125 kg Aluminium Bull Ant Nest on Display at the Queensland Museum - Insect Agency Exhibition
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2023
- Dr Chris Burwell from the Queensland Museum presents the Insect Agency Exhibition and the incredible Giant Bull Ant nest casting by Australian Ant Art™.
This is our heaviest Bull ant nest casting to date taking between 115 and 120 kg of aluminum underground with dimensions of 1.60 x 1.10 x 0.76 m (L x W x H). Myrmecia brevinoda is one of the largest ants in Australia, with workers able to be more that 30 mm in length and the queen over 40 mm. The nest has a main tunnel near the surface from which the rest of the nest branches off.
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They did a beautiful job of suspending the nest. It’s a very impactful display.
Yes they did….
Looks like they used an Anti-gravity device.
You guys should be proud, you've done a great job producing this nest for the public to see.
Thanks. We are very happy with the results.
Amazing to see it in it’s final home. Loved watching how you made it!
thanks for following up on requests for showing off the work you did!
Wonderful to see it in its final exhibit place and you must be so pleased to see it on display there in such an amazing way.
We are
Fine work by the Queensland Museum in hanging it for view. Cheers from the USA/Texas where we have massive ant populations. Fire Ants and others.
This is a great follow-up on the gritty hard work of getting this made and out of the ground.
I just saw the 3 vids from casting to excavating and now the final show. Amazing work!
Me too, loved it all. Sorry it was so cold for you guys. Marshmallows looked good though. 😉
Great Cast! Fantastic suspension!!! I live just up the road from the museum, so I'll have to pop along and see it in the flesh, and maybe allow the kids to come too!😄
I love this guys passion of talking about the nest and also saw the casting. Amazing to see from start to finish.
Been an interesting process to watch throughout, the equipment, the preparation (a bit explosive) work and the actual work of casting then removal. The museum has done an _outstanding_ job of suspending the nest in mid-air. Worth every bit of all the effort on all parts and a hearty thank you from Canada.
A fabulous presentation of the ants nest by staff at the museum. Watched the team cast this nest and they were complete professionals.
The visionary display of the nest speaks to the creativity and ingenuity of the museum staff.
Must have been quite amazing planning the suspension of the nest. The display is spot on. Grateful I got to watch the videos from plan to display. Thank you, Australian Ant Art!
Thinking of how that could be done
Dang the nest really scrubs up well! You guys must be proud seeing your work on display in such a manner, truly fantastic!
Someone Has Skills. Thanks for Sharing and Sweating For This Project.
Such a great way to wrap up this incredible little series!
I can just see the display of Earth in the highly evolved alien museum and the curator talking about how beautiful the casting of Molten asteroids they used to cover the Earth and preserve all of our buildings and streets, etc., and talking about how we were such tiny creatures and it was difficult to show the other aliens how industrious and amazing humans were.
I watched the whole series of the casting and extracting.
My thoughts kept circling back to the colony - Armageddon.
Yes, it's all very fascinating and arty. Be different if some aliens came along and plopped a massive dollop of silicone over Brisbane and made a cast, suffocating everyone. You can still see thousands of corpses still embedded in the aluminium, so morbidly fascinating, I guess.
They’re just fucking ants
Had fun watching this, thanks guys 👍
Seeing it displayed made me think : "Worth it!"
Hard work & great display!❤
These guys should definitely get ahold of the craftspeople who mounted these castings and do a few pieces together! They'd be amazing in an art gallery!
epic, loved watching the whole process in your other vids :)
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is fabulous! What an exhibit!
Oh wow, what a beautiful way to display the casting!
Awesome job by everyone involved!
Congratulations on getting them the great display!
Wow. Beautiful
Looks lovely and gorgeous. 👍
cheers from Maine USa ! this is soooo awesome.. wow
Phenomenal!!!!! Great creation!!
Thank you🤗🎶
Very cool!
Very nice indeed
Truly amazing casting. 💯 outstanding work. I hope you are all proud of what you were able to capture
So very impressed with the process that got this casting to the museum. Beautifully prepped by the museum staff to maintain its structural integrity. One question I do have though, he stated that if the queen dies, the colony dies. I looked it up, many ant species select a new queen by feeding a larva more protein. My hobby insects, (bees) do the same thing by feeding more royal jelly to make a new queen. Just curious if this lack of ensured survival is just a lack of bull ant continuation in the Aussie insects? Having grown up in the UK I remember summers of ant explosions of what we called "princesses" i.e queen ants, exploding from ant nests on a certain day and flying away en mass.
