Special thanks to Dr. Adrian Smith of ua-cam.com/users/antlab for giving us special permission to highlight his video (ua-cam.com/video/heuYzC12etg/v-deo.html) in #1.
I had to stop and angrily try to discern what he could possibly mean by this. Suffice to say, I could come up with no logical explanation, which only left me more agitated.
Awesome video and great hardcore ant picks! There are many other mind-blowing ant species! Dracula ants belong on this list. They drink the blood of their own young. They actually fatten their larvae up and then inflict wounds on their larvae and pupae and drink the hemolymph (i.e. insect blood) that bleeds out. These wounds heal and the young grow up to become adult dracula ants that go on to feed from their younger siblings' blood! I actually own a colony and have a couple videos on my dracula ant colony! Come check it out if you ever get a chance. Ant love forever!
PS - Don't forget weaver ants, which use their larvae to spin massive leaf basket nests in trees! The colony benefits from the transpiration the leaves give off, so their homes have natural humidifiers, not to mention a built-in CO2-eater/O2 station!
I love the fact that unlike textbooks, videos like these pique your curiosity & simultaneously tell you that we don’t know everything. There is research to be done on almost everything. It helps you choose career paths too. So thanks for making quality content.
Barbaric ants 0:37 Hyper active crazy ants 2:07 Kamikaze ants 3:35 Enslaving ants 4:41 Scorpio ants 5:42 Farmer ants 7:04 Free honey vending machine ants 8:00
But then again, that is a pretty common behaviour. Many species of ants do that, so it's not very surprising. The most interesting aphid farmers would be ants that farm aphids underground and with plant roots.
I know this is probably going to be about 7 different ant _species_ but I can't shake the idea of just 7 really buff ants, all called Tony or Gary or something, and they all drive white ford vans and get road rage. Like strong ant versions of the seven dwarves (but with a mini pint of Stella and a cigarette) Edit: dammit it's about species. So long to Tony, Tony, Gary, Gavin, Gazzer, Al, Alan, and Mark I guess
*when you’re at the point in your commentor career when you don’t even have add meaningful commentary or clever comments to any given video to be top comment*
Hardcore Ants: Reside in parents house usually dwelling in basement, known to dislike their home colony and feel neglected by superiors, has a strict diet of no alcohol and drugs but usually pizza and Green Tea, gatherings usually in church basements on weekdays at 7pm, can be easily identified with "X" mark on hands, Born A New dad hats and Counterparts windbreaker, defends themselves with spin kicks, windmills and two stepping. Use caution when seeing them in gatherings
Ants are also one of the smartest insects on the planet and have been shown to have insane problem solving skills, use tools and some species appear to have even passed the mirror test. Ants are pretty remarkable.
You shan‘t overshadow the glory of Muscle Hank with your lol funi relatable ‘humor.’ It is said he shall be top commentor on all SciShow videos he touches with his glorious profile picture. You won’t win.
Studying ants has got to be awesome! I've been fascinated by them for decades. The Amazon ants are one of those species that make you wonder how many species throughout time have died because of an adaptation of prey or another minor change. We also are making new niches and it's interesting to watch how life is adjusting to a fledgling technological species.
Question for another video: There's a clear distinction between male and female voices in humans (pitch and depth), but does that same distinction occur elsewhere in nature? (ie dogs, cats, horses, etc)
as a low voltage technician in Florida, there was once a time i opened an access control panel on a service call and, when i opened this panel, CLUMPS of ants fell out the panel we ended up spraying the panel with raid and just waited to get a new one.
Nice! // For the record, there is a channel Brave Wilderness, which is basically a guy taking all insect stings he can, including a bullet ant. Pretty crazy if you ask me.
On the Brave Wilderness channel, he stung himself with everything from the schmidt person index and he found the exterminator wasp which he says was the most painful, even more than the bullet ant
It always shocked me how little Steve Erwin reacted to bites and stings. Dude would get chomped on by a snake or a tarantula and he'd say something like "that's a doozy!" or similar mild reaction, whereas 99% of humans would be crying or at least screaming profanities.
How about a video on badass nudibranchs (sea slugs)? Like how some literally eat super poisonous stuff and turn it into their own weapon. Asking for an equally nerdy friend.
