How These Ants Took Over the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
I was not expecting this but I'm glad you did
this is pure gold
+Papyrus the skeleton You are not papyrus! you are earl.
But I believe Ant can change the world.
Bruhhhhhhh😂
ant keepers know how special those first founding stages are and how naturally beautiful it is, shame fire ants aren't native to Australia, I would love to have a colony
9 times out of 10 in the southern US the first queen newbie ant keepers catch is S. invicta, myself included. I always have one colony of them from time to time but I never let them get too large lol, something this species is known for
I don't like killing bugs... But, fire ants are one of the few kinds that I will kill without remorse.
Fire ants and wasps. Both creatures void of remorse!
Ah, innocent child. Take a trip to Australia, sometime. Here, if you don't kill them, they kill you.
Wasps are assholes. Unlike bees, they don't need reason to sting you, they just indiscriminately stab everything, and will do so continuously until you pry them off.
ugh I just hate caterpillars
ugh I just hate indiscriminate killers who kill caterpillars for essentially no reason
Living in South Florida means NEVER walking barefoot..not just because of ants, but the dreaded sand sedge.
when i moved to gulfport miss. in the 1970's there were huge piles of imported bauxite(aluminum ore ) from Jamaica, this may well be where they came from. the piles are now gone but the ants are here
These ants are lit =">
I wish they would be lit...on fire.
But you can pour a molten aluminum to make a cast iron ant colony. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+Good ol' Lenny aluminum**
Am I the only one who heard "War, war never changes" when they showed the B&W footage of the ant in the helmet?
I'm allergic to fire ants, I will swell up like SWELL but as I got older I swole up less, now I get a bump it's so itchy, and if u touch it it will feel like you cut off your hand. I don't get a lol bump and it doesn't burn too much to me
Oh and If I get bit, until it's gone, sometimes I'll have just little bump pushes it's weird
4:17
"They invade by land, air, and water"
Queue the Avatar intro.
nice i got 5 different stings on my back right now from beloved fire ants while i'm sleeping, my favorite insects of All Time
Land: exists
Fire ants: it’s free real estate
one time when i was little i rolled over a fire ant hill while only wearing a bathing suit. needless to say i never did that again
3:00 Why it being call" The Vietnam of entomology"? I from Vietnam and I wonder why it call like that.
they can actually kill people too, even if you aren't allergic; a friends grandfather died when his tractor turned over and he was pinned underneath ontop of an anthill. He was slowly eaten alive
are fire ants weak to water type attacks?
their greatest weakness is water pokemans
Dang it I wish I was a water type 😂
If they had wings, they'd be 4 X weak to Rock types.
MARIOPOWERUP oh look an angry bitch
Rock types would be the best (strong against fire and bug)
Growing up in Florida, I "noticed" fire ants many times, including the time I fell, butt-first, into a nest. I also remember the WW2 vintage bombers flying over and dropping pesticides. Hard to believe we once though that was OK.
All i know is these ants are super annoying
Joe : the things I do for this show
Coyote: hold my beer
5:56 that is disturbingly cool
4:16
Which is better?
A strong metal vehicle able to carry objects VS boat bois
The fire nation didn't attack, something attacked the fire nation
South Carolina also has fire ants. I moved to SC in 2016 and 2017 and I saw a huge mound of fire ants. Since March 2018 the ants have invaded the inside of my house (maybe on revenge). I can tell because:
A: they are swarming my family's front porch.
B: I woke up a few weeks ago before mosquitoes wake up covered in ant-mosquito venom bites
We have them here in NV and northern California. I have myself a queen ;)
AntsUSA you talking about hot girls?
Gaming XP hahahahahaha
I will surely have nightmares about that odd fly laying eggs on my head and then my head will eventually fall off...
This is why I don’t walk around barefoot
I've been stung so many times by these things that I've grown an immunity to their venom.
Ants: 🎵Sweet Home Alabama🎵
Inside the world of spicy bois
When I heard the name Schmidt I was like FNAF!?!
bro ants be lit like woah
Don’t walk barefoot through the grass in the south and southwestern US. If you do find yourself walking across a lawn and you foot suddenly sinks, don’t think, run away as you are likely about to get swarmed by the little buggers.
I feel an ant crawling on my head..
