Leave them alone. Why do you feel so entitled to destroy nature. Bullshit. You are worthless. This is why the world has gone to shit. Pour some in your house. Idiot
they attacked my dog,.. sleeping peacefully on the porch,.. it isn't like there aren't TRILLIONS Living in the world, grow up casper,.. get a groove on,.. you're worthless if you think these little cockbags are more entitled to living than your DOG, maybe you ought to order some and sleep with them, and pet them and call them George, get off your "tall cloud" there chief, get grounded,.. maybe try some mindfulness, while you're at it go to the nearest mound and cuddle up with some of these little mofo's
They're FIRE ANTS... go sit in on a mound of them and tell me you think they should be left alone. You're a ditz. They are an invasive species that does not belong here but they came in and they're here to stay. ANYTHING that will kill them by the quadrillions would be welcome.
i don't think you have Ever been bit by these Ants. Not by 1 ant but by 50 or 100 at a time. there like a army 1 get hurt the whole unit comes to the rescue by biting you over and over and it burns. FIRE ANTS It's why they have that name. I've been bit plenty down south. Kill every one u see they been coming across county for years now & are getting closer to my state. There not you friend.
Boric acid works slowly over 2 to 3 days. By the time the ants start dying, they've fed the bait to their queens and grubs, and the colony doesn't even know what hit it.
don trump - Some of them simply drown or suffocate in the bait. It happens all the time when I set out bait dishes with a boric acid and sugar solution. The ants crowd the edges of the bait pool so tightly that they push some of their brethren in, and they can't escape.
before you join the hivemind and dislike the video, remember that those ants are a invasive species, so on top of being annoying they damage the eviroment too.
we are the most invasive creatures there are prove me wrong. Where ever we go we destroy everything out of greed and power. Totally without justification or ever trying to make things right and all you idiots with no IQ feel that's fine. If you do not understand what Im saying because of your exceedingly low IQ or no child left behind program then you are lost and serve no function other than destruction and waste.
@@greytallcloud5695 dude these things are actively hurting the fucking environment?? Ever see the damage the cause when the deplete the soil of nutrients in mega colonies? Nahhh you’re too busy virtue signaling about fucking an invasive ant species, and somehow brought up “humans are the most invasive species” like who the fuck is talking about that? Nice straw-man you’re pulling there buddy
@@GammaFrost1 im not going to argue with stupid people. its evident no matter what proof i put out that you cant change stupid so why would i bother and Id bet your a Donald Dump supporter too!!
I have red ants or fire ants by the thousands all in my trees,my yard,behind my fence line,on my deck around my house. I have tried literally everything I can find at the store and they are still there. They have little highways in my yard where you can walk up and visibly see their paths where they are constantly traveling. I’ve been unable to kill the colony so far after 2 1/2 years and probably between $200-$300 worth of bait and killer and nothing works.
Yeah Nguyen is a real popular name for Vietnamese people. Look up why, it's a good read. Nothing outrageous, it's just history. I'm I now going to be called a weebo because I know stuff about Vietnamese people too? xD smh People need to read more about the world. It used to be called being cultured and worldly...
this is helpful. thank you. people have no idea how annoying and frustrating it is if theres huge colony of fire ants in your yard, i cant even stand in my lawn for 5 seconds my feet and my pets get bitten,
People say killing ants is bad and brutal but you have to understand that fire ants are deadly to humans and they are extremely aggressive and dangerous
Unless they were an issue to him directly and seriously, there really wasn't a reason to kill them. Ants are very picky about where they live. If they find their home is no longer safe, they will leave.
ExtendNOLife How much did you watch the video and how much do you know about ants? Fire ants are very aggressive, breed like mad, and are very quick to move into places. This guy states he was removing bricks from a yard. What benefit is it to keep them where they have the potential to invade your home?
I hate to kill ANYTHING, even spiders, I try to capture and release any bug I find in my house. but HUMANS COME FIRST! If you have ANYTHING living in your house or yard, ESPECIALLY anything that can KILL YOU, then it has to GO! I am more than willing to carry most bugs outside in my hand or in a cup, but fire ants can KILL HUMANS (google it). So, I think this guy's solution is one of the best ideas out there. MUCH MUCH BETTER than buying toxic chemicals to pour on the ground and let them seep into the local water supply and cause cancer in his community for decades into the future..
I agree, I hate killing spiders since they are good at limiting themselves, kill other potentially dangerous bugs, and are commonly harmless to humans depending on location. Though if it's a black widow, hobo, or anything of that nature it would need to be killed.
It’s fine to protect humans and insects/animals alike. But these are invasive. I literally keep ants as pets and I do this too. They are highly invasive and any ant taxonomist says to pour boiling water in ut
Normal ant- "what are you doing over there man?" Fire ant- "You know, just climbing over the piles of my dead friends, to get a drink of what just killed of them" Normal ant- "uhhh.... Alright then, you do you man"
I live in the deep south, and any time ants gather to feast in moderate numbers, I can see tiny phorid flies attacking them. They "sting" the ants, which is actually depositing an egg. The egg hatches, and the tiny maggot eventually kills the ant from the inside. The non-native phorid flies were released into the wild probably by TAMU, and I hope there is no collateral damage.
What kinds of ants are you seeing them on? Chances are you're looking at Red invasive fire ants. The phorid flies are just a possible solution to them, and they aren't even terribly effective.
Hey O.P. Yep, it's Argentina fire ants. No, the little flies aren't terribly effective, but then what is? It's fun to watch the fire ants freak out when they get an egg deposited into their thorax, and fun to watch them laboriously cover up their food so they can eat it in relative safety from the spearing flies. Don't know if you have seen the flies, but they're about the size of this comma , about 1/4 the size of a worker ant. I imagine they make the ants less efficient foragers, but it will take more than that to make a dent in this vicious, invasive alien species.
