@@asherroodcreel640Adult wasps cant eat solid food. They are actually going for the nectar, like hummingbirds. They need sugary liquids for energy, thats why they might fly into your soda can or steal from honey bees. But theyre desire for nectar does make them great pollinators as well
Ye and honestly they’re not that sting prone, I’ve poked plenty of wasps and hornets out curiosity and I’ve only been stung when I accidentally trod on them
@@organicleaf no, the there are thousands of species of solitary wasps that are responsible for the majority of native pollination (non-agriculture). Usually if you see a tiny black winged insect on a flower, its a wasp. There are even plants that rely on wasps entirely for pollination, like fig trees. Social wasps like yellow jackets will visit flowers occasionally for nectar, but they get sustenance from the fluid produced by brood so its not their main source of food, like it is for solitary wasps.
Your work helps illuminate the tremendous beauty of the insect world. I started to respect these creatures more after becoming your subscriber. Thanks!
In my entomology class, everyone was assigned a taxonomic family of insect to do a presentation on. I landed on ichneumonidae, a large family of parasitoid wasps that I already adored. I think I ended off the presentation with something like "I love wasps, even the scary ones, and I need you to love wasps too".
If you get a wasp in your house. Found the best and easiest way to deal with them is to stand by an open door/window, snap twice about a second apart, and then quickly point out.
I'm a huge wasp fan. Even the "scary" ones, as long as they're not nesting in a problematic location, are fine with me. So much pest control and pollination. And those Braconid cocoons on the hornworm caterpillar are a gardeners best friend!
I used to be really afraid of wasps (an early childhood memory where I stepped on a nest and didn’t realize until they all started stinging me-the first sting was right in the perineum). I hated wasps. But in recent years I’ve been looking at every living thing as the magnificent creature it is. I never would’ve guessed that insects can exhibit personalities! As far as wasps, now if there’s one stuck inside a café, climbing the window looking for a way out, I’ll let it crawl on my hand and I’ll take it outside. The relationship totally changed. They can be so gentle, so adorable.
*Summary:* - *Bald-faced hornet:* Social wasp, lives in colonies, defends its nest with a venom-injecting stinger. - *Braconid wasp:* Solitary parasitoid, lays eggs in or on a host insect, larvae feed off and eventually kill the host. - *Tobacco Hornworm Parasitoid:* Wasp larvae live inside the caterpillar, emerge as cocoons, and then as adult wasps. - *Sawfly:* Ancestral group to all ants, bees, and wasps; larvae feed on plants, no constricted waist. - *Wood Wasp:* Lays eggs in dying trees, larvae bore into wood. - *Aulacid wasp:* Parasitizes wood-borne insects like wood wasps and beetles. - *Hamuli:* Hooks on the hindwing that attach to the forewing, common in all ants, bees, and wasps. - *Ichneumonid wasps:* Largest family of wasps, parasitize spiders and butterflies. - *Wingless jumping parasitoid:* Uses middle legs for high-powered jumps, rare and found in leaf litter.
Wasps are one of my favorite insect groups. Theyre so fascinating and important as both pest control and pollination. We dont realize how much they do for us and their ecosystems by removing a percentage of plant eating insects. Theyre so beautiful and diverse and fascinating. And mostly chill! I spend a lot of time observing them in my yard for fun, and ive yet to be stung. My favorite groups are probably Sphecids and Mutillids, but there are many many amazing and beautiful wasps out there. Edit: this is like the most Wasp-positive comments section ive ever seen! Heck yeah!
Wasps are amazing. You got me taking a closer look in our garden. 17 different species so far. Some large (Great Golden Digger) and some small (Blue Eyed Ensing). Thanks
Wow! I didn’t know sawflies were at all related to bees, wasps or ants despite them being hymenopterans. Also, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the slo-no shots you get to capture! Truly amazing and unique stuff!!
wasps are one of my favorite groups of insects. they've always been special to me. i had the honor of watching a paper wasp building her nest recently, i just sat and watched for hours. absolutely beautiful and intelligent creatures.
One of my most cherished entomological moments was seeing a whole bunch of giant ichneumon wasps ovipositing into an old dead tree with pigeon horntail holes. Their ovipositors are so insanely long, to get them positioned right to go into the tree, they have to suck the ovipositor out of its sheath and coil it up inside their abdomen, where it stretches out a yellow membrane. Once they've finished ovipositing, the whole process starts over again as they coil up the ovipositor to pull it out of the trunk. Best hour I ever spent staring at a tree! I was also excited to see the Trogus, as I have a special fondness for them. I've reared quite a few spicebush swallowtail caterpillars and gotten Trogus sp. wasps out of them twice. They are truly elegant and as lovely as the butterflies!
