HOW to CATCH Ant QUEENS

Check out these ant queens! After heavy rains in the warmer months of the year ant colonies will produce and send out winged reproductive ants called alates. These winged ants will fly out during what is called a nuptial flight and find a male or female from another colony to mate with. Once they mate, the males will die and the females will tear off their wings and head underground to start laying eggs and raising their larvae. At this point many species can be found under rocks and logs close to the surface and can be collected! This does not harm the population at all as the success rate of founding queens is very low, so colonies send out hundreds if not thousands of alates during their nuptial season. These queen ants can go on to live upwards of 8 years and can lay hundreds of thousands of eggs in their lifetimes! How crazy is that? For business inquiries, video permission, and collaborations please email me: [email protected] Link to our shirts and hoodies: https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A71411... Be sure to follow on Instagram @jacksworldofwildlife and Facebook @ Jack's World of Wildlife Link to my Patreon   / jacksworldofwildlife   Music from www.bensound.com And Derek & Brandon Fiechter