My 9 year old came to me asking for an ant queen for his birthday a few months ago. He sent me links to your videos, did all his research. Now here I am months into my own research and binge watching. Not to mention we are now raising a colony from the GAN project AND happened to catch our own queens. Here I was, thinking I hated ants. XD Thanks for the fun conversion!
Hey Antscanada, in case you don't know, the trap-jaw ant queens you caught from last episode need substrate for their larvae, without it, the larvae wouldn't be able to spin their cocoons.
Removing the wings makes logical sense considering that Queen Ant Soup is made from the back muscles no longer needed for flight. If the wings stayed on, each movement (walking or moving wings) would use up valuable energy that could have gone to new ants.
The answer of the question: the protein reserve in her wing muscle that she would feed the larvae of course it is limited so the workers will be smaller than the regular worker and are called nanitics
Chill out, what ya yellin' for? Lay back, it's all been done before. And if you could only let it be, you will see that I am the funniest YouT*ber of all time. Admit it, my dear follow*r jo
I've just realised it's amazing that an unmated queen can raise a male who could leave and pass on her genetics before she dies without ever even having a true colony of her own...
The colony as a whole is most likely doomed. The queen won’t go out and forage for food, and the males won’t either. If they don’t make it to nuptials flights, which I believe only happen at a certain time of year, there won’t be any passing of genetics. Of course I would love to be proven wrong.
Is interesting that I had an infertile queen who made a ton of eggs but the eggs didn't grew into anything for about 2 months when I humanely killed her in the frezer
Answer to AC question: They feed their first larvae nutritious yellow soup, manufactured from their own body tissue from their now unused wing muscles. It's regurgitated from the Queen's mouth. Truly an amazing adaptation!
I know the queens are being driven by instincts and for her own survival and what not, but seeing them looking at and caring for her eggs so tenderly, I can’t help but see immense love and bonding.
Instincts aren't cold and robotic from the animal's perspective. An animal acting on instinct is doing something because they feel an emotion and just subconsciously "know" that behavior is the right response to that emotion. Humans actually have instincts too, despite us pretending we're above it. If you watch non-human great apes, you'll almost certainly see them doing all sorts of things that you also do and haven't really considered why before - they just feel natural and "right" to do. For example, many teen couples who were never taught how babies are made have accidentally made a baby, because putting one person's penis in another person's vagina is instinctive behavior. It's why sex ed reduces rates of teen pregnancy, because it gives them knowledge to override their instincts. Two teens with no sex ed having vaginal sex aren't thinking about how they need to pass on their genes, they're thinking "this feels so good". Similarly, even though I read a lot about parenting before having a baby, when my child was born I found that I often just instinctively did what she needed because it was what made me feel good to do, and only afterwards realized why it was a good idea to do that. And I saw my baby acting on a *lot* of instincts to figure out how to survive outside of my womb, too.
I have had this happen to a few of my Lasius spp. Though instead, they laid a single egg that grew into a single fly, which ate the queen when it came out.
me: *happy I caught a carpenter queen ant* also me: *sees this video* me AGAIN: NOOOOO pls don't die my queen ant I don't want u to be filled with worms D:
The fact that antscanada tells new people everything about ants all over again. Like I would just tell them to watch the rest of your yt channel as its so worth your time and u learn so much about ants. #antlove
The awesome thing about ants is the fact that they the past 2 years had their nuptial flight over my pool I caught a few queen ants last year they had brood that hatched but in the end I forgot about them for too long and they died so i am going to try harder this year
Hey, while I know there is an extremely slim chance that you’ll see this, I’d just like to let you know how much joy you bring to people on a daily basis. My brother and I are always watching your videos, and always hyped to see on of your brand new videos in our recommended. Though I know you’ve been through bad, rough, sad, and other times, over the time you’ve bin doing TH-cam, I’d argue you to look past those negative experience and focus on the people who appreciate you for who you are and what you bring to the table in life. We don’t watch you because of you skills or accomplishments, we watch you because of your unique and entertaining personality; for the lovable person you are. So if you find yourself doubting your worth over youtube, just remember the many other people who consider you a cherished part of our daily lives. Stay well, bro
So after starting an ant colony I purchased my native uk species and today was a lucky day there was a mating flight and I got my self 7 queens and saw and passed up so many more I'm so excited one marvelous thing I witnessed is the queen removing her wings !!! Sadly I wasn't quick enough to film it but just want to say thanks for all of ya content and thanks for sharing you're passion
Wow what a amazing video i love having a super stressful day in school and then finish my work and I get to relax and watch ants Canada keep it up love the vid 👍👍
Love camponotus!! One thing I've never heard you mention is the noises ants make. I've only been keeping ants for a year and a half but a few of my camponotus colonies and a lasius colony chirp like crazy whenever I feed them fruit flies. I used to think it was the flies but I've been able to observe the chirps with no prey in the setups. Would love to see a video on ant communications with noise!
