Was thinking the exact same thing! And very cool that someone composes for the footage (thanks, for the info!). Different kind of writing, there! Seems like it could be a very enjoyable job.
1:28 The long pause between the previous dialogue and the deadpan delivery of "Yummmmm houuuuse" really sent me 😂 Thanks Laura, your narration keeps me coming back to Deep Look
Absolutely INCREDIBLE production. I actually cried at how beautiful this is, from the original music to the clever editing, and of course the stars of the show, those adorable and thrifty skippers. I hope this channel never dies.
This is my favorite Deep look video now. I consider myself a bug expert, but I didn't know ANYTHING about the life cycle of Skippers. At 1:33 that took me by surprise! I know many people may find it gross, but think its really cute how they'll just scoot back to do their business like that! At 2:04 the synchronization with the music is PERFECT and made me laugh! At 3:59, I didnt know skippers made mistakes like that! For me, this video taught me a lot while also giving me a cuteness overload! The narration is both funny and very easy to understand. I'm not even kidding, this is my favorite channel. Thank you deep look!
I'm not a biology student or neither agriculture but love your video because it's relaxing and stay connected to nature also show here's many things in nature which is abnormal in humans pov❤
I used to work with a species of skipper. One of the duskywings, who act a bit different from typical skippers, but the caterpillars still make cute little houses like this!
I LOVE Deep Looks videos! I click immediately whenever there's a new one! 😃 Her voice is extremely calming 😊 Thank you for always posting interesting videos!
I’m pretty sure the majority of the adults are fiery skipper and the larvae are umber, I rear Lepidoptera and mantids in southern ca and I have raised skippers.
That banana leaf cigar caterpillar actually quite big! the leaf that it rolls is big, and the caterpillar also big. We use them as fish bait back in my hometown.
I love these guys, never connected the dots between them and the caterpillars though! Skippers are some of the cutest butterflies in my opinion, only beat out by genus Sarota. I have my own funny video of a skipper courtship display not going how the male would have liked. He kept nudging the female, but she wasn't receptive to his advances. Eventually, the male seemed to get frustrated, and he started flying in these really wide circles around her(and me standing there recording with my phone) before giving up and flying elsewhere.
I've seen ants do this. they climb trees when it floods stitch leaves together to make a temporary evacuation center for the ant colony. I never knew they have webs like spiders to stitch leaves together.
It sounds like you're describing weaver ants, which use silk from their colony's larvae to build nests from leaves in tree tops. Such an interesting behavior!
A few years ago I was introduced to skippers when one decided to lay her eggs on my pole beans. 😅 I looked up the caterpillars on bugguide and found out they're relatively harmless so I let them be. They didn't really cause too much damage in the garden and I was rewarded with very cute little butterflies. ❤
@@KQEDDeepLook Thanks for the heart Deep Look! Yes, it was Urbanus proteus (bean leaf roller/long tailed skipper). I couldn't misidentify that bluish green color on the adults' backs. 😊
Here y'all go again... now ima be outside looking for a skipper 😂. Nothing wrong with learning new things thank you. Everyone please stay safe and blessed much love from San Antonio. Its cold here i don't appreciate it
Yes, you're right! Adult skippers have a tiny hook called the apiculus at the tip of each of their antennae. You can see these hooks in our video between 3;18 and 3;23. Thank you for sharing!
Aww. It's hard to pick a favorite butterfly, though. Check out the video we made about glasswing butterflies' transparent wings: ua-cam.com/video/LYxTyMF9k_4/v-deo.htmlsi=JfiFHzHyKzeQoEvu And here's one about pipevine swallowtails and their "love triangle:" ua-cam.com/video/TQQv7h11g_c/v-deo.htmlsi=w_wbMHgxQIdGB-Kp Enjoy!
How does the silk work? Does it shorten over time to pull the leaf together or does it come out wet and shortens when it dries? Or ist it something completely different?
I always find it mind boggling that a caterpillar is "just" a rearranged leaf since most caterpillars only eat a specific type of leaf until they become a butterfly. Absolutely crazy what manages to happen in nature.
Caterpillars need to gorge on leaves before they grow into flying butterflies. We made a video that explains why: ua-cam.com/video/el_lPd2oFV4/v-deo.htmlsi=KZwukNflP39__vEZ Enjoy!
