Looks like there are lots of questions about how exactly male earwigs with more asymmetric pincers to their advantage during fights.According to Muñoz and Zink, earwigs slide the straighter side under their opponent and then bring down the the tip of their more curved side onto the top of their opponent’s abdomen. So instead of just grabbing their opponent, they are now poking them with the point of that curved side. Sometimes they apply enough pressure to actually penetrate their opponent’s abdomen, which is usually a fatal injury. There are illustrations in the scientific article. www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Asymmetric-forceps-increase-fighting-success-among-Munoz-Zink/8d04ce84806b1e4da666fdbc0256c425235c92c1/figure/2
krashdown102 my old next door neighbors used to say that earwigs crawled into their ears, laid eggs, and my neighbors had to go to the doctor to get those eggs removed from their ears
Most Insects: I will tear my opponent in half, feast on their insides and use their hollow corpse as a cradle for my offspring Earwigs: If I squish him harder then he sqishes me he'll go away. only if we're evenly matched tho, wouldn't want the match to be unfair
@@NaqrSeranvis And the larger one has no punishment for the little one like many other insects would do. Basically they don't start the fight anyway, they are smart enough to know one will just give up and go.
They use those pincers to bite their way into your ear, reaching your brain, where they take you over and make you post UA-cam videos claiming that they're safe and won't climb into your ears! D: D: D:
@@malcolmabram2957 some scientists have theorized that the "asteroid" that brought about the end of the dinosaurs, was actually a giant space bug that came hurling through space in search of life. It struck earth with the force of a 100 million megaton bomb, and burrowed itself deep below the mantle, where it began to suck up our world's resources and lay eggs. Some believe it still lurks down there, burrowing tunnels and causing large earthquakes as it digs. It's only a matter of time until it is ready to emerge, much more powerful than when it arrived. We'll all be consumed by giant asymmetrical pincers, and the world will get depleted. The Earpocalypse is nigh.
Cody'sLab Thank you for answering one of my longest questions. I always jokingly poked them but didn't really want to find out if it hurt. I've been bit by a cricket and it tickles and hurts mildy. I'm assuming this is worse.
Never been pinched by them in my life, but I was always careful around them because I didn't want to find out the hard way. Thank you for confirming my suspicions, mate. You took one for the team and it will not go to waste.
When I was a child I was playing with them and got pinched on the back of my hand a few times. Didn't hurt me once, but is disgusting when I think about it now.
I remember when I was a kid there was a wheeled cooler in my grandpa's backyard that hadn't been used for years. It was overgrown with mosses and embedded with dirt. I'd often open it up to see a huge mass of earwigs all crawling about the walls and bottom, along with their eggs tucked away. I never told anyone about them for fear that they'd be exterminated, but I remember for three solid years those earwigs would make that cooler their home. Unfortunately when my estranged uncle of sorts tricked my grandpa into signing over the house he had the entire backyard reworked. Last time I ever looked in that cooler all those earwigs were gone and the inside was completely cleaned out. I'm not saying the backyard should have been left in disarray, but in the time it became overgrown a lot of animals made their homes there. It was sad seeing all of that get taken away from them, and that house taken away from my grandpa.
They just want to know if shape means something and etc. On human though you need to ask first if they wanna fight cuz we are smart enough to have rules
"Hey, let's make these 2 earwigs fight eachother!" "Splendid idea! That will give us insight on how the shape of their pincers affects their prowess" "Uuuhhh, yeah... Exactly! That's precisely what I wanted to do!"
The best part of this is the fact those scientists would have needed to run earwig battles dozens of times before drawing conclusions. There is an earwig fighting tournament that I demand to see!
the study of why burdock and other seeds cling to woolen animals led to VELCRO. many of the most innocuous studies of flora and fauna have led to technological innovations we take for granted today.
@Aidan Snyder yes they do. I've personally had the pleasure of a night time 'ear visitation' from one of these little monsters. Thought it was a myth, now i stomp them on sight. Google it, the names they've given around the world, most involve 'ear' & something else horrible. The Germans call them 'earworms'.
When i was a kid, this monstrosity fallen right from the roof into my ear. No kidding. It ran around in it for 3 secs, then ran away with little help from me. I was terrified.
This reminds me: we were chilling outdoors and my dad and sister laid down on the grass, there were ants, the redish ants with longer legs than the regular smol black ants, and I was scared to join them because of the ants, but after they insisted that I join them and that there was nothing to fear I laid down as well, not even 5 minutes later my ear felt ticklish and I inserted my finger to itch it, felt something inside, thought my ear was just dirty, when I looked back at my finger there was a destroyed ant on it T-T I'm sure both the ant and I would've preferred not to go through that, ugh.
A few years ago, we started getting earwigs in our house. My wife was freaking out until I explained to her that they don't actually go in your ears. A few weeks went by, and I woke up around 2AM one morning with a sharp pain in my ear. I started panicking as I could hear something moving around. Ten minutes later, after nearly ripping my ear off, I finally felt it and pulled it out. Sure enough it was a big ole' earwig. I had to go to the doctor the next morning and get ear drops. He said my eardrum was bleeding from it cutting me up with its pincers. Earwigs are no more likely to go in your ear than any other bug, but that doesn't mean that they can't. Haha We had a pest control company come out immediately.
I was told earwigs got the name "earwig" because farmers found them in the silk ( or wig) on ears of corn. I've grown corn and know that you find them there quite often.
Earwigs have another genetic quirk. Here in Riverside County California, I've seen some with wings. Maybe three in the last twenty years. They aren't in the class of hymenoptera, so there's no queens. Apparently it's a recessive gene that occasionally shows up. I have observed that trait works to their evolutionary disadvantage. The ones with wings are out flying about, having fun, partying, drinking and showing off.... right where they become easy prey for birds and other predators. The preferred wingless Earwigs are hiding under rocks, out of sight from predators.