I hope the rest of the queens manage to grow their own colony! Im sure they are going to make great pets for your new ant house. By then you will be taking better care of your ants than my family takes care of me.
Thanks to you @AntsCanada, I find myself watching where I place my giant sized feet, more now than I used to thanks mostly to the information you have shared with us, for example this morning I saw an ant, and had I not seen it I wouldn't have changed how I was walking, but I saw this ant and changed the trajectory of my right foot and in my mind I could hear the ant thanking me for not squishing it. Again thank you for the information you have shared with us
Well, I found this vidio most informative, I am still a novice myself, but I still like to gain more Infomation about the hobby, and I think this vidio should be added to your " new to the hobby" list, as I am sure many would find this most helpful, as I did. Keep up the great vid's, they are so educational.
I wonder what those worms are and how they got there. It's so gross and yet fascinating because I never knew queen ants could be infected with parasites like that!
Question, Do all male ants come from unfertilized eggs? If so, would that essentially make them genetically identical to the queen aside from the Y chromosome? Such an interesting reproductive pattern!!! 🐜🐜🐜
Fertile queens will produce males a year or so before they produce female elates generally. They take less resources to create than a princess but still more than a worker
Ants don't have a Y chromosome. XX/XY sex determination is not universal - there are many different ways that different species determine the sex of individuals, such as ZZ/ZW, temperature dependent sex determination, the weird complicated thing echidnas do with multiple pairs of sex chromosomes, etc. In the case of ants, most species have haploid/diploid sex determination, where females have two copies of every gene (one from each parent) whereas males have only one copy from the mother and that's it. They're not genetically identical to their mother since they only have half of her genes, but they don't get genes from anyone else.
7:09 - Hey, Microbiologist here, and I have a quick clarification. The word "antibiotic" refers to having antibacterial properties, and mold is a fungus. So what you mean to say is Antifungal, if you're just talking about the mold. Great video!! Thanks so much for all your work :)
I also started to see some larvae in the 2 of my colonies which I started to keep almost same time with you :) Hope will develope into a colony soon. Answer: Larvae is generally fed with queens own saliva. However, I remember one of your older videos for non-claustral queens they can be fed with freshly digested prey body fluid.
honestly the ant that fell victim to the (presumably) cordiceps fungus variant is absolutely fascinating. I wish you would've recorded her dying and the fungus spreading!
Did he capture a trap jaw queen? I don't remember that one. I know he caught the 14 carpenter queens, and pinched by a trap jaw. But I don't think he found a queen though.
Dude for real… you’re quite a guy to make me feel feels for ants and beetles. I’ve got a whole new respect and no fear of ants anymore. Now if there’s a way to do that with roaches, then I’d be golden (losing my fear of them, I mean 😂)
Dear Ants Canada, Thank you as always for the entertaining and informative Content ! If I may ask, I have watched a phenomenon with my Messer Barbarus Colony that I quite still don't fully understand. Sadly, my 2 year old Messer Queen was found dead in the arena for a reason I can't explain - My guess is that the workers pulled her around too much, because they were moving the queen quite around the weeks before I found her. Now here comes the funny part: even MONTHS after the queen died, I still saw fresh egg, larvae, and later some male ants in their nest - so far, the production of eggs and larvae has not stopped, even tho the queen is dead for around half a year by now. Is there a chance that the colony hatched a second queen ? I really can't explain this so far, would be glad if the community could give some explanation to this . Thank you in advance !!!
