Just a note, it was pretty difficult to find clips of every exact species mentioned so they’re are gonna be points in the video where the animal I’m talking about isn’t the exact species being shown, like with the snail part. In that case, the animal shown was a close enough relative to still convey my point. Just clarifying to avoid any confusion.
Ironic enough, Death Spiral is what doctors call the very last stage of the life. Once it starts, there is no way back, you're already in the process of shutting down your systems forever.
Once I watched a video on how ants took over another ant colony, stole eggs, decapitated and killed their queen, I honestly was hoping that if I died I wouldn’t be recarinated as an ant
I will forever remember the war I witnessed between two different ant species in grandma's old house in the country. There had always been a species of small ants there, which I will call minis, that mostly kept out of sight, minding their ant business, but a few years back, for a few months there had been a steady increase of another species of much bigger ants I will call giants, like 3-4 times the size of the small ones, and these were a lot bolder, climbing our tables and other outdoor furniture. For context, we were on a veranda/balcony two stories above the actual yard, as the house was basically built on a cliff. One morning I went to the balcony and noticed there were a lot more minis than usual, in thick marching lines, climbing the plants that wrapped around the columns from the yard to the balcony to the plant canopy that shaded the balcony, and I could see them converge on specific spots. On closer look these spots were the giants, surrounded by minis biting and tearing at them. Each mini the giants killed two more would take its place. On the balcony wall, on the vases, on the plant canopy above my head. It was a merciless battlefield, and it was carnage. Giants running as fast as they could only to run into another column of minis who promptly tore into them, tripping and falling from the railings, falling from the canopy in balls of minis surrounding a giant and splatting on the floor. I followed one giant, as the minis latched onto it and tore it apart, legs, antennas. The giant fought for its life, and there was a ring of dead minis around it, but it was overwhelmed. You can't fight a horde solo. It moved slower and slower under the attack until it stopped, and the minis dispersed, looking for the next giant, until it dared twitch and it was swarmed again, and left with even less of a corpse. This battle lasted the whole day. And to top off this insanity, around noon as I was observing I saw a fat bee and a wasp also fall from the canopy and fall to the ground with an audible _thunk_ with the wasp stinging the ever living shit out of the bee until it stopped moving, and the wasp carried the bee away with a super loud buzzing of wings, because as I said it was a fat bee. The next day the balcony was littered with ant corpses. I never saw a single giant there again. Moral of the story: nature is hardcore.
I recently started ant keeping and the world of ants is really fascinating. I could watch them for hours just around my house. I've seen a few ant wars & they're vicious. For the record - ants don't splat. They are too small to build up the terminal velocity to be damaged by a fall like that...but what you were probably seeing with the twitching was the formic acid spray they use to paralyze & kill their victims. Some species of ant (I think Florida?) collect the skulls of trap draw ants to decorate their nests with....possibly to scare off other ant species. There's also slave raiders - ants that attack other nests, steal their brood (babies), and raise them as their own but treat them like slaves. Sometimes the slaves will have uprisings. Then there's parasitic queens that acquire the colony's scent & infiltrate it to murder their queen and take her place, forcing the colony to raise her brood until the workers from the original species eventually die off entirely & all that is left is the parasitic colony. Basically everything these guys do is hardcore...and the wasp/bee thing you mentioned - that's cool too, because ants probably evolved from wasps. Ants are like mini wasps without the wings.
A cool note about the feeding eachother thing, theres a species of ant called the Honeypot ant. In most species, worker ants have a stomach called a Work Stomach that is meant to hold food instead of digest it, but Honeypots take it to the next level. Their work stomachs can expand MASSIVELY, and certain individuals will turn themselves into a living pantry for their fellow ants. This is so the colony doesn't starve when food becomes to scarce or dangerous to gather since they live mostly in very arid deserts. They pantry ants basically get to sit at home being cared for by the colony until they need to ration out the nectar they've been holding onto. They aren't harmed in the process, but while their stomachs are gorged they can't really move a whole lot and can't defend themselves very well. They end up looking like a ball with an ant's body attached to it.
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned but there are also spiders that either produce the same pheromones to trick ants into not attacking them while the spider eats the larvae, or some jumping spiders that have evolved ant-like bodies to mimic the appearance and pheromones of an ant, to the point where the spider will even move its first pair of legs around to mimic the appearance of ant antennae. The spider does this to feed on the ants and ant larvae.
@@billhicks808 naw fuck that noise. that's LOSER talk. only the weak and cowardly give in to death and despair. one should live to LIVE, as survival is the means to which all else is achieved. fight against the encroaching twilight so that you may see the glory of the coming dawn. to sink to hedonism is the true death, and mere sour grapes to salve the weak. humanity endures and has survived many horrors before incomprehensible to modern sensibilities.
That ant spiral is actually terrifying. Essentially blind, lost and trying to find your way but only able to follow someone on the exact same situation
Correction, the blue butterfly's larvae actually eats ant grubs. In fact they can potentially knock an entire colony down because of how often it eats and it can stay like that for 2 whole years. There's footage of it eating ant brood too from the video you got those clips from.
I saw a video about that and immediately started searching for ways to ship blue butterfly larvae to my house. I live on this really clayey soil in a neighborhood of about a square mile total, and we all live on top of this horrendous mega ant colony complex.
An interesting thing about the cordyceps fungus, it seems that the fungus grows its own replacement of the nervous system in order to move the ant, and it buts out the signals from the ant brain. Basically the brain is still alive and conscious, but no longer has control of its body. Absolutely horrifying, and im glad that the fungus cant affect humans.
@@Anon26535 Ants have around 250,000 neurons on average, the average human has about 86 billion. Our nervous systems are far too complex for Cordyceps fungi to infiltrate in the way that they can do with insects and spiders.
I never knew what a death spiral was until today. Sounds and looks like something you'd see in a horror film that is trying to convey an abstract message.
"Death spiral" is also what the courtship of the bald eagle is called. The pair fly up to high altitudes, lock talons and begin to fall while spinning. They let go just before they hit the ground!(if they're skilled enough...) This is done both for courtship reasons or territorial fighting.
There's an animated short by Steve Cuts called "Happiness" that shows something similar to that, except with featuring anthropomorphized rats instead of ants.
Love your fast-paced narration and deadpan delivery of jokes. Also love the selection of topics you're dealing with. Thanks for making it so entertaining!
That assassin bug wearing ants like armour is the most metal thing I’ve seen in a while. An ants’ life is basically a tug of war between Game of Thrones and cosmic horror.
Assassin bug armour is for camoflauge if you want an insect that literally uses the corpses of its enemies as armour then look into a close relative of the antlion, the lacewing. That family of bugs knows exactly how to mess with ants.
