The Traumatizing Reality of Being An Ant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2023
- No clue how I went this long without talking about ants but enjoy this week's installment of trauma lol. And yes, the thumbnail is a real close-up shot of an ant, by Josh Coogler / josh.coogle.it
Clips Used:
Intro: • Jumping Jack Ants vs ...
In the Fall- Steve Cutts • In The Fall
Antlion catches a body: • Antlion Traps and Devo...
Snail video: • Allopeas clavulinus - ...
Ants turn on queen: • Bloodthirsty Ants Deca...
Army ant death spiral: • GeoVideo 0020 Army Ant...
Antmill around Iphone: • Ants Circling My Phone...
Music from:
Hollow Knight- Greenpath
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Under Cover- Wayne Jones
Ratchet & Clank- Metropolis
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Thanks for watching and see y’all in the next one
Just a note, it was pretty difficult to find clips of every exact species mentioned so they’re are gonna be points in the video where the animal I’m talking about isn’t the exact species being shown, like with the snail part. In that case, the animal shown was a close enough relative to still convey my point. Just clarifying to avoid any confusion.
bro add some spider warning 😭
Hey, you should do an episode on mustelids. You've done the honey badger a few times, but how about wolverines, otters, martins and stoats?
@@cheesemanexe116 tf are you gonna do irl when you inevitably see a spider? Complain there was no warning?
@@Thescott16 I actually have a full length video about them. It’s the honey badger video from late 2022
I'm kind of surprised you didn't talk about the ant eater
Remember kids, if you ever feel bad, remember you could be an ant
IKR 😐.
"Yeah! Love your life, you ungrateful little shits."
*Those who don't know:* "Aww yeah, that sounds awesome!" 😃
*Those who know:* 💀
Skill issue.
@@dascreeb5205 not at all
Once I watched a video on how ants took over another ant colony, stole eggs, decapitated and killed their queen, I honestly was hoping that if I died I wouldn’t be recarinated as an ant
Was it the Kurgesagst video?
Don't give Isekai animators any ideas now.
@@Flamingo123e thank you!!
At least an ants life is short
Sounds pretty close to what we as humans did worldwide a few hundred years ago
I will forever remember the war I witnessed between two different ant species in grandma's old house in the country. There had always been a species of small ants there, which I will call minis, that mostly kept out of sight, minding their ant business, but a few years back, for a few months there had been a steady increase of another species of much bigger ants I will call giants, like 3-4 times the size of the small ones, and these were a lot bolder, climbing our tables and other outdoor furniture. For context, we were on a veranda/balcony two stories above the actual yard, as the house was basically built on a cliff. One morning I went to the balcony and noticed there were a lot more minis than usual, in thick marching lines, climbing the plants that wrapped around the columns from the yard to the balcony to the plant canopy that shaded the balcony, and I could see them converge on specific spots. On closer look these spots were the giants, surrounded by minis biting and tearing at them. Each mini the giants killed two more would take its place. On the balcony wall, on the vases, on the plant canopy above my head. It was a merciless battlefield, and it was carnage. Giants running as fast as they could only to run into another column of minis who promptly tore into them, tripping and falling from the railings, falling from the canopy in balls of minis surrounding a giant and splatting on the floor. I followed one giant, as the minis latched onto it and tore it apart, legs, antennas. The giant fought for its life, and there was a ring of dead minis around it, but it was overwhelmed. You can't fight a horde solo. It moved slower and slower under the attack until it stopped, and the minis dispersed, looking for the next giant, until it dared twitch and it was swarmed again, and left with even less of a corpse. This battle lasted the whole day. And to top off this insanity, around noon as I was observing I saw a fat bee and a wasp also fall from the canopy and fall to the ground with an audible _thunk_ with the wasp stinging the ever living shit out of the bee until it stopped moving, and the wasp carried the bee away with a super loud buzzing of wings, because as I said it was a fat bee. The next day the balcony was littered with ant corpses. I never saw a single giant there again. Moral of the story: nature is hardcore.
I read every single part of this
Holy shit that’s metal
I recently started ant keeping and the world of ants is really fascinating. I could watch them for hours just around my house. I've seen a few ant wars & they're vicious.
