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OMG! My pet ants are getting too smart! They're learning from experience! Today we take a close look at the Hacienda Del Dorado, our 75 gallon terrarium which houses the Golden Empire, our massive yellow crazy ant colony, as well as other cohabiting creatures. We discover in this epic ant video, how the ants show evidence of learning from past experience, and how they've even been creating a hidden, secret cavern within the tank. The collective colony mind of the ant is capable of some truly astounding activities! Hope you enjoy this week's ant video!
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[@AntsCanada]

Greetings, ant lovers! Sorry for the late video, as I was traveling, but today's video will blow your mind! It would mean a lot to me if you could LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, & SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed this video to help me keeping making more! So what do you think? Do you find these ants to be smart? What should we do to keep these ants stimulated and challenged?

[@beck9552]

AntsCanada what do you think about gel ant farms?

[@water5]

How to make baby powder barrier?

[@ritsunightcore6426]

Try putting in multiple different predators in and see what happens. Maybe the ants will eat them, but like you said "keep them on their toes". Lol

[@otto7848]

Well ants are one of the highly intellingent species that can adopt to the changes of their environment. Though they are looking comfortable in thier habitat now, they are still alert of what tragedy may happen.

[@Pistolgrip]

I think I seen her

[@esven9263]

I noticed that all the ants on the roach have nearly full gasters, is it possible they were less frenzied simply because they were well fed and didn't feel they needed the additional food source that badly. Or that they may have also been more lethargic in general because an ant with a full gaster is simply more valuable to the colony than one with an empty gaster and so they were attempting to minimize the amount of risk they put themselves into because it also risks the food they're carrying.

[@AntsCanada]

+Esven Ohhhh this could be true, too! I'm spoiling them!!!

[@YuubiTimberwolf]

Hey, they are your children, you are allowed to spoil them XD

[@amartellacci9594]

I just discovered your channel and binge watched nearly the whole thing. Now I'm obsessed. Thank you.

[@xodivinely_Guidedox]

Same lol.

[@dianemcintire7850]

I did the same thing omg

[@matthewreynoso5725]

Yup

[@ethanbryan6234]

A Martellacci same

[@iaintgonnagivemynametoarob1643]

same

[@firemaster2191]

Food drought, feed them less often like every other day or longer times between feedings should be our new event. This is so that they do not get in a routine and to make it feel as to them that they are in the wild, and who knows, they might learn to find other food resources while doing this event and may be a topic for a new video! It also might be possible to change the times of their feeding every week so they won’t know when their food is coming, but that might be a regular practice for you to do to stimulate your ant so that they fall into a routine less slowly, also try hiding the food as well, just by not putting food into a specific food pit will give them more of authentic feel of the environment of the outside, since food never comes from the same place in the wild, it would be interesting to see how long it takes them to find the food everyday depending on where you hide it! Just a couple of suggestions that I can hope you can use! Good luck!

[@sgtruru]

Firemaster 21 how can I like something more than once? Mikey needs to see this!

[@plantpreyer2135]

maybe, i don't know, arouse the earth from time to time, uproot a few plant (also time to time)

[@boot_epik]

Seems like a good idea. However, He might have to some testing to avoid mass deaths because that seems to happen when you feed ants less.

[@tomnovy3476]

Thats really genius

[@Squidly_Venture]

mass death

[@Thempai]

AC: I know you’ve all been asking about the praying mantis! Us: DEAR GOD YES WHAT ABOUT IT AC: Well, here’s your update! Us: yes yes yes tell us!!! AC: I don’t know where it is. Us: *facepalm*

[@Monolavinia]

CadysBaby it's in the left middle/top corner 9:45

[@rolandpaulosalacup1066]

CadysBaby

[@ice_wolf_018]

can you read my mind or something?

[@westnavarre]

CadysBaby haha that was funny

[@hercia4805]

Tristan Bercian that is a ant

[@dafuqisdis6008]

I FOUND HER! Go to 8:41 and press play. She's moving on the ground near the left side of the terrarium

[@gavin6663]

nice eyes

[@shanewatson523]

Hey I see her. You got some good eyes

[@consuminginternalorgans]

woah you have keen eyesight.

[@goatberri8934]

Nice going there!

[@azen5104]

Dafuq isdis Nice! I saw it yin the corner

[@silvertheelf]

I saw a billion things that could have been a preying manti.

[@fawxovr8429]

There is mantis in there didn’t you see the video

[@f1gaming409]

@@fawxovr8429 bro he asked if you saw it and then he sad i saw a billion that could be a mantis

[@B0uncy_ball]

Same

[@tomnovy3476]

Same

[@Jayviolikesspyro]

?