Amm, mind you humans do this from antient times. Kill an animal and wear it's dead body for beauty(often several bodies at the same time) reasons or decorate thair layer with it. We even evolved to have no our own fur for as prevalent it is. We basically enslaving other species for the sole reason to kill them and wear their caracas, not even eating it
Thought I recognized since Metroid music, but couldn't place where it was from. Lots of Prime's soundtrack works for these videos, exploring an alien world
@@mndiaye_97 can you do another spotted hyena on its hierarchy, from an article on "𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴" and "𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴" by hyena project
@@Sirpigeon-kb1fu I would tell you nifty ant facts to cheer you up. Like that the total mass of all ants on the planet is 7× greater that all the humans. Or that ants have been on every continent (except Antarctica) since the continents became a thing.🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜
@Nicholas Scott There is a comparison! You'd also look like that if you were dragged to the immense pressure in the deep ocean. It'd be a reverse effect since blobfish don't look like that when they're alive lol
Just another reason not tp use ticktok. Man, remember when freedom of speech existed on the internet? Now we have to find workarounds to words we've been using in real life since the beginning of time.
Honestly no kidding!! Especially when nothing is really on screen. Compare that to the amount of videos and movies that jumpscare vomit with no warning just for the shock of it
@@stealthlock6634 For real it's not even funny it's just gross. I don't have emetophobia thankfully because it sounds so horrible but vomit is still absolutely disgusting and idk why so many pieces of media just have it out of the blue.
Emetophobia? What's the worst that could happen besides you also throwing up? A chain reaction of people throwing up? and all it would take is a single video...
@@UsernameDoesntCare Vomiting is just kinda uncomfortable to watch or listen to. Especially if it comes out of nowhere and sprays all over the camera or another character. Gross out humor, y’know
And i'm amazed at the information that they not only can get squad killed by their own colony, but that they'll devise plans of escape in case such a scenario starts to happen. The ant life really looking like an actual present-day dystopia.
Here's a not-so-fun fact about cordyceps; it doesn't actually do all that much to the brains of its hosts. It instead opts to control their muscles like some demented sock puppeteer from hell. This means that its victims are effectively prisoners in their own bodies, fully cognizant of what's happening to them but unable to resist the parasite's influence.
It has to do with insect bodies. Their limbs move by flushing them with blood, its alot easier for a bug to induce bloodflow to certain parts of the body than literal mind control right? Crazy shit though, being able to walk them around like in a video game
The ratchet and clank music in the background halfway through the video really got me and threw me back to a very specific time where I’d be fighting the mechanical dogs and the red guys that shoot at you. I would complete the planet and get clank his flying gear but never saved the game or always over road save, so for months that was the farthest I ever got in the game
The ways you avoid saying death is really funny, "Cross themself off the census" "Self subtraction" "Until your number eventually gets called" life must really suck for ants if you need that many unique death messages
If I had a nickel for every organism that turns ants into zombies in order to reproduce, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication 🙃 I appreciate you leaving the note about the difficulty find photos or videos about some so that's respect for your subscribers/fans😁
I think him moving to RUclips so he can make more long-form content was a great decision for him so he can take more time to get into detail about a certain animal, set of animals, a particular type of animal behavior, or whatever else without being limited to just the 60 seconds that Tik-Tok gives. I feel like this format and platform also helps give him more time and opportunities to show off his talent and creativity more.
That's what happens when the systems they rely on for awareness are so rudimentary. It's like the ants are easily hacked little robots. You give them the correct signal and they do the thing.
One fascinating thing I've learned about the Alcon blue butterfly larvae and their parasitic relationship with the ants is that over time, some ant colonies that suffered from this actually wise up to this trick and change their larva chemicals to defend against the alcon blue imposters, so the two species are constantly trying to outwit each other with their pheromone games. Wikipedia says it's a kind of evolutionary 'arms race' between the two species. It actually sounds kinda cool xD.
When I was younger I was obsessed/fascinated by Ants. I loved watching Ants Canada and trying to start colonies myself😂. Didnt really know how bad they have it! The animal kingdom is oddly fascinating yet terrifying and we still have a long way to go in our journey of attempting to understand it.
Fun fact: In the Animorphs book series (basis of the series and infamous transformers toys), an ant that happened to be on the leg of one of the Animorphs after crawling on a magguffin that granted animorph powers would partially turn into her, it started screaming as it attacked her. Meanwhile in an earlier book, the group almost go crazy while they were termites for a mission
One side point: the Transformers series isn’t based on Animorphs. The Japanese Transformers toys etc. predate it by a decade. And they’re quite different otherwise - aliens that transform being the one main point, but with a focus on technology rather than animals.
@@harsimaja9517 I never said it was, the animorphs toyline was made by Hasbro, consisting of human figures of the kids that turned into animals, their was even a t-rex combiner and a visser three figure
Ditto. I jumped at every tickly sensation and random pokey hair strand I felt on my skin for the entire video (still am, actually), but it was so horrifying and interesting that I had to keep watching anyway.
Eh, still not as bad as when I found a literal spider just chilling in my bed at 4am (bad sleep schedule lol). I’m pretty sure it was actually asleep when I found it because it was curled up and started to uncurl itself when I poked it with the edge of my hanger a few times. Managed to coax it into a small cardboard box previously used for a soap bar and relocated it to a nearby plant. It was red and the size of a quarter but, thankfully, very cooperative. Ended up staying up due to feeling phantom crawling on my legs all night 🙃
@pegged yourdad Did You know spiders are almost blind? They rely on vibrations to navigate the world. They are also terrified of Humans, or at least of our breathing. I might be a little biased, though, ‘cause I have a pet Tarantula, and used to collect spiders in Jars alot(I was wierd and shy as a child).
@@TaylorPhelan-n2w I didn’t know they were nearly blind and navigated that way, but I do know they’re terrified of humans. I guess I should’ve mentioned that I wasn’t sleeping in my bed at the time and was checking my bed since I’d been gone for a few days. I also have nothing against spiders and several different species of jumping spiders and a few different species of house spiders just chilling in my house, I just done want them on me, near me, or anywhere on or near my bed, everywhere else in the house is fine.
Man, that ending got me. I am in a death spiral. I do need to leave the house and do something else. I can feel myself going absolutely nowhere in life.
Strive to do better by all means but always remember you may not be where you want to be but be thankful that you aren't where you could be because it could always be worse so give yourself a little grace and appreciate where you are while working towards more ❤
Hang in there. My last post was to a site whose topic was racism. "Instead of ending racism, lets just end it all. All these petty issues will be resolved during tne ApocalypseI said, I'm tired of this"
Love your deadpan humor and all the creative ways you find to say “dead”. Also, despite your humorous delivery it’s clear you’re genuinely fascinated by nature and biology and your enthusiasm is infectious. I really like your channel.
I spent, like, 20 minutes today watching a bunch of ants going in and out of a hole and carrying things. It was so fascinating and then you go and upload a video about them! Crazy! 😅 Edit: ALSO! Thank you so much for the emetophobia warning! People usually forget to do that and it sucks, but you’re awesome! ❤
Man, hearing the original Ratchet and Clank music was a trip down memory lane. Such a great gaming series. His knowledge of animals is great but even better knowing he likes great games :)
Ants are quite fascinating. Please do one on the most team player species on the planet Argentine Ant. They are literally ants that can and will accept members of other colonies. There are cases which you can take an Argentine ant from Brazil and drop them off to a Argentine ant colony in India and they will get along with each other. The ant from Brazil will automatically work with the ants in India and will share food and work together peacefully. I sometimes call them Hippy ants because of their cooperative nature.
