On this channel we've witnessed some pretty incredible things over the years, never before
captured on film, and some undocumented by science.
We've seen baby cockroaches being born from their mother as she was being devoured by
fire ants, we've seen yellow crazy ants ingeniously feeding carnivorous pitcher plants with leftover
insect parts to render them safe, and even watched Dracula ants mangling their own pupae
to suck their blood.
Well, guys, today is another one of those days, for what I'm about to show you in this
video, is likely something you've never seen before.
It's been a crazy week in the Antiverse, our ant room jam-packed with ant kingdoms, due
to an event that shook nearly every single ant, creature, and vivarium in this biological
plane of existence - the death of a goddess, but what's more crazy is the way this all
ended, caught me by surprise and completely blew my mind.
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Alright, AC Family, so let me start by how this all happened.
As you may or may not know, I have a klugi bird-eater tarantula, who lives in a terrarium,
in a quiet corner of my room.
Her name is Imelda, and you may have seen her featured in past videos.
Well, this week, I made a heart-breaking and shocking discovery when I came to feed her.
Imelda, the goddess of the Antiverse had passed away.
I couldn't believe it!
This was the first time in my life to ever experience the death of a long-term tarantula
friend.
I called her the goddess of the Antiverse because before any of these ant colonies came
to be in this Ant Room, Imelda was living here, quiet and problem-free.
She has seen this Ant Room change and evolve over the years, witnessing the constant evolution
of ant kingdoms from her silken palace in the corner.
I always saw her as the silent watcher and partner, since the genesis of the my Ant Room.
But now Imelda had left me, and I felt so sad.
She was definitely old.
I bought her as an adult, something they say in tarantula keeping not to do because you
never know how old they actually are, but I know in the almost 5 yrs she was with me,
I did my very best to give her the fattest of roaches and the best life I could possibly
provide.
It was time to give her body a proper burial.
Now although it may seem a bit morbid if you're new here, it isn't to me, and if you're AC
Family, you'll understand that we wouldn't have it any other way.
This is the Selva De Fuego, paludarium home to our largest and oldest ant colony in the
Antiverse, the Fire Nation, our massive colony of fire ants.
And so, my plan to immortalize her prominence in the Antiverse, was to offer her dead body
to the Fire Nation to proceed to transition her into the soil.
But I know what you you guys are thinking: "AntsCanada, your title was clickbait!
The tarantula's dead so it can't fight back!"
But hold on now.
Guys, remember what I said about something you've never seen before?
Well, what actually ended up happening will shock you!
The death of the goddess of the Antiverse, physically affected everyone, including me.
You'll see what I mean by the end of this video.
So, I placed her into the Selva de Fuego for the fire ants to feast on to begin the deconstruction.
In the first three minutes, word quickly spread to the rest of the colony that something big,
something massive, had just made its way into the Selva de Fuego.
Ants rushed in from all around the tarantula carcass.
These girls have never received a food item this large in their entire lives, and they
all rejoiced at the unexpected find.
This footage by the way is not time lapsed.
The ants have truly kicked up into turbo mode, as one would expect if an exceptional feast
just suddenly fell from the skies.
What I really wanted to see is how they would end up processing such a huge food item, and
what their strategy was for taking apart this huge bird-eater tarantula, which has a bit
more of a complicated exoskeleton and anatomy than the regular roaches they're used to eating.
Whatever the case, I was looking forward to witnessing something new.
In about five minutes, the Fire Nation was arriving at the site in droves excited to
get to work at bringing home the meat.
What's fascinating is that ants communicate exclusively through pheromones, biochemicals
which form an ant language, that is released in the area so that all members of the colony
are in sync.
This tarantula and the entire area surrounding it, is probably now covered with the "Let's
eat this big momma!" pheromone.
It's caused the ants to start the great dismantling process.
It looks like the ants have now chosen to attempt to get to the tasty insides of the
tarantula, by way of the soft membranes and joints attaching its harder exoskeletal pieces
and appendages together, but the Fire Nation will need all the help they can get to fully
consume this tarantula, and quite frankly, this is kind of a big deal, because if this
were to happen in the wild, this huge tarantula could mean thousands if not millions of babies,
the queen, and adult ants are fed and nourished.
A huge tarantula like this could feed a nice sized colony for a week!
Food discoveries could mean life or death for a colony like the Fire Nation, so the
sooner they could get all the meat down into the nest, and/or in their little ant bellies,
the better.
5 hours later, I returned to the Fire Nation to see how far they'd come along.
All I could see were a tonne of ants just carpeting the area.
I noticed the ants had decided to concentrate their efforts at cutting away at the exposed
membranes of the joints and areas attaching the tarantula's head, i.e. cephalothorax,
to the abdomen.
Take a look at them hard at work, trying to bore their way into the interior of this leg!
I love that with this 4K camera we can see up close, how they're maneuvering themselves
around the hairs which seem to put up quite the challenge for the ants.
I thought it was a good tactic to try to get in through this point, as entrance into here
meant they could then mine into both the cephalothorax and the abdomen, as well all the legs.
OK, now AC Family, wanna see something cool?
Check this out!