Great video
Well done, folks.
well that answered my mounting question. it looks great
That guy was super anteresting. If he'd narrante an ant documantary, I'd definantely watch it.
Just watched the videos of the boys casting that nest and I think they said it was 25 years old
That is correct
RIP Queen and her people.
It will be interestingly when the aliens come and make casts of our cities for their displays and to “Study” us…… Can’t wait!!
curious how the Bull Ants make different shaped nests than the fire ants we have up here in the States
No surprise I guess. Those Bull Ants are Monsters. Has anyone ever tried
to saddle one up and ride ‘em ?
what happens when there is a flood and the chambers fill with water? Does the colony die?
un fricken real!!
No ants were harmed in the making of this... oh...
We honor their sacrifice.
Millions of animals were harmed in the making of this art
No ants were harmed in the process of casting the nest.
Instead of using aluminum try using a 2 part clear epoxy, may have to lightly sand blast the exterior to see the inner workings of the nest. Just a thought it would be so interesting to see the ants at work.
Please see our resin casting video
Would love to go see your display.❤
Happy Anniversary 100
The exhibit should include the video of casting and extracting
Cool
Oddly beautiful…but very alien in appearance.
Looks a little rough. Are they going to clean it up before they put it in the exhibit?
Very nice but I kinda figured the roots would have been burned out or something
It would be pretty amazing to see a cast of a magnetic termite mound
OK. Just a qustion: if the colony dies when the queen dies, now does the species spread? I guess that flying males and female/s are produced at some time and then leave, breed and start new colonies, though I don't know the specifics.
Hi Glenn, I think you answered your own question. For more information may I suggest Ants Canada. The TH-cam channel is what got me hooked on ants. Very entertaining yet blended with scientifically accurate information. Mikey Bustos ( owner/narrator ) has even found ants that are currently being studied by scientists because they might be a brand new species! If you have any interest in ants, you will totally enjoy this channel! Just so you know, I have absolutely no affiliation with any of his stuff. 😊. Fran, Staten Island, New York. USA😢
if you want the quick synopsis, basically every year ants do produce the flying males/females to mate with ants from another colony and normally start a new colony.
and while normally a colony does die when the queen dies, there are some ant species that can accept multiple queens in a single nest, so a single colony can theoretically live forever by constantly getting new queens. (i could be wrong) there are some rare species where a worker can become the queen after the previous queen dies.
@@cranberrysauce61 That makes sense. I imagine breeding with other colonies would help keep genetic diversity in the species.
I recommend reading City by Clifford D. Simak.
You'll never look at ants the same. Or dogs.
How about a cast of a fire ant nest from Queensland
Good work impressive structure ,bad day for the ants when they poured the aluminium on them.
Insects is best
It would be interesting if there was some way to do this with a clear resin. Kind of freeze everything in place but could see everything.
Please see our resin casting video
@@australianantart1376 Thank you! Just found that one.
This piece should be hanging in the Ant Holocaust Museum next to the diary of Ant Frank.
you are delulu
@@kdkdjdjdjdkskvd I’m Brian
How ‘unkempt’ does that museum head scientist look? He could do with investing in an iron.
This is a horrific death for millions of lives.
Does it hurt the Ants?
they dead
@@kdkdjdjdjdkskvd 😂
@@kdkdjdjdjdkskvd was the metal too hot for then?
@@dasmuss6174 yes that's why they died
@@kdkdjdjdjdkskvdoh, yeah that makes sense, it probably burned them hey?
No ants were killed making this display
The Kangaroo Ant eh
These are invasive ant species that are used in molds. Just so the public knows....😊
No they are not invasive. Apparently you didnt listen to the guy. They are endemic to Australia. We do have invasive ant species, the fire ant for example, but these are native.
Looks like a city, an underground city .. king under the mountain. Pity fire ants will probably takeover.
I love how Dr Burwell talks about how amazing ants are; while he stands beside a large nest of them that he paid to have killed.
But keep in mind that the farmer that let them do this on his land wanted the ants gone anyhow, and would have done this by any means possible even if these guys weren't available... you just would have never known or heard about it if it was just a chemical dump.