For the record - ants don't splat. They are too small to build up the terminal velocity to be damaged by a fall like that...but what you were probably seeing with the twitching was the formic acid spray they use to paralyze & kill their victims.
Some species of ant (I think Florida?) collect the skulls of trap draw ants to decorate their nests with....possibly to scare off other ant species.
There's also slave raiders - ants that attack other nests, steal their brood (babies), and raise them as their own but treat them like slaves. Sometimes the slaves will have uprisings.
Then there's parasitic queens that acquire the colony's scent & infiltrate it to murder their queen and take her place, forcing the colony to raise her brood until the workers from the original species eventually die off entirely & all that is left is the parasitic colony.
Basically everything these guys do is hardcore...and the wasp/bee thing you mentioned - that's cool too, because ants probably evolved from wasps. Ants are like mini wasps without the wings.
_Red Sun over paradise_
Wow that is fascinating
That ending was deep. I didn’t expect this video about ants to teach me that my life is in a downward spiral.
what did he say that makes u start creaming
I have never heard of a better metaphor for human existence in my life
We're all on our way out Bananaman. Act accordingly.
@@billhicks808 naw fuck that noise. that's LOSER talk. only the weak and cowardly give in to death and despair. one should live to LIVE, as survival is the means to which all else is achieved. fight against the encroaching twilight so that you may see the glory of the coming dawn.
to sink to hedonism is the true death, and mere sour grapes to salve the weak. humanity endures and has survived many horrors before incomprehensible to modern sensibilities.
if you realize you're in a spiral, then you have achieved the first step to ESCAPE IT.
"The thing about a death spiral is, you might not know you're in it until it's too late."
Damn, that was raw. I got chills.
Yes! We posted above, LOL he should make the death spiral segment a #short, cause it is hypnotic, and ends with such a savagely poetic line.
chillls
I didn't expect something so deep from goofy ant video
Ironic enough, Death Spiral is what doctors call the very last stage of the life. Once it starts, there is no way back, you're already in the process of shutting down your systems forever.
Fr
Ants are the Warhammer 40K of the insect world
Damn
Oh god yea
I like this comment. I have nothing else to say.
Ant wars are the war in heaven while human wars are the horus heresy.
@@sladewilson2753 Opposite, I think. War in heaven was way bigger and more important then the Heresy
"The thing about a death spiral is, you may not realize you're in it until its too late." That hit HARD!
An interesting thing about the cordyceps fungus, it seems that the fungus grows its own replacement of the nervous system in order to move the ant, and it buts out the signals from the ant brain. Basically the brain is still alive and conscious, but no longer has control of its body. Absolutely horrifying, and im glad that the fungus cant affect humans.
Now you just made The Last of Us even scarier
Yet.
Ywt
oh, thank God it doesn't affect gumans because my mom takes it as medicine for nerve damage
"Ant politics means if the ant queen gets too selfish, she gets executed."
Damn, wish we took a page out of their book, eh?
France : 👁👄👁
Us croats deposed a few invading rulers ourselves.
You need to learn history lmaooooo wat is this comment.
Executing queens because they don't produce enough offspring? Sound like Henry VIII.
@@koenigvonbayern Plot Twist: This only started in ants because ants in England noticed Henry VIII.
As an ant, I appreciate you spreading awareness 🐜
So i might or might not've put a hose pipe down into an ant hill and exploded it with water
@@Cingiturvin lmao
Hey, any opinions on bees?
@@ILikeMakeBelieveUnironically bees are awesome, wasps suck
@@astroyashsenpai3785 agreed
Ant lions are one of my favorite bugs, not only because I feel like my home is ant-proofed whenever they post up around my porch, but they metamorphosize into basically a completely different insect. They go from a weird little pincer monster with too much cake to an elegant dragonfly. That's some Pokemon stuff.
They just give me PTSD from the Half life games
@@Sniper_XPEHOB They give ants PTSD too.
Flygon's line is one of the coolest for bwing based on this life cycle.
@@GruppeSechsfalse. You can’t get ptsd if you don’t survive
Aren’t they unable to eat as adults and all they can do is mate and then die?
Love your fast-paced narration and deadpan delivery of jokes. Also love the selection of topics you're dealing with. Thanks for making it so entertaining!
Now that's a intimidating thumbnail...
