Where Do Insects Go In the Winter? (And the Fascinating Way Honey Bees Keep Their Hives Warm)
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Up until only a few years ago, it was thought by many scientists that Honey bee hives were kept warm by pupae in the brood and that the bees would often congregate there to warm themselves up from the pupae. Recently, this was found not to be the case when a new Honey bee job was discovered, that of “heater bees.” Bees of almost all ages can perform this function by either vibrating their abdomens or they can also decouple their wings from their muscles, allowing them to vigorously use these muscles without actually moving their wings. This can heat their bodies up to about 111° Fahrenheit (44° C), which is about 16° F (9° C) hotter than their normal body temperature.
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Cuddle death? More like Cuddle Coup.
Dragonfly nymphs are aquatic, right? I think it s a detail that needed mention. There arent any terrestrial insects active in winter are there? i mean zero insects is synonymous with winter.
Thanks for the offer but I'll have to decline it, again
Can we learn more about cuddle death?
I was always under the impression insects return to hell during the winter
Tim jefferson, no he mentioned Mexico
Matt H What’s the difference
HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA LOL! I'M DYING! HARALIOUSLY WELL DONE MY FRIEND. I whole heart ly agree. Lol ;)
@@primalzacama1867 ouch bro
Very underrated comment.
Cuddle death sounds like capital punishment for Care Bears.
It sounds like the next and last Care Bear movie. Lol
🤣🤣
Or the next Japanese little girl metal band.
@@iwontliveinfear K-Pop band! It's what happens to BlackPink after they get westernized substance abuse issues.
death by snu snu
That's an easy one:
In my f*cking house!
Throw out your trash ffs
TheManlyVIK it’s the heat that attracts them, not dirt....just because you’re dirty and bug infested doesn’t mean everyone is.
@@ivyrose5153 rekt
Don't kill or remove your house spiders and you will have less problems with bug infestations.
@@boomerix Yeah, I know, I usually leave the long thin legged ones (I don't know how you call them in english) But I really can't bring myself to live with huge ass spiders
Bees are the kings of taking a hit for the team.
To be fair, the drones are the ones that take a hit since they get kicked out of the hive before winter.
More like queens instead of kings I would say, most of the workers are female
They set the standard for Stalin...
Like being a Flare Boi in BF5, you know yall depend on my luscious luminescent flares
*fire ants enter the chat*
"kings if taking the hit for the team" eh ?
Ever build a living raft on the surface of water?
no?
ight ima float out
Where do bugs go in winter?
Skillshare, apparently.
Lol no shit. Fuck this dudes plugs
I hate it when they monetize a video si that I have to watch an ad through UA-cam and then the plug something themselves in that same video. I didn't watch an ad to watch another ad...
Lol I hear you. So many ads
Skillshare pay him money so he has to get down on his knees 😂
Considering you all are getting this content for free, not paying for it...
I can't believe cuddling ladybugs exist and you DIDN'T show us a picture
Did you just assume that bugs gender? Lol
They live under a carpet of moss in the Northern forests and evil people "harvest"them. People even kill each other to get ladybug beds!
@@lazyhomebody1356 What? Why?
@@MtnTow Ladybugs eat timy plant eating bugs and keep your garden safe. But they are territorial and fly home. People like to buy bags of ladybugs (and boxes, shopped) thinking the ladybugs will stay in their gardens, but they don't! They usually die from stress anyway. You can get big money for them, but the whole situation is sad
I took this video of ladybugs around a window some time ago. There's too few for cuddling but it does show them gathering.
