How to keep SLAVE-ANTS! Mini documentary about Polyergus genus.
A brand new video about what in my opinion is Europes coolest ant-species! Polyergus spp. In the video you will learn about about their biology and how to raise a queen of the species.
Thank you for watching and have a fANTastic day!
Nordic ants
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99% of all comments: "OoOoOoOh a new video!" Yet here I am, never having heard of Nordic Ants and wondering how this got in my reccomended.
Welcome! Thanks for watching and I hope I didnt waste 7 mins of your life ;)
@@nordicants6232 I liked this video, it was interesting. Could use better acting. Otherwise it's nice. There are all sorts of crazy stuff happening in ant colonies. For instance, I know that the female of a certain fly species will tear off it's wings after she mates and heads to an ant colony. Meanwhile, her stomach grows and starts to look like an ant pupa(?) and she starts producing ant pheromones. The ants mistake her for one of their pupae so they take her to the nursery near the actual eggs and pupae that she feeds on. Too bad they only inhabit the colonies of ant species that can only be found in remote areas and even then they're hard to spot and even if you spot one there's no use in researching it because no one would ever fund you. That's why so little is known about these bugs. I wonder where you get your facts from.
Hahahha thank you! Yeah im not a skilled ant-actor as you can see. Wow did actually not know about those :O cool and i get my info mostly on the web. The info about these guys i got from a book of mine :D
@@nordicants6232 thanks
Don`t WORRY! Vivarium video coming later!! :D this is a damn vivarium channel. Just thought these guys were super cool.
Omg your finally back, I've been waiting for so long :)
Thank you! :D
@@nordicants6232 btw you might need to check the poll
Nordic ants, This video was just as awesome as your others! Since your finished with school now it would be awesome to see more of your videos! BUT be carefull and please dont start clickbaiting and strestching videos out in time like antscanada! But at the moment your videos are the best! Jitse
love all your content!!
5:56 that's a bruh moment if I ever saw one.
5:50 @Nordic Ants you just deserved yourself an upvote and a subscription.
Great video I’ve been waiting for you to post for so long
World of Ants the updates are coming now!
World of Ants fact’s
This was really fascinating, you always have something different to share with us. It would be really interesting to see more of this species as the colony expands. Thanks for sharing this.🖤🇨🇦
Thank you much once again!! And yes they are pretty cool :D
no such thing as have or diffx or not, say, can say any nmw and any s perfx, no such thign as inherit or similar or not
Nice video pal! I liked the new intro, the camera work and especially the “Ant acting” haha! All the best - Cameron
Ants Britania Thank you so much Cameron :D all the best and a bit more for you hehe
Yay, finally another video, bummer it's a short one.
Aww thanks man! Will do better
Whoahhhhhhh whats the genus? And yess you should definitly make a vivarium with them! O its polyergus! Awesome!!!!
Thank you! :D yeah they are sooo cool
Ohhhh a video finally some great content
Ayyad killer awww thanks man!
@@nordicants6232 were is the vivarium update 👀
Cooooming ;)
THANK YOU NORDIC ANTS :)
Interesting spicies, I would like to see them again for sure.
Super! I think so too
Great to see some ants videos again! Good and informative video!😀
This is really amazing. Well done!
Thank you :D
OMG I love these mini documentary films, great work(:
Thank you!!
great work!
Best ant channel on KZhead by far, great job
Thank you so much! Wow
This was such a great video. Well done! You have put in a whole lot of effort in the filming, editing and narration of it and the info is also really cool. Greetings from South Africa
Thank you so much for the kind words!!! Really appreciated and i greet you back!;D
You have also some interesting sp
Wow, interesting ants. This is what makes ant keeping so awesome. 🐜👍🏼
Novo Ants definetly! Awesome
I love this channel!
Great Video! :)
Yes! Please make a vivarium! This is one of my new favorite ants for sure!
JackAttack yeah they are awesome! Sure will consider :D
The world of ants never stop amazing me, it’s amazing that these tiny arthropods can do things that most consider advanced, like agriculture and inslavement of different colonies! Keep up the good work! :D
Super informative. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Awsome! Sad that they aren't native to Finland. :/
:( but you guys got some cool ones as well!
AntsFinland ye
@@nordicants6232 Yeah but all of em that are in Finland are native to sweden for example you have thief ants which are not in Finland... Well I guess we have something cool like Formica Sanguinea which is very similar to polyergus but doesn't actually need workers to survive. They steal brood just to get a bogger workforce. But these are too native Sweden.
AntsFinland thief ants and these ants can sadly only be found in southern Sweden. :(
great video looking forward to the vivarium update !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!! :D
Nice video! Interesting topic
Wöööw tack!
nice video bro
Awesome and crazy
Wow! Awesome!
Yay! A video
yes more pls, i love you and your videos, but theres just not enough of them
I would love to see these ants in a vivarium.
Great video!
