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I like how you videotaped yourself killing the red ants Also you have bidets?! I do too! Which to the rest of the world wouldn’t matter but I say it as a American 😎
Ok but all the titles have been “the ants won” or “I give up” but this man keeps on going and going and I have a feeling this is going to be a series until he finally succeeds
I hope this isn't terribly disappointing, but that wasn't the queen of *that* colony. the only winged ants are males (that die after mating) or virgin queens (who will chew their wings off when they are ready to found a colony. Fire ants can also be polygynous, so you may have multiple queens in your individual colonies (if they aren't all the same colony in the first place).
It's very uncommon but sometimes mated queens will keep their wings. That looked like a female ant though. Either way, better to not give them a chance to repopulate the area.
I am always impressed with Alex's willingness to learn how to do things on his own that most people wouldn't even touch (like brakes and installing a dishwasher).
I agree, he’s very determined to do things for himself. It may not be the most straightforward or “right” way, but he has an admirable level of tenacity.
Tbh i really liked this one, not for the ants but for how excited you were to talk about your stuff in the garage. It felt genuine and I was interested to see other aspects of your life besides reptiles. Idk this one just felt different in a good way, I want more of this style stuff!
“We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning” - Alex, probably Fighting fire ants with their equivalence...perfectly balanced, as all things should be
1:06 Oh my god, Alex, please do not pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol/flammable substance onto a fire. You're lucky the fire didn't travel up the stream and explode the bottle in your hand! I'm not just saying this based on just something I vaguely heard. There are news stories of people getting killed / severely burned from doing that. I even saw a terrifying video of a fire starting in a spa that way. I mean, sure, you were holding it a bit far thankfully, so the stream wasn't consistent, but, still, not a risk you want to take.
@@GoHerping XD Yeeeeeah I saw that video where you almost started a grass fire. But a bottle of alcohol catching on fire and exploding is almost instant. The line between "oh this is okay" and "AAA EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE" is a split second of a continuous stream of fluid, with no reaction time. Plz don't hurt yourself. :( I like your vids.
my mom once caught the grill, porch (concrete), and part of the yard on fire once while trying to put gasoline on the grill because she had seen others do it before (they do that before lighting the grill, she did it after)
Note about the large chicken poop: she is okay, probably just either a morning poop or broody. Sometimes when my birds get broody the put off pooping so the turds come out bigger than eggs.
I always knew Alex was a firebender. Now with Zuko stepping down from the Fire Nation's throne, this is your opportunity to overthrow his family in favor of a new dynasty
If they still keep up, I’d recommend digging a small hole where the entrances are so it can soak deeper into it, and if you’ve got a problem with ants inside mix powdered sugar and baking soda together and leave it out for them. The baking soda causes a reaction in their stomachs creating a gas, and since ants can’t burp or pass gas it slowly builds up inside them till they die. The powdered sugar is just to bait them into eating it, since they can’t separate the individual pieces
This has quickly become my favourite series on TH-cam. I eagerly await every day for the next fire ant battle. These fire ants have lit a fire in my heart
yes but that ant has wings. only males and virgin queens have wings, so that's just preventing *another* colony from being founded. (females only bite their wings off once they'd decided to found their colony)
This “gardening project” has officially become a playlist. All it needs is a proper name and later on, a slightly less successful, but still quite interesting, spin-off series
Alex I’ve been watching you for over 5 years off and on and I’ve always loved your content. Your editing style and personality is great on camera. The content you’re producing now is 10/10 and I’ve been watching more than I used to just because I’ve also grown away from the reptile community. I will watch whatever you put out as long as you’re having fun and enjoying it, because it shows in your videos. I just hope you keep figuring out and doing what you want to do.
i like the new videos, i also like how u see a job and u tackle it instead of calling in someone to do it for u... keep up the good work dude! and good luck with the ants.
I just organized some of my dads stuff in the garage 3 buckets of nuts, screws, random things, different bolts , washers of every size it took about 4 hours but I love organizing and organization. He has so many that you can’t have a spot for every size of everything but Your organization is top notch satisfaction because it’s all the same screw or same nut sizes.
starting to feel like when youtubers records their own descent into complete madness, can't wait for the 43 minute commentary videos titled "how ants cause this reptile youtuber to go from gardening vlogs to second degree arson"
I'm sooo invested in the ants saga lmao. Also, why was the garage tour so entertaining?? I really enjoyed that!!!🤣 And I had no idea you customized the cars yourself. That's really cool.