Where I work, I am very open for my love and fascination of wasps. I even managed to convince some people theyre cute. One person dismissed them as wannabees, but then I told him that its most likely the other way around, in that bees are wannawasps. It was enjoyable to see everyones reactions. I hate autocorrect
I studied entomology and love wasps, but I was once attacked by a nest of yellow jackets while doing fisheries field work. I was carrying a large bundle of long-handled nets down a steep hillside and the handles hit near a nest. The wasps immediately swarmed me as I struggled to clamber back up the bank and then I ran down the road to get as far from the nest as possible. I was wearing a ponytail and they were inside my hair biting and stinging my head and neck. I had on chest waders so they got stuck down my waders stinging. Had a 90-minute drive on dirt roads to the hospital for a shot of Benedryl. I was sick the next day and my face was swollen and it looked like I had been punched in the eye. I'm ultra sensitive to the sound of humming wasps and bees now, that's for sure. 😂 Massive respect for them. 🐝
This is so freaking cool! Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm learning more about the food web all the time. Such great footage, too. Sharing this one for sure!
The black and white patterning of that wood wasp is gorgeous! The white floppy antennae, big round eyes and endearingly clumsy takeoff make it look kind of cute.
I found your channel in studio research. I've only recently become interested and I'm blown away! Yours is the most amazing closeup footage of a bald faced hornet I've seen and I've got quite a bit of it. So cool! Thanks for this.
Thanks to what I saw at about the 0:55 mark, my crippling fear of these hourglass-figured malefactors of idle contentment has quadrupled. It's only a matter of time before they make the jump from caterpillars to pangolins or sugar gliders or something and then it's all over, folks. We'll look back wistfully at our darling fears of ticks and Lyme Disease
I live in Australia and most of the ones you see here are solitary and no joke. Prime example; we were sitting outside on the grass for a class once, when the teacher derailed the whole lesson to say "wtf is that thing doing" and have the entire class stop to watch a wasp the size of my index finger dragging a spider the size of my hand through the middle of the area we were sitting in. It had paralysed the spider and was presumably taking it off to lay it's eggs in the still living spider. Nature is metal, wasps particularly so.
Amazing! I love the body structure of wasps, there's so many variations. I lived in Arizona for a while and I managed to see a few tarantula hawks which are massive and kind of intimidating, but very beautiful. I also love mud daubers, they are strange looking and build nests out of clay which is fascinating to me. Thanks for your videos!
Most "pest" wasps over here (western Europe), are pests because they occasionaly sting during foraging. I got over my fear of wasps by feeding them and moving slowly, and predictable. Works exactly the same way with wild horses, funnily enough. If you get scared, and move fast, you might be seen as a threat. Move slow and confident, and they won't harm you. If you are allergic, take care, and a epipen. I've got a small pupae cabinet, of Aglais Io butterflies, probably infected by parasitoid wasps. Would have liked them to grow up as butterflies, but they have become food. Got stung by the nettles, which I foraged for food. Such is nature. And life as a whole.
Wasps are amazing and interesting insects and i even think they are cute. Sadly most people are scared of them and therefore want to get rid of them. Those insects deserve more love.
I had been observing and photographing a large bald faced hornets' nest at head height in a holly tree for a couple of months until someone deliberately destroyed it. It was fascinating to see how the outside structure evolved as the colony grew. I had taken photographs from directly in front of the entrance with no negative interactions. As you might imagine, I was very sorry when someone destroyed their home. All that I can say, is that I hope the perpetrator(s) got thoroughly stung for their pointless action.
Raccoons, skunks, badgers and bears all attack social wasp nests to eat the young. So it might have just been nature happening instead of stupid humans.
oh man the rage I felt when you said someone destroyed it. it always hurts when something you look forward to seeing all the time is destroyed by someone.
I remember watching one as a kid in our yard. When I was finally bored I picked a twig off the tree absentmindedly, which shook the nest and I got chased back to my house stung and crying 😂 That's one way to learn.
@@scrubjay93 oh man lol. bald faced hornet nests aren't common in my district, but normal paper wasps are. I remember as a child I was being too curious of a paper wasp nest in one of those weird electrical boxes near the road and got stung. only earlier memory of being stung was at a backyard swing set. I found a honeybee and picked it up with my fingers xD. that memory has dulled quite a bit, but the sensation I renember from then is different from the sensation of being stung I'm familiar with now. it felt like a burn in the memory but now it feels like a sting xD oh yeah there was that one time i was doing some kind of taunting dance by a wasp nest i had been observing for a few weeks. bad idea, one got mad and made a beeline for my nose xD. I observed them less after that 😂
Wasps are by far my favorite insects and always have been since I watched a mud dauber emerge from its mud cocoon after feeding on a stunned spider its thoughtful mother packed away for lunch, sedated and ready to be consumed alive.
