Greetings, Ant Lovers/AC Family! Due to so many requests for tips on actual ant keeping, I decided that while I'm busy working on our Phoenix Empire's terrarium, I'd finally release this complete ant tutorial video to help you guys start your own epic ant colonies, so we can raise ants together! Anyone out there catch any queen ants this year? What ant species are you raising? Let us know!
The Kardashians are non productive members of society, ants on the other hand... Are not only beneficial to our well-being but act as a community. Can't really say the same for the Kardashians!
My 7 year old loves your videos. We got him a cheap ant farm to start and now will probably try to get something so it’s sustainable and not just 2 weeks digging.
When I was 7, I started ant-keeping too, but I am german, so I wasn't able to understand these videos. Now that I understand englisch videos, I've found myself enjoying and rewatching those old videos I watched
@•ΔMaskeΔ• "nice, it rhymes" says the mask In Replies "I'm not first" sounds rehursed And "I'm not last" Is way to fast But when its antscanidas post We all expect the most Of what any ant has to offer Because we all love Mikey And all his lil ant brother Whether we like to rhyme (y) Or just arrogantly dismiss It's all for the love of Ants, And maybe taking the piss.... 🐜😝👌👍👌😘
Me: **subscribed** Also me: **hopes he posts a tutorial** Antscanda: **posts a tutorial** Me: *_YESSSSSSSSSSSSS_* **flips table and grabs desk and aggressively takes notes**
I bought nests from you a decade ago and outworlds. I love how pretty they were with the sand and pumice and glass frames. I understand the concept and cleanliness of the new nests but I miss how the old nests looked.
I have found a certain type of 🐜... I have s small video of it. She looks like a cross between a 🐝 and a Queen Black Crazy Ant. She has a sort of reddish or deep orange exoskeleton, like armor and stripped on her booty, lol. She looks lol. she could make herself more intimidating by stretching her legs to keep from being in danger. I want to know whatkind of Ghostrider babe she is... Help???? I wish i could post the video!!!
The ant homes you showcased are so tiny, compared to the one I keep my ants in. I keep them in a house-sized home, which gives them a lot of space, and has the added benefit of helping save on buying a separate house for me to live in, as I can just stay with my ants. So far, they've been very accommodating.
I live in Australia and I’m thinking of keeping green headed ants when I’m older. They can’t climb up smooth surfaces but they have painful stings and many aussies watching this can probably relate to the pain we felt in primary school when we were outside and one crawled on your leg
Definitely gonna try and start a colony. Also checked your site and I knew my local exotic store started selling ants in the last few months. I didnt know you sourced them though!! Definitely gonna stop by there
@@thehobbist5544 im actually suceeding alot now!, i have 1 tetramorium caespitum colony and 2 tapinoma colonys with 1 camponotus cecconi colony and i have a bunch of messor queens that all layed egges, no big colonys yet but hopefully this summer, happy nuptial flight season by the way!
The noptual flight is when all the virgin queens fly out followed by males to get their new colony started. The queen will come down and find the perfect spot , the male however sadly dies. I recognize this when i see loads of them flying around followed by birds trying to catch them. I managed to get a queen now (finally) and now got about 5-7 worker ants helping her! So excited 🙌
I did the hardest option finding a queen from a different company but it was extremely easy I found a very small colony with around maybe 50 or 30 ants i’m actually put them in a small chest tube set up and I talked at all of the workers and they are doing good right now!❤❤❤
I think it’s interesting to see new behaviors in North American ants, where I live in northern Ontario I watched a colony of ants start tending to a sun flower in a sun flower patch I planted near by, I saw them making little rooms drinking sap or what ever comes from the stem of a sun flower, aswell it seemed to improve the plants growth rate as it was the only flower to successfully bloom but not seed, after blooming the ants kept one room for taking the liquid from them stem and then collecting pollen(I think among other tasks), and I have never seen this behavior again, sadly before being able to document what I’ve seen we got hit with a few frosts and they went into hibernation, however I’m going to try and plant sun flowers in the same location and see if they repeat this behaviour or if they were taking advantage of how this sunflower grew, aswell as another behavior change I’ve noticed is the presence of 2 or more queens, aswell as two environmental changes I think might play a part aswell, over the last couple years it’s been significantly hotter during the summer and the arrival of an ant species I’ve never seen until a few years ago, I’m not sure what it is but it’s very small and is clearish brown in colour, and seem to either have a massive nest or just hundreds of nests around in the sandy soil
Thank you for sharing you're information on how to take care of my ants. I'm currently doing research on how to keep my ant alive and happy, feeding, the whole thing. I'm most likely going with 3 choices of ants in my area witch are the black carpenter ant, fire ants, black garden ants. Thank you for making all you're videos and guides it has helped me a lot!!!
