Mantidfly - Looks like Praying Mantis and Wasp
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This little guy is a mantidfly, and is a wasp mimic. I named him Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden is totally harmless, but looks way awesome. I had him for four days. Tyler is not afraid of anything, you can pick him up and he doesn't even react. I fed him about a half dozen flies before I let him go. I only saw him fly once, and that is when he flew away, never to be seen again.
I have no idea whether this mantidfly was really male or female.
The video was filmed with a Canon SX-20IS. Nothing fancy, but the macro focus on it is great. I found Tyler in my back yard in Provo, UT.
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Pretty sure that's a pokemon
+0955interactive Beedrill X Scyther LOL
+0955interactive Made my fucking day...
Fomantis? Beedrill?
Awhhh I love him..
Organic Giraffe 😂😂😂😂
Who else just got this in their recommendations and didnt even know these things existed?
Me
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“Pretty chill too”
*swings at camera*
@Даниэль Золотов - holdik армия нубаски i say mantis wasp
When you're a mantis looking for love but low-key don't wanna lose your head
This is a great quality joke 🤣
@SC O'Dubhlaoch You secretly want to mate but don't want your lover bite your head off (A reference for how some praying mantis females eat the head of their mate while breeding)
He needs to be given a character and a voice. Maybe turn it into a cartoon character with his own series🤔
I got news for u buddy: Google Mantis eats Murder Hornet. The wasp camou wdnt deter any mantis at all bruv.
😳😳😳😳😳😳
I love how this video's got that vibe of a kid coming to you and saying "hey, look at what I've found! Cool, isn't it?"
believe or not, this is first time I see and hear about this bug
dantles1992 Looks like something from Fallout.
+Bobandy Cazadors
I don't believe it.
New hybrid we need to create a crocobird hybrid
Mandela effect?
Rationally, I understand that he's harmless, but even looking at him through a phone screen, my brains just like "AH WASP GET AWAY."
very effective defense.
Laura Phelps yeah, they probably evolved to look like wasps as a defense
@@stereoraptor6940 lol no they evolved to look like wasp so they can hide in plain sight and eat them
If it got you acting that way, then it’s doing it’s job.
Looks like the kind of thing that has a secret language.
@@jacobfoxfires9647 couldn't have said it better
01:12 does anyone find it adorable when he's having his lunch? Look at the little guy munching away all happy!!!
Tino Vasquez I agree - there's something really cute and adorable about this little fellow to me too! X3
Tino Vasquez It's so cute. It's like looking at my Mantis eating happily. I have mantis though not mantidfly.
Dragonamy5 Yeah. Lol
Bioman Smith Of course not. Lolol.
+Tino Vasquez I love how his (I assume) antennae go back when he lifts his head all cute lol.
Me: stuck in house, online homework, economy dying, life is falling apart
UA-cam: look at this cool bug I found
Omg i love this
I love the kinda clumsy way he walks across your hand and the way he seems to try to grab the camera xDc
Makes him super adorable
Funny how into the fly he is. Like he's eating a rack of ribs.
It was a barbeque lol
He's doing whatever it takes to get the food to his mouth. Go figure!
Imagine having a wasp landing on you and all of the sudden it's head opens up
Ｔｈａｔ＇ｓ ｍｙ ｆｅｔｉｓｈ
@@thememeconnoisseur4088 God bless you
Strangely enough I've had that exact nightmare
Get outta my head
What?
When you cross two different pet races in Wizard 101.
Nostalgia mode: activated.
Tears: engaged.
I never played that game but I remember when it was advertised everywhere
Bruh
I guess I'll buy membership
Haven't played the game in YEARS.
Ever since they made it pay to play basically.
You can really do that now?
@@amogus205 Yeah I think there are a few hybrid pets you can breed. Game's a money siphon, good choice dropping it. There are lots of items you can only get from lootboxes ("card packs," as the game calls them), which you need in-game currency to purchase. It's really bad. I remember for my birthday once I asked for Crowns, so Dad got me 50 dollars worth of the things, and I'd spent them all on loot boxes within the week. That was years ago, no way am I going back to that lol. Got bills to pay!