Spicy boys
tried everything to get them out of my yard. the best thing that works for me.. I lay a chicken bone or a piece of fat meat on the mounds about an hour later when they all come out to eat.. I put some grits down. and sprinkle seven dust on the grits. then I don't see them for a few months. then here they come again.. but I get a rest from them..
Funny! I live in Alabama! Roll Tide, Roll!!
"...or the ants had red in their name..." Lol
Eventually fire ant will evolve to defend mechanism against it
That decapatating fly is equvivalent to an Alien-tm in the insect world. Pretty scary
That was very interesting 🧐 Thank you 😊
Not sure you are correct about the origin. In Sabine Parish, fire ants came from the Texas side, floating across when the Sabine River was flooded to form Toledo Bend Lake.
So, you could describe people's emotions towards fire ants as loathing, unadulterated loathing?
Spicey bois*
I find it intresting that a docilebfire ant variant has been born!
The flies are just the snake eating gorrilas
Yeah, because animals never end up causing more trouble. Like when they bring in a new fish for some reason, then that fish takes over the entire lake & kills off everything.
3:53 same state as me (whoo hoo)
Don't forget New Mexico too. They're in New Mexico! PLS SAVE
OML, I just saw an ant in the thumbnail and didn’t read the title or who uploaded it. So I thought it was ant Canada :/
Ima use raid the ant and Roach spray
Firefighters had one job.
I live in Canada and there everywhere
if you say " the things i do for this show" you should see Brave Wilderness a great youtube channel
There in South Carolina also.
There is a solution. Put big mirror with the right angle, poke the lair and wait, a little, until Sun BURN them all!
we have fire ants in canada too
I've bin bitin by 2 at the same time
Dont bring the fliessss tooo
So the bumps won't go away?
I got bit by an ant watching this believe me or not idc
please make video about cloaca, and why gecko/lizard poop has white part on it. no youtube videos explain this yet
pour molten metal down a nest
you get a cool piece of art and get rid of your ants for the price of one
Or how bout the tree ants or should i say anticks
Ayyy
The video title is wrong. Fire ants are from America, it just wasn't in the north zone. That USA problem of referring to itself as America, when they only live on the north side in a part of the entire continent 🙄
The things you do for this show?
Go check out Brave Wilderness.
So satisfying 5:57
i got stung by an fire ant and i shot the clanaey and blew it up
Im from mobile al and I am allergic to fire ants.... That sucked
I love fire ants
im only watching this bc i got attacked by fire ants for the first time today
Im allergic to fire ant bites...
I live in Texas
Fire ants can't hold a flame too the Army ants & that's a bet
I live in England so I don't need to deal with fire ants and bluet ants
Matt?Is that u from Eddsworld?U look like him
We used to see who could sit next to the mound the longest once it was poked...
Everyone jokes about how Australia lost against emus, but nobody mentioned, that America lost against ants.
Australia went to war... We didn't go to war.. Js...
@@kaylynnabrams9506 You litterally used bombers against them...
At least America doesn’t have to deal with spiders falling from the sky
@@command_unit7792 Well at least, USA didn't declare war on fire ants.
@@Sliverappl You litterally used bombers to gas them...You litterally commited a war crime against them...
Fire ants? U mean spicy bois?
Agreed
no, that sounds gay, stingy bois
SMOL BIRB no u
They’re bois even tho they’re all grills.
Your a rat then >:>
How they filmed this:
"Hey John what's that?"
"I don't know, LET'S POKE IT!"
true lol
Love 'em or hate 'em (and I'm guessing most people hate 'em), I hope this video helps you discover how interesting fire ants really are!
They're just trying to make a living…
Hi, first lile
+Dionicio3 King_Of_Skiddos like*
I love your videos and I have an excuse no to go on RUclips!
die ants die !
Nope, no. Fire ants need to go.
CRAWLING IN MY SKINNN
THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL
Fear is how I fall
Never gonna give you up
Alan Jeffrey Baby baby baby oh baby baby baby oh
It's FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY gotta get down on FRIDAY!
6:00 why.....why?
Because he's showing how they become a solid block when put under stress, it's the same thing they do when it floods which is why they create a raft.
And I just realized something one of the and was going inside the gloves
@@CaseyCorbett it a she not a he -_-
Pig Mage that is so disgusting because they are quite creepy
@@CaseyCorbett I'm pretty sure it's a SHE - the female is wearing gloves while showing the ant block thing.
