Love that channel.

He'll be here, I believe.

Ant love forever ❤

Exactly what I was thinking

He will be summoned

That's adorable I love that for you two

Fungi were the first large beings on land. Their threads broke mountains to mud while the rest of life still was still comfortably down in the water.

They have farming, animal husbandry, slavery, and war! Basically full-on civilization

@@comicomment "Do not cite the deep terrestriality to me, bilateterian. I was there when it was written." - some fungus probably

And they keep cattle: lice.

Yup! I made a comment about it. 😅

Same. And every now and again even today I’ll get lost watching ants at their never-ending work. Mesmerizing!

With a magnifying glass and a sun ray or jug of boiling water

Same. I used to want to follow them into the anthill to see what went on in there.

Ants are the humans of the insect world

The ones dependent on above ground conditions could be devastated by desertification, erratic weather patterns, stagnant water, irradiation, and pathogens on plant species, but the ones evolved to grow their food, specifically hardy fungi, algae and yeasts, in conditions deep underground might just persist long enough to then re-diversify when above-ground conditions improve. Or they go an extreme route and develop a caste of ant that doesn’t graduate from larval stage but grows much larger, and these just become cattle to the other castes. That would be one way for some strictly carnivorous lineages to survive, but I think the vegetarians will have greater diversity initially.

@@ADTillion Vampire ants kinda do that

@@ADTillion Could just have ants that store food within themselves like honeypot ants

"Something that brings me peace is that no matter how badly we mess up and destroy the planet, ants are still probably going to survive and thrive just fine despite the state of the world." If all humans somehow disappeared from Earth forever today, ants wouldn't know that humans even existed in the first place. Humility is always the best policy.

let them fight

What species?

No uncles? That's what's wrong with ants today- no traditional male roles..

I visited that town in Fallout 3. I had barely any ammo left or supplies left. It was terrifying.

@@Nikki0417 That lady was nuts!

Someone call Leiningen

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

@@spookywoop Don't be too sure! I remember THEM! ;)

Only Humans overcomplicated things and are now actively hurting our environment instead of healing and taking care of our home unfortunately.

​@@stealthmangerNo species heals or cares about their environment. Habits needs balance to exist. For example overgrazing is a serious issue. If an animal doesn't have a predator, their population with grow unchecked and destroy their environment. Humanities problem is that we eliminated all of our predators and competitors. The balance has been thrown off.

@@perceivedvelocity9914 I'd argue all care about their environment (every organism has preferenced environments), but not all have sustainable lifestyles. ,(Or ability to alter their environments) Bees don't harm their food sources and can grow to massive population levels. They also like clean hives, eliminating disease. Humans can live sustainably because we plan ahead. (Bees store honey for the bad times and eliminate drones during scarcity). If organisms can't self regulate, they need external balancing. Like caterpillars and moths/butterflies or dragonflies/nymphs eating different foods, so no competition. Planning, coincidence, or external balancing :)

@@TragoudistrosMPH - When I was little, I somehow get it into my head that caterpillars were scorpions. (a Florida education?) I went around stomping on every caterpillar I saw until I finally learned the truth. I have born the guilt ever since.

But ants don’t have to pay the price for electing stupid politicians.

Yes

They still are cladistically speaking.

THis is a sily question but is thre any link between how Ants build their hills and Wasps make their hives?@@monkeymanchronicles

Are you one?

I'm not sure I see wrong with it being marked Lenape heritage, even though modern it is still heritage.

And how is that "denying their existence"?

They aren’t “just flightless wasps” any more than humans are just mammalian fish. Wasps, bees, and ants all evolved from the same lineage.

