Everyone summon AntsCanada

@sacilexi231

7 ай бұрын

Love that channel.

@ReaperEOD

7 ай бұрын

He'll be here, I believe.

@aggrotits.thunderbelch

7 ай бұрын

Ant love forever ❤

@akumaking1

7 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking

@drunkendonut2241

7 ай бұрын

He will be summoned

I did some research for one of Bert Holldobler's PhD students during my undergrad, then worked in their lab caring for ant colonies. Bert found out I kept leafcutter ants as a hobby my first day and before the day was out he had presented me with a copy of his and EO Wilson's book about leafcutters. Bert was just so excited to meet a young person who is passionate about the same things as him. He's an all-around nice guy. I wish I'd had a chance to meet Wilson before he passed.

@ellie8272

26 күн бұрын

That's adorable I love that for you two

I used to watch ants for hours as a child, they are truly amazing

@SuperManning11

7 ай бұрын

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

@_Ben___

7 ай бұрын

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

@Nikki0417

7 ай бұрын

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

Add this information to how ground ants cultivate specialized fungus, it's like ants themselves are the real OG farmers from deep time. 😅 It is crazy to think how much biodiversity we can thank the ants for. 🎉 🐜

@comicomment

7 ай бұрын

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.

@Meraxes6

7 ай бұрын

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

@alexv3357

7 ай бұрын

@@comicomment "Do not cite the deep terrestriality to me, bilateterian.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

@susanne5803

7 ай бұрын

And they keep cattle: lice.

@Alusnovalotus

7 ай бұрын

Yup! I made a comment about it. 😅

That one ant carrying the seed through the desert gave me life. Like, go you little champion you got this.

It always makes me smile when a new Eons video pops up. Thank you for making and sharing these :)

@drstone3418

7 ай бұрын

Ants are the humans of the insect world

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.

@ADTillion

7 ай бұрын

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.

@OpaloAzul

7 ай бұрын

@@ADTillion Vampire ants kinda do that

@astick5249

7 ай бұрын

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

@Rishi123456789

7 ай бұрын

"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.

As someone who is currently writting a scientific note on the topic of expanding the known range of an invasive ant species in a town with 6 invasive ant species, I can confirm the the ants have taken over.

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

let them fight

@emmettcollins-sussman633

7 ай бұрын

What species?

@jasoncaldwell5627

7 ай бұрын

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

@Nikki0417

7 ай бұрын

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

@blockmasterscott

7 ай бұрын

@@Nikki0417 That lady was nuts!

Your sound person, Callie Dishman, does an amazing job.

Okay not sure about you all but this is literally my favorite KZread channel. Helps put my existence in perspective with the bigger grander picture of life on earth

6:58 UHHHH is that a Gecko?!!

If the T-Rex had paleontologists, they too could've dug up Stegosauruses: that's how displaced in history they are from them and us.

It's difficult to tell from this vantage point if they will consume mankind or merely enslave them but one thing is for certain; the ants will soon be here.

@NeilGirdhar

7 ай бұрын

Someone call Leiningen

@spookywoop

7 ай бұрын

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.

@ieguy3

7 ай бұрын

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

Neat! When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my dad would take my brothers and me out to the clay pits in Sayreville, NJ to hike and explore. Sometimes, we would run into paleontologists digging for amber. I wonder if one of them found that ant

Hey PBS Eons, can you please make a video about ceratopsians on like how they got their frill and horns and or something else.

Humans convergently evolved ant-like societies, when you think about it. Farming, war, cities, architecture, etc.

@stealthmanger

7 ай бұрын

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

@perceivedvelocity9914

7 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@TragoudistrosMPH

7 ай бұрын

@@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 :)

@MossyMozart

7 ай бұрын

@@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.

@SinKimishima

7 ай бұрын

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

The irrational happiness when I see a new video about ants is real

THEY WERE WASPS!?!?!?!

@spoork

7 ай бұрын

Yes

@monkeymanchronicles

7 ай бұрын

They still are cladistically speaking.

@Nintaboy

7 ай бұрын

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

My mind has been blown yet again by PBS...

I would never guess ants are in cahoots with flowers.

Great insights; ants are so interesting! Our crew got on camera a tropical fanged pitcher plant that has as its main partner carpenter ants. So you really see footage of ants that live inside carnivorous plants! It's so fascinating!

Ants are little monsters

I had no idea that ants were just flightless wasps. The way ants inject venom now suddenly makes so much sense.

@katherinegilks3880

7 ай бұрын

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

Super interesting episode!

That's mind blowing! I always wondered about ants, meeting a vast variety of them every time I go to the forest. Sitting on the log I can see at least two or three different species running around neverminding each other. As if they don't compete at all, and from some childhood nature documentaries I assumed they were living much more violent life.

@icarusbinns3156

7 ай бұрын

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!

