Carnivorous UNDERCOVER caterpillar 🐛😎 | Wild Isles - BBC
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"Hey, anyone noticed that our Queen's put on a lot of weight recently? ...And has started eating our babies?"
"Shut it, the pheromones don't lie."
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@@chickennuggets5549 shut the hell up bruh please
Also imagine the ant that first found the caterpillar. "How'd the queen get out here? Well, pheromones & that call don't lie. Better bring her back to the nest!"
@@chickennuggets5549 Oh you’re literally commenting on every single comment saying that
Soldier ant : you are not our queen
Caterpillar: 'croaks' once
Soldier ant : long live the queen 👑
All glory to the Hypnotoad ... erm ... hypnopillar.
Uganda knuckles would have seen right through the facade and spit on them right away
I see why they thrive so much in the UK now
Caterpillar: UwU
"Muh Queen!"
You find a woman alone in the woods. She offers you your favorite fruit. She’s familiar. She tells you she’s weary and hurt and asks for shelter. As you lead her home, you realize why she’s familiar. She’s an old relative of the family! Of course! Got lost on her way to visit. And when you bring her home, everyone greets her after just a moment of confusion. Yes, yes, of course she’s remembered! She’s part of the family. She’s welcome.
Months pass. Family members go missing. Gone, without a trace. You seek comfort in each other. Your relative is larger now, but that just makes it more comforting when she hugs. She’s grown so much since she came home. She’s always lived here.
One day, you find yourself alone in the house. Everyone is gone. All that remains is some growth stuck to the floor. Like some kind of coffin. You feel like you should leave but you have nowhere to go. The growth is too large and heavy to move. You live around it. You long for your loved ones. Where have they gone?
Then one day the growth splits. And out crawls the woman, one of your relatives! Except, no. She’s different now. Inhuman. With fuzz and wings and she looks at you like an insect, towering above you. “Thank you for the hospitality, cousin.” And she flies away. Leaving you alone in an empty nest.
Heartbreaking 😢
If you created the story, I just wanna say it’s really creatives!🎉
@@PeepStarsGo Lol I was trying to imagine this horrific scene occurring with humans instead of bugs and yeah it's horrifying.
Yo this need more likes for having such an artistic view at something i wouldnt call beautiful
@@15Anime4Ever15 creepy, i love it
Nature beats any Steven King horror novel hands down!
Most sci fi starts with an idea from nature.
Alien - wasps that inject larvae into other insects etc. Burst out of the body.
Last of us - evolved fungi and ants
Mass effect and the giant worms - bobbit worm (horrible thing, but underwater)
Loads more out there, truly fascinating is nature
@@randomdaveUK Ever heard about the panthers that imitates monkey sounds IRL
Ever seen the anime made in abyss where predator flowers imitate the help cries of dead victims?
Damn nature! You scary!
@@randomdaveUK Right or wrong it's also why the nature channel is also the single best provider of reasons not to vote for nature lovers.
@@randomdaveUK You forgot the MIdwich Cuckoos.
I remember seeing these little blue butterflies flying around in Germany. Never thought they would have such an interesting, extraordinary cycle of life…
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Average Sega fan moment
Nintendo retardation is no joke.
Are you confusing the large blue, which is a big European species of butterfly with a wing span of +5 cm, with the common blue and small blue which are much smaller and more common, with a wingspan of 2 - 3 cm, the caterpillars of the smaller species do not feed on ant larva?
@@ArchStanton45 Just googled pictures of them, out of curiosity. I live here in Central Europe, I saw all of them, mostly as a kid when I was almost everyday outside. So does that matter?
Holy, that's a risky game! It's crazy that they not only learned to puff up, but, the actual sounds a queen makes????
@@Gg-ij7li what does your allegation have to do with the caterpillar? Better tell me why God has created the caterpillar to be a parasite?