I'm with you bro, I can feel you. My room is full of ants and I don't even bring food into the room. Daily I wake up from these things biting me😡 For me borax is like a god gifted item 😂 I have no issue with the small black ants as they don't bite and they disappear very quickly..but the sugar ants I despise. And I can't believe there are people defending these creatures 😂😂
Anyone else find it hilarious how Peter Grun said the author of this video and people like him have "too much time on their hands" yet he has the time to shit all over the comments section? Thanks for pinning the thread Todd and the laughs that came with it.
Not mad but its idiotic. People destroy everything then they are trying to make art of it it is sickening. Everything has a purpose as we are allmpart of a ecological system and people attitudes need to change if we and everything else is to survive. Were doing our damn best to destroy the planet. It starts with shot like this.
@@greytallcloud5695 LMAO imagine defending ants using the words 'ecological system' when they're an invasive species that captures land everywhere they go and RUIN the eco system
@@greytallcloud5695 HAHAHAHA i just noticed you're the clown that told the vid poster that he's destroying nature when the ants literally almost killed his dog
Must be weird to be an ant. "Hey everyone that has come here to try and eat this is now dead but I'm gunna walk over their bodies because I want to eat some"
I grew up Cajun and as a rule, we love to show off our pain tolerance with dares. I was about 10 and my cousins and I had this great idea to see who could stand in the fire ant hill the longest. I'll never forget my feet covered in fire ants and me walking into my grandparents house, trailing ants, and asking to use the shower. I was in so much pain that I was in a daze. I think I might've puked lol. P.S. nobody did that stupid dare other than me. It was always like that!
I don't know how anybody can thumbs down for this video it showed you everything step-by-step not just the before and after but the before during and after -- that was beautiful. thank you very much
some people like ants,... I know,.. they haven't laid down in a bed with them and hugged them tightly nor have they been attacked by a swarm of wild fire ants
I love these videos. All the ants are always like "OMFG JACKPOT!!! Some mysterious creature just dropped enough food for all of.. cough cough cough... Jim... are you o...."
LOL! very funny! it takes about 12 hours for them to really start to feel the effects of the kool aid,.. but stay away after that,.. boy they run around all kinds of pissed off
I was in Texas for the last couple years and then when Harvey hit I lost all my shit so I worked at a ranch to get the loot to come home, so last summer I was working outside burning shit (which means grabbing logs they hide under) and painting a fence (which means stepping on their goddamn invisible mounds!) so we became very intimate friends! I seriously went from two years of hating mosquitoes to "fuck, just gimme the mosquitoes 24/7 over these things!!!" Now I'm back in Oregon where the only thing we have are sugar ants that don't really bother anyone and that are easy to deal with by cleaning up after yourself.
We actually were setting up for a Halloween party when the owner finally went and bought some poison to sprinkle on the hills. Guests not getting violated by ants are more important than employees... but at least I finally got to get a little revenge!
to bad you didn't have this trick back them,.. they would have all been gone! trust me this stuff is magic,.. after about 8 hours they start running around like CRAZY! but after that they start twitching and roll up into little sand dunes LOL
I'm an animal rights activist and all that... but they're fuckin' ants. Insects are essentially automatons in the sense that they operate on instinct, but aren't sentient. Insects react to negative stimuli in the same way bacteria and plants do, which is referred to as nociception. It's not the same thing as pain. They have no evolutionary reason to feel pain or suffering. So even if people were killing ants for no good reason, upbraiding them for it would be like scolding someone for weeding their garden or washing their hands with antibacterial soap. I'm glad that you people are so full of empathy for living things, but it's seriously misplaced.
if the ants are protein eaters,.. then you can mix the boric acid with grits or cornmeal or peanut butter for different flavors,.. but making the boric acid water soluble is a key factor
Yay! It worked. We recently moved to a smaller neighborhood and our property butts up to the common area. I was stung and so was my neighbor. She told me it was fire ants. I mixed up a batch but never saw any ants eating it. She had contacted the HOA and reported it and today the guy came out. He said he didn't see any ants where we laid our bait. He did find more in other places and he treated them. Thank you for showing us how to take care of the problem for ourselves.
It's the principle to alien species we are ants there probably a million years ahead of us how would you like if they came down and built a house over yours and you you made renovations that moved something on your there lawn and you been there first to them you got the brain of a ant then they press a button and destroy you would you like no of course not until and I'm sure you're a animal lover you sound like a nice guy but I always say until each and every human on this earth respects gods creatures from a elephant to a ant a mino to a whale a pigeon to a eagle the skys will never open up and god or the alien s will never accept us as a galactic partner or god giving us are wings back and this great big test we call life will be over with I don't discriminate black white Hispanic Asian Indian young old I'm pointing out things to save as many creatures on earth as I can it's only a drop in the ocean don't take it personal
Todd Anderson I read that there is either 10,000 or 100.000 ants for one human being. So I don't mind them dying. Since I'm in Australia the summer can be hot and ant come into your house, my room was filled with ants for weeks they were everywhere it is like a nightmare I couldn't even sleep properly Because I feared that ants would come into my nose or ears.
in their terms of time,.. yes i was speaking slowly,.. time is relevant to size, a fruit fly lives for 3 days,.. you think they have a concept of time? or does their day just consist of their childhood,... something to ponder on.... there was a star trek episode on the concept of time and hearing everything correctly,.. not only that, but ants dont understand english XD
time is but a revelation of man, an invention so to speak as time is not relevant to any other being, if we are speaking in terms of brain size, we are also discussing relevant time from brain cell to brain cell,.. if you look at a bird zipping thru trees,.. there brain works much faster than ours because its smaller
actually the reason they can't hear you is because the wavelength of your voice is actually physically too large for them to be able to hear. it would just feel like a rumble to them.
It rather seems to me that time is a fundamental characteristic of the universe. Chemical reactions have limits in how fast they can happen, we have the speed of light, and other inherent limits in how fast things can happen in our universe. To me that points to time being built into the fabric of the universe. Our perception of time may change though.
