This Antlion is a Devious, Cold-Blooded Killer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2019
- Antlions will hide under the sand, undetected, and then emerge to ambush a nearby insect. But it’s the sheer nonchalance with which they discard the corpse afterwards that is especially chilling.
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Atleast they give back the body for a proper funeral.
Sizzle DOG I think it’s more so they don’t have to take it to the dump
You can't digest insect shells
al dajjal shah e dunya r/whoosh
imagen if kidnaper only gave you back the skeleton lol
@@meghanachauhan9380 r/whoosh
Ant: STOP CAMPING!!!
Antlion: It’s a legitimate strategy!
actually this creatures are fun to catch with just using small plastic strings.
Legit the conversations on Dead by Daylight
My Boiz FACTSSSS
Antz: HOW WHAT HAXS I REPORTING YOU1!1!!!1!1!1
Another RvB on the internet lol.
It’s kinda badass that it just yeets the corpse when it’s done 😂
Unfair. The insects feel used now.
Antlion actually gives back the body for funerals :)
Best coment 😍
@@therawbean69insects don't have a afterlife but even deserves a funeral and to be remembered
😂 watch demolition ranch too?
I remember being like 8 years old, and saying to my dad "come have a look at these antlions dad". He told me later on when i got older that he thought i was just talking about an imaginary animal, then when he saw it he was just absolutely blown away.
Nice story bro
r/Thathappened
Sure son, Ant lions. . Awesome. .
20 years later seeing this documentary 🤯
What about this story is unbelievable?
Wow that must’ve felt great tbh
British nature documentary: "The antlion waits patiently for its next meal..."
American nature documentary: "Hyper mega killer antlion slaughters everything. This time it's personal!"
British known as their coldness
Americans known as their overreacts
No way, unh uhh not us Americans. No sir-e, not us. Jk, that's at least 99% of us, like this one time when I was in the military and ran out of bullets so threw a rock and beat an entire army of 10,000 terrorists!
@@captaingreenhat ....what the fu-
😂🤣👍🏼
XD
* succs life out bug *
Antlion: “this bxtch empty, *YEET”*
😂
OMG LOOOOL
Bruh😂😂
This needs more likes. LOL
Fuck sake I was gonna make that joke lol
Step one: Eat
Step two: *YEET*
lol
This deserves more likes
Step three: repeat
You are everywhere dude
@@luistonicher2152 wrong person
These things are all over my dads farm. I used to grab small sticks and vibrate the dirt a little to resemble an insect that had fallen in. Then when the antlion would start to come out, I'd dig my hands deep under the sand and catch the antlion.
Then I'd throw them at my sister 😂😂😂
glad to know i wasn’t the only one lol
Monster 😂😂😂
You nasty.
@@V28VLOGS you weak if ya didnt do that
@Audrey, you're my kind of friend 🤣
The slow motion ant being thrown around was really crazy.
Facts
Them cameras don't play they get to close like it's another bug with a tiny hd camera recording
it was beautiful
@@synsythius4679 just like watching a ballet
Yeah there was even a cut in the scene so how long was the ant just flailing??
he put ballerina song while the ant struggling for his life... savage !!
Savage Indeed. Lol 😆😉
The Beatles sing "Help" when they fall in.....
I watched this with the enthusiasm of a high schooler on acid. Sober
Lol
May Sandioriva , a Looney tune inappropriate for the situation. Agreed.
After playing Grounded’s new update I just feel bad for the poor ants here as I now know just how terrifying these are when face to face with them
LOL I fought Antlions in Grounded for the first time yesterday and just killing one was pretty difficult. After learning their attacks it became pretty easy.
Grounded is EXACTLY what brought me to this video
Same
@@Tyraphman sameee
Narrator:"THE SPAWN OF THE NETHER REALM”
Bug: back it up ba ba back it up
"..Struggling only makes matter worse.." The music,the struggle,the ant running for its life !! PURE ART I LOVE IT!!!
This part brought tears to my ears. Beautiful
So dark! You must be from the DC Universe!