Bald-faced hornets are gentle away from their nest. I have videos and pics of me getting D. maculata to crawl around on my hand after persistently putting my fingers in front of them- on my FB page. I've never been stung doing this. They keep invertebrates feeding on plants in balance and are an important part of the web of life. The Hymenoptera are my favorite insects because I'm a plant guy. They're interconnected whether they protect and pollenate, of feed on on them- like sawflies and gall wasps. edit: spelling
This channel is criminally under subscribed. Your videos are really something special, so cool to learn that less than 1% of wasps are eusocial. I have been studying ants for years and I never knew that.
My mom has somehow made friends with the wasps around her house. When she goes to garden they follow her around and land on/around her and just watch what she's doing. They've figured out that her funky human activities stir up things for them to eat! An unfortunate side effect is that they're now very friendly and curious of people and will come buzz you when you walk around outside. Scary at first, but they generally get the message if you shoo them off. Social insects are way more intelligent and amazing than I think humans even realize!
Beautiful video! The more I learn about wasps, the more I love them. Videos like these are great for education and spreading awareness of the underestimated value wasps have to offer. I'm also loving the wasp love in this comment section!
I had the luxury of having a yellowjacket nest growing right in my windowsill this Summer. They operated for around two-ish months and only just died off now. One by one, they shown up less. Eventually, over the weekend, there were only two wasps left just hanging out on my window over the night then since vanished. All that remains, is the vacant nest with one wasp seemingly dead inside of it, some reason. Was very cool observing their daily routines and watching them expand from one worker to twenty of them. It was rather sad seeing them vanish one by one, though
That last wasp was likely the queen! Yellowjacket nests are annual, they only last one season. After the next generation is ready, the males die and the females leave to find protective areas for hibernation. But in the original colony, worker numbers will fall more and more and the queen, who never leaves the nest after its established, will eventually perish without them. Its sad but its their life, and the hardest part of being a queen is successfully establishing a colony- she did good!
Excellent video and information. I also am a Wasp fan and in Minnesota we have the Great Black Wasps that are considered a pollinator and feed on nectar.
This is fabulous! I am studying wasps and bees and their relationships to native plants in our backyards and I finally have heard first hand how to pronounce ichneumonid!!
Wasps are my favorite category of animal! They're incredibly endearing to me, like a cross between the 'cool' factor of a motorcycle and the 'cute' factor of a kitten. Their often disturbing life cycle only adds to my fascination.
This is a nicely put together video! Had no idea how much I wanted to know this. Being able to convey this much understandable information to a high 63yo idiot like me is worthy of praise! Subscribed! 🤩
I keep getting blown away with all these creations of life😄 I never knew there even was a wingless wasp until now. For me I let these help me to learn how to stay calm & then project my energy on to the wasp. I haven't been stung by a wasp or was it a bee? - in over 16 years now. I'm still learning to identify these flying & jumping creatures 😊
Me: "Man wasp suck" Ant Lab: "Wasps aren't that bad. Look at this one, it eats caterpillars from the inside out." Me: "Man wasps are even worse than I thought."
What happened to the sawfly at 2.21, that flew up then toppled back to being upside down? You cut too early! Fascinating viewing as ever, thanks for the insight into nature.
I was thinking the same thing XD "I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!" - The fly, probably (And yeah. Wonderful videos. I'm happy to have discovered this channel recently)
I've seen tons of wasps in my yard since going native, but no colonies. They've also never bothered me, even when I'm mowing and they were in the grass.
I used to have a second storey apartment with a balcony. Because I'm a sucker for flowers I had about seven hanging pots, planter boxes covering the entire balcony railing, and so many pots on the deck that there was only barely room to get through to a little table and chair on one end of the balcony. My favorite thing to do was to take a big cup of tea and some ginger snaps out there and watch all the visitors to my flowers. There were always hummingbirds and honey bees, but also a varied selection of wasps, random flying bugs and wild bees I couldn't begin to identify, all buzzing around and taking advantage of the blossoms in their specialized ways. Nothing beats it for a nice, mellow time outside. 😎👍
It's funny how when you think about the aggressive wasps that people hate, they're actually using the same defense strategy humans use: 1) if something that's a potential threat gets too close, attack it with extreme prejudice. 2) Use preemptive attacks to surprise and frighten away threats too big to kill. 3) Keep your territory (home) completely free of potential threats. We wiped out most megafauna and large predators because just knowing they existed was an intolerable threat to us. Yet we hate wasps for defending their nests.
