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  • lol " You sould feel a little bit of a prick" made me laugh when he said that, i knew what he ment but still funny :)

  • And sadly, they're now KILLING honey bees too. Idiots.

  • Soap works fine. You don't need shampoo.

  • While watching this a fly landed on my screen..

  • whoa. interesting stuff. they do look into those little bugs!

  • One of the cars that passed by towards the ending was my car! And I do remember seeing an old man.

  • cool little flies!

  • Have you seen Bot Flies? :D

  • WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FLYS EAT ALL THE FIRE ANTS???

    THEY COME FOR OUR HEADS THATS WHAT!!!!!!

  • This is like alien and predator.

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  • This might be the only fly I actually like. :) Stop fireants from wiping out California's native species... and the native fauna that eat them.

  • When I first moved to Florida from NY in 1995 these fire ant assholes were EVERYWHERE. These red terrorists made you unwilling to even walk in your own front lawn. Now here in 2011 I can't remember even seeing a fire ant mound in the last 5 years or so. If this is the reason, keep up the good work! And thanks for doing research first, unlike the dick that released the lovebugs to kill the mosquitos.

  • @MentosMan727 The lovebug thing simply isn't true -- it's just an urban myth.

  • Skinner: ... the [flies] are a godsend

    Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by [flies]?

    S: We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the [flies].

    L: But aren't the snakes even worse?

    S: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

    L: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

    S: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death

  • This always ends with a bunch of dead gorillas...

  • the flies will kill native species though

  • que tal importar osos hormigeros y armadillos, son enemigos naturales de las hormigas

  • cool vid...

  • That's fucking metal.

  • @851852093114208513 I know, it's just so fucking metal!

  • is alway nice to hear about people bringin new non native species. It never fails. There are absolutly no documented cases where this turnes out bad..... when will we learn?

  • Did he say they "Pop Caps" into the ant's? Dem is some ghetto ass gangsta flies

  • damn nature, you scary!

    p.s.

    the beatles suck.

  • 1,000,000 phoyrid flies in USA 1,000,000,000 dead ants

  • Why do they keep touching them? I get it, they're fire ants, you can touch them. Do you need to, to demonstrate them at all? I get the demonstration, but why do they keep dipping their hands in -- are they trying to act macho?

  • my head hurts after watching this 0_o

  • so whats the predators for these flies? cuz surely we all know if they cant find fire ants they're gonna mutate to find some other species to invade just to survive..keep playing and end up having them laying eggs in humans....and since they dont have any predators there numbers would do nothing but grow

    nature is all fun and games until someone starts thinking they can out smart it...then shit gets real, real fast..

    *KEEPS WATCHING REST OF VIDEO*

  • maybe anthena (greek goddess) was a florid fly and zeus a ant

  • I like this idea... basically think of fire ants like people in the U.S. they have plenty of food and they only compete with other people. Basically people aren't threatened by any other species. Fire ants aren't threatened by any other species so they continued to spread throughout the united states. Now say you were to drop some of these flies into the equation, results wouldn't be immediate but eventually there would be some balance between the flies and the ants in their populations.

  • I'm sure if ants had feelings, this would be great psychological warfare.

  • Ok here is something I don't get, even if you are studying the ants for research purposes WHY ARE YOU STINKING YOUR HANDS INSIDE THE NEST?!! 0:17

  • I remember the time Disney Land had a problem with mouse infestations. LOL! they tried to adopt stray cats to drive the mouse away. Sure they solve the problem only to give another one-cat infestation. In effect, Disney Land started to gather stray dogs this time. Guess what is happening today?

  • isnt this exactly what customs is trying to avoid?

  • Fascinating info, thanks

  • summer 09 = we went to a park long story short i fell on a HUGE fire ant hill.... not pretty i still have bites ... i dont wanna go to that park again!

  • My great-great-great-great-great-­great-great-great uncle was a fire ant.

  • i was thinking how much of a nightmare it could be if there were giant fire ants..

    how about giant flies like those?

  • Looks like they'll have to develop some anti-air ant soldiers.

  • Once the ants are gone what will get rid of the flies?

  • @gothicslytherinchic loss of food will reduce the number of flies

  • @gothicslytherinchic birds those fly have natural enimies, fireants don't.

  • @gothicslytherinchic life will cause they will lose their most wanted food and soon die out. :)

  • Watch out, nature is scary. With time on their sides, ants will soon evolve into intelligence lifeforms and start enslaving all life on Earth.

    Resistance is futile, get ready to be ant-food :P

  • it would be interesting if we could develop something like this to combat terroist extremist groups with

  • really good way to kill ants here are the ingridiants- A can of axe a large can and a lighter spray the can of axe into the flame of the lighter pointed at the mound the ground will cook but dont keep the axe spraying for long take 1 min of spraying you flame thrower then 2 mins off it works or molotoves lol

  • ouch!!