I would love to see a video on Catawba worms, and how they spit green juice on you when you try to collect them for fish bait. I remember my dad climbing the Catawba tree in our backyard and he would toss the worms down at me and I had to collect them while getting green juice all over me 😜. Now you can just buy them at a bait shop for a few bucks, without risking your life on a ladder in a tree
Life starts with eating! Towards the end, Laura said "they lose mouth". In adult, no more munching, but sap through a straw of an exquisite micro- structure. Do you mean nutrition for reproduction? Amazing & stunning if so. I might misinterpret otherwise. A simple, or not, question. Unlike spiders, their silk comes out of the mouth. Whereabouts of its factory inside the body? Inspiring is Deep Look!
Hi! When Laura says at the end that caterpillars "lose their mouths," we were referring to the mandibles that allow them to chew plant matter. You're absolutely right that adult butterflies have a strawlike mouthpart that allows them to sip nectar from flowers. By feeding on nectar they get the energy they need to fly around and mate. I'll need to dig into your other question, about where exactly in the caterpillar's body the silk is made. They excrete it through a pointy mouthpart called the spinneret. Thank you for your questions!
1:36 poo/pee shooter insects are here & there (see other episodes)! Why are they so meticulously aware of hygiene? To show off their nice gadgets equipped with at the bottom of the body? Curious & fun!
The grass skipper caterpillars we filmed for this video lived on Ehrharta grass in a backyard in Northern California. That grass isn't native to California. Neither is Bermuda grass, where they also thrive. But there are about 2,000 species of grass skippers around the world (their scientific name is the subfamily Hesperiinae). Many thrive on grasses or grassy-like plants that are native to where they live. Thank you for your question!
Didn't know that a caterpillar's organ that extrudes silk is called also spinnerette like spider's spinnerette even though they are in the opposite ends of the body
It's so interesting how the same organ is located in a different part of the spider's body. Here's a video we made about the metamorphosis of a butterfly into a caterpillar. In it you can see the caterpillar using its spinneret to attach itself to a branch before it turns into a chrysalis: ua-cam.com/video/el_lPd2oFV4/v-deo.htmlsi=1Onm_QNmfhsLWR-1 Enjoy!
Something that's always confused me: baby caterpillars can eat but adult moths/butterflies can not... so how come I've seen many butterflies and moths feeding on nectar from various flowers? What's that all about?🤔
Adult butterflies do indeed eat. They sip nectar with their long proboscis, which powers their flight and allows them to mate and lay eggs. They only lose their ability to feed on leaves.
What did you have in mind? We've made a few videos about plants! You might be surprised to learn that sunflowers only follow the sun in their youth: ua-cam.com/video/sz-eYYfTQ20/v-deo.htmlsi=vFsnc_AiPvTXVzV7 This video is about the corpse flower and why it stinks: ua-cam.com/video/ycUNj_Hv4_Y/v-deo.htmlsi=DEWAq34ixUcqF6lK And here's why tumbleweeds tumble: ua-cam.com/video/dATZsuPdOnM/v-deo.htmlsi=l-ipyIIfefMXEtZD Enjoy!
@ Cypripedium acaule and the bumble bee. Cypripedium acaule is the Pink Lady’s slipper orchid. It is very rare and can only grow in strict locations. Like many other orchids it needs a fungus to parasitize off of. The fungus it parasitizes off of actually parasitizes off a tree. It’s a double parasitician. The orchid is pollinated by bumble bees. The orchid lures the bee in with a smell of nectar but there is no nectar to be found. The bees have only one way out of the flower and that rubs pollen on the back of the bee. The idea is that hopefully the bee will fall for the same trick again with a different flower and will pollinate it. Most bees learn to avoid these flowers but newly emerging queens usually fall for this trick. This leads to very low rates of pollination but when the flowers are pollinated, thousands of sawdust sized seeds will drift in the wind and hopefully land on a patch of dirt that has the correct fungus needed to germinate. Sources: Dr. Antonio Izzo of Elon University National Audubon society’s Wildflowers of North America
Kudos for managing to squeeze in a taco reference on Tuesday.
* tips an imaginary hat *
It's Deep Look's version of taco Tuesday!
what happeneds if i eat the taco?
I love that the music fits everything in this video
So glad you enjoy our music. Composer Seth Samuel creates an original score for each Deep Look episode!
@@KQEDDeepLook Oh wow, well I tip my hat to him. Incredible❤🔥
Was thinking the exact same thing!
And very cool that someone composes for the footage (thanks, for the info!). Different kind of writing, there! Seems like it could be a very enjoyable job.
Here's a short video in which Seth talks about this writing process: ua-cam.com/users/shortsI0SbiWRwAwM Enjoy!
the music just ups the quality of these videos, which already have amazing footage.
1:28 The long pause between the previous dialogue and the deadpan delivery of "Yummmmm houuuuse" really sent me 😂 Thanks Laura, your narration keeps me coming back to Deep Look
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I was just about to comment on how funny that was, too!