If you like low mantience ants and dont mind waiting, go for a black carpenter queen. If you want to see the colony grow to a huge size quickly, while also needing maintance almost every other day, fire ants. And if your looking to budget/not spend alot on formacariums and such then go for those garden ants.
This is so helpful, I have two queens and am not sure when to expect the eggs to become workers and how to feed them. Can I feed them nuts of any kind?
Nuptial flight: Is when a colony is mature and new male and female larvae start to develop wings to seek out ants from other colonies to mate with. Virgin queens (alates) will then mate with males from other colonies to start a new one of there own. It is the key phase of the ants life cycle and there survival. Mature ant colonies will repeat this cycle at the right time of the year, this would also include the correct weather (rain ect..). Really love your videos keep up the good work.
I wanted an ant farm for probably over a year now and today fsm houndreds of ant queens were wandering over the streets ( and also in front of the house my house ) so i just caught one with a very spontanious test tube setup 😅 i hope everything will go well with my queen. Thanks for your cotent! Its ant love forever.
You are my inspiration of keeping ants! I have a possible ant colony at my park across the street. I have finally managed to convince my parents to let me keep ants as pets. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas/tips!
Thank you AC family for this vedio this was very helpful to raise my ant colony I am just a beginner .So this vedio help not only me but to also many other ant colony beginner like me .Thank you so much for the vedio I really liked it 👍👍👍😀
me:founding a queen with wings me: still thinking that maybe that its just a flying ant =( Edit: its been 2 years I forgot I sent this comment and uh. I have a thriving colony of fire ants now :D
I really want to get into ant keeping at some point. Luckily, I have enough patience and empathy to just let ants crawl on me, so I'd probably easily get a queen once I identify her. Fun story: in elementary, I often got put in time out during recess. I'd just sit there and let ants crawl on me. Most of them were black ants, but some were fire ants! They didn't even bite/sting me! So yea, I now love ants.
I have actually been inspired to raise beetles, after watching your Beetle videos! I have been doing a ton of reading in to it, and am planning on attending the local Exotic and reptile expo, and see if I can't find some grubs :)
The Nuptial flight is a super important phase in the life cycle of a Queen Ant. It’s the period of time that the Queen leaves the nest and mates with males in order to found a new Colony or in some cases to continue an already existing one. Keep calm and Ant on!
I have a some questions still that you touched on, but need more clarification. 1. In the test tube state, so I need to change out the cotton ball that holds back the water so it doesn't mold, and how would I so that without stressing the colony? 2. Is overcrowding an issue? Like if I have too many ants in the test tube in the beginning, would they having little space to move hurt them? 3. I think for my first colony, when they're pretty big, I want to have a terrarium connected to a no dig nest, so that the terrarium is like the outside and the no dig is the nest. But would they move their nest to the terrarium if I did that? 4. What's the best jelly to feed them? 5. Are black carpenter ants native to Texas, and what are their nuptial flight times? I forgot my last question, but if I remember, I will edit.
He mentions you can setup another test tube with a watered cotton ball and attach it with tape, but it’s important to let fresh air in daily. I get that it seems stressful for the colony but it seems like that’s mostly an issue during the brood phase and once the queen has viable worker ants they’re probably a lot stronger and more comfortable. Idk tho, I’m just going off my interpretation of the video. I’m actually about to do this to my first colony tonight, so if anyone thinks I’m wrong plz lmk
1. A little bit of mold is fine but you need to swap it out if roughly the whole surface area of the cotton is moldy 2. Probably not much of an issue, as they typically have a small founding chamber at the start of the colony. He recommends moving them to an actual ant nest at around 50-100 workers. 3. They probably would move into the terrarium if it's moist/wet, heavily decorated, and diggable. 4. He did a test on favorite flavors of jelly, if that's what you're asking. I can't remember the result. 5. Yes black carpenter ants are native, and have nuptial flights in late spring/early summer Hopefully you see this lol
Answer to AC Question: When male and female ants, known as alates, leave their colonies in search of mates. After the mating process has occurred, the male will pass away and the female will start a new colony.
I hav question i want atta species (leafcutter) colony but their queen its huge its better me to create then in a pot or in a common test tube in the start?
