The Thin Blue Ant Farm - Black Ant Antworks Close Up / Macro

[xXxMetroManxXx]

wtf is wrong with you people.. its just ants :S

[Timenova2]

@xXxMetroManxXx Plenty of people find them interesting and take the time to observe them. There's nothing wrong with that.

[kozmon0t]

The ants aren't drowning... they're BORED

All these comments from people who've never had an ant farm.

Even in a dirt or sand ant farm, all they usually do is sit around.

They might be more active if the temperature fluctuated. If they think it's too cold, they'll just sit there and wait for daylight.

[Timenova2]

@kozmon0t They're drowned. Ants don't get 'bored'. They sleep for a few minutes at a time, yes. They sit calmly while looking after their brood, yes. But they're not meant for that kind of environment, and that is why the larvae are rotting in that gel, and the workers are either drowned or trying to stay above it.

[Zamorak4251]

@vinnieismyname the ants are being Tortured. They are to small and not meant for that habitat. They are sticking to the water and will probably drown.

[Fryzjer2014]

torturujesz te mrówki dzieciaku ...

You torture this ants stupid kid

[gyedc]

@Fryzjer2014 wszystkie kobiety bardzo piękne polskie...x

[vinnieismyname]

@Fryzjer2014 it's hardly torture the gel provide food and water and they are kept safe from natural predators.

[falsemapturtle]

This is wicked, the music and some of the shots are really cool. Some bits look a little depressing but I think that's prolly just through anthropomorphising. Thank you!

[ZombieAppReviews]

Ant Slavery?

These ants are kinda "programed" to dig tunnels because that is there purpose of life!

This is not slavery....

[Timenova2]

@ZombieAppReviews You'd be surprised, actually. They are more than that.

[thetitanicisdead]

Hey just a question. I am thinking of buying an antfarm just like this for a science project, and I was wondering can you buy a Queen ant to go with your worker ants, you know so you can have a succesful colony and make it last for a few years instead of months? Thanks.

[PreppyPoser1]

@thetitanicisdead nope this shit sucks bad, buy a normal one - antstore

[SteveSabbai]

...Ant Slavery!...

[maltej1982]

this is auschwitz for ants. dont buy those crap!

[88keito]

LOL @ 2.01

"must,,commit,,suicide,,life,,­is,,hard,,in,,here" ahahaha

[rantworks]

you can use your own container - antworks and ant farms are pretty expensive.

antchow dot com sells a refill gel.

[danthemans]

i wish people wouldnt put ant aquariums in the sun... sheesh.

the water on the glass says they are cooking...

no wonder they are trying to escape dude...

boiled alive like a poor lobster... :[

[danthemans]

i wish people wouldnt put ant aquariums in the sun... sheesh.

the water on the glass says they are cooking...

no wonder they are trying to escape dude...

boiled alive like a poor lobster... :[

[ptnfstr]

i have that in my room.

[citycobra]

hahahahahahahaha stupid ants! hahahahaha

[ProjectKYA]

Lol, I like how pissed you guys are getting about ants dieing. The music is what makes it sad.

[nightjj]

i NEED help

i ordered a Lasius Niger colony.

INcluding a queen.

they are all slowly DIENG. i have them for 2 days now, and the Queen keeps digging hirself Stuck between the glass and the gel, the rest is dieng!!!! it hurst my feelings to see them be like that, especially the queen.... should i release the queen maybe-!???? or Tell me what to do!!!! just a queen and 5 ants left, +10 egs

[MermaidBabe1998]

The ants seem to be in distress...but does this ant farm really work?

[josefiSnch]

Good, ants are filthy, they disgust so badly

[djgoodfather]

einfach nur schrecklich...

dieses gel tötet die ameisen... tiere sind doch kein spielzeug... lasst bloss die finger davon leute...

dieses video beweist , nach ca. 1monat sterben die daran...

gel ist kein natürliches material...

am besten so wie andere ameisenfarm mit erde un so...

gruss chris

[batterycock]

wtf..most of these ants are dying or dead....

[Chris0151Mc]

do you get a queen ant in the tubes?