An*
I love monster bug wars. The spider got packed up after that by his homies
I make the mistake to go see the thumbnail and i almost had a heart attack...ewww.
@@2stance you beat me to it! 😂
And an even more ominous ending
That assassin bug wearing ants like armour is the most metal thing I’ve seen in a while. An ants’ life is basically a tug of war between Game of Thrones and cosmic horror.
Imagine seeing something like that in a horror game/movie but made with humans? We’d all piss ourselves the instant that thing came onscreen.
And the other fly that learned the signals to take an ant's lunch money
Assassin bug armour is for camoflauge if you want an insect that literally uses the corpses of its enemies as armour then look into a close relative of the antlion, the lacewing. That family of bugs knows exactly how to mess with ants.
Not too different from eating others and using them to grow your own body, how many animals die to keep one person alive
Amm, mind you humans do this from antient times. Kill an animal and wear it's dead body for beauty(often several bodies at the same time) reasons or decorate thair layer with it. We even evolved to have no our own fur for as prevalent it is. We basically enslaving other species for the sole reason to kill them and wear their caracas, not even eating it
I honestly respect these long form content videos. so much more Info can be deliversed than in a 30 second vine. Keep it going mate.
these type of ants could easily make ant horror movies with ants as the main characterd
If I had a nickel for every organism that turns ants into zombies in order to reproduce, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice
Yeah evolution is something
Ophiocordyceps moments!!!
Tbh there are probably more parasites like that
@@dessirangelova2676 Yeah, look up jewel wasp. It has similar system, altough it uses bigger insects than ants.
Okay, we have cordyceps, the decapitating fly, but what’s the third one???
Edit: never mind
A cool note about the feeding eachother thing, theres a species of ant called the Honeypot ant. In most species, worker ants have a stomach called a Work Stomach that is meant to hold food instead of digest it, but Honeypots take it to the next level. Their work stomachs can expand MASSIVELY, and certain individuals will turn themselves into a living pantry for their fellow ants. This is so the colony doesn't starve when food becomes to scarce or dangerous to gather since they live mostly in very arid deserts. They pantry ants basically get to sit at home being cared for by the colony until they need to ration out the nectar they've been holding onto. They aren't harmed in the process, but while their stomachs are gorged they can't really move a whole lot and can't defend themselves very well. They end up looking like a ball with an ant's body attached to it.
Some human cultures snack on them as spicy candy
@@Vinemaple I know the Aborigines do this.
@@touremuhammad5983 You mean Aboriginal people?
@Full-Time Lesbian they mean the ones in Australia, that's a term for them i believe.
I just googled Honeypot Ants. I’d never heard of them until now. You weren’t kidding about a huge ball stuck to an ant’s body
Just stumbled by your channel, so informative and I love the effort clearly put into the commentary, you'd make a great teacher in classrooms. Keep it up my guy!
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication 🙃 I appreciate you leaving the note about the difficulty find photos or videos about some so that's respect for your subscribers/fans😁
That ant spiral is actually terrifying. Essentially blind, lost and trying to find your way but only able to follow someone on the exact same situation
Sounds like when I was living in NY🙄
And yet they form one of the most formidable living forces in nature, with even large mammals 1000x times bigger keeping well out of their way
*insert obligatory unnecessary political comment here*
@@VivaSativaMusic*insert lemon demon joke here*
So basically me at work?
I never knew what a death spiral was until today. Sounds and looks like something you'd see in a horror film that is trying to convey an abstract message.
There is a song that uses the subject of death spirals as a metaphor! It's called Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon.
"Death spiral" is also what the courtship of the bald eagle is called. The pair fly up to high altitudes, lock talons and begin to fall while spinning. They let go just before they hit the ground!(if they're skilled enough...)
This is done both for courtship reasons or territorial fighting.
There's an animated short by Steve Cuts called "Happiness" that shows something similar to that, except with featuring anthropomorphized rats instead of ants.
@@Scarshadow666 do not recommend furry shit to people
it sounds like it belongs in a certain junji ito manga
I have an infectiology exam today. Saw the worm and went "Oh hey! It's a Dicrocoelium lanceolatum! 😃"
First long form video of yours I’ve seen, and you’re good at this, thanks!