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When i was a kid a friend of mine had an old junk boat stored outside, the cover was only attached on one side and had been flopped over by the wind. He picked up the cover and flopped it back over and all these diffent types of bugs fell out on to the snow lady bugs, flies, wasps and some others. I thought they were all dead but after being in the sun for a few mintues they all started to slowly move, this vid reminded me of that lol
Yes, I turned over a black harbage bag and tons of roly polies and spidrs swarmed out. I like bugs, but it was terrifying
@@lazyhomebody1356 so people breed pillbugs and other isopods, they are crustaceans and can be white, yellow, blue
orange, green and goldflecked and dozens of other colors
its its interesting
people can put out tubes for singular bees, which would come over to the tubes and make a chrysalis to last overwinter and you just put the singular bees in the fridge till last frost or something like that
@@VincentGonzalezVeg I know alot of people have pet roly pollies, but I didn't know tgey could be different colors! cool
@@lazyhomebody1356 power rangers confirmed
Q: Where Do Insects Go In the Winter?
A: Snug as a bug in a rug.
So rugs then. Got it. Ty. Now please excuse me, I have to go burn all my rugs as they seem to be infested.
You win!
@The Coward Liberius my dog eats all the centipedes in the basement
I came here for mosquitoes so I can spawn kill them in the spring. I am unimpressed
@Doctor Octagon Moral of the story: Don't mess with the ecosystem, or you'll be eaten alive by mosquitoes.
@Doctor Octagon Every time humans 'improve' upon nature it goes catastrophically wrong. But do we ever learn??
@Doctor Octagon Fuckin' hippies ruin everything.
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@@lazyhomebody1356 Ya but you gotta admit, fucking funny comment.
I remember one time when I was a kid, I noticed a housefly lying on its back, seemingly dead in the freezer. It was in there for at least a couple of days. I finally removed it and held it in my hand to examine it. After maybe a minute, it suddenly flew away. I remember thinking how amazing this was.
Cuddle Death is the name of my new, kid-friendly Metal band.
🤣😂😂 That's too funny!
Best comment.
I would like your comment but it’s on 69
Surprised you didn’t mention the arctic woolly bear moth that whilst in its caterpillar stage freezes over and over again each winter defrosting in the short summer months. It lives in its caterpillar state for around 13 years
I took a bee keeping class last winter. They are extremely fascinating creatures. More than meets the eye, one could say.
Most insects seem to end up in my basement!!!
Humans are a minority in their apartments...
@@edi9892 And everywhere else........
I too horde bodies
I thought he would include that as a place for some to hide. I know that we get water bugs, camel crickets, and centipedes galore! Then we also get giant spiders that eat all the bugs we don’t kill. It’s a whole insect ecosystem in my basement during the colder months. I have tried sealing the drafty windows and spraying bug spray, but they still find a way to get in and survive down there.
The only positive aspect of winter: no bugs.
You’re a northerner? I would love for it to drop below 50° for longer than 2 weeks in Louisiana lol!
I’d never go camping in summer. Always wait for cold weather even snow. Then go pitch a tent. Zero bugs.
Its a bad thing
That, and when my herpes outbreaks come, I blame the weather.
"Fuck Valtrex, and Condoms."
-- Me, 2022
1:27 the video actually starts, you're welcome.🐝💙😸✌🏻
*you're
Ur*
What is this...2012, get that lame comment outta here!
@@etonbachs4226 Thankyou💙😸✌🏻
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Here I thought all adult insects died during winter after laying eggs, and then in spring, all the insects we get flying around and stuff were all the hatchlings from last year's insects. I'm not even sure why I thought that, but it honestly was what I thought happened.
Me too! Always thought that!
this only happens to preying mantises
There are the cicada.....they have a long life cycle compared to a lot of others
If they're really old bugs, they go to Florida.
This is true. I went to Florida.
They bugged the hell out of me. 🦟🦟🦟🐛🐜
WOMP WOMP
Dork lmao
Cicada's just do what George RR Martin does, Go underground and sleep for 6 years before they're seen or heard again
Winter is coming for GRRM.
@Arthur ::: YOU AIN'T NEVER LIED! I started the books back in '98. I'm tired of waiting for the next book. Pretty sure I won't care when it does drop. And no, I'm still not over GoT mediocre bs since season 5. Jaded af!
Tangent? Yeah, I sorta went off. xD
@saxonsoldier67 ::: GRRM barefoot and naked!
