphics that they say are as good as Unreal, but it never truly measures up if both use all of the features at their disposal.
I had a similar idea to this game more than 10 years ago, but I never followed through on it. I was thinking in a more realistic direction though; you would have to lay down pheromones to tell your other ants where to go. Also I wanted the camera to be uncoupled from the horizon, so you would constantly rotate as your ant navigated the 3D world. It's neat to see it implemented though.
While ants don't jump, there are some species of ants that can launch themselves and travel good distance. One example is the Trapjaw Ant with their large mandibles that can open up to 180 degrees. By snapping those mandibles with such great force, it can launch itself using the recoil.
@@steveabel Some say that is the case, but if you look at them 'jumping' they do not do a jumping motion. The Jack jumpers are an interesting ant to be sure.
You should play empires of the undergrowth or at least try. It was probably the best ant sim of all time before this game came out. Please check it out Matt :)
Fun fact most ants can actually hold their breath for ALOT longer than humans Approximately 24 hours but somtimes even days! They are also fairly good swimmers as if their colony gets flooded the workers will make a raft out of themselves to protect the queen
Ant rafts are something you really have to be careful of in flood waters. Last thing you'd want is thousands of Australian green ants or fire ants realising you're a dry object poking up out of the water
If anyone interested in games about ants, there is a game "Empire of the Undergrowth" - it's an RTS about ants, where you can play different ant species with different gameplay, like black ants just common ones, jungle ants should cut leafs and grow mushrooms or as termites you should eat ants!
I remember around I think either 4th grade I would play SimAnt all the time. Was a neat & simple game, but made it where for the longest time, my hyperfixation was learning about ants. I don't know how much info I was able to recall. Probably had nightmares about the idea of Army Ants in my head seeming like cartoon trope of piranha fish.
If ants had the independent thinking to do so, yes, they can jump pretty far. They can lift tons of times their bodyweight, and I've seen an ant try to commit murder before an push a friendly off a table.
RCE said termites and ants are engineers and architects 5:00 , logically sorting this we can deduct that ants are architects and RCE is playing as an ant, secretly telling us he’s an architect 😮
Ants don’t sleep at night They do have multiple rest periods that last like 10 minutes at a time, for a total of just under 5 hours of sleep per day, but at any given time, a majority of the colony is active
you are not wrong, this does seem to be an unusually pretty (and decently optimised from the vid quality) game. also seems kind of neat, overlord/pikmin meets sacrifice.
Normally most ants are female with only a few male ones. Like with bee nests. Just a queen and female ants or bees, with only a few male ants or bees. Many colonies follow this scheme.
@@TheBanana93 Actually... in a universe I'm writing up, there is a cult of bee people... they all engage in scientific pursuit. Even the Drones are given a similar education because they want research assistants who can tell the difference between a quantum stabiliser and a dimensional hydrospanner... but it's obvious that the Drones are treated as a worthless underclass only worthy to simp after the "queens" :D
This has probably been answered but on the structure of ant colonies... Nearly all ants are female. Workers, soldiers, caretakers. Drone ants do have wings, and so do virgin queens. The drones and virgin queens will leave in a big group, where the queens will mate with several drones before ripping off their wings and digging a little chamber to start nursing their first eggs. After mating, drone ants die, as male ants have no other purpose in the colony.
Wait, a Monday video that isn't a compilation video? Ladybugs/ladybirds almost never bite people and are fairly harmless when they do, but there's a lookalike called the Asian lady beetle that are way more aggressive about biting humans. And we in the US decided to drop them all over farmland as a form of pest control, because they eat aphids and other insect pests the same way our native ones do. The Asian variety comes in a lot of colors, but the red/orange one looks a lot like a ladybug/bird. But if there's an M or W made out of the black spots on its head, it's the lookalike.