Risky but it success many thousands of years
@@hopebgood There is God. I am not an atheist, I am theist. The God, or the divine presence, or a divine intelligent substance, however you want to call it. Of course God does not have a face. So called "holy books" of religions and cults (like Bible) are of course mostly a bunch of lies when they describe supernatural phenomena connected with their protagonists and other "saints". But they do describe some true historical events as well. I hate when religious fanatics try to ascribe their invented unnecessary intermediaries between God and men (like Jesus) to God. They make a big ungrounded leap from faith in God to faith in Jesus, Mohamad, Budda (and alike). That's where the lie begins. But God (in unincorporated form) does exists, and he/she/it/they guide evolution. So there is nothing wrong with the evolution theory. Evolution is guided by God through billions of years. God exists (is manifested most) in higher frequency vibration spiritual dimensions. That's how the things in the Universe are in a nutshell. But most people would not agree with me. And that is their (not my) problem.
@@Oleksiy777 source?
@@carnap355 drop dead and you will know
I understand that the caterpillar fools the ants into thinking it's one of them, but I am surprised that they don't notice the destruction of their own larvae.
You don't question the queen
Pheromones don't lie, now shut up
Off with her heads
Well the pheromones dont lie.....
It's incredible, and such an interesting evolutionary adaptation.
This caterpillar bring the term “hiding in a plain sight” to the whole new level
And their food die with a smile :)
In the ants' defense they're basically blind, so not really "sight" as it were.
Ants are blind
Mother nature is a sight to behold.
Mother nature is a sick horrible place
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Evolution is so bizarre, I'm just gonna have to agree with the Chicken Nuggets on this one.
I mean, it's way easier to just accept that God made all creatures for a purpose... some sick, sadistic purpose.
Most beautiful and most terrified
Your mom as well
Ant: "Excuse me. Why are you eating our babies.?"
Caterpillar: "Er....I'm your Queen "
Ant: "Oh right...carry on."
I belive there's a commentary on internal British politics hidden there somewhere.
😆
"Excuse me. Why are you eating our babies?"
"Er....I'm jewish"
"Oh right, sorry for being anti semitic...carry on."
Stupid ants
Caterpillar : becoz hes not timmy
Takes 'evil stepmother' to a WHOLE new level! 😳😬
Props to the camera man such dedication and bravery to shrink your self down to ant size
they hired an ant duh
Could you imagine just how small that camera is!!
@@mikethescienceguy ...tempting it with pheromone
OK dude,try something else,the joke is as old as Santa Claus.
Not to mention the risk of being devoured!
Conan O'Brian was right all along when he wrote for The Simpsons...
"No one ever suspects a butterfly".
I love the joyful melody playing while the narrator gleefully exclaims that these nightmare creatures, once thought extinct, are now among us in dense population.
What, are you an ant?
Typical alarmist ant rhetoric.
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@@chickennuggets5549 Nah
It's not really fair to call them 'nightmare creatures'. They serve an important role in nature, and unlike humans, they don't kill other creatures out of malice or greed.
The more I learn about the different creatures in our planet the more I get amazed. Every creature has a unique role to play and its wonderful to know.
What amazes me is that the ants also seem not confused by having an "additional queen". They're like "yep, another queen, nothing silly going around here"
Must be an Argentine ant colony? or any ants that have multiple queens in a colony.
@@jayzenstylein Europe ? Dont think so
@@lubo7699 there are argentine ant megacolonies in europe, idk about uk tho
@@ae3464 True, I forgot they were invasive
Plus the ants not realizing that the new "queen" was eating the larvae and dwindling the ant population. Did they thought that if they feed her enough she will eventually spawn a generation of super ants
I always thought that Hawaii is the only place in the world to find carnivorous caterpillars until now.
There's also harvester butterflies, which eat aphids, and planthopper parasite moths, which attach to planthoppers while small and eat them alive until they are bigger than their now dead host.
Cherry gall azure's are another North American butterfly with predatory larvae, but they are technically omnivorous, as they eat both galls and the mites that made the gall.
Well those caterpillars are scarier since they’re straight up hunting predators. The one in the video is creepy, though, but in a more insidious way.
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@@chickennuggets5549 Nobody asked for this you religious bot.
I was thinking that
I like how she leaves during spring, safe during winter and no need to fight her way out.