[@minecraftexpertproskillz3604]

What if antscanada could train the ants to edit KZbin videos or do bills

[@goranjanjic829]

XD

[@leiscartridgerefillexpress124]

YEEEESSSSSS ANTSLAVES XD JUST GIVE EM MOAR APHIDS

[@JIKwood]

😂

[@theriseofthefreg2687]

Genius

[@marcfrankoanimations4683]

😂😂😂 the camera would be blocked from a LARGE SWARM of ants!

[@tonguyen4958]

Next up: "OMG! MY ANTS HAVE A SCHOOL!"

[@blasta1218]

HooDaVie Nightinhan CLASSROOMS AND IPADS EVERYWHERE 😱😱

[@shakiradean]

Dying lol help lmao

[@BoopaKing]

Then the ants become bipedal and write messages in the sand using sticks found in the forests.

[@Someone_149]

After the next episode: OMG!!! MY ANTS HAVE A UNIVERSITY!!!

[@vbgvbg1133]

next:”OMG! MY ANTS HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION!”

[@gideonjones5712]

Ant #1: AAAAHHH! guys, I fell in the honey! It's so sticky, I can't get out! Help!! Ant #2: Don't worry, I'll get help! don't move! Ant#2 returns with help Ant#1: Ok, grab on to each other and pull me out! Ant#2: What? why would we do that? Ant#1: So I don't die in the honey! Ant#2: oh, ok. I guess that works, but... we were just going to eat our way to you.

[@kermitthefrog3310]

Gideon Jones...best ever

[@Painted-Random]

Ant#3: CANNON BALL!!!

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

Ants are actually one of the dozen-or-so confirmed self-aware animals. They learn from experience, it’s quite amazing.

[@envisions933]

Hello Hi, they are not animals, they're insects.

[@crystalsummers2293]

Insects are part of the Animal Kingdom, dude.

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

WWE Smackdown Live insects are animals dipshit

[@miltongam5870]

Hello Hi I'd expect more animals being self-aware, but it's still very impressive that such a tiny insect can learn.

[@kdjam8032]

Cool

[@nikki11111]

10 years later: Ants: ok so we learned how to talk and we can break glass now…

[@TheAnkiitu12]

They build little battering rams and integrate into society.

[@nikki11111]

@@TheAnkiitu12 they’re gonna take over the world 😥

[@TheAnkiitu12]

@@nikki11111 :)

[@tansiian]

In the exercise profession, we employ a technique called periodisation, which is where we vary training variables in a particular time frame in a particular pattern. For example, in terms of repetitions of an exercise, it can be 1,2,3,4,5 or 5,4,3,2,1 or 1,2,3,2,1 or even something random like 7,6,5,3,8,9,2 then repeat that random sequence a few times i.e. 7,6,5,3,8,9,2 7,6,5,3,8,9,2 7,6,5,3,8,9,2 Perhaps you can do that for your nests. Periodise feedings and "disasters" and well as tank cleanings. You can also artificially create wet/dry seasons, though it might be better if these were regular since seasonal changes in the wild are pretty regular too. Occasionally release live prey (i know you don't like that) or do drastic damage to the nest (while tidying up the tank) to simulate an attack by a predator.

[@AntsCanada]

+Si Ian Tan Hmmmm interesting suggestions!

[@darkwolf2226]

yeah i agree with your suggesting

[@oblivionfire1365]

I actually suggested something like a while back. I thought it would be a great idea to help simulate a natural environment.

[@NNNSSSCCC]

Next video: HELP ME! MY ANTS ARE HOLDING ME HOSTAGE!

[@johnladuke6475]

Following video: NEVER MIND I AM FINE PLEASE MANY DELICIOUS HUMANS COME TO SEE MY NOT AT ALL MAN EATING ANT COLONY

[@morganman592]

XD that is hilarious

[@brianmcgowan1203]

XD

[@tartarugatartazila3415]

OMG! MY ANTS SCAPED WHILE I WAS SLEEPING, AND ARE "NOT" HOLDING ME HOSTAGE

[@bartpowala6567]

😆😆😆😆

[@ricebunny1989]

Also at 9:42 I believe one can see the mantid either in the top right corner of the frame or on the far left in the foliage in the shadows. Man this mantid is brilliant when it comes to blending in to the foliage absolutely BRILLIANT!!!

[@starflower2583]

Wouldn't it be cool if you could put a micro camera on some ants and see what goes on in every part of the Golden Empire?.

