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- Ants in Thailand are used on farms as natural pesticides to protect their harvest and fruits from other bugs.
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The Ants: *"We all must sacrifice our first born to appease the Giant tree gods"*
They need these at Sweet Apple Orchards
Hahahaha! I love this comment.
@@arthas640 In Thailand, these ants will only nest on mango trees.
Jesus Christ, this is the greatest comments. Lol
Stfu filthy furry
Now this makes me want to raise a colony of weaver ants again! Oecophylla smaragdina FTW!
Hello Mikey
Mikey, I honestly want you to make projects on raising two polygynous queens of different species together.
@AntsCanada I Love your channel it’s very interesting.
Hi Mikey .I was expecting you here. I'm a big fan of you and your colony.
hey
"Thanks for protecting my Mangos. Now I am going to eat you"
LOL
it's accurate, but that guy and his wife are people who I can never blame for anything. Look how simplistic their lifestyle is, and yet, don't get on the streets to vandalize and start riots like 30 year old adults in western countries do whenever they get bored with life.
These 2 people right here are the types of people who I would always bow in front of (I do it in real life, too) and address them politely because I respect them
@@blabla-rg7ky wow this is the hardest I've ever seen anyone bend something to make an unrelated point in my entire life... Yikes
@@stephlrideout I don't value the opinions of people like you too much because you're probably a spoiled kid (well, you definitely sound like one). Such people usually have access to everything that's good in life (including the work's results of people like these 2), so your views on life are inaccurate and shitty anyway.
@Stephanie Rideout seriously 💀 like no one was talking about this and they’re just trying to reach so hard. If anything it should make you mad how Capitalism conditions you to think how them being poor is an inspiration.
2:19
"Excuse me"
"Pardon me"
"I'll go around"
"Carry on"
Underrated!! I was dying at that part😂
Bbc earth should have a TV channel with non-stop 24hr nature shows. Anyone agree?
Then they could slowly move away from nature shows and do some bridezillas and garage deal hunters, and house flipping, stuff!!!! Yeah!!!
Yes they already do and unlike Discovery, they don't have those crazy car shows
Heard of SONY BBC EARTH? We have that channel here in India.
There is a channel literally called BBC Earth
Yes they could divert money that goes on Tory propaganda on the BBC news to something that we all like
They use kids as a glue gun...
Ok
if we could do the same, that would be great
Lol Savage af
Don't we all? Ants on trees and humans on a strained marriage
@@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038 lmao
*CPS* *has* *joined* *the* *chat*
imagine grabbing your own baby and using its vomit to stick things together like "okay baby puke a bit right here so i can make a wall and over there for a door"
😂
The grubs are the younger siblings of the adult worker ants
😂
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@haitipi they need to do something about that 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣
When i was a kid i hated those ants because i cannot climb my favorite mango tree when fruiting seasons coz its "infested" with ants. After i watched this video, now i know why our mango fruit's skin was smooth and healthy looking.
“How Ants are used for Free Labor in Thailand.”
They should set up a union to fight for their egg rights
The oldest ants in the ant colony will remember this time as the Gilded Age
That's not free, they get whole orchards with lots of food sources.
I’m dying 😂
Jemma J lmaoo
A perfect symbiotic relationship between plants, animals and man.
I don't think the ants agree with you after seeing their kids becoming a meal.
Sounds like the beginning of domestication to me.
Imagine a species of domesticated weaver ants, defending the crops like watchdogs and proving eggs like chickens, with different breeds developed for different tasks. How cool is that!
I don't think they can be domesticated.
If they feel a threat they may even attack the owner to defend themselves & their colony.
That is a cool idea, though not really one that's needed. They already share a symbiotic relationship and trying to hard too domesticate them might ruin the delicate relationship they have. The ants provide natural pest control and eggs, the humans take only a few of the eggs, never too many, and not only allow and encourage them to live in their veritable paradise, but make them convenient pathways. And the egg loss is really no worse then what they'd might naturally lose. I also like how he returned the majority of the ants he knocked off while getting the eggs. It really is teamwork at it's finest.
Their brain isn't big enough to be *domesticated*. They're just being used
Ohh boy u knew nothing about this weaver ants and what they capable of
That would be ant exploitation.
Ants are great. Water and air pathways to keep soil aerobic and pest control. Garden in sustainable ways using natural systems and ecology, that's what I teach on my channel also.
We get into trouble when we try to kill everything. Then we need to replace the function of that which we killed, and we create unsustainable systems requiring inputs.
For example, kill a pest. You just removed the food source of the predator of that pest. Now you need to do its job, every time. Wonder why you always have pests? Because you kill them, and sabotage the food supply of the natural balanced nature solution (predatory insects).
Love the video, it's how I teach gardening.
People who watch channels like BBC earth arent the problem at all. The problem are second world countries like the USA, China and India who allow the use of certain poisons and weed killers to maximize production.