She ate all the ant larvae. The adult ants died off from old age.
You see this video once and it never leaves your memory! What a lesson on trust!
While I am not a fan of bugs for sure, this little video really mesmerised me and it's just made me think of the tiniest little bugs and a role that they play in our world. Simply amazing😮
Butterflies are incredible pollinators and are a serious contributor to the growth of food crops everywhere.
This is AMAZING! All BBC footage is great but this one just stuck out to me today, WOW! The trickery of this caterpillar. I cannot believe it!
Those ants and caterpillar are paid actors, don't be fooled!
It's amazing that it could bypass so many ant defenses. (Considering ants come in so many shapes and sizes, it makes some sense that they have wide acceptance criteria for 'family')
I wonder if they trick one species or several species of ants?
I'm surprised the camera can trick the ants to not attack it.. I wonder if they sprayed it with the same pheromone
Not all of the ant species, far from that. I think only a few species from the Myrmica genus.
This trick doesn’t work against all any colonies. For example army ant colonies queens don’t make that noise and only release a unique pheromone that her ants knows, which is impossible for any other insect to replicate since it’s unique to each colony. Also army ants are aware of each other presence.
Other blue butterflies also secret honeydew, most just don’t go so far as the great blue. Some tropical ones dose ants with mind control pheromones to act as their bodyguards, tho!
@@rosssilver that’s a little different- the raider ants are able to get the larvae they steal to imprint on raider ant pheromones. It’s harder to mimic pheromones. Some blues can do it by eating ants and reusing their pheromones, but i don’t think the great blue does. (Most blues don’t need pheromones at all, because most blues produce honeydew and are tended to by ants in exchange for honeydew, like aphids)
Truly remarkable. I’m at awe to know something evolved like this. Ingenious yet utterly chilling at the same time.
I’m more in awe of the Creator! The caterpillar may usefully keep the expansion of the ant colonies in check playing an important role in the ecosystem.
It's krazy how something horrible can turn into something beautiful 🦋
Nefarious as it could be, nature is the ultimate teacher.
The miracle of nature. Absolutely amazing.
It's so good to hear sir David Attenborough voice
Caterpillar: literally look like this 🐛
Ant: Queen is that you your highness?
The large "trickery" blue. New addition to its name. Amazing nature.
Nature is amazing. And incredible to think this is happening here in the UK!
One of the most amazing life cycle of any insects or animals. What an amazing evolution of an caterpillar.
When I see videos like this, it makes me grateful to nature that bugs are very small.
The ant who brought a caterpillar is so in big trouble.
How they got a tiny camera (and a camera man) down that anthole boggles my mind.
I believe they build special sets in glass cases that already have cameras set up.
the trick is to hire very very very tiny people
Probably something similar to those tube cameras they use in surgeries
@@isaaczimberg2815 Thanks! Crazy that a sensible and thoughtful answer gets far fewer upvotes than the silly comment below.
What is this - a camera for ants?!
This is just incredible. And the final form is breathtakingly beautiful.
I used to catch these little guys often when I lived on a farm for vacation, good times.
Wow i really miss mr David !
It makes the video even more entertain to watch ❤️
A real life cycle of an insect more scarier than any alien or sci fi movies...
Just imagine that in human society you may become robbed much often than become killed. Between insects it is simple - you die. And often in very gruesome way.
Some of the most iconic aliens are based on bugs ironically. Like how the xeno was inspired by the tarantula hawk wasp.
I thought that noise the ant was doing was my stomach bubbling
Second carnivorous caterpillar I've heard of outside of those Hawaiian ones. But the ones in Hawaii are still scarier since they’re complete ambush predators.
Even Attenborough is in shock!
The things I've learned about bugs makes me more terrified of the concept of aliens 👽
Caterpillar: UwU
Ants: THAT'S OUR QUEEN!!
Caterpillar: Checkmate, SIMPS
Once again nature comes up with such an insanely convoluted and crazy method of survival you wonder how it possibly came about. Major props to the ones who discovered these facts and of course the incredible cinematography.
Amazing. Glad I’m not a larvae.
