Oh yes, most definitely here in Texas for sure haha. I hope I can reach out to these guys and work something out on doing a project with a big ant colony that I find. I'll even pay for it if I have to 😂
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.
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!
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!😄
Just discovered your videos today. Without even knowing you guys filmed the process, I had seen this in the Museum in person a few weeks ago. When I saw it I said "I'm no expert, but I feel like this nest is massive."
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
I wonder when they will have a camera small enough to place on a few Ants to get an inside 3D scan of a complete nest ?, be incredible to be able to see a real working nest in action, we have a casting of a nest, next the insides :)
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Amazing to see it in it’s final home. Loved watching how you made it!
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.
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
thanks for following up on requests for showing off the work you did!
This is a great follow-up on the gritty hard work of getting this made and out of the ground.
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.
Oh yes, most definitely here in Texas for sure haha. I hope I can reach out to these guys and work something out on doing a project with a big ant colony that I find. I'll even pay for it if I have to 😂
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. 😉
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.
I love this guys passion of talking about the nest and also saw the casting. Amazing to see from start to finish.
The visionary display of the nest speaks to the creativity and ingenuity of the museum staff.
Dang the nest really scrubs up well! You guys must be proud seeing your work on display in such a manner, truly fantastic!
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
Such a great way to wrap up this incredible little series!
Someone Has Skills. Thanks for Sharing and Sweating For This Project.
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!😄
Did you get to see the casting?
@@mllee2008 yes it was really something to see! Bigger than you’d think, being made by ants!
Had fun watching this, thanks guys 👍
Oh wow, what a beautiful way to display the casting!
Quite impressive that no ants were harmed during the process.
epic, loved watching the whole process in your other vids :)
Hard work & great display!❤
Seeing it displayed made me think : "Worth it!"
Just discovered your videos today.
Without even knowing you guys filmed the process, I had seen this in the Museum in person a few weeks ago.
When I saw it I said "I'm no expert, but I feel like this nest is massive."
We feel like it is massive as well.
We hope you enjoyed looking at the casting and seeing a little of what goes on underground.
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This is fabulous! What an exhibit!
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
@@scottydu81 the large majority of them never fucked. Only the queen
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!
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. Beautiful
cheers from Maine USa ! this is soooo awesome.. wow
Congratulations on getting them the great display!
Wow! So truly lovely art piece
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.
Very cool!
RIP Queen and her people.
Very nice indeed
Awesome job by everyone involved!
Looks lovely and gorgeous. 👍
That guy was super anteresting. If he'd narrante an ant documantary, I'd definantely watch it.
The exhibit should include the video of casting and extracting
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
well that answered my mounting question. it looks great
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 ?
Phenomenal!!!!! Great creation!!
Thank you🤗🎶
Well done, folks.
Holy ant hill, Batman! That puts Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm to shame.
Next time talk about the nest itself. What do all those odd shaped chambers do? Why so many odd tunnels?
Just watched the videos of the boys casting that nest and I think they said it was 25 years old
That is correct
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.
what happens when there is a flood and the chambers fill with water? Does the colony die?
No ants were harmed in the making of this... oh...
We honor their sacrifice.
Very nice but I kinda figured the roots would have been burned out or something
Would love to go see your display.❤
Now I'm wondering what a siafu (army ant) nest looks like, cause those can have over a million ants.
Looks a little rough. Are they going to clean it up before they put it in the exhibit?
I wonder when they will have a camera small enough to place on a few Ants to get an inside 3D scan of a complete nest ?, be incredible to be able to see a real working nest in action, we have a casting of a nest, next the insides :)
What would something like this cost???
Great video
I recommend reading City by Clifford D. Simak.
You'll never look at ants the same. Or dogs.
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.
un fricken real!!
How about a cast of a fire ant nest from Queensland
Happy Anniversary 100
No ants were harmed in the process of casting the nest.
It will be interestingly when the aliens come and make casts of our cities for their displays and to “Study” us…… Can’t wait!!
Cool
What happens to the ants???
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?
Imagine someone pouring molten hot aluminum on your house then putting it in a museum 😅
Good work impressive structure ,bad day for the ants when they poured the aluminium on them.
Oddly beautiful…but very alien in appearance.
No Ants were injured during the making of this model. Hollywood disclaimer.
Millions of animals were harmed in the making of this art
Also in the production of your phone which you type on🤔
Insects is best
How ‘unkempt’ does that museum head scientist look? He could do with investing in an iron.
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 piece should be hanging in the Ant Holocaust Museum next to the diary of Ant Frank.
you are delulu
@@kdkdjdjdjdkskvd I’m Brian
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
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.
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?
I want a bull ant farm. Is that a thing i can get?
Looks like a city, an underground city .. king under the mountain. Pity fire ants will probably takeover.
The Kangaroo Ant eh
This is a horrific death for millions of lives.
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.
I look forward to when the aliens come and mold our homes
cry harder softy
Lol, had a queen. Do you tell people they were live nests😂
This was an ant genocide.
Job (26:7) he hangs the ants house on nothing
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 😁
That's all astonishing. I feel a bit guilty now about the colony being killed for the sake of a museum piece.
It would be much better if more close up on teh art piece and keep the talking on the background
How discusting, you killed the whole colony to create your stupid display piece. Asinine
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.
a million ants are cooked in that art...
Death on display , art feature 🤔