[@DD-ls3mq]

star flower25 no

[@frog8878]

Cool idea but i dont think it'll happen

[@TheKatarinaGiselle]

Yes, if it were possible that would be so amazing!

[@zerrrodeathfs1314]

24/7 metal music to make them hardcore savages

[@AndyIli]

Zerrro Deathfs what type of metal tho...

[@RofelLord]

You should get a few ASSASSINBUGS. he will wear dead ants as armor and smell like one, so they wont attack him.

[@lurac5710]

Woah! thats cool

[@chaotixthefox]

Joey G There are too may ants in the first place. Won't get a chance to kill enough to make armor.

[@kari8187]

I like this idea

[@solonsmartboy]

Im not sure if thats a thing

[@alephkasai9384]

solon smartboy Um it is

[@silvertheelf]

It’s only a matter of time till they start drinking tea and speaking in English accents while waiting for food to fall from the sky, 😂. Woah, ok, second time I got slightly over 50 likes, thanks guy!

[@lecrivainfrancais3749]

XD

[@aldrinnejar]

XD. To. Bro.

[@stella_thealphawolf9427]

They will start making movies the first one will be cloudy with a chance cockroach 😂😂😂

[@silvertheelf]

You all get likes 👍

[@stefaniecutrell1022]

I know This refrance.... But not now

[@EricCarrsHair]

i'm just gonna call the baby millipedes wiggle worms :3

[@peazent]

OMG YASS

[@SavvyKitten666]

Aweeeee cute

[@gertrude137]

give them more enrichment. I think maybe a live, small roach. They'll have to take them down theirselves and since the roach is small it won't hurt many ants. Though, if you think they can handle bigger, go for it.

[@karkathatesyou8428]

AntsCanada doesn't want to do that because it will be inhumane for the small roach.

[@JessixaEBM]

but crushing one so that it is still alive, can move around slightly, and is effectively crippled for the ants is more humane?

[@karkathatesyou8428]

Still, the roach will have to suffer formic acids and a lot of biting.

[@gingin4471]

Jessika Farrar well, he did that to quicken up their death so they won't be getting pain too much. I mean, if you put in a live cockroach inside where that roach have zero percentage of surviving, no matter how much that roach is trying it would still be dead. It would just suffer a lot more than being crushed and left to die

[@keithredacted8154]

Jessika Farrar those were nerves, the roach is dead

[@liquidforest]

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, so feel free to add/tweak to my idea. Maybe add a smaller terrarium with 3 or so mantises and place extra honey or food in there so they have to go through the mantises to get their treat. I wonder whether or not they would decide it was worth it to make the risk.

[@InDstructR]

Really cool idea!

[@SaltyStare]

Except the mantids might eat each other

[@joebrindle6615]

Liquid Forest Mantids are cannibals ):

[@Benzy670]

I like the idea of adding a guardian before their food, but in all likeliness, the ants would trigger their attack pheromones and the mantises would be swarmed to death.

[@spikewall5762]

Liquid Forest problem is that mantises fight each other aswell

[@ZeeJBC]

12:30 You mean VIA? “Very Important Ant?”

[@musicalpeace9708]

That cavity he talks about might become a future market place for the ants or even the future castle and throne room. Then who knows how long till brick houses and smog take hold.

[@charliewertz3205]

You should name them The Lumberlice or just The Lumberjacks

[@MegaLordlego]

The Lumberjacks is probably the best name. Thumbs up to you.

[@Shaden0040]

Carnivorous plant do go through a dormant stage each winter, even semi- and tropical ones. They may come back if you clear away the ficus.

[@AntsCanada]

+Shaden0040 Oh? Ok noted!

[@giovannimittino4769]

no, Nephentes or Drosera don't go through a dormant stage each winter. the Nephentes doesn't create pitchers during winter. But plants like Saracenia lose all leafs (sry for bad english)

[@lt.tactical7917]

Shaden0040 DOGGO SPEAK

[@dianemiles2720]

Sorry Mikey but they most likely died from the soil being too rich. Regular minerals found in average terrarium soil is too much for a pitcher plant, they also need a ton of water, they don't like to dry out which the ants probably need a small amount of. Next you should try bromeliads, they are very hardy and colorful! Heck, just save the top of a pineapple and plant it in there and I bet it will grow a mini pineapple plant.

[@giovannimittino4769]

no he used coco fiber

[@harambae117]

"should we be keeping them more on their toes?" *Laughs in mite*

[@gahmivolka6582]

crazy thing is at 8:04 you can see they have the red mites on them at this point in time already that damn near wiped them out.