Really? They're not like honeybees, where if a queen dies, they replace her with another?
It's a completely different system. In fact, if I remember correctly, a queen leaves her birth nest having already fertilized and prepared every egg she will ever lay in her life.
So not only will her nest die out when she dies but before that happens her nest will have produced a queen to go on to make a new nest and thus the cycle repeats
Job (26:7) he hangs the ants house on nothing
So the the Queen dies & then all the workers " disappear"? Really??!! You want to elaborate on that? What happens to all the other ants? Do they commit suicide?
Lol, had a queen. Do you tell people they were live nests😂
Does any of this harm the ants?
Nope! They get relocated to a big farm!
The ants are very dead from this process.
Always has to be one smart ass in the group
@@anthonyrose7020 😉
They pour molten metal down into the nest while the ants are in it, so yes, the ants are dead inside. One nest they killed was about 25 years old.
This was an ant genocide.
I want a bull ant farm. Is that a thing i can get?
I look forward to when the aliens come and mold our homes
cry harder softy
Ohhh, I think this queen is quite dead.
A 35mm long ant isn't interesting, it's scary as there won't be just one of them.
I wasn't planning a visit to Australia though so I guess I'm OK 😁
And while you're being distracted by the 35mm any, the drop bear will make an opportunistic ambush!
@@oxoalan1 I've watched Bluey with my grandson so know about Drop Bears 😁
It would be much better if more close up on teh art piece and keep the talking on the background
That's all astonishing. I feel a bit guilty now about the colony being killed for the sake of a museum piece.
a million ants are cooked in that art...
So to keep it simple the cast would have killed all of the ants in the colony so that we can create art, if someone pour molten aluminum over your house what would you think??? Just saying.
This nest was located near a home. If you ever been bitten by a bull ant you would understand of why it had to go.
Death on display , art feature 🤔
Seriously what the hell. I want to see the casting not this guy.
How discusting, you killed the whole colony to create your stupid display piece. Asinine
Surely a computer model could made by ultrasound scanning of the ground around the nest, then use 3d printing to create a 3d model of the nest without the need to destroy a nest. How ironic that this curator extolls the virtues of ants and how essential they are to the ecosystem while standing in front of an annihilated ant nest.
To be fair, the land owner wanted them gone, so the colony was going to be killed off either way. This at least lets the annihilation serve some good.
Womp womp
There is absolutely no shortage of ants. And given that they have virtually no enemies and that the fact that they can be highly destructive, there is a need to check the balance of population.
They do both good and bad. I don't believe that ground penetration rader is anywhere near detailed enough to visualize the delicate nature of the tiny tunnels.
I believe that sacrificing a few colonies can even be calculated as to the population of ants in total.
Also the casting open the eyes of millions as to the benefits and hidden life of these amazingly sophisticated insects.
The total weight of ants in the world is greater than the combined weight of all the humans. They are in no danger of the threat of execution due to casting of colonies.
The good that comes from exposing them to the interest and concern of humans far out weighs any harm done. It's not like wiping out a herd of elephants or a pack of wolves.
Agree entirely. People that have never lived on a rural property are the first to claim something like this as destruction. Please try and live on a farm and successfully grow a crop while allowing all ants, mice and rabbits to live along side you.
@@GG-kc6ie These city folk aren't the ones who have to find newborn livestock covered in ants, find their animals and pets ripped apart by coyotes, find their chickens lying headless.
Their money comes from a 9-5. People who make their living off of the sweat of their brow, who never stop fighting predation, and cant have the local exterminator spray away their pests just don't have the experience to understand.
We live in almost opposite worlds. In the country, we value people, our neighbors.
In the cities, where there are too many people, their pets, apex predators and even insects seem to be the focus of their concern🙄
Senseless destruction of an entire colony of ants. This is as evil as a lampshade made out of human skin.
Get over yourself. Seriously? There is no shortage of ant colonies. These castings are being used as teaching tools. I would hardly equate an ant colony casting to a lampshade made from human skin.
Poor soy boy. Probably one of those they/them types.
Needed lighting from below to show better details
TOP POINTS to the QLD Museum their magnificent display of that enormous cast of the nest.
Hanging it in space - floating - really shows the depth and complexity of the nest. Superb! 💎
M 🦘🏏😎