I’ve been breeding praying mantises and cannot believe what I’m seeing
Is it a hybrid...?
Steven Dorn no it’s just a rare species of mantis, camouflaged to eat wasps or live-out/inside the colony and not been noticed.
Steven Dorn check this vid ua-cam.com/video/Lldac13hhKs/v-deo.html
Yes is amazing!!
Small dick?
It's rare I find a new interesting animal I didn't already know about.
Bruh same
I like how theres just off-brand versions of other bugs
I thought it was scary upon first glance, but the more I look at him this cuter he gets.
NOOOO HELPPP I’m going to cry :,c
that's also pretty common sequence of events for women to form romantic relationships
@Douglas Farnsworth uh... Okay? Lol? Thanks?
That’s what the wasp said
😂😂
He's gorgeous.
A praying mantis wasp is probably the most metal thing in the insect world.
Pretty sure theres a bug that wears the corpses of ants like armor/carrys them as trophies, but this lil dude is pretty metal
@@Skibbutz Interesting. Go on...
@@glb5053 acanthaspis petax is the scientific name, it balls up dead ants it has found and killed and wears the ball of dead ants on its back to confuse predators.
@@Skibbutz Thanks dude! I'm going to go read about them in more detail right meow.
@@Skibbutz
Insects are edgy af and its gross af
3:30 the fly got stuck on its face omg so adorable how it wiggled its little arms ❤️
I think she's pretty cute, actually. Especially at 1:04 when she decides to wash her toes. With that abdominal proportion it's probably a female, but being unfamiliar with this specific species (and the degree of its mimicry) I couldn't swear to it.
This thing would be terrifying if it had Jaws and a stinger like a wasp
Abdul Moiz Qureshi Not gonna lie I did too 😂
@Abdul Moiz Qureshi Jews huh? I have bad News to them... my Friends got rejected from entering art school
@Abdul Moiz Qureshi nope. It is an Islamic insect. It only dates young girls and will behead the other bugs so it couldn't possibly be Jewish!
@Abdul Moiz Qureshi magpies are clearly Jewish witches in disguise because they horde valueble shiny things.
popotato HA
looks like mommy mantis has a lot of explaining to do, when she told her son that she got attacked by a wasp back in the days, it was an understatement.
I am late to reply to you. I only got a recommendation today and found this video. I do question if the daddy mantis got rejected by mummy mantis and decided that it would try it's luck with a wasp and got lucky. But did daddy mantis stop there and try it's luck with a variety of other insects is perhaps the trail we should pursue.
Second comment makes more sense. Male wasps are pathetically weak compared to females.
lmao
@@pippo9830 Can't sting, bite, or really do much to defend themselves at all. Also most die after mating, including many solitary species.
She ate both a male mantis and a wasp before laying her eggs.
This video: *exist*
Pokemon fans: allow us to introduce ourselves
Should have gone for something like "prepare for trouble"
Atleast your joke would have genre awareness that way.
Jason Kian Ibanez *Beedrill*
stolen lmao
Marvel fans: Avengers Endgame is the greatest crossover in history.
God:
😂😂😂
4 days?! That's like a lifelong friendship with a bee-bro! (bee-bro mimic)
That's insane. !!
r/trees?
THE WAY HE CLEANS HIS FOOT, IT REMINDS ME OF A CAT
You know what reminds me of a cat? Well, it's NOT a flying yellow murder freak with hidden axe arms!
@Expired Milk Life with hidden axe arms would be rather difficult. Imagine wiping your butt? Itchy nose? Decapitated! So no, he can keep those arms.
@Expired Milk **cries in hidden axe arms**
It's mannerisms in general remind me of a cat.
Spiders/tarantulas do the same thing, so I guess its just an animal thing.
I'd love to learn about the evolutionary lineage of this family of insects.
Mutation? Or actual species?
Simon Mercs Well, mimicry is common in many animal species, especially insects.
Mutations can lead to a new species. Since a mutation is a change in DNA, the hereditary material of life. An organism’s DNA affects how it looks, how it behaves, and its physiology... all aspects of its life. So a change in an organism’s DNA can cause changes in all aspects of its life.
In fact, we're all mutants.
