I wonder about the assertion that parasite-infested water buffaloes provide more food for scavengers and predators...the infested animal may die sooner, but lacking the parasites, it would still die and still provide food for other animals. Every animal will die once.
I thought to myself "I have spent the entire day watching The Brain Scoop, Deep Look, and then reading science books and then some more videos, ... I think I might be done for toda- NEW BRAIN SCOOP VID"
Fascinating topic! I started out thinking "parasites don't seem worth preserving", and had to ask myself "Isn't the POINT of museum collections that WE DON'T KNOW what is and isn't worth preserving!?" Awesome video. Thanks guys ^_^
We're going to need to collect two of each type, each collected from a separate area via helicopter extraction... That's right, a pair of parasites from a pair of para-sites. I'll see myself out now.
I never thought about the conservation value of parasites before. You made a good point in that studying parasites could help us learn more about all sorts of diseases. Thank you! :)
It's interesting how we see parasites as inherently negative because they might harm their host, but we don't have the same problem with predators, even though they definitely also harm other animals.
Yes interesting, isn't it? Parasites live off of other animals but they generally do so without killing them, which means walking a fine line and constantly putting up with the host's defenses. But the animals we choose for our heraldry are the ones that go the easy route by just killing their prey.
We don't have the same problem with predators, because predators don't seem to us as vestigial, while parasites do. Parasites come across like an evolutionary and ecological dead-end. Something that draws out of the system while not meaningfully contributing back. I'm of the opinion that most parasites need to be treated much like diseases are when it comes to extinction. As an achievement. But there are undoubtedly parasites which have an important role in their eco system, so I'm not for wiping them parasites out unilaterally either.
I felt great care was taken in the video to exclude human parasites from any protection efforts. There might be some that are useful to treat allergies but most of them are gruesome and take a heavy toll on poorer populations. Nobody argues to keep those parasites around or if they are, they should start conservation efforts with themselves. As for animal and plant parasites, it is not clear to me how they are inherently less important to ecosystems than predators are. In fact I would argue that diseases also are likely to play important roles in stabilizing ecosystems. So eradicating animal diseases or parasites should only be done when it is necessary to preserve the species itself.
Closest thing to parasite fan club is "monsters inside me" on Animal Planet. My favorite show. Every time someone comes in the room though they always say, "OMG what are you watching?!"
It would be cool if we increased the research and preservation of parasites and gain insight on how we can better protect ourselves from the annoying ones, such as lice and bed bugs. ESPECIALLY BED BUGS!
Great video, but I noticed one small mistake. The worm coming out of the grasshopper that is fed upon buy the Japanese trout is not a nematode. That is a different kind of roundworm called a horsehair worm or nematomorph worm. It’s a separate but related phylum to nematodes. Other then that, you brought up a lot of really intriguing ideas in this video. Keep up the fantastic work!
Madame Corgi I meant to say “round-worm” as they are cylindrical as opposed to the flat Turbellarians or the irregular Trematodes in the Platyhelminthes clade. Nematomorphs are in the same parent clade as nematodes: Cycloneuralia a sub clade of the Ecdysozoans. But this is the closest relationship they have to each other, phylogenetically speaking.
I've just ended an adveture with Emilie Graslie that I had started two weeks ago. In this time i've watched EVERY video clip in order. It was a pleasure to skin wolf with you, move on to the Field museum and meet many amazing scientists that inspire many young people just like myself. I'm so happy that you're doing an amazing job!
The parasitology classes were the most fascinating classes in my lab training. Then, after school, seeing some of them in the lab was just as fascinating.
As an entomologist many of the specimens I collect doing field work are often covered in mites. Many of these mites are phoretic i.e. they use the beetle as a way to travel. Although slide mounting is very time consuming I preserve and catalogue parasitic specimens I find in the field. Occasionally I have found a parasitic fungi called Laboulbeniales or "beetle hangers", these are small fungi which fruit on beetles. I have also taken great efforts to preserve, which I know are extremely valuable to taxonomic specialists.