This game looks absolutely amazing. I knew we would get photorealistic video games eventually, I just didn't expect it in an ant game. Edit: Went to go check out this game myself and kept seeing that it released in 2000, and was really confused. Apparently this is a remake from 2 weeks ago.
Hi Matt! Have you played Subnautica or Grounded? They are more long form games but so so amazing and i would watch a 30 part series if you ever decided to play either one! ❤RCE
You call termites architects but they are engineers like the ones in Africa that makes big cooling towers. Actually ants and termites are pretty much engineers since they all build as efficiently as they can and architecture is a more human thing.
Again, play Empires of the Undergrowth, similar ideas and the devs of both are friendly with each other, also it has Bridges! :v And if you got this with the bundle then I shall happily await that vid lmao.
Supposedly soccer and football have marginally different rules. Also soccer is an antiquated British term for soccer association. Supposedly the English used to like shortening things and adding er to make it slang and when the term caught on in the us the Brits went back thus making another problem with the us the uk manufactured
Hi Matt!
I’ve finally got something insightful to comment about! You were right, in most species of ant (there are always exceptions in nature), all of the classes of ant are female. The way males are made are through the nurse ants providing them with a certain amount of nutrients during their larvae stage. This is actually how all classes are made, for example, the warrior ants are fed much more during the larvae stage than a worker ant. Often male larvae are eaten if extra nutrients are needed for the nurses’ sister ants and there is no food. You were also right in saying that male ants are the ones that fly. Their sole purpose is to breed during a nuptial flight (usually a queen has a single nuptial flight). After which the queen stores all the semen gathered during her nuptial flight within her body which she will use to fertilise her eggs for as long as she is able to produce a good amount of eggs. Once she starts slowing down, the nurse ants will make a new queen, again through nutrition, to kill and replace the current queen.
If you wan to know why the queen can’t fly after her first nuptial flight, it’s because she consumes her flying apparatus in order to gain extra nutrients in starting her colony.
Oh and also! Ants are eusocial! That’s very interesting because it means that the colony population work so well together that they are essentially one organism. Another species that is eusocial are honey bees (interestingly, most bee species are solitary and don’t have colonies at all!). A mammal example of eusocial behaviour is in naked mole rats.
This comment deserves more, thanks for that info.
I agree with RealDragonKing1, this is a very lovely description of ants, thank you for your that.
One thing though: most species dont breed their own new queen. If she dies, the colony dies.
There are some species that are capable of inbreeding and thusly extend their lifetime, but afaik they are a minority.
Fun fact: the longest proven lifespan of a single queen was over 28 years
Nature is pretty effin metal
Thank you for taking to the time to explain the all of this. I wondered about it every time I squished the little bastards sneaking into my home. Seriosly though, Excellent response.
Day 16 of asking Matt's editors to please extend the end of the video about 6.9 seconds past the actual content so that the two thumbnails of suggested videos only appear when there's nothing important going on.
I dont understand wats that mean ?
Edit : i understand now 😡
I can back this
Skip past asking Matt, instead ask his editor. Go straight to where power truly lies.
Ublock Origin? A simple script and I don't see those ending recommendations anymore.
@@Mike__Bif you have annotations turned off I don’t think they show up
I feel like "the texture on this ball is insane" didn't get enough love from the editor.
*LIGMA BA*
@@naejelangelogonzales6623 who the hell is steve jobs
Loving Matt playing a game that isn't just about numbers going up. I was getting a little full of clicked cookies and spreadsheet games.
more bases, more food, MORE ANTS!
Jokes on you, I was just enjoying making my ant colony bigger mwahahaha
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming 4:01 yes
What actually
There is to the best of my knowledge only one family of ants that can jump. The fittingly named Jack Jumper ants. Other than that trapjaw ants are know to catapult themselve around by using their spring loaded jaws anaigst the ground. But that can't really be described s "jumping". It's more "being thrown around at near random".
However, based off appearance the ant you are controling seems to be a red wood ant or maybe a carpenter ant. Regardless, both species are incapable of jumping.