  • send the fire ants to afghanistan, send our troops home.

  • A really cool idea to control fire ants in North America would be to import a couple of anteaters.

    I'd love to see them doing some damage of those insects as they don't have any natural predators here.

    They get fed, we get rid of fire ants = win win!

  • Great. First we have to get rid of ants. Now we have to get rid of flies.

  • You think this shit is hardcore? one time i used conditioner before shampoo.

  • @gwasDpk OH SHIT! I always use shampoo first!

  • This would make a great Science Fiction movie. The alien injects an egg into your ear and then the larva eats your brains out. Then when finished it eats it's way out your mouth to begin the cycle over agian.

  • FUKKIN HELL, who are these brainless half wits who keep saying " damn nature you're scary"? Tell it to your dreams, pussies.

  • my hero, die ants die

  • 9 people lost their heads to flies

  • Okay, so what kinds of unforseen problems might the flies cause?

  • Creepy man,what if the freakin bee puts an egg into yur hear,in about 2 weeks imma see you lose yur head in the street ....WTF..

  • poor ants

  • in every wild life video i see, there has to be an idiot who writes "damn nature you scary"

  • probably sumthing to do with the flies attracted to something that cause the burn

  • There is one inside McCain's and Palins heads.

  • @civicmaneg6 lol, and don't forget the ones I accidently planted in your mothers anus, boy ol boy that caused quite an uproar due to so many people thinking she was screaming and taking an extremely long shit when it was just her intestines sliding out of her uterus

  • @MightySaturn5 HAHAHA I would say the ones that I planted in your mom's Pussy, but she was already a dirty little slut from the hood, now wasn't she....damn tick, bedbugs and lice, she really was a dirty bitch right and I think she needs too get herself checked out because you fucked her too you inbreed fag. So THANK YOU COME AGAIN as Apu would say.....You homofaginbreedgaylorddicklicke­r.

  • @civicmaneg6 I'm so sorry...It almost seems you're still upset that I accidently wrapped my massive shlong around your mothers tonsils and yanked her eyes out through her mouth while simutaneously blasting a frothy quart of steamy jizz towards her facial zone...even you have to admit how silly you looked as you worriedly ran to her side while bubbling semen poured from her empty eye sockets and lathered your head like a shampoo commercial gone wrong.

  • @MightySaturn5 Not really I was just trying to figure out why my moms came home laughing her ass off now I know. A little dick fucker made her laugh I think you need to mess aroung with your wee-wee pump some more because it's just not working for you. All the little girls that your trying to impress are telling me you wee-wee looks like a new born corn dick it might be good for your mother, but other women like big dicks like mine just ask your girl and ask her why she's walking funny. THANKS!!

  • @civicmaneg6 -very good comeback.

  • @MightySaturn5 Thanks I had another for you, but I said if he/she dosn't talk out their ass then I won't hit them with the next one, But I have too say that was a good back and forth.

  • @civicmaneg6 you guys are crazy, made me laugh hysterically though

  • @BoDiggety About what me and the other kat going back and forth with the cracks?

  • @civicmaneg6 yeah, that was funny as hell

  • @BoDiggety Yeah I just saw some shit about Obama so I said the same thing about Palin and McCain and the dude came on talking crazy about mother's now I don't know mother's on here and i'm not going to talk that internet thug shit we can do that in person, But the other kat was cool and we just left it as that. We just killed the whole conversation back and forth thing, But it was kind of funny if he/she did say some other shit I had tons more for them all cracks though just for fun, but thanks.

  • There is one in side OBAMA's head

  • The ant bully?

  • Since ants ID each other by scent, a fire ant bed can be destroyed by masking the scent of the ants. First, stir the bed with stick until the warrier ants begin swarming. Be careful not to get any on you. Next, spray those ants with strong perfume. Lysol spray works well because it also stings the ants, making them more agressive. Those ants will then proceed to kill the other ants, with remaining warriers soon dying from lack of food. Done before queens fly to start new beds can prevent spread.

  • let me understand this, you fight a evasive species with a evasive species? AND THEY CALL THEM SELVES SCIENTISTS.

  • @skyarsalan You didn't watch the whole thing, or you're too stupid to understand it. The scientist remarked that the flies are not interested in other species, that's obviously his job to prove, and he's doing a hell of a better job than you are. Now go play some xbox dipshit.

  • @Bluudclaat

    oh course, watching the whole video 100 times would not make you any smarter. Did you bother reading my reply? Think about this, the flies pass multiply, and when the ants run out what happens? well before that lets think about this...how annoying will these flies be as normal things? how will effect the food chain? eg. bats eat them, mosquitoes population go up, what happens than? think! think! god's sake use some common sense before you call people idiots.