Excellent worm earrings! Also, everyone needs to understand that parasitism is a basic ecological niche. That niche just happens to exist in and around other organisms.
This is timely, I recently finished reading Carl Zimmer's "Parasite Rex". I've always had a fascination with parasites and use them frequently as symbols in my artwork; reading that book made me even more fascinated by how diverse and complicated parasites actually are!
Growing up in Brazil, under the age of 9, I remember my biology textbook had a section talking about parasites and diseases that you get from poor hygiene or just living in a, you know, tropical country. And I remember always turning back to that section to read more about it, especially the fact that this is a child’s textbook talking about parasitic worms inside our bodies. I never though much of that thing, but since I watched you other video about worms, I’ve remembered about parasitic worms and a fascination to them.
Emily, you are an absolute gem. Thanks for sharing all of the tremendous insights, facts, fun, and bringing us the interesting interviews with so many specialists in their fields. This channel is superb, and I would also like to extend my compliments to all of the other people behind the scenes. The camera crew, researchers, everyone.
In an interesting case of the relationship between host and parasite, I remember watching a documentary that included a doctor that had contracted a sheep parasite. The parasite was unable to live in the human gut so migrated to the next best thing... the doctor's brain (the worm was removed without leaving any permanent damage)
Something that I find unbelievable (and it goes to show our "progress" as humans) is that unique and amazing species, which can even be parasites as this video taught us, are rare and on the brink of extinction, almost always because of us, whereas species that cause extensive damage to ecosystems or human infrastructure are widespread and rampant all over the place.
Good report, thanks. If you’ve got bad Skype sound use a phone on the interviewee’s desk for a memo recording backup file. “Bad sound makes good video look bad.“
I love this video. To be honest, I find parasites a bit creepy, but also deeply fascinating. They have a lot of really cool adaptations and strategies for survival. It is a good thing people realise that animals that aren`t cute and fluffy also have a value. Hooray for life.
This is such a great topic and great video. I had never thought about this and even though I feel like scratching my body all over since I've watched, I feel like I learned something new, and I am now also convinced they should be considered in all our conservation efforts. Many many thanks for your work!!!
There is a parasite museum in Japan I believe, which has a fascinating amount of gross and shuddersome specimens for those less squeamish. I'm not sure how in depth the research gets there, but it's worth checking out if your reasearching them
I have a couple of parasite specimens from working at the vet, including tapeworms, roundworms and maggots. I should start a local parasite fan club. 😂😂
This one of those: on one hand..on the other hand. I get it, they’re part of the whole Earth’s biology. And yet trying talking with people who have been infested with Guinea worm.
I tried pretty hard to emphasize and make the focus of this video on wildlife parasites for that reason. There is disproportionately a far greater number of wildlife parasites than those that infect humans -- we know more about those human/disease-causing parasites because, understandably, more research goes towards seeking causes and treatments.
Hey Emily you should do an episode about the study/concept of One Health. You touch on a lot of parts of it in your videos. I'm currently taking a course on it and we focus a lot on emerging diseases, I believe later we will talk about parasites.
Your mentioning of the lack of amateur parasite groups makes me wonder how difficult it would be to set one up in some way. I've always been intrigued by "the creatures that make people squirm" parasites being a part of that, and it would be something I'd love to get into, but as someone who works full time, I'm not sure if it would be something I would have the time to put into...
And (on the subject now) it's probably one of the hardest things maybe, getting people involved in saving creatures like Parasites. They aren't Orchids, so maybe the way is associating them to things like Alien or the Demogorgon. Might seems like a stretch (the argument) but I guess it could make people interested...
I think its also worth noting that there could be potential medical benefits to parasites, in like using leaches to create anticoagulants, or identifying enzymes that might be able to suppress unwanted immune responses, or, yes, weight control and digestive health. Culinary uses as well, like the way we use vanilla from orchids, or simply eating them, in the way we use some corn fungi or things like lamprays.