However, Mantidflies or Mantispidae is a family of insects, that contain several subfamilies, which contain close to 400 species.
There had to be some selection pressure(s) in this lineage to have it develop this way. Of course, while these insects are active hunters, they're cumbersome fliers.
For example, the subfamily Symphrasinae larvae are sedentary parasitoids on bee, wasp or scarab beetle larvae.
***** likely this species that mimics wasps evolved in a region where yellow and black wasps were likely top hunters and many predatory creatures animal and insect alike got the message to avoid wasps and so by natural processes of "don't mess with things that look like this thing" there came to be this critter.
A far distant ancestor of it probably looked just enough like a wasp for it to pass its genes on. The offspring there that had the coloring likely survived and any ones that didn't resemble wasps enough were eaten by predators.
***** if you have the mega stone you can evolve it into a Mega Beedril but that's about it
The UA-cam Game I'm talking about real science, not the woeful misrepresentation of evolution from Pokemon, which really isn't evolution at all, it's more along the lines of metamorphosis.
Why's all mantis are so interesting and cool insect..
Just a incredible camouflage..
That is the coolest mantis I have ever seen, congratulations
Them looking like wasps is probably an evolutionary disadvantage with humans killing every wasp they see lol
Well then again i see many people just leaving wasps alone cause theyre scared. And in Natur insects also fear wasps.
Prokopf - *nature*
Well, wasp do not live a lot neither
Regular non-wasp killer here! I make a point of guiding wasps out of the window with gentle hands.
@@TallSilentGuy I respect you a lot for that. Most people don't realize that most insects don't want to fight and that wasps only use their stinger as a defense against us. I had wasps chilling on my arm and they didn't give a shit, just leave it be and don't breathe in it's direction and you're good. I'd never kill a wasp either.
(Bees are still more chill tho)
That bugger is cute in a terrifying sort of way.
I think he's a cute little buggie :3
My friend took lsd and had a similar encounter with a fly.
He was able to pet it and became friends with it much like this dude .
I have always had that in me and I'm glad that trip brought my friend to that realm
Wtf, even their wings look exactly like those of wasps! Nature and evolution is so fascinating....
Aw, he's so cute! Look at him reachin' for the camera! He's just like "Gimme that."
so cute
i want one
...
this is a pokemon dont you goddamn lie to me
How have I never heard of this little guy? He's kinda cute 🥰
In 38 years I've never wanted an insect, spider, or anything equivalent pet... you Sir have blown my little mind. He/She is awesome and truly interesting! Bravo on the find!
That is the coolest freaking thing! Thank you for sharing! We keep mantises as pets sometimes, never saw one of these things! Thanks again!
That is one of the most beautiful insects I've seen in my life
It's Intriguing how many times one can use the word intriguing on a video as intriguing as this one
johnpwkp Intriguing reply.
That's it. I'm officially intrigued. Way to go, guys.
Intriguing....
That which intrigues us, only makes us stronger.
Intrigue, is the whole reason for my quest for mystery. I shall intrigue your thirst for the unknown.
The intrigue implied is the whole reason I question things in the first place. Which in an of itself, is intregueing.
Intrigue, intrigue, intrigue, Intrigue. Intrigue? intrigue thought so.
This awesome insect preys on houseflies?
The Mantidfly: Saviour of Humanity. We'll never forget you, Tyler Durden!
I have had a love for the praying mantis since I was a little girl, I used to keep them as pets and feed them. And after all these years I never knew this species exists!
My brothers and I used to do the same thing...a neighbor of mine saw this last night on the balcony and sent me the pic... NEVER heard of them....cool looking tho!!😁💜
One problem there not wasps or mantids or flys there a whole different creature it’s really weird
I never even knew this insect existed until I watched the video, they are officially my favorite insect, since they look cool, eat flies and other bugs, and don't harm people.
You should start a bug channel. I would love to see you explain stuff about various bugs. You have a really soothing voice.
He is not harmless if you happen to be a fly!
Cool looking little creature.
That's the same thing I just said!! Poor flies. :-(
om nom nom
Ok so long as I’m a fly I’m safe
I didn't know I needed this in my life. It's like the perfect amount of terrifying and adorable.