Agree with most commenters here that wasps have an unreservedly bad rep. Very rarely have I been stung and in these cases it has been my fault, inadvertently squeezing or stepping on them. My parents used to feed wasps with honey and water until they almost became tame. They even slept overnight in the balcony planter! They are fascinating to watch as they explore, cut off small pieces of food with their jaws and fly off, then return for another helping. 😄
While I understand being afraid of wasps because getting stung hurts, I've never understood why people make wasps out to be evil for it. You are a terrifying kaiju sized monster to a wasp, and even if you don't think you did anything to warrant getting stung you can't forget that everything you do will be threatening to a creature that's 3 cm long. They only want to defend themselves and each other.
An interesting one I found out about last year is the spider eating wasp. I have a mason bee house, and the spider eating wasp uses the same type of hole/tube that the mason bee uses - there were several in my mason bee house last year. It's another solitary wasp and places it's eggs in a tube along with dead spiders for the young to feed on before creating a cocoon to come out of the next spring. They are actually good pollinators, so I don't have a problem with them using the tubes alongside the mason bees.
I can't say I'm a wasp lover like all these other comments, but I do love nature, and wasps are a very important part of that, as is every species. When I was younger, I somehow managed to gain an irrational fear of bees from a horror movie. That very quickly became an irragional fear of any flying insect of that body type and size simply because they moved so fast and I could never distinguish them. I got a lot better over the years but I still get jumpy if something buzzes nearby and I don't see it. Even still though, I love nature, and insects. I actually really love bees now too, but wasps are still super intimidating to me. Still, I love learning about them, so long as it's behind some sort of screen or barrier. They're fascinating creatures, most parasites are.
Becoming a gardener changed my relationship with wasps. They like to hang out on sunflowers and other tall flowers, waiting to mess up some pests.
Actually they eat the pollen, there the majority of pollinators
@@asherroodcreel640Adult wasps cant eat solid food. They are actually going for the nectar, like hummingbirds. They need sugary liquids for energy, thats why they might fly into your soda can or steal from honey bees. But theyre desire for nectar does make them great pollinators as well
Ye and honestly they’re not that sting prone, I’ve poked plenty of wasps and hornets out curiosity and I’ve only been stung when I accidentally trod on them
@@natalya402 werent wasps like the worst pollinators?
@@organicleaf no, the there are thousands of species of solitary wasps that are responsible for the majority of native pollination (non-agriculture). Usually if you see a tiny black winged insect on a flower, its a wasp. There are even plants that rely on wasps entirely for pollination, like fig trees. Social wasps like yellow jackets will visit flowers occasionally for nectar, but they get sustenance from the fluid produced by brood so its not their main source of food, like it is for solitary wasps.
2:31 I love this shot of a wood wasp failing to properly take off and just completely flipping on its back.
Your work helps illuminate the tremendous beauty of the insect world.
I started to respect these creatures more after becoming your subscriber. Thanks!
Olha o ludo : )
And then you see a yellow jacket flying at your mouth and your opinion about wasps quickly deteriorates
self defense of course
In my entomology class, everyone was assigned a taxonomic family of insect to do a presentation on. I landed on ichneumonidae, a large family of parasitoid wasps that I already adored. I think I ended off the presentation with something like "I love wasps, even the scary ones, and I need you to love wasps too".
Ichneumonidae is prob my fave too.
my favorite wasp family is pompilidae, but I love all the wasps lol. I wish people liked wasps more
I've been stung way more this year then I ever have in the past and I still respect and love Wasps.
"I also made some enemies that day."
Definitely don't love them 😂😂 you're never gonna sell it to me
If you get a wasp in your house. Found the best and easiest way to deal with them is to stand by an open door/window, snap twice about a second apart, and then quickly point out.
Bruh I thought I was the only one that did that, it’s wild that they, for the most part, actually do listen to
I carry them. Most species of paper wasps climb on easily
I'm a huge wasp fan. Even the "scary" ones, as long as they're not nesting in a problematic location, are fine with me. So much pest control and pollination. And those Braconid cocoons on the hornworm caterpillar are a gardeners best friend!
Yes!! Absolutely! I LOVE bald faced hornets, they're so neat!
