Ant Apocalypse Stopped by a Rhino Beetle
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This is the biggest, most tragic disaster in the history of the ‘Antiverse’, my Ant Room – a mass #AntApocalypse! Millions of my pet Yellow Crazy Ants, a supercolony known as the Golden Empire, has been struck with a mysterious plague that appeared out of nowhere, culling their numbers to a weakened few. In this video, we find out what exactly has been killing the ants, as well as, a possible hopeful solution through an #experiment using one of our cherished #RhinoBeetles, newcomers to the Antiverse. Hope you enjoy this week’s ant video. Ant love forever! This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution.
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You should have Zeus, Poseidon, and Apollo all live in a Terrarium called mount Olympus, with perfect weather, and Apollo’s voice recorded and playing 24 7 like the real myth
+Aspiring Marauder what
+enternal night “and Apollo’s voice recorded and playing 24 7”
Beetle Apollo is going to sound very different than anthropomorphic Apollo.
Didn’t all the gods live on Mount Olympus though? (Except Hades.)
+CaptainCarthex The Greek Gods all had their own palaces in which to live, Olympus was merely where the 12 main Gods, Hades included, would meet to discuss things.
GDmITE , ok for real, I’m kinda tempted to try to make music out of the sounds these beetles make
after fully exterminating the parasitic mite u should try to add some more queens in just in case if like 2-4 of the queens died out ………………. FRIKKING MITE SCREW U
If this works, then I think that Apollo deserves to have his own terrarium like the winner of the beetle games
Yep agree #Teamapollo
No
Team Dionysus
Agreed
Guess you could call it the ant-pocalypse, huh?
I’ll, uh… see myself out.
Dont
Nice dead meme avatar together with your cringy comment 👌
Great to hear you found a solution! All of us are hoping it works, and population grows. In the video you showed concerning mite evolution, you (and we) were releived that they had detached from the ants and evolved into their next life cycle phase. Each phase has an approximate time, or is triggered by seasonal change, and no themites seem to have changed to the paracitic phase. Just to be prepared for the future (and interesting info for us), document and show how long it has taken them to turn paracitic or what seasonal change has happened, or other factors are involved, so you know when to have those beetle mites ready and save those ants! Ant love forever, know what I’m sayin, what I’m sayin
ACAnswer Of the week – You chose Apollo to participate in our Experiment was because Apollo is the Greek God of Healing, medicine and Plague! (I’ve Been subbed since the fire, golden and black knights love the content!)
i’m not crying, theirs just an ant in my eye
Sounds painful
I’m ants in my eyes johnson
Rick & Morty?
Hehe nice profile pic….(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The Permian-Triassic Extinction period killed almost all life on Earth, but life persevered.
The Great Comet wiped out all the Dinosaurs, but species like mammals, insects and bird survived and propagate.
The Black Death in the middle ages devastated the Human population, but didn’t wipe Humanity off.
Destructive Human Activity, such as mass killings, habitat destruction, introduction of pests and diseases, over History have decimated or destroyed a number of Human Races and Many Animal Species, yet some of them survived the horrors, some with the help of the knowledge to preserve and protect them.
Empires come and go… An Empire has fallen, long gone from its former glory, yet what is left there is hope. These are the survivors, it is in your hands to save them, help them rebuild a new Empire …and then make a GREAT COMEBACK. I wish your mission well.
18:38 Apollo: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP
Fkin
I have an alternate suggestion to at least secure the continued excistance of the Golden Empire.
If i were you, i would collect one (mite-free) queen of the 8, and put it in quarantine. That way part of the Empire will be left even if the experiment fails and every other ant perishes.
I hate to be that guy, but if you agree with this idea (which im sure a lot of you dont), could you please like this comment so Mikey can see it and that it has support? Thanks!
I’m really hoping Mikey already did this. It was almost like foreshadowing in this video. I can’t see him NOT doing it tbh. It was the first thought I had. Collect all the queens (even if it’s only 1.) that is mite-free, and pretty much restart the colony, and then after several months, maybe introduce another couple queens/workers and try to grow them back into a super colony again. This is my favorite ant colony on the channel for sure.
#LongLiveTheGoldenEmpire #ApolloBreakTheirCurse
I agree
Kriss Nulgath well, it would mean separating the only known healthy queens from the rest of the colony, and if the others have mites thats a death sentence for that part of the colony
I hope he does this just in case.
I love how your passion for the ants shows through. You speak clearly, are informative and educational and your videography is fantastic. I also love that your background music stays in the background and doesn’t compete with your voice. I thoroughly enjoy your channel and never thought I could get so fascinated by ants. Anyone making videos can learn a lot from you! Please keep up the great work. Fingers and toes crossed for the Golden Empire.
I don’t keep Ants, but I keep bees. This autumn I came upon a bee keepers worst nightmare, so I know how you’re feeling.
I opened my boxes to one of my hives completely gone. Over the course of a week and half, they had split, swarmed, and the remainder of the colony had been pushed out by wax moths. It had happened so soon, and I knew something was wrong when I opened the lid and saw no bees. And then another. Until I saw none. The area was scattered with more dead bees than normal, and bottom board was over run with wax moth larvae, the bottom board full of webbing.
I broke down into tears, suit and smoker in hand, hot and sweaty from the sun and panic. My heart shattered and I felt so bad and I still feel so bad. My box is visible from my window and it’s still there and it makes me tear up sometimes. I can’t help but think of all the things I did wrong. I can only hope they found a place and survived the winter and will thrive in whatever new home they made for themselves. There wasn’t enough bodies to say the entire colony died, so they left.
Here’s hoping they’re living their best little bee lives. ❤️
Honey bees are jerks
*_All your bees are gone!_*
*_Crab Rave Time_*
amsayyy You are amazing and you should try to rebuild! I don’t know much about bees, but you did it once and I think you can do it again 😊 I wish you the best of luck to you in your future of bee keeping
Don’t give up the bees need you 😢
“Wow, this colony is doing fantastic!”
*Mites have joined the server*
+Sabre DaKitCat how u doing that type of words?
With * at the start and end of whatever you want *example example*
Quick get the lemons
+Sabre DaKitCat thank god
Well done on 8 on trending so happy 4 u 🙂
Awesome! What country?
it’s trending here in the uk
+AntsCanada well I’m in Britain
+AntsCanada can u do an update video on the blue crayfish or is it gone
Apollo is also the god of light and the sun perfect for being the one to save the golden empire
praise the sun!
hey don’t forget he’s the god of healing. HAHA
Trending on #4 in usa
Yay! We did it! #ACFamily
+AntsCanada Congrats.
Really? It’ s trending 6 in Washington
Congratz AC for the Trending Spot!!
Bro! You’re trending!
He trends all time time.
#6 on trending nice job @AntsCanada