I was thinking this too. "The most realistic ant game you've ever seen" 5 seconds later he starts jumping.
Because of this video the search term "can ants jump?" will spike during the next few days
Definitely Formica
@@jarjab2gamesOH NO ANTS ARE JUMPING THE GAME IS RUINED
Yeah we have them here in Australia, there bites fucking suck!
103683th is the name of one of the ant protagonist in the book trilogy "Les Fourmis" from french author Bernard Werber.
In case nobody can figure it out, Les Fourmis means The Ants
@@FoxDog1080I stayed in a gîte on a family holiday when I was 8, and we had an ant infestation in the kitchen, so fourmis was one of the first uncommon French words I learned🐜
This game is based on those book iirc
the game is directly inspired by the book, says so in the opening credits if you play
Was that a book where an ant learned to watch TV and interact with humans? It has been decades since I read that.
1:06 we have Ants in Australia that can jump really far. We call them Jack Jumpers locally. They are pretty scary TBH 😅
and they hurt like a bastard.
Aren't they the size of wasps, can jump 1 meter and are venomous (possible anaphylactic shock if you are allergic) ?
Empires of the Undergrowth is another ant colony sim, more like the old school ant game RCE referenced at the start fo the vid. this one reminds me of Ancestors
Was just about to say that hahah
whats the name of the game in the start of the vid?
Most ants in the nest are sisters. The males are winged as well as the potential queens. When they mate they fly out and mate in the sky. Mile high club. Anyway, they come down males die and newly pregnant ants form new nests. Most ant species have multiple queens that found a nest. Single queen species are rarer and evolutionary more recent. Truss me I’m an ecologist.
Interestingly, in some species the queens mate with males from multiple colonies, so the ants in that colony are technically half-sisters. Real Science just did a deep dive into leafcutter species, and scientists think the genetic diversity may have something to do with the size diversity within the colony.
Glad I’m not the only ant expert here
I heard that ants are essentially bees but more specced into colony builds? Or that they have a common ancestor in which one went off and took to the skies, the others dug underground...
@ yeah, exactly, Its bees , wasps, and wasps evolved into ants. This is very very simplified tho.
No, truss me, I watch AntsCanada 😁
The warrior ants are actually called majors and you can even get super majors, these are a lot bigger and stronger than majors.
Aside from the Jack Jumpers that some other comments have mentioned, there's another jumping species of ant: Harpegnathos Saltator. They look nothing like the ants in this game though.
So cool! Those devs really popped the hell off with the graphics on this one! Honestly, I never can predict what’s gonna played on RCE’s channel, but that’s why I like it here :)
Ants are so fascinating, definitely my most favorite animal of all
4:03 Common misconception, ladybugs dont bight, but the japanese beetle, which looks very similar, does.
What if parker git bit by an ant instead of a spider?
We'd have gotten Ant-man, your friendly neighbourhood wall crawler, capable of leaping vast distances, with the strength to lift 10-50 times his own weight.
The only difference would have been the webbing.
Who'd have thunk it
I've been very eager to play this game, so glad to see how beautiful it is now. Ants and bees are some of my favorite bugs.
A non Mega Edit video on Monday?
Did the architects get to you?
THIS ENGINEER IS A BLOODY SPY!
They're not every Monday, but will only be put up on a Monday
If he saw every ant species I am pretty sure his favourite would be the weaver ants, because they made a structure with themselves called a bridge, which they also can use as a crane.
Army ants love making bridge bodies
Ladybugs don't normally bite... But a swarm swept right past me while I was on my bike once and... Yeah. They can bite. And it can sting a bit. Especially while going through an entire swarm.
As someone who has been keeping ants for years, I found this amazing lol, and decently accurate for a game (In terms of ant behaviour), I dont think many people understand how intelligent some ant species are, some ant species such as Banded Sugar ants have teachers, and some ants farm, have cattle, doctors, ants that shoot, some ants have boxing matches to dispute territory, AND SO MUCH MORE. I could write for hours lol.
