Seriously, None of These Are Ants | 8 Ant Mimics
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Ants are practically everywhere, and some creatures have found it beneficial to blend in with this crowd rather than stick out.
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After watching Kurzgesagt's video on ant wars and super colonies I can understand why trying to look like the ants would be beneficial.
Destroy the enemy from within
fr
If you're not with us you're against us
Haha.. I watched these videos in succession too. :)
I've been watching the Monster Bug Wars videos as well... ants are the most bad ass bugs out there.
"Spider-wasps in Australia"
Of course, where else would such a nightmarish combination exist?
Hey, at least some of our hellish creatures are cute looking 🤷🏼♂️
@@dylanshandley1246 yeah, just like me
Australiaa brooo.
Prince Kashyap I was going more down the blue ringed octopus route but sure xD
And these ones hunt spiders too.
Scientist 1: I'll call this the Monarch butterfly.
Scientist 2: I'll call this the Swallowtail butterfly.
Scientist 3: *Large Blue Butterfly*
Scientist 1 and 2: Excellent name!
Scientist 3 finds a blue morpho butterfly: "....well crap"
Better than naming it Scientist 3 Butterfly
@@jlw35cudvm XD
Kurzgesagt: Very Large Colony
"What should we name it?"
"It's a large blue butterfly, I'm sure you'll think of something interesting."
"Hmm...."
Ant: you good bro?
Crab Spider: Yeah but you're not
Spiders: Hey guys, can I copy your homework?
Ants: Sure, just change it up a bit.
ur pfp xD
wasp: sorry i didn't know what to change so i copied everything
Oh hello. Yes, i do like jazz.
When my uncle dressed up in his wife’s clothes ... Sorry. That’s “aunt mimicry.”
I hate it, thanks.
@@Crynok then why do you do it?
but what about models on a reality show who smize in from of the camera but sheds tears as soon as the cameras are off? would that be ANTM imicry? *imi let myself out.
@@coltafanan but that's exactly what they said...
Haha haha.
Is it ant day? Y’all Kurzgesagt fans know
I was just thinking the same.
Who forgot to tell AntsCanada?
I was thinking the same thing!
Awwww too late
Lmao was about to say the same words.... Kurzgesagt FTW
Ant: does this beetle make my butt look big?
r/brandnewsentence
Anteater: *confused screaming*
lmao
Anteater: F IT I'LL JUST EAT THEM ALL!
Lol
🕷: Help... me...
🐜: hey, Steve, are you okay, man?
🕷: ...
Oh, I'm just fine now...
I've got something to show you just come closer
Show me your Ant Id, only then I'll come closer.
I got 2 refrences
@@anhero6410 from Bob and Ilene, both of whom are rove beetles.
A spider wasp that mimics ants, eh? I feel like there’s a joke there that I’m too stupid to make
Of course its in Australia
A triple combo of nope.
@@PsychoVdude13x no my friend...that is the tarantula hawk wasp
An ant, a wasp, and a spider all walk into a bar....
Cultural appropriation? Nah...
"Charlat-ants!"
Okay you got me there. :'D
the best
Personally, I hate those jokes. You could say I'm ant-y puns!
@@rawhamburgerjoe I get.. antsy around people who don't like puns. -ba dum tsh-
7:09
Now THAT'S a horror monster...
Imagine hearing a call for help and seeing a middle-aged person fallen down with their leg displaced, or maybe a crying 7-year-old with a bad scrape. You and several other people go to help the poor person, then-- POUNCE! The human-in-need snags the closest would-be helper with its arms, which you now realize are huge mandibles! By the time you could even process what happened, the "hurt human's" limbs and clothes have split into several spindly legs, and it's already scurried several meters away, dragging its catch off out of sight...
Then... imagine wandering around alone and stumbling upon a whole crowd of "hurt people," all begging for your assistance... *shudder*
HalcyonSerenade 😳
AANnnndTHAT'S why you don't pick up hitchhikers
Make that movie for us
That crab spider is honestly the most disgusting animal I have seen in years... And that horror concept is amazing
Love this! Great informational video! Ant love forever!