The food that the Queen feeds her young is the “soup” she makes with the nutrients leftover from her shedded wings that she keeps in her little back bump. 🐜👑🍲
The answer to the question of the week: A queen ant feeds her first set of young larvae a nutritious soup manufactured from her wing muscles which are no longer needed
As much as I hate ants I’m so surprised I’m still subscribed and watch all uploads haha. The education is awesome and you can’t get bored with the way you talk about them and add drama.
I'm glad you promote keeping ants native to your watchers area. Animals shipped around as pets, if released, can either just kill them or worse they can survive and wipe out the ecosystem of that area. There's a species of fish that was brought to my country as pets but people released them and they eat absolutely everything. There are some lakes that are completely dead now because of it and I'm glad you're promoting responsible pet care.
I learned so much from your videos! As a child, I always hated how the ants would swarm into my room every year, with big and small winged ants. It turned out they were having their yearly nupital flight right in my room! Now I'm sad I didn't have any interest in ant keeping back then.
Actually the unmated queens laying only male ants is something I had expected. I follow different kinds of insects and noticed the same thing happening with queen bees. Curiously, there are times when worker bees also lay eggs which also invariably create drones.
It makes sense with how their sex determination works. Instead of having sex chromosomes, many insects have haploid/diploid sex determination, where females have two copies of every gene (diploid) and males only one copy. Females get one copy of each gene from each parent, while males only get one copy from their mother and don't have a father. Therefore, an unmated female can still produce males.
Hey AntsCanada, I want to say that normally you’re really good at your cliffhangers, but why even attempt when you already spoiled it at the beginning? We already know it’s maggots inside that winged-queen’s gaster because you put in a clip at the beginning. The video was still awesome as usual and I’m excited for next week’s, but this was a rare misstep in my opinion.
I witnessed a beautiful thing! So I was at school eating lunch when a QUEEN ANT landed on my jeans who then tore off her wings. It my first time seeing a queen and she tore off her wings and I saved her from death! So I feel blessed😇😇 @antcanada
How does the yellow food liquid from the queen get inside the larva? Are the larva inside an egg sack, or is that just the shape of their body and they use mouth parts to drink the queen's food? Basically I can't tell if the larva will hatch or if they start out egg shaped & then grow from there?
Also wondering how the queens remove their wings... do they fall off on their own, or does the queen remove them with her mouth? ...And omg @AntsCanada thank u for answering my original question 💜
Honestly I want to know what they are tho. We could learn about parasitic wasps or flies from this. Granted, you'll want to release whatever hatches far, far away from your other queens, but it's a chance for us to learn more entomology
Delicate question but, if a queen didn't manage to get fertilised during her nuptial flight, could she get a... kick-start from one of the males she produces? It obviously wouldn't be great for genetic diversity, but would it still be possible?
Thanks for the all of the content! The other day i went for mail and found ants WITH LARVA in my mail box. Thanks to you know of their preference for humidity, so I left the mailbox open and they were gone by morning
@@thunderz2483 At the beginning, after laying the first eggs in her new nest, the queen takes care of them. During this time, she uses her stored fat reserves and wing muscles for nourishment. Yeah your right
Pretty amazing experiment! I guess it’s survival of the fittest! If every queen were to successfully breed we would be overwhelmed with ant colonies. I wonder if having them next to each other being able to see each other has any effect on their growth and development? Do they see each other as threats? Or maybe they don’t see through the glass, idk? Do you Mikey? Thanks again for sharing this with us, I truly appreciate it. Thanks again take care, stay safe and healthy.
Tbh the best fate for that queen full of worms is you killing it quickly
😭😭😭😭 But....
@@AntsCanada hi antscanada
but its so sad to kill it
@@AntsCanada hi ants canada
@@AntsCanada I have to agree with this dude, your queen is gonna die either way, make it humane.
AC: “An amazing, and exciting race!”
Also AC: “some will die a HORRIBLE death”.
Yup
"Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
Na, I don’t think he said that
Just like how it is in nature. Amazing but sad
To me it looks like it had maggots. Ew.