6:36 I would not be surprised if the ant poison does more then just make the skin swell. As earlier (6:29) mentioned the poison causes contractions in smooth muscles. why is this interesting? Smooth muscles are, among many other things, used for vasculair constriction/vasoconstriction (smooth muscles in the walls of a bloodvessel contracting to make the bloodvessel more narrow or completely close it off), so the poison could POTENTIALLY help make the bleeding stop faster. If the bleeding stops faster the blood can start clotting earlier and the wound will be closed off faster with a bloodclot. This limits the chance of it getting infected, which is very important!!! Its also possible that the dose is simply not high enough to cause this and nothing happens. Don't know if anyone has ever tested that. Also you just got a very short pathology lesson. I hope you enjoyed it and have a great day.
Some people say that it's the "ants bite" when they mean sting. I've heard the confusion comes from that fact that most ants dont have as obvious stingers as bees or wasps, and they almost only sting while biting, often arcing their butts up to sting right next to where they're biting.
Thanks for the fascinating video! Any idea how long repletes live? Droughts can be pretty long and I don't think of ants as having long lifecycles. Also, how do they get from the nectar sources to the ceiling of the colony? They don't look like movement is particularly easy for them. Thanks again!
C. explodens sounds like a very defensive Creeper: mess with it, and it hisses as a warning. Keep messing with it, and it explodes and most likely murders you.
Maybe the reason why the skull collector ant display's skulls is because, possibly the pheromones emitted by their antenna decompose into a deterrent smell/agent. Question how does an ant determine a obstacle, and how they avoid obstacles may lead to better driverless cars?
If you want to show off how amazing animals can be might I suggest that you create a video on how native Aussie animals have adapted to the presence of the cane toad. If learning how rakali and ibises have managed to make safe and tasty snacks of them doesn't intrigue you, I don't know what will.
Unbelievably interesting creatures from an evolutionary standpoint. Can you guys post more in-depth videos about some of the more peculiar species if you haven't already?
your flesh is split open and you are in pain, and you try to make it more painful by having bullet ants bite the said wound. bestest logic. i guess i'll just have a band aid...
Bullet ant: I have evolved to give nothing but pain! No One can defend me! Humanity: I have a open wound and it hurts... Let´s get some bullet ant poison for better healing. People are such a smart thing :)
Scientist A: Look at this ant I found! Scientist B: Cool! What’s it called? Scientist A: C Explodans [sorry if I got the spelling wrong, I’m scared of insects and couldn’t look at the screen while it was on there] Scientist B: Why is it called that? Scientist A: C this ant? **Ant explodes** It explodans.
We need an Antz sequel with some of these horrors in it... Like the OG Antz get captured and put in a giant ant colony where a human is placing all the types of ants together and its all out war between colonies for survival of the fittest. Maybe the twist could be the ants unifying to escape the 'lab', like make a giant trap to catch the human or something. Maybe add a bunch of those spiders from the spider vid ye did, that'd be a spicy movie lol.
For any wondering, since ants largely rely on scent as their main sense, formic acid is actually one of the indicator chemicals that many ants use to tell when their brethren are dead. Imagine someone throwing dust in your face, and suddenly you had the undeniable belief that you were a corpse. That's basically what ants go through when covered with formic acid. It wasn't paralyzed; it was merely _forced to play dead._
They're living vending machines...which is creepy. Haha Great episode. My girls and I really enjoyed it. "The skull collectors were weird" (11 year old daughter). "I like the leaf cutting ants" (8 year old daughter).
idk, have you ever cleaned out a porch light? There will be like 10 generations of moths in those things and new moths will still keep flying to their doom.
Special thanks to Dr. Adrian Smith of ua-cam.com/users/antlab for giving us special permission to highlight his video (ua-cam.com/video/heuYzC12etg/v-deo.html) in #1.
Pppp
"Which is... A mood, I guess."
He was so forced to say that lmfao
The incarnation of boredom I was laughing at this for a while 😂
Pulser21 me too 😂
I had to stop and angrily try to discern what he could possibly mean by this.
Suffice to say, I could come up with no logical explanation, which only left me more agitated.