[bomerman104]

no just the workers and drones i think you get the carpenter ants

[nightjj]

@Chris0151Mc

i got it in a little Tube

you get a Queen (wich can become very old)

and Ant egs, if your lucky the queen lays some extra while transporting.

in the middle of a tube is a white piece of (kathon ish soft thing, i dont know whats it called in english, you know those ear cleaners? i mean that source)

with at 1 side the ants and some food. and at the other side water

in my case there got Mult on it

[AdognamedOp]

Good production. You should check out the movie "Phase IV", if you havent already.

[c0linaf]

i ordered harvester ants, they are bigger

[voie3]

where they drowning

[DvDPlaya]

lol looks way too humid

[Bazomanda]

i second that. Looks like alot of them are really finding it tough.

[neyo245]

agreed

[offensivecoconuts]

ant works is crap!! I bought it as my first real ant farm and my ants (lasius niger) crawled out the air holes and dug through the foam on the lid thats ment to keep them in!!!

I'd sugest building your own one... skimatics are easy to find on the net, and its much more cheaper and enjoyable too!!

[SnakeDangerous]

well if you get ones from the backayd well of course they can get out but i like to get the big black ones.. they dont have sticky hands ;)

[SnakeDangerous]

JUST GET BIGGER ONES! not the damn small ones

i have the Ant colony farm gel one and they didnt get out of that

[tearskeepfalling]

looks like the ant are on water

[girlrock555]

I WANT TO FAINT.

[ZeusTheDoberman]

haha, you got the wrong ants

[Calliber50]

THE HORROR!!!

[CrabbyHermit]

Poop, you're a sick sadistic bastard. :D

The music is sad because the ants are trapped in a gel-filled container and slowly dying. SLOWLY.

Yay, science!

[blahblahbanana1]

@CrabbyHermit

They aren't dying. The gel provides the nutrition they need. They live just as long as they would in the wild.

[gyorihuni]

Why is the music so sad? :(

[antboy888]

ver nivevideo but antworks is rubbish coz they can not dig in them lol

[eGeimbaH]

they can dig in antworks.. But the black ant dont dig. I dont know why but i had red ants and they was digging:D

[TheMan0092]

I have the antquarium/antworks/antfarm and about 20 black ants, and they dig amazing tunnels.

[eGeimbaH]

Im gona catch a queen soon:D then im gona make a colony.. I cant wait:D:D

[raider2121]

a queen?!? be prepared to dig 15 feet under...

[meefefe]

You can catch queens easily. They will be crawling around the pavements in summer looking to start their own colony.

[raider2121]

i dun think so, they dun have to b queen to have wings

[jelledj]

Males have wing's lol XD

[AlexandMann]

cool!

[thiagomga]

Very well done mate!

[Sodekpl]

Trzeba być katem, żeby tak się bawić.

Jesteś zerem, autorze tego dzieła.

[gyedc]

You must be a torturer,just to play like that.

You're zero,dear Author of this art.

[norick020]

did the farm have a queen?

[gyedc]

no queen im afraid!

[PollockQT]

@gyedc don't they make their own queen?

[gyedc]

I believe they do. Somehow the worker ants know if another queen is needed for a colony and they will feed the larva what it needs to grow into a queen. If the queen is not needed she will go on a mating flight and start her own colony.

[Timenova2]

@gyedc No. Queens are only produced after at least a year of an established colony, even then they must mate with a drone from another nest. The setup is cruel, and it isn't nice to film harmless creatures that are drowning in there.

[gyedc]

@PollockQT I believe they do. Somehow the worker ants know if another queen is needed for a colony and they will feed the larva what it needs to grow into a queen. If the queen is not needed she will go on a mating flight and start her own colony.

[ScourageStar99]

@PollockQT he colony has mostly male ants for workers, but here are 2 females, the queen and a backup queen, hey each have their own chamber so they can't kill eachother, if the queen dies the backup can become queen, i think

[Sergieboy]

beautiful video and fitting music

[scotlandw8]

could you make more vids of your ants? i think there so cool

[scotlandw8]

is the larva some kind of egg then, cause i hear people saying egg and larva as if they are 2 different things

[gyedc]

As far as I know the Larvae/eggs are the same thing. Different ant species produce very different looking larvae - some looks soft-jelly 'grub translucent' (like the ones in this video) and others can produce 'hard white sphere' appearance eggs etc.