"The *spawn* of the _Netherworld."_
Whoa, calm down dude. 😨
Minecraft?
More like Ceti Alpha V after Ceti Alpha VI exploded six months after the crew of the S.S. Botany Bay startex inhabiting that world.
Nether-realms got some weird bugs dude...
@SERN. No kidding. Who’s writing this shit? Definitely no Attenborough. Expect med better from the Smithsonian.
There will soon be a “spawn” in the netherworld 😉 cough cough mkll c
‘It wraps itself around the cerebral cortex, Leaving their victims particularly susceptible to suggestion....’
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it! Only Trekkies will get it.😀
Not just Star Trek.
Long before that was The Tingler and Fiend Without A Face. 😎
Really I thought of the yeerks from Animorphs.
Haha! The Wrath of Khan.
Star trek 3 wrath of khan slugs
I use to pick them up from my school back then as a teen, take them home, fill up a plastic bucket with sand, then feed them insects I dislike, not ants LOL
Yeah I did the same thing but I had them in my yard an I would catch them and keep them in a bucket of sand, then once they had their traps set I would feed them ants.
@@kennysimms5217 yeah they so Kool, I would pick them up and put them on my palm, they tickle you while moving around Lol, sometimes I would fill sand on my palm, then let one of 2 dig in, it was a wonderful experience, miss those days man
Atleast you speared ants the horror of being a antlion's victim
@@mirzaramishbaig8980 yeah lol
@@_Authentic01 it was probably doing that to get the ant close so that it could attack because the ant might have been on the top of the sand and didn't fell down on it on
“There’s only one way out...”
*happy music starts to play*
“It’s brighter here”
You're a failure to Justin Y
Nightcor EDM yep he sure is
Do you know the music?
You know the camera crew threw most of the insects into the trap.
Yeah, the antlion still has time, the camera crew don't
Well who wouldn't still want a kid experience
who cares....the footage is real
They probably yeeted the corpse infront of the camera during the cutaway at 2:32. 🤣🤣 No way your going to get lucky enough for an ant to land in that little focused circle.
@Ben Louis but fed,,😂🤣
When I was a kid these things were called Doodle Bugs.
yep Doodle bugs and there was a little song to call them out of their holes lol
In my country it's called Nope
Ah yes, one of my favorite childhood pastimes. I see that some of you had the idea to keep them captive and feed them undesirables. What a great idea! I recently developed a simple live roach trap, and I'm betting a couple of these bad boys could tear up some roaches! God I hate roaches.
Unfortunately most roaches are too big for american ant lions.
Antlion hl2 anyone?
I just realized that this is just a minuscule Sarlacc pit from Star Wars
kinda but not really
Where you think George Lucas got the idea?
I was literally thinking the same thing 😂
HAAA LOL....me too.
It's kinda vice versa. Sarlacc is a gigantic antlion
0:21 “murdered and tossed aside” lol I love how he’s acting like it’s evil
When I was around 10-12 years old, we used to play with these tiny predators. There are lot of such sand depressions especially under banyan tree. We used to take handful of the sand to take these insects in our hand. But never thought that these are so deadly for other insects. Until today I was not aware why they were making such kind of sand pits.
We used to do exactly the same thing here in Mizoram during our childhood ...we called them Themthainu ..😅
We played with them in South Africa - where were you when you played with them?
In my language this insect has silly name and I don't know that antlion is a menace to other small insect 😅
@@davidblyth5495 Gujarat state in India
@@drjayesh63061 so they are widely spread
The music played while the ant is in despair being tossed made this even better
One of my childhood memories is me dropping ants into the ant lions holes in my grandma's backyard.
Update: My grandma passed away easter morning this year. I went to her house for the last time and found ant lion holes in the backyard. For the heck of it I dropped some ants into the holes lol. Why not, for old times sake?
*murderer*
Same, my cousin’s and I would experiment to see the biggest insects the ant lions could take down were. We got up to a 2+ inch locust before the ant lion met it’s match. Anything smaller: fair game.