It's abstract to humans since bugs are so small, but on their scale, in their tiny domain it's really a brutal kill or be killed battle royale of horrific exoskeletal beasts ripping each other to shreds. I'd have preferred that version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids where it's just 90 minutes of running and screaming
It was interesting to learn what he said about the US importing those flies that eat the ants brains from the inside out - I know insects are essentially automatons more akin to simple instinct than emotion and complex thought, but good lord that seems... unseemly. Morally I'm not a fan
I once put a ladybird/ladybug on a plant to watch it eat an aphid. It grabbed the poor thing by it's back, and proceeded to chew it in half, as the aphid waved it's legs, desperately trying to escape. All the other aphids ran away in fear. That was one of the many experiences that proved to me that insects are definitely sentient.
For whatever reason,bugs scare me WAY less when they're on a screen like my Samsung. Also,are we just going to ignire that Meatcanyon bot in the comments???
@@chee.rah.monurB yeah they’re pretty much on every comment at this point. Sadly I can’t say the same for being less scared of bugs when they’re on my Samsung screen
6:20 one thing that you forgot to mention about this creature is that it will often actually eat the ant colony, including the little baby ants, still without being noticed by any of the members of the colony. I saw in a documentary that one of these caterpillars was able to wipe out the entire colony that took it in, and grow by like twice its size. It was so gross but morbidly intriguing
The Army ants death spiral reminded me of the Medieval dancing sickness. Being blindly lost in movement with no sense of purpose or rhyme to reason, just acting until you give out to the limitations of your body as your life is carried away by whoever or whatever's been waiting for you in the next plane of existence...
Thanks for that message at the end. I'm getting sober right now and realizing that life is and has been very dull for a while (not boring, just flat). Sometimes a reminder that you can be the shakeup you need is appreciated.
I'm from the Philippines, and when I was a kid my cousins and I would find these little pits in the sand, use a stick to stir around for the insects living in those pits then we would collect them and make them fight each other. In our dialect we called them "baboy-baboy", and I never really knew what they called them in English until I realized from this video that I was actually playing with fricking antlions the whole time 😳
This was really amazing... and then you hit with the death spiral analogies for humans. That's some genius-level stuff right there. Shows that living creatures aren't inherently so different from one another. Kudos to you for making these and coming up with them!
I just love how the spider reacted to the ant bumping into it like it's saying to itself ' oh look a free snack just fell off a branch for me, must be my lucky day '😅😂.
Ive seen the full video that first clip is from and while yes the ant dies, it also stung the spider too, which signaled the colony and then other ants came and they killed the spider and drank its blood as it bubbled out its abdomen. 🤯
I related a lot to the ant who’s head is just a door, it’s how I’ve felt for a long time in my community too. At least I can be sure of one thing during my existential crisis, my head is a door. I am a door.
That door functions as a line of defense and ensures that not just anything can get in or out of the nest. You are important to at least somebody and you fulfill at least some function in whatever community you're part of no matter how useless or trivial you may feel you are.
Just discovered you on RUclips (I don't have TikTok). You are intelligent, an engaging teacher, and laugh-out-loud hilarious!! I love your passion for animals served with copious doses of reality. What comes through the most, however, is your respect for wildlife. Bravo!👏
Ant lions are one of my favorite bugs, not only because I feel like my home is ant-proofed whenever they post up around my porch, but they metamorphosize into basically a completely different insect. They go from a weird little pincer monster with too much cake to an elegant dragonfly. That's some Pokemon stuff.
might i just say, the production quality on these videos have improved SO much since the tiktok days. he works very well in longer form videos where he doesn't have to rush all his words
This is the first time and probably only time I have ever saw an emetophobia trigger warning on a video and I am so grateful for you for that. Sadly I have been suffering from this for 5 years now and this has genuinely made my day. You are an awesome human and content creator and I really appreciate how much you care for your community. Continue making entertaining and interesting content king and I hope you read this because it really means a lot to me. Have a nice day :) @casual geographic. Edit: Tysm guys for the support and stories. :)
God is releasing DLC,because this is the FIRST time I've heard of an "irrational fear of barfing"... Is there something that HASN'T become a phobia to someone?Really curious,I keep finding new ones.
@@chee.rah.monurB I think my sibling might have this. They have always been a bit of an anxious person, and a few childhood experiences with puking was just bad enough for them to develop a complete aversion to it. When they feel nauseous, they get _incredibly_ anxious because of the possibility that they might throw up. They'll also willingly stay feeling sick as long as it takes, even if just throwing up whatever they ate would make them feel better much quicker. They just can't do it.Trauma can come from pretty mundane places
Interesting thing about queen ants: They use their flight musculature as rations to found their colonies. That's why when you cut up the thorax of a queen ant that successfully founded a colony, it will be mostly hollow. Of course, founding your own colony is pretty risky, which is why many ant species specialized on infiltrating already established colonies of other ants and murk their queen and use the available workforce to raise their own spawn. Founding parasite ant queens usually have smaller thoraxes than their independently founding cousins. Oh, and because not founding your own colonies is a pretty successful model, there are even founding parasite species that specifically target other founding parasite ant species.
Dude, your videos are always amazing. This was legit a Movie quality production. I was on the edge of my seat and kept edging further off with each new reveal!
Just a note, it was pretty difficult to find clips of every exact species mentioned so they’re are gonna be points in the video where the animal I’m talking about isn’t the exact species being shown, like with the snail part. In that case, the animal shown was a close enough relative to still convey my point. Just clarifying to avoid any confusion.
bro add some spider warning 😭
Hey, you should do an episode on mustelids. You've done the honey badger a few times, but how about wolverines, otters, martins and stoats?
@@cheesemanexe116 tf are you gonna do irl when you inevitably see a spider? Complain there was no warning?
@@Thescott16 I actually have a full length video about them. It’s the honey badger video from late 2022
I'm kind of surprised you didn't talk about the ant eater
"The thing about a death spiral is, you might not know you're in it until it's too late."
Damn, that was raw. I got chills.
Yes! We posted above, LOL he should make the death spiral segment a #short, cause it is hypnotic, and ends with such a savagely poetic line.
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I didn't expect something so deep from goofy ant video
Ironic enough, Death Spiral is what doctors call the very last stage of the life. Once it starts, there is no way back, you're already in the process of shutting down your systems forever.
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Remember kids, if you ever feel bad, remember you could be an ant
IKR 😐.
"Yeah! Love your life, you ungrateful little shits."
*Those who don't know:* "Aww yeah, that sounds awesome!" 😃
*Those who know:* 💀
Skill issue.
@@dascreeb5205 not at all
Once I watched a video on how ants took over another ant colony, stole eggs, decapitated and killed their queen, I honestly was hoping that if I died I wouldn’t be recarinated as an ant
Was it the Kurgesagst video?
Don't give Isekai animators any ideas now.
@@Flamingo123e thank you!!