[@bubs1247]

literally

[@medusa47]

The golden empire has become complacent. Move your feeding areas around to different locations. This might help.

[@mitchl5220]

Maybe you need to add live prey bugs. I understand you don't agree with it but the ants clearly understand that the crushed roaches are dead so no longer panic and try to attack them. Live prey would ensure the ants still hunt like they do in the wild.

[@ishtar0110]

Nacho Friend He did add a praying mantis in that terrarium. It's still there somewhere in the terrarium.

[@mitchl5220]

ishtar0110 The mantis wasn't added into the formicarium to be prey. The mantis was added to work as a form of population control for the ants.

[@ishtar0110]

Nacho Friend Ah, my apologies, I misunderstood your original post. Live prey seem to be a good idea, but you know there will be internet people who will cry animal/insect cruelty! You know the kind. 😞

[@Cryger12]

He said in a previous video he's an animal lover, not willing to harm any animal on purpose. That's why he pre-kills all prey.

[@anonymousgander9536]

Nacho Friend good idea

[@riusen_oficial]

IDEA: You can set the honey in middle of a recipient with water, like a challenge, a dangerous challenge

[@galiantus1354]

This. So much this. Make the ants work for their food.

[@riusen_oficial]

yes

[@jakehenderson9150]

What about setting a floating island using magnets or whatever above a pit of antlions and surround the entire thing in alchol and baby powder mix witha small trail so deadly and dangerous with a small piece of string to climb up of course

[@peterpanda8234]

I started with the ant war “recommendation from a friend” now I’m subbed and actually enjoying watching ants lmao keep it up

[@curtismahon9948]

you really missed the opportunity to call them the Golden ANTpire

[@kdjam8032]

PUUUNNNSSSS!!!!!!!!(i love puns lol)

[@maile3562]

j

[@maile3562]

jo

[@ged1034]

How are you the only person to think of this

[@apgamer4053]

o god it burns

[@Nosraa]

Surely call the wood lice the lumberjacks

[@melonmusk7056]

sorry, but FUZION has got it correct

[@ryan8374]

Nosra, ...and they're ok.

[@warrenlee3418]

Nosra I was going to say that too

[@SundanceMLD]

Nosra no call them the Wood Biters

[@dwaddiavid0801]

Nosra do you know what kind of music they used for this video

[@calvin5941]

The wood lice should be called the Lumberjacks

[@calvin5941]

I know, I saw it after i posted this one

[@hkoodmediala5549]

Yeah I like that name

[@okayusa6608]

Found this channel looking for info on pitcher plants. I have watched a ton of your channel. Your biome builds are awesome. Commentary is high in quality, I'm not saying anything that ac doesn't know already. Thank you for a quality product.

[@chickenpower5732]

Can you show the flags and designed names of the colonies with each colony having their own unique design for flags and fonts for the titles i.e. the fire nation having a fiery title the golden empire being a shiny yellow title the dark kninghts having pointy edges to represents a knight's lance or lances the jaw breakers being white for teeth the tomb raiders being tan with the O being a pharaoh or something You get my pount at this point But can you also show fan art of the colonies?

[@panitaeo]

There's fan art?

[@brayanmoran6439]

Your ants are learning? My rocks are learning to sit still for years

[@brianwalsh9399]

Dreky Bry mine are aswell

[@hahaha7834]

My rock canv run

[@user-rg7ru3lo9w]

Dreky Bry if they are learning to do this does that mean that they once moved?

[@tomatpast4231]

Lol

[@consuminginternalorgans]

Those rocks, they can never sit still

[@andrezcaradepez6344]

Next event: a little flood and puppeteered roaches, attach them to a string so they think they are alive

[@johnrossnavidad8396]

Andréz Cara de pez lol but what if the ants climb on the string?

[@BrokenSofa]

Love these videos. The story telling, beautiful environments, interactive things with the viewers and the best of all: the cool ways you show how ecology works by using these semi-closed eco systems. Just great job, thank you and good luck now and in the future 😃

[@hllindsay5208]