People here defending fire ants, sure you can have a controlled colony of them at your home as a hobby but do know that actual fire ants out there are dangerous and destructive. You'd think they are easy to control because you have a pet colony but I recommend you to take a stroll near an actual natural mound and see for yourself if they are anything like your pet fire ants. I am not hating on those who have pet fire ants but comparing your tiny colony to a mound that can house thousands to millions of them and attack all at once is laughable.
Todd, I watched this vid quite some time ago and your newer one today. I live in Cambodia so boric acid is not easy to come by in roach poison and as far as I know there isn't any fire ants but there are a gang of small household ants. The scouts love to get into bed with you and bite. Also in your stored clothes. However, on my last trip to AZ in May I picked up a container of boric acid at Walmart (spec order $11 for 6oz) as you can't transport poison on aircraft (TSA). I make my own Maple syrup using sugar, water and maple flavoring. I eliminated four different colonies (red & black) using your recipe. I noticed my pantry ones passed up my white sugar and went for the brown sugar and syrup. The ones coming from of the balcony (red) wouldn't climb into the container so I put some drops on the floor near the balcony and their trail as I made mine a little more liquid than a paste. Once the were waxed the black ones took over their position. Took about 3 days to eliminate them completely. Next were some more reds that wanted to hang at my BR sink. Dead. A colony of reds were in the kitchen and they took to the bait and not in great numbers but after a short time they stopped coming. Not sure what happened to them but hey........! My friend from the Philippines tried your mixture on his mom's fire ants in Mississippi but he told me that it didn't work. Maybe technique?
hiya lionel,.. you dont have to use very much boric acid in the mixture,.. if you use too much it will be bitter and they wont "take the bait" i am sure that boric acid can be sent via mail,.. next time you come to the USA,.. you can buy some here and send it thru the mail to your address,.. different ants like different meals,.. but the boric acid is the key to it all,.. you could even make cookies for them to eat, they sometimes like flour and peanut butter,.. mix up some birc acid with that and leave the cookie outside for them to scarf up and take away, maple flavoring would not be as good as the real thing, they like the brown sugar because of the molasses content,.. natural!,.. flavoring isnt as good as the real thing, find out what they like to eat (besides you) and feed it to them with the boric acid,.. they will die! good luck!
If you can't find boric acid, can you get a cleaning product that contains borax? Also called sodium borate, it is found in many cleaning products and detergents (20 Mule Team Borax is a popular one in the USA). It will work just about as well as boric acid for killing ants. Instead of syrup you can also mix it with powdered sugar.
Hmm! Never heard that one, but it's worth a shot! I've tried Amdro, but I think the ants have figured it out: They just take the Amdro pellets and move them far away from the mound. I guess because grits (basically ground dried corn) is actually food, they don't have any qualms about eating it or feeding it to the queen. Reminds me of the reason given for not using rice at weddings (use bird seed instead), because the birds eat it, it expands inside and ruptures their stomachs, killing them. JW3HH
they are also a type of life, that tries to survive every episode its given!,.. if water were effective,.. rain would have shut them down millennia ago
This most definitely works. We used a mixture of boric acid, sugar, flour, and onions to kill a cockroach infestation in old house we bought. Rolled them up in balls and threw them under stove, dishwasher, etc. cockroaches were gone!! Watch out for pets though.
This guy created a timelapse video 5years back and I am here with a DSLR doing nothing but eat and shit. Words aren't enough for this man's praise.. 🙌 Keep bringing videos.
@@thefishisraw117 my brother fell face first into a fireant mount near his home and was almost bitten to death by ants. Ants are a danger to children, and pets so don't go around defending something that will kill you in a heartbeat without a second thought about it. If ants are on your territory, causing you discomfort and potentially putting children's lives in danger, you havd every right to get rid of it. Duh they have lives, so did Hitler, so what exactly is your point?
That doesn't end the nests. I've poured many, many gallons of boiling water on fire ant mounds to absolutely no avail. You will never get the queen with boiling water. I've soaked them, and I mean soaked them with gasoline and burned them in every way I could think of or invent. Still, within a month or two, it was like nothing had happened. I finally got rid of one by pumping it full of poison via a long perforated pipe I drove into it. Apparently I accidentally killed the queen, maybe when I drove the pipe in. :):) But boiling water is a very unlikely killer of fire ant beds.
Look, easy method is go to Dollar General Store, get some Palmolive dish soap. Put about an once on the mound followed with 3-4 gallons of water. The soap breaks down the bond in the nest, washes the wax off the ants and they drown. In West Texas and parts of Louisiana, they do this before a rain and let nature wash them away. I tried this on an acre of pasture, had 33 hills. Next morning, had two still active so performed this on my 38 acres and kept the fire ants at bay.
The experts use plain old boiling water. I watched one guy who killed 100 colonies a day, along the road in Florida, using plain boiling water out of a heated tank.
DNA4gaming,... HITF(how in the fuck) are you going to relocate the entire nest? LOL,.. what about the other 15 nests? thats a lot of lemon juice sparkamus maximus
I've found that you want to make the line as long as possible as they just feed around the edges. The stuff in the middle dries up and they don't like it as much. A few drops of water helps rejuvenate it though. Works good!
Ant Gels and Baits also work. They pretty much serve the same purpose. They attack the nerves system and slowly kill the ants, allowing them to take the food back to the colony and share it, and if lucky even give some to the queen, and kills the queen.
i tried ant gels,..it didnt work,.. also amdro did not work,.. but this worked like a charm! its almost as if the ants thought i had made them a special treat!
For those that are unaware B/A works on static cling. An ant/roach attempts to eat or take it back to the folks and it clings to them (and all of the others they pass) and it dries them out. Nothing less than ingenious.
Great post. Like Terra ant killer, the sweet attractant has boric acid which is eaten and then FED TO THE QUEEN, killing the entire colony in a day or two.
I agree, but it doesn't always make it down and kill the plqueen and larvae. After a week they are right back at it. With rubbing alcohol, Once the fire starts it burn everything.