My 9 year old came to me asking for an ant queen for his birthday a few months ago. He sent me links to your videos, did all his research. Now here I am months into my own research and binge watching. Not to mention we are now raising a colony from the GAN project AND happened to catch our own queens. Here I was, thinking I hated ants. XD Thanks for the fun conversion!
this parent is a legend
Mom of the year doing her part of the next generation o7
Im 9 and i found an ant queen and it died cuz i dont know how to raise a colony
You are an awsome parrent for supporting your child in their intrests dispite orginally hating ants.
@vegetable varrior chill like oh my god its there opinion they might think they are annoying
Hey Antscanada, in case you don't know, the trap-jaw ant queens you caught from last episode need substrate for their larvae, without it, the larvae wouldn't be able to spin their cocoons.
Huh. Did not know that.
Boost^^^
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Mikey pretty much said in the title:
*Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make*
It is you again
Lord Farquad
reminds me of lord farquaad from Shrek
thats weird...
Lol
Removing the wings makes logical sense considering that Queen Ant Soup is made from the back muscles no longer needed for flight. If the wings stayed on, each movement (walking or moving wings) would use up valuable energy that could have gone to new ants.
does removing a person’s private parts also make him live longer?
@@donnaarisson7926 that's a dumb comparison
Thx for the info
The answer of the question: the protein reserve in her wing muscle that she would feed the larvae of course it is limited so the workers will be smaller than the regular worker and are called nanitics
Chill out, what ya yellin' for? Lay back, it's all been done before. And if you could only let it be, you will see that I am the funniest YouT*ber of all time. Admit it, my dear follow*r jo
@@AxxLAfriku I find you more of a hinderance just like those worms in the queen
And that parasite
Ok
@@somerandomguywholikesULTRAKILL dang... Just for that comment, I like you in a respected way
@@somerandomguywholikesULTRAKILL damn someone said it respect
I've just realised it's amazing that an unmated queen can raise a male who could leave and pass on her genetics before she dies without ever even having a true colony of her own...
The colony as a whole is most likely doomed. The queen won’t go out and forage for food, and the males won’t either. If they don’t make it to nuptials flights, which I believe only happen at a certain time of year, there won’t be any passing of genetics. Of course I would love to be proven wrong.
@@silver6214 no you are correct, it's just that nobody will take care of the male ants. So no ants will live to pass on her genes
@@silver6214 well, that sucks
Is interesting that I had an infertile queen who made a ton of eggs but the eggs didn't grew into anything for about 2 months when I humanely killed her in the frezer
@@idfk9354 how did you know they where infertile? Cause sometimes eggs do hatch and the larvae just look like eggs
Answer to AC question:
They feed their first larvae nutritious yellow soup, manufactured from their own body tissue from their now unused wing muscles. It's regurgitated from the Queen's mouth. Truly an amazing adaptation!
I had the worm issue with one of the queens I caught this year. I was sad to see it. But I didn't let her suffer. My other queen wasn't fertile
Oof
I feel sory for you :(
That short clip of the maggots inside the queen ant made my skin crawl a little
I was going ti make food...imma wait an hour after the video ends...
i was planning to eat, which probably isnt a good idea for videos about insects, and I'm glad i was right. ate the food first and then watched
@Jessie Fourie the ant with maggots one was an ant antscanada caught probs years ago
i was eating while watching this
Hmmmm,maybe there is some in your skin hmmmmm
Title : "some will die a horrible death"
Everyone : they *what*
Lol my reaction in a nutshell
Haha lol
(Concern)
Being eaten by parasitic fly larvae
I like how queens use the smaller front legs as hands. So cute.
Wooahhhhhh....!!!
How the hell am I the first reply here
Hello🙋♂️
But thats you
:insert Spiderman Pointing meme*
@@mehranhodiwala1273 idk
I know the queens are being driven by instincts and for her own survival and what not, but seeing them looking at and caring for her eggs so tenderly, I can’t help but see immense love and bonding.