The nepenthes may not have done well being in the same soil with detrivores. N. x ventrata (ventricosa x alata) is a vigorous grower that, from my experience, is not a very demanding plant once given humidity and light. All my nepenthes are under red blue LEDs right now mixed in with some platycerium ferns and utricularia. They all grow in varied long fiber sphagnum mixes. The concern with decomposers is that they break down soil too fast for CPs. Nepenthes need fairly well aerated soil with minimal nutrient content to remain healthy. While nepenthes are more tolerant of minerals than dionaea and sarracenia, their roots still will burn with too many nutrients. The soil may just be too rich. I would suggest hooking them to the back wall of the terrarium in net pots filled with long fiber sphagnum and maybe some orchid bark and top watering when they start losing moisture. A note on nepenthes, these are tropical vines that can get very large. A great plant that is a little smaller and more bushy is N. ventricosa. It is known for having shorter, wider lower pitchers and does not tend to “scramble” as much as some of the other species and hybrids do. Also, congratulations on your channel and 1 million views! I stumbled upon it today while doing some research on myrmecophytes (ant plants) and have been watching for hours. Ant plants are plants that benefit and host colonies of ants. A lot of ant plants are epiphytic. Some include dischidia pectinoides, hydnophytum, myrmecodia, lecanopteris (ant ferns), and the famous fanged lowland giant, nepenthes bicalcarata (this nepenthes is known to be exceptionally large and develops two fangs that practically drip with nectar; due to its size and extreme lowland temperature requirements, it would not be a good terrarium candidate). The mentioned dischidia species is supposed to be very easy to keep and seeds easily. Your plants and animals look great!

[@cacio9752]

I personally think the wood lice should be called the woodsmen

[@carterlibby9346]

NicPgaming or lumberjacks

[@mars8814]

NicPgaming yup that’s a good name

[@greendaysilenthill]

3 words. Expand. Their. Territory. EXPAND THEIR TERRITORY Vastly different microecosystems connected via the acrylic tubing! Imagaine just what s difference 3 tanks could make for example; A barren desert with cacti, succulents, and other desert plants and maybe a small lizard to control the population, Another tank that perhaps is marshy with marssland and water/marsh plants, logs, feeder goldfish or frogs, anything swamp like. And finally just another forest like terrarium with entirely different plants than the Eldorado, and very unique features, maybe a faux broken antique vase, miniature statue, an old crate and some old stuff lol, etc. Just imagine the different scenerios that could go down. And watch the terrariums change over time. They could be just be smaller obviously, connected via tubing. I love to watch all the ecosystem grow as much as the ants. These were just examples, the gist is I'd love to watch the ants and other more interesting ecosystems evolve with your channel (: AntsCanads for life!!!

[@chiitaa4819]

Super nice idea! Sounds very pricey tho x_x' I wonder if he can even fit something like that in his room now.. One tank is taking an entire table already and the other setting is taking the other table D: [ Three years later - "My entire house is a tank now!" ]

[@rucebajer9361]

The seeds from each tank would slowly switch tanks I think. You’d have to use water levels to control the different zones.

[@ravenousrex4141]

Keaton Laver this sounds like a really interesting Idea!!

[@baja_blast_]

I thought you said 3 words this is like 1,2,3.... 50

[@olivertran2922]

Keaton Laver wow that's like a book report

[@Hello-qc4ir]

Woodlice form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 5,000 known species. Woodlice in the genus Armadillidium and in the family Armadillidae can roll up into an almost perfect sphere as a defensive mechanism, hence some of the common names such as pill bug, or roly-poly.

[@nekowolf2336]

..........ok.....

[@lucasofficer4806]

Shame about the pitcher plants.

[@TheKatarinaGiselle]

Yes, it is!

[@LazySpaceRaptor]

The ants are becoming civilized, they're learning. They may even develop technology. Wont be long till they petition for a new terrarium extension.

[@matimapping7380]

UltimateCatTree they will build towers and kill humans😂😂😂

[@h3llboy580]

Mini nukes will be flying around

[@JuanRodriguez-zu4vk]

The Mantis will make night vision goggles,but the ants make grappling hooks causing the doom of the mantis

[@djdrizzybaby]

Then tell those ants to make me a iPad

[@chazf488]

Nah they are gonna be rise of the planet of the ants

[@TorontoDrivers416]

13:47 an ant face plants into honey lol

[@tyshawnstubbs9315]

lol

[@ericchung7578]

Ant: "Alright, here comes the honey again!!! Time to eat this delicious, golden sap-" (Falls into the honey.) Ant: "AHHH DEAR GOD, SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!" Ant 2: "God dang it, Timothy's drowning again!"

[@emilyk6774]

lost in the sauce

[@NiceDice-ho1vm]

Your a bich

[@tyshawnstubbs9315]

WHY ME

[@mattsisson2394]

I think another reason the carnivorous plants died is lack of humidity. I use to grow all sorts of carnivorous plants and they need a ridiculous amount of humidity. I would have to completely wrap them in plastic and have the humidity high enough where the inside of the container was constantly wet with water droplets all on the plastic. With lots of trial and error I was finally able to make them flower. I don’t know how high of humidity ants need but from the looks of the inside of the tank it wasn’t humid enough

[@dragonmaid1360]

Have more puzzels and tasks for them - let's see how smart they can be when posed with an unusual task. For example your cockroach in the long piece of wire. I'd love to see more of that type of problem solving.

