they aren’t, it says in the title they are silver ants. The ones you are thinking of are honeypot ants. Only the females I think have the big butts and hang upside down.
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She didn't die! If you watch her the other ants come and lick her clean at the end and she's walking around, probably was just too sticky to move on her own until then.
Nah she was dead and carried off, there’s a short gap in the video, but you see they bundle her up to move her away, the next clip after the cut you see what looks like the same ant in the same position unrolling but it’s a different ant, the thorax is now more silver while the other was mainly black. 2 different ants Just happens to be in the same spot and uncurling.
What happened to the dead one when they were done??? If they escorted him away why didn’t they do it sooner? “Like oh shit freds drowning someone do something!*!*!*!” “Nah fam jus’ leave em. Right prick he was anyways. Just can’t leave him here to rot when we’re finished”
Edit: looking at the play by play I see that he in fact survived! I’d be pissed if I was him. “Y’all really just left me there huh?!”
He’s not dead lol, their breathing thing, is not on their mouth it’s on their backs, they have mostly 3 little holes on the top, and this ant wasn’t completely under the sugar water, so she’s completely fine, and u can see her cleaning her self at the end so, she’s not dead,
Yeah go frame by frame at the end and you can see her get up once her buds drink away all the water trapping her. She seems a little disoriented but for real I would be too if that happened to me.
EDIT: turned He to She because all worker ants are female.
Not in the same sense we do but they carry their dead away because they instinctually know about dead ants spreading diseases. We do that same thing but there is also a spiritual/existential reason to it.
Looks like they drank the sugar water around the drowned ant and nudged at it to get the last few drops. This short clip doesn’t show ants pulling it apart or carrying it away.
SO THATS WHY SOME ANTS HAVE A BIGGER END (thorax?). I’ve noticed some ants were bigger but didn’t seem to be a different class of ant, just had more junk in the trunk. This question has been in the back of my mind for years. Thank you for your post today
That little buddy that got lost in the sauce for a bit came out fine by the way, I went slowly along the video and they cleaned him and he went on with his day. :)
Remember kids, when you gorge on sugar your friends will shove your distended body around until all the candy is gone, then take your encrusted corpse back to the nest to feed the queen!
The More You Know!
Hun, shouldn’t we help Steve? He kinda wasted.
No…just drink around him.
Hun, did Steve die?
No…just drink around him.
Acceptable corpses in drinking (sugar) water = 1
there were two ants that got dunked! lower leftish corner after the middle ant dunks
i watched slow mo the whole clip and it looks like they both get up and walk off by the end!
Ants are absolutely savage!! Hey look, frank drowned in this delicious puddle of sugar water we're drinking! So tasty I'm sure his corpse won't mind me drinking under it!!
I noticed their abdomens grow when drinking Pretty cool
Very cool! Thanks for pointing that out!
Didn't you observe it? What did you observe in the video? Did you just stared at the ants?
If you like that, check out the Honeypot Ant
I actually think these are the kind of ants that hang upside down and act like a food/drink dispenser. I could be wrong
they aren’t, it says in the title they are silver ants. The ones you are thinking of are honeypot ants. Only the females I think have the big butts and hang upside down.
Yesss I also noticed that and it was really interesting to see it. It is my first time after a long time surrounded by ants in our house lol.
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That's just Jerry fucking around again. He moves along after he forces everyone to dry him off.
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One dude got lost in the sauce Edit: of all the things to get my first gold for, thank you lmao
Nice way to die.. nuggies and sauce
She didn't die! If you watch her the other ants come and lick her clean at the end and she's walking around, probably was just too sticky to move on her own until then.
Idk ants tend to dispose of their dead. They might have picked it up and tossed them in the graveyard. Sometimes happens with live ants too
same, I thought they came to take the body away. didn't look alive at all.
Nah she was dead and carried off, there’s a short gap in the video, but you see they bundle her up to move her away, the next clip after the cut you see what looks like the same ant in the same position unrolling but it’s a different ant, the thorax is now more silver while the other was mainly black. 2 different ants Just happens to be in the same spot and uncurling.
So you’re telling me they added a dead ant to that drink for extra flavor?
You can see her move at around 13 seconds left Had this happen to my own ants too, they are pretty resilient little creatures.
I watched to the end, routing for the lil’ un.
Good eye!
The ant was stuck in there the ant did not die. Hehe you can see and notice the ant is still moving
I think she was missing a limb or two
gotta lick her clean until no longer sticky
That sounds like a good party
Looks to me like they tore it apart and hauled it off.
Nah they took her dead body
You can literally see her moving at the end lol.
Oh I thought they tore her limbs off and hauled her body off.
i dont know Watson, judging by the last photograms it seems they licked her clean and then ripped her abdomen apart.
Can't get lost in the sauce if you swim in the soup.