At least an ants life is short
Sounds pretty close to what we as humans did worldwide a few hundred years ago
I will forever remember the war I witnessed between two different ant species in grandma's old house in the country. There had always been a species of small ants there, which I will call minis, that mostly kept out of sight, minding their ant business, but a few years back, for a few months there had been a steady increase of another species of much bigger ants I will call giants, like 3-4 times the size of the small ones, and these were a lot bolder, climbing our tables and other outdoor furniture. For context, we were on a veranda/balcony two stories above the actual yard, as the house was basically built on a cliff. One morning I went to the balcony and noticed there were a lot more minis than usual, in thick marching lines, climbing the plants that wrapped around the columns from the yard to the balcony to the plant canopy that shaded the balcony, and I could see them converge on specific spots. On closer look these spots were the giants, surrounded by minis biting and tearing at them. Each mini the giants killed two more would take its place. On the balcony wall, on the vases, on the plant canopy above my head. It was a merciless battlefield, and it was carnage. Giants running as fast as they could only to run into another column of minis who promptly tore into them, tripping and falling from the railings, falling from the canopy in balls of minis surrounding a giant and splatting on the floor. I followed one giant, as the minis latched onto it and tore it apart, legs, antennas. The giant fought for its life, and there was a ring of dead minis around it, but it was overwhelmed. You can't fight a horde solo. It moved slower and slower under the attack until it stopped, and the minis dispersed, looking for the next giant, until it dared twitch and it was swarmed again, and left with even less of a corpse. This battle lasted the whole day. And to top off this insanity, around noon as I was observing I saw a fat bee and a wasp also fall from the canopy and fall to the ground with an audible _thunk_ with the wasp stinging the ever living shit out of the bee until it stopped moving, and the wasp carried the bee away with a super loud buzzing of wings, because as I said it was a fat bee. The next day the balcony was littered with ant corpses. I never saw a single giant there again. Moral of the story: nature is hardcore.
I read every single part of this
Holy shit that’s metal
I recently started ant keeping and the world of ants is really fascinating. I could watch them for hours just around my house. I've seen a few ant wars & they're vicious.
For the record - ants don't splat. They are too small to build up the terminal velocity to be damaged by a fall like that...but what you were probably seeing with the twitching was the formic acid spray they use to paralyze & kill their victims.
Some species of ant (I think Florida?) collect the skulls of trap draw ants to decorate their nests with....possibly to scare off other ant species.
There's also slave raiders - ants that attack other nests, steal their brood (babies), and raise them as their own but treat them like slaves. Sometimes the slaves will have uprisings.
Then there's parasitic queens that acquire the colony's scent & infiltrate it to murder their queen and take her place, forcing the colony to raise her brood until the workers from the original species eventually die off entirely & all that is left is the parasitic colony.
Basically everything these guys do is hardcore...and the wasp/bee thing you mentioned - that's cool too, because ants probably evolved from wasps. Ants are like mini wasps without the wings.
_Red Sun over paradise_
Wow that is fascinating
A cool note about the feeding eachother thing, theres a species of ant called the Honeypot ant. In most species, worker ants have a stomach called a Work Stomach that is meant to hold food instead of digest it, but Honeypots take it to the next level. Their work stomachs can expand MASSIVELY, and certain individuals will turn themselves into a living pantry for their fellow ants. This is so the colony doesn't starve when food becomes to scarce or dangerous to gather since they live mostly in very arid deserts. They pantry ants basically get to sit at home being cared for by the colony until they need to ration out the nectar they've been holding onto. They aren't harmed in the process, but while their stomachs are gorged they can't really move a whole lot and can't defend themselves very well. They end up looking like a ball with an ant's body attached to it.
Some human cultures snack on them as spicy candy
@@Vinemaple I know the Aborigines do this.
@@touremuhammad5983 You mean Aboriginal people?
@Full-Time Lesbian they mean the ones in Australia, that's a term for them i believe.
I just googled Honeypot Ants. I’d never heard of them until now. You weren’t kidding about a huge ball stuck to an ant’s body
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned but there are also spiders that either produce the same pheromones to trick ants into not attacking them while the spider eats the larvae, or some jumping spiders that have evolved ant-like bodies to mimic the appearance and pheromones of an ant, to the point where the spider will even move its first pair of legs around to mimic the appearance of ant antennae. The spider does this to feed on the ants and ant larvae.
Sussy sus
Among us but insect.
False hydra much?
man i love jumping spiders
And then there is the spider-tailed horned viper. 😅
Now that's a intimidating thumbnail...
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I love monster bug wars. The spider got packed up after that by his homies
I make the mistake to go see the thumbnail and i almost had a heart attack...ewww.
@@2stance you beat me to it! 😂
And an even more ominous ending
That ending was deep. I didn’t expect this video about ants to teach me that my life is in a downward spiral.
what did he say that makes u start creaming
I have never heard of a better metaphor for human existence in my life
We're all on our way out Bananaman. Act accordingly.
@@billhicks808 naw fuck that noise. that's LOSER talk. only the weak and cowardly give in to death and despair. one should live to LIVE, as survival is the means to which all else is achieved. fight against the encroaching twilight so that you may see the glory of the coming dawn.
to sink to hedonism is the true death, and mere sour grapes to salve the weak. humanity endures and has survived many horrors before incomprehensible to modern sensibilities.
if you realize you're in a spiral, then you have achieved the first step to ESCAPE IT.
That ant spiral is actually terrifying. Essentially blind, lost and trying to find your way but only able to follow someone on the exact same situation
Sounds like when I was living in NY🙄
And yet they form one of the most formidable living forces in nature, with even large mammals 1000x times bigger keeping well out of their way
*insert obligatory unnecessary political comment here*
@@VivaSativaMusic*insert lemon demon joke here*
So basically me at work?
Correction, the blue butterfly's larvae actually eats ant grubs. In fact they can potentially knock an entire colony down because of how often it eats and it can stay like that for 2 whole years. There's footage of it eating ant brood too from the video you got those clips from.
I'm really glad someone said this. I was about to comment it myself.
Yep, they can actually wipe a colony if they eat enough of the larva
It also originally gets their attention by secreting honeydew, & when the ant drinks it, then they go into their ‘queen larvae’ impression…
David Attenborough's new series Our Wild Isles shows this process in amazing detail. This butterfly is a true con artist
I saw a video about that and immediately started searching for ways to ship blue butterfly larvae to my house. I live on this really clayey soil in a neighborhood of about a square mile total, and we all live on top of this horrendous mega ant colony complex.
An interesting thing about the cordyceps fungus, it seems that the fungus grows its own replacement of the nervous system in order to move the ant, and it buts out the signals from the ant brain. Basically the brain is still alive and conscious, but no longer has control of its body. Absolutely horrifying, and im glad that the fungus cant affect humans.
Now you just made The Last of Us even scarier
Yet.
Ywt
oh, thank God it doesn't affect gumans because my mom takes it as medicine for nerve damage
@@Anon26535 Ants have around 250,000 neurons on average, the average human has about 86 billion. Our nervous systems are far too complex for Cordyceps fungi to infiltrate in the way that they can do with insects and spiders.
As an ant, I appreciate you spreading awareness 🐜
So i might or might not've put a hose pipe down into an ant hill and exploded it with water
@@Cingiturvin lmao
Hey, any opinions on bees?