Thank you!!
Finally another vid😍😍
Ive been waiting for like so long lets go BOYS
Hahahaha awww sorry and thank you!!
Amazing
Hey, under the comment of one dude you said that AC hidden video gain more views than your videos. No!!! Your vids now gain almoust 50k views! Congrats!!!
Wow! Did not realise. Thank you!!! Have a fANTastic day ;)
AC is shite
@@jtch6668 I personally love AC. He is very entertaining and makes it easy to watch a show about ants. I enjoy this channel as well, but am a little disappointed that he would love such a hateful comment toward a fellow ant enthusiast.
@@david2ljdavid2lj56 Sorry, but i can't stand the clickbait and the overly long video. His channel is as much about learning and observing nature as it is about money
@@jtch6668 that is his job. You can't be mad at someone for wanting to make a living. What even better is he is doing something he is passionate about and you can tell by the time he puts into it. I wouldn't call it click bate either, but he does have a lot of cliff hangers.
Nice intro!
Thank you so much!’
Woah neat!
Love it!
Thank you!!
After I watched this my recommendations have never been the same
Hahaha its sooo sick! :D
It’s rly sick I’m now trying to find my own can you plz give me some tips on how to find a queen ant?
Have a lookout for them during the entire summer and you will DEFINETLY find one :D be sure to know how they look like though. Except if you live in iceland ofc
Awesome job keeping them together! I attempted this last year with P. breviceps and F. montana and I managed to get her workers, however, she died overnight for an unknown reason.
:( sad but awesome!!! Thank you so much for watching :D
@@nordicants6232that's not the least bit sad, but it is awesome. The slave ants had a rebellion overnight, killed their oppressor and emancipated themselves.
If you for example give the polyergus queen a formica cinerea worker at the start, can you introduce her to other formica fusca workers or brood? Or has it to be small from the start?
Wow! Slaves...very interesting....
🐜🐜🐜🐜 love the video
Thank you so much!!!
I hope I'll catch one this or next year! that would be amazing, I spot Polyergus ants hunting frequently!
Awesome!! Let me know
OH SH- ive watched your nuptial flight schedule vid and im very glad that i saw the manica rubida on it is it accurate?? and pls tell how to find them by replying and are they easy to find?
5:43 Formica ant:hi. You are my queen right? Queen ant:uuuhhh yes. Formica ant: you the same species as me. Right? Queen ant: yes. Formica ant: you are my mom right? Queen ant: *YES* Formica ant: *aahhh that's why I look so damn ugly* Queen ant: (•_•) **Cricket song**
One formica lost one antena and its very VERY AMIZING it also made me under stand things in a kidnapper ant
It Would be amazing to see these guys in the vivarium
I think so too! They would need loads of space though
Question. Are there any of Slave Making Ant Queen species for sale?
how do you start a channel about ant keeping cause i was thinking about making one and please make more videos on how to care them before the ant season is over pls
Awesome! Unfortunately i cant make much non-vivarium videos but please ask if you have any questions. :-)
@@nordicants6232 ok :D
crazy
There is a species like this in Arizona but unfortunately I have never seen one when I go to visit my family there but this year im going to look harder for one where I live there is a formica parasitic ant but I have never found one either
Wow! They are apparently super rare then... im lucky to have them in my backyard :D
I'd like to see a update on the slaver ants
I wish I could keep these awesome ants, but I live in Connecticut, USA so I cant. Maybe one day I’ll move to Europe!
Do a crossover with Antscanda
Destiny Myers / sun flower Super myers family team i get less views than his hidden videos ;)
@@nordicants6232 😟
@@nordicants6232 so you will get a lot of more views and subscribers if you collab with him.
a looong time ago you did a video about a lasius filignosus queen. what happen to her
Released her and her colony when i went to thailand!! Will get another one, they are supercoool
What if you pit brood of diffrend ants in there ?
🐜
Just take The Red Pill, Neo-Ant, and I show you how deep the colony hole goes...
:D
You were reeeeally fast ;)
Nordic Ants yeeeeeeeeee boiiiiiiiiii
Do you know if these guys (or I should say girls) are native to California? Also, great vid! 5:58 NoOoOoOuUuU poor ant-o screwed up....
I know some species are native to the sout or central US, maybe cali. Search some on the internet!
You can can find that information on www.antmaps.org
I don’t know if so would really call it slavery, unless you consider all ants to be slaves. The ants are just working for a different queen that isn’t there own.
Well they really do everything for the red ants and since they are so exploited their lifespan is like three times worse ;)
I have three formica fusca queens and a formica sanguina one. Would absolutely love to get a Polyergus queen, she would have plenty of fusca workers. I you ever want to trade or sell a Polyergus queen or know someone who would want to sell or trade, i would be so gratefull to pay big for it
Can i find them in Sweden
Racially motivated
Great video but does the queen have red mites?