@dilophosaurusking7437

7 ай бұрын

Bro has never seen fireants interacting with literally any other ants

@icarusbinns3156

7 ай бұрын

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

@ethanlackey8048

7 ай бұрын

@@icarusbinns3156prolly from the same nest

@icarusbinns3156

7 ай бұрын

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

Just a note of appreciation for the acknowledgement of the Lenape peoples, especially given how the federal government required their modern art works to be marked as "Lenape heritage", denying their existence.

@napoleonfeanor

7 ай бұрын

Are you one?

@sion8

7 ай бұрын

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

@The1stDukeDroklar

7 ай бұрын

And how is that "denying their existence"?

I’ve said this for years: “if aliens come and scan the planet for life forms, their machine will tell them that ants are the dominant species”

@Fractured_Unity

7 ай бұрын

I hope this is sarcasm

@TheAdrian229

7 ай бұрын

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

@BeedrillYanyan

7 ай бұрын

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

@magic_claw

7 ай бұрын

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

@norarivkis2513

7 ай бұрын

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.

I'll never forget the acrid smell of formic acid from a nest of wood ants. Must be 40 years since I smelt it but the memory is do vivid even now

Phenomenal video. I had no idea ants were descended from a common ancestor with wasps. Also fascinating to hear how they were only able to spread globally due to their relationship with angiosperms, such as using extrafloral nectaries. Its so incredible what is happening just beneath us if we only take the time to see. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

@DJFracus

7 ай бұрын

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).

@MalcolmCooks

7 ай бұрын

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

@napoleonfeanor

7 ай бұрын

@MalcomCooks LUCA agrees

Gastornis: *sweating intensifies*

@monticore1626

7 ай бұрын

Walking with beasts reference?

@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz

7 ай бұрын

@@monticore1626 Correct!

There is an entertainment venue in Hamtramck, MI, called Planet Ant. 🐜

Ants are so cool! I had an ant farm when I was a kid and I used to spend hours just watching them go about their business, digging burrows, collecting food. They’re so important to our soil that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t everywhere. I guess flowering plants thought the ants were pretty important, too.

The ways which angiospermes had influenced the last 150 millions life on earth with the co-evolution with animals is amazing. Another example could be rapresented by lepidocter (butterflies)

Amazing content as ever.

Kind of crazy to think that ants used to be confined to a single environment when today, they are absolutely EVERYWHERE!

Fascinating!!! 🐜🐜🐜💐💐💐

Be careful when you bring a potted plant into the house. I was gifted one once and it had an ant nest inside and ruined my week

@blackburned

7 ай бұрын

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.

Please tell us the money given to study this was called the "Pl-ant Grant"

Do you want ants? Because this is how you get ants.

By the time I got into the 3rd grade, my favorite book was from Scholastic Books, called "The Tall Grass Zoo" which opened my eyes to the little Earthlings that shared the lawn with us. I loved that book. ^_^

The story of my kitchen

One of my favorite episodes!

I remember this story from my early school years, great read. "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire. It is a translation, probably by Stephenson himself, of "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen" which was originally published in German in 1938. - Wikipedia

A great video. I also will never be able to wrap my head around the fact that plants didn't just plop out of the seas, flowering all over the place.

And now we have a world wide war between ants and it is magnificent

Nice! An episode over my favorite specics Love it!

Another great post, thanks! It’s scary how few ants we see nowadays here in London UK compared with my childhood in the 70s and 80s. They were literally everywhere you looked (and stepped!) then. Now we barely notice them until Flying Ant Days. Subject leap: I hope PBS Eons has a tribute post for the late W. Jason Morgan planned. You’d do a great job of it and your viewership is perfect.

As an ant keeper I really enjoyed this video

@MossyMozart

7 ай бұрын

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

@max_robak_mrowki

7 ай бұрын

@@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

This was the best pbs eons episode, hope they produce similar content

Informative, engaging,delightful. Well done! Thank you. Best wishes, health, joy, wellbeing 🤸🏽‍♂️ 🖖🏼

I feel like it's more like co-evolution, plus they should have look at fungus relationships with ants.

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

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?

I love ants 😊 all giddy over this 😅

@Rose-yx6jq

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like you get into some ANT-tics

@julianshepherd2038

7 ай бұрын

Tasty ants

You guys make great videos and they are so educational. Thank you for your time, I greatly appreciate it.

This makes me want to rewatch THEM! again. I meant the 1954 movie, not the awful blaxploitation/torture porn cesspit of a series Amazon churned out awhile back.

@chagrined4days

7 ай бұрын

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

1:27 I really like this 'yet', watching Lindsay Nikole accustomed to the fact that our knowledge is incomplete, as reflected in her catchprase "that we know of"

What next? RISE of The Planet of The Ants?!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

great video! thanks a lot.

Ants are amazing...when they are OUTSIDE my house. Not when they are in my kitchen.😑😒😫

I know this video presented the topic like angiosperms drove the rise of ants, but I have to suspect that it was more complicated than that, and that ants, in turn, drove the rise of angiosperms.

