I've seen an ant war before in nature, it was red ants vs black ants (in the UK) and I was watching the two nests as I was curious as to why they were so close together. Then I saw a red and black ant bump in to each other and suddenly zoom back to their nest. Next thing I know, ants come pouring out of both nests and charge towards each other. They fought on to the death and I even saw ants dragging wounded allies back to the nest! Eventually, the black ants were victorious and then they moved in to the nest and took it over. It was a truly fascinating thing to see.
Thanks for sharing! Have seen something simmular, though here in Norway red ants spray acid and black ants just have their teeth. It was a tiny red ant colony living beside a huge black ant colony. They lived beside one another for a few months with regular scirmishes. Now and then the black ants would make a big push against the red ants leaving piles of dead black ants. Including warrior ants(the winged ones) from both sides. They had their final battle in the mating season though. Both hives tried to mate their future queens in the same 10x10 meter, flat concrete area. There were dead bodies everywhere, and warriors buzzing around, fighting as well as competing for the queens. After a huge battle the red ants were finally outnumbered, and the remaining red ants fled far away protecting their last princess. Only a few warriors and a handfull of workers survived. We later found their new collony ontop a cliffhang, fighting a newly arrived band of earthwasps over a healthy blueberry field.
Just found your channel. I'm impressed by how much you've grown as an editor and narrator, not to mention how educational your videos are and how much joy clearly enjoy caring for your beasts! Great job, AC! 😎👍
I've read an article on these 2 ant species. A person placed a dead cricket between the fire ant colony and the black crazy ant colony. The fire ants arrived at the crickets first, the black crazy ants launched an assault but the fire ants overpowered them with their venom. The black crazy ants did the most interesting thing I ever heard of in the ant world, they head to one side of the battle, sprayed formic acid and sucked it into their mouths, then ran their legs through their mouths and spread the formic acid all over their body and that detoxified the venom from the fire ants before heading back into battle. This means crazy ants have the ability to neutralize fire ant venom, which gives them the advantage when competing for food.
Fire ant venom is made of alkaloids. Also, the crazy ants you are talking about are probably raspberry crazy ants that are currently invading north america.
When i was a kid i used to pair the two together. i had nests close to where i lived. My conclusion: If the numbers are even red ants win like 60 - 65 % of the times. But you need just + 1 black (so like 60 red vs 61 black) to turn the tide. so they are extreamly close... but red ants are slightly stronger one on one. tho i guess that has to do with the fact that they are slightly bigger. yes i was a strange kid xD
I did the same too as a kid. But what I noticed was black ant colonies mostly won because of their sheer numbers. They would mostly over run the red colony or sometimes the reds would fend off an attack and the blacks retreat with a lot of losses on both sides.
In my neighborhood there are 2 major ant colonys one red and one black the main red ant hill is in my backyard with smaller ones in my front yard and the main black ant hill is in my nextdoor neighbors yard and every time i come outside i see black ant scouts on the pavement coming into my yard (my yard would basically be a desert to them its all just dirt no grass just weeds) and each time they always run into each other and start to fight at first the red ants would win because they're closer to the colony and its just a couple of scouts but the next time i checked on the ants i saw dozens of black ants just storming the smaller colonys and ripping the red ants to shreds
I wonder how they'd fare based on biomass... from your analysis, with equal biomass of insect, the simpler but faster and better-coordinated black ants could win. As Tierzoo might put it, the red ants have incredible build options and an array of powerful weapons that allow them to take on foes in much larger weight-classes, but the simpler loadout of the rushdown black ants is far superior in single combat. Putting all of your evolutionary points into one weapon can be very potent, but not so much when your foes are numerous and individually weak.
I would think it also sort of comes down to their method of killing. 1 red ant can sting and kill a black ant. However, Black ants rely on strength in numbers to keep from getting stung by the red ants as well as attack them.
There's a anthill in my backyard that has black ants. It's pretty interesting to watch them work. I sometimes help them out by putting food right next to the anthill. 😅
TheFalcon Venom if u watch other videos of Ants Canada u would see one that explains that it's best to injure the prey first, n other times he stuffs them wit jelly!! hey that's cool to...that's y NATURE is beautiful!!
Thank you so much for uploading this! I teach 4 year olds and our current theme is on Ants! They loved the video and can't stop talking about how interesting and smart ants are! :)
mr v How'd you know? Kids can be interested in anything. It's in how you explain it to them. ***** Please don't listen to such negative comment(s), some people live to ruin our day.
*MAN you better hope no one ever sneak in your room knowing you will be gone for a while & unplugs your tubes so they can get out into your room, does that thought ever worry you?*
I wonder how the black ants got from India to all over the world. My mind: *pictures a boat full of black ants in a giant storm* Me: that’s probably how
I'm assuming it might be similar to what happens with most other animal species, which is that there's a chance they might accept it, and a chance they might kill it.
what would happen is the original colony that he is keeping would kill the outsider, since the outsider cannot listen to the queens commands simply because he is not used to her scents, and she is not used to his... therefor he would be un-coordinated and simply useless to the ant colony, they would kill him.