@@carmenmonoxide7459 I don't get GRRM. He has been writing prequels and other books instead of finishing his song of ice and fire. A wise man would have admitted his shortcomings and hired on a ghost writer to bring the story to completion (while giving him millions in sales to rival JK Rowling). We all saw the quality of the show decline on its own with dumb and dumber. There is great power in millions of minds sharing one thought: GRRM walking barefoot and naked thru the winter winds. Shame. Shame. Shame.
He got his money. He is locked up in his nasty house hording crap.
Last winter was very hard for bees here in the US.
My hive died, despite having a huge amount of honey,
the church down the street lost all like 8 of their hives.
others near by lost theirs.
the were articles saying bee keepers lost like 70% of their hives.
How do we get them back?
Do you need some genetically engineered bees?
Sticking your hand in a warm beehive is kind of an incredible experience. If it makes any sense it’s the only time you’ll ever experience infra red from that many individual emitters other than a tv (feels very warm from about 4 inches away), and it’s a more interesting feeling along with all the vibrations and breathing.
Ok I'll try it now brb
Ouch
As someone from the South, Louisiana particularly, I can assure that during winter mosquitos go to hell.
I always imagine that mosquitoes go to the darkest depths of hell for the winter. They are tortured and then released in the spring where the evil they absorbed is spread to us.....idk if thats scientific but thats my personal head cannon
i just started keeping bees this year. i’ve learned about all different kinds of jobs that they are assigned but, didn’t know that there were specific “heater bees” i figured that, that was something that all of them did in shifts.
I have a question do the heater bees move more than the other ones to generate heat??
Ok. Bees are both awesome and weird.
I didn't know that a bee's job is basically determined by the temperature they were at as larvae. This is surprisingly ingenious. Nature never cease to amaze me.
God the creator is 👏 🙀 😯 😮
This was incredibly enlightening. I had always just assumed that all insects wintered in my ears and mouth.
Who needs skill share when you have Simon!?!
Nature and the little honeybee always continue to astound me.
All bee's amaze me, there are hundreds of kinds of bees... all necessary, balance in nature can help save whats left of our flora & fauna.There are studies all over the world , citing the facts on extinction in flying insects.This alone can devistate our food supply, It starts at the bottom. Stop using pesticides in your gardens, Go to local town halls And please, please where ever you are, please vote,Let them know what issues are important to us. #givebeesachance🐝💙🐱✌🏻
My dad used to raise bees on his farm and we are still finding out more about them. In addition to the heater bees, there are cooler bees which fan excess heat out of the hive. The more we know, the more there is to know.
I love that even when they're murdering wasps it has a cute name. Bees are the best
Radical Rainbow Boom! I see your Dad joke.
Laura McKinlay The Japanese hornet in a bees hive is a real problem. Those things are beast.
Cuddle Death..... hey, why are you so affectionate suddenly.... lol
As a bee keeper I was always interested on how other insects made it through the winter
I was walking my dogs one day in Wyoming when I came across a spider walking across the snow in the woods. I have some pictures of it somewhere but I always found it extremely odd. It was a relatively warm late winter day with temps in the 30s Fahrenheit
Alternative title: Cuddle Death and other ways insects keep warm.
😂😂🤣🤣that struck me more than I thought it would!
I work for feather Ridge Bee Company for a number of years. These are fascinating creatures.
Simon really just here on UA-cam answering questions I’ve always wondered about. Also he is showing me that I am not the only curious person in the world just in my own town lmao.
I have seen some really heavy monarch butterfly migration (it just happened about a month ago) along the Potomac river shoreline...a sublime experience that I will never forget.
I grew up in Alaska. I was fascinated on winter trips up to our cabin, with the reanimated flies that would start buzing around as the cabin warmed. This discovery culminated in me super gluing 2 doz. frozen blow flies to little ½" paper airplanes and releasing them in my science class .
I got in so much trouble.
Totally worth it.