Saw them fly around my crops, and then flying with a catterpillar
I'll take bees any day thank you 💀
Wasps feel like the bug version of those angry lookin modern angular cars with v8 engines and road-raging impatient drivers
There you go again anthropromorphizing road ragers😂
It’s so cute the way they raise their arms when they took off flying
Like Superman I love that
I don't understand how that's cute but ok
I'm not trying to be rude I'm just bored and want to state a opinion lol
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great video, there aren't nearly enough people out there who highlight the beauty, diversity, and intricacies of wasps
I used to be really afraid of wasps (an early childhood memory where I stepped on a nest and didn’t realize until they all started stinging me-the first sting was right in the perineum). I hated wasps. But in recent years I’ve been looking at every living thing as the magnificent creature it is. I never would’ve guessed that insects can exhibit personalities! As far as wasps, now if there’s one stuck inside a café, climbing the window looking for a way out, I’ll let it crawl on my hand and I’ll take it outside. The relationship totally changed. They can be so gentle, so adorable.
I legitimately winced at reading where you got stung. That sounds like it was excruciating.
lol it's worse getting stung under the eye. @@waxwinged_hound
Y’all folding way too easily for this wasp propaganda I am NOT rolling
im saying lmfao
Join us, wasps are awesome!
Simply fascinating! I'd love to see damselflies and dragonflies in flight!
damselflies yes please!!
*Summary:*
- *Bald-faced hornet:* Social wasp, lives in colonies, defends its nest with a venom-injecting stinger.
- *Braconid wasp:* Solitary parasitoid, lays eggs in or on a host insect, larvae feed off and eventually kill the host.
- *Tobacco Hornworm Parasitoid:* Wasp larvae live inside the caterpillar, emerge as cocoons, and then as adult wasps.
- *Sawfly:* Ancestral group to all ants, bees, and wasps; larvae feed on plants, no constricted waist.
- *Wood Wasp:* Lays eggs in dying trees, larvae bore into wood.
- *Aulacid wasp:* Parasitizes wood-borne insects like wood wasps and beetles.
- *Hamuli:* Hooks on the hindwing that attach to the forewing, common in all ants, bees, and wasps.
- *Ichneumonid wasps:* Largest family of wasps, parasitize spiders and butterflies.
- *Wingless jumping parasitoid:* Uses middle legs for high-powered jumps, rare and found in leaf litter.
Wasps are one of my favorite insect groups. Theyre so fascinating and important as both pest control and pollination. We dont realize how much they do for us and their ecosystems by removing a percentage of plant eating insects. Theyre so beautiful and diverse and fascinating. And mostly chill! I spend a lot of time observing them in my yard for fun, and ive yet to be stung. My favorite groups are probably Sphecids and Mutillids, but there are many many amazing and beautiful wasps out there. Edit: this is like the most Wasp-positive comments section ive ever seen! Heck yeah!
I love wasps! They are just amazing. Really wish more people could see that.
A wasp wrote this comment
Wasps are amazing. You got me taking a closer look in our garden. 17 different species so far. Some large (Great Golden Digger) and some small (Blue Eyed Ensing). Thanks
It hasn't accoured to me that wasps could be this beautiful
I've had very bad experiences with wasps when I was a kid but I still can't help loving them. I just think they are really neat.
Wow! I didn’t know sawflies were at all related to bees, wasps or ants despite them being hymenopterans. Also, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the slo-no shots you get to capture! Truly amazing and unique stuff!!
gotta appreciate this guy for being brave enough to shrink himself and film these wasps for us
Lmao
wasps are one of my favorite groups of insects. they've always been special to me. i had the honor of watching a paper wasp building her nest recently, i just sat and watched for hours. absolutely beautiful and intelligent creatures.
One of my most cherished entomological moments was seeing a whole bunch of giant ichneumon wasps ovipositing into an old dead tree with pigeon horntail holes. Their ovipositors are so insanely long, to get them positioned right to go into the tree, they have to suck the ovipositor out of its sheath and coil it up inside their abdomen, where it stretches out a yellow membrane. Once they've finished ovipositing, the whole process starts over again as they coil up the ovipositor to pull it out of the trunk. Best hour I ever spent staring at a tree!
I was also excited to see the Trogus, as I have a special fondness for them. I've reared quite a few spicebush swallowtail caterpillars and gotten Trogus sp. wasps out of them twice. They are truly elegant and as lovely as the butterflies!
I so very much enjoy your videos. They are wonder-fully done and opening up a whole new world for my exploration. I am enormously grateful.❤
Where I work, I am very open for my love and fascination of wasps. I even managed to convince some people theyre cute. One person dismissed them as wannabees, but then I told him that its most likely the other way around, in that bees are wannawasps. It was enjoyable to see everyones reactions.
I hate autocorrect
It's true! Bees evolved from wasps.