This video has really inspired my interior design for this spring.
Awesome video and great hardcore ant picks! There are many other mind-blowing ant species! Dracula ants belong on this list. They drink the blood of their own young. They actually fatten their larvae up and then inflict wounds on their larvae and pupae and drink the hemolymph (i.e. insect blood) that bleeds out. These wounds heal and the young grow up to become adult dracula ants that go on to feed from their younger siblings' blood! I actually own a colony and have a couple videos on my dracula ant colony! Come check it out if you ever get a chance. Ant love forever!
PS - Don't forget weaver ants, which use their larvae to spin massive leaf basket nests in trees! The colony benefits from the transpiration the leaves give off, so their homes have natural humidifiers, not to mention a built-in CO2-eater/O2 station!
But how can you forget the siafu ants?! They tear up forests with ease
I was just about to add your vampire ants to the comments when I came across this.
@@AntsCanada Doesn't Canada have any child labor laws or child abuse laws?
I was waiting for your comment sir, ant love forever!
exploding ant: *flexes abdomen and explodes*
predator, dying: weird flex but ok
This is honestly my favorite comment on this video
Ant: "Allahu Akbar!"
Ant: *explodes*
Dog with a burning toe: "wtf was that?"
You won't like me when im angry
Lol literal meme
Skull collecting ants. Basically the Predators of the ant world.
I was thinking dexter, gets in close to larger prey, paralyzes them, then dismembers them. And keeps a piece as a trophy.
@@nothing09832 i see yu iz a boy of kultur uzwell. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Ants of Khorne more likely
more like hypocrites that stab you in the back by pretending to be a friend
I'm watching that movie at the same time this reply got typed.
I love the fact that unlike textbooks, videos like these pique your curiosity & simultaneously tell you that we don’t know everything. There is research to be done on almost everything. It helps you choose career paths too. So thanks for making quality content.
Barbaric ants 0:37
Hyper active crazy ants 2:07
Kamikaze ants 3:35
Enslaving ants 4:41
Scorpio ants 5:42
Farmer ants 7:04
Free honey vending machine ants 8:00
Ofc the first one is from Florida
@@dadadme4413 FLORDA MAYNE🙄
Can't believe you didn't talk about ants who raise and take care of aphids as a source of sugar like farmers and their cows.
AntsCanada
But then again, that is a pretty common behaviour. Many species of ants do that, so it's not very surprising. The most interesting aphid farmers would be ants that farm aphids underground and with plant roots.
little mite moo moo farmers!
@@TerrinX fellow AC Family ....
that is literally most ants where aphids are native to.
I know this is probably going to be about 7 different ant _species_ but I can't shake the idea of just 7 really buff ants, all called Tony or Gary or something, and they all drive white ford vans and get road rage. Like strong ant versions of the seven dwarves (but with a mini pint of Stella and a cigarette)
Edit: dammit it's about species. So long to Tony, Tony, Gary, Gavin, Gazzer, Al, Alan, and Mark I guess
Iona Cowley That's eight ants
@@woodfur00 mark is a small beetle but they let him be in the gang bc he can hold a conversation so well and also has amazing fashion sense
@@theowlyone yes, but Mark has his mother's hips and that's something he is gonna have to learn to live with
@@damnpineapples8247 This is glorious
Iona Cowley All ants are female except for the drones
Absolute mad lads.
*when you’re at the point in your commentor career when you don’t even have add meaningful commentary or clever comments to any given video to be top comment*
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News Alert: Ant colony literally too angry to die
Lol. Breaking news: ANT COLONY RECKS TOWN THAT TRYS TO KILL IT
Not true i hope
Why are your comments literally everywhere
Justin Y.
you are everywhere wtf
I have seen you more than usual today
This guy thinks he's John green
"And it's all happening... Under your feet."
*immediately lifts feet off the floor*
"Some ants are actually amazing"... False. All ants are amazing :-)
False ants suck when they sting you.
@@nicholasneyhart396 Amazing...ly painful?