They're not just descended from a common ancestor with wasps. They're descended from wasps, directly. If you want to make "wasps" a monophyletic clade, then ants ARE wasps. Same goes for bees. They're right in the middle of the wasp group, so you can't make a monophyletic group that includes all wasps without also including ants and bees. The thing with people's perception of taxonomy is that when a group becomes hugely successful, we tend to stop thinking of it as part of its group and more of its own thing. Even though that's not how modern taxonomy works. For example, because ants are a stupidly successful family of wasps, we tend to think of them as their own thing, ants, and not wasps. Even though they still are, unless you insist on making "wasps" a paraphyletic group... But I guess making it paraphyletic is fine, when it's just used colloquially. It just doesn't represent evolutionary history accurately. It's like if chameleons became ridiculously successful, with thousands of species, and as a result we start thinking of them as their own thing and not just a type of lizard. Oh wait... this already happened with snakes (although that's probably not just because of the success of snakes, but also their weird morphology).

well. if you want to get technical, everything shares a common ancestor with everything else

@MalcomCooks LUCA agrees

Ants are such interesting little guys! A few weeks ago, I saw a tiny ant struggling ti drag a much bigger, dead, bug to its nest. A bigger ant came by, ran its antennae over tiny ant and cargo, picks up the dead bug, and carries it to the little guy’s nest entrance! And then trundled away. I’ve never seen an ant do that before!

Bro has never seen fireants interacting with literally any other ants

@@dilophosaurusking7437 territorial little bastards. They stuck with their wasp roots of attack first and multiple times. Rather than running away.

@@icarusbinns3156prolly from the same nest

@@ethanlackey8048 nope. Different nests entirely. The little one was a sugar ant, the big one a common city any

I hope this is sarcasm

​@Fractured_Unity it's the truth, I am saying same thing often too

I highly doubt it. Ants don't have as much ecological footprint as us.

Take this analogy a bit further and it would be bacteria.

Depends on what they define as dominant. If they're looking for certain things and in certain areas, they might easily decide that the orca is the dominant species. Or the crab.

Probably a lot to be explored there. They're not the only ground insects after all, why weren't others as successful with the new plants?

Walking with beasts reference?

@@monticore1626 Correct!

I didn't know ants were Lady Gaga fans

looks more like a dandelion seed than flower

@@DJFracus Marsha will think it's a flower.

This happened to me too. Got an African Violet that a friend grew outside. I wanted to grow it as a houseplant and went to repot it. When I took it out of its pot, ants poured out of the dirt the pot had. There was a whole nest in the dirt for me too.

came here to see if anyone else would mention THEM! 😁

Let me add that I want it to be on a planet that would allow ants to grow to any size or allow them to develop the proper systems that would take the limits off of their sizes.

Sounds like you get into some ANT-tics

Tasty ants

@max_robak_mrowki - An ant keeper!?! For why do you keep ants? (Not that it doesn't sound cool....)

@@MossyMozart in short- keeping ants is pure satisfaction. You need a lot of patience to raise them but once the colony grows in numbers you literally have a small city in your room

The world where humans never evolved (why would we, the intelligence brings greater understanding of the horror of ants)

Arent they called velvet ants😅?

hooked up with 80% of the ecosystem? Almost anything that didn't would be dead by now.

Finally, we're getting rid of the vermin!

My people

loll i feel the same way with cockroaches...i feel you bro

The more I learn, the more I agree with this statement to my core

Yeah of course, fossil day was named after you

@@Rylact. too hard to understand an irony?

What type of ants? At first I had carpenter ants, now I have these little tiny red ants, can't find their nest at all. Persistent buggers.

Only some castes of ants have wings -- the queens and drones. A malfunction in the molting process might have caused that.

As the other guy said, the reproductive caste members still have wings. It's beneficial for travel, lets them start up new colonies far away from where they were born, covering new, potentially better territory. As for the other thing, they never stopped being wasps (just like bees). Ants are to wasps as birds are to dinosaurs. Ants are just a group of specialized, terrestrial, eusocial wasps that were highly successful, but just because they seem pretty different from most other members of the group doesn't really make them not wasps anymore. I could go further into the definition of what truly is a "wasp", but I'd probably just start ranting about paraphylies.

The queens use the muscles tissue to feed the first batch of worker ants after losing the wings.

Cow killers or velvet "ants" are wingless wasps, along with a few parasitoid wasp species without wings. Usually, only one sex will lack wings. In velvet ants, the female lacks wings, meanwhile in fig wasps, the males are not born with them.