Speaking of abdomen, see these two finger like appendages at the end of the abdomen?
These are the spinnerets, the silk-producing appendages, but look!
It looks like it is still producing silk, even if the tarantula was dead!
I watched as ants dangled several times from invisible silk fibres produced from these
spinnerets.
Isn't that amazing that even after death these spinnerets are still functional and able to
create silk?
I wondered what other unforseen hazzards this dead tarantula would pose for these fire ants.
The next morning, I came to check up on the progress.
Had they finished the tarantula overnight?
Let's find out.
Hmmm...
Alright.
Still working on the tarantula, but what were the advancements?
Look!
They've successfully removed those problematic spinnerets, and it looks like the ants had
create a pile of discarded useless parts, mostly dried up exoskeleton bits and hair.
And hey, looks like they've managed to make their way into the tarantula's interior, at
these sections where the top carapace meets the coxae of the leg, and look at those chunks
of tarantula meat the ants are carrying in their mandibles!
Wow!
Looks like we can conclude that tarantula is white meat!
Like miners carrying out massive nuggets of gold, the ants made their way off the tarantula
and back into the nest.
Now there was one thing quite peculiar that I did notice.
Tell me if you guys notice it too.
Have a look.
Did you guys notice that a lot of the ants seemed to be clumsy and lose their balance?
They were falling all over the place?
It was peculiar because these ants are usually pretty nimble.
Could the tarantula's flesh somehow be poisoning the fire ants?
Or making them drunk?
I had no idea, the answer would soon come to us, and completely blow my mind.
But before we get to the end result of this dead tarantula dismantlement by fire ants,
I've got to show you guys how the death of this goddess, has brought about a major shift
within the Antiverse.
Are you ready for this AC Family?
So, now that goddess Imelda had passed, and her silken palace removed, you may be wondering
where the Plateaus of Gaia, home to our trap-jaw ant colony called the Jawbreakers, which laid
atop Imelda's palace, was placed.
Well, you may be surprised to know that the Plateaus of Gaia have now shifted to the East.
I think the Jawbreakers, will appreciate this new location, which was a bit brighter and
more openly airy than the darkened corner they were previously occupying.
Much more suited to their booming population, I would say.
And what about the scarab beetle larvae's Chambers of Sudan, which used to be situated
behind the Plateaus of Gaia.
Well, it may surprise you that they are now located here, along with our new carpenter
ant colony, free-roaming ants, and termite farm.
I was happy to be able to use this previously unoccupied deep pocket of Antiverse space,
which I also feel these ants, termites, and beetle larvae will like.
As for Olympus, our huge supercolony of marauder ants we call the Titans, and the Blood Towers,
the lair of our new Dracula Ants called the Blood Legion, that used to be in this corner.
They are now here, occupying this corner, filling in void that Imelda, the Jawbreakers,
and scarab beetles left.
I personally like them better here.
But wait!
Now you may be asking, if that's the new location for the Plateaus of Gaia, what happened to
El Dragon Island, our dragon-themed paludarium and home to the Platinum Dragons, our lesser
weaver ants living in the plants?
Well, after several months of living on El Dragon, I've been noticing that their population
has neither increased nor decreased.
They still ate well and I did see them entering and exiting their leaf nest.
But overall, they weren't doing as well as I'd hoped in El Dragon's island setup.
I wasn't sure if it was the moat water quality possibly hindering them from flourishing,
or if it was too humid, maybe.
Either way, they weren't doing so well on El Dragon Island so I figured it was time
for a change.
I moved the Platinum Dragons from El Dragon Island to the El Dragon Towers, three stacked
AC Outworlds, which is a bit smaller of a space for the Platinum Dragons but much more
suitable for their colony size since it is easier to keep environmental conditions more
consistent.
But checkout my plan!
I've attached the test tube setups at the back placing their leaf nest close by so they
can hopefully move into these test tube setups, where I can better monitor the colony and
their growth.
The entire system is closed so there is no way pharaoh ants can get in to threaten them,
which they've been known to do in the past.
And speaking of which, what happened to the inhabitants of the River of Dragon's Tears,
the Rasbora fish which were supposed to protect the Black Dragons from pharaoh ants trying
to swim across to get to the Black Dragons, and the Leviathans, our colony of cleaner
shrimp, now that there was no more River of Dragon's Tears?
Well, they've been deployed to the Golden Springs of our Golden Empire, our yellow crazy
ants in the Hacienda Del Dorado.
I much preferred them in these waters.
The Rasbora fish schooled and enjoyed this more shadowy water environment, which better
matched their natural habitat.
I also added more java moss to make the Golden Springs a bit more shadowy.
The Leviathans hadn't waited a second to begin cleaning up the waters of all the gunk build-up.
Look at that patch of clean surface they've already achieved.
Whether this new team will prove effective at keeping these waters clean and eating dead
yellow crazy ants, we'll have to see.
I actually added a few more shrimp into the mix to get the cleaning team going and breeding.
But overall, our former River of Dragon's Tears inhabitants seemed happier in these
waters, switching citizenship as new Hacienda Del Doradans.
The greatest thing about this entire Antiversal shift, was that this new look and aesthetic
flow of energy in the Antiverse felt much better now.