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Weird thing is: Here, in the UK, we get Myrmica Rubra - the European fire ant - which has a painful sting - APPARENTLY - and is a major pest in the US. But I will happily lie on the ground near their nests. I never even found out what they were until last week. They are just so chilled out. I've never been stung by an ant. I don't think I even know anyone who has. There's an abandoned quarry where we all used to go and sit on the grass and drink, or camp and drink, or sit round a fire and drink, and the whole floor of the quarry is full of these fire ants nests, yet I've never heard of anyone ever being stung by one. They don't swarm unless you start digging in the soil, and then, it's not for defense, it's just a few guys starting repair work or moving eggs and pupae. Normally, you never see more than a few of them at once. I have no idea how this species has caused so much trouble in other places
Now the ones we have imported are of African descent......you so much as stand 10 feet from a nest and you're getting about 20-30 bites. They're very aggressive
MrAstrothousand98 But so are the European fire ants they get in the North East of the US. Maybe they are in mainland Europe, too. But they sure as Hell ain't, here in the UK. Same species, totally different behaviour. Maybe it's the weather
as ants sure, as red ants? Maybe? But at some point they would have had to die off everywhere else because as he says, they all come from after the columbian exchange.
@@mattmetwo7413 they don't like tea tree oil nor peppermint. I add several drops of each to a small spray bottle full of water and spray their trails generously, so it's very wet, and repeat every time I begin to see more. Eventually they go away. They really don't like it. I sprayed a big group of them and they acted like it was messing up their senses, their anntenas were haywire and they rubbed their faces, walked like they were drunk and disoriented. Maybe it even burned them, if I put too much on my own skin it burns. Almost thought it was mean, except they'd gotten out of hand and needed them to move on, so figured it was just part of nature, they ventured into the wrong place. I've noticed inside ant activity happens about a week before good rains where I live.
You can really tell the difference from these older videos VS the new ones, seems like AC has really become comfortable with narrating the videos over the years!
+Saphira TheDragon What are you talking about, bullet ants bite you... They don't eat you, if they bite you though... You would feel like a bullet just hit you :)
Wait you should try placing the two colony setups right next to each other so that the glass touches and they could maybe see the other species and see how they react.
@cmon Bill really Seriously? In another video where an ant was doing quarantine an ant can sense their colony even when they’re away from their colony. You seriously need to do more searching before you assume you dumbass.
I think that the crazy ants would definitely be noticed if there was an entire colony of them, and the red ants would protect the queen. At first the crazy ants might have an edge, but eventually the red ants would win by brute force.
In a colony war, I don't think it would depend on skills. It would depend on intelligence. At first the ants would be really shocked that there is another colony. It depends on what colony attacks first. A few dead ants can go a long way. That will probably determine who wins. (Unless you give one colony mini rocket launchers. Imagine that. XD)
the black ants would probably do a more evasive tactic getting a lot of them within the colony without being noticed then attack from the inside out i feel like this is more especially if they have a bigger in numbers aswell but an ambush would catch them with their dicks out so eh i think even if they had even numbers theyd win
depends the crazy could go run into the nest and kill their queen. and red ants prob won't attack black ants one on one as their usual swarming tactics
Awe man I was so excited to see an all out war👎 That could be the next big thing with all the HD close up cameras available! Ant wars, where people fight their ant colonies!
Never in my life have I ever been interested in having or studying an ant colony, until now. Bravo my friend, video is very well done. And btw, I believe the black ants would win in a 1v1 or 5v5 simply because you can't kill what you can't hit. As the numbers increase, I believe the fire ants would emerge victorious due to their venom and mobbing technique.
Well I think it's ok that he didn't want to mix his ant colonies because as he said he loved and cared for them and it would kill him to see them murder each other
I’m from Australia and I love your videos. You’ve made me want to be an ant keeper but I’ll stick to watching you :) thank you for your videos I love them
Here in northern Sweden the only common ants (I think) are black garden ant that lives in open areas and sometimes they settle in houses and the other is Red forest ant (Formica rufa) that lives in the forest. They doesnt seem to mind each other when I tried to watch them. Sometiems the Red forest ant have big fights with other Red forest ant tho.
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The lone ant from a different colony will be skewered. Ants can identify if the particular ant is from its colony, as ants of the same colony have the same/similar scent in their exoskeleton. However I'm not sure if they can identify each other as individuals.
Sir Gus the Mighty I guess that question was kinda obvious, but still there are probably people who dont want them to die If he did let them fight, he would get hated
k im wondering if i could start an ant farm but all i see is these big black ants roaming in my kitchen i don't think they are queens though because they are carrying food. what should i use for a starter farm? a box?and can i just feed them sugar?