@@freechinastopuighurgenocid8716 I've shown my daughter and my nephew as well. The tradition lives on...
Which country you found these?
@@mulhollanddrivehobo6910 I live in the US.
Used to love catching these and throwing ants into their holes. It was like the scene from Starwars.
lel
What year were catching was called sand crabs you was not catching these because if you were you would have gotten bitten or stung everyone in the comments section are getting this confused with sand crabs sand crabs come in with the tide come in at the beach and you see these little brown little sand crabs dig their hole and go down we used to dig them up all the time they're called sand crabs but this is not the same bug trust me
U evil Bounty Hunter who works for free.
Taniya Green
What you catch was different species than what we catch and it’s differently antlion
We just called them little ant eaters. But they never bite me ...
I used to be in a cult in like second grade where we dropped ants into the ant lion ditches and watch... the initiation and promotion in ranks involved getting bit by an ant. The more painful the ant determined your rank. The leader got bit by an ant lion and his mom called the school which shut our operation down😂
When the leader is a snitch it is doomed to fail
If you didn't get caught you could have formed a religion by now!
The half li-i mean real life antilions cult
I hope you gave him a gnarly purple nurple for that, after all snitches get stitches!
"What's that, Timmy Tattle Tales? You're only 8? The hood don't care!"
@@abrb1989😂
1:14 "The antlion injects it with poison"
Uhh, pretty sure he injects it with VENOM
It sure can toss those corpses QUITE a distance.
yeah poison is what u eat
He self identifies it a poison
He might poison it with venom 🤷♂️
Elitists belive venom is the only correct term. The latin root form means poison.
@@larrytischler570 Poison is a toxin that gets into the body via swallowing, inhaling or absorption through the skin. ... Venom is a specialised type of poison that has evolved for a specific purpose. It is actively injected via a bite or sting
“IT’S BRIGHTER HERE”
*ants falling to their doom*
Lmao
Better than when they had that at the end of Plane Crash videos.
@@ZaphkieI wat was it
so much for "I have the high ground"
this is why anakin hates sand
@@foxmulder8955, because he always overlooked the teacher he should have sought within the dark side...the antlion.
as compared to slippery slope ???
Fucking camping low ground warriors bro😂
Playing grounded which have antlions as enemies and kinda crazy how they made them function exactly like their real life counter part with the only major difference is groundeds antlions weaponize empty husks and will toss them at you. Not going to lie always just assumed antlions were sci-fi or fantasy monsters didn’t expect there to be a real world version of em.
yeah hope they put more insects like Dragonfly = swingsuit or helicopter, Water strider = skating shoes, Centipede and Scopion =boss
We used to catch them as kids by sprinkling a little sand on the side of their funnel then scooping them up. We called them "doodlebugs" and they weren't scary at all.
We called them nanny buck buck.
We call it shiver pig.
Fact: The antlion can be killed by two hits with a crowbar.
That half-life reference
Poor lazlo....
@@oldmannabors3198 I'm thinking of a word that starts with W and ends with H
@@shockal7269 ....and sounds like "shmoosh"
@@shockal7269 ... Well that certainly narrows it down...
No one:
Ant: *why do I hear boss music*
Also rare footage of Boba Fett escaping the sarlac pit *colorized/1080p*
Jovante 99 Failing to escape*
@@derpking3970nope, escaping when the corpse gets flung out
Dont you mean falling in the sarlacc pit. As far as I knw, (fun fact) he only escaped in a stars wars short story collection called Tales of the ( ). Cant remember, sorry. But you can look it up with that. If you knw about a video. On his escape, pls share.
i love the tonal inflection of his voice when he says _liquified guts_ , almost like he enjoyed reading that line out-loud
Tiny versions of Khan’s “pets”. When I saw the movie the first time, I knew where they got the idea from.
Enemy Mine
That’s exactly what I thought! 🤣
@@sr.absurdo no Ceti Alpha V.
Fun Fact: they where so popular in england they would ship them over seas and put in glass sugar dish and keep them as pets
Lord KeK I’m English and not a single person I know knew that these existed, what part of England does your “Fun Fact” relate to?
