Watch Flesh-Eating Beetles Strip Bodies to the Bone | Deep Look
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Dermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters. They can pick a carcass clean in just days leaving even the most delicate bone structures intact. This makes them the perfect tool for museum scientists-- if you keep them far, far away from valuable collections.
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In nature, Dermestid Beetles are death-homing devices. They’ll find a dead body about a week after death and lay eggs in the drying flesh. The larvae emerge with a voracious appetite, outgrowing their skins six to eight times in just days before pupating, becoming adults and flying away to start a new colony.
These Dermestid Beetles at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley are direct descendants from the original colony established in this museum in 1924. The process now used at museums around the world was pioneered here. These are the beetles you see here in this flesh-eating beetles time lapse.
Scientists in the prep lab downstairs receive nearly a thousand carcasses a year. It’s their job to preserve each animal for long-term use in the collections upstairs. And the work is not for the squeamish.
What makes beetles ideal for cleaning museum specimens is that they’re fast and fastidious eaters. They can pick a carcass clean while leaving even the most delicate bone structures intact.
It takes a large beetle colony 24 - 48 hours to clean the bones of small animals like rabbits and owls, and they can work on 100 - 200 specimens at a time. Larger animals like deer or coyotes take about a week.
But the alliance between beetles and museum is an uneasy one. Downstairs the beetles are a critical tool. But if Dermestids got loose upstairs, they could wreak havoc in the library stacks, munching through specimen drawers and ruining entire collections.
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I would rather get eaten by beetles than maggots.
Good point.
I bet you've eaten alot of rice in your life....now the rice gets to eat you!
Choey Boy you dont want to be eaten by hillary supporters? baha. sorry.
Playinglikea meng
Oh God!!!
BoltFraction ewe xC
The irony of the name of the Library of Life amuses me.
tru dat
it's quite vexing
Life is Death.
Orwellian
Its more of a library of evidence of life
How clever nature is, cleaning up death so efficiently...
The Phantom Safety Pin and nasty
The perfect crime...
How can these bugs worms get into a tough coffin
This is how reaper take shower
it's nature, you'll get eaten until there nothing of you left.
Downstairs? How about in another building?
lmao
Wenk Hsueh Ikr.
Budget is tight... :P
... um
Or in a class cage.
I think I now want to be scraped clean by death beetles if I can't afford to be entirely preserved when I die.
I want to be taxadermied when I go
Contact Bodyworks then!
Brutal.
BuzzKill does that not seem rational, after watching? I mean, if you can't be of any use to humans, why not give your energy, as efficiently as possible. It's like Slug Terra.
John T It is, and it would make a great source of lyrics for a death metal song.
I had food in my mouth at the start of this video, and now I'm afraid to finish chewing.
So, so sorry.
same here o_O
Deep Look IM JUST SCARED OF THESE CREEPY BUGS ON ME
I remember when I was a kid, I watching ripley show while eating a half cooked egg, juicy and soft, and the ripley show some footage of that human anatomy museum that use real human....
If you down finish it, the beetles will...
Ok. whoever is making these videos ... seriously.... I love everything. the perfect voice for voice over, perfect music to portray the sentiment of the reader but keeping it focused on the message at hand and the timing and movement on details like tags following the adult and larvae. great job!! 🙌🙌🙌
this comment was supposed to go on the death video. sorry. video changed as I was typing.
All good - we are thrilled you are enjoying the videos.
At the end
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose, they eat the jelly between your toes
😂
You have a good ear!
Gianna Wild
Gianna Wild lmao sick!
Thanks for nostalgia from a good book
Miki Book?
One of the best videos on dermestid beetle use in museums I've ever seen! But really, this isn't just a Halloween thing, these guys are cool 365 days of the year.
+thebrainscoop These beetles are SO cool. Thanks for the one up and the share, Brain Scoop!
+thebrainscoop Awesome feedback! Happy to share these cool insects with you.
+thebrainscoop Oh hi there, brainscoop. Fancy seeing you here.
+thebrainscoop agreed :D
+thebrainscoop Why was Brainscoop my first thought on watching this? And then like Father Christmas you show up here in the comments. So many good times with Anna Goldman and the dermestid colony.
they're the Cleaning Team for mother earth
+Jeff The Ripper We would be in big, smelly trouble without them.
Jason Black not really, if we just bury or burn the dead body.
but yeah its neat to depend on them
Evil Dogger now, its not 1:00 am
Jeff The Ripper yeap and you'll become part of our cycle one too
Jeff The Ripper can you stab me
My science teacher in high school got a colony she kept in a big fish tank when we started taxidermy electives and it was a life saver! No other bug can give you quite the clean sweep without trying to carry the bones away too, but they can also be fed cat food between subjects! I love these little guys. Hope to have my own colony some day.