I live in central oregon and I have see quite a few with wings but have never seen them fly. I carefully squished one as to not destroy the wings and they do look fully functional (I'm obviously by no sense of the word an expert). We have a huge "problem" with them where I live since we are in a valley and have springs underground which always mean moist dirt for them and as much as I hate the little things they are pretty fascinating.
Most species do have wings, and they can actually fly! They just don't do it that often. The wings are carefuly folded beneath their very short elytra, and in some species, the folding job is even another use of the cerci.
They also use their pincers for carrying food, they will back up to a dead insect just like a tow truck backing up to a car to carry it back to their nest. Earwigs are one of the few insects that actually take care of their young after they hatch.
There are giant ones here with wings, and imagine the size of the food they can carry, the pincers on the flying ones are really big, they could be doing some interspecies transportation too, carrying as a rescue animal. New studies are identifying the profound empathy of the bug world recently described by science.
Another function of the pincers is they help them fold their wings! Their wings fold up like origami into tight little elytra on their upper back and they're iridescent. They don't often use them given how much time they spend underground. I've heard people call them "secret angel wings" because of how pretty they are when unfolded!
1:47 "They size each other up. If they're evenly matched, its on." So, even bugs will only fight bugs their own size. More than you can say for a lot of humans.
Well, it's more of the smaller ones just run off before a fight, while humans like to dispute it a bit more. The big ones will still essentially bully smaller ones.
Man, I used to be terrified of earwigs when I was a kid. I don’t know why my dad told me to be very afraid of scorpions because they’re venomous and could kill me, but forgot to tell me that they are not commonly found in ONTARIO, so when I found an earwig under a rug when I was four and thought the pincers were that stinging tail I’d heard about.
As an adult I'm terrified bc they're slimy and have evil-looking legs 😭 I know they're just little guys living their life but I found one on me yesterday and cried
Rephrase.. it isn't particularly looking to go into ears.. they are trying to hide, and it might look like an emergency hidey-hole to them.. They don't realize it's part of the creatures they are trying to hide from...
Khonsu the Core There is an adorable cartoon called "Lucas the Spider" here on UA-cam. I highly suggest anyone check it out, even if you're terrified of spiders.
Susan Kay I don’t think I know any kid/teenager, that would be watching any educational video on UA-cam, when they could be watching Jake Paul. (Sad, I know. I was always into nature and animals growing up; now it seems most kids are just concerned about money & ‘dabbing on them haters.’) With UA-cams algorithm though, it actually shows that videos between 8-15 minutes are most watched, and get the most out of their revenue system. That’s why if you look at pewdiepie or other bigger youtuber’s videos, they are all around that same length. I’ve actually made this comment before and pbs responded by saying that they were happy to hear how much I and others enjoyed the channel and they would try and extend future videos if possible. So that was pretty cool. 😊
Being British I know what a good nature documentary looks like but these 5 minute videos on creatures are pretty amazing. Lovely narration and camera work with interesting facts. :D
Owen Jones as an American, if I am looking for a good documentary on any subject I immediately search for a British documentary. American television documentaries have become a joke.
I sleep the way I do because of earwigs! As a child I was so paranoid of one crawling into my ear that I started to sleep face down - one ear on the pillow and the other covered by pulling the blanket up over the back of my shoulder and tucking it in beside my neck/jaw and ear of course All this because one DID crawl into my dad's ear! A moth also crawled into his ear one time as well. I remember us as a family trying to get it out for him... Good times
Can we just appreciate that this comment would have been perfectly fine without the “can we just appreciate” part and that it’s only there to farm interactions?
Imagine getting paid to have two ear wigs duke it out. That’s like something a group of men in Thailand would be betting on in some James Bond movie or whatever
One time at a park, I was curious about what was under these 2 white cylinders pipe thingies protruding in pairs of two near a tree, I decided "Hmmmm, why not lift one of the covers of one of the white cylinders up?" So I did and to my absolute horror, it was literally JAMMED packed with hundreds of earwigs and I closed the lid faster then you could get out of school for summer break! Having a huge fear of earwigs didn't help either!
@@aarontheperson6867 unless the fucer is frickin huge because it fuccin drank gamer girl bathwater then that's when they can use enough force to almost sever a finger if you let them.
@@NintCondition i use the catch the european variety in my mom's garden as a kid. you can feel the pinch but it doesnt hurt. thats also how you catch them by grabbing the pincers.
I love how scientists made the equivalent of a rooster fight with earwigs and got away with it because they wrote a paper about it. I wonder if they gave the earwigs ring names and bet money on them.
they are fighting for territory, thats worse than fighting to death. loser will prolly die from hunger or get killed by a predator while looking for a new place.
most bettle like insects are like this,allowing others males to leave, gives them 2 advantages, 1 its a diferent target from predators, meaning, it diminishes the chances that you will end up as dinner, but more importantly, it also raises teh chances of procreation. killing other males, doesnt garantee that you wont be hunted, so if you die, and there are no other males alive, the entire species suffers.
I actually keep a colony in a modified container on my desk. FASCINATING little critters. I've even observed my males helping with eggs. Great moms too! They care for their babies through the 1st 2 molts.😊
That cockroach startled me! So strange that I can see this earwig and feel nothing, but the cockroach scared me. It is a fear deeply instilled in me, I guess.
To be fair, most earwigs like dark, moist, confined spaces, which is a perfect description of our ear canals, so if they find themselves trapped on a bed with little in the way of good cover options, they have a tendency to mistake our ears as safe burrows to hide out in until a better option presents itself.