@@justsomeguy2743 It was a common for colonial America to mass ship amounts of these to the point that they are just now recovering in Virginia. Btw im from Norfolk
Lord KeK fair enough I’m from Liverpool so I’ve never heard of these until I watched this video
Yep, I found a british antlion "cage" at an estate sale once
Her majesty used to keep them out side the palace to keep ants from comming inside then they invented Raid!
*Resistance is futile*... ah yes, classic quote from my uncle
Is he an antlion?
@@vippsmillennial6336 no, he is Borg
Live long and prosper
*HOLD UP*
What did I just read
Wild Trapinch appeared!
Yep, Trapinch is an antlion and the evolutions are the post-larval stages
Already base attack of 100
It makes me wonder if this is where George Lucas got the idea for the "Sarlac" creature.
Nah tentacle hentai
I was thinking the same thing!
Reading comments makes me realize I wasn't the only one who played this during childhood hahahaha
I was the victim too
Me too 😃
well me too but I once kept them in a jar they turned into balls, and ended up being some kind of yellow fly
Me 😂 ... I feed them to my spider though 😂
@@raxus6372 do you use your spider to fight other spiders?
Or just a pet spider
They should have added a burp sound effect after each tossed carcass
That's for the comedy channel. This is the (classical) music channel.
Or the ya-ha-ha-huuiiii scream from goofy
Iron General
Would have been epic
I played with these things for hours when I was a kid everytime we went to the cottage. I was super fascinated with them. I'm glad I wasn't the only one. 😅
Well, I immediately thought of Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn when I saw that creature!!
Exactly
Absolutely
Ughhh!! That dam thing gave me nightmares when I was a kid.
I'd say that's the best of all the star trek movies
Was looking for this comment. First thought, wait, that's where they got the idea for this beast.
He protec
He attac
But most importantly
He yeet the bug when he done with his snacc
Not bad! 😆
Thanks
JT you’re right
It should have been
He spitt bacc his snacc
Would absolutely love to see you kicked in the sac
“The antlion, spawn of the Netherworld”
*twerks*
She do be lookin thicc doe
@@jesshillary4891 DUDE SHE'S ONLY 6 MONTHS OLD
Naw... Just a lotta head bobbin when she's cleanin up her crib or when she gets haaahhhngry... 🐜😋 🍽️
@@ishigami4622 lol... True, kinda sorta. One month might be stretching it to the max for a Doodlebug larva. She's not gonna be "grown" and lookin for a mate til she comes outta her pupal case n outta the sand... N thick ain't the way she's gonna look... She's gonna be kinda skinny w long wings. She'll be pretty tho!! ; )
@@slimbarentse 1 month, 6 months...doesn't matter as long as she mature.
Taking a moment to thank Smithsonian for this incredibly detailed documentary, I mean I would never imagine something's like that is going on, phew!!
My Kids didn't clean the yard, I'm gonna show them this before bed...and lock my bedroom door.
“Murdered, and tossed aside “
“The spawn of the netherworld”
Who writes this stuff 😂?
edit: It’s cool so many people share my exact sentiment lol. Thanks for the likes and comments
hahahah, in Fla, their called a Doodle Bug and very common. Ants are trapped a lot.
@MooRaw well from a human perspective yes. But insects?
Very terrifying.
British people. That's who
Do you have better lines?
Leave it to a british locutor to turn something as trivial as an insect feeding into a lovecraftian narrative
2:01 Play this to someone without context.
Well that's the Ant King theme music playing so clearly it's Bran, having warged into a bug and erm, ... that's all I got...
That went dark real fast
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 I looked up the song but can't find it 😒
It's doing ballet!
I would've neglected it as another generic documentary but the slow mo, I was impressed! Respect 100000!
Wow, this is incredibly well done!
Once you’ve fallen into the lions den there’s always not one way out
Immediately cuts to happy cheery music
I can imagine that ant that gets eaten alive but half its torso is still above the sand going "Rico... you know what to do"
Rico, destroy all browsing history!!!