I studied entomology and love wasps, but I was once attacked by a nest of yellow jackets while doing fisheries field work. I was carrying a large bundle of long-handled nets down a steep hillside and the handles hit near a nest. The wasps immediately swarmed me as I struggled to clamber back up the bank and then I ran down the road to get as far from the nest as possible. I was wearing a ponytail and they were inside my hair biting and stinging my head and neck. I had on chest waders so they got stuck down my waders stinging. Had a 90-minute drive on dirt roads to the hospital for a shot of Benedryl. I was sick the next day and my face was swollen and it looked like I had been punched in the eye. I'm ultra sensitive to the sound of humming wasps and bees now, that's for sure. 😂 Massive respect for them. 🐝
you have changed my view on insects completly, i am very grateful!!!
This is so freaking cool! Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm learning more about the food web all the time. Such great footage, too. Sharing this one for sure!
As a few year Polistes paper wasp keeper, I indeed appreciate them on another level
suuuper cool. over time wasps are really growing on me more and more with how diverse they are
So cool! I still find them a bit unsettling but also fascinating
I love how they fly by doing a little hop and throwing their arms up into the air, then flailing them around
I have been doing too much reading about wasps lately. Truly a fascinating insects. This video could not have been better timed for me!
The black and white patterning of that wood wasp is gorgeous! The white floppy antennae, big round eyes and endearingly clumsy takeoff make it look kind of cute.
I found your channel in studio research. I've only recently become interested and I'm blown away! Yours is the most amazing closeup footage of a bald faced hornet I've seen and I've got quite a bit of it. So cool! Thanks for this.
Thanks to what I saw at about the 0:55 mark, my crippling fear of these hourglass-figured malefactors of idle contentment has quadrupled. It's only a matter of time before they make the jump from caterpillars to pangolins or sugar gliders or something and then it's all over, folks. We'll look back wistfully at our darling fears of ticks and Lyme Disease
I live in Australia and most of the ones you see here are solitary and no joke.
Prime example; we were sitting outside on the grass for a class once, when the teacher derailed the whole lesson to say "wtf is that thing doing" and have the entire class stop to watch a wasp the size of my index finger dragging a spider the size of my hand through the middle of the area we were sitting in. It had paralysed the spider and was presumably taking it off to lay it's eggs in the still living spider. Nature is metal, wasps particularly so.
Amazing! I love the body structure of wasps, there's so many variations. I lived in Arizona for a while and I managed to see a few tarantula hawks which are massive and kind of intimidating, but very beautiful. I also love mud daubers, they are strange looking and build nests out of clay which is fascinating to me. Thanks for your videos!
I loved that the bald faced hornet was keeping one foot on the ground while still flying. Also that middle leg jumper was so cool!
Most "pest" wasps over here (western Europe), are pests because they occasionaly sting during foraging. I got over my fear of wasps by feeding them and moving slowly, and predictable. Works exactly the same way with wild horses, funnily enough.
If you get scared, and move fast, you might be seen as a threat. Move slow and confident, and they won't harm you. If you are allergic, take care, and a epipen.
I've got a small pupae cabinet, of Aglais Io butterflies, probably infected by parasitoid wasps. Would have liked them to grow up as butterflies, but they have become food. Got stung by the nettles, which I foraged for food. Such is nature. And life as a whole.
Wasps are amazing and interesting insects and i even think they are cute. Sadly most people are scared of them and therefore want to get rid of them. Those insects deserve more love.
I had been observing and photographing a large bald faced hornets' nest at head height in a holly tree for a couple of months until someone deliberately destroyed it. It was fascinating to see how the outside structure evolved as the colony grew. I had taken photographs from directly in front of the entrance with no negative interactions. As you might imagine, I was very sorry when someone destroyed their home. All that I can say, is that I hope the perpetrator(s) got thoroughly stung for their pointless action.
Raccoons, skunks, badgers and bears all attack social wasp nests to eat the young. So it might have just been nature happening instead of stupid humans.
oh man the rage I felt when you said someone destroyed it. it always hurts when something you look forward to seeing all the time is destroyed by someone.
I remember watching one as a kid in our yard. When I was finally bored I picked a twig off the tree absentmindedly, which shook the nest and I got chased back to my house stung and crying 😂 That's one way to learn.
@@scrubjay93 oh man lol. bald faced hornet nests aren't common in my district, but normal paper wasps are. I remember as a child I was being too curious of a paper wasp nest in one of those weird electrical boxes near the road and got stung. only earlier memory of being stung was at a backyard swing set. I found a honeybee and picked it up with my fingers xD. that memory has dulled quite a bit, but the sensation I renember from then is different from the sensation of being stung I'm familiar with now. it felt like a burn in the memory but now it feels like a sting xD
oh yeah there was that one time i was doing some kind of taunting dance by a wasp nest i had been observing for a few weeks. bad idea, one got mad and made a beeline for my nose xD. I observed them less after that 😂
@@silverfox9004I pour gasoline into their nests
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WASPS!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS!