According to the 'Hydinge hypothesis', the increased prevenlence of diseases asssocaited with hyperimmmunit in the West result from a lack of exposure to (macro?) parasties.
Well, phages of parasitic bacteria could be considered that, true. I had thought more of the kinds of parasites that are considered in parasitic disease.
And in fact, a great example of that is parasitic wasps that have parasitic wasps: www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/inception-but-with-parasites/514211/
This was interesting and thought provoking but show more gross stuff! I would have liked to see some of what the Field Museum has in it's small collection.
Hey Emily! I'd love to see a video about the Tsavo "man eating" lions, nicknamed "The Ghost" and "The Darkness". I just recently found that they were preserved and displayed at the Field Museum!
Yeah, no. Find someone who has crusted ("Norwegian") scabies and shake hands, do their laundry, and daily cares so that you're sure to catch them. Then wait a couple months and see how anxious you are to get rid of that particular parasite. They can literally drive you mad with itching.
I've always thought of parasites as the one life-form able to eat without killing anything. In principle. Along with vultures and hyenas, all of which have a bad name …
Hey Emily, you've recently inspired me to want to start an insect/arachnid collection. But there is one huge drawback. How do I tell my creepy-crawly-fearing mother that her teenage daughter wants to pin bug/arachnid corpses on Styrofoam? Or should I not tell her, and hope she doesn't find out?
+P Heart Well, funny you said that, because I already do. I can't bear to kill the little guys, as stupid as that sounds. I was planning on pinning the bugs that are already dead. I already do a ton of photography on the bugs I find alive, and theyre my favorite models to take photos of, mostly spiders. (which are arachnids but you get my point)
The way my family found out was when when i took dried insects from the cars dashboard or back window, and set them as wet specimans in little jars! i would bring in dead beetles and spiders since i was always outside taking pictures too. I keep my dry specimans in a little airtight tupperware with some silica packs and a styroform insert.
To help with dried out insects you can steam them. This will make them less brittle. If you look on line there are several differnt ways to do this. Chances are there is someone selling mounted insects in a market around you. If there is have a talk to them, in my experince they will have good tips. You will find they proably source thier insects from farms or communites that supply them. These insects get sent through the mail and so are dried out before they are mounted.
This episode could have used a gross-o-meter. That worm coming out of the fur at the beginning grossed me out so hard, I almost gagged.
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I scrolled down immediately to avoid this exact situation tbh (still listened to the narration though)
It's safe after the intro.
Penny Lane Thanks ♡
Wait, you guys don't get zits like that? Maybe it's just me.
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Yeah, some of those images were quite disturbing. The cow at 7:11 made me uncomfortable.
Your argument is sound but viscerally upsetting and now I have complicated feelings. Thanks, I guess?
you're welcome
I wonder about the assertion that parasite-infested water buffaloes provide more food for scavengers and predators...the infested animal may die sooner, but lacking the parasites, it would still die and still provide food for other animals. Every animal will die once.
I thought to myself "I have spent the entire day watching The Brain Scoop, Deep Look, and then reading science books and then some more videos, ... I think I might be done for toda- NEW BRAIN SCOOP VID"
Kha Ngo , me and you the same
Deep look and brain scoop are some of the best science channels around!!
Omg Kha!!! I also love this channel! I was so surprised to see your name lol- hope you're doing well!
Sam Harley I think you remember the wrong Kha :p
Where did we meet? Anyway, take care!
Kha Ngo omg nvm then I know another Kha Ngo from high school! Thats funny though. Sorry!
Fascinating topic! I started out thinking "parasites don't seem worth preserving", and had to ask myself "Isn't the POINT of museum collections that WE DON'T KNOW what is and isn't worth preserving!?"
Awesome video. Thanks guys ^_^
We're going to need to collect two of each type, each collected from a separate area via helicopter extraction...
That's right, a pair of parasites from a pair of para-sites.
I'll see myself out now.
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
That was marvelous.
"Rescue my children" i guess?