  • Lets get a human scale of this thing.

  • ewwwwwwwwwwww.... what a brutal death.. phorid flies .. OWN.

  • LOL. Sux to be a fire ant.

  • If anyone live in USA or where fire ants are present, I am willing to pay 20 dollars each for three queens, and I know many friends who would enjoy a similar agreement.

    PM me if interested.

  • dam nature u SCARY

  • @mybrainisconcrete FUCK YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF AND FOR THOSE WHO THUMBS UP TO THIS SHIT, GO KILL YOURSELF

  • @afiq360skatevids

    Thumbs up! YAY!

  • @mybrainisconcrete

    how old is that phrase again? smh.

  • @mybrainisconcrete its youtube just say dam(N)

  • Respond to this video... what happens if you paint yourself red?

  • @mybrainisconcrete As soon as i clicked this video i knew that would be in the top comments!

  • Nature makes some really fucked up insects...

  • I'm glad I'm not an ant...

  • Two questions: So, basically, those flies are of no harm for us whatsoever? And do they mean that nobody intended fireants to come to America?

  • @Sup750: Gotta love commerce :) A "great" deal of cars imported from the US have Black Widows in them. Lucky for us the weather here is WAY to cold for them to thrive or even set up a beachhead here

  • srsly the summer school i goto has ALOTTA FIRE ANTS lol i lost one when i was hiding one and it bit me on my leg i think because i have 2 popping out dots on my leg

  • Disingenuous. Fails to report an unexpected difficulty. The strain of invicta here has a smaller head, making it impossible for the imported phorid to lay eggs. Current practice is to breed an even smaller phorid fly. Screw you and die.

  • It's amazing what you can link onto on Youtube. How did I get to this video????

  • Good! Death to fire ants! The more painful the better!

  • @TheTrollKing123 its not fake u idioit

  • That's pretty nasty

  • OMFF... *barf*

  • @TheTrollKing123 you dont have to tell us what u r!

  • pretty gnarly death haha

  • Brilliant idea.

  • wow fk this is disgusting =.=

  • those flies may be the coolest thing I have ever seen...

  • did dat quy seriously stik hiz hand into dat ant pile?? wow...

  • I pity those who kill ants to make themselves feel good! I SHUN YOU ALL!

  • dont worry, those fire ant probably just enjoy the flys company, the flys were just playing around. Now, those fire ants really desserve hell.

  • Well, what if these flies cannot find ant mounds? Sure, they can destroy and ant mount FROM THE INSIDE WHENEVER IT IS SCOOPED UP. I'm not sure exactly how a few of these flies could enter inside of an entire Fire Ant mound and not get destroyed by the Fire Ant guards. The most effective way of destroying a fire ant mound is Boiling hot Water. It tends to go through the entire mound, and can sometimes make it to the Queen, completely destroying her, and also the colony in the process.

  • @Roflstompyou

    I just wanna get this straight: Take the queen out and they all die, right?

  • @Roflstompyou ants don't stay underground forever. the flies can obviously find them if they're outside, and a lot of the time they are. I'm assuming that at that point, they know that that's a colony and just attack

  • @Roflstompyou Now they recommend carbonated water. The CO2 smothers the ants.

  • @k0smon Apparently that's not true. Google "carbonated water ants" and click on the snopes link. (Youtube is not letting me post the URL)

  • @Roflstompyou i just kick the ant pile get a axe can of clone and a lighter and fry them after kicking them one time i sat in a ant pile ants in your pants hurt they were fire ants know because of that my thighs look really fat but they are swelled but yeah it was pretty crazy

  • @Roflstompyou ACTUALLY boiling water ALWAYS leaves ants behind, namely the queen which is the the lowest point of their home.

    All you need is a 2 liter bottle of either seltzer water or plain carbonated water, it MUST be carbonated. What happens when you pour it on the mound, is that the CO2 (carbon dioxide) sinks all the way to the very bottom of the mound and suffocates all of the ants.

    Boiling water is just not effective, this CO2 is pretty much 100% effective.

  • @Roflstompyou Well, as stated in the video, the fireant acts as it normally does for "...about 2 weeks" before its head pops off for the new Forded Fly to come out of it. I assume that a fire ant that was used as a cocoon for the Forded Fly's babies would probably return to the inside of its nest within 2 weeks for its head to pop off inside the nest thus beginning the infestation of the inside of the ant nest.

  • Until someone finds headcrabs for ants these will have to do :)

  • probly the second worst way to die srry ants but dyin inna bathroom is one of my worst ways to go

  • would these flies become invasive species themselves after (if they do) kill all the ants?

  • 0:12 dont they biet? just wondering

  • like the movies aliens. headbuster.