[@madatreatz]

Use a fan to simulate windy climates

[@rando2844]

Good idea

[@imadoinwat8994]

He should also spray water down! Make a full hurricane!

[@90210xyz]

Nice idea!

[@finnreuter1795]

good idea, I would also feed different insects so they don't grow used to their normal food supply's. (maybe even feed live insects? I know its hard to see but all the best for the ants right?)

[@benhornback955]

Not Ur Business thats just dumb

[@cavebelly]

Three years later: Woah!My ants evolved to be bipedal!

[@silent_stalker3687]

The ants build the wall on year 4 securing American borders

[@patrician1082]

Piggo - Animations and more! Evolution doesn't work that way

[@Paradee477]

Patrick Perrot it’s called a joke

[@cheetahgaming3642]

*Just ordered my second queen ant today!!! I'm going to try and get her first generation ready before winter finishes... IM HYPED!!!*

[@NorokVokun]

i love that the label on the honeyjar is in german xD

[@lucksh0t512]

just realized it also and went to check the comments about that :D

[@willmartin2552]

What does it say?

[@U9Sharky]

@@lucksh0t512 Me too. xD

[@U9Sharky]

@@willmartin2552 Just "flower honey".

[@psychedelicowl3275]

Lumber jacks!

[@catfishofpl1707]

Lumberjacks! (Wood lice)

[@llplaguell4930]

YES YES YES!

[@jadestory8410]

Oml yes

[@bookmarkr7694]

Yus

[@dylangrizzle]

I was thinking the same thing, haha! :D

[@masonreallylongpartski8688]

YESSSSSSSSSS

[@StephenRoyBurpsHumor]

Don't know about the mantis, but is that a spider web at 12:39 just to the right of being centered between the tall greens in the back and that 1 up front with lighter green leaves leaning off to the right? There's a small area of white-ish blur in the air just to the left of that leaning to the right lighter green growth up front.

[@metaphoracle1493]

Maybe see how "deep" they can go, by filling stacks of thin panels stacked to the main Habitat with a pipe with holes in the side stuck in the Habitat. This will also see how they transition from wild to artificial environments. Perhaps this way you can offer the crazy ants a Habatat designed with features to better observe their sub terrain activity.

[@blacksmith8469]

FOUND HER! Go to 8:41 and shes moving on the ground towards the left

[@SyberSqueegy]

He is correct. Pause @ 08:44, she's right at the bottom left edge of the screen. ...obscured by the video-time-bar.

[@hitxdarkice9495]

Yay

[@hitxdarkice9495]

Shes alive

[@dannyboygregory-mccormick9157]

Its not her its a milipede. Praying mantis don't move like that

[@thesurlyscientist998]

its the millipede

[@coenm209]

Wood lice should be called. The Micro Managers

[@yaboyroy8791]

TortoiseGames definitely

[@0megaransom169]

Yea

[@demo7484]

TortoiseGames YESSSSS

[@austingriffis9488]

Yes!!!!!!

[@Will.T517]

ya totally

[@thatguy-dk5id]

I just imagine just little finger sized people digging you down in their hiding hole and you screaming in agony while you try to escape it, stuck in the hole dying. It's a little vivid I know, but it scares me not being able to move in a very tight space

[@frostfallanimations7891]

I was thinking for a feeding thing, could you get a smaller box with not much in it and put a cockroach or two noncrushed and fighting in it, then play a sound and open it up to the ants. Close it after five minutes so that how ever many ants got in are the only ones who can fight the roach. Then when the roach is dead open it up to them to carry out, or if all ants are dead and the roach is alive leave it open for five more minutes then close it again until it's dead. Also after it's carried out, close it off until next feeding time. Leave what ever ants that are in the box when closed in their for the next roach.

[@iju5937]

Call the woodlice The lumberjacks

[@llplaguell4930]

YEAS!!!

[@MrLerkGaming]

Exactly my ide to sweet

[@BeavisSaves]

They're okay.

[@bee5707]

Yeas

[@Zulu-rz6fm]

Yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cocpop]

A C Your gunna wake up one day being dragged into an ants nest. I swear.

[@antsbc8684]

Yep.