I never thought about the conservation value of parasites before. You made a good point in that studying parasites could help us learn more about all sorts of diseases.
Thank you! :)
It's interesting how we see parasites as inherently negative because they might harm their host, but we don't have the same problem with predators, even though they definitely also harm other animals.
Yes interesting, isn't it? Parasites live off of other animals but they generally do so without killing them, which means walking a fine line and constantly putting up with the host's defenses. But the animals we choose for our heraldry are the ones that go the easy route by just killing their prey.
Truth.
Such an interesting perspective!
We don't have the same problem with predators, because predators don't seem to us as vestigial, while parasites do. Parasites come across like an evolutionary and ecological dead-end. Something that draws out of the system while not meaningfully contributing back.
I'm of the opinion that most parasites need to be treated much like diseases are when it comes to extinction. As an achievement. But there are undoubtedly parasites which have an important role in their eco system, so I'm not for wiping them parasites out unilaterally either.
I felt great care was taken in the video to exclude human parasites from any protection efforts. There might be some that are useful to treat allergies but most of them are gruesome and take a heavy toll on poorer populations. Nobody argues to keep those parasites around or if they are, they should start conservation efforts with themselves.
As for animal and plant parasites, it is not clear to me how they are inherently less important to ecosystems than predators are. In fact I would argue that diseases also are likely to play important roles in stabilizing ecosystems. So eradicating animal diseases or parasites should only be done when it is necessary to preserve the species itself.
I study biology and parasites are someone of the coolest things to learn about, they've evolved to be SO SPECIFIC and just plain COOL!
Being as specific as good grammar means that one tiny mistake and the whole parasite, (or comment) is toast ;-)
Cheers for the Sailor Moon figure on your desk!
[Parasites] carry the message of love. 🌙
Closest thing to parasite fan club is "monsters inside me" on Animal Planet. My favorite show. Every time someone comes in the room though they always say, "OMG what are you watching?!"
Not gonna lie, I did watch a number of those episodes as, ahem, "research."
Yes! I was waiting for someone to mention this show, I love it!
A man in the faroe islands got an honorary doctorate for his flea and louse collection, mostly from birds.
One bad parasite are ticks. If you want to get rid of ticks, your best bet is to use something tock-sick.
I always have *time* for a good pun.
I like finding them and torturing them.
:^)
It would be cool if we increased the research and preservation of parasites and gain insight on how we can better protect ourselves from the annoying ones, such as lice and bed bugs. ESPECIALLY BED BUGS!
interesting but this is the stuff of my childhood nightmares
Great video, but I noticed one small mistake. The worm coming out of the grasshopper that is fed upon buy the Japanese trout is not a nematode. That is a different kind of roundworm called a horsehair worm or nematomorph worm. It’s a separate but related phylum to nematodes. Other then that, you brought up a lot of really intriguing ideas in this video. Keep up the fantastic work!
why the hell do you know stuff like this...
Well, roundworms and nematodes form the phylum Nematoda, so Gondian worms are not Roundworms.
Madame Corgi I meant to say “round-worm” as they are cylindrical as opposed to the flat Turbellarians or the irregular Trematodes in the Platyhelminthes clade. Nematomorphs are in the same parent clade as nematodes: Cycloneuralia a sub clade of the Ecdysozoans. But this is the closest relationship they have to each other, phylogenetically speaking.
You guys know your worms!!! YAY!
Yay nerds! ^_^
I've just ended an adveture with Emilie Graslie that I had started two weeks ago. In this time i've watched EVERY video clip in order. It was a pleasure to skin wolf with you, move on to the Field museum and meet many amazing scientists that inspire many young people just like myself. I'm so happy that you're doing an amazing job!
The parasitology classes were the most fascinating classes in my lab training. Then, after school, seeing some of them in the lab was just as fascinating.