You probably wouldn't feel much of it anyway tbf
Let see in second life.
The “Eco-friendly Ant control” at its finest.
Much more humane than spraying pesticides.
Cordyceps fungus also do the same on ant adult forms.
"Carnivorous Undercover Caterpillar" makes for an excellent band name.
And an even better spy name
Deception skills in infiltrating the ants colony
Caterpillar: 10/10
Camera man: I do this everytime for a living.
Just amazing and strange. Science is really cool
@@Gg-ij7li 🤮
who wouldve thought those beautiful moths grow up like this
It's a butterfly in this video
@@marleynightingale4312 I mean, butterflies are technically a kind of moth, so...
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 same family
@@madzerincognito9732 Lepidoptera is an order, not a family.
This creature just made number one of my all time favs chart
Never seen a Large Blue butterfly, and now I know why. I'm glad it's been reintroduced.
This is absolutely amazing
That is one of the coolest and craziest things I have watched.
The amount of work put in to this video is insane
That's absolutely amazing.
Wow that's amazing! Nature is amazing 💕
I never realized there were Carnivorous Caterpillars outside of Hawaii, amazing
"Here's a lesson in trickery, this is going down in history..."
TROLLING the ANTS 😂😂
Nature something increadible
“OH MY GOD THE YOUNGLINGS WHAT ARE YOU-oh, your majesty! I hardly recognized you, carry on.”
Narrator: "She was re-introduced"
Ants: "wtf!?"
How can they record this??? This is so amazing!
I imagine its a controlled environment. It's not actually in the wild. They build the set. Place cameras in place. Then place the animals. Then wait.
@@BornInsane0 omg I never thought of that. That makes total sense! Thank you!
@@Jimmy_Johns this all a guess btw. I could be completely wrong 🤣
BornInsane0 is right, most modern documentaries use a combination of wildlife footage and a controlled studio environment. Even when there is a "story" to follow, let's say the documentary focuses on a single animal and it's journey for example, the final footage is a combination of multiple animals, some wild and some not. I'm not saying this is a bad thing btw, this way of making the documentaries allows us to have such gems as this video right here.
Give the camera to the strongest ant?
And because the cameraman always survives...
Amazing! The good thing is that it's virtually impossible to bring down any ant population that way😂
Ive watched alot of mimicking animals in nature but this is top level
That's some brutal stuff.
Equal parts beautiful and terrifying
This reminds me of another nature documentary I saw many years ago, but would like to find again. if I remember right, it was another kind of caterpillar that would invade an ant colony, but it had extremely tough skin that was impervious to the ants' stings and bites. It would eat as many larva as it could find until the ants would panic and start to evacuate them from their birthing chamber. When the caterpillar had its fill, it would climb to the top of the anthill and pupate - its skin too tough for the ants to pierce, and I believe it secured itself to the mound so the ants couldn't lift it. When it came time to emerge, the ants pounced, figuring they could finally kill it, but the moth had one last trick up its sleeve... it was covered in many sticky hairs that clogged the ants' mandibles and irritated them so much they had to retreat to clean themselves. After a few minutes of drying its new wings, the moth flew away.
Does anyone else remember that one? I'd love to see that clip again...
Liphyra brassolis- moth butterfly.
@@tochie-ugorji2021 Thank you! That's the one!
Wow!!
That got more intense than I expected.
What a fascinating creature
"It was the butterfly I tell you. The butterfly!"
Simpsons was spot on. No one would've suspected it was the butterfly.
Nature is incredible 🤔
From deadly trickster larvae eater to beautiful blue butterfly.
Well played nature
Wow seemingly harmless beautiful butterfly.
Nature is always surprising us.
This reminds me of liphyra brassolis, or “moth butterfly”. Another carnivorous caterpillar, ot has a hard and heavy outer shell that allows it to just walk into an ant colony and start eating larvae. Pupates without incident, then emerges as a butterfly with slippery, irritating scales to disorient the ants while it escapes
_Even the Professor's money heist plan had lot of troubles, fights, man down even , but here we have this tiny caterpillar, the best at Larvae heist_ 🐛🎭
( P.S. : props to the cameraman for this amazing footage )
Gives a new twist to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" story
This caterpillar for sure caused some serious massacre. But I can see some resemblance, the butterfly has some ant looks haha
Considering the queen's chamber is tended to actively, I just imagine the scenario playing like a long game of TES: Oblivion, complete with the game's hilarious AI.