Eyyy
Why hello there antscanada.
I've searched it up and I get 0 results each time. How do ants realize that a ant mimic spider is a impostor?
does anyone else feel like there was a great lack of actual footage of the mimics doing mimic things?
"That ant is a spy!"
Spy sappin some colonies
Tf2 lol
That Ant’s a Bloody Traitor!
That ant aint one of us
Spider wasps like to be ants. That’s an interesting identity crisis
they're called spider wasps because they are wasps that prey on spiders
If you say "x likes to be y", you're saying that x IS y and enjoys it. Did you mean to say that spider wasps want to be ants?
I'm not being an ass. Just a polite disambiguation attempt :) much love!
Srsly no one got the joke?
We should refer to them as "they"
@@NafeeDoesStuff what's the joke? They're wasps that want to be ants therefore they're having an identity crisis? Like a play on transgender people or something?
That's not really a joke. It's an attempt at humour, perhaps.
Me: 6’2” with phony antenna on my head, trying to blend in with the ant crowd.
Ant: You’re not fooling anyone.
_"spider wasp pretending to be an ant at Australia"_
>spider
>wasp
>ant
>Australia
Ah of course, just another animal in Australia.
SciShow: Large Blue Butterfly
Kurzgesagt: Very Large Colony
HAH! I just watched that Kurzgesagt video.
Me
This makes me stressed out about who's mimicking humans
@Generic Guy , great movie!
Bears 🐻
Psycopaths. They lack emotions and feelings to connect to other humans, but they mimic pretty well to feed of us who have empathy and to turn us against ourselves in their favor.
Species known as "kids" mimic human larva so well that none is the wiser, despite the fact that everybody can tell they don't act like humans at all.
Trash collectors are actually raccoons in human suits.
Ant-Spider evolving to look like an ant after watching them eating spiders:
_Oh yeah, its all coming togheter_
plants mimicking ants is just too cool
but the beetles grooming ants and going on raids is next-level mimicry
I was hoping #8 would be “velvet ants”, in some places having the exaggerated name of “cow killers”.
I was totally expecting that this video would cover the velvet ant, since it's common in many parts of the US. Kinda disappointed that this species wasn't mentioned.
I think probably bc Velvet ants don't mimic ants, they are just wasps w/o wings but I also was hoping for some velvet ant mention :(
The title says 8 ant mimicry and talked about 7!
Yes exactly - a dollar short
the plant
clickbait
The one in the movie mimic and the short story it came from.
He is an ant
Straizo: "Why do you keep doing that Thunder Cross Split Attack?"
Dire: 8:23
Steve Martin's less well known movie: The Ant with Two Butts
And now for something completely different: -a man- an ant with -three buttocks- two abdomen. www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qglec
and the Spider Wasp.
S: It's over, man. The Thanus meme is officially dead.
Sir what should we name it?
*large blue butterfly*
That scientist had a German Shepherd that he named "Shep".
@@K9River What a basic person
@@abyssstrider2547 No imagination, but he knew the Scientific Method as good or better than anyone.
@@K9River Kind of weird. I believe i have read somewhere that lack of creativity can be attributed to low IQ. I guess not huh?
Love that MS Paint ant and butterfly larvae drawing
I once saw a guy that looked like my friend Anthony. So there's a ninth Ant mimic for ya.
Dam ur friend is an ant? Lmao
How dare you teach me stuff and make it fun enough for me to watch the whole video. I say we HOW DARE YOU
Excuse me, who is responsible for that masterpiece at 4:29? It's beautiful.
lmao
It seems they outsource their graphics to their children to save costs
What happens if you get bitten by a radioactive spiderwasp ant mimicker?
My personal favorite growing up; The Monkees that mimicked The Beatles.