I love the ritual fights that Australian meat ants do to demarcate their territory
@@capdyn735 same
Hello Mr. Real Civil Engineer! As a fellow (electrical) engineer I highly suggest a Minecraft mod called Nomifactory. It basically adds all kinds of engineering to the game and its very in depth. It takes a very long time to complete but I would love to see you give it a go, I think you would really enjoy it!
This looks like Total War: Ants with some exploration elements. I wish it was more ant-like. Like get you to tag ants for tasks and control what ants get produced by the queen. Plus switch between other ants in the colony so you could play as a soldier and not just a scout.
Ladybirds might be able to bite but I’ve picked up and moved them hundreds of times in my life, they’ve never bothered me : )
The eat aphids so whenever we had trouble with those in the garden or greenhouse Id move lady birds to the same plant, always seems to help
Ladybird or ladybug?
@@gabrielRcorrea3 Just British vs American names for the same thing, the small red and black spotted insect :P
Ladybird is the British name, Ladybug is the American
It is interesting that anything made in Unreal, while it looks AMAZING fidelity-wise, somehow always look like they are made in Unreal. IDK what it is, but it's like the rendering system has some telltale signature I can't put my finger on. But you can always tell when something is made in Unreal Engine, regardless of how photoreal it feels.
I think it is the way it softens visuals so that you don't get sharp edges and to simulate distance.
@jamoecw maybe! I would love to see someone do a breakdown of this
What else is even comparable? In terms of graphical fidelity. To my knowledge, its the only engine that really gets photorealistic, and as such, that carries a sort of signature in and of itself. Take this with a grain of salt as im not on the up and up when it comes to photorealistic engines.
I feel the same with games made in unity. Engines have telltale signs sometimes
@@ProfessorOfLogicAtUnvOfScience You are right for game engines, but graphics engines for rendering movies can beat Unreal in terms of photo realism, but even for ones that are comparable to Unreal's graphics Unreal stands out. Some people have modified Unity to have graphics that they say are as good as Unreal, but it never truly measures up if both use all of the features at their disposal.
Empire of the Ants is also the name of a solid ant documentary you can watch on youtube after a bowl of weedies
I had a similar idea to this game more than 10 years ago, but I never followed through on it. I was thinking in a more realistic direction though; you would have to lay down pheromones to tell your other ants where to go. Also I wanted the camera to be uncoupled from the horizon, so you would constantly rotate as your ant navigated the 3D world. It's neat to see it implemented though.
0:41 ah yes that common curse word 😂
While ants don't jump, there are some species of ants that can launch themselves and travel good distance. One example is the Trapjaw Ant with their large mandibles that can open up to 180 degrees. By snapping those mandibles with such great force, it can launch itself using the recoil.
Ants do not jump. Lady birds is the British name for the Lady bugs. Happy to help with useless knowledge.
In Tasmania we have jack jumpers that very much do jump
@@steveabel Some say that is the case, but if you look at them 'jumping' they do not do a jumping motion. The Jack jumpers are an interesting ant to be sure.
RCE: We have to do this as quickly as possible. Also RCE: Oh look, a swing!
Definitely continue this series. It is compelling
I haven't watched a bridge review in so long because of my only really watching timberborn recently, this was very refreshing
That "Ahh Su- Gis- Sdar.." was spot on
Matt is Sardaukar confirmed.
Well, ants are most likely the civil engineers of the insect world (they sure do like their tunnels)
Highways and bridges too!
Matt sure goes places. He builds everything, rates bridges, but he misses all the greatest puns. Some ANTgeneer he is.
That's exactly what an engineer would do
They solve practical problems, not puns
You could say it’s… anti-climactic 😅
This is the best graphics I've ever seen....and it's about ants.....
