Greetings, AC Family/Ant Lovers! This video was super fun to make but extremely gross to film. Hope you enjoy this week's episode, and if you did, hope you can LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our ever growing AC Family! Thank you for watching! Love you, guys! Xoxo PS - Keep on watching until the very end for the hidden surprise... Q: What other things should I feed our fire ants? Been thinking of a good Halloween episode this month!

10 years from now, "I will now be feeding the Crimson Knights my left arm."

I work at a local pet supply and wellness company. There has been an increase in kids and adults who have an interest in any keeping, and many of them specifically have mentioned your channel. I have been watching myself for a couple of years now and you are very informative, it helps me with my job and also helps these up-and-coming ant keepers.

i just have to applaud your level of video production it always feels like I'm watching a little documentary or movie. I just get lose in it and time flys by thanks for all the awesome content over the years.

literally a 'dead dove, dont eat' moment

Now I’m just terrified on what he’s gonna feed those ants next.

Just letting everyone know that I am having a Meet & Greet in NEW JERSEY, USA this Oct 22! Visit www.therchild.com for tickets. All attendees get a FREE AC Ant Keeping Ebook. Hope to see you there! Can't wait to meet you, guys! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜✨️

"In my freezer are corpses that i found im a bit weird" 100% relatable

I have to admit, this isn't normally my favorite genre of video. But you have such a fun flair for storytelling! Making something as "simple" as a colony of ants into a full-blown drama is fantastic! I can't wait to see what happens next!

I'm so glad you were able to obtain a source of nutrients like this to show us how the ants might deal with it when they come across it in the wild.

Hey, Mikey, I found this dead animal and I thought of you...

I'm torn between what scares me more: how quickly they cleaned out their feast (I betted 5 days) or their disappearing act.

It's not a coincidence they started at the feet. Your hive has swarm intelligence experience dealing with avian feet processing...fascinating as usual thanks, AntsCanada

This channel has me teaching my students about ants and their sisters. We put crumbs down and followed a trail the kids thought it was so neat.

5 Years from now: Today we will be feeding the Crimson Knights a human! Edit: Wow that is a lot of likes never had that much before!

I love how he treats all his fire ant colonies like real Lava

Ants Canada, your videos have inspired me to raise my own for 8 years now. I love your content and I couldn’t ask for a better ant KZfaqr, coming to you from North Carolina.

Your ants are fed better than me and many others. They should thank you for this. :D

I think the gelatinous blob when you turned the bird over, above the tail, was its oil gland. I'm sure alot of fluid seeped out of that pore over time and then congealed

I love how Antscanada refers fire ants as “tiny velociraptors” cuz of their aggression behavior 😅 and definitely your content quality is almost surpassing National Geographic

You should clean the pigeon skull and place it in Volcania as a decoration and reminder of what they have eaten.

That's just amazing how quickly this colony grew from one queen to a veritable army of fire ants 🐜! It's surely due to the huge amount of food that you provide them. So lucky. Can't wait to find out where they moved to. 🐜 love ♥️ forever ♾! 👍💯✌🇨🇦

You are not weird. You are giving your lovely little pets that all natural diet!

I actually have seen local pigeons and doves with similar wounds on their throats and chests, that’s the sign that they were attacked by another bird like a hawk or falcon. Surprisingly enough they can typically survive the encounters provided that it’s not too deep of a gash , doves and pigeons are very resilient.

Not the cliffhanger 😭 Good video as always! Love from one Canadian to another!

you made me start ant keeping i’ve been watching you for so long i saw your vids in 2014 and i’m still watching today you are the best. it’s and love forever ❤ 🐜

imagine a blind guy listening to 0:04

"I have corpses in my freezer," "or my friends gave them to me." What kind of friends do you have?

