@@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".
Amazing shots! Our crew got on camera wasps that live in symbiosis with figs. The tree depends on the wasp to pollinate its flowers, but in return, it offers a hidden place for the insect to lay its eggs. The footage is incredible!
Everyone always jokes about hating wasps, but I, for one, truly love them. They're decent pollinators, great pest control, and are fascinating to watch and learn about.
Where I live in Southern California paper wasps were once abundant. We had multiple nests under the eaves and in the hedges every Summer. About fifteen years ago we had our first wasp-less Summer, and I have not seen a single paper wasp since. We have experienced a steady decline in the number and variety of insects of all types since then. The exception is flies - we have lots and lots of flies. I don't know what worries me more, the dramatic change in the biota or the fact that no one else seems to have noticed.
I just saw a yellow-jacket with a FAT abdomen literally a minute ago. Slow notion really showed me that they're beautiful. It's like a butterfly lol. Also they are very important for the ecosystem and the environment. It also helped that I smoked a joint while this happened.
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!
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 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.
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.
Learning about wasps was why I decided to pursue entomology in the first place. beautiful video showing off one of natures most beautiful beings. Also I got called the wasp whisperer at my part time job and I'm rolling with it
I think the “scary” wasps are fascinating too- they’re cool in the same way birds of prey are, efficient hunters on a tiny scale. I work in gardens inches from flowers swarming with hunting and nectaring wasps, and I’ve never been stung. Beautiful video work, people don’t realize the beautiful colors and stunning iridescent, cellophane like wings that these insects have. And they’ve come up with so many ingenious adaptations and life histories to survive in the ecosystem!
My go-to description for them for the non bug people is that if they think of bees as friendly dogs, than wasps are the wolves- big, strong, respectable predators that are an important part of a healthy ecosystem.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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!
This was incredible, I had no idea what a huge portion of global wasp diversity are parasitoid wasps. It amazes me that so many of these species have a unique relationship with a single family or species of plant or insect that they depend on for successful feeding and reproduction. It reminds me of the dynamic pollinator/plant relationships that we often observe in nature. Great video!
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.
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!
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!
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’m always elated when someone makes educational content about wasps. So many people think of wasps like yellowjackes as just bees that are mean for no reason, but they’re a really beautiful and diverse group of insects People might find parasites scary, but I find it super cool how each species has adapted to target very specific hosts, sometimes choosing only a single other species to lay their eggs.
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 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.
I watch this one wasp that likes to pick up spiders and fly up to a tree, it always goes to the same spot because there are so many spiders. The spiders dart away into hiding spots but with persistence the wasp catches one
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 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.
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! 🤩
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 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.
The holes in the caterpillar, and then especially a full-grown wasp emerging from that cocoon... it just feels so "wrong" in a way. Truly terrifying. I've known about parasitoids for a while but that just sent the message home. All the parasitoid wasps I've seen once emerged from some host like that...
*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.
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.
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
Wasps are just cooler flying ants, and Im the only one with the balls to say it, everyone else has already ran inside crying about them while hugging their Bee body pillow
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. 🐝
Wasps have velcro wings? haha, that's cool. I once heard someone say that for every single insect species there is at least one parasitoid wasp specificly evolved to lay its eggs in that species. Not sure if that's true, but there sure are a whole damn lot of wasp species!
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.
Great video! In august I found what I think was a mud dauber flying around in my bathroom. That thing is huge! I showed it to my boys and we talked about how it was a solitary wasp and its life cycle. Nice learning opportunity.
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.
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!
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.
Thank you for this video. Beautiful video sequences and vignettes. Perhaps also mentioning their importance in terms of being food sources for other birds, reptiles, and amphibians might also help people see the beauty in this incredibly diverse and rich species.
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 😊
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.
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 : )
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2:31 I love this shot of a wood wasp failing to properly take off and just completely flipping on its back.
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
It hasn't accoured to me that wasps could be this beautiful
Amazing shots! Our crew got on camera wasps that live in symbiosis with figs. The tree depends on the wasp to pollinate its flowers, but in return, it offers a hidden place for the insect to lay its eggs. The footage is incredible!
Everyone always jokes about hating wasps, but I, for one, truly love them. They're decent pollinators, great pest control, and are fascinating to watch and learn about.
I love, red wasp, stinging therapy🚬🫠
with a little bit of fire ants on the side 🔥🐜
Where I live in Southern California paper wasps were once abundant. We had multiple nests under the eaves and in the hedges every Summer. About fifteen years ago we had our first wasp-less Summer, and I have not seen a single paper wasp since. We have experienced a steady decline in the number and variety of insects of all types since then. The exception is flies - we have lots and lots of flies. I don't know what worries me more, the dramatic change in the biota or the fact that no one else seems to have noticed.
I just saw a yellow-jacket with a FAT abdomen literally a minute ago. Slow notion really showed me that they're beautiful. It's like a butterfly lol. Also they are very important for the ecosystem and the environment. It also helped that I smoked a joint while this happened.
I’m always reminding people that they’re important pollinators 😂❤
also they hurt people for fun. and I hate people! wasps are awesome
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 💀
great video, there aren't nearly enough people out there who highlight the beauty, diversity, and intricacies of wasps
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
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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
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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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.
Learning about wasps was why I decided to pursue entomology in the first place. beautiful video showing off one of natures most beautiful beings. Also I got called the wasp whisperer at my part time job and I'm rolling with it
I think the “scary” wasps are fascinating too- they’re cool in the same way birds of prey are, efficient hunters on a tiny scale. I work in gardens inches from flowers swarming with hunting and nectaring wasps, and I’ve never been stung.