[@bee5707]

Yup

[@edbones]

Yup

[@rhinnyfish]

Yup

[@trippyturtle777]

Yup

[@mcslasher5049]

I love the commentary in each video

[@logankelley609]

9:18 you can see the praying mantis

[@almaalvarez9751]

Where?

[@MrJames1034]

“Do you think they’re a bit too comfortable now? Should we be keeping them more on their toes, so to speak?” - God

[@MarlynCastaneda]

John Churchill lmfao

[@bertjedekat]

John Churchill lol if you think about it it's kinda fcked up to make it harder for them haha imagine it happening to our world "ye let's add some natural disasters the humans are to comfortable".

[@bertjedekat]

lol no bye as in you believing in God or as in powerful people controlling humanity?

[@dinitis]

God sounds human speaking English

[@haroldpetiluna281]

He added predators anyway so add a bit more like blowing a fan and sprinkilng water once and a while???

[@bomcaa]

A name for the wood lice could be "the lumberjacks" get it?

[@kristiansubala6277]

or the house maids

[@bellagrow3116]

Hundredth like

[@EmahStone]

I don't have any plans for the first time you saw him in

[@silentspider7537]

GALAXY GRIMM U ARE A GENIUS

[@kidgamer7172]

The Stickman Crew yes i get it

[@MasonGregoryStJames]

Dude this was cool af. I’d absolutely say this is evidence of ants learning. They basically rode the roach down there. Let it do most the work. Smart animals

[@tabbersftw3760]

Please do more still shots with music!!!! I love falling asleep listening to these videos

[@wqtransports]

CALL them the. LUMBERJACKS

[@merrillringwood5550]

I had the same idea.

[@shimmypost852]

witch one?

[@patrickrhodes9284]

Great idea!

[@richardpedraza19]

no jaxz Luumberers

[@AtomicThunder]

wolfgang1691 Great minds think alike

[@roryd7017]

I would add another predator/ live prey and competitors for the prey

[@ryancasey4038]

I always thought he shouldn't be adding 1 predator at a time, because the ants can eventually overcome them or they die out. It would be more effective to add a species of predator capable of mating while inside the terrarium so they don't die off so easy. The only problem with this is the possibility of the predator outcompeting the ants and killing them off. But they're so well established already I find that possibility unlikely. Mantises would be a good fit for this. They're good at hunting the ants, but too large to fit inside the tunnels themselves. Essentially meaning the ants have a safe-haven where they cannot be killed or loose their foothold in the terrarium. So no matter how many ants the Mantises kill, it's impossible for the ants to be wiped out.

[@Cheesus-Sliced]

I think you should feed them a couple of live, uncrushed and feisty roaches. Not nice for the roaches, but it will certainly shake things up a bit when the food starts fighting back again. Also, wait longer to give them some honey. Let them get a bit hungrier for the sugar, then they might get a bit more excited

[@scorpiushanaseussoulcopyat9790]

Uh, l think I saw the mantis moving at 9:13. A large brown stick-like-colored thing hidden at the bottom center of the screen. The movement is large. Ya know why l assume? 1)The only living things that is large is the cockroach, which is an offering, the mantis is now hidden. 2)The mantis may be caught by the ants and is now in a search, so it may be hiding there. By the way if you pause it there and let the pause button stay, look at the downward point at the pause button.

[@emilily6513]

I'm pretty sure it's being eaten at 14:33

[@heeheehaheho5649]

Emilee L. What? That's the cockroach they pushed into the nest, I think

[@goat2007]

Emilee L. True

[@ozman0933]

Ohhhh yeeeaahhhh

[@Erik-fl4ev]

Scorpius Hanaseus rrf

[@wooper5202]

Live prey occasionally may be a simple remedy to the Golden Empire’s potential sedentary lifestyle dilemma!

[@connorkruithof700]

You should make a small pond for a few small fish in there, they will eat the ants if one decides to go in the water

[@richardwheeldon7862]

I wouldn't be opposed to maybe some small crustaceans like Daphnia being introduced to a little pond, maybe coupled with water beetles.

[@kettyamadorwilson1838]

I love how he narrates his episodes

[@mcarr3492]

My way of seeing how much the colony has grown is watching the ants moving on the walls, and how many there are now compared to when they first moved in

[@three-bark1928]

15:00 i think you need to give these ants something completely different, like change their feeding schedule to catch them of guard, bring them 3 days of floods, i don't know, i'm just pulling at straws here

[@wowrex5468]

Call them. Lumberjacks!

[@lukaria_1037]

Quick Question: Where do you get all this cool music?

