They could crawl the ceiling, but this a much effective way to carry their food without doing much effort! Imagine them upside down carrying some weight...
My guess is they attacked across the ceiling, but as more and more ants came, the bodies started forming this rope, and this is just the natural equilibrium form of an ant based bridge.
I'm guessing they have trouble walking across the ceiling while they're carrying things. So they probably walked straight across the ceiling to get to the nest in the first place, but then when they started carrying food from the nest back, they needed the bridge. I'm just guessing though
i would like to see how they started out building the bridge. i mean how did they make it starting to hang ... did they first go straight line along the bottom of the roof and then kept piling up and make the string longer?
Ants dropped off of one another for millions of years until eventually enough ant particles created the rope. Then the Earth's poles reversed and the ant rope began building upward until it met the wasp nest.
This is an old video. My presumption was and still is that bridge indeed follows the roof. At some point. Ants in the middle slip and bridge starts to hang. Since ants do not have that much brains the probably didn't even notice and instinctively grabbed each other. And every time one ant lost its hold on neighbour due to ever increasing weight due to new ants one new one would grab on.
I have the same questions. I'm wondering if at first there was just a straight line of them along the ceiling, then as more and more ants started coming along, the "bridge" started to droop down from the middle as the ants were walking on top of each other and pulling the ones in contact with the ceiling off from it and eventually the bridge would just get longer and longer as more ants joined.
May not be able to carry their spoils away properly without the bridge. The whole ants can carry 10x their weight is kind of misleading. 10x of almost nothing is also almost nothing. They may be able to support that weight but that doesn’t mean they can support that weight upside down
I wonder if it’s a way to sneak up on the wasps more, or maybe limiting the scent trails back to their nest. I don’t know much about either at all but I wonder if it’s something like that.
Id pick ants over wasps any day . So if ants solved a wasp problem for me i would fucking build them a small shrine with like , cubes of sugar or something in the garden
These are army ants, they can form columns 100’s of metres long consisting of tens of millions of ants and instead of creating nests underground like normal ants they make nests out of their living bodies. Probably not the thing you want in your house. These ants are such effective killers that they have to live a nomadic lifestyle as they sanitise the area surrounding their nest of all life within a few days
The wasp larvae are good protein source for the ants. If you look closely you can see ants carrying away larvae from the nest. So the nest will be completely empty rather soon.
i found this in an article about this video, "They will even build across the water!” Boni also explained that several species of ants realize it's tough to run upside down. "Apparently for ants, it’s more effective to follow the path over a bridge that ‘goes down then up’ than having to navigate an inverted walk."
It looks like certain type of ants are walking on top of the rest to move the goodies. Reminds me of how billionaires and politicians take advantage of regular folks.
Is it wrong that I want to see what happen when you know down one of the sides? Like to see if they'll swing like a rope, all suddenly fall down or act like a stick hanging from a tree.
Why did they need the bridge? Looks like they can crawl along the ceiling just fine.
They could crawl the ceiling, but this a much effective way to carry their food without doing much effort! Imagine them upside down carrying some weight...
Only Air Force ants do that. These are army.
I’m pretty sure these motherfuckers know the best to fuck up a wasp nest😂
this Is the most relevant explanation I could find
My guess is they attacked across the ceiling, but as more and more ants came, the bodies started forming this rope, and this is just the natural equilibrium form of an ant based bridge.
I'm guessing they have trouble walking across the ceiling while they're carrying things. So they probably walked straight across the ceiling to get to the nest in the first place, but then when they started carrying food from the nest back, they needed the bridge. I'm just guessing though
Just to flex
Why do humans need fedoras? To look cool, that's why.
Total nonsense to me.
It’s about sending a message.
I guess this explains why no ant has ever won the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering
Its not about effectiveness. Its about demonstration.
Army Anting 101: Always attack from the least expected entry point..
There once was one. This is a few hours later. It's collapsing.
Go ants! Fuck wasps!
fuckwasps
That's somewhat Ironic since Ants evolved from Wasps
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Wasps evolved from ants
Fuck em both. Time to burn the house down.
Aren't ants descended from wasps?
you're aware ants are very closely related to wasps right
I would like to know how these ants decided to declare war on the nest
Great now I'm all itchy
Great now I’m terrified
This comment made me itchy
good to see a fellow 🦍 out in the wild
Imagine walking at night and you get clotheslined by this
Most likely just the shorts
DRS!