@@wldqq totally agree. Unfortunately our sphere of control is limited. I can't get China to stop tilling and spraying, but I CAN teach other people how to et started converting a lawn to a sustainable, carbon sequestering, bee feeding, soil building regenerative ecosystem style food security, health boosting, money saving system.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Right on! The start is with us people. Sadly, the biggest polutors are the major factories who make people addicted to consume. As long that doesn't slow down, pollution won't either.
Canadian Permaculture Legacy Just remember it’s always important to NOT introduce foreign species into the ecosystem however, for example in Australia the introduction of cane toads to combat cane beetles had a severe negative impact on the surrounding ecosystem. I’m not saying it’s bad to rely on the natural processes to protect our crops, I think it’s could be an amazing combatant against pollution and the like, I’m just saying we should probably do it with caution and with enough prior knowledge before we introduce species
@@ashgcy absolutely, great point and thanks for mentioning it. We basically destroyed our chestnuts with chestnut blight. I have dog strangling vine choking out trees because someone brought it here as an ornamental.
Now that being said, for invasive lists there is a lot of stupid stuff out there. For example, any pioneer plant like seabuckthorn will top most invasive lists. Why? Because our planet is dying and these plants build soil. Infact sometimes the reason they are listed as invasive is because they build fertility so fast that they disrupt local plants that grow on dead soil. Well, we are full pants-on-head stupid here aren't we.
Ben Falk has a great podcast on this, "invasive to when?".
But yes, I agree 99% of the time, but with some common sense applied too. We do need to heal the planet, and we need to move past sustainable. What are we trying to sustain? We need to move towards regeneration.
Thai people are some of the nicest people I've ever met. Can't say that about other people
Wonderful, and what a clever way to control unwanted pests
Genius
I use green lacewings as organic pest control. They killed every single aphid on my 1/3 acre garden.
Hey Jim,that would be a good strategy during the broodwar and siege on Char
Unfortunately ants would protect them unlike the lacewings
That's ant-ertainment!
stfu
@@onjimana no u
I like that guy and how he cares for his crops. See we don’t need to always go the poison pesticide route.
Mangoes from this orchard is safe because the farmer cannot use harmful chemicals for his mangoes otherwise the ants will not be able to survive.
You underestimate Thai farmers, dear boy
"Thanks Ants for saving my farm" now I'll just eat a few of your babies 😂
If only the narrator could narrate my lecture classes. She makes things sound very interesting.
Ant eggs are a delicacy of the North Easterners (AKA Isaan people) in Thailand too. I used to eat them often when I was young and still lived in my small countryside village.
So relaxing and interesting ...
Symbiosis, the ultimate and most beautiful goal of humanity!
@ants You earned my respect 🙌
It really shows that their methods are very complex for such a simple creature! I always admired them since childhood for their amazing teamwork and cooperation.
The fact that he has this symbiotic relationship with the ants is is oddly soothing
I'm supposed to be studying for my mathematics test tomorrow but here I am watching how ants are used for agriculture.. Good luck to me... Well, if all fails, I'll just be a mango farmer someday. Ha! Don't need no quadratic formula for that!
These farmer from 3rd world countries always amused me of their simple solution for great problems. Who could think to recruit an ant armies and to make a highways to go to every tree in the orchard. When human use their brain in the right way.
aboelsof alabed the problem is it won’t work everywhere and that is why they thought about it here because it occurs naturally in their country and environment
Thailand is not a third world country, it,s an industrious developing country.
@@henrysimmelink4748 it's a 2nd world country I think
The Kamal Kartik no it is 3rd world country like india, malaysia
@@prosperousangel6965 dude I live in India I know these South Asian countries r way ahead of India.. My nation is what a 3rd world looks like... Which is unlikely in case of Malaysia or Thailand have u ever even been to. This countries
Thats what im talking about. Full cycle & symbiosis
*Wonderful example for a sustainable income.*
I hope his family will have a long tradition to grow mango with this method.
I don't see their kids, wait! Are their kids already going to the city?
Mind blowing. Never would have thought insects could work together with such apparent intelligence.
Amazing concept.
When man and nature work together, great things can be accomplished.
Like squeezing out your young and use the liquid insides as an epoxy or adhesive.... *shakes head in agreement*.... seems legit
Thanks, ants.
Thants.
Brilliant use of nature. Make them work for your advantage.
These videos are so relaxing after office hours
Kurtzgesalt: Makes an ant video
Another ant videos: Stonks
I’m too high for this
I wonder if this method of using these ants to eat pests, instead of using pesticides, is actually sustainable. If other farms used ants/other insects to control pests populations, would the ants/other insects grow in very large numbers and cause other problems?
If only humans worked together like ants .... 🤔
They are. Well, some of them. It's just they must work for something, that have more sense than money. ;)
Sarge Trubix they're trying to survive everyday which isn't something we need to worry about
what do you think companies, countries, etc are?
