this is a queen ant and she has the next thousand days to create an empire but a rival colony is watching their every move and if she fails they will wage a war destroy her home and take over [Music] mine everything depends on her so over the first few days she creates a nest and if we look underground her first generation is underway but in the world above they will have to face competition and rival colonies their Journey has only just begun she will never leave the safety of her nest so she creates workers to
serve and protect her but the enemy has already arrived a wild ant on the hunt for new territory this wild Colony lives on my window sill oh my God the workers act quickly they are beginning to build a wall they will stop at nothing to protect their Queen and pretty soon their entrance is sealed but war is coming and if they want to survive they will need an army and for that they need food they specialize in collecting seeds their job is to transport them underground where they store them in a bakery here they ground
and crush the seeds into bread ant bread it is the perfect food for their growing larvae and 70 days later the results are clear there was a population boom all powered by their tiny Bakery but the new workers are weak and clumsy they need sugars like honey yet the honey stayed untouched for days until it was discovered by a wild ant thankfully she's alone or so I thought they launched an attack this is nothing compared to the war yet the colony is overrun but I tried to save as many of our ants as I could
but it was already too late what the damage had already been done I spent hours removing the enemy one by one by one most of the colony did not survive and those that did are badly injured but ants are one of the few animals that respect their dead so the remaining few build a [Music] graveyard it is almost un [Music] unbelievable they may have lost the battle but will they win the war the colony is weaker than ever but they still need honey to survive last time it caused a disaster this time they act with
caution and begin to feed you can even see their tongue as they drink up the honey but then something remarkable happens they are covering the honey in dirt and [Music] debris it is genius they are hiding it from the wild Colony protecting the honey means protecting their Queen she's the only one in the nest who can lay eggs if she dies the rest of the colony is doomed but with her survival The Colony thrives by day 600 the colony had become a fortress but it is time to put their defenses to the test here are
100 fruit flies they are small annoying and a lot like my mother-in-law they scatter the ants begin to panic while many of the Flies stand still if they don't move then they may remain unseen but this one makes a run for it and so does that one and that one and that one but this one was not as lucky he is the first kill of [Music] many even though they caught most of the Flies a few managed to escape but the escaped flies were not as safe as they thought out of the frying pan and
into the fire the wild Colony their numbers have grown so large they've spread far beyond my window sill and overtaken my animal room my pets aren't a fan of their new [Music] roommate it seems our colony is not as prepared as I thought so over the next year our Colony became an Empire but the wild Colony acted in parallel both of them are fully preparing for war but this one escaped into my kitchen I didn't know why until I returned there was an allout War and the enemy had already made their way underground they have
to save the queen so she is brought to the deepest part of the colony [Music] the rest of the nest had been abandoned and the remaining workers swarm the queen but a worker was left behind fighting to break [Music] free but the enemy wanted more the larvae one by one they begin to die a thousand days led up to this the queen began alone to create an empire but would they let it fall to save their Queen our Colony turns not to flee but to fight they begin to Rally to their Queen even my pet
join the [Music] fight they breached the surface and the enemy was on the Run they were winning and pretty soon they had won the wild colony was never to be seen again check out this video for more and I'll see you in the next one hey Auntie how you doing