Pixar's "Bug's Life" Snyders Cut
This looks more like "Joe's Apartment" to me.
Aka "Antz"
Definitely Antz. Little darker
i would like to see how they started out building the bridge. i mean how did they make it starting to hang ... did they first go straight line along the bottom of the roof and then kept piling up and make the string longer?
Maybe two lines at each end which sort of swung and connected to each other.
Most likely began as a connected line along the ceiling which then dropped down as more ants and weight were added
I'm assuming there's a thin line that hangs like that and the ants just crawled across that
They have a ant rope in their armory at base when stuff like this is needed. Google it.
Ants dropped off of one another for millions of years until eventually enough ant particles created the rope. Then the Earth's poles reversed and the ant rope began building upward until it met the wasp nest.
I find it super fascinating to watch how ants work. I live in Bali so there's all kinds of different ants here. And they all act differently.
I'd assume it was a chain that went across the ceiling and then they let the middle droop down?
This is an old video. My presumption was and still is that bridge indeed follows the roof. At some point. Ants in the middle slip and bridge starts to hang. Since ants do not have that much brains the probably didn't even notice and instinctively grabbed each other. And every time one ant lost its hold on neighbour due to ever increasing weight due to new ants one new one would grab on.
The fact that it happened at my country switched my feelings towards this video from vicarious awe and curiosity into a feeling of impending dread.
Ants are amazing. Happy Cake Day 🎂
Thank you for the information, as the other said, Happy Cake Day!
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Why not just do a straight line?
Between the ants and the wasps id say you have a serious bug problem.
At this point, the bugs have a human problem.
Thankfully the problem is clearly solving itself
man has a literal bug war happening on his porch.
Wasps:
Literally just watched this scene a couple hours ago. Battle of Helms deep was like the climax of the movie to me
To be honest, wasps started a war that ants will end, one way or another.
MARCH TO HELM'S DEEP
Where was the Beehive when the Waspnest fell?
One does not simply walk into a wasp nest
Look at them, they're frightened. I can see it in their eyes. And they should be! Three hundred...against ten thousand?
There it is, the comment I have been waiting to use my coins on. Bravo
Why they ain't sending kamikaze to destroy the bridge?
yeah how’d the wasps not see it coming
What is this? A bridge for ants??
For ants. By ants.
thingsforants
Hold carl HOLD
I hear Carl is a Chad who can hold up to twenty times his bodyweight.
Imagine youre a wasp chilling like the asshole you sre and some bugs outside just start voltroning
Funniest comment I read in a while
How did they “build” the central part? Did they start going down from start point and the went up again to form that arch?
Ants are buff as shit, Probably brute forced it
Most likely the formed a straight line across the top and gradually it sagged.
Good point
I've seen this posted a few times and it is very neat but I've always been curious about one thing.
I have the same questions. I'm wondering if at first there was just a straight line of them along the ceiling, then as more and more ants started coming along, the "bridge" started to droop down from the middle as the ants were walking on top of each other and pulling the ones in contact with the ceiling off from it and eventually the bridge would just get longer and longer as more ants joined.
Antomologists
How'd they do this?...
I'd be interested to see how they disassemble the bridge, too
I don’t understand the need for the bridge
May not be able to carry their spoils away properly without the bridge. The whole ants can carry 10x their weight is kind of misleading. 10x of almost nothing is also almost nothing. They may be able to support that weight but that doesn’t mean they can support that weight upside down
I wonder if it’s a way to sneak up on the wasps more, or maybe limiting the scent trails back to their nest. I don’t know much about either at all but I wonder if it’s something like that.
You’re telling me that’s all ants? They aren’t attached to a rope or anything?
It’s actually cake
Correct. Similarly, ants have been known to use their drones to
Nope, ants attached to ants
Always has been.
Nature is so crazy. Tiny insects building an awesome nest hanging from the ceiling only to be fucked by other tiny insects building a fucking bridge.
Forbidden fruit roll up
It’s like that zombie movie with Brad Pitt lol
Thelma and Louise
natureismetal
Dude! Take care of your house! I wouldn’t let that kind of shit happen in my yard!!! ;)
He needs to burn it down and start over at this point.
The ants go marching one by one… hoorah
The world's longest ant bridge.
The first thing I thought of was cut down the ant bridge with a sword. Idk why.