Instincts aren't cold and robotic from the animal's perspective. An animal acting on instinct is doing something because they feel an emotion and just subconsciously "know" that behavior is the right response to that emotion. Humans actually have instincts too, despite us pretending we're above it. If you watch non-human great apes, you'll almost certainly see them doing all sorts of things that you also do and haven't really considered why before - they just feel natural and "right" to do. For example, many teen couples who were never taught how babies are made have accidentally made a baby, because putting one person's penis in another person's vagina is instinctive behavior. It's why sex ed reduces rates of teen pregnancy, because it gives them knowledge to override their instincts. Two teens with no sex ed having vaginal sex aren't thinking about how they need to pass on their genes, they're thinking "this feels so good". Similarly, even though I read a lot about parenting before having a baby, when my child was born I found that I often just instinctively did what she needed because it was what made me feel good to do, and only afterwards realized why it was a good idea to do that. And I saw my baby acting on a *lot* of instincts to figure out how to survive outside of my womb, too.
I have had this happen to a few of my Lasius spp. Though instead, they laid a single egg that grew into a single fly, which ate the queen when it came out.
😰
@@angieduran7261😓😰
@@beez1717 Hey look it’s a ant member thing (idk what they call)
@@beez1717 bow
The things I love the most about AntsCanada are the emotional music with the adventurous ending of each video.
me: *happy I caught a carpenter queen ant*
also me: *sees this video*
me AGAIN: NOOOOO pls don't die my queen ant I don't want u to be filled with worms D:
Whole saga of “ME”
I hope your queen ant will be a BIG colony :)
@@HEYJO77 same!
Is the ants ok?
The fact that antscanada tells new people everything about ants all over again. Like I would just tell them to watch the rest of your yt channel as its so worth your time and u learn so much about ants. #antlove
The awesome thing about ants is the fact that they the past 2 years had their nuptial flight over my pool I caught a few queen ants last year they had brood that hatched but in the end I forgot about them for too long and they died so i am going to try harder this year
Fun fact: his content always make everyones day better
I change my pfp so people wouldn’t recognize
👍
Yes I’ve been watching for a few years now n annoying my family with ant facts 😂
True.
@Not RickRoll 👇 3 yes definitely not a rickroll not at all! no chance!
Heck yeah
Hey, while I know there is an extremely slim chance that you’ll see this, I’d just like to let you know how much joy you bring to people on a daily basis. My brother and I are always watching your videos, and always hyped to see on of your brand new videos in our recommended. Though I know you’ve been through bad, rough, sad, and other times, over the time you’ve bin doing TH-cam, I’d argue you to look past those negative experience and focus on the people who appreciate you for who you are and what you bring to the table in life. We don’t watch you because of you skills or accomplishments, we watch you because of your unique and entertaining personality; for the lovable person you are. So if you find yourself doubting your worth over youtube, just remember the many other people who consider you a cherished part of our daily lives. Stay well, bro
Question of the week: a queen ant feeds her first larvae a nutritious soup that is made for her wing muscles.
From her wing muscles my friend not for them
From her wing muscles dude
Yes
Was in the middle of a nuptial flight the other day and had the chance to catch a queen but didnt think I was ready for that commitment.
So after starting an ant colony I purchased my native uk species and today was a lucky day there was a mating flight and I got my self 7 queens and saw and passed up so many more I'm so excited one marvelous thing I witnessed is the queen removing her wings !!! Sadly I wasn't quick enough to film it but just want to say thanks for all of ya content and thanks for sharing you're passion
its really cool how many queen ants you found and I really think at least 4 of the queen ants are going to make it
I sure hope so!!! Ant love forever!
Yeah
I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ants so much
There so cool😃😃😃
Wow what a amazing video i love having a super stressful day in school and then finish my work and I get to relax and watch ants Canada keep it up love the vid 👍👍
I feel so bad for that queen. I guess sacrifices have to be made in the animal kingdom. But this one just makes me feel a pang in my heart.
I don't i have no moral compass for pests that includes my children sadly
@@ToXicKush420 Lets hope your joking
I mean, at least those maggots had a nice meal and got to grow up into flies... If it makes it any better.
@@athing4733 flies vomit when they land, now im eating a vomit sandwich on my picnic
Hi AntsCanada! What an amazing video you made. I hope to continue this journey with you! 🐜🐜🐜
Love camponotus!! One thing I've never heard you mention is the noises ants make. I've only been keeping ants for a year and a half but a few of my camponotus colonies and a lasius colony chirp like crazy whenever I feed them fruit flies. I used to think it was the flies but I've been able to observe the chirps with no prey in the setups. Would love to see a video on ant communications with noise!