@@ben-lu4jk they dont need a test tube since it wont really work for their fungus gardens just a small square glass with soil and a nice place to nest is good
Hey antscanada! I love your channel and am here from the beginning! At i first saw you i got a colony of monomorium subobacum when i was in holiday in thailand. It was just 1 queen. I now have hundreds of thousands ants. ANTLOVE FOREVER!!!
What a nuptial flight is, is when virgin queens and males from different colonies fly out and mate with other virgin males and queens of the same species.
Lol not worth keeping them they grow to fats and they sting unless you have money and you can afford to keep adding more space the Sure keep them but you will have to freeze them eventually because they are invasive if your in any part of the world except South America you can keep them
I have always found ants very fascinating since preschool. Especially when I started first grade I discovered that a huge colony of ants had invaded the outer wall of my school. Millions of them and I was captivated trying to understand what they were doing and then a classmate of mine came and as soon as he saw the ants just started kicking the wall killing them until that side of the wall fell down with most of the colony. What is wrong with people?!
AC Question of the Week: What is a Nuptial flight? Answer: A nuptial flight is when new queen ants come out to breed with males of another colony and find a suitable place to make a colony of their own. Just caught my first queen yesterday and im excited to see if I can raise a colony of my own! Would love to get some gear from the shop to help make the process more convenient and comfortable for the sake of the ants
I have a custom made sheet for ant keeping that I made with double sided mirror tape. it allows the queen to feel secure, while I can freely check on them
Hey dudes! watch out for this Zach guy advertising his cringe rap music in your reply section! anyway thanks for the tutorial Mikey, even though I might not even find a queen ant.
As a kid I created my own setup with a large jar. I found a container that fit the center of the jar perfectly and filled in soil around the container and against the sides of the jar, creating a circular area in which the ants could dig their nest. I found a large harvester ant queen that had shed her wings and was wandering around looking for a nest site, captured her, and placed her in the jar. I started a depression for her in the soil to get her in the mood to settle in quickly, which she did. After a few weeks I had a tiny colony of ants starting up. Just goes to show that you don't need to buy things or even have an elaborate setup. Ants are happy as long as they have the basic ingredients for a comfortable nest.
I caught a few ant queens about a week ago and left them alone. I checked in on them yesterday to see all of them have laid eggs. Sadly though, one of the queens seemed to have died. What would be my best course of action for her unhatched brood? The ants I caught were from the Lasius niger family
Greetings, Ant Lovers/AC Family! Due to so many requests for tips on actual ant keeping, I decided that while I'm busy working on our Phoenix Empire's terrarium, I'd finally release this complete ant tutorial video to help you guys start your own epic ant colonies, so we can raise ants together! Anyone out there catch any queen ants this year? What ant species are you raising? Let us know!
To the person reading this right now
May all your dreams and wishes come true some day.
Read my name
Love the video
Hi AC family! If you read this, i hope you have an really good day!
Im unlucky today, i cant find any ant queen today hahahaha
Hey ac hope you see this but i just wanna say your vids are so good and keep up the work
You are the reason I love this hobby thanks 🙏
Thanks fot the support! #AntLoveForever
You deserve COEMS 🤑
@@AntsCanadaomg he responded
@@AntsCanadacan i have a queen ant
AntsCanada can I have a queen ant for free pls😢
others: *"Keeping up with the Kardashians"*
me: *"Keep up with the Ants"*
Just Me true
The Kardashians are non productive members of society, ants on the other hand... Are not only beneficial to our well-being but act as a community. Can't really say the same for the Kardashians!
True
Karda who?
@@DianeSturlinXX *My diamond earrings* 😭
AntsCanada: **posts tutorial**
Me: **aggressively grabs notebook**
@@zacharyhay9896 who cares we watching ants
ThePenguin64
Bruh i clicked the link and found out this "Zachary Hay" was just a bot
@@nightowlanimate7813 really? I had that thought i have a idea comment test and see if he replies
@@zacharyhay9896 haha idiot bot made by idiot 6 yr old
Me to lol
My 7 year old loves your videos. We got him a cheap ant farm to start and now will probably try to get something so it’s sustainable and not just 2 weeks digging.
Chad parents
@@splitfancycake9069fr
When I was 7, I started ant-keeping too, but I am german, so I wasn't able to understand these videos. Now that I understand englisch videos, I've found myself enjoying and rewatching those old videos I watched
@@silkyzoid I want an ant farm but my parents won’t let me bc they think the ants are gonna go every where
@@ToezJForgein Tell them that you'll do your research and maybe wait 1 or two months and if you are still interestet by then, you'll get some ants
"The Secret World of Pets"
Me: meh
"The Secret World of Ants"
Me: Oh yeah!