  • This guy makes it sound epic :D

  • yeah the only way to bring balance is to

    add things to lower there population

  • so wtf happens if one of those flies bites me?? that larva would be eating my brain wtf lol

  • @nick232323nick

    not attracted to human

  • @strikeme5 yeah ik but still it could still happen by accident im in florida right now and theres fkin billions of those little fuckers all around we have to spray almost everyday to keep them away

  • omfg the fire ant holocaust

  • this wonderful!!!!!

  • got bitten by these ants all the time when I was young... it does kinna hurt... but then again... kids were tougher back in the days.

  • Where can one get these flies? We have a massive red ant problem where I live.

  • what happens when these little flies start populating out of control? or say, through evolution/need to adapt to survive, these flies start finding other prey, and perhaps become a parasitic pest in humans? ick!

  • @klinkysworld they wont cause they said not humans so pob be more likly to eat other ants then some human

  • 1:27 evil motherfucker

  • You bunch of faggots...Let the ants live. Ants are the real master of this planet. They have been the only suvivors to almost everything that happened on this planet.

  • @tinyfred I think you mean maggots.

  • WTF i was watching heineken beer comercials and it shows this LOL

  • I watch you tube to get away from corporate advertising..assholes. Do they think that by omitting the possibility of skipping the ad we will buy their products. F+++ that .Good vid though.

  • Fucking Savage!!! Wow! haha!

  • oh shit sooo brutal!

    also isbeatz is true 2 days ago

  • Man, get those flies up here, doggone it!

  • whats if the fly inject the egg in a human ?

  • @injerreau The guy said they were quarantined for 3 years and discovered not to be attracted to anything or anyone but fire ants.

  • lol nikki u cipe! the flies wont be able to reproduce once ants are gone, solving the problem. Plus this big a wipe will take decades

  • Thats cool.

  • and also, wouldn't this just create a bigger problem? i mean, once the flies get rid of the ants...what gets rid of the flies??? things like this just piss me off.....

  • didnt you watch the whole video? :X

    He explains why that wont happen.

  • my nigga... they will just die if they cant find no more host

  • i threw up while watching this..... i have a weak stomach

  • @NikkiBarajasTV Yeah, this stuff can be pretty unsettling. I had no problem watching this, but there are other things I can't watch.

  • one solution creates another problem.

  • Ok, so the fly isn't attracted to anything else. But what is attracted to the fly? If there's a species out there that preys on the fly and has a population explosion, it could potentially be worse than the fire ants. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool solution, but I just think we should consider all the posibilities.

  • @jimmyboo12 Aww, good point. I'm just hoping that this will turn out to be a good thing, and apparently so are they.

  • genius.....

  • Holy crap he got some balls...

  • the man deserves a nobel prize once the solution takes action

  • Why dont we just send a terminator back in time to kill the guy who first brought the ants here? Come on guys, simple solution.

  • finally

  • its not that simple ants might of been brought here by accident because they are believed to have stowed away on ships no body really knows how they got here

  • lol, I like that you point out how impossible my plan would be, not because there's no such thing as time travel or terminators, but because we dont know how it is the ants got here. lol, good point tho man, hadnt considered that.

  • @MCMaddogMckenzi

    because the ants will make an ahnold schwarzenegger and send IT back in time to protect the guy. duh!

  • I learned somthing new lol.

  • the redneck way: shut every ant

  • @piepotatosandturtles actually it's pour hot water on them :) It's fun to watch.

  • They do know that ants adapt fst that means in a few years the flies wont do anything. THERE WILL BE A REBELLION AGAINST THE FLIES RULE... I think. First ever enemy of ants.

  • it would suck to be a fire ant and have that shit happen to you

  • that dude has alot of balls!

  • Pesticide is quick and nice just open up a can of ant pesticide and spray it where the ants are coming out.

  • its better not to spray poisons all over the place, we do it enough anyway

  • this is like human vs fire ants. Ants being like Nazis, killing everything in there way. Humans/the flies as the Allies

  • Fire ants hurt orange trees?!? We need to fix this IMMEDIATELY

  • It is a warzone out there. Get more flies alot more.

  • and what happens if the flies run out of control?

  • You obviously weren't paying attention. See 4:40 to 5:05 again.

  • if you paid attention you might have caught the part where they say he keeps the flies in quarantine for several years to prevent that, and he's studied their habits which do not conflict with anything else.

  • @ev7000000 the flies only attack fire ants, they wont evolve rapidly

  • set the fire ants on fire

  • That's weird, my dads name is James Williams. I love how the dude mentioned the possibility of an allergic reaction after he made the ant bit him lol.

  • @chad174670 ha i bet it woulda been even worse if the guy was like "yea i am allergic" then they both woulda stood their awkwardly LOL