Yeah :D
Sounds like you'd like ua-cam.com/users/AntsCanada
This is so PURE
Hardcore Ants:
Reside in parents house usually dwelling in basement, known to dislike their home colony and feel neglected by superiors, has a strict diet of no alcohol and drugs but usually pizza and Green Tea, gatherings usually in church basements on weekdays at 7pm, can be easily identified with "X" mark on hands, Born A New dad hats and Counterparts windbreaker, defends themselves with spin kicks, windmills and two stepping. Use caution when seeing them in gatherings
Lol
Ants are also one of the smartest insects on the planet and have been shown to have insane problem solving skills, use tools and some species appear to have even passed the mirror test. Ants are pretty remarkable.
I guess the person who named the Rasberry Crazy Ant couldn't spell Raspberry. :D
It's named after the guy who found them.
I guess their parents can’t spell
@@alexwang982 it's just a name
It was named by a guy who figured out that these ants were increasing in number in the USA
exploding ants are literally banelings from starcraft 2
That was my immediate thought as well.
and all they could come up with was C.explodens ... pityful researchers. :)
When an ant can lift more than you
You shan‘t overshadow the glory of Muscle Hank with your lol funi relatable ‘humor.’ It is said he shall be top commentor on all SciShow videos he touches with his glorious profile picture. You won’t win.
It's not really that impressive because of the Square Cube Law.
If they were anywhere proportional to our size they'd be crushed by their own weight.
Do you even lift bro?
This video is making me feel... *antsy.*
*w u t*
*l o l*
*W. H. Y*
Studying ants has got to be awesome! I've been fascinated by them for decades. The Amazon ants are one of those species that make you wonder how many species throughout time have died because of an adaptation of prey or another minor change. We also are making new niches and it's interesting to watch how life is adjusting to a fledgling technological species.
Trap Jaw Ant: *collects skulls*
The Predator: That is my man
Lol.
"Which is... SO creepy" - Michael Aranda, 2018
Gonna have to erase number 1 from existence because I ain't waiting till they evolve into predators
Stung him Self with every insect he could find ... sounds like brave wilderness xD
yeah, but he did it before it was cool. He was the OG crazy nature guy
That's cute.
All bow to the glory of his profile picture and insightful commentary. Thank you four touching our hearts with your majesty.
Muscle fake
Question for another video: There's a clear distinction between male and female voices in humans (pitch and depth), but does that same distinction occur elsewhere in nature? (ie dogs, cats, horses, etc)
Excuse me who are you???
@@ultimateo621 I know right who does this guy think he is?
Wonder if the skull-collecting ant was the idea behind The Predator movies.
Yessss that what I was thinking
I mean. Humans have been collecting skulls of animals since forever.
Skulls for the Skull Throne!💀
The Skull Collecting Ant really should have been called the Skulltaker Ant.
Ants for the ant god!
Vremea trezirii
as a low voltage technician in Florida, there was once a time i opened an access control panel on a service call and, when i opened this panel, CLUMPS of ants fell out the panel we ended up spraying the panel with raid and just waited to get a new one.
Woulda been cool if they gave a plug for Ants Canada.
Ac fam?
I'm sure it will show up in the recommended videos of anyone who likes this one.
@@Scarybug or the top comment
Nice! // For the record, there is a channel Brave Wilderness, which is basically a guy taking all insect stings he can, including a bullet ant. Pretty crazy if you ask me.
Leaf-cutter ants also carry juvenile ants on their backs while foraging for leaves in order to watch for flies that try to lay their eggs on them.
“Scull Collecting Ants”
Of course they live in Florida.
Scishow: There are ants that collect the skulls of other ants as trophies.
Me: but why?
Scishow: these ants live in Florida.
Me: Oh, ok then.
Finally my favorite animals got showtime on SciShow!
On the Brave Wilderness channel, he stung himself with everything from the schmidt person index and he found the exterminator wasp which he says was the most painful, even more than the bullet ant
"Bullet Ants are known for being the ultimate pain inducers"
*LAUGHS IN EXECUTIONER WASP*
What about Brave Wilderness' sting pain index
It always shocked me how little Steve Erwin reacted to bites and stings. Dude would get chomped on by a snake or a tarantula and he'd say something like "that's a doozy!" or similar mild reaction, whereas 99% of humans would be crying or at least screaming profanities.
@@arthas640 It's because he was an Aussie, mate.