Kool aid man: OH YEAHH
Me:umm ok
My little sister:i want to kill ants!!!!
Me:dont hurt ants!!
Sis:but I want to:(
Me:i said no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey sandy
Thanks!
I remember the time from when the fire nation and golden empire was so young. So nice
Those were the days.
I’m not first
I’m not last
When antscanada post
I click fast
Same
I'm always here within an hour, like theirs some pheromone controling me 🤔.......
You’re thirst
Still not first
Remember that
You should eat ants today
MrRabbit 👀👁👄👁👀
@•ΔMaskeΔ•
"nice, it rhymes"
says the mask In Replies
"I'm not first" sounds rehursed
And "I'm not last" Is way to fast
But when its antscanidas post
We all expect the most
Of what any ant has to offer
Because we all love Mikey
And all his lil ant brother
Whether we like to rhyme (y)
Or just arrogantly dismiss
It's all for the love of Ants,
And maybe taking the piss....
🐜😝👌👍👌😘
Remember to stay hydrated today everyone!
*slowly dying because of dehydration*
Ah yes, you earned a subscriber, I shall drink water until I get hyponatremia 👍
Congrats you are an Meme
Drinks water
Tbh I do need to drink more water, I am now 10% more motivated
Me: **subscribed**
Also me: **hopes he posts a tutorial**
Antscanda: **posts a tutorial**
Me: *_YESSSSSSSSSSSSS_* **flips table and grabs desk and aggressively takes notes**
Hahah
Why are you taking notes when you can watch the video as many times as you like
Comments are so dramatic these days smh
Why did you flip a table then get a desk
Floof Flff
Because it’s ant tutorial school, *duh.*
I bought nests from you a decade ago and outworlds. I love how pretty they were with the sand and pumice and glass frames. I understand the concept and cleanliness of the new nests but I miss how the old nests looked.
AC: so every spring and summer...
me: laughs in tropical country
yeah im in tropical country
Me To! I’m from tropical Country!!!
Laughs in Floridian
Me: laugh in indonesian
Me: Cries in Canadian 😭
I have had my black crazy ants for 12 year's now and still going strong.
Good for you!
How about you make a series lika ac
Nice
How is the queen still alive? Correct me if I'm wrong but i thought queens only live a few years
@iiFocus Plays you need a queen.
Mikey: how to keep ants
Me with 5 years of antkeeping experience still watching: hmm interesting.
same lol im only watching cuz hes my fav youtuber
Its so true
@@zacharyhay9896 lol no
Zachary Hay bot
My friend got me an ant colony for Christmas!!! I'm so excited
AC: Any Ant Species outside your home is a good beginner ant!
Me: **Solenopsis Geminata everywhere**
Me too selonopsis geminata everywhere!!
*Looks at bull ants around my house.* Yeah... about that....
@@alexanderlambert295 bullet ants
Fire ants
It seems like all we have in Texas are these damn fire ants!
Me: *Interesting*
Ants on my shoulder: 🤔Veryyy
ant appears on my window
*stares*
*stares*
Ants on my leg 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽♀️🏃🏽🏃🏽♂️🐜
Ant foraging for the sugar I keep in the food cupboard: *guess I never had to do this anyways*
YES!!! just as I found a queen 2 weeks ago I needed this so much thank you
Sad, i found one and i left it
@@d0mb75 I'm sure you will find one some day :)
What did you do to it in those 2 weeks???
@@Hp-xk2dw test tube setup and left her alone, she has eggs already!!
u should record it
The camera-ant is the real deal :>
😱😱😱
Me: **never gonna keep any ant colonies**
Also me: **watches this**
same i just learn
You Should Start keeping ants! It’s very fun!
I doubt I will, at the moment I simply can't, but I love to watch his channel too
same ha
Same
I just found 8 QUEENS! This is my first starting this hobby so I need to gather everything but I am so pumped! You’ve inspired me so much!
I just found one so excited
Still at it at year 3. Im happy for ya.
Good luck, normally cuz I do this for over 3 years I would give you some advice. But this video already did it 😅 I hope you're queens survive
It been 11 months how is your ant colony doing?
Belle Delphine: I have the most simps!
Pokimane: No, I have the most simps!
*Amateurs...*
What was that, punk?
Every queen ant: AMATEURS!!!
this is THE BEST MEME EVER!
well it make me happy at least
Kiryu Type3 no The Male ants During Nuptial Flights!