I've seen a fight between these two ants in the wild near my grandmother's house, the mad ants were in greater numbers and managed to protect themselves from the invasion.
I've seen an ant war before in nature, it was red ants vs black ants (in the UK) and I was watching the two nests as I was curious as to why they were so close together. Then I saw a red and black ant bump in to each other and suddenly zoom back to their nest. Next thing I know, ants come pouring out of both nests and charge towards each other. They fought on to the death and I even saw ants dragging wounded allies back to the nest! Eventually, the black ants were victorious and then they moved in to the nest and took it over. It was a truly fascinating thing to see.
Sir.Bantalot dude turn this shit into a book damn that was intense xD
Thanks for sharing! Have seen something simmular, though here in Norway red ants spray acid and black ants just have their teeth. It was a tiny red ant colony living beside a huge black ant colony. They lived beside one another for a few months with regular scirmishes.
Now and then the black ants would make a big push against the red ants leaving piles of dead black ants. Including warrior ants(the winged ones) from both sides.
They had their final battle in the mating season though. Both hives tried to mate their future queens in the same 10x10 meter, flat concrete area. There were dead bodies everywhere, and warriors buzzing around, fighting as well as competing for the queens. After a huge battle the red ants were finally outnumbered, and the remaining red ants fled far away protecting their last princess. Only a few warriors and a handfull of workers survived.
We later found their new collony ontop a cliffhang, fighting a newly arrived band of earthwasps over a healthy blueberry field.
I doubt it... I heard this youtuber said in a previous video that ants have bathrooms, garbage area and graveyards.
Nope, they eat their dead.
Ah, I see....Ok. Maybe he made a mistake.
Provide them with iron ore and gunpowder so they can build armored cavalry then do a total war video.
Me play totAl war lol
p51mustang24 well that mean the black ant technically have a shotgun because they spray acid
Lol
lol
Who will win:
A swarm of powerful killers, or *ONE SPEEDI BOI*
*ONE SPEEDI BOI*
I'm fast as fuvk boi
Killers
REE
Speedy speed boi
Me seeing a walking BLACK ANT:
**doesnt care**
Me seeing a walking RED ANT:
**puts my feet up ‘cause I know it will bite me**
I was taught black were bad and red were good... probably because bullet ants exist...
DEREK GILENO really? Cause I’m pretty sure they bite, not sting (again I could be wrong so be free to correct me)
Pharaoh ants bite my feet 5-7 times every night.
Hero Number Two why please explain your situation
@@rouquetfamily4680 They Bite and Sting.
My mind as a kid:
Black Ants = Good ants
Red Ants = Evil ants
I was always taught that the red ones bite and the black ones don’t lol
Lol same whenever I saw a black ant and red ant try to fight each other I do the black one a favor and kill(sqaush with finger)the red one😂
@@jocelyn7009 that's true
*Bullet Ant has entered chat*
Same but I thought red ones bite and black ones didnt I was so racist to the reds
Ant 1: Yo where's Larry?
Ant 2: Haven't seen him in a while..
Meanwhile Larry: 1:57
Larry ! Noooooo !!!!
No!!! Not Larry
Ant 3 : I see Larry go out of the colony
Ant 1 : What ?
Larry : HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!1!!!!!
@@So_much_pain he is dead when they say it they say I havent seen him in a while u are ruining the joke no hate tho just try better
Doc. Despacito lol pulling him
I just got sucked into another part of UA-cam. I love it.
fuckin same dude, I went from cars to this
Same, I came from a "dogs protecting your owners" video .-.
I came from cute animal vines to this and tarantulas. I love it.
I came from the try guys XD
the thing is i hate ants and spiders but love this channel
Just found your channel. I'm impressed by how much you've grown as an editor and narrator, not to mention how educational your videos are and how much joy clearly enjoy caring for your beasts! Great job, AC! 😎👍
I'm not even interested in ant keeping but I watch your videos because the production is superb
Same, to be honest I really don't like Ants cause carpenters invade my porch every year, but I watch these cause it's pretty cool
He should have his own t.v show for real. This seems like a show on the discovery channel.
I completely agree he's a good insect care taker
As one
Man that is Soooooo True.
I have never seen or heard of anyone that has ants as pets...but it actually looks really fun!!
Me too its was in recommended i ding know Ant Keeping was a thing !! ^^
I know some people who did it for a school project I think they still keep the ants actually.
you have never heard of ant farms really?
I have had a few ants as pets
HOI
I'd be that kind of guy who is like "cool!! let's have an antfarm".. then unknowingly kick off a tube and wake up with my whole house invaded by ants.
I just found my twin brother
Yep
haha
+peantud12 but where is mine
+clorox bleach you are in every video
I just realized that AntsCanada’s voices have changed over the years
No it’s just the audio messed up
Ya audio
Yes they both are right
I think it's mostly the microphone
No it's voice changer
This guy was an ant in his past life
I agree!