The fact you can make similarities to us and any animal is just.........wow
its almost like humans are also animals
@@observingeye9579 its crazy to me how many people think humans aren’t animals.
You could make a comparison between humans and probably any living thing on the planet
Besides maybe that blobfish thing, what the f*ck is that
Hunter X Hunter:
@Nicholas Scott There is a comparison! You'd also look like that if you were dragged to the immense pressure in the deep ocean. It'd be a reverse effect since blobfish don't look like that when they're alive lol
i can’t believe bro actually gave an emetophobia warning like that’s so rare and thoughtful. coulda used a lot of those growing up
Honestly no kidding!! Especially when nothing is really on screen. Compare that to the amount of videos and movies that jumpscare vomit with no warning just for the shock of it
@@stealthlock6634 For real it's not even funny it's just gross. I don't have emetophobia thankfully because it sounds so horrible but vomit is still absolutely disgusting and idk why so many pieces of media just have it out of the blue.
@Scriblyn most people aren't pussies and can handle looking at gross and disturbing content
Emetophobia? What's the worst that could happen besides you also throwing up?
A chain reaction of people throwing up? and all it would take is a single video...
@@Lachrymogenic Vomiting is just kinda uncomfortable to watch or listen to. Especially if it comes out of nowhere and sprays all over the camera or another character. Gross out humor, y’know
Count me as a new subscriber to your channel. Nicely presented, well-scripted, witty as hell, and a joy to watch.
This channel is a next level gem lol
I am surprised i haven't discovered earlier
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned but there are also spiders that either produce the same pheromones to trick ants into not attacking them while the spider eats the larvae, or some jumping spiders that have evolved ant-like bodies to mimic the appearance and pheromones of an ant, to the point where the spider will even move its first pair of legs around to mimic the appearance of ant antennae. The spider does this to feed on the ants and ant larvae.
Sussy sus
Among us but insect.
False hydra much?
man i love jumping spiders
And then there is the spider-tailed horned viper. 😅
The amount of creative ways you say "Die", without saying "Die" is amazing
Don't say death. Say HAMBURGER TIME!!
(Metalocalypse reference)
Yeah it's really annoying, but I do still admire the effort
Just another reason not tp use ticktok.
Man, remember when freedom of speech existed on the internet? Now we have to find workarounds to words we've been using in real life since the beginning of time.
@@mrscruffles801TH-cam isn’t any different lately
*number (not amount)
The ratchet and clank music in the background halfway through the video really got me and threw me back to a very specific time where I’d be fighting the mechanical dogs and the red guys that shoot at you. I would complete the planet and get clank his flying gear but never saved the game or always over road save, so for months that was the farthest I ever got in the game
The Hollow Knight soundtrack was extremely on point
The lizard trying to catch the ants on the phone was so much more funny to me than it should have been
Hey! Ants have feelings to
What if I was a ant and I read this
*jk I ain't stupid
@@Sirpigeon-kb1fu I would tell you nifty ant facts to cheer you up. Like that the total mass of all ants on the planet is 7× greater that all the humans. Or that ants have been on every continent (except Antarctica) since the continents became a thing.🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜
Timestamp?
@@wrathfulseviper 0:48
Amen.
Correction, the blue butterfly's larvae actually eats ant grubs. In fact they can potentially knock an entire colony down because of how often it eats and it can stay like that for 2 whole years. There's footage of it eating ant brood too from the video you got those clips from.
I'm really glad someone said this. I was about to comment it myself.
Yep, they can actually wipe a colony if they eat enough of the larva
It also originally gets their attention by secreting honeydew, & when the ant drinks it, then they go into their ‘queen larvae’ impression…
David Attenborough's new series Our Wild Isles shows this process in amazing detail. This butterfly is a true con artist
I saw a video about that and immediately started searching for ways to ship blue butterfly larvae to my house. I live on this really clayey soil in a neighborhood of about a square mile total, and we all live on top of this horrendous mega ant colony complex.
Excellent narration! Whitty and informative. I consider these 14 minutes well spent.
1:47 Best use of the word "Yeet" ever.
I'm surprised you went through an entire video on ant deaths without once mentioning the anteater.
Too obvious
you're thinking on level 1, he's thinking on level 100
@@stinklinethegoblin5952 yeah everyone and they’re momma should already know about anteaters, it’s self explanatory
He talks about them too much anyways.