I'm so happy to see you giving temperatures in Ferinheight as well as Celsius. This makes watching so much more enjoyable. I can now learn easier as I don't get distracted by trying to convert measurements as you speak.
Welcome to the twenty-first century where the whole world uses a modern system
@Bailey metric system is 10 small things gives one big thing. While feet have eleven whatever you called them. Nothing is simpler than metric system. The US just stay with the others to get attention.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 yes you're right but as we have used our system our whole lives we know what 60 f feels like or approximately what one foot looks like, for metric measurements we have zero exposure so no idea what 13 c feels like or what 10cm looks like
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Celsius is just as junk of a temperature measurement system as Fahrenheit, though. There's nothing special or intuitive about Celsius, it's just the measure of temperature relative to the freezing/boiling point of water, whereas Fahrenheit is the temperature relative to the human body. There is a direct mathematical correction between the two, meaning both are legitimate and scalable in their extremes. There's literally no reason why someone should use Celsius over Fahrenheit, and I say that as a scientist in the US who uses Celsius every day for my job, and have for the last 5 years. Personally, Celsius just doesn't feel as intuitive, and when it comes to weather especially, it isn't always the best tool for the job.
Metric conversions, on the other hand, I'll give you. My boyfriend is a pretty smart guy, but he was raised overseas and has had the hardest time picking up imperial because it just.... It was never meant to be converted. That was never something that was considered for it. And so it's all over the place, and has bases of 3, 4, 12, and 16 simultaneously. I still like it, because it's nostalgic, but implementing a hard standard for it was never the intention. An inch is about as long as the second joint of your finger. A foot about the length of your foot/forearm, and a mile about 1000 footsteps. A pint fits in a cup easily grasped by your hand. A pound was the same weight as a libra coin, so you could have your own weight in a scale. It was meant for the layman before laymen had access to mass produced rulers and satellite plotted land. It's become obsolete and unnecessary, but it was never STUPID. It just had a different priority, which was accessibility.
0 is freezing in Celsius 32 in Fahrenheit. so just subtract or add 32 depending on conversion
If I ever wrote a science fiction novel that was featuring an alien race I would steal so many tactics from bees. not their appearance but their non-borg like hive mind. Their selfless dedication to their community.
I’ve always said insects are the closest thing to aliens on this planet, just look at them 😭
I've never watched one of your videos. But I like how you do the whole vid as if you're reporting the news to us. And what's even more cool is, as soon as we got snow here in Michigan I was wondering the same thing ! And then BAM! Right there on my feed this vid. Thanks!
UA-cam is becoming like on air TV, before we know it, it will be more advertising than content!
Maybe...
I believe Simon Whistler and team deserves all the money they can get from sponsors and UA-cam.
My most listened to channels, he is in at least 4 spots.
U can remove those ads without paying for it. On my laptop I have never saw an ad on UA-cam for over four months... nor do I get popup ads for any websites...
@@MrGoddlie unfortunately i only listen to yt on ma phone.
watching stuff like this sorta makes me stop and think about how *truly awesome* nature is.
💕💫
The real question is...
Where do the squirrels go during hurricanes?
The sky
into my creamy gaping anus.
They have standing reservations for a convention center in Cleveland. They figure that's far enough inland to be safe during hurricane season and it's cheaper than Las Vegas.
Damned good questiin
Anyway the wind blows
Bees are freaking amazing.
Minor correction from your fellow chemist: you said "exothermic" which refers to a reaction which releases heat, when you meant "ectothermic" for a cold-blooded animal. Going by their roots they mean basically the exact same thing but we use exothermic in chemistry/kinetics and ectothermic in zoology.
He says ectothermic buddy
@@calumsmith9109 Maybe you're right, but I double checked and I'm still hearing exothermic. Who knows 🤷
In the winter insects go to their true home of hell.
Insects are amazing!
Only mosquitoes go to hell the rest are awesome.