I used to dislike earwigs but I the more I learn about them the more interesting they become. Earwigs are actually fantastic mothers! They care for their young until they're nearly adults, cleaning, feeding, and protecting them from predators. Incredibly rare behavior as far as bugs go, it's hard not to like an insect with that much personality. I love this channel!
Holy cow, I was eating an apricot (in Hungary) and an earwig burst out. Now my favourite channel has just uploaded a video on earwigs. Crazy coincidence xD
Been calling these things pincher bugs for twenty years and this video wont change that Side note: as a kid when i saw these things on my trampoline i would end up bounce ferociously as to get it flying and play god
When i was younger a relative told me earwigs were called that because if they get in your ear they will eat through your ears and that scared me enough to not laydown on the grass for the entirety of my childhood.
I was told by a relative that they laid eggs in your ears and the baby’s feasted on your eardrums. This fear was reinforced when I was bitten multiple times around my ears from moving around in my sleep from an earwig.
Hey there, I'm lost, I started looking at normal UA-cam videos but must have took a wrong turn and now I'm on a thing about earwigs, think I'm gonna double back to the last safe zone then head directly to mainstream vids about cats doing Kung Fu or people who can lift a bus with their chin, don't mind me, just passing through
I just discovered this video and I have to subscribed, because this earwig video alone is very educational! The female commentator is very clear and precise. I have earwigs crawling on my kitchen floor during the summer time and I always make sure it crawled on a hardboard paper or something so I can release it outside where it belong. I never squash it because it deserves a life to live.
If you put an earwig in your sibling's ear you can successfully scar them for life, especially it you tell them the bug burrowed into their brain and laid eggs.
I had an earwig pinch me so hard that the pincers got stuck inside my finger. I was screaming waving my hand for a whole minute before the neighborhood sprinted out of their house to see if I was okay, the they pulled it out. Unfortunately I was 15.
studies contradict you: as it turns out, men are just self-conscious. women don't care about size, shape, or appearance. many women do, however, prefer manscaping to a full bush.
Freaky little critters! I've been watching two families of Earwigs in my hedgehog house this year. They seem like really good parents. The young seem to grow really slowly, and they've stayed together as families right through the year.
My son and I also battle using our back ends, we call it battle farts . Sometimes he wins on sound but I almost always use my age and experience to win the battle with overall odour .
Looks like there are lots of questions about how exactly male earwigs with more asymmetric pincers to their advantage during fights.According to Muñoz and Zink, earwigs slide the straighter side under their opponent and then bring down the the tip of their more curved side onto the top of their opponent’s abdomen. So instead of just grabbing their opponent, they are now poking them with the point of that curved side. Sometimes they apply enough pressure to actually penetrate their opponent’s abdomen, which is usually a fatal injury. There are illustrations in the scientific article.
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Asymmetric-forceps-increase-fighting-success-among-Munoz-Zink/8d04ce84806b1e4da666fdbc0256c425235c92c1/figure/2
Deep Look you have a new subscriber greetengs from Romania
Deep Look yeah, just like a prison shanking I'd say
Deep Look cool video, first time on your channel tbh....... I'll be back, interesting.... thanks!
I actually like cutting off an earwigs pinchers
Taylor Leger animal abuse. Kappa.
Earwigs want nothing to do with your ears.
Sounds like something an Earwig would say
Serbian Crusader the secret council of earwigs are using their tech to pose as humans and lull us into leaving our ears open
KILL'EM ALL!!!
was just trying to sleep and felt one crawling behind my ear :/
tearing whole room apart now
krashdown102 my old next door neighbors used to say that earwigs crawled into their ears, laid eggs, and my neighbors had to go to the doctor to get those eggs removed from their ears
Lauren Tulis well that’s not good :o
you're not supposed to talk about bug fight club
ok, best comment so far!
So why are you
"The first rule"
So it's about learning
🤣
"So what was your PhD on?"
"Earwig death matches."
I actually saw one fight a spider, in my bathroom
Who won?
@@Zii_Vii spider
@@vortex2.061 sounds like something a spider would say
WHAT
I like how they have the decency to make sure to fight someone their own size
Not that romantic when its just the little ones realizing they dont stand a chance vs a bigger one.
They don’t want to waste energy either.
Most insects do this. Their fighting style usually means the larger one will win, so if there is an obvious size advantage, there is no need to fight.
Bug honor system...
@@Rui301yeah, yet it requires the bigger one letting them leave, no?
"Hey mate, are ya gonna stand right there or we'll fight?"
"Hold on let me turn around."
"Ya ima do the same"
U guys 😂
"Who said that?'
Earwig: Don't turn your front on me, coward!
So basically the males randomly encounter one another and play slapass for a moment then go on their way...... interesting indeed.
😅😅
Normal dude Tuesday
What little lads they are
uwu
😂Bahahaha 😂Hahaha
"Turns out females don't care if a guy's pincers might be a little crooked" 3:37
Well, that's good to know...
Samer Benhamed ahahahh
Oh my 😖
Little adult humor lol
St
A little curve in the pincer can be nice
Most Insects: I will tear my opponent in half, feast on their insides and use their hollow corpse as a cradle for my offspring
Earwigs: If I squish him harder then he sqishes me he'll go away. only if we're evenly matched tho, wouldn't want the match to be unfair
That would be more of a male/female comparison
I had a pet cricket and introduced her to a male and she ate him alive
Yes, if they are not evenly matched, the smaller one gives up without a fight.
@@NaqrSeranvis And the larger one has no punishment for the little one like many other insects would do. Basically they don't start the fight anyway, they are smart enough to know one will just give up and go.