NAH this guy was roach.
I second that!
reincarnation
Past life not new life, btw check out my channel XD shameless plug
Maybe they took the red ants back to the nest for "interrogation".
wow
Silly u mean
“Anterrogation”
@@coati1300 nice
@@coati1300 Ha, Ha !
Black Ant: How did you get here??
Red Ant: I've been handpicked. 😥
Black crazy Ant young: where did you get this?
Black crazy ant Worker: some maniac put a fire ant in our colony
Black crazy ant young: o
Hahahaahahahahahahahahaha.
Lol
PPPPPPFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTT
*spits out hot chocolate*
Black ant 9 *eats chocolate
He sounded like a proud dad when he gave the red ants new homes
@Stephen Chrispin person? Yea ikr tell me about it
So the black ants are just going to hang in the red colony now?
Y not lol
The black menace grows worse and worse here in the red colony and these libtards just refuse to admit it
lmao guess so
brainwashed conservative? huh, never heard that one before... kinda sounds like what a brainwashed libtard would say.
He'll prob die while trying to eat, ha or never eat and starve☺
I've read an article on these 2 ant species. A person placed a dead cricket between the fire ant colony and the black crazy ant colony. The fire ants arrived at the crickets first, the black crazy ants launched an assault but the fire ants overpowered them with their venom. The black crazy ants did the most interesting thing I ever heard of in the ant world, they head to one side of the battle, sprayed formic acid and sucked it into their mouths, then ran their legs through their mouths and spread the formic acid all over their body and that detoxified the venom from the fire ants before heading back into battle. This means crazy ants have the ability to neutralize fire ant venom, which gives them the advantage when competing for food.
Fishy Isaac wow that's amazing
Fishy Isaac your smart good job hope you get smarter
Fire ant venom is made of alkaloids. Also, the crazy ants you are talking about are probably raspberry crazy ants that are currently invading north america.
Fishy Isaac me too i have read article and how do people get this really smartand how does he knows this?????
car police kids
Its not even a question of how did I get here..? Its.. Why can't i ever leave o.o
Malby Ammala Haha you have been struck with "Ant Love".
Yeah LOLZ #make ants great again LOLZ
Malby Ammala Cause ants RULE!!! #AntsRulez
um a ant claimed up him
Malby Ammala ant ant ant!!
So,
Red ants basically heavy Bois with Strong powers
Black ants,
Are like swarms of fast scouts that rip there enemy's apart all together
Red ants are a barbarian class while black ants are rogues.
well its the complete opposite when you bring in *camponotus pennsylvanicus*
red ants jsut normally just sting using venom in groubs and black JUST SWARMIN BITING AND RIPPING AND JUST BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
And orange ants op aka weaver ants
i get a mini heart attack every time this guy zooms in on the cockroaches.
+Gytuan hahaha! Up close and personal!
Me too I get so scared I feel relieved then he shows it I scored and feel off my chair so badly I am like aghhhhhhhhhhhhh
does anybody else want to see him get a vape and Hot Box the entire ant colony
lol wtf
These are cicadas, I think.
I'm cold-hearted so I'll make two nests specifically for fighting
when
welp, show us a vid of the warfare once it happens, I wanna see how it goes
.
i support and endorse you in this endeavor. let me know when you release the video.
Same tbh
American civil war (1861-1865, colorized)
Black vs red
Crazy NedyK Narod isn’t that racist?
Anne Pettifer no its raceing if you make it
@@ufwcarti8270 literally any kid
*someone uses the word 'black'*
kid: oMg sTOp bEinG rAcISt
THE END IS NEAR FOR ONE IN THE WAR
So proud of how much this channel has evolved with audio, editing and expanding been watching and enjoying these videos for years! Good job Mikey ❤️
When i was a kid i used to pair the two together. i had nests close to where i lived. My conclusion: If the numbers are even red ants win like 60 - 65 % of the times. But you need just + 1 black (so like 60 red vs 61 black) to turn the tide. so they are extreamly close... but red ants are slightly stronger one on one. tho i guess that has to do with the fact that they are slightly bigger. yes i was a strange kid xD
I did the same too as a kid. But what I noticed was black ant colonies mostly won because of their sheer numbers. They would mostly over run the red colony or sometimes the reds would fend off an attack and the blacks retreat with a lot of losses on both sides.
In my neighborhood there are 2 major ant colonys one red and one black the main red ant hill is in my backyard with smaller ones in my front yard and the main black ant hill is in my nextdoor neighbors yard and every time i come outside i see black ant scouts on the pavement coming into my yard (my yard would basically be a desert to them its all just dirt no grass just weeds) and each time they always run into each other and start to fight at first the red ants would win because they're closer to the colony and its just a couple of scouts but the next time i checked on the ants i saw dozens of black ants just storming the smaller colonys and ripping the red ants to shreds
I wonder how they'd fare based on biomass... from your analysis, with equal biomass of insect, the simpler but faster and better-coordinated black ants could win.