[@powerofgrace7673]

You should add live pray to make them work for food or those clear tubing you use so they can have more areas to explore and set their food there

[@wonderchickens]

Call the woodlice "The Lousy Lumberjacks" Edit: Because a singular lice is called a Louse

[@bookmarkr7694]

WonderChickens maybe change lousy to louse-y for a more punny word too ;P

[@phelan_pt]

Yeeessss! Love this!

[@bee5707]

Yeas queen

[@shojitheemoji]

Agreed

[@mccurry-thevindallo9391]

Yass boo

[@eugenejackson9283]

My advice would be to give them a live uncrushed roach that they can attack and target and learn how to actually kill their own food again. They might be coming complacent about the food they get and eat, Perhaps have the honey on a pole or container above the ground forcing them to work?

[@russellklenz7152]

I LOVE this and have been binge watching for 4 days now

[@yellowmoon1188]

I think it'd be really cool if you kept 3 different species of ants in one giant enclosure. You could maybe divide the colonies by creating streams of water that flow throughout the tank, and you could maybe connect each island by making small land bridges. I just wonder how long it would take until each colony discovers each other. I feel like if you put a cockroach on one of the land bridges, the rivals would meet on it and fight each other for the food.

[@udbhasdutta3499]

You know, i was watching your mantis video while having my breakfast....And i didn't even remember to feel eew seeing your ants...That's when I realised my love for nature once again....

[@Magic-np1ws]

The wood lice should be called the lumberjacks!

[@mrblajeck3367]

Magic stop stealing comments

[@rachelciccarone]

Someone already commented that

[@jmjmvs]

Magic Good idea!

[@Chan0art]

the mitey lumber jacks lol

[@falcon2345]

no woddsman

[@ane8201]

Haha i love how you pronounce Hacienda del dorado! Love from Spain.

[@erichansen7903]

12:42 i believe top right just in start of the green foliage.

[@dopegrahamcracker2809]

Name the wood lice the lumberjacks Edit: wow, I had no idea I would get this many likes lol

[@llplaguell4930]

YES

[@BeavisSaves]

They're okay

[@michaelhamblyn4563]

Fantastic!

[@Nadiki]

It's possible that the mantis camouflaged herself. Many mantids are able to change their color to match their environment.

[@darktyrannos7373]

What They Can Do That I Didn't Even Know

[@mckenzievlogs6675]

_Nadiki_ you could be right

[@sergioibarra3461]

Endu Thongprasert they can only imitate the colors of their surroundings when they molt, they are not chameleonic

[@papapapa2856]

_Nadiki_ do you mean mantis or man tits?

[@sealdogderp26]

HACKED HACKED man tits

[@prismgaurdian2951]

You know your golden empire's home is basically a miniature ecosystem. Pretty neat.

[@kingangst233]

I found this channel yesterday and keep watching older videos

[@tophpain]

Soon Antscanada is going to become the real ant-man!

[@user-cc1ut5ef4f]

Galaxyjournal Nice one

[@tophpain]

Epic Games but like imagine it tho. Which ant's would he use all the time to protect people? The golden empire? The fire nation?

[@IveGotGamez]

Hey could use both

[@IveGotGamez]

Golden Empire as his body guards and fire nation as soldiers

[@MeowCows56]

Since the people in the comments have found her, when are we going to have the naming poll for the praying mantis?

[@heatherkrupa9440]

Rebecca Robson let’s name her PATRICIA

[@hisokamorow6709]

At the beginning it kind of anoyed me how he said "Jacienda del dOreido" by now i find it cute :D keep the good work m8!

[@zeris_kchannel6508]

yeah i see the mantis at the top corner of the terrarium. i see this at 10:49, you can see the outline of her body against the acrylic or glass.

[@MLrandom]

name for the woodlice: wooddini's because they came out of no where

[@TheLocutus70]

BrilliANT.

[@jackjack_33]

:clap:

[@fortuneleee]

Hahaha YES!

[@superwolfkid2310]

Noice

[@tank7123]

Hooodini!!!!

[@antsflorida2520]

Its only a matter of time til they make weapons

[@the_egg_]

lol

[@333stalker]

Look out for ballista.

[@demonicc802]

Maybe they’ll escape

[@AlexS-sc3gb]

A weapon to surpass metal gear!

[@antsflorida2520]

Alexander Simanovsky snake snake Snaaaaaaake

[@spedokeledo9883]

The Little Woodchippers IS WHAT I WOULD CALL THEM

[@CharlMarais247]

9:12 from the bottom left corner. Look behind the first layer of leaves