18:22 that's tonyhawk proskate sound, right? 😂
Play more off this game I love it :)
You should play empires of the undergrowth or at least try. It was probably the best ant sim of all time before this game came out. Please check it out Matt :)
Fun fact most ants can actually hold their breath for ALOT longer than humans
Approximately 24 hours but somtimes even days!
They are also fairly good swimmers as if their colony gets flooded the workers will make a raft out of themselves to protect the queen
Ant rafts are something you really have to be careful of in flood waters. Last thing you'd want is thousands of Australian green ants or fire ants realising you're a dry object poking up out of the water
@capdyn735 then realizing your food or a possible threat and eating you alive without any way for you to escape
If anyone interested in games about ants, there is a game "Empire of the Undergrowth" - it's an RTS about ants, where you can play different ant species with different gameplay, like black ants just common ones, jungle ants should cut leafs and grow mushrooms or as termites you should eat ants!
I remember around I think either 4th grade I would play SimAnt all the time.
Was a neat & simple game, but made it where for the longest time, my hyperfixation was learning about ants. I don't know how much info I was able to recall. Probably had nightmares about the idea of Army Ants in my head seeming like cartoon trope of piranha fish.
4:04
Yes they do bite because one of those little pests bit me a couple years back when we had an infestation of them.
more of this game please! That was wonderful to watch
If ants had the independent thinking to do so, yes, they can jump pretty far. They can lift tons of times their bodyweight, and I've seen an ant try to commit murder before an push a friendly off a table.
RCE said termites and ants are engineers and architects 5:00 , logically sorting this we can deduct that ants are architects and RCE is playing as an ant, secretly telling us he’s an architect 😮
Termites are indeed the true engineers of the insect world. RCE is an architect.
of course he would like being an Ant, considering Ants are engineers of insect world
Termites are the Real Insect Engineers.
Ants don’t sleep at night
They do have multiple rest periods that last like 10 minutes at a time, for a total of just under 5 hours of sleep per day, but at any given time, a majority of the colony is active
you are not wrong, this does seem to be an unusually pretty (and decently optimised from the vid quality) game.
also seems kind of neat, overlord/pikmin meets sacrifice.
Finally one of my favorite sim games of all time Sim Ant has been remastered.
I didn’t know I wanted a Real Civil Engineer and AntsCanada crossover until now.
Normally most ants are female with only a few male ones. Like with bee nests. Just a queen and female ants or bees, with only a few male ants or bees. Many colonies follow this scheme.
Aren't ants just an offshoot of bees? Or bees are an offshoot of ants?
@@stylesrj I think wasps are offshoots of ants. Not sure about bees, maybe.
This is what we are doing wrong with society. Let the women run everything and we can just provide the seed :D
@@TheBanana93
Actually... in a universe I'm writing up, there is a cult of bee people... they all engage in scientific pursuit. Even the Drones are given a similar education because they want research assistants who can tell the difference between a quantum stabiliser and a dimensional hydrospanner... but it's obvious that the Drones are treated as a worthless underclass only worthy to simp after the "queens" :D
@@TheBanana93 Sorry, but life is not an harem anime.
This game is so beautiful I forgot how much insects creep me out. 10/10.
This is the best game to demonstrate Nanite and environmental 3D scan. Good job to dev.
3:47 that what she said😂😂
It‘s a Football…
This has probably been answered but on the structure of ant colonies...
Nearly all ants are female. Workers, soldiers, caretakers. Drone ants do have wings, and so do virgin queens. The drones and virgin queens will leave in a big group, where the queens will mate with several drones before ripping off their wings and digging a little chamber to start nursing their first eggs.
After mating, drone ants die, as male ants have no other purpose in the colony.
sagusdar is gonna be a new merch shirt
Yes, ladybug is US term for them. ladybirds are the UK terms.
But they're bugs not birds 😂
Wait, a Monday video that isn't a compilation video?