@@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller bees are awesome, wasps suck
@@astroyashsenpai3785 agreed
I never knew what a death spiral was until today. Sounds and looks like something you'd see in a horror film that is trying to convey an abstract message.
There is a song that uses the subject of death spirals as a metaphor! It's called Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon.
"Death spiral" is also what the courtship of the bald eagle is called. The pair fly up to high altitudes, lock talons and begin to fall while spinning. They let go just before they hit the ground!(if they're skilled enough...)
This is done both for courtship reasons or territorial fighting.
There's an animated short by Steve Cuts called "Happiness" that shows something similar to that, except with featuring anthropomorphized rats instead of ants.
@@Scarshadow666 do not recommend furry shit to people
it sounds like it belongs in a certain junji ito manga
Ants are underrated and don't get enough credit for sure! Ant love forever! ❤🐜
I knew you'd be here
Wow I haven’t seen you in a while. Switched accounts and forgot to subscribe so I just forgot one of my favorite channels for like 2 years.
You definitely contributed to my love for ants, along with Kurzgesagt so, Thank ya :D
I’m subed to you
omgg i just started watching you again to cure my myrmecophobia yesterday the coinsidence (how do you spell that)
Love your fast-paced narration and deadpan delivery of jokes. Also love the selection of topics you're dealing with. Thanks for making it so entertaining!
Ants are the Warhammer 40K of the insect world
Damn
Oh god yea
I like this comment. I have nothing else to say.
Ant wars are the war in heaven while human wars are the horus heresy.
@@sladewilson2753 Opposite, I think. War in heaven was way bigger and more important then the Heresy
That assassin bug wearing ants like armour is the most metal thing I’ve seen in a while. An ants’ life is basically a tug of war between Game of Thrones and cosmic horror.
Imagine seeing something like that in a horror game/movie but made with humans? We’d all piss ourselves the instant that thing came onscreen.
And the other fly that learned the signals to take an ant's lunch money
Assassin bug armour is for camoflauge if you want an insect that literally uses the corpses of its enemies as armour then look into a close relative of the antlion, the lacewing. That family of bugs knows exactly how to mess with ants.
Not too different from eating others and using them to grow your own body, how many animals die to keep one person alive
Amm, mind you humans do this from antient times. Kill an animal and wear it's dead body for beauty(often several bodies at the same time) reasons or decorate thair layer with it. We even evolved to have no our own fur for as prevalent it is. We basically enslaving other species for the sole reason to kill them and wear their caracas, not even eating it
I love how you used the Parasite Queen's boss theme from Metriod Prime when talking about that ant queen parasite. Very fitting.
I appreciate you for picking up on that haha
I also appreciate the regular use of *Hollow Knight* music in these videos. I love that game. :)
Thought I recognized since Metroid music, but couldn't place where it was from. Lots of Prime's soundtrack works for these videos, exploring an alien world
@@mndiaye_97 can you do another spotted hyena on its hierarchy, from an article on "𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴" and "𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴" by hyena project
I just started playing the remastered version and I knew I remember it, but completely forgot it was for the parasite queen lol.
"The thing about a death spiral is, you may not realize you're in it until its too late." That hit HARD!
"Ant politics means if the ant queen gets too selfish, she gets executed."
Damn, wish we took a page out of their book, eh?
France : 👁👄👁
Us croats deposed a few invading rulers ourselves.
You need to learn history lmaooooo wat is this comment.
Executing queens because they don't produce enough offspring? Sound like Henry VIII.
@@koenigvonbayern Plot Twist: This only started in ants because ants in England noticed Henry VIII.
The lizard trying to catch the ants on the phone was so much more funny to me than it should have been
Hey! Ants have feelings to
What if I was a ant and I read this
*jk I ain't stupid
@@Sirpigeon-kb1fu I would tell you nifty ant facts to cheer you up. Like that the total mass of all ants on the planet is 7× greater that all the humans. Or that ants have been on every continent (except Antarctica) since the continents became a thing.🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜🤘🐜
Timestamp?
@@wrathfulseviper 0:48
Amen.
The fact you can make similarities to us and any animal is just.........wow
its almost like humans are also animals
@@observingeye9579 its crazy to me how many people think humans aren’t animals.
You could make a comparison between humans and probably any living thing on the planet
Besides maybe that blobfish thing, what the f*ck is that
Hunter X Hunter:
@Nicholas Scott There is a comparison! You'd also look like that if you were dragged to the immense pressure in the deep ocean. It'd be a reverse effect since blobfish don't look like that when they're alive lol
I honestly respect these long form content videos. so much more Info can be deliversed than in a 30 second vine. Keep it going mate.
14 minutes is long? TikTok has ruined society.
The amount of creative ways you say "Die", without saying "Die" is amazing
Don't say death. Say HAMBURGER TIME!!
(Metalocalypse reference)
Yeah it's really annoying, but I do still admire the effort
Just another reason not tp use ticktok.
Man, remember when freedom of speech existed on the internet? Now we have to find workarounds to words we've been using in real life since the beginning of time.
@@mrscruffles801RUclips isn’t any different lately
*number (not amount)
i can’t believe bro actually gave an emetophobia warning like that’s so rare and thoughtful. coulda used a lot of those growing up
Honestly no kidding!! Especially when nothing is really on screen. Compare that to the amount of videos and movies that jumpscare vomit with no warning just for the shock of it
@@stealthlock6634 For real it's not even funny it's just gross. I don't have emetophobia thankfully because it sounds so horrible but vomit is still absolutely disgusting and idk why so many pieces of media just have it out of the blue.
@Scriblyn most people aren't pussies and can handle looking at gross and disturbing content
Emetophobia? What's the worst that could happen besides you also throwing up?
A chain reaction of people throwing up? and all it would take is a single video...
@@UsernameDoesntCare Vomiting is just kinda uncomfortable to watch or listen to. Especially if it comes out of nowhere and sprays all over the camera or another character. Gross out humor, y’know
I’ve never seen someone so good at saying death without actually saying death
212 likes with no replies? here let me fix that for you
What guideline do to someone lol. They do say necessity is the mother of invention.
for real. it's astounding how many unique euphemisms he uses.
he should write for ATLA 😂
@@SooberYooberToober yeah
these type of ants could easily make ant horror movies with ants as the main characterd
I'm fascinated by the knowledge that ant queens can apparently control how many eggs they produce.
Apparently ant keepers can control the sizes of their colonies by limiting the amount of food they get. Less food means a slower birthrate.
And i'm amazed at the information that they not only can get squad killed by their own colony, but that they'll devise plans of escape in case such a scenario starts to happen.
The ant life really looking like an actual present-day dystopia.
And that ants can tell if she’s trying to fleece them, meaning that, on some level, ants can _count._
@@sundalosketch4769nah the present day is better than this. I think you mean the future though
@@zaingamingtv2242 I mostly say present day bc ants are currently doing this. I hope people dont follow afterwards /lh
"The thing about death spirals is that you don't even know you are in one" that's really deep lol
Here's a not-so-fun fact about cordyceps; it doesn't actually do all that much to the brains of its hosts. It instead opts to control their muscles like some demented sock puppeteer from hell. This means that its victims are effectively prisoners in their own bodies, fully cognizant of what's happening to them but unable to resist the parasite's influence.