As Tierzoo might put it, the red ants have incredible build options and an array of powerful weapons that allow them to take on foes in much larger weight-classes, but the simpler loadout of the rushdown black ants is far superior in single combat. Putting all of your evolutionary points into one weapon can be very potent, but not so much when your foes are numerous and individually weak.
I would think it also sort of comes down to their method of killing. 1 red ant can sting and kill a black ant. However, Black ants rely on strength in numbers to keep from getting stung by the red ants as well as attack them.
I miss the leafers they was a leaf cutter ant colony was in my back ground
HOW CAN A CHANNEL ABOUT ANTS BE SO FREAKING LIT MY GOD AND U EARNED A NEW SUB
it's "two new subs" not "a new sub"
@@earthwormsally4525 its three new subs
Mark Bo make that 4
5 ;)
6
There's a anthill in my backyard that has black ants. It's pretty interesting to watch them work. I sometimes help them out by putting food right next to the anthill. 😅
Same! 🤣
I only help black Ants 😅
i once gave ants cheetos
Its Me Dawg i gave mine sprinkles
The Legend Of Liz your ants got the diabetes.
“It kind of looks like rice...”
Yeah thanks I’m not eating rice like.. forever now.
rice doesn't taste very good anyway
@@tayande9851
You are an unbelievable overconfident imbecile!
Me: *eats rice*
me: mom why the rice tastes wired
mom: I will check the rice bag
mom: it made in china
Saleh Jebreel LOL
Rice is made from plants
I love how he adds this cheerful, happy background music while a living thing just gets tortured and eaten alive. lel
If you are talking about the ants dying then yeah but he usually kills the insect before feeding
really? I've heard him talk about how live food is best?
TheFalcon Venom if u watch other videos of Ants Canada u would see one that explains that it's best to injure the prey first, n other times he stuffs them wit jelly!! hey that's cool to...that's y NATURE is beautiful!!
Isaac F2545 actually he said in another video that he usually pre- kills the food before feeding, because he doesn't want to torture the insecta
I'm down with ants tearing roaches apart
fuck 'em
Thank you so much for uploading this! I teach 4 year olds and our current theme is on Ants!
They loved the video and can't stop talking about how interesting and smart ants are! :)
+herhijabstory Oh great! Ant love forever! Thank you!
mr v How'd you know? Kids can be interested in anything. It's in how you explain it to them. ***** Please don't listen to such negative comment(s), some people live to ruin our day.
skankhunt 42 yes they do they kill them and eat them
skankhunt 42 fuck you
skankhunt 42 oh my naughty boy. What's wrong u don't like being called a pedo because that's what u are
*MAN you better hope no one ever sneak in your room knowing you will be gone for a while & unplugs your tubes so they can get out into your room, does that thought ever worry you?*
Yea that would be tragic on many levels..
is the channel dead?
Awesome
kedar Joshi no
kedar Joshi no you are
I wonder how the black ants got from India to all over the world.
My mind: *pictures a boat full of black ants in a giant storm*
Me: that’s probably how
I'm in India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 I'm proud to have a ant being native to my place😎😎
@@87vijaya ants are common in like every country and native too so yeah
..
that music makes them seem really cute
yeah but they are deadly whuahahaha... lol
@Harvey Cross Look up the opera Carmen. Its from there.
It darude sandstorm
+Anndre Realin what the hell did that even originate from
Reminds me this song is on the old Tom and Jerry when they have a stage concert in one episode.
Don’t mind me, just binge watching this series again
Dragon Lady you have my respect
Now quarantine is around you can binge it again
Same lol
POOP
My first time 🤙🤙
What happens if you put a wild ant of the same species as one of your own colonies and put them with yours?
I'm assuming it might be similar to what happens with most other animal species, which is that there's a chance they might accept it, and a chance they might kill it.
well I would like this (like the comment) I can't because mobile I am use to
Actually you can, or are you not on iOS?
what would happen is the original colony that he is keeping would kill the outsider, since the outsider cannot listen to the queens commands simply because he is not used to her scents, and she is not used to his... therefor he would be un-coordinated and simply useless to the ant colony, they would kill him.
+Seargent So n' So 👌👌👌
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I was really hoping for a game of thrones/ avengers endgame type ant battle
7:27 he spell powerful wrong lol
No he would never do that he loves those ants he wouldint your on drugs if you think he'll do that
Hola Mi Lambo lol
@@knees1232 hes a filipino of course he did
@@Gundplanatics00 What!! He's a Filipino?!!! I thought he's a foreigner residing in our country.
"Look how excited they are!" Ants: AHHH!!!
l0l
Moises Gonzalez XD
If the Red ants could catch the Crazy ants I think they would tear them apart.