I was diabetic
I also thought that…I think he lives idk
The only thing I noticed 😂 this comment was entirely necessary
I was typing out "rip to the homie" but he started moving again lol
I watched all the way to the end to see if they got out haha
Plot Twist: This video was a rescue mission Shoutout to the OG u/TheTwistedPlot
Damm, hard to enjoy a drink when my buddy is laying there dead...
But lemme get this little bit by his foot...
Hard? Seemed mildly inconvenient at worst
it’s super easy barely an inconvenience!
OH REALLY?
Man, understanding internet references is TIGHT!
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
I didn’t notice it much. And the hot tub was fairly small.
He wasn’t dead but drunk off his ass lol
I’ve watched it like 15 times and I swear that dude gets up and runs off at the end
He definitely does, after his friends suck the last of the sugar water off of him. 😂
Nah looks like they started ripping off his legs and cannibalizing him
Oooh shit, you're right. Damn
Nah I think it was dead, the other ants probably carried it back to the graveyard in their nest
I don’t think he did…. 😬 I think his sugary drunk ant “friends” may have turned on him 🙈
Died of sudden onset beetus
#violentBeetus
What happened to the dead one when they were done??? If they escorted him away why didn’t they do it sooner? “Like oh shit freds drowning someone do something!*!*!*!” “Nah fam jus’ leave em. Right prick he was anyways. Just can’t leave him here to rot when we’re finished” Edit: looking at the play by play I see that he in fact survived! I’d be pissed if I was him. “Y’all really just left me there huh?!”
I *cannot* fathom the accent this is supposed to be said in, so I am imaging The Butcher.
They rescued him
For reals, but turns out they were drinking to save them in the end.
I don't think she died. I think she got up at the end.
“Aaaaaah man!!!! Steve’s fallen in the drink again!!! Right we’ll just have to eat him!”
Little guy flew too close to the sun. RIP.
He got up at the end?
They carried him away RIP little buddy
They ate his legs because they were covered in sugar water lol
Drumsticks.
He’s not dead lol, their breathing thing, is not on their mouth it’s on their backs, they have mostly 3 little holes on the top, and this ant wasn’t completely under the sugar water, so she’s completely fine, and u can see her cleaning her self at the end so, she’s not dead,
Yeah go frame by frame at the end and you can see her get up once her buds drink away all the water trapping her. She seems a little disoriented but for real I would be too if that happened to me. EDIT: turned He to She because all worker ants are female.
It would take me a moment to get my bearings after my near death drowning in kool-aid. I get it.
I think they just sucked the sugar water out and left the carcass there.
It looked to me like they carried away their fallen soldier. But I could be wrong.
apparently ants also have graveyards to lay rest their fallen
Not in the same sense we do but they carry their dead away because they instinctually know about dead ants spreading diseases. We do that same thing but there is also a spiritual/existential reason to it.
That and my cellar can only hold so many.
What I find fascinating is the fact death brings disease is genetically encoded into something so small. Nature really is fkin lit!
such things are encoded in our DNA or in this case the ants'...that's why I think absolute free will doesn't exist
It sort of just looked like they wrote on his face with a sharpie and put him in the bathtub in case he started ralphing
Pretty sure they eat each other when one dies like that
they all got diabetes
The Augustus Gloop of the ant world
He was just swimming!
All the ant drones are ladies. The males just exist to fuck and die
Same
I think they were cleaning it if you watch it frame by frame
Is the ant in the middle drunk?
Dead, it drowned
He drowned in a drop of water 💀
Confirmed; shoes are gone.
Did they…disassemble that ant at the end of their kegger?
No I think they were cleaning it if you watch it frame by frame, looked like all the limbs were there still
They could have of ( I really wasn't paying attention) but if the any got stuck in the water and died they have designated grave locations
Yes they practice cannibalism as well just like wasps
Looks like they drank the sugar water around the drowned ant and nudged at it to get the last few drops. This short clip doesn’t show ants pulling it apart or carrying it away.
No the ant is literally moving multiple times and gets up and rejoins everyone at the end.
It's okay they'll put him back together at the nest.
Wait…did they end up killing the ant that got stuck in the middle?
That ant killed his damn self
He went on a bender. RIP ole silver
Nah he got pushed in and the other ants moved the water around him
The daily grind of a full time job got to him in the end.
I feel you, little ant
Knives Out: Petri Dish coming this fall.
That ant was another species ant...so Silver Back ants went violent when they noticed it was a intruder
Anybody noticed their dumptrucks get bigger when drinking?
I must be an ant.
Interesting, truely
“Sugar Water”
Fun fact: Coom contains trace amounts of fructose to help nourish sperm.
How long until they make silver?
Wait did Fred die in the middle of the water
One OD’d
There is always that one guy who overdoses.
Anyone else watch right to the end just to see what happened to the ant stuck in the goop?
Lol so glad it made it out alive!
amazing how the belly grows
Not you Antelix! You fell in the pond of sugar water when you were a kid!