Brad Scott but boiling water wont kill the queen its unlikely either the water would've cooled down before reaching her or it didn't get to her and many of the larvae and some workers will survive
Uh huh> I don't think you even know what an ant mound looks like. You pour hot water in the top and there's a central shaft the water pours straight down. Where the hell does it get cold? I've killed hundreds of mounds of Mississippi fire ants like this, but you go right on, mr know it all. Ciao.
Leave them alone. Why do you feel so entitled to destroy nature. Bullshit. You are worthless. This is why the world has gone to shit. Pour some in your house. Idiot
they attacked my dog,.. sleeping peacefully on the porch,.. it isn't like there aren't TRILLIONS Living in the world, grow up casper,.. get a groove on,.. you're worthless if you think these little cockbags are more entitled to living than your DOG, maybe you ought to order some and sleep with them, and pet them and call them George, get off your "tall cloud" there chief, get grounded,.. maybe try some mindfulness, while you're at it go to the nearest mound and cuddle up with some of these little mofo's
They're FIRE ANTS... go sit in on a mound of them and tell me you think they should be left alone. You're a ditz. They are an invasive species that does not belong here but they came in and they're here to stay. ANYTHING that will kill them by the quadrillions would be welcome.
Go eat your salad, soy boy
i don't think you have Ever been bit by these Ants. Not by 1 ant but by 50 or 100 at a time. there like a army 1 get hurt the whole unit comes to the rescue by biting you over and over and it burns. FIRE ANTS It's why they have that name. I've been bit plenty down south. Kill every one u see they been coming across county for years now & are getting closer to my state. There not you friend.
Invasive species you Jack Wagon!!
Ants in Africa could have eaten that Boric Poisoned Maple Syrup
hahahahahahahahahhaa omg made my day
acid is at 5% because any more will make them not like it
Those ants can strip a dead body to the bone , the driver ants
Ant: I see a ton of my dead comrades around a weird pool of goo, I should eat it also
LOL .... sounds like the same logic people use when voting.
Greg Phillips or Bill Clinton's sex life
Boric acid works slowly over 2 to 3 days. By the time the ants start dying, they've fed the bait to their queens and grubs, and the colony doesn't even know what hit it.
+Milosz Ostrow so all the motionless ants around the puddle were just stuck? not poisoned?
don trump - Some of them simply drown or suffocate in the bait. It happens all the time when I set out bait dishes with a boric acid and sugar solution. The ants crowd the edges of the bait pool so tightly that they push some of their brethren in, and they can't escape.
before you join the hivemind and dislike the video, remember that those ants are a invasive species, so on top of being annoying they damage the eviroment too.
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we are the most invasive creatures there are prove me wrong. Where ever we go we destroy everything out of greed and power. Totally without justification or ever trying to make things right and all you idiots with no IQ feel that's fine. If you do not understand what Im saying because of your exceedingly low IQ or no child left behind program then you are lost and serve no function other than destruction and waste.
@@greytallcloud5695 dude these things are actively hurting the fucking environment?? Ever see the damage the cause when the deplete the soil of nutrients in mega colonies? Nahhh you’re too busy virtue signaling about fucking an invasive ant species, and somehow brought up “humans are the most invasive species” like who the fuck is talking about that? Nice straw-man you’re pulling there buddy
@@GammaFrost1 im not going to argue with stupid people. its evident no matter what proof i put out that you cant change stupid so why would i bother and Id bet your a Donald Dump supporter too!!
I have red ants or fire ants by the thousands all in my trees,my yard,behind my fence line,on my deck around my house. I have tried literally everything I can find at the store and they are still there. They have little highways in my yard where you can walk up and visibly see their paths where they are constantly traveling. I’ve been unable to kill the colony so far after 2 1/2 years and probably between $200-$300 worth of bait and killer and nothing works.
Ants: *bite dog*
Him: “So you have chosen, death”
Dog: **Proceeds to eat ants**
yea,.. no,.. dog needed stiches after the coyote atttack
That was a ballsy fly.
Somewhere, in some place, ants canada is crying in horror...
The queen came out of her Chambers *'Where the hell is everybody'*
3:29 That fly was like "Oh snap this shit is poisoned but I don't speak *Fire Ant*, welp cya guys" lol
"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. "
Michelle Nguyen TAKE THIS W
Yeah Nguyen is a real popular name for Vietnamese people. Look up why, it's a good read. Nothing outrageous, it's just history.
I'm I now going to be called a weebo because I know stuff about Vietnamese people too? xD smh
People need to read more about the world. It used to be called being cultured and worldly...
this is helpful. thank you. people have no idea how annoying and frustrating it is if theres huge colony of fire ants in your yard, i cant even stand in my lawn for 5 seconds my feet and my pets get bitten,
Hey, I'm with you bro! Ants don't even feel pain so its not cruel to kill them :THUMBS UP:
thanks SZ!!
“How to kill fire ant colony”
Hawaii: I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
All the little ants are customers when the pumpkin spice latte came out
People say killing ants is bad and brutal but you have to understand that fire ants are deadly to humans and they are extremely aggressive and dangerous
yeah. they come with torches and put your houses ablaze. damn pesky fire ants.
Yes some say they'll start the next apocalypse
People worrying about the ant's safety really need to screw off. I mean I'm not denying to be rude but you need to get a better sense of reality.
Unless they were an issue to him directly and seriously, there really wasn't a reason to kill them. Ants are very picky about where they live. If they find their home is no longer safe, they will leave.
ExtendNOLife How much did you watch the video and how much do you know about ants? Fire ants are very aggressive, breed like mad, and are very quick to move into places. This guy states he was removing bricks from a yard. What benefit is it to keep them where they have the potential to invade your home?
I hate to kill ANYTHING, even spiders, I try to capture and release any bug I find in my house. but HUMANS COME FIRST! If you have ANYTHING living in your house or yard, ESPECIALLY anything that can KILL YOU, then it has to GO! I am more than willing to carry most bugs outside in my hand or in a cup, but fire ants can KILL HUMANS (google it). So, I think this guy's solution is one of the best ideas out there. MUCH MUCH BETTER than buying toxic chemicals to pour on the ground and let them seep into the local water supply and cause cancer in his community for decades into the future..