The filming is beautifully done.
I love wasps and I love this comment section! Thank you for making this video and filming all of them, it's incredible to watch!
Wasps are by far my favorite insects and always have been since I watched a mud dauber emerge from its mud cocoon after feeding on a stunned spider its thoughtful mother packed away for lunch, sedated and ready to be consumed alive.
Just such top notch stuff as always!
Bald-faced hornets are gentle away from their nest. I have videos and pics of me getting D. maculata to crawl around on my hand after persistently putting my fingers in front of them- on my FB page. I've never been stung doing this. They keep invertebrates feeding on plants in balance and are an important part of the web of life. The Hymenoptera are my favorite insects because I'm a plant guy. They're interconnected whether they protect and pollenate, of feed on on them- like sawflies and gall wasps.
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Beautifully informative video! Keep up the great work
I had no idea the diversity of wasps! These are beautiful
This channel is criminally under subscribed. Your videos are really something special, so cool to learn that less than 1% of wasps are eusocial. I have been studying ants for years and I never knew that.
My mom has somehow made friends with the wasps around her house. When she goes to garden they follow her around and land on/around her and just watch what she's doing. They've figured out that her funky human activities stir up things for them to eat! An unfortunate side effect is that they're now very friendly and curious of people and will come buzz you when you walk around outside. Scary at first, but they generally get the message if you shoo them off. Social insects are way more intelligent and amazing than I think humans even realize!
I legit love wasps. So diverse and interesting.
Holy shit, you filmed this? - Amazing work! Insects are sooooo interesting! Ants BLOW MY MIND, for example!
Sawflies are cute. They look so happy to be taking to the air lol
thank you so much for the hard work you put into these videos! I can't imagine the hours involved in collecting specimens and lining up great shots
Beautiful video! The more I learn about wasps, the more I love them. Videos like these are great for education and spreading awareness of the underestimated value wasps have to offer. I'm also loving the wasp love in this comment section!
Thank you for this, it's beautiful ❤
As an entomologist with a special interest in hymenoptera, I absolutely love this video 🐝
I had the luxury of having a yellowjacket nest growing right in my windowsill this Summer.
They operated for around two-ish months and only just died off now.
One by one, they shown up less. Eventually, over the weekend, there were only two wasps left just hanging out on my window over the night then since vanished.
All that remains, is the vacant nest with one wasp seemingly dead inside of it, some reason.
Was very cool observing their daily routines and watching them expand from one worker to twenty of them.
It was rather sad seeing them vanish one by one, though
That last wasp was likely the queen! Yellowjacket nests are annual, they only last one season. After the next generation is ready, the males die and the females leave to find protective areas for hibernation. But in the original colony, worker numbers will fall more and more and the queen, who never leaves the nest after its established, will eventually perish without them.
Its sad but its their life, and the hardest part of being a queen is successfully establishing a colony- she did good!
Amazing motion captures. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video and information. I also am a Wasp fan and in Minnesota we have the Great Black Wasps that are considered a pollinator and feed on nectar.
Wasps are easily the most interesting thing I'm terrified of.
This is fabulous! I am studying wasps and bees and their relationships to native plants in our backyards and I finally have heard first hand how to pronounce ichneumonid!!
Thanks to your video my swat away reflexes towards wasps will be a lot less now!
Wasps are my favorite category of animal! They're incredibly endearing to me, like a cross between the 'cool' factor of a motorcycle and the 'cute' factor of a kitten. Their often disturbing life cycle only adds to my fascination.
This is a nicely put together video! Had no idea how much I wanted to know this. Being able to convey this much understandable information to a high 63yo idiot like me is worthy of praise! Subscribed! 🤩
I keep getting blown away with all these creations of life😄 I never knew there even was a wingless wasp until now. For me I let these help me to learn how to stay calm & then project my energy on to the wasp. I haven't been stung by a wasp or was it a bee? - in over 16 years now. I'm still learning to identify these flying & jumping creatures 😊
I just wish they didnt love building nests all over our home and shed every year. It is one thing when on a peak but always by our doors.
I have a wasps nest outside my front door, they don't bother us at all, never been stung, they just do their thing we love them.
After watching several of these slow mo flight videos, I've come to the conclusion that all insects are adorable when they fly
Me: "Man wasp suck"
Ant Lab: "Wasps aren't that bad. Look at this one, it eats caterpillars from the inside out."
Me: "Man wasps are even worse than I thought."
