Hi, guys AntsCanada here welcome to the ant Canada and channel. [I] am here in the [beautiful] island of
guam
It's a little tiny island in the pacific. It's gorgeous out here
These islands are awesome
And you know what it's so lush full of amazing plant life amazing animals and of course amazing ants now
I just arrived from Honolulu, Hawaii, which is
Several thousand miles away, but still in the pacific, and you know I had no [idea]
What kind of ants they had there and when I was going [anting]?
I actually didn't recognize a lot of the ants
but what I did find were ant in the process of helping make some amazing products that we humans use and
Consume hope you guys like this video and check out [some] of the ants that help us make chocolate coffee and create pineapples
Hope you like the video okay, so this ant here
Is a [campanaro] it's a camponotus
but in a day apparently, it'll bite me but
If this is Camponotus, I don't think it'll bite me
People are saying it'll bite
Mmm. I have no idea. What species. This is it's so tiny like
Look at that [fur] referencing
the finger Tiny species of ant
What is that?
Never seen it before
kind of
Was going to say laziest, but no that's not a laziest and that's something else
It's just running along this log here
Ummm
on this beach
here in Hawaii
Okay, here are more of those ants that I saw
on that log, but
these ants are
Running along this wooden bench here
still by the Beach
this is a
Highway for them continue as normal [I] don't know what species. This is hmM
The oh when their gas stars are full they're eating something [oh]
Ok they're going to this bush here I
wonder if they're tenting pontiff it's
Or if they're filling themselves up on nectar
from the buds
Let's go check
There is a really tiny species of ant I don't know what that is I?
Am
going to be a miniature species of
[Solenopsis]
Or some other end. I'm sorry guys I
Don't want to make a guess and not know for sure or with some
Degree of certainty, so [there] are beetles here, not sure what kind that this looks like it's a I
don't know what tortoise beetle or
like a ladybug, and I'm assuming at each plant insects, so
Ok like yes, there are plant insects here that the ants are farming I?
also see a
Leaf insect, they're
trying to look [for] where [their]
[Athan] farm is from Platform. Oh
They're coming out of this hole
Okay, so basically they're going up this wall here
Up up up the wall and into this
Tiny hole here
Which is where their nest is very neat
Awesome. I don't know what species. This is I mean
Could they be laziness the laziest niger I've never even seen laziest niger in real life
I'm going to have to ask my taxonomist friends. What species. They feel this is
Ok guys, so get this these here are
coffee bean trees see and
What I found really [cool] was [that] if you look at these blossoms?
You'll find that there are ants frequenting them
[they're] drinking the nectar from the blossoms now
The reason I find this interesting is because it's parrot ok no longer [Cornus]
black crazy ants
The reason I find this interesting is because the ants here are
pollinating the blossoms which allow the
Entire Tree here to produce the fruit which we end up using for coffee
See if we can get a closer look
See the block crazy ants going in and out
So what happens is these black crazy ants enter the flower?
to
Feed on the goodies inside the nectar but on their bodies end
up Little tiny
Grains of Pollen
which
They you know inadvertently
Transport to other blossoms and
therefore they they pollinate this plant which then allows the plant to
create these fruit and
then when this fruit Ripens
Like these here they turn red
We harvest them or they fall on the ground and then we process them [and] turn them [into]
coffee
Isn't that amazing? So if it weren't for these ants?
We wouldn't be able to have coffee
It's really amazing to [think] about that
Thank you ants for the great coffee and for keeping millions of people around the world
awake
every day
now the insect that pollinates the
Blossoms is different depending [on] the location and the country
The available pollinators in the region, but in this case it's black crazy ants
Thank you, Para Turkey. No longer [Cornus] and
equally as interesting this here is a
Cacao Tree
Where we of course?
Get the fruit that
creates chocolate
And let's see [see] if we can look carefully here
It grows along you see these blossoms here it just grows along the bark
Check out there see this fruit here
see that fruit
We harvest
The materials needed for chocolate I guess the seeds the beans
[from] this fruit and see it starts off as a little tiny tiny little thing like that
We can focus there
The fruit starts off as a little tiny thing like that, but in order to get from that
to that
We need pollination to happen first [so] see these little tongue blossoms here
they offer some awesome goodies for ants and
Right now we do I can see an ant crawling up the stem?
It item not sure what species it is
but there are ants there and
what they do is they feed on the nectar and again the little grains of Pollen end up on their bodies and
Then they without even knowing pollinate this flower
Which then allows the flower to turn into that little?
thing there
Which grows into these fruit and from these fruits?
we harvest the seeds and
We turn it into chocolate, so thanks to ants to these ants this unknown identified species
We can enjoy chocolate
It's really amazing you see plants need the help of insects like ants in order to breed
It's pretty amazing [to] think about that right can you imagine if Humans had to depend on insects to breed?
if humans had to depend on [ants] to Reproduce [I]
Think and keeping would be a very much more popular Hobby than it is today
So speaking of pollination. [I'm] here at the dole plantation
site and
Look at all of these really tiny ants in
this
pineapple
type plant see they're
pollinating
the Little flowers here
See if we close
Which allows us to benefit because the plants create fruit pineapple fruits?
Look at the ants
Thank you ants for giving us pineapples - well. Thank you - the pineapple plant but
Thank you to answer for pollinating them
And once [again]. I don't know what species. They are. I am so sorry guys. I'm not [a] taxon amidst
What an interesting flower?
I believe pineapples belong to the bromeliad family of Plants
see [there's] [a]
what a pineapple
bush looks like so
after pollination of the flowers
that these little buds turn into
These huge pineapples, and then we harvest them, but if we don't harvest them naturally what happens is
this stock here weekends it falls and then a
New pineapple plant grows, it's kind of neat, so this is how
pineapples
reproduce kind of like strawberries, and then see this I
suppose
Somehow it starts the root. I don't know from there and
Ants are part of this whole process of the pineapple plant
Reproducing is that then that cool?
and there you [have] it guys ants that helped us make coffee chocolate and
Create pineapples. It's really amazing and you know there are tons of other products that we humans use
and grow and create
That are derived from plants that require the help of insects and pollinators like ants. So it really really is amazing
Thank you so much for watching. I hope you guys get to discover these amazing islands out here in the pacific
There are so many in the area of Polynesia and micronesia
Look at this Island. How can you not love?
And if you ever get a chance to go to Hawaii
Please do it's really really a fantastic place full of amazing animals amazing plants and of course amazing ends
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Wow guys okay, so these ants I recognize these are
a Napoles
Gracilis [Peas], it's some
Yellow Crazy ants they're all over this rock. I don't know if you can see them. It's kind of hard for me to
See them
[pen] Tropical species if you watched our
Valley Indonesia video
Saw a lot of them there, and they're here in Hawaii to
Thousands of Miles away now. These are an invasive species, so they've managed to
invade
many many tropical areas are also found in the philippines -
very cool
[deliver] they're literally all over this rock here. I wonder where their nest is
Cool-looking rock where are these lichens yeah?
just a quick pan of the
habitat
Back to the yellow crazy ants even though [they] called yellow crazy ants. They're actually more of an orange color
and
They kind of remind me of Eco Phyllis [Medina] in
The way they move and their build, but they're a bit smaller
Cool