I saw one of those spiders crawling around and just thought “oh its a friendly an- OH HELL NO GET THAT AWAY FROM ME”
Ant mimic: I’m an ant
Me: No you’re not
Ant: What am I, chopped liver
I’m surprised no ones noticed your comment,even tho ur the Cuban Justin y.
Number 6 was horrifying. Imagine walking down the street while seeing a dead guy. He then gets up to reveal he has an extra set of legs and kills you.
Fun Fact: The Black Footed Ant Spider split off from the Black Footed Ferret 1.3 million years ago and now they are their own distinct species.
Just saw my first spider doing this mimicry and I'm still in awe. It's so amazing and looks really convincing, but it couldn't fool me :)
"Alright time for bed..."
Scishow: *check out these things that look like ants but totally arent*
"...god damn it."
I lost it at Large Blue Butterfly. I'll have to come back and watch the remainder of the video later.
Don't worry, you never had it
6:25 You can hear the excitement in Stefan's voice as the mention of raids bring memories of WoW flooding back to him.
HE COULD BE YOU
HE COULD BE ME
HE COULD EVEN BE- *gets head snipped off by another worker ant*
The entomological info in this video is EPIC 👍👍👍
Not ants, but I ran into a group of crickets that mimic spiders once. When I disturbed their home they all jumped at me, I nearly died of heart failure. T.T
Great episode, and great host! Great work, buddy.
"Mimicry is the highest form of flattery"
And a decent strategy for eating babies.
"IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE JIM!"
Butterflattery
I read 'ant antics' instead of 'ant mimics' at first, and thought that would be a funnier title.
IIRC, there was a spider I watched once (on TV) that would waltz right up to an ant and pretend to be an ant from an enemy nest, tapping on the ant's antennae to annoy it and lure it back to it's web, where the ant would be ensnared and be unable to call it's allies so the spider could eat it.
What about the ants I feel on my body when watching an ant video. Are those real?
Ötter 22nd yes they are, don’t look behind you
Ötter 22nd they’re “mind ants”
This is another form of ant mimicking
Probably just bedbugs or dust mites
#8.
I'd like these videos more if more media of the animals was shown than of the speaker.
"Some species of spider wasps-"
"WHAT?"
"-in Australia."
"Oh."
3:08 Ants and wasps are not distantly related. Ants are actually a subgroup of wasps.
Kurzgesagt: _uploads video about ants_
Sci-show: "ooh, that's a nice pie"
Wow. Amazing mimics. I wish you had more footage/pics of them!
3:08 "Distantly related" is an understatement... Wasps are a parphyletic group, with both ants and bees occupying two small branches enclosed within the clade Hymenoptera as can clearly be seen looking at the cladogram: (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Wasps_are_Paraphyletic.svg)
In simpler words, ants could very well be deemed a type of wasp because they are deep within the wasp family, as can be seen by this wasp family tree on Wikipedia:
(upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Wasps_are_Paraphyletic.svg)
Years ago in Trinidad, I found a young praying mantis that was mimicking a black ant. So cool!
I like how they still have multiple eyes
There's a brand of contact lens stuff called Alcon, which happens to be the species name of a butterfly in Phengaris, those that grow up among ants. What's the connection?
Great episode!
1:34 wow thats the prettiest spider i have ever seen.
Crab spider: " Call an ambulance, but not for me."
Who's here after Kurzgesagt's video? lol
Is it ant day? Did I miss something??
Me
I have another example of Batesian mimicry! When I was a kid, we found a bunch of ants on a tree with red and orange abdomens, and then within a few months they were all gone. It turned out that they weren’t ants, but were actually baby wheel bugs, which are a type of assassin bug with a cool spiky wheel on the back of their necks. The adults are big fearsome predators, but the babies needed to look like something scary to live to adulthood, so they mimicked ants.
First kurzgesagt, now scishow. Ants are taking over
Mimicry is fascinating.
Mimicry in woodpeckers are interesting and odd.
