Invasive Ants: A Worldwide Issue!

[@gordonc2792]

Great video - these should not be kept by ant keepers - please report fire ant nests to authorities which by law must be done within 24 hours ? of finding them

[@pissantsforlife]

Thanks, yeah I should have mentioned that.

[@vincentlee7359]

Of what country.

[@gordonc2792]

@@vincentlee7359 well I was talking specifically about Australia but they are classified as a pest in many countries now

[@vincentlee7359]

@gordonc2792 you didn't specify in your post.

[@gordonc2792]

@@vincentlee7359 my apologies for any confusion i have made

[@AntsHawaii]

Great video! We need to spread this information.

[@antshubindia316]

Wow great video , lived the quality and your speech , you have done a lot of research on this video

[@bigchunk9717]

Nice fresh vid before bed

[@Joppi1992]

If they could be stopped, then they would've been stopped already. All you can do is mitigate the impact, but once they're there then that's where they'll remain while they also continue to expand as best they can.

[@TheSleepoverChronicles]

another good vid

[@chaosopher23]

Resistant to pesticides, but not oxygen deprivation. So, they float. My late father in law poured gasoline on their nest, and it worked. The heavy vapors displaced oxygen fast with poisonous gases. I don't recommend this method. Idea that will also snuff out their oxygen, but it's not as toxic. A means similar to the containment used with nuclear waste materials be used. Pour a blob of concrete to cover 2x to 3x the diameter of the nest. While it is curing, stick a couple of steel grabber loops in for when you come get the dead nest next year. As for what to do with the concrete... um... it's a bit easier to deal with than fire ants? It's also not a fire hazard.

[@skibidi.G]

For the Antgorithm!

[@TheSleepoverChronicles]

road to 500…

[@AllThingsAnts]

change the name and ill contribute

[@Antenthusiast]

Nice vid

[@Bushmaster3327]

I was wondering if you’ve heard of tawny ants, also called crazy ants by a lot of us in Georgia ? I’ve lived in Georgia for a majority of my life and I think they are worse than fire ants. They don’t sting you but they are attracted to electronics and they will destroy a vehicle and have even been blamed for house fires. I bought a new truck and three days later I saw a few running around on the dashboard. I looked under the small rubber mat in the back and there was a nest with thousands of ants and eggs. From the research I did, they don’t make a mound. They travel constantly so it’s really hard to get control of them. There is too much to post about them but I would recommend looking them up on the internet and finding their area of operations lol. Just a small example of what they do, it had just finished raining and I noticed something dark hanging off a limb of a tree branch above my truck. When I looked closer, it was these ants. They had climbed up a tree to get away from the water and were streaming down onto my vehicle, and going under the hood of my truck. I spent the next two days treating my truck to get rid of them. I call the gypsie ants because they’re always on the move.

[@_droid]

Weird that nobody seems to know why they chew on wires. It seems pretty obvious they're attracted to the same chemicals that mice, rats, and other rodents are. It's the plastic wire insulation and anywhere else that plastic residue might be.

[@pissantsforlife]

Right that is extremely worrying

[@richardh1467]

Has anyone put a poisonous giant toad near their nest and will they die from it?

[@Antymatters]

Great video and channel, i hate rifa😊subbed

[@thehairypavementant3931]

They are bad stationed in Louisiana at FT Polk one ant I would not recommend on keeping been stung 1000s of times worse than Geminata if you see these guys and dont want them around destroy there nest but this doesn't mean success just pissing them off more lol good luck Australia they are bad ants think jack jumpers are bad take one times 10000 and there's your problem.