It's always a classic AntsCanada touch when Hallelujah plays in the background
Thank you for the input Supreme Leader
Antscanada always has bangers!
Yeaa
True
This is something new!!
Yessir
Every week
I hope the rest of the queens manage to grow their own colony! Im sure they are going to make great pets for your new ant house. By then you will be taking better care of your ants than my family takes care of me.
Thanks to you @AntsCanada, I find myself watching where I place my giant sized feet, more now than I used to thanks mostly to the information you have shared with us, for example this morning I saw an ant, and had I not seen it I wouldn't have changed how I was walking, but I saw this ant and changed the trajectory of my right foot and in my mind I could hear the ant thanking me for not squishing it. Again thank you for the information you have shared with us
I honestly love ants, and love to watch your videos about them. And yes, its ant love forever. :) 💖
Well, I found this vidio most informative, I am still a novice myself, but I still like to gain more
Infomation about the hobby, and I think this vidio should be added to your " new to the hobby" list, as I am sure many would find this most helpful, as I did.
Keep up the great vid's, they are so educational.
I wonder what those worms are and how they got there. It's so gross and yet fascinating because I never knew queen ants could be infected with parasites like that!
Question, Do all male ants come from unfertilized eggs? If so, would that essentially make them genetically identical to the queen aside from the Y chromosome? Such an interesting reproductive pattern!!! 🐜🐜🐜
Fertile queens will produce males a year or so before they produce female elates generally. They take less resources to create than a princess but still more than a worker
Ants don't have a Y chromosome. XX/XY sex determination is not universal - there are many different ways that different species determine the sex of individuals, such as ZZ/ZW, temperature dependent sex determination, the weird complicated thing echidnas do with multiple pairs of sex chromosomes, etc. In the case of ants, most species have haploid/diploid sex determination, where females have two copies of every gene (one from each parent) whereas males have only one copy from the mother and that's it. They're not genetically identical to their mother since they only have half of her genes, but they don't get genes from anyone else.
7:09 - Hey, Microbiologist here, and I have a quick clarification. The word "antibiotic" refers to having antibacterial properties, and mold is a fungus. So what you mean to say is Antifungal, if you're just talking about the mold. Great video!! Thanks so much for all your work :)
I also started to see some larvae in the 2 of my colonies which I started to keep almost same time with you :) Hope will develope into a colony soon.
Answer: Larvae is generally fed with queens own saliva. However, I remember one of your older videos for non-claustral queens they can be fed with freshly digested prey body fluid.
AntsCanada “letting go some of my ants because of Quarantine.”
Him a few days later: ok guys we are gonna be feeding 100! Cockroach’s to my ants!”
2 of my favourite TH-camrs uploaded today!
Antscanada and?
@@dr.shibleehassankhan8023 a really good animator that takes forever to upload.
@@kimmyy615 wait Alan Becker???
@@lwyanneebg9314 yes
@@kimmyy615 Alan Becker?
AC every video: "If you new to ant keeping, let me explain..."
Me who's been watching videos since 2016:
honestly the ant that fell victim to the (presumably) cordiceps fungus variant is absolutely fascinating. I wish you would've recorded her dying and the fungus spreading!
It’s not every mother that can produce food for herself and her younguns from her own body! That’s a super power right there.
Im looking forward to see that trap-jaw queen succeeding
Did he capture a trap jaw queen? I don't remember that one. I know he caught the 14 carpenter queens, and pinched by a trap jaw. But I don't think he found a queen though.
@@texas8322 Towards the end of the last video he caught two queens, one with wings and the other without which has already started to lay eggs
Dude for real… you’re quite a guy to make me feel feels for ants and beetles. I’ve got a whole new respect and no fear of ants anymore. Now if there’s a way to do that with roaches, then I’d be golden (losing my fear of them, I mean 😂)
Lol. I like how that there is no trigger warning for the mold and maggots 😂.
i think the "some will die a horrible death" is close enough to a trigger warning 😭😂
I wasn’t prepared
That's nature for you! sort of
Fr i was eating lmao
I felt like I was watching a horror movie. Stomache felt sick. Did you finish eating tho?