It’s so cool seeing ants eating different animals and see how they deal with it.Keep it up AC

I just found this channel recently. It's quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

Sisza:Sisters of the crimson knights are god has gave us a meal we need to feed Maiha:we must feed Bunsa: but queen scarlet is hungery In the queen chamber: Queen Scarlett:so the gods have gifted us again Perfect... LIKE FOR A PART TWO

this is like holding back a swarm of zombies

So proud to have my first queen colony after following you for so long

So nice seeing AntsCanada sharing his lunch

I love how Mikey can feed his ants anything, but when a leopard gecko KZfaqr feeds her Leo a pinkie people go crazy

Hey @AntsCanada thanks for the pigeon - fire ant worker

7 years from now: *“Today, I will be feeding an entire zoo to my Chimera Ant colony!”*

First year as an ant keeper and I just fed my lil pavement ants their first cricket head! Super satisfying to see your girls thrive and expand!

"This lucky package will be digested by freaking fire ants"

He the kind of dude to keep pigeon corpses in his freezer i bet

The Crimson Knights big feast of the year so far Nice Job Antscanada you inspired me to keep ants and I enjoy it

Amazing how your videos are scheduled at my dinner time

Wow this amazing antsCanada I have been watching your videos for YEARS I’m pretty sure the first video I saw of yours was when you put pitcher plants in your ant colony to reduce there numbers. And now you have an entire building of ants and land for ants you have come so far and never failed to teach us and entertain us.

Doves and pigeons are my favorite birds😔 rest in pigeon you will be missed

You should leave the pidgeon skull in there, along with the skull of every other big animal you might feed them in the future, as some kind of trophy

6 years later, today we are going to feed them a WHOLE COW, A ENTIRE CORPSE, AND 16 POUNDS OF INSECTS, LETS SEE HOW LONG IT WELL TAKE THEM!!!! *finishes in 3 days*

His friends are like cats bringing dead animals to him as presents.

No one is crazy enough to come at the fire ants. Armadillo "hold my beer"

Lets thank Mikey and the pigeon for the delicious food that he has fed my royal kingdom, the Crimson Knights, thank you kind Creator of Worlds. We have enjoyed your suprise.

Wow I love this species, I can't wait to have it among my colonies

Ants Canada's freezer literally being the real life "Dead Dove. Do not eat."

Mikey: "Guys...don't freak out..." Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

aww poor pidgeon :( but i know its for a good cause, for your ants to eat.

I wonder what other animal this dude casually has in hes fridge

*dead dove, do not open* The Crimson Knights: "Hold our volcano"

Mmmmm, decomposition at its finest as soon as you flipped that bird over. Yum.

We’d love to know what happened with the teaser you left previously about them producing winged ants to spread new colonies. And what ever happened to the ant riding face huggers?! We never found out what species they were, if they were just passengers or some form of parasite.

I can’t wait for the cow video I’ve worked with them all 14 years of my life but to see how long it takes ants to devour them would be cool with a intro similar to this coming up “welcome AC family in this video we will be giving my fire ant colony the crimson knights a treat which is a cow carcass donated by my neighbor, the cow died of natural causes and did not suffer any pain during death so rest well my friend”

imagine being an ant living here. “GUYS! master gave food” “food!” “food!”

This is episode 20 of Mikey finding out that dead animals fed to ants start to stink after a few days.

didnt miss today, pretty cool! Never expected pigeons, thought it would be something like a feeding montage. This also gave me an idea, what if you made a feeding montage type of video, that is just watching the ants eat live(like streaming videos of them eating, this could also mean that you can have multiple cameras).

I’ll be honest, there really was quite a few surprises in this video, I don’t blame people for thinking it’s both disgusting and surprising! As for an idea of a Halloween feast for the fire ants, or maybe even the marauder ants, I suggest 2 or 3 mice covered in both honey and jelly. That would surely be a great idea! Also, you know how ants can’t see the color red? Well to make the ants be able to eat the jelly I suggest giving them orange or black jelly that of course have different flavors, if you ever have them that is… I hope you do though… I’m not sure what flavors of jelly you have. 😅🫤 Side note: If anyone is reading this comment my goal is to get 150 likes because why not! 😉🤞

Next video: "Well AC family today i will be feeding a burglar that tried robbing me today"!