Fire ants makes nests in earth, spreads by air, and survives water.
Antvatar.
69 likes noice
"Bullet ants are a 4 on the Schmidt pain index." YES. I KNOW THIS. I JUST WATCHED ANT-MAN AND I AM NOW AN EXPERT ON ANTS.
I know this because I live in Australia.
Same!!!
Remember the day at school I got stung by one on my ankle. Damn bullet ants.
If you didnt leave school due to the bullet ant sting, or go to your school nurse, some steel balls you have there.
This whole video I kept feeling stuff crawling on my skin D:
That's just you quitting heroin, don't worry about it.
+Mark1nc lol
SAMEMMEMEMEW
Me too... xD
especially during 5:59 I keep cringing when the lady touched them. Eargh!!!!!
Historically, bringing in another species to fight one hasn't worked out as expected.
Ha
"The things I do for this show"
Ha, you should see brave wilderness
F9r real
I like Coyote Peterson, and I appreciate his love of nature and making it accessible to people all over the world, but his dramatizing of insect stings gets kind of old. It's for the best, since it probably encourages people to stay away from them, but it kills his credibility. Ant and wasp stings can be very painful and the pain can last for hours, but it's not the crippling, torturous agony that he portrays it as.
@@Aeturnalis umm idk, he’s been stung from things like the bullet ant, one of the higher tings on the index. Neither of us can really have an opinion on his reaction because (I’m assuming) neither of us have ever been stung
Y'know, Mr. Fire Ant, a fly isn't really something to lose your head over. Deep breath in, deep breath out.
Ants, like all insects, do not breathe but rather oxygen diffuses into their exoskeletons. This is why you cannot have giant insects--volume increases exponentially while surface area increases linearly, meaning they would suffocate if they got too big.
I think you missed the joke... but being educational makes up for it I guess?
It more than makes up for it, this man just smacked the Ant Man and The Wasp movie in the face with scientific facts.
Ethan McDonald inhale outhale
"But there's a maggot eating my brain!" - Fire Ant
I don't know the flies remained me of a Simpson episode where they keep bring new hunter for the unwanted species and it did not end well...
I think it's the one where Bart nursed a pair of lizard eggs to birth, which ended up taking over the town. I think it was Lisa and someone else in the end who were discussing what to do with introducing predators, and they ended up talking about hypothetically using alligators or something.
This is a good thought! But no reason to worry. The flies have been tested extensively in the lab and phorids are extremely specific to their target species. There is very little chance that they will begin targeting other ant species, and their best hope is to keep fire ants under control anyway, eradication is impossible at this point
Actually, they did figure out a really complicated way for it to end well. Now, sometimes it does not, such as introducing Mongoses to Hawaii to control rats. Turns out that they prefer birds. But hopefully these flys will just eat fir ant heads, which is OK with me.
imagine this stuff happening to humans
sorry little ants
There's just one thing you forgot. A very little chance is more than none. And since I'm affected by whether or not this works, odds are the unluck of the 1/8 Irish will come into play, and those flies will mutate somehow and start laying eggs in EVERYTHING! Then people will bring in chameleons, which will then eat native flies and start overpopulating, and then people will bring in the next on the food chain, and so on until eventually the whole continent is overrun with lions. I know this sounds unlikely, but again, I have the unluck of the 1/8 Irish, and am affected by this.
6:00 WHY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT oh god i feel them I CAN FEEL THEM ON MY SKIN
It's a demonstration that fire ants are non-Newtonian liquids. Undisturbed, they flow like a regular liquid. But shake them up and they will clump up into solid ant-balls which you can pick up, and then they adopt liquid behavior once again.
