[Intro]
Greetings, A.C. Family. We've got a special video for this week.
And boy is it satisfying... Well, if you're an ant-lover like me, that is.
Because we received such a great response to our previous video, several months back, of our black crazy ants,
the Dark Nights, drinking drops of honey,
I wanted to do a similar video this week.
A lot of you guy have commented saying watching the ants just doing their thing is super relaxing.
So this week, something a little different:
Our Golden Empire simply carrying fish food from a container to their nest.
I know it's odd,
but this video will relax you and put you in an 'ants trance' as I also talk about the Golden Empire,
their society, their behaviors and more.
So keep on watching until the end.
A.C. Family, let's sit back and watch our Golden Empire and what the Koreans call a "mukbang"
in this ant watching episode of the AntsCanada Ant Channel.
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Bon appetit.
Let's start by laying down our small container of fish food right here, into the Hacienda Del Dorado.
It isn't long before a couple workers discover our food and inform the rest of the colony that they've discovered the goods.
And so starts the hypnotic process of food collection.
Let's watch
They say keeping tropical fish tanks
Can lower people's blood pressure and stress in my opinion and personal experience and watching has a similar relaxation effect
We receive so many comments in our hidden videos every week which are very much like this video about how these time lapse and seemingly
Monotonous activities of the Ants are
Relaxing even proving therapeutic for some of our viewers dealing with anxiety ADD
hypertension and other physical conditions
If you're like me, you could watch the ants do this for hours and hours and not get bored
But I've time lapse this video. So you could watch the complete process in a shorter amount of time
This is their normal speed
But let's get back to the timeline shall [we] I?
Found that the Golden Empire our yellow crazy ants are quite easy to feed and they accept a wide range of different foods
It's no wonder this species [has] been so successful at invading most tropical parts of the world
Dello Crazy ants are known as pan tropical meaning they can be found in all areas with a tropical [climate]
We don't exactly know for sure where this species originated
But scientists suspect that they originated in West Africa and have migrated across seas to all other tropical
areas Via human activities like Transport of Plants and goods they hitched rides on our boats and
Cargo and the colonies were able to conquer countries and out-Compete and displays other ends
There truly an empire that has succeeded as far as invasive and scope
The species recently gained a lot of popularity due to a feature in a wildlife
Documentary Which popularized yellow crazy ants as killers of native crabs on Christmas Island?
Part of the reason for their success is not only due [to] their vivacious and ravenous nature
But also due to the fact that they accept multiple Queens and colonies can fuse together
creating huge Super colonies
In fact the Golden Empire here is actually the result of three yellow crazy and colonies combined if you're new [to] the channel
Feel free to check out our yellow crazy ant playlist to watch how this colony our Golden Empire came to be
Look at how the ants carry each individual piece
Keep in mind those are heavy
It would be comparable to us lifting boulders carrying it up over and down a vertical surface
Then onto the nest the ants are super quick and effective
I
Just love watching the ants do this. It's kind of like watching an hourglass, but Cooler
It's just amazing to think that the ants can carry out operations
Like this in such a short amount of time and with the simplest of communication
Ac family have any of you guys taking the time to watch ants work?
What was it like?
For me relaxation via observation of the ants working maybe one of the practical benefits of and keeping it
Seems like the ants are carrying the food into a certain chamber underneath this driftwood as the ants carry the food back
They lay down a pheromone trail all the way back into the nest
To show ants leaving the nest exactly where to find the food this trail keeps on getting
Reinforced as more and more ants return to the nest with food while also adding to that pheromonal trail the thicker that trail becomes
The more eager the ants join in on the campaign and head out to bring back the fish food
Want to hear something interesting Ac family so the ants themselves don't have the ability to chew up this completely dry fish food
These adult ants simply don't have the chewing mouthparts
Adult ants are able to consume mashes [and] liquids much easier than these super dry items like this fish food
So I expect what these ends of the Golden empire are going to do is either one
They'll store the food in a very moist chamber of their nest until the fish food softens so they can eat it easier or two
they feed it to their larvae the babies who actually do have the chewing mouth parts to eat Solid Foods and
Then please from the chewed up pre processed foods that the larvae
Regurgitate isn't that neat this latter method. Which we know ants do means the babies eat first and then the adults
Quite a different feeding system that seems to work for the [ends]
Almost done now the entire process took just about half an hour to complete
For those of you who would like to get into an keeping and there are bit squeamish about keeping live feeder insects like crickets mealworms
Or roaches in your home if you can get your hands to feed from a high quality fish food like this
You're said your aunt's will be able to get all the protein from the fish and other seafood ingredients in the fish food
Okay, Ac family so you can truly [enjoy] this relaxing and watching experience
I'm just going to leave you alone now for just a few minutes
So you can watch the ants and get lost in an ant trance. I'll be back in about three minutes. Enjoy
and
The final Crumbs are collected and the fish food supply is done
So what happens now is the ants that come to the container and find out that there's actually no food like the pheromone trail promised
Simply return back to the nest but don't leave a pheromone trail
This causes the original pheromonal trail to weaken over time so less and less ants end up coming to the container in search of food
And there you have
So what do you say is that relaxing?
Let me know if you like these kinds of videos or if you have any
suggestions of other time lapses you guys would like to see
Tell me in the comment section. Thanks for joining us for another week, Ac family. It's [ant] love forever
Okay, Ac family Ac in our colony
Here's your hidden video of this video non time next
Honestly in my opinion the non time lapsed version is actually much more satisfying than this video
It's just longer and now it's time for the Ac question of the week
Last week we asked explain how any two living things plants or animals?
benefit each other in the Hacienda Del Dorado
congratulations to
Jaden Seven six five four three two one clash of clans who correctly answered the aphids give the [ant] honey boo in exchange for protection
Congratulations Jaden
You just won a free Ac test to portal from our shop
For this week's a key question of the week we asked
What does depend tropical mean leave your answer in the comments section and you could win a free ebook handbook from our shop
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