Absolutely INCREDIBLE production. I actually cried at how beautiful this is, from the original music to the clever editing, and of course the stars of the show, those adorable and thrifty skippers. I hope this channel never dies.
Projectile waste isn't something I prepared for 😂
4:08 bruh 👁️👄👁️
You should see how hippos do it
Ooh, I love those skipper butterflies. They're very cute and charismatic
They sure are. And fast flyers!
Laura's voice is silkier than silk. 🦋💖
This is my favorite Deep look video now. I consider myself a bug expert, but I didn't know ANYTHING about the life cycle of Skippers. At 1:33 that took me by surprise! I know many people may find it gross, but think its really cute how they'll just scoot back to do their business like that! At 2:04 the synchronization with the music is PERFECT and made me laugh! At 3:59, I didnt know skippers made mistakes like that! For me, this video taught me a lot while also giving me a cuteness overload! The narration is both funny and very easy to understand. I'm not even kidding, this is my favorite channel. Thank you deep look!
Wow! Thank you for taking the time to write such a wonderful review! We really appreciate it. We love our fans!
I'm not a biology student or neither agriculture but love your video because it's relaxing and stay connected to nature also show here's many things in nature which is abnormal in humans pov❤
Grass skipper looks like a butterflier version of Hummingbird hawk-moth!
Ironically, Skippers are a speedy as Hawkmoths. So you could say the Skippers are the Hawkmoths of butterflies
Yesssss I love Skippers!!!! Love to see such lovely spotlight put on them!
We're so happy you enjoyed our video! We loved making it!
ohhhhghgh i love skipper butterflies a lot
the way the kind of bob up in the air with each flap while flying looks so cute
I can't help but find this to be really cool yet so cute. Who else agrees?!
this is the perfect video for little kids to watch, the narration has that nostalgic feel to it
Nature never ceases to amaze me!
I used to work with a species of skipper. One of the duskywings, who act a bit different from typical skippers, but the caterpillars still make cute little houses like this!
What did you find most interesting about duskywings' behaviors?
I love skipper butterflies! They are so compact looking!
Grass taco, lol. I have found these in my yard and always wondered what came from them. Thanks #DeepLook , you guys Rock!
We're so happy we could explain those tiny grass tacos you've found in your yard. Thank you for the kind words!
I think I have a new favourite caterpillar/butterfly! 😄
Great video, as always.
Always excited for a deep look at anything you focus on!
I love how it flicked its poop far away!
I LOVE Deep Looks videos!
I click immediately whenever there's a new one! 😃 Her voice is extremely calming 😊
Thank you for always posting interesting videos!
That's so great to hear! We're so happy you enjoy our videos!
@KQEDDeepLook It's my number one favorite UA-cam Channel... Thank you for responding to me, made my day!!! 😃
I’m pretty sure the majority of the adults are fiery skipper and the larvae are umber, I rear Lepidoptera and mantids in southern ca and I have raised skippers.
Look at the way it poops. Caterpillars are too adorable!
They’re so cute 😭 even the tiny eggs are adorable
Love hearing you say ‘chonky’ in reference to a butterfly 😂
That banana leaf cigar caterpillar actually quite big! the leaf that it rolls is big, and the caterpillar also big. We use them as fish bait back in my hometown.
This is reminding me of the caterpillar who made a pizza rolls house on banana leaves, and they can grow very big
They're known as banana skippers and make a brief appearance in the video!
I love these guys, never connected the dots between them and the caterpillars though! Skippers are some of the cutest butterflies in my opinion, only beat out by genus Sarota.
I have my own funny video of a skipper courtship display not going how the male would have liked. He kept nudging the female, but she wasn't receptive to his advances. Eventually, the male seemed to get frustrated, and he started flying in these really wide circles around her(and me standing there recording with my phone) before giving up and flying elsewhere.
Their courtship dances were a lot of fun to observe and film! We're so glad you enjoyed learning about the caterpillars too.
"Grass taco."
I've never heard housing for a caterpillar to be like that.
Yesssss new video YES YESSSS YESSSSSSSSSSS
I've seen ants do this. they climb trees when it floods stitch leaves together to make a temporary evacuation center for the ant colony. I never knew they have webs like spiders to stitch leaves together.
It sounds like you're describing weaver ants, which use silk from their colony's larvae to build nests from leaves in tree tops. Such an interesting behavior!
so funny and cute and i love the narration!