+Mr Schrödinger - I am the one who reviews. I'm not sure that's correct
+Mr Schrödinger - I am the one who reviews. that's very interesting are you saying then that one can collect them via this technique in order to move them elsewhere or also would that mean then thst if fire ran thru that area literally that they would survive the ordeal due to there liquid matter of anger if provoked and lastly which I can do but I was reading do they as well have a queen ant like the bee if he stated in video I missed it as I learn many different things daily I will share with you now I solved the NW 🌐 👹 ILLUMINATI MATRIX which is like there plan to infiltrate in this manner and the @Queen_UK is the leader and coorelates to there INVECTUS games and where 🔥🐜 originated from thanks for sharing knowledge and thanks to person who made video
+Tommy Klein well if it's nit provide data links just don't make blanket statement I am going to look on my own to see but I find it interesting until I find out otherwise unlike your comment does not give me reason to think it's not a complimentary add to the video if one wants to view there purpose complimentary to the economy system like a misquotes that have been man made and now are drones that carry ziki virus created by NW 🌐 👹 govt and also the bees the are niw killer because govt force feeds them.corn syrup and ships in bees from other countries to feed only on almond plants in CA and now we have disease bees in america
+Tommy Klein actually, ants are Non-Newtonian liquid. Or atleast a demonstration on how they act like non-Newtonian fluids. Take oobleck for example, let it flow, and it flows, try punching it, it becomes hard. Make these ants feel the motion of waves or water, they act like liquid.
Notice me SENPAI !!!
omg that's so funny!! :)
I will notice you...with a flame thrower.
Flashoons NOTICE MEH SENPIE!!!!!
Flashoons
Y?
Yes, please send me all the pies.
Does anyone else feel bugs crawling on them now??
One just bit
They're probably edible
😆😆😆
Hy 😂
everyone gangsta poking fire ants with a stick until you realize you were standing on the 2nd entrance/exit of the ant colony.
I shivered, I never shiver and the legs on my hair stuck up.
Like for 82 years of good ant luck.
I fell into a fire ant pile when I was 3 years (one of my earliest memories). I hate, hate, hate fire ants.
Me TOO. !!!! When I went to the zoo a year later and for the first time learned there was such a thing as an Ant Eater ! For which I begged my parents to get me one for YEARS ! LOL
My sister didn’t believe me what the pile of dirt was, stuck her arm in and got BIT, bit, bit. Next day she broke that same arm. Not a good week to not listen to your older sister!
pour cinamon on them or power diatomaceous earth
I unknowingly lied atop a whole mound like an idiot when I was 6. I don't hate them, but I am weary of them for sure.
A little clarification: 1:55 I said "imported" species, not "important" species. Sorry for not enunciating!
I mean, fire ants are still important, just maybe not for the best reasons.
#bugslivesmattertoo XD
+It's Okay To Be Smart Actually, they are to me. My paternal grandfather met my paternal grandmother met BECAUSE of ye olde fire ant. She was native to Michigan. On vacation in Florida, she had her first encounter with ye olde fire ant. For around 15 minutes, she had this stinging feeling in her foot that she could not shake. Luckily, my grandfather heard the commotion, and sprayed her with a hose. And... well... the rest is history.
I live part in Knoxville tn and Memphis tn the only time I have ever been stung was in Florida
You want to talk about confusion? I'm deaf and the CC says important. So as far as I'm concerned you said important (:
Also they're called spicy boyz
As a kid who eles would destroy the anthils and run away?
Ayla's Life
Me and my friends would!
Also knocking on doors too!
I ran over one today! While I was cutting grass! I love that cloud of dust coming out of my discharge!!
Ayla's Life me
Me
Thats dumb all of them might climb up there leg
CRAWLING ON MY SKIN
THEIR BITE IT WILL NOT HEAL
THE FEAR IS HOW I'LL FALL
CONFUSING IF THAT ANT HILL IS REAL
is. go but. it. issous. Dick
MildlyEmo 👌
Bravo
Zakir Mohammed ...
MildlyEmo Linkin Park forever lol
Shoutout to ma boi Coyote Peterson!
Yea
Yup!
The man himslef!
*I am entering the strikezone*
Yeah, I have a severe fire ant allergy. I almost stopped breathing last time I got a few stings. I don't know how I survived growing up in Texas.
I'm assuming you're white, that's how you survive in Texas
+daniel117100 savage😂😂😂😂😂
Same here. hopefully they don't come to Kansas (I moved from Florida to Kansas)
The King of Queen i see your sentence structure is perfect
I have a small allergy to ant stings D: I'm in Texas too
Ants : notice me senpai! *bites the hecc outa you*
Mhm, yes, a tsundere.
I see you are a man/woman of culture as well.
@@abhiprakash74999 if that's what being cultured means I don't want to be cultured
@@siyacer chad