As an entomologist many of the specimens I collect doing field work are often covered in mites. Many of these mites are phoretic i.e. they use the beetle as a way to travel. Although slide mounting is very time consuming I preserve and catalogue parasitic specimens I find in the field. Occasionally I have found a parasitic fungi called Laboulbeniales or "beetle hangers", these are small fungi which fruit on beetles. I have also taken great efforts to preserve, which I know are extremely valuable to taxonomic specialists.
Is that a tiny pangolin figure I spot on your desk? If so, that's fantastic.
"I want to see some parasitic worms!"
Yep. First person to say that ever right there.
Well.. I guess that leftover spaghetti can wait 'till tomorrow...
That's your take-away from this video?
No.. the spaghetti's home made...
I ate mine, seemed slimy for some odd reason.
But your tape worms are hungry now!
My uncle refuses to eat spaghetti because someone put a worm in his spaghetti when he was a student.
Excellent worm earrings! Also, everyone needs to understand that parasitism is a basic ecological niche. That niche just happens to exist in and around other organisms.
I loved how disappointed she was there weren't any tapeworm fan clubs near her!
Brb starting a tape worm fan club in my town.
"Humans shouldnt pass judgment on other species " cutest thing I've heard all day
This is timely, I recently finished reading Carl Zimmer's "Parasite Rex". I've always had a fascination with parasites and use them frequently as symbols in my artwork; reading that book made me even more fascinated by how diverse and complicated parasites actually are!
Growing up in Brazil, under the age of 9, I remember my biology textbook had a section talking about parasites and diseases that you get from poor hygiene or just living in a, you know, tropical country. And I remember always turning back to that section to read more about it, especially the fact that this is a child’s textbook talking about parasitic worms inside our bodies. I never though much of that thing, but since I watched you other video about worms, I’ve remembered about parasitic worms and a fascination to them.
I love that more "investigative" storytelling.
lougrims Do you mean the music? It's always felt 'investigative' to me.
Emily, you are an absolute gem. Thanks for sharing all of the tremendous insights, facts, fun, and bringing us the interesting interviews with so many specialists in their fields. This channel is superb, and I would also like to extend my compliments to all of the other people behind the scenes. The camera crew, researchers, everyone.
If there had been some kind of parasite fanclub when I was in school, I'd have joined it in a heartbeat.
In an interesting case of the relationship between host and parasite, I remember watching a documentary that included a doctor that had contracted a sheep parasite. The parasite was unable to live in the human gut so migrated to the next best thing... the doctor's brain (the worm was removed without leaving any permanent damage)
My (predictable) reaction to the header was “Ewww, yuck”, but then I clicked on the video, and it’s actually quite interesting. Well done!
I highly recommend reading Parasite Rex, the author does a great job of explaining how parasites play a huge part in the food chain
Something that I find unbelievable (and it goes to show our "progress" as humans) is that unique and amazing species, which can even be parasites as this video taught us, are rare and on the brink of extinction, almost always because of us, whereas species that cause extensive damage to ecosystems or human infrastructure are widespread and rampant all over the place.
Anyone else find it a bit ironic that the biggest collection of parasite specimens is in WA DC?
I love this show so much Emily, but JEEZ that shot of a cow worm parasite will give me night/daymares for the rest of the week
If that grossed you out, whatever you do don't look up "mango worms." it's literally a hundred times worse.
I thought it was super satisfying to watch. Like popping a pimple
Curiosity is a double edged sword. I googled "mango worms", and i can't unsee that horror... _Sigh_ Well, i guess i was warned :P
Good report, thanks. If you’ve got bad Skype sound use a phone on the interviewee’s desk for a memo recording backup file. “Bad sound makes good video look bad.“
Okay, I guess I don't want the parasites to go bye-bye. Great show as always.
One of your best videos yet! Way to make something totally gross really fascinating and positive!
Finally!
I have waited for this episodes for years! Thank you
Fascinating video! Also you have the book of frogs on your desk but there are so few videos about amphibians on the brainscoop. Any planned?