Nice reference!
Roughneck Starship Troopers ?
How long ago was that? 20yrs?
"They sucked his brains out..."
1:57 Struggling for life ..with a melodious background music..Nice !!😄 🤣
What is the music?
When you’re an ant lion, every meal is like an ad skip button.
Normal people: Antlion
HL2 fans: *STAY* *OFF* *THE* *SAND* *!*
Terraria players: *stays long range away from it*
@@chillman5756 not that hard but the ones that charge at you are a nightmare.
Oh wait GORDON IS THAT YOU?! EVERYBODY FOLLOW FREEMAN *prepares to yeet himself* INCOMING!
I was Searching for this comment
"Sprintnoises" "bunnyhops towards thumper"
They make them look bigger then what they are. Lol
I use to play with these as a little kid. I always did wonder why there were dead bugs near the hole. Thanks.
LOL I played with them too when I was a kid in south texas in the 70's.
@@ultimatefighter225- They were no match for the hand scoop. Northern California '90s
Theres dead bugs near your hole, oh what??
Glad im not the only one who did that as a a kid. I thought i was weird.
A W hahahahahahahahahahaahahaahaha nani the puckhsssss🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
This is officially my favorite insect video... the music at the end, Superb!
And this is just the baby antlion. The adults have wings.
Cinematography and music on point. Great meme 15/10 will rewatch
I love how cinematic you guys are lol great production
Lol
I’m one of the ants they use on set and I can confirm we got through intense practice before we film every session
@@omegledailydosage lol >. -
I love when you throw sacks of their pheromones and they attack stuff for you. So majestic! 🦁
Thanks for this video
As kids we called them doodle bugs.
That's right ! Soft little guys. I was in fla, where were you??
Called them doodle bugs here too in Oklahoma :D
@Stuart Coker I remember singing the Doodle Bug song as we fished for them with blades of grass
Doodlebugs i believe is the name of the larva form, they eventually turn into something that resembles a damsel fly
We call them noodle poodles here in Australia😂😭
At 0:55,
Narrator : The ants have no idea that a trap lies below...
Ant : Wait.. What? Thanks dude! Almost fell for it. :-)
Antlion : Oh crap!!!
vim aqui pelo alanzoka, jogando Grounded kk
I have these guys in my driveway, love watching them snag ants.
This narrator, “the spawn of the netherworld” is too much
Savage! As kids we used to grab blades of grass and tickle these burrows until they popped out thinking it was ant that had fallen in lmao
Haha did someone lose their finger
Dirty Cop Registry that sounds....fun
Seriously?! LMAO!
Lol. Same here. Use a tiny twig or stick to lightly poke its burrow, make it think it's a bug, then pick them lil sucker out. It was addictive for a kid.
Haha, I remember doing that. I would scoop them up and put them in a fellow Antlion's funnel. Sometimes you'd get a fight, some were craftier than others and manage to escape. It was fun when I would just be bored in the woods.
The first few seconds looks like a miniature version of those alien things in the movie "Enemy Mine".
And the picture around 0.28 looks a LOT like the things Kahn used in Star Trek Wrath of Kahn!
Incredible creation, every living thing no matter how small or seemingly insignificant is an expert at being itself 😊
No ants were harmed in this video they just "believe and touch the sky"
Ant: Why is boss music playing?
It's too late
We played with these lil fellas growing up in Texas, they were the coolest thing on a hot summer day. Thanks antlion for making my childhood interesting before these interwebs.
Ahhhhhh...the days before NINTENDO. 😏
NWTexas Veggies puffftttt I played with these as an adult as well . They’re cool !
Hahaha play fishing with this antlion was fun.
@@goodnight8169 Yeah, we fished them out with a blade of grass. We call them doodle bugs.
That slow motion bit of the ant dancing around before death was strangely beautiful
thanks for the impending nightmares, smithsonian.