Kiryu Type3 it’s a joke way to ruin it
I have found a certain type of 🐜... I have s small video of it. She looks like a cross between a 🐝 and a Queen Black Crazy Ant. She has a sort of reddish or deep orange exoskeleton, like armor and stripped on her booty, lol. She looks lol. she could make herself more intimidating by stretching her legs to keep from being in danger. I want to know whatkind of Ghostrider babe she is... Help???? I wish i could post the video!!!
The ant homes you showcased are so tiny, compared to the one I keep my ants in.
I keep them in a house-sized home, which gives them a lot of space, and has the added benefit of helping save on buying a separate house for me to live in, as I can just stay with my ants. So far, they've been very accommodating.
"Start with whatever ants live around you" *me only seeing fire ants* ah yes, so it is agni kai
Underated Comment
i don’t live near ants.
Fire ant stings hurt
@@last.atlantean i am not kidding. there are absolutely no colonies
Same
*Me watching this even though I won’t get any pet ants anytime soon:*
Hmmm, interesting...
th-cam.com/video/2zWeMGwV2qs/w-d-xo.html
Same
Same
Same till me 22 plus
Zachary Hay which website is this
I live in Australia and I’m thinking of keeping green headed ants when I’m older. They can’t climb up smooth surfaces but they have painful stings and many aussies watching this can probably relate to the pain we felt in primary school when we were outside and one crawled on your leg
Most harmless animal in Australia
I suggest keeping bull ants since they’re very common there
@@heisenburger1899 yeah bull ants are cool I’ve been thinking of those too
Definitely gonna try and start a colony. Also checked your site and I knew my local exotic store started selling ants in the last few months. I didnt know you sourced them though!! Definitely gonna stop by there
Been waiting for this!
Who else thinks ants are so interesting.
I do
I just watch ants because it looks cool
I wouldn’t be watching ants Canada if I was fascinated by ants
Meee
I just watch him because it looks cool
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I need this for my friend!
i caught a messor structor queen while i was ant hunting near a lake and this tutorial really helped me i found my queen in february 28th.
How did the colony turn out?
@@thehobbist5544 dead, a year later, infertile, somewhere in the world being a dead queen
@@Alex1A547 aww, sorry bro. I hope you catch a fertile one this year!
@@thehobbist5544 im actually suceeding alot now!, i have 1 tetramorium caespitum colony and 2 tapinoma colonys with 1 camponotus cecconi colony and i have a bunch of messor queens that all layed egges, no big colonys yet but hopefully this summer, happy nuptial flight season by the way!
Watching this in 4K is just PERFECT
Finally an ant keeping tutorial - thank you for coming back to the basics! :)
Yes, been waiting a long time for this... a high quality tutorial like your own! that is it!
Totally, back to the roots
@@grexodus5493 Thank you. Well many of us have been inspired by him, so was I, to a certain extent :)
@@markmonster8748 This will surely help a lot of ant keepres all over the globe out ;)
What a Surprise! I Was just scrolling through the comments then spotted you! I’m Subscribed to you!
The noptual flight is when all the virgin queens fly out followed by males to get their new colony started. The queen will come down and find the perfect spot , the male however sadly dies. I recognize this when i see loads of them flying around followed by birds trying to catch them. I managed to get a queen now (finally) and now got about 5-7 worker ants helping her! So excited 🙌
I did the hardest option finding a queen from a different company but it was extremely easy I found a very small colony with around maybe 50 or 30 ants i’m actually put them in a small chest tube set up and I talked at all of the workers and they are doing good right now!❤❤❤
When I was a kid I used to keep ants too. Very relaxing
Instead, i just deliver food to the colony near my yard, and sometimes, look for the queen to see the food and brood.
@@Material_GrL Me too I deliver food to ants everyday So cute
AntsCanada: **Bumps Table** **Tank Of Ants Falls**
Ants: WERE FREE!!
I think ants are so cool!! Thank you so much for introducing me to the world of any keeping!!
Thsi is the best channel i have ever seen love your viedeos you make everything so interresting that you just want to start such a hobby
My brain : you're not gonna keep ants right?
Me:ye
My brain: watch this
Me: why
My brain : cuz you like AC
Me: k
Me
You play minecraft
@@olivinebalili6138 i like your cut ,g
No one:
Literally everyone when ants Canada uploads: To the Comments!!
People who don’t but look at the comments after the video:
Um yeah about that...