Ants aren’t even the biggest part of their diet lol
Ants are underrated and don't get enough credit for sure! Ant love forever! ❤🐜
I knew you'd be here
Wow I haven’t seen you in a while. Switched accounts and forgot to subscribe so I just forgot one of my favorite channels for like 2 years.
You definitely contributed to my love for ants, along with Kurzgesagt so, Thank ya :D
I’m subed to you
omgg i just started watching you again to cure my myrmecophobia yesterday the coinsidence (how do you spell that)
Dude love the content, and your delivery.
Here's a not-so-fun fact about cordyceps; it doesn't actually do all that much to the brains of its hosts. It instead opts to control their muscles like some demented sock puppeteer from hell. This means that its victims are effectively prisoners in their own bodies, fully cognizant of what's happening to them but unable to resist the parasite's influence.
Don't they sell those mushrooms in the produce section..?
It has to do with insect bodies. Their limbs move by flushing them with blood, its alot easier for a bug to induce bloodflow to certain parts of the body than literal mind control right? Crazy shit though, being able to walk them around like in a video game
Do they starve to death, or is it the cordyceps that always finishes the job?
@@christianluz602 im pretty sure they dont need additional sustenance. Just guiding the host to a spot where the larva will thrive🤷♂️
@@ogluqqychess4452 im not curious about if they need sustenance after cordyceps has taken hold.
I’ve never seen someone so good at saying death without actually saying death
212 likes with no replies? here let me fix that for you
What guideline do to someone lol. They do say necessity is the mother of invention.
for real. it's astounding how many unique euphemisms he uses.
he should write for ATLA 😂
@@SooberYooberToober yeah
This video ended in the most brutal and horrific way. I loved it!
Props to the guy who became an ant to find this out
The ways you avoid saying death is really funny, "Cross themself off the census" "Self subtraction" "Until your number eventually gets called" life must really suck for ants if you need that many unique death messages
Their life doesn't suck, their death does.
"Become past tense"
@KutWrite Nah I'd argue death is probably the greatest thing an Ant ever experiences in its life of pure suffering.
TH-cam censorship avoidance.
To put shoes in corner
To go to Switzerland
To play the box
I'm fascinated by the knowledge that ant queens can apparently control how many eggs they produce.
Apparently ant keepers can control the sizes of their colonies by limiting the amount of food they get. Less food means a slower birthrate.
And i'm amazed at the information that they not only can get squad killed by their own colony, but that they'll devise plans of escape in case such a scenario starts to happen.
The ant life really looking like an actual present-day dystopia.
And that ants can tell if she’s trying to fleece them, meaning that, on some level, ants can _count._
How many ants are needed to fill an apartment? Tenants.
Kudos dude, love your videos, keep them coming 👍
I love how you used the Parasite Queen's boss theme from Metriod Prime when talking about that ant queen parasite. Very fitting.
I appreciate you for picking up on that haha
I also appreciate the regular use of *Hollow Knight* music in these videos. I love that game. :)
Thought I recognized since Metroid music, but couldn't place where it was from. Lots of Prime's soundtrack works for these videos, exploring an alien world
@@mndiaye_97 can you do another spotted hyena on its hierarchy, from an article on "𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴" and "𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴" by hyena project
I just started playing the remastered version and I knew I remember it, but completely forgot it was for the parasite queen lol.
The caterpillar playing the ants is amazing. There’s so much in the insect world that is mind boggling. And so many things still unknown.
That's what happens when the systems they rely on for awareness are so rudimentary. It's like the ants are easily hacked little robots. You give them the correct signal and they do the thing.
I feel that these videos are played on loop in those secret Bilderberg meetings and maybe training courses inside secret service divisions.
Oh yeah - I subbed! This was a great informative and funny documentary. lol Well done sir!
I'm only afraid of humans throwing up but I'm pretty happy that someone thought to slap in an emetophobia warning! Kudos, dude!
Same. Being an emetophobe is not fun ☹️
Just curious but what about it is scary for you?
@@gracekelley2907 I'm guessing it's like how when someone yawns it makes them yawn. But imagine that with puking.
"life kinda sucks" truer words have never been spoken
"Kinda" may be an understatement.
