Ants.
Creepy little soil dwellers that will march into your home if you aren’t careful.
There are …. Wait for it….
ten trillion ants on earth….
So….what if they were bigger than humans.
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, the channel that loves a good old
fashioned piece of fanciful pondering!
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate, and today I am asking WHAT IF ANTS were 10ft Tall?
Crikey.
Before we get into this video, why don’t you let me know your feelings on ants.
Spill tea…although don’t drop the sugar cube as those ants will be marching away with
it.
Also while you are down there letting me know if you’re an ant murderer or not, why don’t
you also leave a big beautiful thumbs up on this video and share it with a friend.
Also check out the links in the description to all of the people that went into making
this video and of course stick around to the end where I will be reading comments from
a previous video.
ANTS.
Now is your last chance to start playing the game where you count how many times I say
Ants in this video.
Ready.
ANTS.
Ants are roughly 1-3 millimetres in length…wee little buddies.
Your average black garden ant, the common ant, Is around 3 millimetres, with bigger
workers reaching 5 millimetres and Queen ants reaching 6-9 millimetres.
The BIGGEST ants in the world are currently BULLET ants….
Which are about as fun as they sound…
These absolute menaces are 3-4 CENTIMETRES in length, so ten times the size of your average
garden ant, anddddd they sting.
A sting from a regular sized bullet ant can last 48 hours.
Right right rightttt….
Also, in general, ants are HELLA STRONG.
A common ant can lift 1,000 times their weight.
This is the equivalent of a human of being able to lift 75 US Tons, which is the weight
of about 12 elephants…or very roughly the weight of a space shuttle.
Soooo, circling back to the whole 10 ft thing….
10 ft is roughly 3 metres.
3 metres is 1 thousand times the size of a regular ant…which makes me VERY NERVOUS.
Are we going to scale here, too?
If regular ants are 10 feet tall, regular queens would be roughly 20-29 feet tall….and
BULLET ANTS would be 98 feet tall and I just want to cry!
Like… many things to say here, but first thing is first – your garden is about to
get WAY MORE CROWDED!
Regular garden ant colonies are around 7,000 ants strong….
But they can get as big as 40,000 ants….
Which….AH!
Stress!
The whole blooming world is going to get far more crowed.
We will be outnumber by giant ants twice our size 7.5 billion to 10 trillion!
That means, if my at times dubious mathematics serves me correctly, there will be 1 thousand
333 ants to every human.
They will be bigger than us, they will be stronger than us… and… well… they will
probably eat us.
Ants are omnivores, they will eat plants and they will eat bugs… right now they are happy
to fight little spiders and eat bugs their size, so they wont worry about us.
The Giant Garden ants aren’t event reeealllly the issue.
There are 12,000 varieties of ants and you don’t want to meet them.
YO SOME ANTS CAN FLY AND SOME ANTS CAN STING.
Let me tell you about a couple that are already horrifying before you factor in the whole
thousand times bigger thing….
Urrrm FIRE ants… winner winner, honey is a stinger…we already talked about the dastardly
bullet ants… but the real concern is the BULLDOG ant… the most dangerous ant in the
world, official – These can already kill adults with their venomous bites, soo…you
have no chance against one 1000 times bigger than reg!
These live on the coast of Australia, so Ozzie baes, you better start your antpocalypse plans
now, should these red devils mutate!
Basically, what we are looking at with 10 ft and taller ants are new apex predators.
Maybe they will be the ones pouring hot water on our homes to get rid of us when we become
pests….although… the lack of opposable thumbs and a prior knowledge of electrical
appliances may make that difficult.
None the less, ants have existed for around 120 million years.
They are a much older species than us humans.
10 ft tall ants would take over the world with their colonies… imagine the state of
the earth with giant ants digging it up.
Chaos!
The only defence we can hope for is seeking out each colonies queens and killing them,
for we know that the colony falls if the queen dies…..eventually anyway.
BUT getting to her, well, outnumbered as we are, it would be very hard.
It isn’t just humans who are totally screwed by the existence of giant ants, the food chain
would be all off!
Ants provide the food source for a lot of other species in the food chain.
Birds would go hungry….
Maybe they will be ant food ….cause…hate to break it to you, some ants can fly.
Listen, I am abouts done with this absolute horror express of a video, are you?
10 ft ants would be a nightmare land.
I’d love to watch a movie about it, I would absolutely hate to live it.
So lets move on with our lives.
Thaaanks.
Do leave a thumbs up on this video, though.
I know Stephen Spielberg is a big fan of life’s biggest questions, so maybe the like ratio
will encourage him to create REVENGE of the FIRE ANTS… you can have that one for free,
Steve… if I can have a starring role that is!
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