I think animals that mimic other animals are some of the coolest animals. It's like the animal itself isn't smart enough to know that it's mimicking another animal so it seems like nature itself has some sort of inherent intelligence behind it. I find that very fascinating.
i've always thought the same thing. it's way too precise and nuanced to be the result of a bunch of random branches of evolution.
3:37 When they wanna take a family pic while i'm eating
This would make a cool mini pet thing.
It loves to eat houseflys. It's blessed.
I've just caught one of these and I'm planning on keeping him since it's starting to get cold at night and he'd die anyway. I've got fruit flies for him and everything, super exciting, such cool bugs. Mine's Dicromantispa sayi.
I’ve watched this several times and shown it to some of our sons. Have seen one twice in San Antonio in the past week. Love your video and commentary-thanks for sharing!!
i never had seen this bug in my entire life, and it's an awesome predator. Flies be careful with this little friend.
Awesome video! and that video camera is amazing, such fine resolution!!
Great find! Mantids are my favorite insects. I'm sure this would freak some people out!
"Most of these guys aren't very pretty" Nonsense. He/she is very pretty. :)
Old af comment, but i think this ones a female
Females mantids are usually the pretty ones as well as huge in comparison to their male counterpart
I know it's harmless, but still if I ever see one I'm running in the opposite direction. They look too much like a wasp and I'm not brave enough to look twice.
Me neither... lollololol 😁💜
CIA: An experiment that Got loose.
FBI: A Surveillance Drone.
Funny!!😂💜
Another one of Big MT’s experiments, huh?
An escaped lobotomite!! This must be the work of the almighty Dr. Mobius!
AND... ARE... THOSE... PENISES I SEE WRIGGLING ON ITS FEET? DISGUSTING
hey i'm MT
@@ItsPrimezona RICHIE MARCUS LIKES TO PLAY WITH BALLS!
Dr dara: wooooooooo
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
black and yellow black and yellow
*swipe swipe nomnomnom
I never knew they existed myself. Im a huge fan of the praying mantis so this insect really intrigues me.
Yeah i love praying mantises and kept quite a few as pets before, and even though I had seen this video over 800 times now from 6 years ago to now, they are still so intriguing :0
They clearly aren't praying
Thank you so much for your video! GREAT image, FABULOUS clarity! I just found one of these little guys in the back garden and thought, "Whaaa--???" Like Tyler Durden, he was a wasp mimic, and at first the friend who saw him land on my ear was concerned. But after we got a look at him and I saw those mantid-like forelegs, I had to know what he was. Now I do! I've lived in this area for over six decades and have never seen one of these little beauties!
At some point in the past the ancestors of these insects went "Hey, I'm gonna make myself into a badass by becoming a hybrid of two badass insects"
This insect is NOT a mantid; it's a mantidfly. The order is Neuroptera, not Mantodea. So they're not directly related to praying mantids...or wasps. Not at all. They are actually related to lacewings, owl flies, and antlions. The name is very deceiving.
-Entomology Major
P.S. i love the name you picked :)
That seems like the coolest experience ever I envy you in a good way
Kid: Mom i want a dog!
Mom: We have dog at home
Dog at home:
I'm fine with this dog
Bruh what
Lmao
What a beautiful thing it is. Totally awesome. The way he uses his front pair of legs like a mantis is so cool. I want one to watch it myself. So gorgeous
I hate bugs, but for his guy I'll make an exception.
If this lands on my hand, it ain’t my hand anymore, it’s his hand .
Like it or not, this thing is not related to either the two animals. It's an awesome combination of mantis convergent evolution and wasp mimicry.
Just saw one of these in our yard for the first time a few days ago. They're so adorable. I love their expressive little antennae and their awkward style of locomotion.
Actually he's a mantis camouflaged as a wasp.
@Derek Sobleskey ...its most likley a joke
Lololololo 😂
@Derek Sobleskey it was a joke lol
@Derek Sobleskey that's fair I can accept that
Ya'll keep saying thats beedrill; when beedrill is the size of a toddler.
*Giant Mantidfly*
Considering no real insects can grow that big, this would be the most realistic version of a beedrill 😆
@RagingThunder right mine is a joke too. I hope I'm allowed to do that.