Don't they sell those mushrooms in the produce section..?
It has to do with insect bodies. Their limbs move by flushing them with blood, its alot easier for a bug to induce bloodflow to certain parts of the body than literal mind control right? Crazy shit though, being able to walk them around like in a video game
Do they starve to death, or is it the cordyceps that always finishes the job?
@@christianluz602 im pretty sure they dont need additional sustenance. Just guiding the host to a spot where the larva will thrive🤷♂️
@@ogluqqychess4452 im not curious about if they need sustenance after cordyceps has taken hold.
The ratchet and clank music in the background halfway through the video really got me and threw me back to a very specific time where I’d be fighting the mechanical dogs and the red guys that shoot at you. I would complete the planet and get clank his flying gear but never saved the game or always over road save, so for months that was the farthest I ever got in the game
The ways you avoid saying death is really funny, "Cross themself off the census" "Self subtraction" "Until your number eventually gets called" life must really suck for ants if you need that many unique death messages
Their life doesn't suck, their death does.
"Become past tense"
@KutWrite Nah I'd argue death is probably the greatest thing an Ant ever experiences in its life of pure suffering.
RUclips censorship avoidance.
To put shoes in corner
To go to Switzerland
To play the box
I'm surprised you went through an entire video on ant deaths without once mentioning the anteater.
Too obvious
you're thinking on level 1, he's thinking on level 100
@@stinklinethegoblin5952 yeah everyone and they’re momma should already know about anteaters, it’s self explanatory
He talks about them too much anyways.
Ants aren’t even the biggest part of their diet lol
If I had a nickel for every organism that turns ants into zombies in order to reproduce, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice
Yeah evolution is something
Ophiocordyceps moments!!!
Tbh there are probably more parasites like that
@@dessirangelova2676 Yeah, look up jewel wasp. It has similar system, altough it uses bigger insects than ants.
Okay, we have cordyceps, the decapitating fly, but what’s the third one???
Edit: never mind
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication 🙃 I appreciate you leaving the note about the difficulty find photos or videos about some so that's respect for your subscribers/fans😁
This dude is killin it. I can tell he has been putting in the work, writing and content is always improving. Great Job!
I think him moving to RUclips so he can make more long-form content was a great decision for him so he can take more time to get into detail about a certain animal, set of animals, a particular type of animal behavior, or whatever else without being limited to just the 60 seconds that Tik-Tok gives. I feel like this format and platform also helps give him more time and opportunities to show off his talent and creativity more.
Natgeo on steroids
@@peggedyourdad9560 hes too gud for tik tok content anyways
The caterpillar playing the ants is amazing. There’s so much in the insect world that is mind boggling. And so many things still unknown.
That's what happens when the systems they rely on for awareness are so rudimentary. It's like the ants are easily hacked little robots. You give them the correct signal and they do the thing.
I feel that these videos are played on loop in those secret Bilderberg meetings and maybe training courses inside secret service divisions.
One fascinating thing I've learned about the Alcon blue butterfly larvae and their parasitic relationship with the ants is that over time, some ant colonies that suffered from this actually wise up to this trick and change their larva chemicals to defend against the alcon blue imposters, so the two species are constantly trying to outwit each other with their pheromone games. Wikipedia says it's a kind of evolutionary 'arms race' between the two species. It actually sounds kinda cool xD.
Evolution in and of itself is an arms race of sorts
First long form video of yours I’ve seen, and you’re good at this, thanks!
I knew ants were some of the most culturally and ecology diverse animals, but thank you for showing me just how much I underestimated these insects!
As an exterminator of over 8 years i can honestly say you are very educated on insects. Thank you for this video sir
Thank you for your service
Insects are winsects
He makes Gil Grissom look like Greg Sanders.
You murderer!
When I was younger I was obsessed/fascinated by Ants. I loved watching Ants Canada and trying to start colonies myself😂. Didnt really know how bad they have it! The animal kingdom is oddly fascinating yet terrifying and we still have a long way to go in our journey of attempting to understand it.
Same
I too was briefly obsessed with ants at age 4,but only recently learned of AntsCanada & I rarely get to watch him...
1:47 Best use of the word "Yeet" ever.
As an ant in south asia, I thank you for showing awareness for us
The first picture literally jump scared me- I literally dropped my phone… incests are creepy
Be careful out there bro its rough.
- British ant
I am a human and i now identify as ant I will start fighting for your rights
You ain’t funny
Stay strong ant friend
Fun fact: In the Animorphs book series (basis of the series and infamous transformers toys), an ant that happened to be on the leg of one of the Animorphs after crawling on a magguffin that granted animorph powers would partially turn into her, it started screaming as it attacked her.
Meanwhile in an earlier book, the group almost go crazy while they were termites for a mission
One side point: the Transformers series isn’t based on Animorphs. The Japanese Transformers toys etc. predate it by a decade. And they’re quite different otherwise - aliens that transform being the one main point, but with a focus on technology rather than animals.
Animorphs is a VERY weird thing that was actually made...The book covers DO NOT help with that.
@@harsimaja9517 I never said it was, the animorphs toyline was made by Hasbro, consisting of human figures of the kids that turned into animals, their was even a t-rex combiner and a visser three figure
@@digstrememcdingus1463 furry lore:
@@haroldgōdwinessunu More like whatever the bug Oc equivalent is
gotta love how he literally tells us to get a snack as he talks about the most gruesome ways ants get killed
I have an infectiology exam today. Saw the worm and went "Oh hey! It's a Dicrocoelium lanceolatum! 😃"
ive never been so itchy, disturbed, and fascinated at the same time. thank you for this fascinating experience.
Ditto. I jumped at every tickly sensation and random pokey hair strand I felt on my skin for the entire video (still am, actually), but it was so horrifying and interesting that I had to keep watching anyway.
Eh, still not as bad as when I found a literal spider just chilling in my bed at 4am (bad sleep schedule lol). I’m pretty sure it was actually asleep when I found it because it was curled up and started to uncurl itself when I poked it with the edge of my hanger a few times. Managed to coax it into a small cardboard box previously used for a soap bar and relocated it to a nearby plant. It was red and the size of a quarter but, thankfully, very cooperative. Ended up staying up due to feeling phantom crawling on my legs all night 🙃
@pegged yourdad Did You know spiders are almost blind? They rely on vibrations to navigate the world. They are also terrified of Humans, or at least of our breathing.
I might be a little biased, though, ‘cause I have a pet Tarantula, and used to collect spiders in Jars alot(I was wierd and shy as a child).
That describes it perfectly. I have nothing against bugs except for Spiders and worms but now I might hate Ants😰😂😂
@@TaylorPhelan-n2w I didn’t know they were nearly blind and navigated that way, but I do know they’re terrified of humans. I guess I should’ve mentioned that I wasn’t sleeping in my bed at the time and was checking my bed since I’d been gone for a few days. I also have nothing against spiders and several different species of jumping spiders and a few different species of house spiders just chilling in my house, I just done want them on me, near me, or anywhere on or near my bed, everywhere else in the house is fine.