Beautiful video work, people don’t realize the beautiful colors and stunning iridescent, cellophane like wings that these insects have. And they’ve come up with so many ingenious adaptations and life histories to survive in the ecosystem!
My go-to description for them for the non bug people is that if they think of bees as friendly dogs, than wasps are the wolves- big, strong, respectable predators that are an important part of a healthy ecosystem.
And then you see a yellow jacket flying at your mouth and your opinion about wasps quickly deteriorates
self defense of course
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.
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.
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😂
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.❤
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
suuuper cool. over time wasps are really growing on me more and more with how diverse they are
I love wasps! They are just amazing. Really wish more people could see that.
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I had no idea the diversity of wasps! These are beautiful
you have changed my view on insects completly, i am very grateful!!!
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!!
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!
I have been doing too much reading about wasps lately. Truly a fascinating insects. This video could not have been better timed for me!
I love how they fly by doing a little hop and throwing their arms up into the air, then flailing them around
Simply fascinating! I'd love to see damselflies and dragonflies in flight!
damselflies yes please!!
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 loved that the bald faced hornet was keeping one foot on the ground while still flying. Also that middle leg jumper was so cool!
This was incredible, I had no idea what a huge portion of global wasp diversity are parasitoid wasps. It amazes me that so many of these species have a unique relationship with a single family or species of plant or insect that they depend on for successful feeding and reproduction. It reminds me of the dynamic pollinator/plant relationships that we often observe in nature. Great video!
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'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.
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!
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
gotta appreciate this guy for being brave enough to shrink himself and film these wasps for us
Lmao
As a few year Polistes paper wasp keeper, I indeed appreciate them on another level
Just such top notch stuff as always!
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 love wasps and I love this comment section! Thank you for making this video and filming all of them, it's incredible to watch!
omg! this is incredibly beautiful footage! so we'll done, I'm in awe. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Holy shit, you filmed this? - Amazing work! Insects are sooooo interesting! Ants BLOW MY MIND, for example!
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
Thanks to your video my swat away reflexes towards wasps will be a lot less now!
The filming is beautifully done.
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’m always elated when someone makes educational content about wasps. So many people think of wasps like yellowjackes as just bees that are mean for no reason, but they’re a really beautiful and diverse group of insects
People might find parasites scary, but I find it super cool how each species has adapted to target very specific hosts, sometimes choosing only a single other species to lay their eggs.
I was stung laying in bed trying to fall asleep by a yellow jacket, they will absolutely sting you just because. Come to Texas and I'll show you.
@sightline4004 bruh they don't like being sleeped on if you do that you get stung
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WASPS!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS!
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 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.
No matter what I'm shown, I will never stop being paranoid around the stingy ones.
I watch this one wasp that likes to pick up spiders and fly up to a tree, it always goes to the same spot because there are so many spiders. The spiders dart away into hiding spots but with persistence the wasp catches one
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.
Everytime one of these videos comes out I am excited to see it!
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.
So cool! I still find them a bit unsettling but also fascinating
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 love your videos. Both for the educational value and the entertainment. Keep them coming.😊
thanks!
Beautifully informative video! Keep up the great work
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.
Amazing motion captures. Thanks for sharing!
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.
First time seeing one of your videos. Instant sub. This kind of content is what the internet should be about. Amazing!
Wasps are easily the most interesting thing I'm terrified of.
The holes in the caterpillar, and then especially a full-grown wasp emerging from that cocoon... it just feels so "wrong" in a way. Truly terrifying. I've known about parasitoids for a while but that just sent the message home. All the parasitoid wasps I've seen once emerged from some host like that...
*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.
Mind = Blown! I had no idea about that! You're a walking encyclopedia of weird and wonderful facts. Keep up the amazing work
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.
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.
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It's true! Bees evolved from wasps.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Might be my favorite one yet!!
I love how they all put their front arms up in the air when they take off, like "YAAAAY LET'S FLYYYYYY!"
Ok, I'm now completely freaked out but this video is SO well done!!
A lesser video would not have me this freaked out.
Awesome job! Look at the thorax! You can see its movements. So much details. Wow.
Imagine thinking your destined to become a beautiful butterfly and you actually become the host for wasp babies to spawn from
Wow that's some amazing footage. Great video.
Wasps are just cooler flying ants, and Im the only one with the balls to say it, everyone else has already ran inside crying about them while hugging their Bee body pillow
After watching several of these slow mo flight videos, I've come to the conclusion that all insects are adorable when they fly
I legit love wasps. So diverse and interesting.
Love to see the slow-motion wing flapping 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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. 🐝
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
Wasps have velcro wings? haha, that's cool.
I once heard someone say that for every single insect species there is at least one parasitoid wasp specificly evolved to lay its eggs in that species. Not sure if that's true, but there sure are a whole damn lot of wasp species!
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.
Sawflies are cute. They look so happy to be taking to the air lol
you manage to stay so nutrual understanding nothing is good and evil in nature, just survival. ( i totaly botched the spelling )
I love this channel. Thanks for filming all of these creatures.
Thank you for this, it's beautiful ❤
As an entomologist with a special interest in hymenoptera, I absolutely love this video 🐝
I love watching and learning new things with you. This is a great channel to watch. Thank you for your hard work.
I was really hoping that this would change the way I see wasps, but after watching it, I still see them with my eyes.
Great video! In august I found what I think was a mud dauber flying around in my bathroom. That thing is huge! I showed it to my boys and we talked about how it was a solitary wasp and its life cycle. Nice learning opportunity.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Thank you for this video. Beautiful video sequences and vignettes.
Perhaps also mentioning their importance in terms of being food sources for other birds, reptiles, and amphibians might also help people see the beauty in this incredibly diverse and rich species.
I love your videos, seeing these videos of insects taking off is so fun. Thank you!
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 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