Ladybugs/ladybirds almost never bite people and are fairly harmless when they do, but there's a lookalike called the Asian lady beetle that are way more aggressive about biting humans. And we in the US decided to drop them all over farmland as a form of pest control, because they eat aphids and other insect pests the same way our native ones do.
The Asian variety comes in a lot of colors, but the red/orange one looks a lot like a ladybug/bird. But if there's an M or W made out of the black spots on its head, it's the lookalike.
They're both ladybugs. In fact there are over 6000 species of ladybug; some bite, some do not.
Lady bugs don't bite that I know of. Tiger beetles do. The orange "lady bugs" they tend to nest under roof shingles
Ladybugs certainly do bite when they're mating. It's accidental, but it definitely stings a bit!
Pocket Ants but for 4080 GTX computers
Damn those Architect Termites! Graphics are stunning, Matt.
Ladybird and lady bugs are different insects
ladybird and ladybug and lady beetle are all different names for the same group of insects.
Next try empires of the undergrowth (very good ant game)
18:30 insaniquarium fish death sound effect
4:01 ladybeetle is the proper name
This game looks absolutely amazing. I knew we would get photorealistic video games eventually, I just didn't expect it in an ant game.
Edit: Went to go check out this game myself and kept seeing that it released in 2000, and was really confused. Apparently this is a remake from 2 weeks ago.
Anyone else from the southern U.S. want to see a fire ant DLC, complete with a flood scenario?
According to Alexa, the jack jumper ant can jump up to 20ft or roughly 6m
I can already see these ants wearing an engineer's helmet.
the first 7 minutes i was like ,,well thats kinda lame..." but after that i was like HOLY SHIT THAT GAME LOOKS AWESOME!! ( im buying that for sure )
As a recommendation for a future long form video is a compilation of all the bridge reviews
Day 90 of asking Matt to play what he wants to play. Because we will enjoy it anyway :)
This looks so damn good. Excellent job, Devs!!!
Spider-ant, spider-ant does whatever a spider-ant does.
most ants cannot jump except for two species Harpegnathos saltator and Trap-jaw ants though none of them can jump that far
Hi Matt!
Have you played Subnautica or Grounded? They are more long form games but so so amazing and i would watch a 30 part series if you ever decided to play either one!
❤RCE
"I love being an ant"
I miss SimAnt and everything else by Maxis... and Bullfrog and every other company that EA consumed and then did nothing with.
You call termites architects but they are engineers like the ones in Africa that makes big cooling towers. Actually ants and termites are pretty much engineers since they all build as efficiently as they can and architecture is a more human thing.
Fun fact: there is an estimated 2.5 million ants per person. Do with that what you will...
I am really enjoying this game so far
THIS ENGINEER IS A SPY
22:48 , Saving Private Ryan.
Again, play Empires of the Undergrowth, similar ideas and the devs of both are friendly with each other, also it has Bridges! :v
And if you got this with the bundle then I shall happily await that vid lmao.
Matt said “I understand it now”
He did not understand it
Hi Matt I love your videos please make more TIMBERBORN !!!
Such a cool Video. It will be great and a good start in a new week if it is monday.
What an absolutely b-e-a-utiful looking game!
That ant colony Facebook group is gonna LOVE this
i also have this game its amazing, keep up the great work
2.9 was generous for that bridge
Supposedly soccer and football have marginally different rules. Also soccer is an antiquated British term for soccer association. Supposedly the English used to like shortening things and adding er to make it slang and when the term caught on in the us the Brits went back thus making another problem with the us the uk manufactured
you might want to check out empires of the undergrowth
Petition to make Matt's ant be called "Mant" for all future videos 😂
How many ants does it take to fill an apartment? . . . TenANTS 🐜
Fun fact: every single worker Ant is a female, but they don’t lay eggs
The dev mistve played banjo kazooie and after world 1 they wanted more, desired more, craved more ant gameplay in their life.
Ladybird Beetle is the European common name. We just say ladybug here in the US.