I lived near n southern Arizona for 7 years and “harvester ants” had colonies around the property. They would defoliate everything around their “nest”. We found a powder by a popular bug killing company (can’t remember which one), but it worked great. Just poured it around the defoliated area and seemed to work better than anything else. Good luck.
Fire ants are a totally different beast. They tend to be nearly immune to things that would destroy other colonies. Thats why there are specifically formulated fire ant poisons.
absolutely laughing my ass off that this is the series that keeps on giving, i keep expecting it to end but neither you or the fire ants are giving up it seems.
That wasn't the colony queen. They snap their wings off after mating. Wings still on is really rare. That was a princess, they hang around the colony till it's time to go mate.
@@phoenixsooy8398 Either she snaps her own wings off or they fall off, I don't remember. Watch Ants Canada if you want to learn more interesting things about ants.
1:24 that was an un-mated queen, not one of the egg layers of the colony sadly. Once to a few times a year (depending on species) colonies in the area will release males and females (winged ants) from their colony to go mate with other males or females from other colonies to, you guessed it, start their own colonies. This is called nuptial flight. The fact that the fire ants are doing this means they’re thriving despite all that’s been thrown at them. They’re basically saying “fuck you” lmao
Oh, Alex. Plant potatoes 4 inches deep over four inches of soil. As the plants grow fill the container with soil, burying the foilage almost to the top. Eventually you will have deep planted potatoes. They grow tubers along the stems. Sweet potatos are a different plant. Grow them till sprouted then cut slips off and root them and plant in soil. Your method will produce a crop for next year - possibly
>commits borderline arson on camera >matures over the next few years >makes video looking back on him committing borderline arson >burns ants to death It's come full circle
It was for the overflow emerald scales animals until I could ship enough out. I kept it up for a few months but once reptiles were sold, I got my garage back!
No flame but I thought alex was like a little nerdy kid but after watching this im realizing he is a hell of alot more handy than I am wtf😂he legit has tools and does so much by him self respect bro
Alex, what you need to do is poor gasoline (yeah that’s expensive I know) and let it sit for a few days. The fumes are heavier than air, and they will suffocate the ants. Do not set it on fire because you’ll burn up all the fumes and it will be pointless.
1:06 gave me anxiety lol. We had a grilling event at my company last week and some guy poured bioethanol into the flames, physically injuring like 7 or 8 people (some of them like, severely . causing burns to their face and hands 'n all.) granted, their fire was bigger and i doubt you used bioethanol, but that still gave me whiplash lmao.
@goherping I recently was watching an episode of antscanada where he had to kill an invasive colony of fire ants. He found where their nest/home was and continued flooding it with boiling water over and over again and that killed the colony. You can try that. It worked for him.
People need to stop spraying fuel directly from the container to a fire!!! It can travel up to the container and explode! My uncle went to the hospital because he did that with rubbing alcohol and his bottle exploded and burned his hand and arm horribly
Use molten aluminum. Its cheap, and it will find its way into every tunnel of the anthill as it lights everything on fire. Then you can flood the area with water to get the aluminum out.
He apparently doesnt have a large enough vessel to boil a sufficient quantity of water to treat the nests, so molten aluminum is probably out of the question too. That said he probably could have set a fire under that big stock tank he used in this video and poured dozens of gallons of boiling water right into the hill one bucket at a time.
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World war ants
I like you Mr herps
Should've brought a flamethrower.
I like how you videotaped yourself killing the red ants
Also you have bidets?! I do too! Which to the rest of the world wouldn’t matter but I say it as a American 😎
How much back catalogue is there available to members at this time?
Ok but all the titles have been “the ants won” or “I give up” but this man keeps on going and going and I have a feeling this is going to be a series until he finally succeeds
giving up was never an option
They may have won several battles, but he'll never let them win the war
This war can only end in absolute tragedy
And I’ll be here for it
A way to get away from Emerald scales 😅
I hope this isn't terribly disappointing, but that wasn't the queen of *that* colony. the only winged ants are males (that die after mating) or virgin queens (who will chew their wings off when they are ready to found a colony. Fire ants can also be polygynous, so you may have multiple queens in your individual colonies (if they aren't all the same colony in the first place).
It's very uncommon but sometimes mated queens will keep their wings. That looked like a female ant though. Either way, better to not give them a chance to repopulate the area.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, the winged ones are alates. It also looked very small for an established queen.