I think the big head red ants would bite them in half.
red won't even know what hit them lol
Also fire ants have giant majors
actually the black ants neutralize red ants poison and make them retreat. the black ants are taking over the SE USA and driving out the fire ants
Crazy ant predators that only eat crazy ants should be released, as they did phorid flies.
UA-cam:Wanna see a guy raise some fire ants?
Me:alright
5 hours later
Me: *crying over the death of the fire nation*
Omg you spoilt ittt
Weird thing is: Here, in the UK, we get Myrmica Rubra - the European fire ant - which has a painful sting - APPARENTLY - and is a major pest in the US. But I will happily lie on the ground near their nests. I never even found out what they were until last week. They are just so chilled out. I've never been stung by an ant. I don't think I even know anyone who has. There's an abandoned quarry where we all used to go and sit on the grass and drink, or camp and drink, or sit round a fire and drink, and the whole floor of the quarry is full of these fire ants nests, yet I've never heard of anyone ever being stung by one. They don't swarm unless you start digging in the soil, and then, it's not for defense, it's just a few guys starting repair work or moving eggs and pupae. Normally, you never see more than a few of them at once. I have no idea how this species has caused so much trouble in other places
Now the ones we have imported are of African descent......you so much as stand 10 feet from a nest and you're getting about 20-30 bites. They're very aggressive
MrAstrothousand98
But so are the European fire ants they get in the North East of the US. Maybe they are in mainland Europe, too. But they sure as Hell ain't, here in the UK. Same species, totally different behaviour. Maybe it's the weather
Its weird to hear about african and european ants when they're all originally native to south america and the islands of the gulf and latin america.
Caleb Meilink-Smith
I'm fairly certain that ants predate the splitting of the continents. Wasps sure do.
as ants sure, as red ants? Maybe? But at some point they would have had to die off everywhere else because as he says, they all come from after the columbian exchange.
Every time I watch a video... I feel like they're on me
WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ON ME??!
So do I but they really are. Got an ant problem right now.
@@mattmetwo7413 they don't like tea tree oil nor peppermint. I add several drops of each to a small spray bottle full of water and spray their trails generously, so it's very wet, and repeat every time I begin to see more. Eventually they go away. They really don't like it. I sprayed a big group of them and they acted like it was messing up their senses, their anntenas were haywire and they rubbed their faces, walked like they were drunk and disoriented. Maybe it even burned them, if I put too much on my own skin it burns. Almost thought it was mean, except they'd gotten out of hand and needed them to move on, so figured it was just part of nature, they ventured into the wrong place. I've noticed inside ant activity happens about a week before good rains where I live.
Same. Turns out it's just my hair
Black ants running really fast what a surprise 😂😂😂
Xd
RUN BITCH RUUUUUNN
Racist alert
+Sean Bateman (blobord) i agree RUNNN BITCH
How is that racist... At all?
I love how the black crazy ants ate so much honey they turned themselves into transparent crazy ants for a bit 🤣
Brand new subscriber... Let the binge watching commence!
Bev Kenny haha, goodluck, youre gonna love it, i literary just finished today starting a couple weeks ago, goodluck👍🏼👍🏼
Do a 5v5
mid or feed , rush B cyke Bylat!!!!
Terrorists win.
+MLGMking we'll get em next time
MISSION FAILED!! we'll get em next time Clorox Bleach
yeah man thats what im talking about... do a 1v1 and a 5v5, equal conditions lets see the fight
I liked the honey shot, you can see there backs filling up :D
Me to :)
Honey shot was the money shot :D looks awesome.
XD
XD
You should look at Honeypot ants they grow HUGE their abdomens can grow to the size of a human thumbnail!
You can really tell the difference from these older videos VS the new ones, seems like AC has really become comfortable with narrating the videos over the years!
it's the bloods vs the crips
insert south park joke here
Its weird how much subscribers an antfan can get awesome! Great jon
Job
I agree
Jon Connor?
You should work with bullet ants
Way to dangerous
Yup. I challenge ants canada to keep bullet ants as pets..
leaf cutter ant instead XD
+Red Codex well bullet ant is even worse it's basically like a bullet digging inside and it digs down deeper than leaf cutter
+Saphira TheDragon What are you talking about, bullet ants bite you... They don't eat you, if they bite you though... You would feel like a bullet just hit you :)
Watching the ants makes my skin itch but the ants are so fascinating to watch I can't stop
yea is true
haha, me too
OMFG SO TRUE
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Really cool channel man. Lots of learning and fun going on.
+Level Seven UA-cam Hero thank you! Ant love forever!
AntsCanada
I love your channel!
Behind Enemy lines. Ant Edition
LOL
at 12:02
EXACTLY
saving private ant
Chaaan Chaaan so crazy right
I'm new to this channel. SO far I'm a big fan.