Have a look!
Doesn't the Ant Room feel less chaotic?
Somehow a new balance was established in the Antiverse, and I was grateful for the new
geographic arrangement of ant kingdoms.
I felt good looking at the Ant Room one last time, before calling it a night.
Lights off.
It was Day 3, and in the morning I came to check up on the ants and what was left of
the tarantula, but I wasn't prepared to see what I was about to discover.
AC Family, look at this.
As expected, it seemed the ants had successfully hallowed out most of the meat.
The tarantula looked hallow now.
They had finished collecting what they needed from the tarantula.
But later that day, check out what else I saw!
Do you see it?
There!
That ball of ants!
How peculiar.
I had never seen anything like it.
I tried to look as closely as I could to try to find out what was going on.
Was the queen there and the ants surrounding her?
That's the only time I'd ever seen them balling up like this.
How odd.
Now the crazy thing about this all, AC Family, was that these ants balled up like this for
hours and hours that day, until I came to find them all dead.
What on Earth?!
What could have possibly caused this ball of death on the tarantula?
And then, I noticed something.
The ants crawling around the legs, that seemed to be having a hard time, slipping and falling
all over the place, and that was when it finally hit me: The tarantula's hair!
OMG, the ants weren't drunk!
The various hairs of the tarantula where probably making it hard for the ants to gain a proper
grip onto the tarantula's surface, which probably meant the orientation of the hairs at the
abdomen had somehow trapped this unfortunate ball of ants in that one spot.
The ball was actually sitting in a bald patch of the tarantula's abdomen, which told me
the ants were probably grasping desperately to leave this death region of the tarantula,
and the defensive urticating hairs, which are naturally designed to dislodge in defense,
were trapping the ants in this death pit of tarantula hair.
Looking back at the footage, it did seem like the ants were rolling what looked like a ball
of tiny hairs around inside of their death ball.
The ants couldn't get out, and died of exhaustion.
Wow!
The tarantula, goddess Imelda of the Antiverse, had not left us without truly leaving her
mark and taking some ants with her.
She also left the Antiverse, with a new layout, a better layout, and you know what, she also
didn't leave without giving me a gift to remember.
Cleaning up and removing her terrarium, caused invisible air-born urticating hair to fill
my entire condo, causing my house keeper and I to, feel itchy all over our bodies, as well
as these unsightly irritated and itchy, pus-filled rashes.
Imelda left this plane of existence like a true goddess.
As I watched the Fire Nation in the closing stages of cleaning Imedla's body up, I couldn't
help but think how amazingly interconnected the existence of a creature could be to that
of all others around.
I felt this entire situation reminded me, even metaphorically, how every creature, plant,
and habitat is deeply connected, including us humans who at times may fall under the
illusion that we are unaffected by changes with said creatures, plants, and habitats.
When an animal dies, we are all are affected and we all shift.
When life is preserved, we are all affected, and we all shift.
Thank you Imelda for sharing this final lesson.
I will truly miss you.
Oh yeah, and one more thing.
I almost forgot, speaking of preservation of life, some of you might be wondering what
happened to a certain white aquadragon, our most recent addition to the Antiverse, who
was placed into the Golden Springs last week to help with eating dead ants.
If the Leviathans and Rasbora fish are living there now, where is the white aquadragon?
Well, last week I as well as many of you, felt our newcomer needed a bigger space to
live, one that was colder, and more interesting for the dragon.
Well, AC Family, in a parallel universe, an unexplored underworldly abyss, much more frigid,
inhabited by the likes of giant griffins, and waterworlds teaming with life, sprung
my newest grand creation.
AC Family, behold!
Welcome to Axolotland, into which someone special is about to move in!
Alright AC Family, what did you think?
Weren't you mind-blown by how deadly Imelda was to consume?
Do you like the new layout of the Ant Room she left us with?
And, are you ready to see the world our cute axolotl is living in now?
I show you all next week, so hit the SUBSCRIBE button and BELL icon now so you can keep updated
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If you're new to the channel, and want to catch up on all your AntsCanada Lore, feel
free to binge watch this complete story line playlist here, which traces the origins of
all the ant colonies of the ant room, so you can follow their stories and better appreciate
how these ant kingdoms came to be, and why we love them so much!
AC Inner Colony, I have left a hidden cookie for you here, if you would just like to watch
extended play footage of the fire ants feasting on the tarantula.
I will surely miss her, but am happy she's now crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
And before we proceed to the AC Question of the Week, I'd like to plug my daily vlogging
channel, daily vlogs of my journey as a Youtuber with creatures like my baby African Grey parrot!
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Hope you can subscribe when you're there.
And now it's time for the AC Question of the Week!
Last week we asked:
What neat special ability does the axolotl possess?
Congratulations to Safwan and Sabrina who correctly answered:
The axolotl possesses the power to regenerate it's body parts.
Congratulations, Safwan and Sabrina, you just won a free e-book handbook from our shop!
In this week's AC Question of the Week, we ask:
What is the technical term for the tarantula's head section of its body?
Leave your answer in the comments section and you could also win a free e-book handbook
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