Why this Plant Invites an Ant to Eat its Prey

[@terramater]

Have you ever hear about the symbiotic relationship between Camponotus Schmitzi ants and carnivorous plants before? 🐜😮

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Never until now

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Mindblowing for sur2

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If a super volcano erupted or a giant astroid hit earth destroying humanity could mother nature re-build from the ground up from wear humans left off from destroying it and if so would there still be permanent damage or would there be so much permanent damage that plants and living creatures wouldn't be able to adapt fast enough in new habitats destroying all of what is on earth entirely leaveing it as just rock and dirt in space and nothing less

[@Cleeon]

I bought the plant, directly from Borneo nursery of Nepenthes, but don't get any of that ants, sad

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No sir

[@TreyPDB]

"Hey, the fly is still struggling. Wanna fight?" "Yeah, sure."

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The bug :yea i am bored

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Its like being a house maid to a serial killer who feeds you his victims....

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Love this! I also tried putting carnivorous pitcher plants in my ant terrarium once. What ended up happening was surprising! I filmed the result for my channel. Ants and plants form crazy relationships for sure!

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[@WanderTheNomad]

I wondered how the assassin bug evolved that layer of grease. Was it specifically for maneuvering the carnivorous plant? Or was it for another reason and happened to be a beneficial side effect?

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My bet is that it helped keep them safe from fungal spores or something, it seems like insects always have to worry about that kind of thing.

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also if the environment they live in is very wet an extra layer of grease can help them maneuver easily.

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The assassin bug approach it's prey with caution The fly: DUDE STOP POKING MY ASS!!

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I know about a species named Nepenthes albomarginata, that literally cultivates certain termites. the termites protect the plant and keep it free from locusts, but also sends large groups of its own workers into the pitchers just to feed them.

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I’m both disturbed and amazed. Carnivorous plants are nature’s horror shows.

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I really like these videos about carnivorous plants. I guess it's some kind of morbid curiousity

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[@ethanrotheram1096]

If I’m correct, nepenthes bicalcarata CAN digest prey by itself since is has gastric juices, but it’s juices are weaker than other pitcher plants and it benefits greatly from the ants 🐜. But the other plant needs the Assassin Bug to digest for it because that plant has no digestive enzymes. Good video btw

[@your_average_blanket_lover3732]

The ant in the nepenthes bicalcarata *used* ti be camponotus,now it’s been put in the genus colobopsis,making it colobopsis schmitzi

[@chrisjett313]

First time I'm hearing about carnivorous plants and I'm 32

[@catwhite905]

3:10 its actually really ez for an ant to escape just watch ants Canada's:"ants vs carnivorous plants" Spoiler warning! The golden empires ants are ever-learning and they place random stuff like fly wings into the plant and the plant provides them with a sweet secretion at the plants so called 'lips' and the ants 'yellow crazy ants' feed the plants and when they become old they become safe but at the start they eat some ants. Edit: oh yeah yellow crazy ants are good swimmers.

[@ericcloud1023]

Vis-cus viscous, not vi-shish vicious, narrator the enzyme is to viscous to penetrate the shell. I doubt it's to vicious....being inanimate and all lmao

[@Absolute_Goblin]

Ant: "hey Larry this guy says he has free nectar" Other ant: "nice what does he want in return?" Plant: "POOP IN MY MOUTH"

[@heleavesthe99]

😒

[@freespeechisdead1565]

0:58 Did he mean viscous? Or is he saying the resin is especially ornery?

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[@JessHull]

Did this guy seriously refer to the Roridula as a pitcher plant?! ahhaha

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"Too vicious" pretty sure he meant viscous but it gave me a solid laugh to imagine agressive slime.

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Unimpended* -unimpeded

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[@DeinocheirusWithAGun]

Ants are cute tbh

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They really are - with their big eyes! 🐜

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What a beautiful Nepenthes bicalcarata..

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I love my Nepenthes. So much diversity!

[@feroxformicae6553]

Very interesting video, but Camponotus schmitzi and it’s relatives were incorporated into their own genus, Colobopsis, in 2016. They’re commonly known a cork-head or stopper ants due to the cork-like heads of major workers that they use to block the nest entrance with. Still though, great video! :)

[@TrapTherapy]

that rafflesiana var nivea in 2:29 is magnificent

[@antcow1239]

Speaking of pitcher plants, how do they get rid of the bodies on their own?

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The pitcher is filled with a digestive juice that digests the insects that fall into the trap!

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Interesting topic, never heard of this before but I am not surprised. Nicely done!

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I love the sound design. Its like ASMR.

[@Epoch11]

Too vicious or too viscous? Haha 😂

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Me sleeping peacefully: My mind : wanna see an ant cleaning a serial killer's house

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Vicious glue 😂 Not viscous?

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‘Uninpended access’ too. Should be, ‘unimpeded’. lmao

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[@boredwarlock5216]

Foley on the assassin-bug is too much. But it was good up to that point. Those high pitched noises on the legs/plant interacting, hurts your ears with headphones in

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[@hansensei6626]

Sometimes we are thinking too complex while there is simple answer, the ants were too small, little nutrient values and to exhausting to digest while they were just being oportunistic lives in the plants and rob the bigger trapped prey

[@Halo56782]

"With caution" bug proceeds to spaz wildly

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Beautyful nature 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Indeed!

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Each plant have ten ants as tenants

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I thought my life sucked! But when I see the fate of that fly, I am happy to go to work everyday lol

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Any of you know, where to buy that Nepenthes, which also included that ants colony, for sale?

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[@XoADREADNOUGHT]

lmao. Too "vicious"... You meant "viscous", pronounced "visk-kuss". I spit my drink out at that...

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[@teebee7769]

3:06 Schmitty!!!!

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Ant: it started as a dare...

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This is amazing!

Are those fishes in the pitcher plants

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Did he mean "vicious" or "viscous"?

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When 🐛 get more free protein than you 😂

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VisKous.

[@theshuman100]

0:57 bruh i know you wanna hype up the plant but i think the word is viscous not vicious

[@swampfox1wot]

0:58 Not vicious, but viscous.

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The cyberpunk music in the background

[@Danigon876]

Assassin bugs are awesome for killing flies like this.

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Real question, what is the name of music? XD

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I think you meant viscous not vicious

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Good info but music killed the taste

[@The_Kirk_Lazarus]

Vicious or viscous?

[@Waltzer69]

Ngl, the plant at the start got chonky.

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Natural way of reducing insect population 💯🥊🥊

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Wow this is excellent. Thought it was some Nat geo stuff.

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"Vicious" "Adaption" "Unimpended" It's kinda off-putting to hear incorrectly used words in an otherwise very slick video.