“In my freezer, I have a collection of corpses” *WHO ARE YOU HIDING*

That was pretty amazing, it is not really that gross. I've never seen that pigeon before, I learned some new things.

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me, it is pigeon hunting season where I live.

one time me and my cousin fed a fire ant colony a cupcake

I randomly met a fellow AC family member today. I was waiting in a medical facility's waiting room when I heard a familiar voice from an audio device at the reception desk. The voice while familiar didn't click until I heard that voice say "Crimson Knights."

5 videos later: So today guys we're feeding my firstborn child to my ants! Can't wait to see how they react!

I think it will take about 100 hours for them to finish it. edit- close enough can I get likes for absolutely no reason

This was a perfect opportunity to put "do not open. Dead dive inside". Maybe next time

Hearing someone else say i keep corpses in my freezer was truly good to hear. Glad im not the only one doing this

Rip to the pidgeon 😢

you know when he brings the birds out its going to be a banger of a video!

Bird in heaven: dude really? At least make a grave for me

Imagine if you actually touch it and they just slowly feed off your arm

I very recently binged the last four years of your channel.😊 ❤ Love how wholesome you are. Thank you for making me look at ants in a whole new way. 💪

Yay! We are both weirdos!

“Don’t freak out, but I have corpses in my fridge” what a way to start a video

In a couple of years it would be like "i fed my first born child to fire ants" 💀

I just thought that maybe the next thing you could feed one of your ant colonies could be some regional fish? As in those native to the ants' area in question, just in case a type of fish might be unhealthy to a species of a different location; we wouldn't want to risk doing that to them. I think it would be pretty interesting to see how they might like some fish meat. 👍

Your formicariums are sooooo epic, how do you even make them?

"dead dove, don't eat" but REAL LOLL

I think it'll take like 10 days for them to process a pigeon

Love this story line!!! The ending was epic!! Great job!🎉

Who else be watching ant forever

Five weeks later now feeding the crimson nights a abandoned hospital

Where my arrested development crew at? Dead dove do not eat”😂

Good day AntsCanada. I always enjoy your videos and it's amazing to see how the ants go on with their lives and reveal their unique behaviors. I'm from South Africa and have an idea of what you can do to prevent escapes. We have an insecticide called Fendona 6 SC, which we sprayed around our door and window frames. Any incest that walks over that barrier dies within minutes. 9 months was passed since my father sprayed it and the barrier was still active enough to kill a scorpion before it got into our house. We also don't have any ants crossing that area where we applied the Fendona. But feel free to investigate more about this insecticide and if you are able to find it in your stores. Hopefully it will prevent future ant escapes and prevent unwanted ants to enter.

rip the dead pigeon ;-;

16:00 oh bro u already got maggots on the top left of the bloody pool

5:27 this guy emotes so well i could see his shocked face from behind.

as a long time viewer bro Is feeding his fire ants anything now

I would like to know how you plan to move this colony if it were necesary. It wouldnt be easy to take out the queen from the volcano if the colony get sick or you just need to move them out because a problem in the terrarium Edit: well, i guess my question was sort of answered

i feel like he is gonna go crazy with these videos untill i see him in the future randomly on my front page with the video "i fed a human to my fire ant colony"

I have to admit, you got really got at leaving cliff hangers ever since the video you made about your Carebara diversa when they myseriously disappeared, then followed up with your fire ants disappearing as well (TWICE) and now being the third time to leave all of our minds waiting to find out what happens next

Loved this video like every other. Your videos are very unique, and that’s what I enjoy about them. Great job!

Imma guess a week or so

I think the "blob" was a lung lol tho I am no expert

I thought it was a turtle for a second, but it was just the wing of the bird