When you got on the phone and said "Hi Anna!" I got really excited that you were gonna bring Anna Goldman back onto the show. :-(
Best video in a long time. Not that other videos have been bad, this was just excellent!
"tapeworm fan clubs near me" that killed me!!! bahaha!
I have never thought about it this way!! Parasites can be so important!
I'm fascinated by how some parasites alter/influence the host's behavior.
Check out the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Madison WI...they have an awesome parasite collection!
6:43-6:51 Best...Acting...Ever! Haha, great stuff as always. Thank you Scoopers. :)
And I am the only one who gets geeked for parasites and even a dreams of becoming a amateur parasitologists.
I love this video. To be honest, I find parasites a bit creepy, but also deeply fascinating. They have a lot of really cool adaptations and strategies for survival. It is a good thing people realise that animals that aren`t cute and fluffy also have a value. Hooray for life.
This is such a great topic and great video. I had never thought about this and even though I feel like scratching my body all over since I've watched, I feel like I learned something new, and I am now also convinced they should be considered in all our conservation efforts. Many many thanks for your work!!!
There is a parasite museum in Japan I believe, which has a fascinating amount of gross and shuddersome specimens for those less squeamish. I'm not sure how in depth the research gets there, but it's worth checking out if your reasearching them
I have a couple of parasite specimens from working at the vet, including tapeworms, roundworms and maggots. I should start a local parasite fan club. 😂😂
A man creates. A parasite asks, "where's my share?"
This one of those: on one hand..on the other hand. I get it, they’re part of the whole Earth’s biology. And yet trying talking with people who have been infested with Guinea worm.
I tried pretty hard to emphasize and make the focus of this video on wildlife parasites for that reason. There is disproportionately a far greater number of wildlife parasites than those that infect humans -- we know more about those human/disease-causing parasites because, understandably, more research goes towards seeking causes and treatments.
I feel like you'd be REALLY good at Owen Wilson impressions
It took me a few days to work up the courage to click on this video.
This is now exactly what I want to do for my masters project!! Now to link parasite conservation to One Health...
I love that she has a Sailor Moon figure on her desk. nice video too :)
Sounds like something a parasite would say
No results found for "tapeworm fanclubs near me". Darn i guess its true
I highly recommend Carl Zimmer's book, "Parasite Rex"--It's a great read!
Hey Emily you should do an episode about the study/concept of One Health. You touch on a lot of parts of it in your videos. I'm currently taking a course on it and we focus a lot on emerging diseases, I believe later we will talk about parasites.
Your mentioning of the lack of amateur parasite groups makes me wonder how difficult it would be to set one up in some way.
I've always been intrigued by "the creatures that make people squirm" parasites being a part of that, and it would be something I'd love to get into, but as someone who works full time, I'm not sure if it would be something I would have the time to put into...
There has to be so many medical insights possible
Im so glad I ate BEFORE the video...
But for real, so informative. makes you think about things much more differently.
I LOVE how you theme your earrings to the episode Emily 😊
just came here from smarter every day. you have some cool content. +1 sub
Just discovered you from Dustin's channel. Instant subscribe. You're awesome Emily.
And (on the subject now) it's probably one of the hardest things maybe, getting people involved in saving creatures like Parasites. They aren't Orchids, so maybe the way is associating them to things like Alien or the Demogorgon. Might seems like a stretch (the argument) but I guess it could make people interested...
Yessssssssss I love exploring the positive aspects of things that are usually considered bad or harmful!! So interesting!
I think its also worth noting that there could be potential medical benefits to parasites, in like using leaches to create anticoagulants, or identifying enzymes that might be able to suppress unwanted immune responses, or, yes, weight control and digestive health. Culinary uses as well, like the way we use vanilla from orchids, or simply eating them, in the way we use some corn fungi or things like lamprays.
According to the 'Hydinge hypothesis', the increased prevenlence of diseases asssocaited with hyperimmmunit in the West result from a lack of exposure to (macro?) parasties.
I'll be honest. It was hard to watch this. I admire the people who have a stronger stomachs to research this kind of stuff.