Actually not that many people do that
I think it’s interesting to see new behaviors in North American ants, where I live in northern Ontario I watched a colony of ants start tending to a sun flower in a sun flower patch I planted near by, I saw them making little rooms drinking sap or what ever comes from the stem of a sun flower, aswell it seemed to improve the plants growth rate as it was the only flower to successfully bloom but not seed, after blooming the ants kept one room for taking the liquid from them stem and then collecting pollen(I think among other tasks), and I have never seen this behavior again, sadly before being able to document what I’ve seen we got hit with a few frosts and they went into hibernation, however I’m going to try and plant sun flowers in the same location and see if they repeat this behaviour or if they were taking advantage of how this sunflower grew, aswell as another behavior change I’ve noticed is the presence of 2 or more queens, aswell as two environmental changes I think might play a part aswell, over the last couple years it’s been significantly hotter during the summer and the arrival of an ant species I’ve never seen until a few years ago, I’m not sure what it is but it’s very small and is clearish brown in colour, and seem to either have a massive nest or just hundreds of nests around in the sandy soil
My goodness all that typing for 1 like and no replies
Thank you for sharing you're information on how to take care of my ants.
I'm currently doing research on how to keep my ant alive and happy, feeding, the whole thing.
I'm most likely going with 3 choices of ants in my area witch are the black carpenter ant, fire ants, black garden ants.
Thank you for making all you're videos and guides it has helped me a lot!!!
Kill fire ants!!!!!
Is it going well
If you like low mantience ants and dont mind waiting, go for a black carpenter queen. If you want to see the colony grow to a huge size quickly, while also needing maintance almost every other day, fire ants. And if your looking to budget/not spend alot on formacariums and such then go for those garden ants.
This is so helpful, I have two queens and am not sure when to expect the eggs to become workers and how to feed them. Can I feed them nuts of any kind?
Nuptial flight: Is when a colony is mature and new male and female larvae start to develop wings to seek out ants from other colonies to mate with. Virgin queens (alates) will then mate with males from other colonies to start a new one of there own. It is the key phase of the ants life cycle and there survival. Mature ant colonies will repeat this cycle at the right time of the year, this would also include the correct weather (rain ect..). Really love your videos keep up the good work.
This video blessed me with luck. I found a queen the day after I watched
How is your colony doing?
@@anonymoususer4412 i think I did something wrong cuz the queen died before she could start a brood
I find one before but think it was a soldier ant because in a movie soldier have wings
Same
My queen is just kinda broke her wings off now so I think she’ll lay her eggs
I wanted an ant farm for probably over a year now and today fsm houndreds of ant queens were wandering over the streets ( and also in front of the house my house ) so i just caught one with a very spontanious test tube setup 😅 i hope everything will go well with my queen. Thanks for your cotent!
Its ant love forever.
thank you this helped so much just realised all the mistakes i made when i was starting up
You are my inspiration of keeping ants! I have a possible ant colony at my park across the street. I have finally managed to convince my parents to let me keep ants as pets. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas/tips!
Me who just got my ant queen: *furiously taking notes*
I've found around 20 and didn't keep them I just put then in different areas of garden.
So, so, excited for you! My husband has told me I can't have any ant for any reason. He is fine with idea of spiders or anything else.
Best of luck!
Good luck starting your ant family
Relatable: 200%
I got mine yesterday lol
Thank you AC family for this vedio this was very helpful to raise my ant colony I am just a beginner .So this vedio help not only me but to also many other ant colony beginner like me .Thank you so much for the vedio I really liked it 👍👍👍😀
me:founding a queen with wings
me: still thinking that maybe that its just a flying ant =(
Edit: its been 2 years I forgot I sent this comment and uh. I have a thriving colony of fire ants now :D
Remeber queens have wings
@@K.Pershing queens might not have wings if they have mated and male alates also have wings
There are only a couple flying ants on the world. Never miss a queen ;p
I thought a black queen was a gly, and killed it, now theres a hole on my heart.
@vercenary Ant workers
I really want to get into ant keeping at some point. Luckily, I have enough patience and empathy to just let ants crawl on me, so I'd probably easily get a queen once I identify her.
Fun story: in elementary, I often got put in time out during recess. I'd just sit there and let ants crawl on me. Most of them were black ants, but some were fire ants! They didn't even bite/sting me! So yea, I now love ants.
Nice I feed near by colonies, but I used to use mainly bread now it's sweet stuff and sometimes steak left overs
when u were in elementary i sneeked up to ur bed and secretly smelled ur feet while u were asleep
Same ant keeping is sounds so much fun
Ants canada : Do not disturb the queen for 3 to 4 DAYS.
Me : me to my queen everyday👀 peek a boo!
ANT LOVE FOREVER! 🐜
hahaha, me too, I just can't help it!