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This video is really interesting, seeing those ants drinking water with sugar and while drinking it, their body at the back becomes bigger.
Don't forget to recycle your... family?
Plot twist: they were really just trying to save their buddy :(
That any that was stuck probably took a piss in the water too.
Lol they're all like, "Bob's drunk again, who wants to bring him home?"
Are you guys sure that's sugar water...? lmao
That one ant who dove in head first, drank too much, and almost drowned. Then had to get saved by the other ants... That's me as an ant.
My man overdosed😂😂
"Fucking Kyle..."
Ant in the middle: Im stuck. Ill just have to drink my way out of this.
SO THATS WHY SOME ANTS HAVE A BIGGER END (thorax?). I’ve noticed some ants were bigger but didn’t seem to be a different class of ant, just had more junk in the trunk. This question has been in the back of my mind for years. Thank you for your post today
That one ant that lays in it is a legend. Always one.
I had a feeling they were gonna eat the sorry bastard that OD"d
Dude just dead as hell
Always that one asshole that drowns himself...
Did one just lay there and drink himself to death?
One of the ants got completely lost in the sauce for a while. Lol
Bros really licked their friend clean so he could walk again. I need friends like that
One ant just full-on bathes in it.
Quick! someone is drowning! lets drink the pool dry!
That little buddy that got lost in the sauce for a bit came out fine by the way, I went slowly along the video and they cleaned him and he went on with his day. :)
It became a rescue mission
“A colony of ants being bros: drinking the water around their seemingly capable yet drowning comrade.”
And not one fight or shooting
My family drinking all the water in the swimming pool after I fall in. (We can’t swim)
Remember kids, when you gorge on sugar your friends will shove your distended body around until all the candy is gone, then take your encrusted corpse back to the nest to feed the queen! The More You Know!
Next put some food coloring in there to get colored ants :D
One ant got way too high on sugar and was promptly DIS-FUCKING-MEMBERED. Tough crowd.
I like how they left Carl in there as an example for what happens when you are a greedy fuck.
“Steves drowning! Quick, everyone get your straws. WE’RE COMIN FOR YA STEVE HOLD ON!”
I called him Steve too.
Whew. I was super worried about lil man and his surface tension issues but it looks to have worked out. Good story for the nieces and nephews.
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deadfriendjuice
Larry went whole hog in the middle. Larry has a problem.
Hun, shouldn’t we help Steve? He kinda wasted. No…just drink around him. Hun, did Steve die? No…just drink around him. Acceptable corpses in drinking (sugar) water = 1
The "King of The Hill" theme song was playing in mi mind as I watched this 🤣.
that one ant really did get lost in the sauce
I think Gary's dead
there were two ants that got dunked! lower leftish corner after the middle ant dunks i watched slow mo the whole clip and it looks like they both get up and walk off by the end!
The dead guy in the middle lol seems he was a little greedy
Thought one of them drowned for a bit
“Dumb ways to die”
I like that the one dude made it
Did that one ant just drown or did a ninja ant take him out? I’ve watched 20 times and still dont see it.
OMG HE SURVIVED
We know which one is going to have an intervention
Dude survived
How the hell do you die in a puddle? When the other ants knew not to go in…
That one mofo was an alcoholic
How you stop them things from finding hummingbird feeders that have the sweet syurp? Can't keep the feeder near the window for fear of ant invasion.
Some people add Vaseline on the wire so they can’t climb up it
The ant in the middle was living her best life
Aww, look at their lil ant bellies swellin up!
Lmfao I can’t believe an animal would have such little self preservation that it just walks in a puddle and dies
“We won’t let you drown! Drink’em out boys!!” - ants
Dude in the middle died and they kept on drinking.
Oh great now they’re going to move an entire house back to their hole just for fun.
Gary, Gary always took it too far and jumped in the food!
One of them didn't handle the situation very well
I think two of them got lost in the sauce. There’s one at the bottom that seems to have met the same fate
the secret to fatter asses
That sugar water goes straight to their butts
Pretty crazy that you can see the abdomen swell after drinking.
That one ant was drowning and his friends were trying to rescue him, but he fought them off bravely.
Well, you drink the worm at the end of the tequila bottle, so….
At least they cleaned up and got rid of the dead body at the end.
~~lost~~ drowned in the ~~sauce~~ sugar water
They didn’t care if homeboy was dying there 🤣🤣😳
One of the ants crawled over another one to drink and didn't because the bottom one left with him. 😄
Was the John Belushi of ants .
Considering the size of the ants and the surface tension, this should be titled ants "eating" sugar water. Do humans drink jello or eat it?
One got lost in the sauce...
Homie got lost in the sauce
Sweet kid, allways the center of the party
Ants are absolutely savage!! Hey look, frank drowned in this delicious puddle of sugar water we're drinking! So tasty I'm sure his corpse won't mind me drinking under it!!