A few years ago I was introduced to skippers when one decided to lay her eggs on my pole beans. 😅 I looked up the caterpillars on bugguide and found out they're relatively harmless so I let them be. They didn't really cause too much damage in the garden and I was rewarded with very cute little butterflies. ❤
So glad that worked out! Do you know what species of skipper they were?
@@KQEDDeepLook Thanks for the heart Deep Look! Yes, it was Urbanus proteus (bean leaf roller/long tailed skipper). I couldn't misidentify that bluish green color on the adults' backs. 😊
Love this channel this is how videos used to be entertaining & educational liked:)
3:10 Not gonna lie, I didn't even realize butterflies have two sets of wing. Learn something knew everyday.
Oh my gosh! We used to catch these little butterflies when we were kids! I never knew what they were called
Adorable!
I have a ton of skipper/darter pics in my phone gallery lmao, i see them all the time and just take a snap. They don't mind the attention
AMAZING Camera WoRK❤❤❤❤❤❤
That caterpillar is a really good actor 😂
Here y'all go again... now ima be outside looking for a skipper 😂. Nothing wrong with learning new things thank you. Everyone please stay safe and blessed much love from San Antonio. Its cold here i don't appreciate it
Stay warm! And let us know when you start seeing skippers in San Antonio.
cat + Pillar
= caterpillar
the way the caterpillar nibble those blade of grass made me want to bite some grass too. LOL
i always mistake skippers as moths, but their chonkiness and fuzzy look make them look cute
They are cute!
Amazing work!
Thank you!
Another great video 👍👌👌👍
Thank you for the kind words!
@@KQEDDeepLook No problem your videos are awesome ;)
If you look close, a skipper's antenna is pointy on the end. That's also a way to spot them.
Yes, you're right! Adult skippers have a tiny hook called the apiculus at the tip of each of their antennae. You can see these hooks in our video between 3;18 and 3;23. Thank you for sharing!
the music was great in this one
Mmmmm my own house. my favorite~
Awesome!
Thanks for this video!
You're welcome!
New favorite butterfly type!
Aww. It's hard to pick a favorite butterfly, though. Check out the video we made about glasswing butterflies' transparent wings: ua-cam.com/video/LYxTyMF9k_4/v-deo.htmlsi=JfiFHzHyKzeQoEvu And here's one about pipevine swallowtails and their "love triangle:" ua-cam.com/video/TQQv7h11g_c/v-deo.htmlsi=w_wbMHgxQIdGB-Kp Enjoy!
@@KQEDDeepLook These also make me feel fluttery
"Yuum House!"😂
Its crazy how small of a scale they are
Cows see this as the forbidden grass blade
Yum! Grass tacos🤤
I use to catch those butterflies all the time when I was a kid😊🫠
Even caterpillars know not to 💩 where they lay.... amazing
How does the silk work? Does it shorten over time to pull the leaf together or does it come out wet and shortens when it dries? Or ist it something completely different?
As it dries is shortens
I'm starting to think that we are all LIKE that skipper. We just SEE the word very differently.
I always find it mind boggling that a caterpillar is "just" a rearranged leaf since most caterpillars only eat a specific type of leaf until they become a butterfly. Absolutely crazy what manages to happen in nature.
Caterpillars need to gorge on leaves before they grow into flying butterflies. We made a video that explains why: ua-cam.com/video/el_lPd2oFV4/v-deo.htmlsi=KZwukNflP39__vEZ Enjoy!
I USED TO CATCH THESE BUTTERFLIES WHEN I WAS A KID! Now, I rarely see them here.
seth samuel goin ham on the music this ep 😤
I would love to see a video on Catawba worms, and how they spit green juice on you when you try to collect them for fish bait. I remember my dad climbing the Catawba tree in our backyard and he would toss the worms down at me and I had to collect them while getting green juice all over me 😜. Now you can just buy them at a bait shop for a few bucks, without risking your life on a ladder in a tree
I would've thought that the caterpillar with the coziest, safest home was the large blue butterfly.
Apparently they love ginger leaves to i found one last week and when i tried to toss the eaten leaf next day the dude came back 🤦
"want a cosy, free home? ask this caterpillar how!"
wow, the real estate market has got so bad they're hiring caterpillars now
Life starts with eating! Towards the end, Laura said "they lose mouth". In adult, no more munching, but sap through a straw of an exquisite micro- structure. Do you mean nutrition for reproduction? Amazing & stunning if so. I might misinterpret otherwise. A simple, or not, question. Unlike spiders, their silk comes out of the mouth. Whereabouts of its factory inside the body? Inspiring is Deep Look!