[scotlandw8]

wow thanks for helping me out, i just want to make sure i know everything i need to know for my ants coming (1 week!!!) :):):)

[gothicn]

@scotlandw8 eggs and larva are two different things.The eggs are what the queen produces and the larva are what the eggs turn into. Then the larva turn into either coccons or pupas. Then those turn into the adult ant.

[scotlandw8]

how did u get larva???

[gyedc]

That 'grub larva' seen in the clip was found amongst the soil sample that came with the same ants. Some of the grubs eventually hatched into new worker ants & joined in the others. A few remaining larva never sadly evolved. Fascinating to watch all the same!

[xiahnsaya1004]

that's awesome i never thought i was going to see this kind of movie

[chadstep]

Nice! Great videography and music editing!

[thatguyoverthere45]

lol they think they can actually get out

[MossMaskface]

Do you have a queen ant in there too anywhere? How did you get the larva?

[killer78907]

some ants can make larva but not as efficient as a queen

[charlesnotprince]

Very clear and interesting details. I love the parts where you can see actual mouth movement, preening and so on.

[CanduterioCS]

Fuck,ants rules!

[metalgeetarist1]

By the way, for the ones who thought the ants were dying; they were not dying they were sleeping - that is how they sleep and some of them were bathing so indeed it is a most amazing video. Just wanted to ge the record straight.

[SDKsa1]

today i saw the ant moving from my bathroom to my bro bath room migration :P

anyways

they had like 2 queen one of them got killed by the poison read!dont know what the fuck is that read is a posion found in saudia :P

if you smell it you gonna die so strong

but the other i got it with no workes

i got it in a good box with air holes and water cotten an sugar water cotten but i dont see to active why is that?

and i dont reccomend the blue ant farms it suck its easy to catch in spring

[Chibbyb]

wat?

[SDKsa1]

yeah!

[kamikatsaa]

sad to see these poor animals dying

^^ u suck

[cvwiki]

at 1:06 and 1:12 you can see they can't move! They are drowning! and you film it and put music behind it like it is something beautiful! You kill animals in that farm. That's all it is.

[gyedc]

Ants have a very short life-span really, but this film will live on much longer. The memories are preserved forever, immortalized in time, sound and colour on the world web. Pain for art. Amen....

[slimjim1389]

yeah totaly, love the video.

the song was great, whats the name?

[cvwiki]

this is no ant farm, just a torturing device.

[ThatsMyRubberDuckie]

if you want a queen ant, during late spring or summer, you can just look for ants around the sandbox...that's what i did and i caught 4...now i'm trying to grow an ant colony...:)

[monnie110]

Did you have to dig? Or did you just happen to find a queen looking to make a new colony? I never got one before so I don't know how to do it

[ThatsMyRubberDuckie]

i didn't have to dig....i saw one digging a hole and caught it, andother method is looking for flying incests around the sandy area, because some might be queen ants that didn't shed their wings yet, but those are harder to catch...good luck!

[pophasausername]

there being lazy because there is no queen so they will just give up, thats what happened to mine but they lot i have no have a queen and they wont stop working

[KingsdownBoy]

ok if you ants are too small and keep escaping try this put 1 or 2 ant queens. and keep dropping (dead if you only have about 40 workerants) woodlice, horseflys, centipides or spiders a few choclate biscuit crums fattens them up in seconds :D And they get tunneling done faster!

[macc55cc]

your ants are lazy

[sweetangelgirl122681]

I am getting my son one of these for his birthday! It is a secret! I like this too!

[gyedc]

Thank you! & I'm sure your son will love this as a present!

[Draik8293]

ants don't really like the gel much, it's not natural for them really..

[ravenclaw995]

JELLO!!!

[Bomag]

Nice quality footage. I just ordered one of these. I think I might order some ants that like digging. If I go and catch my own they would probably be lazy like these ones... or I'd end up putting 2 different species together and they might fight!

[gyedc]

Look to get 'Harvester Ants', these ones in this video (common black/garden ant) seem a bit put off by the blue gel & refuse to dig...!