10:46 Today I learned that bugs hearts are in their butts
Sort of like men's, only a lil way forward😅🤣🐝
@@kritikitti3868 gives a whole new meaning to "breaking a man's heart". 😅😖
Dang! I think that heater bee thing is one of the most genuinely incredible facts I have learned in a while!
It's amazing the complex things these insects do to be such small seemingly simple creatures
We all know they hide under the bed waiting to crawl all over your face as you sleep 😂
How else would they get their nightly supplement of fear ?
@@blackshogun272 exactly 😂
Did you even watch the video? I guess you have butterflies and honeybees and ladybugs living in your house to stay warm. Although I don't know why they would want to crawl on you? Nice place for a beehive though - is your house full of flowers too lol !?! 😏 Not all insects are the creepy-crawlies !!!
@@anny3046 I was clearly messing about but you be you bro
I once saw this hugging death being done to a wasp. Pretty interesting stuff
I love that whenever curiosity strikes I can count on Simon to have me covered
Video Idea: “When the trees stop growing leaves in the winter, does the amount of oxygen go down?”
Primix Plus trees produce oxygen but also consume it doesn’t produce much of our oxygen most of our oxygen that we breathe comes from the ocean
It might - but only if the world we lived in was the world Game of Thrones is set on, and the entire globe entered winter at the same time.
Not worth making a video about, because the southern hemisphere is in summer while northern hemisphere is in winter. Same thing happens during northern hemisphere's summer, southern hemisphere is in winter. So no, oxygen level is the same year round.
Also like someone else mentioned, algea at the bottom of the ocean provides more oxygen than trees anyways.
@@MusicGameFinatic999 They are actually not at the bottom - they float quite near the surface as they need sunlight for photosynthesis in order to produce oxygen.
So what you're saying is that we could potentially find where these things are hiding in the winter and eradicate them all while they're sleeping?🐻
I vote for mosquitoes, cockroaches, and bed bugs
Just like bears they all go down the local pub for a long lock in.
Growing up in the south, I have heard that the ground needs to be hard frozen for at least two weeks in order for the ground dwelling insects to be seriously effected. Which seldom happens for two weeks straight in eastern N.C.
This is really fascinating! Good job
Literally all anyone clicked this on was to find out why mosquitos dont die. You've failed to supply the desire learning so the rest of the information will be thrown out.
urbanesmala lmfao
exactly
I came for the bees
@@jharvey62778 the boo type?
11:56 Death by snu-snu!
Love these videos. So very educational
i always wondered this. Thank you for breaking down all these different insects.
"Cuddle Death"....🤔 when I'm trying to sleep and all 3 cats want to sleep on top of me.🙀😺😸
You make an excellent heating pad for your feline masters 😂🤣🐈🐱
LOL! I just hope I never die in my sleep...I'd then be a buffet! 🙀🤣
Once in the dead of winter i came across wasps and bees and spiders all surviving on pvc pipes all stacked on scrap stillages
I remember seeing a video of honey bees cooking a Japanese giant hornet by buzzing themselves like mad and then they all partied by eating it.
Simon, you were born with the commercially viable ability to enunciate the Queen’s English. Much respect. I have visited Prague in 1997, I hope it now finds you well.
The bees also heat themselves up to kill an invading hornet that can't handle the heat
He covered that, explicitly.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 To be fair though, he did say "wasps", not specifically not "hornets". I didn't know that bees use that defensive strategy against all wasps, not just Japanese honey bees against the Japanese giant hornet.
What he describes is how Asian Honeybees deal with predatory wasps - the most infamous being the Asian Giant Hornet. European Honeybees have not evolved this behaviour, which is why the Asian Giant Hornet is such a problem for beekeepers and wild colonies of European Honeybees. Oh, and European Honeybees are not known to kill aged queens by "cuddle death". Most often, a newly emerged queen will kill her mother with her stinger, but beekeepers have observed both old and new queens in a single hive. The hypothesis is that as the old queen ages, she gradually stops producing the pheromones that prompt workers to groom and feed her. Since queens are incapable of feeding themselves, this means she eventually starves to death.