Please try. Ants can die by stress and Queen can kill the eggs because of stress. This is very important.
I’m so excited I get my own Ant farm ❤🎉
Congrats!🐜🐜😘🐜🐜🐜
Has anyone tried communicating with them giving a series of taps or lights to associate with things
No and I don’t think I shall
Osmosis Jones no
Sounds potentially dangerous
The gods shouldn't never reveal our existence
I have actually been inspired to raise beetles, after watching your Beetle videos! I have been doing a ton of reading in to it, and am planning on attending the local Exotic and reptile expo, and see if I can't find some grubs :)
The Nuptial flight is a super important phase in the life cycle of a Queen Ant. It’s the period of time that the Queen leaves the nest and mates with males in order to found a new Colony or in some cases to continue an already existing one. Keep calm and Ant on!
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I have a some questions still that you touched on, but need more clarification.
1. In the test tube state, so I need to change out the cotton ball that holds back the water so it doesn't mold, and how would I so that without stressing the colony?
2. Is overcrowding an issue? Like if I have too many ants in the test tube in the beginning, would they having little space to move hurt them?
3. I think for my first colony, when they're pretty big, I want to have a terrarium connected to a no dig nest, so that the terrarium is like the outside and the no dig is the nest. But would they move their nest to the terrarium if I did that?
4. What's the best jelly to feed them?
5. Are black carpenter ants native to Texas, and what are their nuptial flight times?
I forgot my last question, but if I remember, I will edit.
He mentions you can setup another test tube with a watered cotton ball and attach it with tape, but it’s important to let fresh air in daily. I get that it seems stressful for the colony but it seems like that’s mostly an issue during the brood phase and once the queen has viable worker ants they’re probably a lot stronger and more comfortable. Idk tho, I’m just going off my interpretation of the video. I’m actually about to do this to my first colony tonight, so if anyone thinks I’m wrong plz lmk
1. A little bit of mold is fine but you need to swap it out if roughly the whole surface area of the cotton is moldy
2. Probably not much of an issue, as they typically have a small founding chamber at the start of the colony. He recommends moving them to an actual ant nest at around 50-100 workers.
3. They probably would move into the terrarium if it's moist/wet, heavily decorated, and diggable.
4. He did a test on favorite flavors of jelly, if that's what you're asking. I can't remember the result.
5. Yes black carpenter ants are native, and have nuptial flights in late spring/early summer
Hopefully you see this lol
Thanks for the upgraded guide :D now i know when i can start "feeding" the queen's and Nanites :) Keep up the Good work #antlove4ever
Nanites?
he meant nanitics
I’m waiting for August to get Black Garden Ants, this is so nice!
14 min ahhh
Me:*sweat aggressively*
334 *comment*
Me: How da hell are u so quick
Bruh just hit the notification bell
Same
sound a bit like you wanted to be
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AC question: A nuptial flight is when virgin queens and male alates from different colonies of the same type of ants go and mate.
AC question of the week: A nuptial flight is a flight, where Virgin queen alates mate with multiple male alates before landing to start a new colony.
:( my comment didn't even get a like ;(
5:19 ooooh so that’s what a queen’s wing scars look like well now I know how to identify a queen
me : im only watching this to learn,not to get an ant colony
minutes later
me : MOM,CANIGETANANTCOLONY!!!!!!
Lol
I just got an test tube now i got a million fireants
@@geeseour4586 its hard to keep them on theire enclosure its trying to escape so i made that barrior he made
Lol
AC Question: A nuptial flight is when male and female alates emerge from their nest to fly and mate
Answer to AC Question: When male and female ants, known as alates, leave their colonies in search of mates. After the mating process has occurred, the male will pass away and the female will start a new colony.
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I hav question i want atta species (leafcutter) colony but their queen its huge its better me to create then in a pot or in a common test tube in the start?
@@ben-lu4jk they dont need a test tube since it wont really work for their fungus gardens just a small square glass with soil and a nice place to nest is good
@@gaylord9000-v5j ok tysm
Hey antscanada! I love your channel and am here from the beginning! At i first saw you i got a colony of monomorium subobacum when i was in holiday in thailand. It was just 1 queen. I now have hundreds of thousands ants. ANTLOVE FOREVER!!!
What a nuptial flight is, is when virgin queens and males from different colonies fly out and mate with other virgin males and queens of the same species.