Yup... but i removed them!!
Your sense of humour lol
I don't think they steal eggs, but steal pupas and maybe larvae. I think they eat foreign ant eggs.
Yeah good point!! But you can steal food too ;)
I have one question, they’re in my back yard and if I did this with a queen, should she end up laying eggs eventually?
Yup!!
So they would no longer need slaves?
@@moundsofants6438 they still need slaves, they can't feed themselves
Must be hard to raise slaver ant queen you don't know if she is going to kill the workers or workers killing the queen also I been wondering lately what type of fish tank should I get for my vivarium right now I have a Argentina colony and I plan to get maybe 4 more queens maybe
Weeeellll argentines tend to take over an entire tank easily if there isnt any antcolonies already established inside that can keep them in check! :D
@@nordicants6232 thank you for you're help I plan on getting a 200 gallon fishtank and where I live we mainly have Argentina ants,black pavment ants rarely any harvester ants I might go to a near by desert and see if I can find another colony that can keep my Argentina ants in check
It's not problem to start the colony, but to keep it as mature, and allow them to raid other ants. I mean how to do that? I had two young colonies of these ants, but after year 1 i released both of them, becouse i wasn't able to give them a more slave ants.
Get a colony of bulldog ants
Destiny Myers / sun flower Super myers family team not native where I live :(
They are awesome, I have 2 bull ant queens now 👍🏼
@@nordicants6232 so are the fire ants too
What species of crab is that
pls come back
You need a better microphone and some light background music.... Because your content is very good but the presentation is fair..
Yup I am very aware of this! How about my latest vid? Thank you sm for the feedback :D
@@nordicants6232 yes. I looked at the newer ones.. much better.
Have seen Red wood ants plunder orange field ants of their eggs. Do you think the Wood ants will eat them or keep them as slaves? Can add that I think the Red wood ants belonged to a small super colony.
Hmmm that i dont know but i guess they eat them!
@@nordicants6232 Thanks for reply. Ants sure are ruthless, poor field ants were cut in half. No match for the bigger sisters. If you want to see big red wood ant nests visit northern Sweden. Their nests are often over 2 meters in height. No way that is just one queen. Guess they had to co-operate to survive the cold.
BLACK HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL.
These ants engage in slavery because they can't feed themselves without another species, and it's ignorant to equate animals with the human experience.
@@aaronTNGDS9 slavery is slavery. However you justify it.
Imagine if the kidnapper ants were the size of humans-
do any of you subscribers or you nordic ants know if acorn queen ants are clostral or semi-clostral. Because I have just cought a queen. thank you !!!!
Where was this filmed? Polyergus is quite a rare species.
In my granddads garden in france :D yeah i know. Pretty cool
@@nordicants6232 What area of France? She's quite nicely red. Did you know that become darker as you go more towards the east of Europe? The ones in the Balkan countries are almost black (though they don't turn into a different species until all the way into southern Russia).
In Auvergne! Central france
And thanks so much for the info :D didnt know
Here because of Kurzgesagt haha
make a bigger vivarium, maybe with small mamels like mice or somethink, the bigger the vivarium the higher you can go up the food chain
They seem to be rare. I have never seen them.
Depends on where you live! But yeah I was surprised to see them in my grandparents garden :D
I would love to see so many more videos
Nordic Ants actually by looking closer, I might have seen a queen without even noticing
In a nutshell
Where Can One by a Polyergus Queen?
Are they ok now ?
They were okay when I released them back :D
Although remember that you need to scale them up into a substantial colony before releasing a colony like this to the wild
@@nordicants6232 ok
add fish to the vivarium
It's not slavery, they found the eggs first, abandoned and all by themselves.
Uioman Cannot hahaha yeah sure ;D an ant-orphinage?
@@nordicants6232 more like kidnapping and child labor.
You must be white
they kidnap them from a striving colony usually using brute force,and force them to work for a queen that isn't theirs,def slavery
@Itsjusta Hemi interesting.😷 Internet gangsta. Must be an agent of the state.
Poor ants
Darwin`s on the origin of species brought me here.
ok
Vivarium video coming soon though :o
ok
Yea please help
hoi
You should put them in a viv with other Formica
Slave Makers Vs Fire Nation lol
What is about WHAT??
Hahahah
Going to give you a thumbs down just because you didn't use a callow worker when doing the introduction. Yes the queens are built for taking hits, but they can still get seriously injured if something goes wrong. Just isn't worth the risk unless you have multiple queens to test with.
Okay i can take it! But imagine how this queen enters, alone, an entire colony of hundreds of workers! They usually but her by the legs and take her into the colony. :-) but it doesnt look good though! Shouldve had adviced to cool them down though, which i did. Have a fANTastic day to you! Keep sharing your thoughts, appreciated
@@nordicants6232 Yes and most of the queens fail in the wild though it's usually more than just one worker against a queen.
It’s called slave makers