Man, that ending got me. I am in a death spiral. I do need to leave the house and do something else. I can feel myself going absolutely nowhere in life.
Strive to do better by all means but always remember you may not be where you want to be but be thankful that you aren't where you could be because it could always be worse so give yourself a little grace and appreciate where you are while working towards more ❤
Hang in there. My last post was to a site whose topic was racism. "Instead of ending racism, lets just end it all. All these petty issues will be resolved during tne ApocalypseI said, I'm tired of this"
me too
Same here
Watch Andrew Tate then
that assassin has a whole dang tracksuit made of his enemies. i don’t think i’ve seen anything colder… what a legend.
Frrr, the Assasin bug don't play
Goes hard
2:11 I love how you just put "GET OVER HERE!" In the middle of explaining.
Love your deadpan humor and all the creative ways you find to say “dead”. Also, despite your humorous delivery it’s clear you’re genuinely fascinated by nature and biology and your enthusiasm is infectious. I really like your channel.
self subtraction
Put on a t-shirt
Become a hashtag
Yankee with no brim
I was thinking the same thing "Removing themselves from the Census" lol..
Feels like I just watched a horror movie, a documentary and a bizarre parody all at once.
Thanks for the incredible content!
This!!😅❤
As a former ant I can confirm that this is 99% accurate.
thank you eye of sauron
Bro reincarnated
you in therapy now bro ?
@@rdra3862 Yes in the gym
"I Was An Ant But I Reincarnated Into A Human Living In A Fantasy World", Anime releases on July 17
This video ended in the most brutal and horrific way. I loved it!
I love all the ways you say "died" without saying it. Stuff like "crossed themselves off the census" is absolutely genius writing.
These suicide beetles absolutely give the cencus a diet and some weights plus a gym membership over how much lighter it gets
I find it really cool that there are certain ants for certain purposes, like the "door ant" and the ant that's literally a creeper.
i must learn more about this immediately
The one where the bug wears the ants' corpses was so absurdly horrific I started laughing uncontrollably
The lacewing has a similar tactic ant it's related to the antlion. Brothers in killing ants.
drip 💯
Godskin Duo be like
It was honestly rad
Never thought I'd read the words "horrific" and "laughing" in the same sentence.
Excellent narration! Whitty and informative. I consider these 14 minutes well spent.
I spent, like, 20 minutes today watching a bunch of ants going in and out of a hole and carrying things. It was so fascinating and then you go and upload a video about them! Crazy! 😅
Edit: ALSO! Thank you so much for the emetophobia warning! People usually forget to do that and it sucks, but you’re awesome! ❤
Warning? You would have watched it anyway even with a warning.
@@Mac-ik1sg Not if you have Emetophobia, then you would’ve clicked off because you have extreme fear of vomiting
@@amaliciousgoose People really have a phobia for that?The actual hell?Is there something that HASN'T ended up as a phobia?
@@chee.rah.monurB Probably not, people are scared of a lot of things. There’s a phobia for very long words, where the name itself is a long word.
@@amaliciousgoose that's just evil
Hollow knight, Metroid Prime, and early Ratchet and Clank. This man is both cultured in animals, as well as games. A+ from me for both
Man, hearing the original Ratchet and Clank music was a trip down memory lane. Such a great gaming series. His knowledge of animals is great but even better knowing he likes great games :)
Put some respek on current Ratchet and Clank come on now
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Eh, sounds too cinematic and forgettable compared to Bergeaud's music imo
I clicked on the video thinking abt hollow knight cause its abt bugs lol
Ants are quite fascinating. Please do one on the most team player species on the planet Argentine Ant. They are literally ants that can and will accept members of other colonies. There are cases which you can take an Argentine ant from Brazil and drop them off to a Argentine ant colony in India and they will get along with each other. The ant from Brazil will automatically work with the ants in India and will share food and work together peacefully. I sometimes call them Hippy ants because of their cooperative nature.
Sounds like we should all be like Argentine Ants.
@@Rad_Akali id like to keep my free will, thanks
That’s so interesting
@@Rad_Akali that’s all I want. I just want a better society a better world. Things shouldn’t be this bad among human beings but it’s sad
I don't think Argentine 🐜 are found in India...
Dude, I loved your closing comment about the death spiral. That motivates me to better things tomorrow. Thank you.
Ahhh... MAN... I LOVE your videos. You have so much personality and style. And your euphemisms for "unaliving" are pure genius. Never stop.
It's abstract to humans since bugs are so small, but on their scale, in their tiny domain it's really a brutal kill or be killed battle royale of horrific exoskeletal beasts ripping each other to shreds. I'd have preferred that version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids where it's just 90 minutes of running and screaming
It was interesting to learn what he said about the US importing those flies that eat the ants brains from the inside out - I know insects are essentially automatons more akin to simple instinct than emotion and complex thought, but good lord that seems... unseemly. Morally I'm not a fan
I now think of the game "Grounded."
imagine being picked up by a praying mantis about 3 times as tall as you, being turned sideways, and eaten like a kabob while still alive
I once put a ladybird/ladybug on a plant to watch it eat an aphid. It grabbed the poor thing by it's back, and proceeded to chew it in half, as the aphid waved it's legs, desperately trying to escape. All the other aphids ran away in fear. That was one of the many experiences that proved to me that insects are definitely sentient.
We know you terrify us but that thumbnail was unforgivable AND unforgettable
It didn’t scare me. I thought it was some crazy looking deep sea creature (until I read the title)
It's a bit unnerving but also really cool. Like ship's propellers.
For whatever reason,bugs scare me WAY less when they're on a screen like my Samsung.
Also,are we just going to ignire that Meatcanyon bot in the comments???
@@chee.rah.monurB yeah they’re pretty much on every comment at this point. Sadly I can’t say the same for being less scared of bugs when they’re on my Samsung screen
@@chee.rah.monurB I'm trying to get rid of them, they're the real parasites out here lol
How many ants are needed to fill an apartment? Tenants.
Oh _brother,_ this guy _STINKS!_
*GET OUT*
6:20 one thing that you forgot to mention about this creature is that it will often actually eat the ant colony, including the little baby ants, still without being noticed by any of the members of the colony. I saw in a documentary that one of these caterpillars was able to wipe out the entire colony that took it in, and grow by like twice its size. It was so gross but morbidly intriguing
Could you give me the title or link to the documentary?
@@kasaneteto6720 ty
This was a hard watch I hate seeing bugs up close 🤢🥴
The Army ants death spiral reminded me of the Medieval dancing sickness. Being blindly lost in movement with no sense of purpose or rhyme to reason, just acting until you give out to the limitations of your body as your life is carried away by whoever or whatever's been waiting for you in the next plane of existence...
you mean drug addiction?
"life kinda sucks" truer words have never been spoken
"Kinda" may be an understatement.
Wooow,life is bad...
I have heard it so often that the phrase has become jst as annoying as what it's criticising.
Dude love the content, and your delivery.