Yeah still good to kill tho, she would've started another colony 50 feet away on another part of his property lmao
I am always impressed with Alex's willingness to learn how to do things on his own that most people wouldn't even touch (like brakes and installing a dishwasher).
I agree, he’s very determined to do things for himself. It may not be the most straightforward or “right” way, but he has an admirable level of tenacity.
Tbh i really liked this one, not for the ants but for how excited you were to talk about your stuff in the garage. It felt genuine and I was interested to see other aspects of your life besides reptiles. Idk this one just felt different in a good way, I want more of this style stuff!
This is probably one of my favourite series from your channel, maybe even more than the unboxing series, even though those do make bigger numbers
aye i appreciate that :D
Me too it's funny! Get them little twats!
Mine too. The last one with the cavalier approach to seed sowing gave me a happy little smile.
“We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning” - Alex, probably
Fighting fire ants with their equivalence...perfectly balanced, as all things should be
With an epic battle like this, we were all wondering when you would show up?
"No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it" - not Alex, probably
I want to imagine that those aren't his cars he's siphoning oil out of, but actually his neighbors
Not the worst thing Alex has done
@@ProjecTJAD nope! But its good to see him adding to his long list of crimes: arson, mass genocide and now theft!
1:06 Oh my god, Alex, please do not pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol/flammable substance onto a fire. You're lucky the fire didn't travel up the stream and explode the bottle in your hand! I'm not just saying this based on just something I vaguely heard. There are news stories of people getting killed / severely burned from doing that. I even saw a terrifying video of a fire starting in a spa that way. I mean, sure, you were holding it a bit far thankfully, so the stream wasn't consistent, but, still, not a risk you want to take.
Believe it or not, this video is the safest I've ever been with fire
@@GoHerping XD Yeeeeeah I saw that video where you almost started a grass fire. But a bottle of alcohol catching on fire and exploding is almost instant. The line between "oh this is okay" and "AAA EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE" is a split second of a continuous stream of fluid, with no reaction time. Plz don't hurt yourself. :( I like your vids.
that would be unfortunate
my mom once caught the grill, porch (concrete), and part of the yard on fire once while trying to put gasoline on the grill because she had seen others do it before (they do that before lighting the grill, she did it after)
Yes, very scary and dangerous. We want you around and functional to keep making videos.
Note about the large chicken poop: she is okay, probably just either a morning poop or broody. Sometimes when my birds get broody the put off pooping so the turds come out bigger than eggs.
I always knew Alex was a firebender. Now with Zuko stepping down from the Fire Nation's throne, this is your opportunity to overthrow his family in favor of a new dynasty
These videos are actually way more entertaining than I expected
Still I want to see you use molten aluminum and dig the entire colony out lol
If they still keep up, I’d recommend digging a small hole where the entrances are so it can soak deeper into it, and if you’ve got a problem with ants inside mix powdered sugar and baking soda together and leave it out for them. The baking soda causes a reaction in their stomachs creating a gas, and since ants can’t burp or pass gas it slowly builds up inside them till they die. The powdered sugar is just to bait them into eating it, since they can’t separate the individual pieces
Sounds safe for chickens too ! Wont hurt to try
This has quickly become my favourite series on TH-cam. I eagerly await every day for the next fire ant battle. These fire ants have lit a fire in my heart
I was going to be like "I can't wait for part 6!" but you actually got a queen this time!
There are definitely more queens unfortunately
yes but that ant has wings. only males and virgin queens have wings, so that's just preventing *another* colony from being founded. (females only bite their wings off once they'd decided to found their colony)
Next video: "I'm not burying a body, officer, I just like night yardwork."
i'm not burying a body, i'm burying millions
This “gardening project” has officially become a playlist.
All it needs is a proper name and later on, a slightly less successful, but still quite interesting, spin-off series
Alex I’ve been watching you for over 5 years off and on and I’ve always loved your content. Your editing style and personality is great on camera. The content you’re producing now is 10/10 and I’ve been watching more than I used to just because I’ve also grown away from the reptile community. I will watch whatever you put out as long as you’re having fun and enjoying it, because it shows in your videos. I just hope you keep figuring out and doing what you want to do.
For future ant problems you should make castings of their tunnels out of molten metal. Ants are dead and you have a cool display piece. Win-win.
i like the new videos, i also like how u see a job and u tackle it instead of calling in someone to do it for u... keep up the good work dude! and good luck with the ants.
