Yeah! Ants are cool (and also frustrating) because they wind up participating in a lot of different ecological processes/niches. Ants are predators, prey, pollinators, decomposers, ecosystem engineers, farmers... They do it all!
@Ecotasia
3 жыл бұрын
It has been interesting to hang out with ant scientists and learn about ant identification, it is incredible to watch them look pretty identical ants and identify to species. Also my first experience with leaf cutters they were taking leaves out of a tree in San Jose in an area completely covered in concrete.
@ScienceDave1265
3 жыл бұрын
Canadian geese are nothing like Canadian humans 😂
@SciBugs
3 жыл бұрын
Not insect babieeeessss! Nooooooo. Doom.
@TheRovingNaturalist
3 жыл бұрын
I bet you can do it 😂 No arthropods this time!
@teal_ice_diva8446
3 жыл бұрын
It is hard to identify ant species 😂
@davidschmidt270
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an aspiring naturalist myself.... anyways I have a pretty big red army ant population in my backyard and I literally told them that I'd make a deal with them....if they don't bite me I won't kill them....I literally will walk around up and over thier trails and never once in probably 5 years have I been bitten by them....
@TheRovingNaturalist
3 жыл бұрын
That's the sort of relationship I love to hear about! Giving wildlife healthy respect and boundaries means everyone can stay safe 🙂
@davidschmidt270
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheRovingNaturalist I've heard that ants will steal the pollen though....is there truth to this?
@NatureCheckDD
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidschmidt270 I'm not sure what you mean. Steal pollen from what/whom?
@davidschmidt270
3 жыл бұрын
@@NatureCheckDD so I was watching one gardening video and the guy was saying that the flowers that the bees pollinate the flowers which produce the fruit can be stolen by the ant's!! Is there a way to organically control the ant's?? I don't want to get rid of them.... believe it or not I actually like the guy's ....but I don't want them to take over the yard.....any ideas?? I definitely definitely don't want to use chemicals
@TheRovingNaturalist
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidschmidt270 Oh interesting. That's a tough one, since as far as I know those ants are pretty good at surviving. The best non-chemical control would probably be to do your best to foster populations of natural predators of the ants to keep their population in check.
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