Farms: Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #043)
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An incredible metal structure is made by pouring molten aluminum into a fire ant colony. The resulting cast is huge, weighing 17.9 lbs. and reaching a depth of 18 inches. See detailed pictures of the resulting cast on the Anthill Art website at http://www.anthillart.com/castings/043/ If you like my videos, then subscribe to my channel here. I'm also on twitter and instagram. These are the red imported fire ants (RIFA) which are harmful to the environment and their nests are exterminated by the millions in the United States using poisons, gasoline and fire, boiling water, and very rarely molten aluminum. From Wikipedia: "Researchers have also been experimenting with extreme temperature change to exterminate RIFAs [red imported fire ants], such as injecting liquid nitrogen or pressurized steam into RIFA nests. Besides using hot steam, pouring boiling water into ant mounds has been found effective in exterminating their nests." I recently did a casual survey and found that I have at least 120 of these colonies within an area of approximately three acres. http://www.anthillart.com/info/fire-ant-survey/
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Ant man's family is in there
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I get that they are just ants so people dont really care, but it does seem cruel.
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What if they having Weeding over there?
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What a bunch of butthurt turd goblins in this comment section
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Now all we need is a brave woman who's willing to have plaster poured down her vajayjay so we can see what the G spot looks like.
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so there's multiple dead ants in that cast... kool cast but idk
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A beautiful Christmas decoration!
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poor ants
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This is really cool. Everyone's all mad. But I still like it. Come to the big Island of Hawaii and do it down in lower Puna. Fire ants are invasive and extremely damaging in many parts of Hawaii, but in lower Puna I know so many people with blind pets. Apparently the fire ants have been biting dogs' eyeballs and over time all of their dogs go blind. I'm pretty sure this is legit, sorry don't have more science to back it up. But then at least you could be doing a service to the people and ecosystem in addition to creating amazing stuff? Then all of the people bitching about cruelty can have a reason to stop.
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omg its so cool and beautyfle
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f**k you stop killing ants you may think there stupid useless and disgusting but if you go watch ants canada channel thne youl appreciate them much moe (not sponsered by ants canada)
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But where did all the ants go they didn't escape. So what happened to their little bodies?
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Fuck you you hate ant
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first ants than humans
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you mother fucker murderer
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was that the holes of the colony?
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you see an ant scuttle across this guys room and hes tries to kill it with that sliver goo shit
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Think how long it took the ants to build this
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This is sooo mean
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i feel sad for the ants they are burned slowly and painfully to death