#4 makes me want to break out singing the chorus of "My Humps"
Spider wasps is the scariest combination of words.
"What is this s city for ANTS?!"
Me: "nah it's just a myrmarachne"
So glad you guys made a scishow video about a scishow tangents fact-off fact!
8:52 For a moment there, I thought you were gonna name drop Anon. XD
I now decree it be ant-day for the amount of ant videos today
Did Cow killer ants, or red velvet ants made the list?
I got stung by one of those mfers while walking barefoot. Idk a sting could be so much pain. It got me between my toes and no joke..it felt like I got electrocuted. The thing squeaked when I stepped on it, I felt it vibrate. I managed to get sung by the biggest one ive ever seen too.
Wow, that was pretty nuts. I always enjoy being surprised by nature. especially when it is safely behind a computer monitor.
Am I correct in thinking that without ants we wouldn’t have agriculture? My thought is that without ants (and other underground insects), the soil would be too compact for seeds to spontaneously take root.
Hmmmm I was led to believe that there was going to be 8 on this list and there was only 7. Scishow you owe us an extra on your next list lol
They probably forgot to count and highlight as a seperate example the plant that they breifly talked about
Never in my life have I been more terrified of two words “spider wasps”
i found out about the jumping spiders not that long ago because i found one crawling on me. i seriously thout it was an ant at first because there were other ants around but something was off and when i looked closer i realized what it was. nature is so amazing.
4:13
Asgore named this insect
The extatosoma tiaratum is a crazy example of mimicry: the egg looks identical to a seed so that ants would take it to their nest and keep it safe and warm, then when the egg hatches the babies looks and behave like ants so they can escape the ant nest safely, after the males grow up to look like branches and the females to look like dead leaves. At every stage of their life they mimic something else !
Who's to say there aren't species that mimic humans? They are amung us
They're called politicians.
5:56
"Army ants are fearsome"
Termite:oh hello there
Kurzgesagt and SciShow really like them ants
0:44
Lucas did some shaving to be more protected
Scishow: make the video title 8 ant mimics but only give them 7. Theyll never notice.
Me: notices.
I still cannot comprehend how evolution works, even knowing it takes millions of years sometime. Mere randomness of change in DNA and natural selection leading to such precise specialization, without intent, or sentience behind it.Fascinating!
5:35
The word you were looking for is (assuming I can spell this correctly) abdomin
Abdomen
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first kurzegesagt now scishow, you two go ant in ant
I'll show myself out
Spider:Waits Ant:r u ok Spider:YES but yu, yu are food to me YEEEET
I almost picked up a cow killer with bare hands once.... I'm so glad I referred to my autobahn book before grabbing him.... Also our carpenter ants in the northwest have wings during part of the year, no idea why some have them and others don't but they aren't wasps because I played with them as a kid.
You missed cow ants in Georgia, USA. They are fuzzy wingless wasps, brightly colored.
Imagine all this ant mimicking animals all meet up in one place.
Sci Show- "It was an Australian Spider Wasp"
Me- a WHAT?!
So there is a spider here in Kzn, South Africa that resembles a black ant. If you disturb it, or it thinks it's been discovered, it runs around at high speed.
I'm guessing it's related the last one you mentioned. (It may even be the same species)
The most impressive thing about them is how insanely fast they are.
“Watch’s the video” wait a second I thought it was 8 ant mimics!!! They only gave us 7 they tricked me.
If you mimic the way zombies walk they won't notice you
ReplicANT
As Ron would say "These are bloody brilliant"
Have you guys done a full video about bee mites yet? Great info for the public. Goes hand in hand with bees going extinct. Also gotta touch on the subject of how the lack of fruit baring plants due to their removal and invasive non-native plant species being brought it by people are contributing.
The best example of Batesian mimicry I ever saw was a civilian in a suit walking beside a uniformed police officer. The civilian's tie had floated up onto his shoulder and the underside of the free end, a diamond-shaped view of the lining, rested exactly where the police uniform insignia lies.