Caterpillar: *devours another ant larva*
Ant guard: The body's still warm, there's a killer about.
*Finds another body*
Ant guard: May you rest in peace.
Caterpillar: *devours another ant larva just behind the guard*
Ant guard: Your majesty, have you by chance seen anything suspicious around here?
Catterpillar ( *chomping* *on* *another* *victim* ): Ehmmm... nope, carry on.
More like Among Us.
Simply incredible
When insects learn by watching you through you're window playing Among Us.
wow.. In Australia they have such a problem with Ants.... WOuld much prefere nice looking Blue butterflies
So....What happened to that ant colony with most of its larva eaten??
They recover eventually. They still have a queen who is constantly laying hundreds of eggs each day, and a lot of workers that continued doing their jobs. So long as some worse predator doesn't show up, or a rival ant colony, they should be able to replenish their numbers within a couple weeks.
The species of ant that it infiltrates regularly splits up its nest and colonizes other nests, so an empty nest like this one will be colonized very quickly by a sister colony.
Absolutely incredible😳🤩
That’s one gangster caterpillar lol.
Even though the caterpillar is carnivores it still needs to be worried of wasps
That is amazing! How the hell do the caterpillars know how to do that? I wonder if they can use those butterflies to control fire ants? They are many invasive species of ants around the world.
Instinct one many drugs Nature can give ya thats how the baby moth survived and Humans are invasive as well on the whole globe
Ants are just following the same route
But if you want to control fire ants population
Just add some parasitic fungus and bring in anteater
The caterpillars only target these particular ants because they are largely blind and thus can be fooled by smell & sound alone. Also, most lycaenids are symbiotic with caterpillars, some species just changed it from mutualism to parasitism.
Magnificent creature.
what more impressive is they manage to capture all of this and waited for a whole year to record the butterfly!
If I recall correctly, conservationists were worried by declining Large Blue butterfly may be caused by grazing of the land, so they decided to purchase the sites where they found the butterflies and wall them off from cattle
This backfired immensely and the Large Blue soon became extinct
Apparently the grazed pasture habitat is perfect for the specific red ants (mainly due to turf height modifying soil temperature) the butterfly tricks and by stopping grazing from cattle -and rabbit populations had an epidemic that killed them- the wrong ants colonised the site and killed off the Large Blue
Amazing! How is the butterfly not attacked by ants as it leaves the nest? Did it kill the colony by eating all their larvae before pupating?
The ants still think its a queen after months of the caterpillar living/producing chemicals and the fake queen noise with them
I think it's eaten all the larvae by then, and the worker ants would have died over the course of the year. Leaving no one to attend to the larvae the other queen is producing.
it still has the chemical signature of the queen, so the ant's don't care.
These ants are largely blind and the butterfly wouldn't be seen escaping.
Girl ATE 🤣🤣🤣
And , this is it Beautiful Moth 🦋
Interesting how large blue butterfly caterpillars can trick ants into bringing them down into the nest where they can freely prey on the brood.
Fascinating. I never know certain species of caterpillars can do such thing. It really like real life imposter of among us game.
Sus
@@jamiehughes5573 🤫
Ant was like AYOOO QUEEN and picked her ass up
Amazing on how the DNA evolved to create all these intricate processes to survive amidst all threats and flourish passing these codes to the next generation
I wonder what happens if the real queen ant finds the larva? Unlike a worker ant, the queen will not respond to another queen's distress call, and in fact would likely attack, and if she did, who would the workers side with?
I think the workers will just watch on the sidelines and not interfere as they won't know which queen to back.
The real queen cannot "find" the larva,real queen is fat,does'nt move,and has workers tending to all her functions...
It only lays eggs,nothing else.