Pretty sure it's a chain, saw this years ago
Nope
If you look really close, you can see a chain. Especially in the part of the video going upright, when the whole thing twists on itself.
Iirc the wasp nest has some kind of chemical that wards off ants at the base so they can’t just snip it off
Ants form of raft! .. Ants form of bridge!
"We've been trying to reach your about your car's extended warranty"
Fuck wasps.
Happy cake day
O damn they hood af 😳
It would be nextfuckinglevel if it hadn't been posted here dozens of times a year.
Glad youve seen it a dozen times, ive only seen it once
First time I saw it. Not everyone is 24 hours a day on reddit.
A Bug’s Life 3 got released?
Bug spray
Ok todays episode of Is it Florida or Australia…
another reason to NOT visit Austrailia
This isn't in Australia though...
Play a record...
Id pick ants over wasps any day . So if ants solved a wasp problem for me i would fucking build them a small shrine with like , cubes of sugar or something in the garden
These are army ants, they can form columns 100’s of metres long consisting of tens of millions of ants and instead of creating nests underground like normal ants they make nests out of their living bodies. Probably not the thing you want in your house. These ants are such effective killers that they have to live a nomadic lifestyle as they sanitise the area surrounding their nest of all life within a few days
hanz? get ze flammenwerfer.
These any more tactical than Russia
Why did they attack them in a first place? I mean they don't have anything to fight about are they?
The wasp larvae are good protein source for the ants. If you look closely you can see ants carrying away larvae from the nest. So the nest will be completely empty rather soon.
That’s fucking CRAZY.
Nope rope
Crazy the queen is in the backround pulling all the puppet strings of this army
I’m not an ant expert but from what I understand the “queen” is more a birthing machine than an actual leader of any sort
Haha, die trash!
GO GET ‘EM
Holy shit. That’s insane, only question is , is this your house or residence?
SaveVideo
Now cut the bridge and see what happens
You become the bridge
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I want to slash it with a sword
Finally an invasion I can support
Humans.
Ants are metal
Imagine the stories they get to tell their grandkids
Isn't being that close dangerous?
The 1000 years war…
There’s strong, and there’s Army Ant strong
Blow torch time
I hate both wasps and ants passionately so I know how to feel about this video.
"they're building a bridge!" - COD WW2
Forbidden nerds rope
I kinda wanna cut the bridge
Imagine not paying attention and walking face first in to that
Im so confused right now
Grab the scissors.
Wars in there air ig
✂️
Whoa
Ants terrify me
So verrrry cool
So…. What happens when the last ant has to let go?
Did they attack and kill the wasps?
I'd be more amazed if you still live there 😂
You have unlocked a new nightmare.
Those ants have ABS
world of goo irl
How?
Those ants are pretty badass.
Begun, the insect wars have.
the greatest animals ever are ants, spiders and bees they sustain life on earth
i found this in an article about this video, "They will even build across the water!” Boni also explained that several species of ants realize it's tough to run upside down. "Apparently for ants, it’s more effective to follow the path over a bridge that ‘goes down then up’ than having to navigate an inverted walk."
I want to set them all on fire
Putin should learn how to invade by watching these ants.
It looks like certain type of ants are walking on top of the rest to move the goodies. Reminds me of how billionaires and politicians take advantage of regular folks.
I’d love to take a lighter and a deodorant spray can to that.
Is there a crew of spiders somewhere nearby thinking "buffet"...
More reason to make ants go extinct
MOM GET THE SCISSORS GET SCISSORS
If I remember correctly it was in Costa Rica
Wow that’s a hell of a nest and one hell of an army of ants
The insect world is absolutely terrifying.
Let's go ant nation!
Not as good as bee honey
Time for flamethrower
The temptation to smack the middle of it would be overwhelming.
I wonder how they managed to form a bridge in the first place
I want to cut the bridge in half and watch the ants fly onto the wall
oddlyterrifying
They need an exterminator
Is it wrong that I want to see what happen when you know down one of the sides? Like to see if they'll swing like a rope, all suddenly fall down or act like a stick hanging from a tree.
what’s worse? a hornets nest or an army ant infestation
So THAT’S how they got their name…
thats a nice f(x)= a.cosh(b.x) right there
This is extremely gross but I respect the creativity
Teamwork
I would’ve destroyed the bridge for sure.
Next up they’ll invade Poland
Russia vs Ukraine
If zombies ever get this smart, we're fucked