@@berryberrykixx *didgeridoo intensifies*
How about a video on badass nudibranchs (sea slugs)? Like how some literally eat super poisonous stuff and turn it into their own weapon. Asking for an equally nerdy friend.
Thank you for sharing this video, I used some info to my vid Super Langgam! More power!
Humans: 2.8 million years, on the way out.
Ants: 140 million years. No regrets, no complaints.
No vampire ants? This is still very cool though!
Vampire ants are hardcore asf!
6:36 I would not be surprised if the ant poison does more then just make the skin swell.
As earlier (6:29) mentioned the poison causes contractions in smooth muscles.
why is this interesting?
Smooth muscles are, among many other things, used for vasculair constriction/vasoconstriction (smooth muscles in the walls of a bloodvessel contracting to make the bloodvessel more narrow or completely close it off), so the poison could POTENTIALLY help make the bleeding stop faster.
If the bleeding stops faster the blood can start clotting earlier and the wound will be closed off faster with a bloodclot.
This limits the chance of it getting infected, which is very important!!!
Its also possible that the dose is simply not high enough to cause this and nothing happens. Don't know if anyone has ever tested that.
Also you just got a very short pathology lesson. I hope you enjoyed it and have a great day.
Oooh, yeah..
Don`t wanna see ants streaming from your crack, that`s a bad day..
Ant-Man needs to step up his game with these ants, man!
You forgot the amazing ant that gives you 5 dollars in an envelope for Christmas.
Wow, they really ant joking around.
That's an insect-lectual pun.
6:50 I thought the venom was from their butt and not the mandibles?
I'm pretty sure it is. I think Coyote even mentions it in a video or two.
Some people say that it's the "ants bite" when they mean sting. I've heard the confusion comes from that fact that most ants dont have as obvious stingers as bees or wasps, and they almost only sting while biting, often arcing their butts up to sting right next to where they're biting.
I’ll never forget seeing a long line of leafcutter ants crossing the path at Chitzen Itza. It was seriously cool.
I'm worried about the futuristic ants that will have superpowers to stop us stepping us
Thanks for the fascinating video! Any idea how long repletes live? Droughts can be pretty long and I don't think of ants as having long lifecycles. Also, how do they get from the nectar sources to the ceiling of the colony? They don't look like movement is particularly easy for them. Thanks again!
The honeypot replete ants are like to their ant buddies “My body is your communion, eat from me, drink from me.” 😂.
Arts are honestly amazing. They are incredibly fascinating
C. explodens sounds like a very defensive Creeper: mess with it, and it hisses as a warning. Keep messing with it, and it explodes and most likely murders you.
Those raspberry ants actually managed to destroy the motor of my garage door .-.
Really cool video and loved Michael’s hosting
There once was an wee ant who liked to wear street pants, but the clothing store racks weren't made for thorax, and so it started to rant.
6:44 how is there venom in their pincers? I thought it was like staples that what keeps the wounds closed not using their venom?
Skull collecting ants are predator and trap jaw ants are alien xenomorphs. Sounds like a Ridley Scott flick.
No joke ants are my favorite animal so this is my favorite episode to date
Ok but how about the ones that you step on 10 times and never die
Where are the Chimera Ants on this list?
Always interesting, thank you.
Well, normal honey is already bee vomit. So I guess these things aren't that much weirder.
Also, never forget that honey is bee vomit.
No, no, definitely forget it
Maybe the reason why the skull collector ant display's skulls is because, possibly the pheromones emitted by their antenna decompose into a deterrent smell/agent. Question how does an ant determine a obstacle, and how they avoid obstacles may lead to better driverless cars?
If you want to show off how amazing animals can be might I suggest that you create a video on how native Aussie animals have adapted to the presence of the cane toad. If learning how rakali and ibises have managed to make safe and tasty snacks of them doesn't intrigue you, I don't know what will.
“I use ant heads in all my decorating!”
Missing from the Leafcutter segment: The fungus they grow isn't found anywhere else. It only exists in Leafcutter nests.
Also check out the channel "AntsCanada". Has left me entirely fascinated with the little buggers.
You forgot about the Indian anty. A lethal throwing arm and obsession with growing the family clan makes them a force to be reckoned with.