A nuptial flight is when an ant colony sends male and female ants with wings into the air to find a mate. Love u AntsCanada ❤️ #antloveforever
A nuptial flight is not like that 😂😂
I keep finding Solenopsis Invicta queens and they are everywhere
Kill them all
Lol not worth keeping them they grow to fats and they sting unless you have money and you can afford to keep adding more space the Sure keep them but you will have to freeze them eventually because they are invasive if your in any part of the world except South America you can keep them
Advanced Being why not capture them, grow a colony and sell them through AntsCanada's GAN program
@@etrnlygr8tful cause they are highly invasive and have wiped out millions of native ant colonies
@@TheSleepyPP good point. I was about to say don’t kill them they are important
Thanks so much! I have been planning to have an ant colony for a long time. This will help a lot!
Me: watching ant videos in bed
Also me: why is my back itchy?!
First time I was this early was in my previous life
Sure bud
Add Antlions to the terrarium as a natural, slow feeding, awesome predator.
Slow feeding?? My ant lions are nuts 😂
2:21 so when is the next nuptial flight of WEAVER ant queens here in the Philippines
Everyone gangsta until a ant bites u
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I have hard time finding bugs for my ants .My question is how do I get them proteine then? I have one worker.
Answer: When female and male ants known as alates come out of there nest and take flight and mate in the air is called a nuptial flight.
I have always found ants very fascinating since preschool. Especially when I started first grade I discovered that a huge colony of ants had invaded the outer wall of my school. Millions of them and I was captivated trying to understand what they were doing and then a classmate of mine came and as soon as he saw the ants just started kicking the wall killing them until that side of the wall fell down with most of the colony. What is wrong with people?!
after this video i got me bull-Ants :)
A nuptial flight is when a queen mates with a Male to start a new colony... If someone already did this and gets the free stuff it okay😃🐜🐜🐜
AC Question of the Week: What is a Nuptial flight?
Answer: A nuptial flight is when new queen ants come out to breed with males of another colony and find a suitable place to make a colony of their own.
Just caught my first queen yesterday and im excited to see if I can raise a colony of my own! Would love to get some gear from the shop to help make the process more convenient and comfortable for the sake of the ants
whats up with your colony now?
I have a custom made sheet for ant keeping that I made with double sided mirror tape. it allows the queen to feel secure, while I can freely check on them
AC Question of the week: a nuptial flight is when male and female elates fly from there nest and mate with other elates from other nests
It’s alates just to let you know
@@Aries_Army thank you
I'm just imagine if someone High Fived all of his Ants.
Big oof
@Scp 939 Scp 939 has escaped from site 19 I want all Mtf units to go and trach it down.
2:11 LOL!!!
My friend started so I decided to give it a try
Me watching this while eating yesterday pizza be like: theres a QUEEN ANT OUTside i should give a pice of pizza to her
The ant-swer is: a nuptial flight is when the virgin queens and male alates fly off to mate.
Hey dudes! watch out for this Zach guy advertising his cringe rap music in your reply section! anyway thanks for the tutorial Mikey, even though I might not even find a queen ant.
yup the zachary hay guys is a bot, just dislike his video if you see it. Also don’t worry I am sure you will find a queen
I hate bots
As a kid I created my own setup with a large jar. I found a container that fit the center of the jar perfectly and filled in soil around the container and against the sides of the jar, creating a circular area in which the ants could dig their nest. I found a large harvester ant queen that had shed her wings and was wandering around looking for a nest site, captured her, and placed her in the jar. I started a depression for her in the soil to get her in the mood to settle in quickly, which she did. After a few weeks I had a tiny colony of ants starting up. Just goes to show that you don't need to buy things or even have an elaborate setup. Ants are happy as long as they have the basic ingredients for a comfortable nest.
I caught a few ant queens about a week ago and left them alone. I checked in on them yesterday to see all of them have laid eggs. Sadly though, one of the queens seemed to have died. What would be my best course of action for her unhatched brood? The ants I caught were from the Lasius niger family
If you can catch another queen ant of the same species id recemond that
@@breezyfr100 That's exactly what I was wondering, I'll just try it :)
@@Overdrive_Notso well first make sure she is dead if she is fo what he said or feed them to the other ants that u caught
@@anastasiosmiaris2119 she's on her back and there's like 5 eggs in the test tube. I'm pretty sure she's dead and I don't have any clue why.
A nuptial flight is when the new queens come flying out to breed.
Answer is when a “princess” mates with a prince and then they lose their wings. And try to start a colony.
I hope I win....
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Dylan Roth technically every ant is a princess or a prince because their mom is queen lol :/
@@oafsudhfiu9928 ya lol
This helped a lot for my first ant farm thanks for your videos!
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