????? Most intra-species fights are ritualistic and not meant to inflict mortal wounds
They use those pincers to bite their way into your ear, reaching your brain, where they take you over and make you post UA-cam videos claiming that they're safe and won't climb into your ears! D: D: D:
Thats an urban legend buddy. Its not true
@@gabrielmessam2374 sounds like what somebody with an ear wig in their brain would say.
@@gabrielmessam2374 it’s obviously a joke bud
Lighten up
You are right. Earwigs brought about the downfall of the dinosaurs. Its just the asteroid impact theory draws more attention.
@@malcolmabram2957 some scientists have theorized that the "asteroid" that brought about the end of the dinosaurs, was actually a giant space bug that came hurling through space in search of life.
It struck earth with the force of a 100 million megaton bomb, and burrowed itself deep below the mantle, where it began to suck up our world's resources and lay eggs.
Some believe it still lurks down there, burrowing tunnels and causing large earthquakes as it digs.
It's only a matter of time until it is ready to emerge, much more powerful than when it arrived.
We'll all be consumed by giant asymmetrical pincers, and the world will get depleted.
The Earpocalypse is nigh.
I’ve been pinched by them before, it hurts more than you’d think.
It really does hurt. Surprisingly. Short lived pain but intense.
Cody'sLab Thank you for answering one of my longest questions. I always jokingly poked them but didn't really want to find out if it hurt. I've been bit by a cricket and it tickles and hurts mildy. I'm assuming this is worse.
Never been pinched by them in my life, but I was always careful around them because I didn't want to find out the hard way. Thank you for confirming my suspicions, mate. You took one for the team and it will not go to waste.
When I was a child I was playing with them and got pinched on the back of my hand a few times. Didn't hurt me once, but is disgusting when I think about it now.
I love the videos you make Cody
When UA-cam recommendations explains a childhood curiosity that you forgot you had.
I never forgot. This question still plagued me until today, I didn't even know what they were called haha.
Touch one, you'll find out what they're for really quick
I remember when I was a kid there was a wheeled cooler in my grandpa's backyard that hadn't been used for years. It was overgrown with mosses and embedded with dirt. I'd often open it up to see a huge mass of earwigs all crawling about the walls and bottom, along with their eggs tucked away. I never told anyone about them for fear that they'd be exterminated, but I remember for three solid years those earwigs would make that cooler their home.
Unfortunately when my estranged uncle of sorts tricked my grandpa into signing over the house he had the entire backyard reworked. Last time I ever looked in that cooler all those earwigs were gone and the inside was completely cleaned out.
I'm not saying the backyard should have been left in disarray, but in the time it became overgrown a lot of animals made their homes there. It was sad seeing all of that get taken away from them, and that house taken away from my grandpa.
@@sjbutler2330 Unlike you, i'm sure...
@@sjbutler2330 What part of his story makes him weird? No really I read over it looking for the weird part and got nothin
@@sjbutler2330 why is there a 5 year old here bruh
I admire your compassion for the earwigs and for your grandpa of course.
I used to call earwigs "scissor buts"
Have you seen the ear-wigs from Hammerfell?
They have curved pincers! Curved! Pincers!
Stop! You violated the law. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit.
You're my favorite kind of person. Thank you.
Disgusting creatures. I hear the high elves train them.
No wonder they got pushed under ground after the war
Kick Saunders
You pit earwigs against each other and they call it science. But I do it with humans and suddenly I'm a criminal.
They just want to know if shape means something and etc. On human though you need to ask first if they wanna fight cuz we are smart enough to have rules
wow you actually typed that answer?
@@deoxi how else would it have gotten there? Speech to text?
hmm another one.. okay lost my hope for earth
@@deoxi should've lost hope for yourself when you actually typed that. Your attempts at being snarky,and edgy just fail horribly and fall short.
"Hey, let's make these 2 earwigs fight eachother!"
"Splendid idea! That will give us insight on how the shape of their pincers affects their prowess"
"Uuuhhh, yeah... Exactly! That's precisely what I wanted to do!"
Bloom HD - 2 Ear enter, one Ear leave 😩 #EarwigBattledome
@@DJDeezyThaTruth ear wig thunderdome
They could save a lot of money and just hire 10-year-olds.
The best part of this is the fact those scientists would have needed to run earwig battles dozens of times before drawing conclusions. There is an earwig fighting tournament that I demand to see!
Studying the effectiveness of symmetry of earwigs' pincers in fighting is a great subject for a Ph.D. student to build a career on.
the study of why burdock and other seeds cling to woolen animals led to VELCRO.
many of the most innocuous studies of flora and fauna have led to technological innovations we take for granted today.
She lies! She says "earwigs are not interested in your ears, they just want a place to hide out".
YES, in your ears!!!
They pull your brains out through your ear with those pincers!
o_o
@Aidan Snyder yes they do.
I've personally had the pleasure of a night time 'ear visitation' from one of these little monsters.
Thought it was a myth, now i stomp them on sight.
Google it, the names they've given around the world, most involve 'ear' & something else horrible.
The Germans call them 'earworms'.
🤣🤣🤣
@@mechasentai (Sigh) No they don't. That's just a myth.
Earwigs love living in their natural habitat of my freaking laundry room
That’s one room closer to you ear.
@@DelcoAirsoft and one room closer to your wig
@@RickyRiceB you did em sirty
@@RickyRiceB dirty*
And on my porch specially when I try to sit out there and relax. Along comes one to want to mountain climb, lol! On me!
Us watching WWE: man, this is boring
Scientists looks at earwigs: FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
Let them fight! Let them fight.
Lol
By ghad! He's broken in half! That man has a family!!!