Wooow,life is bad...
I have heard it so often that the phrase has become jst as annoying as what it's criticising.
As an ant in south asia, I thank you for showing awareness for us
The first picture literally jump scared me- I literally dropped my phone… incests are creepy
Be careful out there bro its rough.
- British ant
I am a human and i now identify as ant I will start fighting for your rights
You ain’t funny
@@johnumukoro1244 you're valid 🐜 ✨
The lost ants running in an endless circle must have inspired the scene in A Bug's Life where the ants panic when a leaf falls in the middle of the line.
Bro that opening was gold 😂
As a former ant I can confirm that this is 99% accurate.
thank you eye of sauron
Bro reincarnated
you in therapy now bro ?
@@rdra3862 Yes in the gym
"I Was An Ant But I Reincarnated Into A Human Living In A Fantasy World", Anime releases on July 17
As an exterminator of over 8 years i can honestly say you are very educated on insects. Thank you for this video sir
Thank you for your service
Insects are winsects
He makes Gil Grissom look like Greg Sanders.
You murderer!
The music in all your videos is 10/10. Best on the site. Fantastic.
This was very well done. Great job my guy.
Fun fact: In the Animorphs book series (basis of the series and infamous transformers toys), an ant that happened to be on the leg of one of the Animorphs after crawling on a magguffin that granted animorph powers would partially turn into her, it started screaming as it attacked her.
Meanwhile in an earlier book, the group almost go crazy while they were termites for a mission
One side point: the Transformers series isn’t based on Animorphs. The Japanese Transformers toys etc. predate it by a decade. And they’re quite different otherwise - aliens that transform being the one main point, but with a focus on technology rather than animals.
Animorphs is a VERY weird thing that was actually made...The book covers DO NOT help with that.
@@harsimaja9517 I never said it was, the animorphs toyline was made by Hasbro, consisting of human figures of the kids that turned into animals, their was even a t-rex combiner and a visser three figure
@@digstrememcdingus1463 furry lore:
@@tenthclassgaming More like whatever the bug Oc equivalent is
This dude is killin it. I can tell he has been putting in the work, writing and content is always improving. Great Job!
I think him moving to TH-cam so he can make more long-form content was a great decision for him so he can take more time to get into detail about a certain animal, set of animals, a particular type of animal behavior, or whatever else without being limited to just the 60 seconds that Tik-Tok gives. I feel like this format and platform also helps give him more time and opportunities to show off his talent and creativity more.
Natgeo on steroids
@@peggedyourdad9560 hes too gud for tik tok content anyways
This is so amusing and terryfying at the same time, I'm really glad I've found your channel.
Love the video and how every video I’ve watched has an Metroid soundtrack in it
gotta love how he literally tells us to get a snack as he talks about the most gruesome ways ants get killed
This guy is so good he deserves a mic stand.
Yes and no
It’s crazy how ants will have wars in our yards and our parks while we just go on with our lives. Like as I walk over my lawn I could be stepping on “the second war of the leaf cutter coalition”
i spent years studying ants in museum collections and i still learned so much from this video, and the way you organize and present your information from both an evolutionary and behavioral perspective is amazing, you present extremely advanced biological concepts in accessible and easy to follow ways, you're a natural teacher
Yesss , since he started he's been amazing
Too bad he goes wacko on the “evolution” bits, other than that he slaps.
@@mobbarley1102 What do you mean? I've only seen this video of his, and it sounded right to me.
@@mobbarley1102 What do you even mean by that
Natural indeed
The one where the bug wears the ants' corpses was so absurdly horrific I started laughing uncontrollably
The lacewing has a similar tactic ant it's related to the antlion. Brothers in killing ants.
drip 💯
Godskin Duo be like
It was honestly rad
Never thought I'd read the words "horrific" and "laughing" in the same sentence.
This video was spot on the whole time! I watched some other ant videos, boring. I’m glad I clicked on this one.
makes you wonder how drastically different nature would be without ants.
When I was younger I was obsessed/fascinated by Ants. I loved watching Ants Canada and trying to start colonies myself😂. Didnt really know how bad they have it! The animal kingdom is oddly fascinating yet terrifying and we still have a long way to go in our journey of attempting to understand it.