I agree, I hate killing spiders since they are good at limiting themselves, kill other potentially dangerous bugs, and are commonly harmless to humans depending on location. Though if it's a black widow, hobo, or anything of that nature it would need to be killed.
Those folks are probably from areas without fire ants. We don't have them here, so I'm taking it on faith that this is actually worth doing.
People will not defend people. But will defend bugs and animals? Gtfoh
humanity,.. pfffft,... meh,.. i feel ya brah
It’s fine to protect humans and insects/animals alike. But these are invasive. I literally keep ants as pets and I do this too. They are highly invasive and any ant taxonomist says to pour boiling water in ut
I think the most easiest way to kill the ants is to get the Flametrower and some CheeseBurger for Bait
Normal ant- "what are you doing over there man?"
Fire ant- "You know, just climbing over the piles of my dead friends, to get a drink of what just killed of them"
Normal ant- "uhhh.... Alright then, you do you man"
RIP that fly who was caught in the crossfire
The Governor glad someone caught that 😂😂😂
So I just mixed some of this up and set it on an ant hill. Now they are knocking on my door wanting pancakes and bacon. WHAT DO I DO!?!?!
Give them some pancakes, but BACON is for those who pay rent!
give them a day or 2 they will no longer be knocking at your door,.. or make pancakes with boric acid!
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Molten copper poured down the nest will kill all of them and you keep a real nice work of art
octavio, aluminum is cheaper and may melt at a lower temp.
3:29 The fly: 'Oooh can i have sum of dis stuff pls?!'
Ants: 'NOOOOOOOOOOOO'
the fly: 'aw.. ok bye'
I live in the deep south, and any time ants gather to feast in moderate numbers, I can see tiny phorid flies attacking them. They "sting" the ants, which is actually depositing an egg. The egg hatches, and the tiny maggot eventually kills the ant from the inside. The non-native phorid flies were released into the wild probably by TAMU, and I hope there is no collateral damage.
What kinds of ants are you seeing them on? Chances are you're looking at Red invasive fire ants. The phorid flies are just a possible solution to them, and they aren't even terribly effective.
Hey O.P. Yep, it's Argentina fire ants. No, the little flies aren't terribly effective, but then what is? It's fun to watch the fire ants freak out when they get an egg deposited into their thorax, and fun to watch them laboriously cover up their food so they can eat it in relative safety from the spearing flies. Don't know if you have seen the flies, but they're about the size of this comma , about 1/4 the size of a worker ant. I imagine they make the ants less efficient foragers, but it will take more than that to make a dent in this vicious, invasive alien species.
As an antkeeper I agree that you kill them there invasive and their stings are a pain in the ass!
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Hahaha look at them climbing over the mountain of bodies to get at it! It's like the battle of the bastards from Game of Thrones hahaha
Todd, you need to make sure the Queen gets a taste of this. What would be interesting is to be able to see close up the ants as they chow down...
I'm with you bro, I can feel you. My room is full of ants and I don't even bring food into the room. Daily I wake up from these things biting me😡 For me borax is like a god gifted item 😂 I have no issue with the small black ants as they don't bite and they disappear very quickly..but the sugar ants I despise. And I can't believe there are people defending these creatures 😂😂
no, you poor fly, NOOOOOoooo
What's that white stuff growing in the top right of the speed lapse?
Heh. That's called "The Sun" :-)
Fracture
Well I live in the UK, so I've forgotten what that looks like :D
+Larry Bundy Jr L
i think thats just sunlight lol
semen
ants canada would be PISSED
Akirato jupp
Akirato yes he would
Akirato lol I just came from one of his videos on fire ants.
Akirato totally
haha i came here from his vid
Anyone else find it hilarious how Peter Grun said the author of this video and people like him have "too much time on their hands" yet he has the time to shit all over the comments section? Thanks for pinning the thread Todd and the laughs that came with it.
Guys stop getting mad over this guy killing little dots. There’s millions still on this earth, it’s not like their an endangered species
More like trillions
Not mad but its idiotic. People destroy everything then they are trying to make art of it it is sickening. Everything has a purpose as we are allmpart of a ecological system and people attitudes need to change if we and everything else is to survive. Were doing our damn best to destroy the planet. It starts with shot like this.
@@greytallcloud5695 LMAO imagine defending ants using the words 'ecological system' when they're an invasive species that captures land everywhere they go and RUIN the eco system
@@greytallcloud5695 HAHAHAHA i just noticed you're the clown that told the vid poster that he's destroying nature when the ants literally almost killed his dog
These mf ants bite me up everywhere I go. Kill them!
Must be weird to be an ant. "Hey everyone that has come here to try and eat this is now dead but I'm gunna walk over their bodies because I want to eat some"
I grew up Cajun and as a rule, we love to show off our pain tolerance with dares. I was about 10 and my cousins and I had this great idea to see who could stand in the fire ant hill the longest. I'll never forget my feet covered in fire ants and me walking into my grandparents house, trailing ants, and asking to use the shower. I was in so much pain that I was in a daze. I think I might've puked lol.
P.S. nobody did that stupid dare other than me. It was always like that!
WOW! great story mande,.. and to think we have idiots here defending fire ant lives LOL
did it increase your tolerance? But Please be careful! If you don't already know.
Anyone who has ever had a colony of these dangerous little bastards infiltrating their lawn and house will thank you for this.
I don't know how anybody can thumbs down for this video it showed you everything step-by-step not just the before and after but the before during and after -- that was beautiful.
thank you
very much
some people like ants,... I know,.. they haven't laid down in a bed with them and hugged them tightly nor have they been attacked by a swarm of wild fire ants
you can feel how fucking mad he is at those ants lmaoo
I never knew I would find another fan of kpop on these videos
"Under-subterranean-homes" - Todd Anderson 2015
I love these videos. All the ants are always like "OMFG JACKPOT!!! Some mysterious creature just dropped enough food for all of.. cough cough cough... Jim... are you o...."