This mans actually a giant
It's still a podler.
An animal like this exists and I only hear about it now? This vid should have like 100 mil views at least.
WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THIS CREATURE. NEVER EVEN SEEN IT
These are beautiful. I've only seen one in my life. I had a huge green mantis about 8 inches and it made a wonderful pet. She would set on my shoulder while I watched a movie. There are some wild variations of the Mantis but the one you have is one of my favorite !
I am very interested in all types of mantids. But this one is a first for me. They are very fun to watch. 😁
Thank you for sharing.
wasp : so honey, i forgot the condom
mantis : oh that's okay maybe next ti-
wasp : im ready
After their mating cycle a new species came to be
I never would've gotten the chance to see him, because if he looks like a wasp flying, he's dead. 😭
Same
Kill a wasp save a bee 🐝
Where are you? I’ve never seen one
Crazy cause I found a bee about two weeks ago. He looked dead on the ground outside my door. I went to move him so my puppy wouldn’t get it. It buzzed. So I took it inside. Gave it some sugar water. No interest. Then some raw honey which it liked. And some water. Kept it for a few days. It really didn’t move the first night. I thought it was dying. Idk what happened. I kept him in. An open box, by my bed, literally and he was still alive but pretty motionless. By day three he began creeping up his tissue after having more honey. I picked him up. He navigated my hand so slowly I still figured he was going to die. Next evening we did our feeding again. Walked on my hand a bit better. Then he finished and began to buzz and took off around my kitchen. I actually ended up losing him. I searched and searching cause my kids didn’t want a bee loose in the house. But oh well. Eventually some hours later I gave up. Never saw him. Then about four days later he just reappeared. Flying. Buzzing. I put him this time in a strawberry container with a lid but he climbed out of the hole. Yeah. What was I thinking. He went on my hand and walked around. Calm as can be. I was a bit worried he might sting me but I just talked to him. Eventually I took him outside to my orange trees. He wouldn’t leave my hand. I had to help him go. Hope he found his hive!
You’re critter is very interesting!
The honey that is made in the factory can bring a disease to bees, or the plague that is contagious.
Sorry my bad English,but i am Italian
this is very good photography , i like that you keep it focused and in proper lighting
How have i not ever heard of this? I watch bug videos, Brave Wilderness, etc. all the time. This is amazing.
This is what happens when a wasp and a mantis was too desperate to mate.
"It's pretty chill!" *proceeds to him with killing intent*
look at him go
No one is going to talk about how he caught the flies for the Mantidfly to eat?
I used to live out of my van had a long extension cord and long coaxial cable for tv. In the summertime I used to watch TV out of the back on my chair and praying mantises would sit there and watch TV with me for hours sometimes. Pretty freaking cool.
*heh heh* I love these things. They're so curious (like how he keeps wanting to go to the camera). Regular mantises are the same way, and they're so easily "tamed". It's sad that they only live for one season, because they do have "personalities" between them. Mantises make great, if short-lived, pets.
"We are the Mantid! We will invade all of Pandaria!!!"
When Queen bee wants a green stick man
Can we just appreciate the REALLY GOOD camera quality for a camera from 2011?!?!?
God damn!!
😮
When you leave a scyther and beedrill in the daycare
This Mantidfly is like, so cute when it's eating, it's munching on the food and you can see it's big eyes being all like : "Well this is really great! :]"
HI Ed, can you tell me, where you did find this fasinating insect.
You might mentioned it, but I didnt grasp it.
Our those insect rare? I think so, otherwise, you would not have been so fascinated too.
All the best to you!
Steve
+SteveMcHope I found it in Provo, UT. It is widespread, but not commonly seen.
+Anderson Dalmeus don't be a baby, it's harmless
I bought some coconut bark for a pet enclosure and I assume there was an egg in there because this little guy showed up one day. I thought it was a wasp at first. But yeah the one I encountered was pretty chill as well verry cool.
That's a cool Hybrid of a wasp/praying mantis 😮!!
Damn nature u scary!
Nah it epic
Hmm I wonder if you are alive
Yes alive and well. Hbu
@@migueldeoz What the fuck
@@migueldeoz hahaha