Same
I too was briefly obsessed with ants at age 4,but only recently learned of AntsCanada & I rarely get to watch him...
I'm suprised you didn't mention that spiders the disguise themselves as ants to they can pick off workers that stray from the colony
Well, I think quick death from spider is pretty good compared to all this other stuff.
Spiders are wild man XD
Never let them know your next move
-Among us-
Spiders are nature’s Jeffrey Dahmers
7:40
I used to work at a slaughterhouse, my job was disembowelment and split-sawing of cow and pig bodies.
Fluke was VERY common, sometimes 1/4 animals from one farm would have it. Little black dots on the liver, that's how you know, meat if perfectly fine, USDA guy just will doublecheck to make sure we cut ALL fluke worm spots out. And of course in that case the Liver isn't saved, if requested by the farmer to save livers in the first place.
Farmers appreciate the feedback so they know their property has a problem.
10:17 idk if it was an intentional reference or just what came up when you were looking for parasite related music but parasite queen was a sick easter egg
"The thing about death spirals is that you don't even know you are in one" that's really deep lol
I knew ants were some of the most culturally and ecology diverse animals, but thank you for showing me just how much I underestimated these insects!
The assassin bug really chose to pull a Fabius Bile cosplay, skin coat n all
Interesting thing about queen ants: They use their flight musculature as rations to found their colonies. That's why when you cut up the thorax of a queen ant that successfully founded a colony, it will be mostly hollow.
Of course, founding your own colony is pretty risky, which is why many ant species specialized on infiltrating already established colonies of other ants and murk their queen and use the available workforce to raise their own spawn. Founding parasite ant queens usually have smaller thoraxes than their independently founding cousins.
Oh, and because not founding your own colonies is a pretty successful model, there are even founding parasite species that specifically target other founding parasite ant species.
Man, that ending got me. I am in a death spiral. I do need to leave the house and do something else. I can feel myself going absolutely nowhere in life.
Strive to do better by all means but always remember you may not be where you want to be but be thankful that you aren't where you could be because it could always be worse so give yourself a little grace and appreciate where you are while working towards more ❤
Hang in there. My last post was to a site whose topic was racism. "Instead of ending racism, lets just end it all. All these petty issues will be resolved during tne ApocalypseI said, I'm tired of this"
me too
Same here
We got this but we're the only ones that can do it.
One fascinating thing I've learned about the Alcon blue butterfly larvae and their parasitic relationship with the ants is that over time, some ant colonies that suffered from this actually wise up to this trick and change their larva chemicals to defend against the alcon blue imposters, so the two species are constantly trying to outwit each other with their pheromone games. Wikipedia says it's a kind of evolutionary 'arms race' between the two species. It actually sounds kinda cool xD.
Evolution in and of itself is an arms race of sorts
Just subbed, Very fun video, don’t stop. You’re gonna blow up. So entertaining.
If you're wondering, the music is from the game Hollowknight, from Green Path(in the beginning of the vid)
Ants have wars too, ants have it much worse than us
that assassin has a whole dang tracksuit made of his enemies. i don’t think i’ve seen anything colder… what a legend.
Frrr, the Assasin bug don't play
Goes hard
We know you terrify us but that thumbnail was unforgivable AND unforgettable
It didn’t scare me. I thought it was some crazy looking deep sea creature (until I read the title)
It's a bit unnerving but also really cool. Like ship's propellers.
For whatever reason,bugs scare me WAY less when they're on a screen like my Samsung.
Also,are we just going to ignire that Meatcanyon bot in the comments???
@@chee.rah.monurB yeah they’re pretty much on every comment at this point. Sadly I can’t say the same for being less scared of bugs when they’re on my Samsung screen
@@chee.rah.monurB I'm trying to get rid of them, they're the real parasites out here lol
oh the hollow knight greenpath theme at the start is giving me ptsd
"A camping tremor" is such an under-rated line lmao
ive never been so itchy, disturbed, and fascinated at the same time. thank you for this fascinating experience.
Ditto. I jumped at every tickly sensation and random pokey hair strand I felt on my skin for the entire video (still am, actually), but it was so horrifying and interesting that I had to keep watching anyway.