LOL! very funny! it takes about 12 hours for them to really start to feel the effects of the kool aid,.. but stay away after that,.. boy they run around all kinds of pissed off
I was in Texas for the last couple years and then when Harvey hit I lost all my shit so I worked at a ranch to get the loot to come home, so last summer I was working outside burning shit (which means grabbing logs they hide under) and painting a fence (which means stepping on their goddamn invisible mounds!) so we became very intimate friends! I seriously went from two years of hating mosquitoes to "fuck, just gimme the mosquitoes 24/7 over these things!!!" Now I'm back in Oregon where the only thing we have are sugar ants that don't really bother anyone and that are easy to deal with by cleaning up after yourself.
We actually were setting up for a Halloween party when the owner finally went and bought some poison to sprinkle on the hills. Guests not getting violated by ants are more important than employees... but at least I finally got to get a little revenge!
to bad you didn't have this trick back them,.. they would have all been gone!
trust me this stuff is magic,.. after about 8 hours they start running around like CRAZY! but after that they start twitching and roll up into little sand dunes LOL
I'm an animal rights activist and all that... but they're fuckin' ants. Insects are essentially automatons in the sense that they operate on instinct, but aren't sentient.
Insects react to negative stimuli in the same way bacteria and plants do, which is referred to as nociception. It's not the same thing as pain. They have no evolutionary reason to feel pain or suffering.
So even if people were killing ants for no good reason, upbraiding them for it would be like scolding someone for weeding their garden or washing their hands with antibacterial soap.
I'm glad that you people are so full of empathy for living things, but it's seriously misplaced.
I’m like “Oh so their obviously not going to go to the syrup because they see their friends...”
*i was very wrong*
Thank you for this.In the past I have had to use tiny threads to individually strangle each ant and it takes a really long fkn time.
yes it would take an awful lot of tiny thread too
Sadly it did.
*****
LOL,.. that must have been expensive!
It was,I had a whole team of silkworms but the ants kept eating them.
*****
LOL! have to breed them faster!
I live in Europe and we don't have those ants here. It's 2:15AM and I'm watching a video on how to get rid of them. Might come in handy, might not.
knowledge is always helpful! and it works with most ants,.. not just fire ants,.. also works with roaches
Horse ants my friend.. Terrible, damned horse ants...
if the ants are protein eaters,.. then you can mix the boric acid with grits or cornmeal or peanut butter for different flavors,.. but making the boric acid water soluble is a key factor
When I'm watching its 2:25 AM OMG
"And it all changed when the fire nation attacked"
Hj B "black knights,golden empire,air raiders,fire nation"
Gibuswagen wow ants Canada people here :D
Blood Gush wait youre also a subscriber to him? AWESOME
baking soda and suger works well also I put pots of that mixed owirj suger and tonight I found 200 dead. ants in one area
10/10 fire nations from ants canada were triggered by this
oh my god
I love fire nations but I'm triggered every time I get an ant bite. It's such a mixed feeling. I hate them but Fire Nations is okay.
Not me , I prefer less harmful ants . Fire ants are for the pros
Yay! It worked. We recently moved to a smaller neighborhood and our property butts up to the common area. I was stung and so was my neighbor. She told me it was fire ants. I mixed up a batch but never saw any ants eating it. She had contacted the HOA and reported it and today the guy came out. He said he didn't see any ants where we laid our bait. He did find more in other places and he treated them. Thank you for showing us how to take care of the problem for ourselves.
WOW,.. too bad you didnt see any eating it,... hope it was actually my poison that worked for you!
Lol. even the fly wanted a sip.
Thank you so much there where ants invading my home and your method wiped them out.
Again thank you so much
Omran Al Qubaisi thank you omran for saying that! I am sure that there are still doubters out there
*AntCanada has left the chat*
that ha after saying the old mcdonalds syrup was amazingly funny
Def didnt talk to much. He explained what he was doing so i enjoyed the video as it was. Good job
thanks alpay! I try not to blabber too much! TY for the comment!
It's the principle to alien species we are ants there probably a million years ahead of us how would you like if they came down and built a house over yours and you you made renovations that moved something on your there lawn and you been there first to them you got the brain of a ant then they press a button and destroy you would you like no of course not until and I'm sure you're a animal lover you sound like a nice guy but I always say until each and every human on this earth respects gods creatures from a elephant to a ant a mino to a whale a pigeon to a eagle the skys will never open up and god or the alien s will never accept us as a galactic partner or god giving us are wings back and this great big test we call life will be over with I don't discriminate black white Hispanic Asian Indian young old I'm pointing out things to save as many creatures on earth as I can it's only a drop in the ocean don't take it personal
Frederick,.. punctuaton is important!,.. I lived there for 20 years before they attacked my dog.
I like how the video is blowing up two years later lmao
its been blowing up for 2 years LOL
My wife loves the new syrup recipe, its delicious!
THANKS!
lmaoo
With today's technology, why don't we create nano-ants robots, introduce then into an ant colony and let them start an ant-war.
pett pette better yet. Have an online gaming community with remote controlled ant size warriors attacking the queen and colony.
Marvel Studio already created one. Try and contact Disney.
It's so funny to see people get triggered over people killing ANTS. There's probably more ants than people in the world
there is thousands of times more ants than people in the world
Todd Anderson haha did you know to Boric acid can catch fire. Put some fire and blow boric acid in them.
Roman Bellic the mass of the total people on the planet is almost as much as the mass off all ants
you can imagine how many are there
Its so funny to see Roman Bellic comment on this video
Todd Anderson I read that there is either 10,000 or 100.000 ants for one human being. So I don't mind them dying. Since I'm in Australia the summer can be hot and ant come into your house, my room was filled with ants for weeks they were everywhere it is like a nightmare I couldn't even sleep properly Because I feared that ants would come into my nose or ears.