OMG I am applauding @ 2:07 what an amazing intro!!!
AntsCanada is Nonchalant when Mothernature is Grusome! I Love It!!!
Dear Ants Canada,
Thank you as always for the entertaining and informative Content !
If I may ask, I have watched a phenomenon with my Messer Barbarus Colony that I quite still don't fully understand.
Sadly, my 2 year old Messer Queen was found dead in the arena for a reason I can't explain - My guess is that the workers pulled her around too much, because they were moving the queen quite around the weeks before I found her.
Now here comes the funny part: even MONTHS after the queen died, I still saw fresh egg, larvae, and later some male ants in their nest - so far, the production of eggs and larvae has not stopped, even tho the queen is dead for around half a year by now.
Is there a chance that the colony hatched a second queen ? I really can't explain this so far, would be glad if the community could give some explanation to this .
Thank you in advance !!!
I would guess and say that they have a gamergate(a worker that can lay eggs). They are part of the right subfamily of ant that produces gamergates.
The food that the Queen feeds her young is the “soup” she makes with the nutrients leftover from her shedded wings that she keeps in her little back bump. 🐜👑🍲
This is the first video in a while that’s threatened to make me sick 😭😭😱. It’s Ant Love Forever tho…❤️🔥❤️🔥🤣
I love watching things like this but only on this channel maybe because of the ants and the AMAZING shots they are so good great camera work.
Thank you for making these videos over the years
Your sound is so good on these videos I often have to pause them to ensure there is not some bug loose in my house
The answer to the question of the week:
A queen ant feeds her first set of young larvae a nutritious soup manufactured from her wing muscles which are no longer needed
Bruh I’m ded
Oh that’s why they get rid of them
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Beautiful, stunning and a little sad- "Antmazing" as always. Thank you and Greetings!
As much as I hate ants I’m so surprised I’m still subscribed and watch all uploads haha. The education is awesome and you can’t get bored with the way you talk about them and add drama.
I just started watching your channel and can't stop. Good job on your channel
hi AC i have been watching ur vids for ages Keep it Up!!! (Love the Content!)
Ac qotw: a nutritious meal made of her own wings muscles
Did you miss spell quote
@@ToXicKush420 i think he meant “question of the week” or “qotw”
Ok
@@justjj1321 i thought it was "quote of the week"
@@justjj1321 its quote of the week, it wouldn't really make much sense if it was question of the week.
After watching, i learnt how to appreciate ants and mother nature :D.
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I am excited to watch this series!!! Thanks Mikey
Thanks to Mikey and antscanada i got my first queen ant a big black camponotus and now i got 9 workers #antscanada
I really gotta stop watching this when I'm eating.
bruh lol
Indeed this is gory
I’ve been waiting for this vid!
*Proceeds to screech*
same too
When I saw the baby flies eating the ant I was speechless 😶
Ant Canada I really appreciate the love you give to you ants and the answer to the question is a type of milk made from the queen ants tissue
I'm glad you promote keeping ants native to your watchers area. Animals shipped around as pets, if released, can either just kill them or worse they can survive and wipe out the ecosystem of that area. There's a species of fish that was brought to my country as pets but people released them and they eat absolutely everything. There are some lakes that are completely dead now because of it and I'm glad you're promoting responsible pet care.
you know, you're the reason i wanna start making an ant colony , probably woulda never thought about it before.
I learned so much from your videos! As a child, I always hated how the ants would swarm into my room every year, with big and small winged ants. It turned out they were having their yearly nupital flight right in my room! Now I'm sad I didn't have any interest in ant keeping back then.
Hey AntsCanada, will you try to find a blue queen ant again cuz they’re really beautiful. Thanks
Bruh this channel was my whole childhood I'm so happy to watch his videos again their the best videos :D
Actually the unmated queens laying only male ants is something I had expected. I follow different kinds of insects and noticed the same thing happening with queen bees. Curiously, there are times when worker bees also lay eggs which also invariably create drones.
It makes sense with how their sex determination works. Instead of having sex chromosomes, many insects have haploid/diploid sex determination, where females have two copies of every gene (diploid) and males only one copy. Females get one copy of each gene from each parent, while males only get one copy from their mother and don't have a father. Therefore, an unmated female can still produce males.