There’s a great podcast on parasites by the BBC called In Our Time that gives great insight from experts to supplement this video!
The “Check our sources” link in the description >> yaaaay, footnotes!
There should be a gross meter for this one. I was eating breakfast.....yeah. Not very appetizing
I feel properly scarred with knowledge about parasites just in time for Halloween. But the coevolution was cool. Coevolution is always cool.
Can parasites get parasites BTW?
Well, phages of parasitic bacteria could be considered that, true. I had thought more of the kinds of parasites that are considered in parasitic disease.
Humans get pregnant, so yes.
Yup, thats called hiperparasitism
And in fact, a great example of that is parasitic wasps that have parasitic wasps: www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/inception-but-with-parasites/514211/
I believe so
It's a spoooooooky Halloween parasite episode.
What about parasitic wasps? I'm sure you have some in the museum's collection!
this is an EXCEPTIONAL video Emily! I'm likin' what I'm seein'
I now have a new (not sure appreciation is the right word) for parasites.
This was interesting and thought provoking but show more gross stuff! I would have liked to see some of what the Field Museum has in it's small collection.
The Express isn't a news source. It's a comic book.
Hey Emily! I'd love to see a video about the Tsavo "man eating" lions, nicknamed "The Ghost" and "The Darkness". I just recently found that they were preserved and displayed at the Field Museum!
*sigh* just when you think pandas cant be any harder to keep alive...
I'm going to go ignite a tapeworm and you can't stop me.
how do parasites develop drug resistance? the same way bacteria/viruses do?
Did this have to come out right at dinner time? I love it but i'm trying to eat...
I could live without mosquitoes.
This is definitely an interesting topic but still makes me feel a bit icky watching about it.
6:43 this had me laughing! :D you are too funny Emily!
Yeah, no. Find someone who has crusted ("Norwegian") scabies and shake hands, do their laundry, and daily cares so that you're sure to catch them. Then wait a couple months and see how anxious you are to get rid of that particular parasite. They can literally drive you mad with itching.
Absolutely love your videos, love them even more now that I know you are a fellow moonie
I wonder if we can find preserved parasites in creatures that are in alcholholic jars or others objects that are ment to mainly preserve vertabrates
Parasites, Bacterias, Protozoans, Plants, Animals, Insects, Fungi. All of those who are endangered should be preserved.
I've always thought of parasites as the one life-form able to eat without killing anything. In principle. Along with vultures and hyenas, all of which have a bad name …
there has not been brains on it for a while now! I miss the specimen prep videos!
Hey Emily, you've recently inspired me to want to start an insect/arachnid collection. But there is one huge drawback. How do I tell my creepy-crawly-fearing mother that her teenage daughter wants to pin bug/arachnid corpses on Styrofoam? Or should I not tell her, and hope she doesn't find out?
Jillybean711 collect them photographically and leave them alive?
+P Heart Well, funny you said that, because I already do. I can't bear to kill the little guys, as stupid as that sounds. I was planning on pinning the bugs that are already dead. I already do a ton of photography on the bugs I find alive, and theyre my favorite models to take photos of, mostly spiders. (which are arachnids but you get my point)
Jillybean711 I've tried pinning dead insects but they tend to break up,so photographing is great.
The way my family found out was when when i took dried insects from the cars dashboard or back window, and set them as wet specimans in little jars!
i would bring in dead beetles and spiders since i was always outside taking pictures too.
I keep my dry specimans in a little airtight tupperware with some silica packs and a styroform insert.
To help with dried out insects you can steam them. This will make them less brittle. If you look on line there are several differnt ways to do this. Chances are there is someone selling mounted insects in a market around you. If there is have a talk to them, in my experince they will have good tips. You will find they proably source thier insects from farms or communites that supply them. These insects get sent through the mail and so are dried out before they are mounted.
Hey BrainScoop, there's a pretty incredible parasite museum in Tokyo, Japan if you're ever in the neighborhood! :)