We do. There just has to be a significant benefit for it. "For the greater good" doesnt sell to well
we do...
We call it hantik and these ants are very delicious,specially if deep fried.
They are amazing
Does anyone see the ants forming the word “IMAGINE” in the thumbnail, or is it just me?
What the hell.... Didn't realize until i read this comment....yeah
Imagine saying imagine so much that you see imagine being spelled by ants
This not only happened in Thailand. It’s happened in most places. Like in China . , Northeast Asian India, Vietnam. And much more . Hope to make it great video next time .... Ull find more unique.
*Ants aren’t very good in a hotel room when you accidentally left an apple in your backback*
*now ants live under your bed*
I totally love ants. Super complex organism we humans still don`t understand fully.
Me seeing ants in my food: MOOOMMMMMMMMM
This is the most relaxing video in this days
Weird flex but okay i see you ants
This is so cool, imagine walking through the orchard picking out a few ripe mangoes and seeing billions of ants everywhere surrounding you. You would feel small
guy: hey ants, how about a partnership? you defend my mangos from insects and I provide you with a connected home
ants: agreed
[one season later]
guy: yea so about that partnership............im gonna go ahead and eat your babies.
Ants: we extend our empire but, what did it cost?
*eggs*
That was pretty cool. Talk about helping each other out. Win/Win looks like. Great video
Man's smart. What a clever idea.
3: 47 dude that looks really really really good
It's easier to work against nature than with it, but working with it equals the long term success of business and wildlife alike.
सुन्दर चित्र
Very enlightening 👏🙌👍
That is so *awesome for the ants!
*exclusions apply, not available for all ants. A few child sacrifices may apply. Most constituents will benefit... risks assumed by the colony...
These guys work together better than humans do.
Weaver ants are very fierce. The bite is painful. Luckily it don't have sting . If you stand underneath it's nest the ants will sometimes jump to you or spray formic acid to your eyes. Pretty irritating to eyes.
Holy crap they're using the larva like tools! my mind is blown.
That dish at the end looked really yummy.
What a happy story
ANTMAN
Brilliant!!
That is teamwork
From the thumbnail the far left ant looks like the word TOMA
Nice and an amazing video.
Kind of disappointed that David Attenborough wasn't doing the narration
We often need to turn our heads to nature to solve problems. If only we were more connected to our earth.
Seems they're organic mangoes or less chemicals one reason to buy from Thailand. 😋
You are right but it also depends from the source.
Once Thailand take the rule, itself will be ruined by asshole who bankrupted
Wack
@@manapamornmalirat true, some companies claims to be organic are liars.
@@GHOSTOFBASHER702 yeah, this is so wack!
These ants are also included in meals in tribals region in india like jharkhand west bangal nagaland mizoram....They are called here "hau".
Nature it's amazing v must respect that and find different ways to live with nature
Ant eggs are also a delicacy in Mexico. We call them “escamoles”.
Wow U shown us how to live with Nd in nature Amazing...luv U mother nature Nd luv the dedication of the farmer 🤗
Here in Philippines we eat the ant's egg tooo
most south asian do
in Indonesia the ant's eggs are valued in high price for singing bird's food
Really? I'd like to try, but it will be weird if I look for kalamintas now and just eat their eggs. Haha. Saan sa Pinas?
@@gjsanchez3652 North cotabato tol
@@petaniketjil5282 lol you can buy that egg like $4-6. Per can...
Angkrang
The ant eggs are mixed with pounded chillies. Gives a sour taste. Not bad.
I was completely and utterly loving Mr Boonshoo.... until the egg eating bombshell was dropped on me. It alllll came crashing down at that point.
I would eat the fruit and leave the ant dinner lol 😂
I salute you My brother
Meanwhile ants in my garden : let me farm aphids so your plants die slowly
*when i was in Thailand, I saw this process*
I wonder if like, people back in the day or hell even people in some areas now use these grubs “glue” to make things. How strong is it I wonder? It’s got to be waterproof. Just like people use army ants mandibles to bite down on wounds to use as sutures. So interesting!
In philippines we literally it them and its yummy special sinigang. My grandpa still cook it.
3:50 "... benefit from nature's bounty, and HELP it flourish..".. right after showing humans harvesting and eating ant eggs
Nice pest control 👍
ok, someone have link to video, how they prevent ants bite when harvesting the mangos ? ...Pleasseeee
In Java, the ant eggs is called "kroto" and for bird feed... Good for singing bird
I love nature!
2:19 oops sorry... oops sorry...
Very smart idea.
Super!
I really like the music and cinematography
Finally, I can use the glue gun my wife gave me 6 years ago.
Amazing
Seems to be an intuitive solution. Good for them!
Do you want ants? Cause this is how you get ants.
This is awesome
I felt so itchy watching this
Genius level 999