Me watching the queen ant die from the inside: meh
Me watching worms eating a queen ant: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAWEEEEEWOOOOOOWEEEWOOOO*
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Who else love queen ants?
me
Me
Hey AntsCanada, I want to say that normally you’re really good at your cliffhangers, but why even attempt when you already spoiled it at the beginning? We already know it’s maggots inside that winged-queen’s gaster because you put in a clip at the beginning. The video was still awesome as usual and I’m excited for next week’s, but this was a rare misstep in my opinion.
The queen feeds the growing larvae special trophic (unfertilised) eggs which she lays specifically as food for them.
I witnessed a beautiful thing! So I was at school eating lunch when a QUEEN ANT landed on my jeans who then tore off her wings. It my first time seeing a queen and she tore off her wings and I saved her from death! So I feel blessed😇😇 @antcanada
oh thats cool
How does the yellow food liquid from the queen get inside the larva? Are the larva inside an egg sack, or is that just the shape of their body and they use mouth parts to drink the queen's food? Basically I can't tell if the larva will hatch or if they start out egg shaped & then grow from there?
Also wondering how the queens remove their wings... do they fall off on their own, or does the queen remove them with her mouth? ...And omg @AntsCanada thank u for answering my original question 💜
Yes the larvae hatch from the eggs and have little mouths to feed from.
Wow
@@pandap4ntz I assume they remove them on their own because he said that some queen ants decide to keep their wings
@@AntsCanada do you think the Queen eats the egg 'shell' or is it so flimsy it just disintegrates?
Honestly I want to know what they are tho. We could learn about parasitic wasps or flies from this. Granted, you'll want to release whatever hatches far, far away from your other queens, but it's a chance for us to learn more entomology
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15th XD
Was waiting for it eagerly!!
the macro zoom wipes are so on point. Well done brother. Vid so solid
Wingless queen ant 1 is just adorable 🥰
8:07 Uhhh… what’s in queen #5’s mouth?
Idk could be anything
Is it a mite?
Is it a newborn ant?
AC Question Answer: A special soup made from the muscles of where the queen's wings were.
Ngl, the footage where the male and female was hugging each other made me happy but also sad that I found out they die.
Ive never been so fascinated on ants in my life!
Yay he uploaded I've been waiting. For this I'm so excited for the next vid it's going to be a blast I'm super hoped and keep up the good work
Woah! Can’t wait to see the next episode!
Next week
New video! I haven't watched it yet but I know it will be a banger.
AC question of the week: nutrients from her own body tissues.
Ok
Delicate question but, if a queen didn't manage to get fertilised during her nuptial flight, could she get a... kick-start from one of the males she produces? It obviously wouldn't be great for genetic diversity, but would it still be possible?
nope, it works only in a select group of species that aren't common, so don't rely on that.
Thanks for the all of the content!
The other day i went for mail and found ants WITH LARVA in my mail box. Thanks to you know of their preference for humidity, so I left the mailbox open and they were gone by morning
Me- watches larvae things pooping out and consuming the queen.
My brain - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Same, I just can’t with that part
Interesting video. The maggots were somewhat…disgusting, I would like a warning next time.
Yep
Agreed
Ac question: the queen feed a special nutritious soup from her fat reserves next to her wings
They don't have any fat reserves, the soup is regurgitated from the queen's wing muscles
true
@@thunderz2483 At the beginning, after laying the first eggs in her new nest, the queen takes care of them. During this time, she uses her stored fat reserves and wing muscles for nourishment.
Yeah your right
Hey AC, since you have a lot of queens, perhaps you could pair up the males born from unfertilized queens with other unfertilized queens!
True, but you can't force ants to mate.
Pretty amazing experiment! I guess it’s survival of the fittest! If every queen were to successfully breed we would be overwhelmed with ant colonies. I wonder if having them next to each other being able to see each other has any effect on their growth and development? Do they see each other as threats? Or maybe they don’t see through the glass, idk? Do you Mikey? Thanks again for sharing this with us, I truly appreciate it. Thanks again take care, stay safe and healthy.