When I was a kid we always catch this in the Sands thought it was innocent never knew it was a killer damm
What would you do if you know it is a killer ?
omg same
Same
No sweetie what you were catching in the sand as a kid was called sand crabs they were Brown and they live in the sand at the beach I know exactly what you're talkin about no you didn't catch this because this would have stung you inmate you very sick with fever or death
@@nougayyy51 No Love what year were catching in the sand it's called sand crabs they're brown and when you touch them they ball up and they're at the beach in the sand their costs and crabs you did not catch these because this would have stung you and make you very sick if not death
1:55 the music at this part makes it great.
Do you know what's the name of it?
Commenting in case someone comes by with the song name
You can see the fire bug's corpse in the background when the ant gets hurled out at the end... savage.
Great narration
*Definitely vicious...* And I *_Antlion,_* either.
J̅o̅h̅n̅n̅y̅ F̅a̅v̅o̅r̅i̅t̅e̅ I hate and love you for this
Haaaah I see what you did there
I Antlion and taking this terrible joke.
Get out!
Clever.
Am I the only one who remembers seeing these things on Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan? Sheesh...
The young enter through the ear.......These are pets....
victims are open to suggestion quote from khan
Heck yea, Ricardo Montalban
Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha V's only -- indigenous -- lifeform....
@@martinastle4206 ...of course, but...not...QUITE...domesticated.
The quality of this video is amazing.
I like how they just yeet out the bodies after a meal
2:33 :(
RIP soldier!!
F
@@adrowninginstrument I know right smh
You should have made a tear face to match your profile picture.
"So you have chosen death"
Catching an Antlion is also part of my childhood days. it is fun to watch when they walk backwards
The filming is immaculate!
Can we take a moment and realize the classical music they was playing when the ant was being tossed around!😂😂😂 It fit so perfectly.
Soooo dramatic! The narrator’s narrating, the slow motion, the camera close-up, and the piano background music...just wow! And all that for only an antlion!!! Masterpiece!!!
Kinda makes the death and killing funny too
The sudden logo of 'IT'S BRIGHTER HERE' at the end of the clip after the traumatizing maelstrom of horrifyingly torturous insect death, makes me smile reassuredly about a future with the Smithsonian Channel.
Great camera work! 👍
When I was in elementary school, I did a report on the antlion. I even found some in the sand under the barracks on base where my family lived. They're tiny and ferocious!
I bet that was a cool book report!
I used to play this insect in school when i was young, I'm from asia
"Damn nature, you scary."
I don't understand how people keep saying this retarded joke and worse, they get up-voted by idiots who think this joke is funny.
It was funny in the beginning years ago but that joke got stupidly overused over the years to the point of retardation.
@@d-hunter9801 That is how memes work. You don't have to like it, but good luck trying to change how it works. You either ignore it or join it.
0:34 Narrator - "The spawn of the netherworld"
Antlion - "Steady on"
Animal documentaries that add sound effects to bugs are my favourite
I used to play with these as a kid. I'd drop ants in and watch them struggle. It was my own personal thunderdome..
I too did this. My brother and I would see who could catch the biggest ones, we have them in Texas
Faxx good time
Wow me too in Cyprus!!
Lol. I thought I was the only one! Apparently they are poisonous but I guess it doesnt hurt us.
Me 2. We have them here in North Carolina
I feel so bad for laughing at this but the spin at 2:08 is so ballet-like! And there is the classical music in the background. 😂
OMG I WAS TRYING TO FIND A COMMENT THAT SAID THIS. ITS SO FUNNY 😂 poor ant doe
😂😥
SureJan “Didn’t your mother tell you not to play with your food?”
What is the music?
@@etelfon6722 did you ever find it?
I like how that ant almost away by begging unintentionally thrown lol
Props to the cameraman who shrank down and got these awesome clips
Dude that is horrifying, that's almost literally just like the Sarlacc Pits from Star Wars... I am officially Disturbed
ITS HOW THEY EVOLVED
They based those traps in this trap tho
Ikr! But it's more satisfying if they throw Jabba the Hutt on the pit instead lol
Ya know that really old movie with the creepy pit thingies? ;)
Or the creature from Enemy Mine.