I just organized some of my dads stuff in the garage 3 buckets of nuts, screws, random things, different bolts , washers of every size it took about 4 hours but I love organizing and organization. He has so many that you can’t have a spot for every size of everything but Your organization is top notch satisfaction because it’s all the same screw or same nut sizes.
starting to feel like when youtubers records their own descent into complete madness, can't wait for the 43 minute commentary videos titled "how ants cause this reptile youtuber to go from gardening vlogs to second degree arson"
I'm sooo invested in the ants saga lmao. Also, why was the garage tour so entertaining?? I really enjoyed that!!!🤣
And I had no idea you customized the cars yourself. That's really cool.
Oh god I felt so nervous when he sprayed gasoline on a open fire. That is a terrible idea, it can flamejet and go up in your hands.
I lived near n southern Arizona for 7 years and “harvester ants” had colonies around the property. They would defoliate everything around their “nest”. We found a powder by a popular bug killing company (can’t remember which one), but it worked great. Just poured it around the defoliated area and seemed to work better than anything else. Good luck.
Fire ants are a totally different beast. They tend to be nearly immune to things that would destroy other colonies. Thats why there are specifically formulated fire ant poisons.
literally just got back home a minute ago, and alex is already being crazy
Imagine being his neighbor. This man is running around in the middle of the night with what looks like freshly dug graves lol
absolutely laughing my ass off that this is the series that keeps on giving, i keep expecting it to end but neither you or the fire ants are giving up it seems.
Idk what it was about you going full pyro in the first two minutes of this. But it soothed my rage from work. Thanks Alex
The faint screaming is killing me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alex: “I’m tryna fix my sleep schedule” also Alex: *does lawn work at 4am”
Alex's tool organization proves he's actually a secret grandpa
I don't know if it helps but I am really enjoying these vlogs. So keep doin what you are doin and we will keep watching :D
this is my favorite series on youtube right now.
Top 10 Best Cold Opens to any series ever
The music choices through this series have been lit.
I love these series andhonestly this is amazing! I feel like I can watch for hours. your vlogs are amazing
The sound effects of screaming ants 😂
Honestly pretty cool to see all your knick knacks. Puts a lot more respect on you knowing you're a handy man
Watch you be allergic to the fumes of burning fire ants
That wasn't the colony queen. They snap their wings off after mating. Wings still on is really rare. That was a princess, they hang around the colony till it's time to go mate.
The queen snaps her own wings or the other ants do? Thats wild
@@phoenixsooy8398 Either she snaps her own wings off or they fall off, I don't remember. Watch Ants Canada if you want to learn more interesting things about ants.
“Everything was in perfect harmony until the fire nation attacked”… now the earth is fighting fire with fire (earth because you were going to garden)
Loved the tool overview! Gives me inspiration to learn how to do things myself
alternative title:
watching a man go crazy while falling to a despair while getting beat by ants
Dude I dont even have enough energy to do the dishes you’re a mad lad
"This is what a normal kitchen looks like"
No Alex, it's not lmao
Yea, many are much worse
yes. this is the video i’ve been waiting for.
also, yes. smol man running through the neighborhood
that’s a nice tool shelf
Maybe you could start a container garden? And just aquire/reuse the containers but see how effective you can be?
May sound silly, but when I lived in Louisiana, we always poured old fashioned oats on any fire ant hills in our yard and that did the trick.
This is my fave villain arc ever
1:24 that was an un-mated queen, not one of the egg layers of the colony sadly. Once to a few times a year (depending on species) colonies in the area will release males and females (winged ants) from their colony to go mate with other males or females from other colonies to, you guessed it, start their own colonies. This is called nuptial flight. The fact that the fire ants are doing this means they’re thriving despite all that’s been thrown at them. They’re basically saying “fuck you” lmao
Yeah I was about to say there is no way there is only one queen and its that easy
Oh, Alex. Plant potatoes 4 inches deep over four inches of soil. As the plants grow fill the container with soil, burying the foilage almost to the top. Eventually you will have deep planted potatoes. They grow tubers along the stems. Sweet potatos are a different plant. Grow them till sprouted then cut slips off and root them and plant in soil. Your method will produce a crop for next year - possibly
I always do my garden chores at night. Neighbors probably think I'm on drugs but it's the best time to avoid wasps and sunburns.
Glad you got the queen of that colony
One down, but how many to go...?