@@shibolinemress8913 Aren't hornets a type of wasp?
@@skyhawk_4526 Yes. But if memory serves, our question was whether Japanese honeybees use that defense strategy on all wasps, or only on the Giant Hornets. Btw I just saw the typo in my earlier answer that probably made it confusing. Sorry.
What about mosquitoes? We need to find a solution for them
A while back, I saw a comic which showed 2 Astronauts on the Moon. The landscape was all light colored, except for this large dark patch.
One Astronaut said to the other, as they look at the dark patch:
"So, this is where flies go in the Winter".
Thanks Simon. I’ve wondering about this for years. I kept forgetting to google it.
I've seen wasps hibernating by the hoard in places like the crevasses of wooden beams of a wall in winter. But Lord help you if the temperature rises about 20°F above freezing and they crawl out. It's as if they're looking for a human to sting even though they're sluggish. Their defense posture instinct is well engrained. 🐝
Spiders never sleep. Never...
Which is ok, because the majority of spiders are harmless to humans and quite beneficial to our environment.
If it's not a Huntsman spider and stays off the furniture, I let it live.
justice never sleeps
Whatever you say, you eight-legged freak.
Cute!! 🕷🕷🕷
Queen Bee getting replaced: "Calling it cuddle death doesn't make it better!"
As always quality content, thank you!
1:24 is when the video actually starts 👍
The video started at the beginning
@@mtill7281 sure. Have fun watching an ad
Cuddle death evoked a very creepy mental image. Thanks Simon!
I’ve had my houseplants outside since the summer and brought them in today before tonight’s frost. As I was doing so, I asked myself this, and here it is on my suggestions feed
I never knew this and had wondered it. Thx for the info!
I’ve heard the thing about honeybees killing wasps, but it always strikes me as one if the coolest things in nature. Honeybees are NO ONE’S victims!!
Cuddle death. My next new band name!
So much to learn from Bees!! Fascinating!
Very clear and thorough.👍🏾
Thank you for adding "cuddle death" to my store of knowledge. Bees are amazing!!
"cuddledeath"
That's the name of my new band.
Great information I’m just a fan of your voice, keep up the good knowledge sharing buddy.
This video was awesome, love your content
Hey Simon, did you learn how to draw that insect on skillshaee too?
You're the current van Gogh on illustrating insects of 2019!
Lmao
I bet you wish there was just one universal temperature measurement.
I know, right? When will degrees Delisle finally be universally adopted?
Fahrenheit forever!
If it weren't for Americans, there would be.
Maybe Simon should do one on the origins of temperature metrics. Where did Fahrenheit and Celsius come from?
@@TrevorKeenAnimation Canada and Mexico and all of South America use Celcius lol. The only countries that do are USA and a few Central American countries like Bahamas.
Thank you for giving me the answer to the things I've bin wondering since my child hood.
Thanks Simon nice educational material
He sounds like he’s attempting to mimic a British accent.
No such thing as a british accent smh
I was just wondering this yesterday! It’s like you read my mind.
I have another question though: besides the obvious of genetics, what causes some newborns to be 6lbs and others 9lbs? What determines newborn size?
Most informative, thanks👍
Very well presented, thank you
This channel really is the best.
It gives you actually interesting info to questions you normally don't think about...
What about mosquitoes? They only live for a few weeks and they require standing water to lay their eggs.
"Standing water"? I didn't know it had legs ;~)
Ted Cameron BOOOO 👎
Eggs or larvae survive the winter
Thank God the good ones come back in spring!
Thanks for answering the questions I have when I am high. Not all heros wear capes
1:39 "keep on, keeping on"
Who else thought : "Death Stranding"!? 🤣
“Cuddle Death.” wow Recently learned about bees being able to swarm and overcome a single Japanese hornet, but this is new intel on the subject for me.
Love this channel! Thank you for feeding my brain! 💕
Simon, I mean this with all sincerity, your channels are my favorite educational channels on youtube by far.