Wait you should try placing the two colony setups right next to each other so that the glass touches and they could maybe see the other species and see how they react.
@cmon Bill really Seriously? In another video where an ant was doing quarantine an ant can sense their colony even when they’re away from their colony. You seriously need to do more searching before you assume you dumbass.
i think the crazy ants would win by simply taking out the queen unseen and so the colony would soon die.
yea ninja ants dood
They can't see me, my time is now
u know that they are just ants and not Rambo right???
I think that the crazy ants would definitely be noticed if there was an entire colony of them, and the red ants would protect the queen. At first the crazy ants might have an edge, but eventually the red ants would win by brute force.
SKT best comment ever.
I just discovered this channel, and while these videos make me incredibly uncomfortable, I can't stop watching.
same 😂
Same here
same
I find them pretty interesting
same lol
It was a brief test as your intro started...but you made me so proud, and happy that you do not pit ants against each other.
if you mix them it will be like the trojan war XD
I wish that war DINNT start Trojan war started computer trojans
i want a those ants to declare war !
Is it wrong that I now want to raise 2 colonies then connect them just to see what happens (Probably a war/massacre)
deamongimli i have been thinking the same
a trojan war no thats a secret attack know your history lol
I think they are running thoughts through the colony:
*The tweezers is a giant bird beak*
why dont you wanna watch your ants evolve into the gunpowder age?
Lem0nsquid Lol, world war ants.
General Greivous k
I’m so happy I found this channel!
This is surprisingly satisfactory
+Jason Christiansen Jr. Thank you!
And pls don't go bullet ants they feel like being shot
Yeah. This vid encouraged me to get pet ants.
I know right can't they at least knock you out so You don't feel as much pain I've never been bit by one but I read about them ._.
Put Ant Man in there and see what happens.
Ant Man doesn't exist kid
it was a joke, and i bet your 10 arent you? kid
Jmcsolocraft nope i'm 22
Lol this 22 year old doesn't get a joke
he will make peace between the two clans and talk it out
Queen vs Queen
:D
It would kill the colony.
you vs chicken
the fire ant wouldn't have a queen at the end
I just got done vacuuming a whole bunch of black ants in my house and now I’m watching ant war
In a colony war, I don't think it would depend on skills. It would depend on intelligence. At first the ants would be really shocked that there is another colony. It depends on what colony attacks first. A few dead ants can go a long way. That will probably determine who wins. (Unless you give one colony mini rocket launchers. Imagine that. XD)
the black ants would probably do a more evasive tactic getting a lot of them within the colony without being noticed then attack from the inside out i feel like this is more especially if they have a bigger in numbers aswell but an ambush would catch them with their dicks out so eh i think even if they had even numbers theyd win
i personally think it'll probably come down to a war of attrition, so the crazy ants would win by sheer population advantage
lol
depends the crazy could go run into the nest and kill their queen. and red ants prob won't attack black ants one on one as their usual swarming tactics
Anyone See that episode of Futurama where bender became god? xD
When your desperate to watch something
same 😢😂
Ya
procrastination ftw
so true
20v20 ant battle
Good idea but I also want 1V1
Stilz Games Ye no 20,000 vs 20,000
Stilz Games is that a hint to fortnite
Just a guy Bob The original comment was a year ago. When was fortnite created?
Just a guy Bob, of course, it's not a reference to Fortnite that was a year ago before it got popular
Awe man I was so excited to see an all out war👎 That could be the next big thing with all the HD close up cameras available! Ant wars, where people fight their ant colonies!
One recommended video, then boom, can't stop watching them. What the fuck man?
+Andre Soares Hehe! Thanks for watching! Ant love forever!
my wife and i are experiencing the same phenomenon.
The host does a good job keeping viewers entertained and has a clear/enthusiastic voice.
I like the energy in his voice, background music that doesn't bore me, and the many different angles of ant footage.
+Andre Soares Same here :)
Who is here in 2019
@TOP CAT wait WHAT
@TOP CAT It's not the matter of likes. Just messing with people like me who see the comments of a video 2 years old 😀😁🙃😹
Me!
I want to hear someone say "No not me, I'm in 2018"
@@jasonhatt4295 😂 😂 🤣😆
Never in my life have I ever been interested in having or studying an ant colony, until now. Bravo my friend, video is very well done. And btw, I believe the black ants would win in a 1v1 or 5v5 simply because you can't kill what you can't hit. As the numbers increase, I believe the fire ants would emerge victorious due to their venom and mobbing technique.
+EmceeWhitey thank you for watching!
+AntsCanada hey uuuh first NICE VID now im so interested in keeping ants but are u a filipino or a Canadian?
He could make a 1v1 video
yes bullet ant vs red ant
bullet ant: YOUR GONG DOWN!!!
red ant: bring it bro
2 seconds late... red ant:why did i do this?
this is probably one of the BEST videos i have seen.... thank you for this.....