Hi! When Laura says at the end that caterpillars "lose their mouths," we were referring to the mandibles that allow them to chew plant matter. You're absolutely right that adult butterflies have a strawlike mouthpart that allows them to sip nectar from flowers. By feeding on nectar they get the energy they need to fly around and mate. I'll need to dig into your other question, about where exactly in the caterpillar's body the silk is made. They excrete it through a pointy mouthpart called the spinneret. Thank you for your questions!
These green leaf tacos 🌮 are not to eat, for those who are hungry.
Other than that, that's what I call a real green house.
They're edible for caterpillars!
ba dum tss
I wonder how it feels for your home to be food-favored.
1:36 poo/pee shooter insects are here & there (see other episodes)! Why are they so meticulously aware of hygiene? To show off their nice gadgets equipped with at the bottom of the body? Curious & fun!
A real life version of Growing Up Skipper
Do they thrive on native grasses, or do they flourish on the European imported varieties?
The grass skipper caterpillars we filmed for this video lived on Ehrharta grass in a backyard in Northern California. That grass isn't native to California. Neither is Bermuda grass, where they also thrive. But there are about 2,000 species of grass skippers around the world (their scientific name is the subfamily Hesperiinae). Many thrive on grasses or grassy-like plants that are native to where they live. Thank you for your question!
@@KQEDDeepLook thanks so much for the reply!
So many animals use tools even Fish and insects
Didn't know that a caterpillar's organ that extrudes silk is called also spinnerette like spider's spinnerette even though they are in the opposite ends of the body
It's so interesting how the same organ is located in a different part of the spider's body. Here's a video we made about the metamorphosis of a butterfly into a caterpillar. In it you can see the caterpillar using its spinneret to attach itself to a branch before it turns into a chrysalis: ua-cam.com/video/el_lPd2oFV4/v-deo.htmlsi=1Onm_QNmfhsLWR-1 Enjoy!
Something that's always confused me: baby caterpillars can eat but adult moths/butterflies can not... so how come I've seen many butterflies and moths feeding on nectar from various flowers? What's that all about?🤔
Adult butterflies do indeed eat. They sip nectar with their long proboscis, which powers their flight and allows them to mate and lay eggs. They only lose their ability to feed on leaves.
There are only a few kind of butterflies that don't eat, the majority does
It looked like it was deploying a depth charge when it pooped.
chonky butterflies!
*YUM HOUSE*
I was expecting a vid about psudoparasitoid wasps, happy to be wrong. :)
Glad you enjoyed the video!
can you please make more plant videos?
What did you have in mind? We've made a few videos about plants! You might be surprised to learn that sunflowers only follow the sun in their youth: ua-cam.com/video/sz-eYYfTQ20/v-deo.htmlsi=vFsnc_AiPvTXVzV7 This video is about the corpse flower and why it stinks: ua-cam.com/video/ycUNj_Hv4_Y/v-deo.htmlsi=DEWAq34ixUcqF6lK And here's why tumbleweeds tumble: ua-cam.com/video/dATZsuPdOnM/v-deo.htmlsi=l-ipyIIfefMXEtZD Enjoy!
@ Cypripedium acaule and the bumble bee. Cypripedium acaule is the Pink Lady’s slipper orchid. It is very rare and can only grow in strict locations. Like many other orchids it needs a fungus to parasitize off of. The fungus it parasitizes off of actually parasitizes off a tree. It’s a double parasitician. The orchid is pollinated by bumble bees. The orchid lures the bee in with a smell of nectar but there is no nectar to be found. The bees have only one way out of the flower and that rubs pollen on the back of the bee. The idea is that hopefully the bee will fall for the same trick again with a different flower and will pollinate it. Most bees learn to avoid these flowers but newly emerging queens usually fall for this trick. This leads to very low rates of pollination but when the flowers are pollinated, thousands of sawdust sized seeds will drift in the wind and hopefully land on a patch of dirt that has the correct fungus needed to germinate.
Sources: Dr. Antonio Izzo of Elon University
National Audubon society’s Wildflowers of North America
@ please make one on the Pink Lady Slipper & Bumble bee
Wasn’t expecting to see butterflies twerk today
That's a very smort bug
caterpillar would make such cute pets 😭 nature robbed us
hi!!
Hello!
1:03 nah.....
😊❤❤❤
These caterpillars are more clean than any rodents( How can they sleep around poop?).
Hello
apparently these critters are my neighbors
how
he's not answering
How caterpillar, please just tell me how...
Ah skippers, proof that moth and butterfly are social constructs.
Dang...how many caterpillars do we kill just by cutting our grass?
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i think there are some of those who build houses close to my place
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I have absolutely mistaken them for moths.
Cladistically speaking, butterflies _are_ moths.