XD
And the chair is replaced by a stone
When i was a kid, this monstrosity fallen right from the roof into my ear. No kidding. It ran around in it for 3 secs, then ran away with little help from me. I was terrified.
Bruh
That's some nightmare
This reminds me: we were chilling outdoors and my dad and sister laid down on the grass, there were ants, the redish ants with longer legs than the regular smol black ants, and I was scared to join them because of the ants, but after they insisted that I join them and that there was nothing to fear I laid down as well, not even 5 minutes later my ear felt ticklish and I inserted my finger to itch it, felt something inside, thought my ear was just dirty, when I looked back at my finger there was a destroyed ant on it T-T I'm sure both the ant and I would've preferred not to go through that, ugh.
"So what did you do in the lab today?"
"I got earwigs to fight... Repeatedly..."
" earwings are not interested in your ear " follows that statement with : " really they just want to hide out " ..... do the math .
they are not interested in your ear, they just want to be inside it
First cousin goes to the doctor... "Doctor, I can't hear."
Doctor checks ear. Pulls out earwig.
Me: Creeped out for 30 years since.
"Earwigs are not interested in your ear they just wanna hide out”
YES IN MY MY EAR
A few years ago, we started getting earwigs in our house. My wife was freaking out until I explained to her that they don't actually go in your ears. A few weeks went by, and I woke up around 2AM one morning with a sharp pain in my ear. I started panicking as I could hear something moving around. Ten minutes later, after nearly ripping my ear off, I finally felt it and pulled it out. Sure enough it was a big ole' earwig. I had to go to the doctor the next morning and get ear drops. He said my eardrum was bleeding from it cutting me up with its pincers. Earwigs are no more likely to go in your ear than any other bug, but that doesn't mean that they can't. Haha We had a pest control company come out immediately.
Did it happen though
OMG. that is a true nightmare
@@xl000 I've killed them in my bed before, so it isn't too far fetched.
Happend to me twice as a kid, although they were only in my ear lobe.
Dont be like my uselss parents, take care of your property around your house
I was told earwigs got the name "earwig" because farmers
found them in the silk ( or wig) on ears of corn. I've grown
corn and know that you find them there quite often.
Earwigs have another genetic quirk. Here in Riverside County California, I've seen some with wings. Maybe three in the last twenty years. They aren't in the class of hymenoptera, so there's no queens.
Apparently it's a recessive gene that occasionally shows up. I have observed that trait works to their evolutionary disadvantage. The ones with wings are out flying about, having fun, partying, drinking and showing off.... right where they become easy prey for birds and other predators. The preferred wingless Earwigs are hiding under rocks, out of sight from predators.
interesting
I live in central oregon and I have see quite a few with wings but have never seen them fly. I carefully squished one as to not destroy the wings and they do look fully functional (I'm obviously by no sense of the word an expert). We have a huge "problem" with them where I live since we are in a valley and have springs underground which always mean moist dirt for them and as much as I hate the little things they are pretty fascinating.
Most species do have wings, and they can actually fly! They just don't do it that often. The wings are carefuly folded beneath their very short elytra, and in some species, the folding job is even another use of the cerci.
Earwigs in my area have one for all
They are, very likely, named "earwigs" for the peculiar shape of their hindwings.
"They've got curved pincers. Curved. Pincers."
Lol good one
Did someone steal your sweet roll?
typical earwigs from Hammerfell
was looking for this
Turns out females don't care if their pincers are a little crooked
BRUH
So they fight with their butts ._.
And how!
"MY BUTTS ARE BIGGER THEN YOURS!"
Rose Gold At least the females don't judge butts unlike males do
Battle butts instead of battle bots.
notconvincedgranny 😂😂 good one!
0:33 “really, they just want to hide out”
YEAH…In your EAR!!!!
His pincer curved because he was single for far too long.
ASMR-SENSEI 🤣
Curved feels good to be honest😈
only some perverts will get this joke lol
Loading Mobile i think every single normally developed adult should get this one.
hack job on his routine infant pincercision.
Plot twist: An earwigg simpathiser made this video.
*earwig, *sympathizer
Not sure how that's a plot twist, but sure
When you spell it with 2 G's it sounds like a mad scientist lol
An ear-Whig if you would
Booooo. Weak, dude.
"but size isn't everything" what your girl said but never meant.
It’s not the size it’s how curved to one side it is and how they use it ayyyyyyy
I like when my girl says its huge and we both start laughing cause its not. But it feels good to hear it :-)
@@snailnslug3 what girl
Also how curved things are
@Rory YT what grills actually talk?!?!
“When one male meets another, they size each other up”
Thats a bit sus…
amogus
3:24
My face when my teacher gives me my test and I failed.
"Bruh are you serious?"
@@thatonecaryouwant What? It was funny
Perfect
3:27
Teacher:Haha Get noob
I'm dead
Earwigs: **Practically harmless**
Me who's seen earwigs in my bed for the 7th time: *I'm gonna stop you right there-*
i mean yeah you get in their business they get in yours
Sounds like you got a pest problem lol
🤣
I got bit in my bed by one... Only one
They also use their pincers for carrying food, they will back up to a dead insect just like a tow truck backing up to a car to carry it back to their nest. Earwigs are one of the few insects that actually take care of their young after they hatch.
There are giant ones here with wings, and imagine the size of the food they can carry, the pincers on the flying ones are really big, they could be doing some interspecies transportation too, carrying as a rescue animal. New studies are identifying the profound empathy of the bug world recently described by science.