The ants can't understand you because you're speaking too slowly? :)
in their terms of time,.. yes i was speaking slowly,.. time is relevant to size, a fruit fly lives for 3 days,.. you think they have a concept of time? or does their day just consist of their childhood,... something to ponder on.... there was a star trek episode on the concept of time and hearing everything correctly,.. not only that, but ants dont understand english XD
Thats a cool concept...thanks for the thought.
time is but a revelation of man, an invention so to speak as time is not relevant to any other being, if we are speaking in terms of brain size, we are also discussing relevant time from brain cell to brain cell,.. if you look at a bird zipping thru trees,.. there brain works much faster than ours because its smaller
actually the reason they can't hear you is because the wavelength of your voice is actually physically too large for them to be able to hear. it would just feel like a rumble to them.
It rather seems to me that time is a fundamental characteristic of the universe. Chemical reactions have limits in how fast they can happen, we have the speed of light, and other inherent limits in how fast things can happen in our universe. To me that points to time being built into the fabric of the universe.
Our perception of time may change though.
People here defending fire ants, sure you can have a controlled colony of them at your home as a hobby but do know that actual fire ants out there are dangerous and destructive. You'd think they are easy to control because you have a pet colony but I recommend you to take a stroll near an actual natural mound and see for yourself if they are anything like your pet fire ants. I am not hating on those who have pet fire ants but comparing your tiny colony to a mound that can house thousands to millions of them and attack all at once is laughable.
Todd, I watched this vid quite some time ago and your newer one today. I live in Cambodia so boric acid is not easy to come by in roach poison and as far as I know there isn't any fire ants but there are a gang of small household ants. The scouts love to get into bed with you and bite. Also in your stored clothes. However, on my last trip to AZ in May I picked up a container of boric acid at Walmart (spec order $11 for 6oz) as you can't transport poison on aircraft (TSA). I make my own Maple syrup using sugar, water and maple flavoring. I eliminated four different colonies (red & black) using your recipe. I noticed my pantry ones passed up my white sugar and went for the brown sugar and syrup. The ones coming from of the balcony (red) wouldn't climb into the container so I put some drops on the floor near the balcony and their trail as I made mine a little more liquid than a paste. Once the were waxed the black ones took over their position. Took about 3 days to eliminate them completely. Next were some more reds that wanted to hang at my BR sink. Dead. A colony of reds were in the kitchen and they took to the bait and not in great numbers but after a short time they stopped coming. Not sure what happened to them but hey........! My friend from the Philippines tried your mixture on his mom's fire ants in Mississippi but he told me that it didn't work. Maybe technique?
hiya lionel,.. you dont have to use very much boric acid in the mixture,.. if you use too much it will be bitter and they wont "take the bait" i am sure that boric acid can be sent via mail,.. next time you come to the USA,.. you can buy some here and send it thru the mail to your address,.. different ants like different meals,.. but the boric acid is the key to it all,.. you could even make cookies for them to eat, they sometimes like flour and peanut butter,.. mix up some birc acid with that and leave the cookie outside for them to scarf up and take away, maple flavoring would not be as good as the real thing, they like the brown sugar because of the molasses content,.. natural!,.. flavoring isnt as good as the real thing, find out what they like to eat (besides you) and feed it to them with the boric acid,.. they will die! good luck!
If you can't find boric acid, can you get a cleaning product that contains borax? Also called sodium borate, it is found in many cleaning products and detergents (20 Mule Team Borax is a popular one in the USA). It will work just about as well as boric acid for killing ants. Instead of syrup you can also mix it with powdered sugar.
Grits are the best. They even carry the grits to the queen. When the ants drink water they pop.
Hmm! Never heard that one, but it's worth a shot! I've tried Amdro, but I think the ants have figured it out: They just take the Amdro pellets and move them far away from the mound. I guess because grits (basically ground dried corn) is actually food, they don't have any qualms about eating it or feeding it to the queen.
Reminds me of the reason given for not using rice at weddings (use bird seed instead), because the birds eat it, it expands inside and ruptures their stomachs, killing them.
JW3HH
how to kill a fire ant colony
dump a whole bucket of water in the colony
get it water beats fire? 😂
boiling water
It won’t do anything to the main colony, which could be 10 ft underground. It’ll only make them mad.
Fire ants are a fire type. Water is extremely effective.
they are also a type of life, that tries to survive every episode its given!,.. if water were effective,.. rain would have shut them down millennia ago
now SOAPY water,.. with dawn might have been an effective treatment!
Blastoise oughtta do it.
Ralph Vermolen Lol I don't think he got the joke
I know lol
I like the fast action. You can see the mixture being slowly overwhelmed by ants
I used to do stuff like this as a kid. Made a potion once that literally made fire ants explode somehow.
RikkiTikkiTavi nice!!
now that would be cool to know!!
A bottle in one hand and exploding ants on the other. Keep me busy for hours.
Please send recipe!
RIP fly you will be remembered
he is mentioned often!
Why am I watching this? I live in a flat on the 16th floor in a city...
maybe one day you wont live there anymore?
Its interesting haha. Somewhat satisfying
Can also be a goofy neighbor thing. Want some Borax with honey.
Guess what, you have ants! Unless you're in the artic, you have ants!!!
This most definitely works. We used a mixture of boric acid, sugar, flour, and onions to kill a cockroach infestation in old house we bought. Rolled them up in balls and threw them under stove, dishwasher, etc. cockroaches were gone!! Watch out for pets though.
Rip fly Oct 26 - nov 15 2015
Ikr
Who knows? Maybe it works like ecstasy on the fly. And he's still dancing.
Flies have like 3 day life spans. if i fly lived that long, it would be like a human living 300+ years
Nope sir the average life span of a housefly is anything between 15 to 30 days , depends on temperature a.d other factors
Coolyo Coolyo actually I don't know a thing about this
local man does nothing wrong and everyone hates him, many such cases
Ant 1: whats this? *ded*
Ant 2: oh he died
Lets eat it
This guy created a timelapse video 5years back and I am here with a DSLR doing nothing but eat and shit.