Aww, I was expecting a colony battle :\
+Survival Mine hah
Same..
So was I 😩
Well I think it's ok that he didn't want to mix his ant colonies because as he said he loved and cared for them and it would kill him to see them murder each other
+Mark True
Where do you get this much money to fund this project
jaytheboi famlit Tic toc
UA-cam
jaytheboi famlit he’s probably a bored millionaire that didn’t know what to do with his money so he started collecting ants 😂
Selling tinapa daing
Sponsorship
#blackantlivesmatter
😂😂😂
#AllAntsMatter
+JustBeingCozi except fire ants fuck them
fuck ants
lol
I’m from Australia and I love your videos. You’ve made me want to be an ant keeper but I’ll stick to watching you :) thank you for your videos I love them
I really like your videos, saludos desde México !!!
+luis aguirre Gracias!
Here in northern Sweden the only common ants (I think) are black garden ant that lives in open areas and sometimes they settle in houses and the other is Red forest ant (Formica rufa) that lives in the forest. They doesnt seem to mind each other when I tried to watch them. Sometiems the Red forest ant have big fights with other Red forest ant tho.
är du svensk
crazy ants be like : GOTTA GO FAST
wσlf ѕpαrk oh snap
Amelie White sonic memes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’m rewatching the Full Ant Story playlist during this quarantine. I used to follow the stories until last year when life got so busy! But now I’m back and ready to catch up! Thanks again kuya Mikey! The quality of your videos has improved over time :D
Dam he is explaining how ants fight like how we would describe how ppl fight lol
this guy is the real ant-man
+Pol Aris Sumalinog I am honoured that you say that!
How many cameras do you have?
Yeah. XD
ur ☺
xd
Then why don't you grab one red ant and one black ant and make them fight and you'll call it the Hunger Games
He should get 10 ants from each colony and have them fight to the death. Team deathmatch style.
Lol but u would need 12 Distrects and u would need 2 ants from each
2 ants from each ant species once a year.
Lool
emperor Palpatine loco s**** The Anter Games
the fact that his mic just bass boosted the audio when antscanada said “ I’m talking about *Red tropical ants.* “ scared me
WHY IS THIS IN MY RECOMMENDED?
Get over it? You clicked on it. No one forced you to. Just shut up.
James Evins haha, guilty of that one! but why did it show up!!
idk my recomandation list is full with ant vids and i dont even have watched them before XD
No, UA-cam forced me to watch this.
I NEED CONTENT AND THEY KNOW THAT.
ikr
why the fuck are there ant videos in this like wtf
ive never watced ant videos
what happens if an ant from a different empire
put in a different empire/ colony but same species
The might established a peaceful life as naibourse
Well if there from a different colony they both have a different queen so they (I think) might go after each other
yes i want to know
Pp
The lone ant from a different colony will be skewered. Ants can identify if the particular ant is from its colony, as ants of the same colony have the same/similar scent in their exoskeleton. However I'm not sure if they can identify each other as individuals.
Wow looking back you didn’t have as good sound quality
It’s so strange seeing how the Fire Nation started out with just two AC outworlds.
Sounds like your Microphone given up :)
Do u love red pandas
Yep why has no one else EGGnollaged it?
Give me bleach
Hi
ikr
I could imagine if somehow the ant colonies would escape and just clash while he is away for like 10 minutes.
+PossiblyDaedric lol
+PossiblyDaedric you definitely like skyrim dude daedric armor
+PossiblyDaedric LMAO
Am i the only one, who would love to see both colonies fight in an epic battle? :D
What the fuck do you think, dumbass
Wohoh, we got an internet badass over here
Ask an obvious question, get an obvious response.
Sir Gus the Mighty
Triggered?
Sir Gus the Mighty I guess that question was kinda obvious, but still there are probably people who dont want them to die
If he did let them fight, he would get hated
Watching videos made by Ants Canada from like 5 years ago compared to now blows my mind
idk why i but i like seeing ants do stuff
+LeasureGaming thanks for watching!
k im wondering if i could start an ant farm but all i see is these big black ants roaming in my kitchen i don't think they are queens though because they are carrying food. what should i use for a starter farm? a box?and can i just feed them sugar?
I want to start an ant farm but I dont know where or how to start man, please help
yea same
Nice vids, I think ants are so cute when they run around doing stuff
This was recommended to me, must say this is interesting.
i want to see two different species working together
same
There is a kid of and called a slave ant I think and they in-slave other species and they work together
+Vermont Ants cool
some ants farm caterpillars
cuz dey make dat jelly in exchange they protect the caterpillars
I think they're called weaver ants
That would be cool
I've seen a fight between these two ants in the wild near my grandmother's house, the mad ants were in greater numbers and managed to protect themselves from the invasion.
Some say those two crazy ants are still juking fire ants to this day.