@@GoHerping Sadly Fire Ants are know to have more than one queen
Random ant: why is the water spicy
Favorite series on TH-cam
Next video: "Destroying Fire ants with thermonuclear missile"
I feel like I'm watching your slow descent into madness
>commits borderline arson on camera
>matures over the next few years
>makes video looking back on him committing borderline arson
>burns ants to death
It's come full circle
Casting their colony with aluminum? Those videos are always super cool, you get neat art out of it, and you get to murder a bunch of fire ants
i was going to call you a crackhead for burning the ants then I remembered I carpet bombed a fireant nest with little dynamites
Usually you plant the sweet potato slips that you grow over winter but hey, give it a go
Just turn that whole area into a fire pit/bonfire, until they’re all gone. Lol
This is quickly becoming some Moby Dick madness. Can’t wait for the flaming harpoon
Thank you for showing us the steps on how to siphon gas. This will come in handy.
1:34 NOT HIM FLIPPING OFF THE ANTS-
Coward, we know you have a katana. Time to show these fire ants who was studying the blade.
What happened to the wall you built to divide the garage to make room for your reptiles?
It was for the overflow emerald scales animals until I could ship enough out. I kept it up for a few months but once reptiles were sold, I got my garage back!
No flame but I thought alex was like a little nerdy kid but after watching this im realizing he is a hell of alot more handy than I am wtf😂he legit has tools and does so much by him self respect bro
He has his own house too,which in this current era,I don’t know how that’s possible,especially at his age.
I love that we get a whole ASMR gas siphoning tutorial in the beginning
Sick intro. You're clearly not forking around. Respect. XD
just leaving a comment to spice things up here, great to have you back mr herp
A beautiful series
The old garden beds look like graves in the dark.
So many lives lost. Such a tragic battle full of hatred and vengeance.
I’m pretty sure Chris fix has a really good tutorial for tinting cars. I recommend him!
He's got great vids, im just bad at it. One guy said I'm just using bad tint brands though, so I do plan on trying again
@@GoHerping hope it works!
Install magnifying glasses over the holes. Return to boyhood
Ants: Its getting so hot in here!
The way im soo invested in this ant saga 😅
Alex, what you need to do is poor gasoline (yeah that’s expensive I know) and let it sit for a few days. The fumes are heavier than air, and they will suffocate the ants. Do not set it on fire because you’ll burn up all the fumes and it will be pointless.
1:06 gave me anxiety lol. We had a grilling event at my company last week and some guy poured bioethanol into the flames, physically injuring like 7 or 8 people (some of them like, severely . causing burns to their face and hands 'n all.) granted, their fire was bigger and i doubt you used bioethanol, but that still gave me whiplash lmao.
Alex handling deadly poisons in pitch black: I wonder why people don't do this?
@goherping I recently was watching an episode of antscanada where he had to kill an invasive colony of fire ants. He found where their nest/home was and continued flooding it with boiling water over and over again and that killed the colony. You can try that. It worked for him.
Your neighbours are probably thinking you are burying bodies or something 😂
Lmfao I'm imagining in the tunnels the ants reaction to the fire
“Fight fire with fire.”
-Fuse
I'm waiting for next week's video "enriching uranium so I can start my garden".
People need to stop spraying fuel directly from the container to a fire!!! It can travel up to the container and explode! My uncle went to the hospital because he did that with rubbing alcohol and his bottle exploded and burned his hand and arm horribly
LMAO HE SHOWED NO MERCY TO THE QUEEN ANT 💀💀💀
Alex to the 5th tool in a row
"This is my dad's"
my man said: 👸🐜🦶💀
I’m so invested in this
Alex is at his breaking point
His life has become a sad country folk' song. ..
MORE?! How blessed we are to this chaos.
The sequel we've all been waiting for
Ants hate cinnamon it’s what I do around electrical things cause they love to hide there
Pretty cool you wrapped your own cars since it’s so expensive. I’m interested in doing mine. Where did you get the vinyl?
Metro restyling
Anyone getting Sinister vibes with the night time lawn work?
Use molten aluminum. Its cheap, and it will find its way into every tunnel of the anthill as it lights everything on fire. Then you can flood the area with water to get the aluminum out.
Granted, a furnace isn't the cheapest but aluminum is
He apparently doesnt have a large enough vessel to boil a sufficient quantity of water to treat the nests, so molten aluminum is probably out of the question too.
That said he probably could have set a fire under that big stock tank he used in this video and poured dozens of gallons of boiling water right into the hill one bucket at a time.
My man you forgot to cover your license plate in that second shot of the front of the Tesla