How These Ants Took Over the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

And how we're fighting back!
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[vizthex]

How they filmed this:

"Hey John what's that?"

"I don't know, LET'S POKE IT!"

[TheNoobShow]

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

[Kindasped]

everyone gangsta poking fire ants with a stick until you realize you were standing on the 2nd entrance/exit of the ant colony.

[haraldhey]

Everyone jokes about how Australia lost against emus, but nobody mentioned, that America lost against ants.

[lazyboy]

I shivered, I never shiver and the legs on my hair stuck up.

Like for 82 years of good ant luck.

[micro-babe]

"Bullet ants are a 4 on the Schmidt pain index." YES. I KNOW THIS. I JUST WATCHED ANT-MAN AND I AM NOW AN EXPERT ON ANTS.

[steves]

Historically, bringing in another species to fight one hasn't worked out as expected.

[sonarcha]

Fire ants makes nests in earth, spreads by air, and survives water.
Antvatar.

[besmart]

A little clarification: 1:55 I said "imported" species, not "important" species. Sorry for not enunciating!

I mean, fire ants are still important, just maybe not for the best reasons.

[RandomGuy]

This whole video I kept feeling stuff crawling on my skin D:

[lizzickey]

I remember back then when I was in the military, my base was located in a hot area, the average was about 37-38 and capped at 40 degrees max. Ants there were a nightmare to most of us because they survived in hot weather, where event a grass couldn't survive. I swear that if you got stung by them, you just want to cut that part out of your body. It took several days to a week to recover from that stung. and you just got a permanent beautiful mark there forever

[dm_nimbus]

Yeah, I have a severe fire ant allergy. I almost stopped breathing last time I got a few stings. I don't know how I survived growing up in Texas.

[AEther]

Y'know, Mr. Fire Ant, a fly isn't really something to lose your head over. Deep breath in, deep breath out.

[steamcleana_]

I was annoyed at why this channel doesn't upload that frequently but this video made me realise that I should be comparing it to something like V sauce and not sci show. Great video btw!

[mrnice]

I don't know the flies remained me of a Simpson episode where they keep bring new hunter for the unwanted species and it did not end well...

[AkhmenHotep]

ant keepers know how special those first founding stages are and how naturally beautiful it is, shame fire ants aren't native to Australia, I would love to have a colony

[Titanic-wobq]

You: Just breathes on the mound
Fire Ants: It's treason then.

[besmart]

Love 'em or hate 'em (and I'm guessing most people hate 'em), I hope this video helps you discover how interesting fire ants really are!

They're just trying to make a living…

[cvgurau]

6:00 WHY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT oh god i feel them I CAN FEEL THEM ON MY SKIN

[GR-rxzq]

"The things I do for this show"




Ha, you should see brave wilderness