Another function of the pincers is they help them fold their wings! Their wings fold up like origami into tight little elytra on their upper back and they're iridescent. They don't often use them given how much time they spend underground. I've heard people call them "secret angel wings" because of how pretty they are when unfolded!
their... what? 😰
@@ee-cu6mg Their beautiful wings! 😍
**Me googling this** Huh. They ARE gorgeous!
This is absolutely true! The Western earwigs have functional wings hidden underneath their little golden-colored “vests” on their backs.
They pinch your brain and pull it out through your ear.
@Snich Trolliana of course not... your brain is literally 100 times the bug's size •_• it's like you pulling a whole house
@Snich Trolliana ... it's possible
@Snich Trolliana you're a smartie
@Snich Trolliana where tf is the conversation going dude?! 😂 see ya ✌ peace
@@wattpad9728 woosh
1:47 "They size each other up. If they're evenly matched, its on."
So, even bugs will only fight bugs their own size. More than you can say for a lot of humans.
That's because the smaller bugs know their place and accept defeat without fighting unlike humans.
Naru Kami true but alot of big dudes fight small dudes for no reason
ComputerNoises Nature for the most part has a sense of balance to it. Humans not so much.
Well, it's more of the smaller ones just run off before a fight, while humans like to dispute it a bit more. The big ones will still essentially bully smaller ones.
Bugs don't drink alcohol. It's obviously the difference.
Man, I used to be terrified of earwigs when I was a kid. I don’t know why my dad told me to be very afraid of scorpions because they’re venomous and could kill me, but forgot to tell me that they are not commonly found in ONTARIO, so when I found an earwig under a rug when I was four and thought the pincers were that stinging tail I’d heard about.
As an adult I'm terrified bc they're slimy and have evil-looking legs 😭 I know they're just little guys living their life but I found one on me yesterday and cried
@@Abbanellie they aren't slimy. They're just shiny.
I have a pet one of those, although he recently died of “old age” he was so freakin cute. Rip joey
Awe, how old.?
Mr. Cicada you had a pet earwig?
@@ARtorNot8 🤣
Cute 😆
Joey went to earwig heaven
I was wondering like an hour ago where is your new video and here you are. Thank you!
"Just want to hide out."
Me: Yeah, in my ear.
😂😂😂😂
This made me laugh more than it should
When I was a kid I used to think they were called earwigs because they would crawl in your ear and pincer your brain.
"Earwigs want nothing to do with your ears."
I killed an earwig once when he was about to enter my ear.
Rephrase.. it isn't particularly looking to go into ears.. they are trying to hide, and it might look like an emergency hidey-hole to them.. They don't realize it's part of the creatures they are trying to hide from...
@slapypenguins101 IT WAS GOING INTO HIS EAR
Did you wig out? lol
@Alicia P sounds like anxiety, what if it goes in your nose hole instead?
@Alicia P lol
are you also scared of ants in ur ear?
That crawling sound effect they use legit sounds like someones fingering spaghetti
Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!! Lol
The fact that you know what that sounds like concerns me.
>Implying it's not the actual sound
Ever heard ants crawl?
I bet the spaghetti likes it though ;)
I can’t unhear that now ugh
Awww, Lucas the spider is doing cameos now....
Para Momal Hahahahahha
You can see the rest of our jumping spider episode here: ua-cam.com/video/y7qMqAgCqME/v-deo.html
I don't know why I laughed at the female spider looking down on him XD
Have we named him now?
Khonsu the Core There is an adorable cartoon called "Lucas the Spider" here on UA-cam. I highly suggest anyone check it out, even if you're terrified of spiders.
For a good time, dub some tickling sounds over the fight.
“Asymmetry is uncommon in nature”
*[looks in the mirror]*
I’m... special?
no
Yes
peoples faces usually arent perfectly asymmetrical
nobody is symmetrical
mirror the left side of your face and then the right side. you will end up with 2 slightly different Faces
These are so cool, one of my favorite nature segments on UA-cam. The only thing I would love even more, was if they were a bit longer.
Susan Kay I don’t think I know any kid/teenager, that would be watching any educational video on UA-cam, when they could be watching Jake Paul. (Sad, I know. I was always into nature and animals growing up; now it seems most kids are just concerned about money & ‘dabbing on them haters.’)
With UA-cams algorithm though, it actually shows that videos between 8-15 minutes are most watched, and get the most out of their revenue system. That’s why if you look at pewdiepie or other bigger youtuber’s videos, they are all around that same length. I’ve actually made this comment before and pbs responded by saying that they were happy to hear how much I and others enjoyed the channel and they would try and extend future videos if possible. So that was pretty cool. 😊
Kipling dont u know me im a kid and my life is science astronomy and physics
so you want something a little bit longer?...
I agree, usually dislike insects but these, I have alot where I live, are pretty cool insects who aren't as pesky and annoying as ants or roaches.
Being British I know what a good nature documentary looks like but these 5 minute videos on creatures are pretty amazing. Lovely narration and camera work with interesting facts. :D
Owen Jones as an American, if I am looking for a good documentary on any subject I immediately search for a British documentary. American television documentaries have become a joke.
Being American, I’ve always known David Attenbourough to be the king of documentary narration. However I love this channel too
That music choice, though.. 😬
I sleep the way I do because of earwigs!
As a child I was so paranoid of one crawling into my ear that I started to sleep face down - one ear on the pillow and the other covered by pulling the blanket up over the back of my shoulder and tucking it in beside my neck/jaw and ear of course
All this because one DID crawl into my dad's ear! A moth also crawled into his ear one time as well. I remember us as a family trying to get it out for him... Good times
😩When you click because you’re curious but immediately start itching.
+ jacojami850 ANN - 👍You’re lucky 😃
+ jacojami850 ANN - 👍They’re the worst! 😩
LovingAtlanta eww
immediately got that feeling like something was crawling up and down my back and neck.