Words aren't enough for this man's praise.. 🙌
Keep bringing videos.
check out my old stuff,.. wisdom never dies
@@thedesertartist On them.
Your channel is a goldmine.
Takes one idiot ant to lead the rest to death
Ever heard of the "Spiral of Death"?
Why are there so many people defending the ants...
I also don't understand. I wonder if they still act the same when their house has an ant plague that disturbs their comfort.
Weirdos
They have life like us idiot 🖕🏿🖕🖕🏿🖕😑🖕🏿😑🖕🏿😑
@GM Foda what if you had a brain?
@@thefishisraw117 my brother fell face first into a fireant mount near his home and was almost bitten to death by ants. Ants are a danger to children, and pets so don't go around defending something that will kill you in a heartbeat without a second thought about it. If ants are on your territory, causing you discomfort and potentially putting children's lives in danger, you havd every right to get rid of it. Duh they have lives, so did Hitler, so what exactly is your point?
I live in south Georgia, lot of fire ants. I just boil very hot water and pour to the holes.
Lmao
is it good there?
That doesn't end the nests. I've poured many, many gallons of boiling water on fire ant mounds to absolutely no avail. You will never get the queen with boiling water. I've soaked them, and I mean soaked them with gasoline and burned them in every way I could think of or invent. Still, within a month or two, it was like nothing had happened.
I finally got rid of one by pumping it full of poison via a long perforated pipe I drove into it. Apparently I accidentally killed the queen, maybe when I drove the pipe in. :):)
But boiling water is a very unlikely killer of fire ant beds.
+zxzrp0
HA! thats funny shit there!
Look, easy method is go to Dollar General Store, get some Palmolive dish soap. Put about an once on the mound followed with 3-4 gallons of water. The soap breaks down the bond in the nest, washes the wax off the ants and they drown. In West Texas and parts of Louisiana, they do this before a rain and let nature wash them away. I tried this on an acre of pasture, had 33 hills. Next morning, had two still active so performed this on my 38 acres and kept the fire ants at bay.
Mike Jones Gonna try this. Got several hundred mounds in pasture.
This sounds like an ant horror story about how a colony found gold but was cursed by it
sounds like a great cartoon! LOL
the idiots saying it's cruel.. apparently never been attacked by them.
Pat Patton attacked? You think ants attack?
Bach Frog these are fire ants dumbass.
RUclips is dying ok, you still have to provoke them
They are Soo adorable , only a sicko would kill em 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
The experts use plain old boiling water. I watched one guy who killed 100 colonies a day, along the road in Florida, using plain boiling water out of a heated tank.
All I could think of was all these ants saying "Thanks man" like you did them a solid.
3:20
when you offer your friend a piece of gum at school
Why all the dislikes?? Fire ants are an invasive species and need to be killed in some scenarios.
DNA4gaming,... HITF(how in the fuck) are you going to relocate the entire nest? LOL,.. what about the other 15 nests? thats a lot of lemon juice sparkamus maximus
+dna4gaming
do you use your brain when you think thou?
How the hell are you suppose to relocate them!?
How do you relocate? Simple. You blow up the entire earth, leaving no one left alive. The ants are relocated to hell where they belong.
The worker ants that survived got a big promotion!
none survived a taste of that stuff
I've found that you want to make the line as long as possible as they just feed around the edges. The stuff in the middle dries up and they don't like it as much. A few drops of water helps rejuvenate it though. Works good!
That's a great idea!
Ant Gels and Baits also work. They pretty much serve the same purpose. They attack the nerves system and slowly kill the ants, allowing them to take the food back to the colony and share it, and if lucky even give some to the queen, and kills the queen.
i tried ant gels,..it didnt work,.. also amdro did not work,.. but this worked like a charm! its almost as if the ants thought i had made them a special treat!
That is so cruel, isn't it?
Kameraden umm... does it hurt?
Ants Canada would not approve
DatCarrotDoe well this is America
W I N
+010steveo 😂I guess
How to really kill *Fire* Ants: *Wash* them away.
Fire ants cant drown you idiot do some research or think twice before commenting.
For those that are unaware B/A works on static cling. An ant/roach attempts to eat or take it back to the folks and it clings to them (and all of the others they pass) and it dries them out. Nothing less than ingenious.
Wow this is so satisfying to watch. I fuckin hate these fuckin fire ants.
When people defend bugs
ants canada is crying right now
I keep ants but I agree if you have a reason to remove them remove them
well its official, the Ant didn't die from poison but died by having diabetes.
maple syrup wont give you diabetes,.. its very healthy! they had a gourmet meal for their last one!
Their bites have a sort of poison in it that makes the bites very painful.
'Live by the sword (poisoned bites), die by the sword (poisoned back)!'
Great post. Like Terra ant killer, the sweet attractant has boric acid which is eaten and then FED TO THE QUEEN, killing the entire colony in a day or two.
Todd Anderson: it’s easy and simple
Me : it true
Me watching mumbo jumbo
Mumbo : well it’s easy
Me: no
I found a simple pot of boiling water fixes the problem for good. No chemicals, no cleanup.
Brad Scott actually 70% rubbing alcohol and a match works best in my opinion.
Water is (essentially) free, and it doesn't cost a buck to heat a pot when you have a water heater full of the stuff.
I agree, but it doesn't always make it down and kill the plqueen and larvae. After a week they are right back at it. With rubbing alcohol, Once the fire starts it burn everything.
Brad Scott but boiling water wont kill the queen its unlikely either the water would've cooled down before reaching her or it didn't get to her and many of the larvae and some workers will survive
Uh huh> I don't think you even know what an ant mound looks like. You pour hot water in the top and there's a central shaft the water pours straight down. Where the hell does it get cold?
I've killed hundreds of mounds of Mississippi fire ants like this, but you go right on, mr know it all. Ciao.
Sounding like SURFS UP - BIG Z
HAHA! Even a fly got down and had a taste, she's fucking dead!