I'm suprised you didn't mention that spiders the disguise themselves as ants to they can pick off workers that stray from the colony
Well, I think quick death from spider is pretty good compared to all this other stuff.
Spiders are wild man XD
Never let them know your next move
-Among us-
Spiders are nature’s Jeffrey Dahmers
Someone needs to make a list of how many times this guy describes death without actually saying the word
I'm only afraid of humans throwing up but I'm pretty happy that someone thought to slap in an emetophobia warning! Kudos, dude!
Same. Being an emetophobe is not fun ☹️
Just curious but what about it is scary for you?
@@gracekelley2907 I'm guessing it's like how when someone yawns it makes them yawn. But imagine that with puking.
A strange feeling of being entertained and moved to existential dread at the same time. This was very well written.
Thanks for that message at the end. I'm getting sober right now and realizing that life is and has been very dull for a while (not boring, just flat). Sometimes a reminder that you can be the shakeup you need is appreciated.
I'm from the Philippines, and when I was a kid my cousins and I would find these little pits in the sand, use a stick to stir around for the insects living in those pits then we would collect them and make them fight each other. In our dialect we called them "baboy-baboy", and I never really knew what they called them in English until I realized from this video that I was actually playing with fricking antlions the whole time 😳
Collect some sand, throw in some antlions, throw in two species of ants and you have a gladiator duel with lion pits.
Ayo
I remember forcing 2 different ant in a plastic straw, block the exit with pebbles and see them fight to death.
Im also filipino and in grade 1 we did this too lmaoo
People still bet on those in the Philippines? I understand Filipino media has shown it, but do people still _do_ it? 🤔 Lol
I used to complain on your shorts a few years ago. But you are doing very well now! Great job on quick, truth, narrative, mastery now.
This was really amazing... and then you hit with the death spiral analogies for humans. That's some genius-level stuff right there. Shows that living creatures aren't inherently so different from one another.
Kudos to you for making these and coming up with them!
I just love how the spider reacted to the ant bumping into it like it's saying to itself ' oh look a free snack just fell off a branch for me, must be my lucky day '😅😂.
Like getting hit by a pebble, only to see that pebble was actually free candy.
Ive seen the full video that first clip is from and while yes the ant dies, it also stung the spider too, which signaled the colony and then other ants came and they killed the spider and drank its blood as it bubbled out its abdomen. 🤯
Lmao 😂
If you're having a bad day, just remember, it could be worse. You could be an ant.
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I can feel this quote coming inside of me
Read that in zeFrank's voice,I guarantee it'll be hilarious!
@@VCMRR 🤨
Or worse, YOU COULD BE ME
I related a lot to the ant who’s head is just a door, it’s how I’ve felt for a long time in my community too. At least I can be sure of one thing during my existential crisis, my head is a door. I am a door.
Then can I be the knob on you so I can open you?
/j
The last three letters of my first name literally spell out door
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 ^^ yes
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 the last THREE letters of my name literally spell out "cause" (how can you spell out door with your last three letters? xD)
That door functions as a line of defense and ensures that not just anything can get in or out of the nest. You are important to at least somebody and you fulfill at least some function in whatever community you're part of no matter how useless or trivial you may feel you are.
Just discovered you on RUclips (I don't have TikTok). You are intelligent, an engaging teacher, and laugh-out-loud hilarious!! I love your passion for animals served with copious doses of reality. What comes through the most, however, is your respect for wildlife. Bravo!👏
@@BLUEBOYISLEDGE??
that is a way to phrase it
Ant lions are one of my favorite bugs, not only because I feel like my home is ant-proofed whenever they post up around my porch, but they metamorphosize into basically a completely different insect. They go from a weird little pincer monster with too much cake to an elegant dragonfly. That's some Pokemon stuff.
They just give me PTSD from the Half life games
@@Снайпер_Хренов They give ants PTSD too.
Flygon's line is one of the coolest for bwing based on this life cycle.
@@GruppeSechsfalse. You can’t get ptsd if you don’t survive
Aren’t they unable to eat as adults and all they can do is mate and then die?
i haven’t even been watching the video for 10 seconds and the title pic has already traumatized me
That last bit was actually haunting. Thank you for the comparison for people who have no sense of distance aka me lol
might i just say, the production quality on these videos have improved SO much since the tiktok days. he works very well in longer form videos where he doesn't have to rush all his words
It's crazy how good the production value of these videos have become. Wild, dude!
All Photoshop
The parasite queen theme playing in the background as you talk about a parasite queen.. perfection 😂
I love when you cover insects, could you do one on mantids?
I love the orchid mantis
This is why I love this channel, because no matter the video I watch, I always learn something new
Schools are REALLY doing something wrong!
Someone could basically write an entire novel based on this!!
Could AND should
The groundbreaking film Antz covers many of these topics in dramatic form
Read Ants by Bernard Werber, really good books that talks a lot about how they live. It's kind of a mystery book
Afterants is probably gonna be my title
Watership Down, ant edition
this dude has the best writing and delivery on YT. so unique
Dude you are really upping your game with these videos, great stuff as always, but damn they are getting better each time 💖
This is the first time and probably only time I have ever saw an emetophobia trigger warning on a video and I am so grateful for you for that. Sadly I have been suffering from this for 5 years now and this has genuinely made my day. You are an awesome human and content creator and I really appreciate how much you care for your community. Continue making entertaining and interesting content king and I hope you read this because it really means a lot to me. Have a nice day :) @casual geographic. Edit: Tysm guys for the support and stories. :)
Pansy
God is releasing DLC,because this is the FIRST time I've heard of an "irrational fear of barfing"...
Is there something that HASN'T become a phobia to someone?Really curious,I keep finding new ones.
@Bruno Marić human brains are really odd so you could be irrationally afraid of anything if your brain just is
lmfao
@@chee.rah.monurB I think my sibling might have this. They have always been a bit of an anxious person, and a few childhood experiences with puking was just bad enough for them to develop a complete aversion to it. When they feel nauseous, they get _incredibly_ anxious because of the possibility that they might throw up. They'll also willingly stay feeling sick as long as it takes, even if just throwing up whatever they ate would make them feel better much quicker. They just can't do it.Trauma can come from pretty mundane places
Tbh I think what makes your channel so popular is not only the passion you have for your subject matter but the use of creative metaphors.
Interesting thing about queen ants: They use their flight musculature as rations to found their colonies. That's why when you cut up the thorax of a queen ant that successfully founded a colony, it will be mostly hollow.
Of course, founding your own colony is pretty risky, which is why many ant species specialized on infiltrating already established colonies of other ants and murk their queen and use the available workforce to raise their own spawn. Founding parasite ant queens usually have smaller thoraxes than their independently founding cousins.
Oh, and because not founding your own colonies is a pretty successful model, there are even founding parasite species that specifically target other founding parasite ant species.
As an ant in Korea, I thank you for showing awareness for us.
What😶
@@chrisk6637 yes yes asian ants welcome
Auntie you mean?
Wha the hail?!😶
As an ant from mars, i give a like to your comment
Dude, your videos are always amazing. This was legit a Movie quality production. I was on the edge of my seat and kept edging further off with each new reveal!