*shudder* I can feel it on my leg
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the amazing camerawork that went into this episode? Truly phenomenal
You need to look up the word "phenomenal."
@@DiffEQwhy, i think he used it right. They complemented how the visuals were extraordinary and very real
I know three differ People who got one in their ear. It does happen.
Can we just appreciate that this comment would have been perfectly fine without the “can we just appreciate” part and that it’s only there to farm interactions?
amazing camera, I can clearly see the world of insects and science
For real though, I wonder what camera and lens set up they’re using. Phenomenal shots
The world of insects. What does the world of science even mean. You use what you get to perform science.
Earwigs??? We've always called them scissor tails.
@@childofgod884 We always called them pincher bugs
Imagine getting paid to have two ear wigs duke it out. That’s like something a group of men in Thailand would be betting on in some James Bond movie or whatever
One time at a park, I was curious about what was under these 2 white cylinders pipe thingies protruding in pairs of two near a tree, I decided "Hmmmm, why not lift one of the covers of one of the white cylinders up?" So I did and to my absolute horror, it was literally JAMMED packed with hundreds of earwigs and I closed the lid faster then you could get out of school for summer break! Having a huge fear of earwigs didn't help either!
I watched this video to find out if they pinch humans and if it hurts. I don't feel like testing it out but do you know the answer?
@@NintCondition It barely hurts, but it won't draw blood or anything. Don't worry about it.
@@aarontheperson6867 unless the fucer is frickin huge because it fuccin drank gamer girl bathwater then that's when they can use enough force to almost sever a finger if you let them.
@@NintCondition They can't pinch very hard.
@@NintCondition i use the catch the european variety in my mom's garden as a kid. you can feel the pinch but it doesnt hurt. thats also how you catch them by grabbing the pincers.
As a man, I feel a lot more confidant with myself after watching this video.
I think as men, we can all feel better about certain body parts hanging asymmetrically.
Do you duel with crooked pincers?
@@zestysupreme9482 your comment made me spit my soup everywhere. 10/10 hahahaha
so females are straight and males are not?
As far as pincers go, yeah
when they friendzone
The guys go around pinching each other’s butts, can you blame them?
I’m going to start an earwig fight club. People bring in their earwigs like pokemon, and then they fight.
Tell me there is gambling involved!
I love how scientists made the equivalent of a rooster fight with earwigs and got away with it because they wrote a paper about it. I wonder if they gave the earwigs ring names and bet money on them.
The difference being that the only thing typically injured in an earwig fight is pride.
We literally have our kids do wrestling matches, if you heard they DONT fight to the death.
@@megancornelius9237 I bet you are fun at parties
@@ph1ll1phe’s supporting earwig fighting and sports. I think he’s alright
As adam savage would say. The only difference between playing around and science is you wirte it down
I read "what do earrings do with those piercings anyways?".
Mwer Keller you should probs get your eyes checked
Haha same
What do those eyes do with reading ?
Radbiker33357 sorry it happens when you read too fast fyi
Mwer Keller same
Answering the title........
they haunt your nightmares
True
Ad Victoriam my man
Zach 😂
I blew you up the minute I met you
A nightmare that can be killed by one spritz of soapy water
1:19 - Insects’ jaws are modified legs as well.
Imagine getting into a fight with somebody then looking them in the eye while you both have a battle with butts.
There’s an anime about that
@@doomslayer1210 uh, wut
@@doomslayer1210 I need answers
“Go to the shoreline...”
*Y-You mean the shower...?*
?
those arent maritime earwigs in there
my favorite thing is that they don’t actually kill eachother, it’s like they’re just play fighting like kids.
yellowboba check out stag beetles
rhinoceros beetles also
nah, more like sloppy bar fighting. or duels
they are fighting for territory, thats worse than fighting to death. loser will prolly die from hunger or get killed by a predator while looking for a new place.
most bettle like insects are like this,allowing others males to leave, gives them 2 advantages, 1 its a diferent target from predators, meaning, it diminishes the chances that you will end up as dinner, but more importantly, it also raises teh chances of procreation.
killing other males, doesnt garantee that you wont be hunted, so if you die, and there are no other males alive, the entire species suffers.
They don't stand a chance against my chickens.
Male Earwig on AskReddit at night: Do women care if your pincers are a little crooked?? Asking for a friend.
So they are twerk fighting......
XD
Keijo
*r/woooooooshhhh*
Ya like only on a rare occasion do they die from the twerking battle
😂😂😂
nice try Deep Look but I ain't leaving my rock
We understand. Never hurts to ask, though.
I actually keep a colony in a modified container on my desk. FASCINATING little critters. I've even observed my males helping with eggs. Great moms too! They care for their babies through the 1st 2 molts.😊
That cockroach startled me! So strange that I can see this earwig and feel nothing, but the cockroach scared me. It is a fear deeply instilled in me, I guess.
That is very interesting
SAME!!!!
Same, I couldn’t look straight at the screen
I can look at almost any bug but cockroaches make me gag
Don't ever move to Las Vegas than.You would be terrified.
I've been lied to for my whole life.....
About the ears
AlexTheStar XGamer I was told they crawl into your ears and eat the insides and live there...
To be fair, most earwigs like dark, moist, confined spaces, which is a perfect description of our ear canals, so if they find themselves trapped on a bed with little in the way of good cover options, they have a tendency to mistake our ears as safe burrows to hide out in until a better option presents itself.
Dargonhuman oh I didn't know that I guess they were good for ears
I thought you were talking about how females don't care whether your pincer is a bit crooked.
Same, I was told that they get inside your ear and lay eggs there.