What happened to the sawfly at 2.21, that flew up then toppled back to being upside down? You cut too early! Fascinating viewing as ever, thanks for the insight into nature.
I was thinking the same thing XD
"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!"
- The fly, probably
(And yeah. Wonderful videos. I'm happy to have discovered this channel recently)
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I've seen tons of wasps in my yard since going native, but no colonies. They've also never bothered me, even when I'm mowing and they were in the grass.
wee this was an absolute horror show, thanks for the nightmares Adrian 👌
Seeing insects in slow motion is always incredible!
I used to have a second storey apartment with a balcony. Because I'm a sucker for flowers I had about seven hanging pots, planter boxes covering the entire balcony railing, and so many pots on the deck that there was only barely room to get through to a little table and chair on one end of the balcony. My favorite thing to do was to take a big cup of tea and some ginger snaps out there and watch all the visitors to my flowers. There were always hummingbirds and honey bees, but also a varied selection of wasps, random flying bugs and wild bees I couldn't begin to identify, all buzzing around and taking advantage of the blossoms in their specialized ways. Nothing beats it for a nice, mellow time outside. 😎👍
i specially love the shot of the first wasp, its amazing how you can see it's torax deform as it flaps it's wings
Awesome job! Look at the thorax! You can see its movements. So much details. Wow.
theyre so adorable
It's funny how when you think about the aggressive wasps that people hate, they're actually using the same defense strategy humans use: 1) if something that's a potential threat gets too close, attack it with extreme prejudice. 2) Use preemptive attacks to surprise and frighten away threats too big to kill. 3) Keep your territory (home) completely free of potential threats.
We wiped out most megafauna and large predators because just knowing they existed was an intolerable threat to us. Yet we hate wasps for defending their nests.
Wow that's some amazing footage. Great video.
I noticed Prionyx specimens in my yard recently, and noticed that they also seem to seek out nectar from native flowers.
Agree with most commenters here that wasps have an unreservedly bad rep. Very rarely have I been stung and in these cases it has been my fault, inadvertently squeezing or stepping on them. My parents used to feed wasps with honey and water until they almost became tame. They even slept overnight in the balcony planter! They are fascinating to watch as they explore, cut off small pieces of food with their jaws and fly off, then return for another helping. 😄
While I understand being afraid of wasps because getting stung hurts, I've never understood why people make wasps out to be evil for it. You are a terrifying kaiju sized monster to a wasp, and even if you don't think you did anything to warrant getting stung you can't forget that everything you do will be threatening to a creature that's 3 cm long.
They only want to defend themselves and each other.
I'm subscribing because I've always looked for a channel like this one
They’re so cute up close!
An interesting one I found out about last year is the spider eating wasp. I have a mason bee house, and the spider eating wasp uses the same type of hole/tube that the mason bee uses - there were several in my mason bee house last year. It's another solitary wasp and places it's eggs in a tube along with dead spiders for the young to feed on before creating a cocoon to come out of the next spring. They are actually good pollinators, so I don't have a problem with them using the tubes alongside the mason bees.
Love how their front legs go up like ‘hooray!’
Wasps are so cute and interesting when they don't instinctively activate my fight or _mostly_ flight responses
You will never convince me that a wasp didn't write this script and film a video of itself and friends
Everytime one of these videos comes out I am excited to see it!
I can't say I'm a wasp lover like all these other comments, but I do love nature, and wasps are a very important part of that, as is every species.
When I was younger, I somehow managed to gain an irrational fear of bees from a horror movie. That very quickly became an irragional fear of any flying insect of that body type and size simply because they moved so fast and I could never distinguish them.
I got a lot better over the years but I still get jumpy if something buzzes nearby and I don't see it.
Even still though, I love nature, and insects. I actually really love bees now too, but wasps are still super intimidating to me. Still, I love learning about them, so long as it's behind some sort of screen or barrier. They're fascinating creatures, most parasites are.
i have a request: i know it's nearing the end of the season but would you be willing to film a cicada in flight? thanks. i love your videos
I had a wasp emerge from a woolly bear caterpillar cocoon that looked exactly like the wasp at 4:10 , as you would imagine I was incredibly confused
Ok, I'm now completely freaked out but this video is SO well done!!
A lesser video would not have me this freaked out.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Might be my favorite one yet!!
As a comedian, once said, "A wasp is just a fly with a gun!" LOL! 😂
I love this channel. Thanks for filming all of these creatures.
everyone needs to be aware of how cool and cute vespids are. way too demonized and under-appreciated for such interesting animals
I love wasps and hornets, just wish they’d stop trying to fly so close to me sometimes 😂