I rarely comment , And my gawd this video is amazing, the way you informed pepple is down tight awesome!
My uncle used to call my aunt 'Honeypot'. Now, I'm wondering if he was just trying to get her to spit up.
Unbelievably interesting creatures from an evolutionary standpoint. Can you guys post more in-depth videos about some of the more peculiar species if you haven't already?
WTH this video is awesome! IUSSI!!!! MUST LEARN MORE
your flesh is split open and you are in pain,
and you try to make it more painful by having bullet ants bite the said wound.
bestest logic.
i guess i'll just have a band aid...
Bullet ant: I have evolved to give nothing but pain! No One can defend me!
Humanity: I have a open wound and it hurts... Let´s get some bullet ant poison for better healing.
People are such a smart thing :)
If you're interested in ants, you will love the 'AntsCanada' channel.
Ant love forever!
0:37 SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Scientist A: Look at this ant I found!
Scientist B: Cool! What’s it called?
Scientist A: C Explodans [sorry if I got the spelling wrong, I’m scared of insects and couldn’t look at the screen while it was on there]
Scientist B: Why is it called that?
Scientist A: C this ant?
**Ant explodes**
It explodans.
Bullet ant stings are a little bit painful but it takes 2,250 bullet ants stings to kill a 165 pound human.
I remember leaf cutter ants on Monster Bug Wars where they killed a scorpion
Rasberry crazy ants should be called "TV Static ants" because it looked like the gray static from a tv when they all were running around.
Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the skull throne. Chaos ants, who would have guessed that. Where is your Emperor now?
Now I know what creeper looks like in real life no.3
I 100% expected to see AC Mikey show up in this episode... And was sad when he didn't
We need an Antz sequel with some of these horrors in it... Like the OG Antz get captured and put in a giant ant colony where a human is placing all the types of ants together and its all out war between colonies for survival of the fittest. Maybe the twist could be the ants unifying to escape the 'lab', like make a giant trap to catch the human or something. Maybe add a bunch of those spiders from the spider vid ye did, that'd be a spicy movie lol.
Whenever I see an ant video I have to decide who I’m gonna quote, Ant-Man, or Neil Ciciergia
4:15
Predator: Weird flex but ok
My friend heard ants collect skulls and she was like "... Miay orrysay, HATWAY?" ( I'm sorry... WHAT?)
This is what absolute bottom level totalitarianism would force on you:
3:58
8:28
Who else is waiting for Mikey Bustos' comment?
Already commented
Michael has such a nice and soothing voice 😌
Vampire Ants
Dinosaur Ants
Ghost Ants
Pharaoh Ants
Sugar Ants
Jumping Jack Ants
Bull Ants
Spider Ants
Army Ants
Of course the skull collector is from Florida. Why am I not surprised?
Teamwork makes the dream work
What if the head hunter ants are just the first ant historians? Their just collecting specimens to study.
For any wondering, since ants largely rely on scent as their main sense, formic acid is actually one of the indicator chemicals that many ants use to tell when their brethren are dead. Imagine someone throwing dust in your face, and suddenly you had the undeniable belief that you were a corpse. That's basically what ants go through when covered with formic acid. It wasn't paralyzed; it was merely _forced to play dead._
Also, how dare you not include cannibalistic, vampire ants. They can only subsist by consuming the 'blood' of their own young after feeding them.
They're living vending machines...which is creepy. Haha Great episode. My girls and I really enjoyed it. "The skull collectors were weird" (11 year old daughter). "I like the leaf cutting ants" (8 year old daughter).
If they like ants I suggest AntsCanada, a fun and amazingly informational channel on ant keeping among other neat surprises
@@TerrinX Will do! Thanks for the suggestion, Teddy.
HEMOLYPH FOR THE HEMOLYMPH GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL HIVE!
What fascinating little creatures!!!!
hmmm... I do that too, if I kill a moth or something, I leave it's body there as a warning to others, I would not be surprised if this actually works
idk, have you ever cleaned out a porch light? There will be like 10 generations of moths in those things and new moths will still keep flying to their doom.
"These aren't characters from a movie. They're ants."
Well hang on, now. How many movies have you checked? 🤔