I used to dislike earwigs but I the more I learn about them the more interesting they become. Earwigs are actually fantastic mothers! They care for their young until they're nearly adults, cleaning, feeding, and protecting them from predators. Incredibly rare behavior as far as bugs go, it's hard not to like an insect with that much personality. I love this channel!
I have a question though. Why do they go into the ears of people
@@JanJan-uf9mvbrain tasty yum yum, ear cozier than nose
"That's it, let's fight! Turn around!!!!"
These things make me want to join "Rico's Roughnecks" and take the fight to the bugs.
why?
@@mareksicinski3726 Would you like to know more?
@@GaryDunion my god that is a golden moment in comment history
Nice
@@GaryDunion Well done
Holy cow, I was eating an apricot (in Hungary) and an earwig burst out. Now my favourite channel has just uploaded a video on earwigs. Crazy coincidence xD
Kha Ngo Wow, I will never plan on eating apricots now.
did you eat the earwig?
eat anyway. its kill or be killed and you need that protein
You must e been Hungary.
Kayna *siiigh*
Been calling these things pincher bugs for twenty years and this video wont change that
Side note: as a kid when i saw these things on my trampoline i would end up bounce ferociously as to get it flying and play god
Marcos Alcantar John 3:16
When i was younger a relative told me earwigs were called that because if they get in your ear they will eat through your ears and that scared me enough to not laydown on the grass for the entirety of my childhood.
I was told by a relative that they laid eggs in your ears and the baby’s feasted on your eardrums.
This fear was reinforced when I was bitten multiple times around my ears from moving around in my sleep from an earwig.
I still wont lye down outside anymore
To be honest, earwigs are the least of your concern when you lie down outside.
@@crowdemon_archives exactly
“Earwigs are not interested in your ears” sounds like something an earwig would say...
Stolen comment.
@@olivebranch7769 yup.
Why can't I find a nice guy with asymmetric pincers???
Wanna mate?
@Andrew Jackson lol
hey
Hey there, I'm lost, I started looking at normal UA-cam videos but must have took a wrong turn and now I'm on a thing about earwigs, think I'm gonna double back to the last safe zone then head directly to mainstream vids about cats doing Kung Fu or people who can lift a bus with their chin, don't mind me, just passing through
This post 🧐🙌
👏👏👏
"Earwigs want nothing to do with your ears." then why did I find one behind my ear when I was 7 years old playing in my neighbours back yard?
same reason you'd find an ant or beetle there lol?
Earwigs just want to be earrings ;(
Denise Thasder Coyote from brave wilderness did something similar!
Or wigs for your ears
You know, they'd make some pretty neat earrings
Justin R. Your the cousin of Justin Y.
"she wore earwigs for earrings.
and people thought her quite strange"
HA HA
"Earwigs just want to hide out"
Yea in my ear
Lol
Be thankful they are not called Buttwigs...
😶😯🥴
I just discovered this video and I have to subscribed, because this earwig video alone is very educational! The female commentator is very clear and precise.
I have earwigs crawling on my kitchen floor during the summer time and I always make sure it crawled on a hardboard paper or something so I can release it outside where it belong. I never squash it because it deserves a life to live.
Destynee Paradise No it doesn’t
Deserves a life to live? kill it. I doubt you look at the ground to see if your stepping on ants or any other insect lol.
I always catch insects between two slices of bread. 🍞
They are nature's candy. 🍭
Nah my 🅱️ u gotta eat it, gotta get that protien
I do the same and I feel so autistic while doing so, but the insects have a role in this planet as well.
If you put an earwig in your sibling's ear you can successfully scar them for life, especially it you tell them the bug burrowed into their brain and laid eggs.
Despite this newfound knowledge, I'm still going to slay each earwig I come in contact with.
Anthony Fellows turn one of those compressed air cans upside down and freeze them.
I had an earwig pinch me so hard that the pincers got stuck inside my finger.
I was screaming waving my hand for a whole minute before the neighborhood sprinted out of their house to see if I was okay, the they pulled it out.
Unfortunately I was 15.
I get the feeling you think this is a lot funnier than it is
Austin haha sure
When you major in comedy but still can’t find a job.
I learned real fast when I was a kid to check the inside of my shoes before I put them on.
I got pinched by one when I was 3 and it hurt bad. Until I read ur post I thought I was the only one who ever had that happen.
I wish females didn't care if my pinchers were croaked! 😭
hanzifaction everyone’s are crooked to one side or another there is no straight one for humans lol
At least with three elbows I can pinch behind coroners
At least you have the competitive advantage...
As long as you do not do "pincher fights" with other males...
What are you even trying to say?
Whatever, they're getting squished under my shoe anyways.
You know that you're living the dream when you get paid to watch earwig battles in the name of science.
I really dont mind them until they start walking towards me even when I move my feet like bro hold up
I used to (and still) call it a *pincher bug*
In brazil we call it Tesourinha which means Little Scissors :D
ILLEGAL EARWIG FIGHTING RINGS
They clip your ears with them.
"Size isn't everything"
Opposite to humans I see.
and that the females like them crooked is as well
Why do men fight
😢
@@maddiastley1990 why do people fight in general
studies contradict you: as it turns out, men are just self-conscious. women don't care about size, shape, or appearance.
many women do, however, prefer manscaping to a full bush.
Freaky little critters!
I've been watching two families of Earwigs in my hedgehog house this year. They seem like really good parents. The young seem to grow really slowly, and they've stayed together as families right through the year.
My son and I also battle using our back ends, we call it battle farts . Sometimes he wins on sound but I almost always use my age and experience to win the battle with overall odour .
And then the wife beats you both down with a "Silent but violent" 😂🤢