Everything is connected

@blackburned

7 ай бұрын

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

Here in N. CA near SF, I've watched the catastrophic decline of not just all insects, but all terrestrial/soil invertebrates, and the vertebrates (newts, wild mice) that fed on them, and most of the birds as well, over the past six years. Nearly the only insects left to see are the invasive Argentine ants Linepithema humile. I strongly suspect this very species is the primary culprit. They eat everything they encounter, and once they removed all the native ants, they went to work on the eggs and larvae of every other insect and soil invertebrate. Them, along with the fact that no one is irrigating their lawns any more (producing near-sterile soils where we used to have about 1/3 of our suburb covered with moist humus, the other 2/3 being houses and streets). Those irrigated lawns supported non-native insects, it's true, but they fed our native birds, mice and newts, at least, forming the basis of a food chain. Now it's near sterile.

@reuireuiop0

7 ай бұрын

Finally, we're getting rid of the vermin!

Eggcellent video; and Great yoke

It's funny that the wasps wings came back in flying ants. Shows you how evolution likes to keep genes around just in case.

I love the music in the background, as well as the ant information 😊

Angiosperms. Or shall I say Ant-geo-perms? 🖐🎤

Imagine this diversity of ants WHITHOUT losing the wings...😭

@sporeham1674

7 ай бұрын

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

Talk nerdy to me ❤🥰😍

@blackburned

7 ай бұрын

My people

You can't spell plant without ant, neither would have been so successful or diverse without the other. Amazing video!

Oh man, the part of the story on ants divergence from wasps reminded me of Mutillidae! They're our planet's CURRENT flightless wasps (maybe they too will convergently evolve into ants 2.0 someday, though some might say they already are.) Google them. THEY ARE SO CUTE! Also, this was a very very good episode.

@markv1974

7 ай бұрын

Arent they called velvet ants😅?

8:03: "Oh boy, I gots a flower. I can't wait to give it to Marsha! I know she's gonna luv it! I just know it. Oh boy oh boy oh boy!"

@DJFracus

7 ай бұрын

looks more like a dandelion seed than flower

@KarlBunker

7 ай бұрын

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

Totally interesting. Greetings from Switzerland.

Coincidence or blind luck another species also hooked up with Angiosperms, Homosapien. Much later both farmed together. thank you ALL stay safe

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

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

Good stuff👍

Ants are really interesting. Nice episode as always :) Would you guys consider uploading to another platform or syncing your channel with a place like odysee?

Excellent viewing... well done.

I wish PBS Eons would make a video about pythons/boas and their evolution across thousands of years.

This video makes me want someone to write a book/make a video about speculative evolution where ants take over a planet and be its dominant species, diversifying to fill almost every possible niche.

@weirdredpanda

7 ай бұрын

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.

This is quite a collection of sources in the References. You could say it makes a nice Ant-thology.

It's like the Ants overlord scene from the Simpsons

Loved the music in this one

I love these videos so much! I wish I had the funds to donate. these videos have been such great stress relievers.

Some wasp really looked down at the ground while flying like: "Yo it's free real estate."

Ants seem like the original nepo babies with angiosperms making sure they got all the right connections to thrive

On international fossil day you should have the oldest member of the cast host the video as, you know, the channel's token fossil.

This episode's pun made me laugh, I always appreciate them.

Well, they surely took over my home !

@zk4761

7 ай бұрын

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.

I bet wasps who lost their wings for whatever reasons were the ones who eventually became ants. Why do some ants have wings today though? And are they still ants or are they wasps again?

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

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

@chitinskin9860

7 ай бұрын

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.

@sacilexi231

7 ай бұрын

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

@tehkaihong5328

7 ай бұрын

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.

To quote Kent Brockman: I for one, welcome our new Ant Overloads

I found your podcast (mysteries of deep time) I loved it! But why was it so short lived😢

Love the topic and the episode, but my current question is where did Kallie get the awesome fossil shirt?!

If ants evolved from wasps, I guess that explains how some of them grow wings!

*adds gelatin* "i think the cream is a little over whipped" Yeah totally not the gelatin lmao.

Plants really adapted to bribe ants into being their bodyguards.

@TragoudistrosMPH

7 ай бұрын

If you want protection, you'll have to sweeten the deal... ... It'd be a shame if something happened to you...

@craigb8228

7 ай бұрын

Aphids. Ants protect plants infested with Aphids for their honeydew.

@DJFracus

7 ай бұрын

flowers are bribing animals to help the plant have sex, and fruits are bribing animals to help the plant disperse their seeds, flowering plants tend to do that sort of thing a lot

Love the new look hair and outfit looks great!

Whats the soundtrack they used during the video?

So this is the IRL Chimera Ant Arc?

They took over the Plan-ant

That was a really interesting episode!

Kallie saying Kyromyrma neffi: "Kyromyrma neffi." Me ordering a coffee: "I'll have a cabbage uh captcha I mean you know the one with foam please."

I click on the video "when the ants took over": "Wednesday, October eleventh is-" Thanks! *Closes video*