Eh, still not as bad as when I found a literal spider just chilling in my bed at 4am (bad sleep schedule lol). I’m pretty sure it was actually asleep when I found it because it was curled up and started to uncurl itself when I poked it with the edge of my hanger a few times. Managed to coax it into a small cardboard box previously used for a soap bar and relocated it to a nearby plant. It was red and the size of a quarter but, thankfully, very cooperative. Ended up staying up due to feeling phantom crawling on my legs all night 🙃
@pegged yourdad Did You know spiders are almost blind? They rely on vibrations to navigate the world. They are also terrified of Humans, or at least of our breathing.
I might be a little biased, though, ‘cause I have a pet Tarantula, and used to collect spiders in Jars alot(I was wierd and shy as a child).
That describes it perfectly. I have nothing against bugs except for Spiders and worms but now I might hate Ants😰😂😂
@@user-nc5ld8km8q I didn’t know they were nearly blind and navigated that way, but I do know they’re terrified of humans. I guess I should’ve mentioned that I wasn’t sleeping in my bed at the time and was checking my bed since I’d been gone for a few days. I also have nothing against spiders and several different species of jumping spiders and a few different species of house spiders just chilling in my house, I just done want them on me, near me, or anywhere on or near my bed, everywhere else in the house is fine.
Feels like I just watched a horror movie, a documentary and a bizarre parody all at once.
Thanks for the incredible content!
This!!😅❤
I found an ant lion in my yard once as a child. My grandfather told me what it was and I thought there was an actual little lion hiding under there eating ants.
11:59 Yoooo that Ratchet and Clank music hit me right in the childhood nostalgia.
I find it really cool that there are certain ants for certain purposes, like the "door ant" and the ant that's literally a creeper.
i must learn more about this immediately
Ants are quite fascinating. Please do one on the most team player species on the planet Argentine Ant. They are literally ants that can and will accept members of other colonies. There are cases which you can take an Argentine ant from Brazil and drop them off to a Argentine ant colony in India and they will get along with each other. The ant from Brazil will automatically work with the ants in India and will share food and work together peacefully. I sometimes call them Hippy ants because of their cooperative nature.
Sounds like we should all be like Argentine Ants.
@@RavensWings11 id like to keep my free will, thanks
That’s so interesting
@@RavensWings11 that’s all I want. I just want a better society a better world. Things shouldn’t be this bad among human beings but it’s sad
I don't think Argentine 🐜 are found in India...
Yo Mr. Geographic, I gotta say I really like your sense of humor and narration style.
Awesome video, subbed
It's abstract to humans since bugs are so small, but on their scale, in their tiny domain it's really a brutal kill or be killed battle royale of horrific exoskeletal beasts ripping each other to shreds. I'd have preferred that version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids where it's just 90 minutes of running and screaming
It was interesting to learn what he said about the US importing those flies that eat the ants brains from the inside out - I know insects are essentially automatons more akin to simple instinct than emotion and complex thought, but good lord that seems... unseemly. Morally I'm not a fan
I now think of the game "Grounded."
imagine being picked up by a praying mantis about 3 times as tall as you, being turned sideways, and eaten like a kabob while still alive
I once put a ladybird/ladybug on a plant to watch it eat an aphid. It grabbed the poor thing by it's back, and proceeded to chew it in half, as the aphid waved it's legs, desperately trying to escape. All the other aphids ran away in fear. That was one of the many experiences that proved to me that insects are definitely sentient.
I spent, like, 20 minutes today watching a bunch of ants going in and out of a hole and carrying things. It was so fascinating and then you go and upload a video about them! Crazy! 😅
Edit: ALSO! Thank you so much for the emetophobia warning! People usually forget to do that and it sucks, but you’re awesome! ❤
Warning? You would have watched it anyway even with a warning.
@@Mac-ik1sg Not if you have Emetophobia, then you would’ve clicked off because you have extreme fear of vomiting
@@amaliciousgoose People really have a phobia for that?The actual hell?Is there something that HASN'T ended up as a phobia?
@@chee.rah.monurB Probably not, people are scared of a lot of things. There’s a phobia for very long words, where the name itself is a long word.
@@amaliciousgoose that's just evil
Oh Boy, you (or your team) wrote some good punchy lines for this vid. Great Work!
Man, i cant tell you how much i love that you cut in the ratchet and clank music at 12:04