Fun fact. If your body is launched Into space, it will never decompose.
i want to try it
I don't know if you consider dehydrating due to water evaporation in the vacuum and slowly being cooked by ionizing radiation any better, but yes, that mostly wouldn't be done by any organism, since you bring the organisms in your body and until they died eventually they would be still eating you (if nothing really survived, because bacteria and archeobacteria are feisty little organisms).
fun fact. it will.
@@Jermain-cz4bh That has to be some thorough sterilization... You have ten times more bacteria than human cells. A large amount is located in your intestines, the part that lies in your skin is just a tiny part of it.
You might be right about not decomposing...it would be kinda similar to a body of someone who died of hypothermia...frozen solid.....but that doesn't mean it won't erode...nothing can escape eroding, unless you are made of diamond I guess
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+youcankillgod Well, thanks! We love making these videos.
Ye its cool i learn many thing in here
Agreed
Some quote that i found in the internet about death. Life ask death, "Why do people love me but hate you?" death responded, "Because you are a beautiful lie and i am a painful truth." :D
+Treemike 1000 That's a beautiful quote. Thanks for sharing with us!
Where was that? Edgelord factory?
*plays sad violin*
Careful. You might get cut by that edge.
Some people hate life
*_"It's called the library of life"_*
but, uhm....
A P D LUSANTA
LOL PERFECT
anyone else notice them playing the worms crawl in at the ending?
Good ears that you have!
Indeed!
M Lynn Butler: I caught that, too!
Yah I did
That's it, I'm getting cremated.Those lousy bugs aren't getting *me*.
+Gareth Dean That sounds like a good plan to avoid these beetles!
Humans are already covered with microscopic skin cleaning bugs but you have a problem with beetles you can see? Ironic really
Or maybe in future, we can afford to throw dead body in space
That's good choice. You can die a sincere death and easily joined in reincarnation and it's good for environment too. As for me, I will gladly choosing that, i don't need my name etched into some epitaph and getting rotted in many years.
@@GAMEOVER-yy6zj no, that's idiotic to do
who else finds it morbidly fascinating how the beetles and larvae walk along the skeletons and in the skulls of long dead beasts 100 times the size of them scaling them and going inside their ribs like a skeletal home like a fantasy adventurer wandering through the skeleton of a dragon
"And in the end, the bugs always win."
Is that a threat?
_It's a promise_
I just bought a 1440p monitor and I'm binge all Deep Look videos.
That is so fascinating that the same colony of beetles is still alive. I wonder how many generations that would be?
You can hold one of those beetles they don't eat flesh unless it has been dead for at least a week so don't be afraid of them there harmless unless your dead but like you would care your dead lol
This is reassuring!
wow your videos are so educating and entertaining and your footage is allways so good! I love this channel
The beetles reminded me of the beetles from the mummy
They are
Are Scarabs Carnivorous
0:57: INSTANT NIGHTMARE FUEL!
MWWHAHAHAHAHA. Sleep well.
Glen Wang nice
Why did I click on that?
Glen Wang same
bruh u ruined me
This was an awesome video and so well produced. Well written and informative! So cool.
I have a friend who has a colony of these that's 14 years old. He got them as a school project in Jr. High then became fascinated with them and has had them ever since.
I love how they did the ending song after saying the bugs always win. Look up don't laugh as hearse goes by
Oh god the sound....nope...oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh so much nope
+Hagz I asked the museum scientist featured in the piece if she ever got creeped out while she was working. She told me the only thing that got a little creepy was that in the evening, when the museum got really quiet,she could here the beetles eating. I had to capture that sound for the video. It makes my heart soar to know that extra worked enhanced your experience of the piece.
+Hagz Ha! We're glad we could creep you out.
Jason Black
I love your videos! They're always so informative and intriguing!!
I found one and carried it. Now i have a wound on my arm...
oh good god that ending theme. the worms crawl in the worms crawl out the worms play pinnuckle on your snout. *laughs*
"The bugs always win."
The Terran Federation takes offense to that (XD)
Bugs are such interesting lil critters. I love your videos so much!
I love the minimalist aesthetic of the info tags in the video.
This is one of the neatest channels on UA-cam.
I subscribe this channel few months ago, and didn't regret it. Awesome video as always.
Thanks for the kind words!
Wow, this is so awesome and interesting. Eating flesh insects! I would love to visit that museum someday. Great video! Sharing material for sure.
+Hugo R.R. We're glad you liked it, and we appreciate the share!
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i noticed the little touch at the end with the worms song. i love these videos
that's the first time I see people conserve the skin AND the bone of one specimen.
+Puck Chang Awesome, we're glad we can show it for you!
+Puck Chang The MVZ is incredibly thorough. And the collection is there to be used for research. People come from around the world to utilize it.
The videos are awesome.... I am binge watching the entire channel. The micro- world footage is great and the video quality is mesmerising
Thanks!
Arrrrrrrgggg. I cant stop. I want to relish ever single video, not binge through them. But I keep coming back. 4th time today. Its like forbidden fruit.
Thanks Brian, this was cool!
When mum says “you have to eat your breakfast clean!”
I love these videos, this channel, and the narrator
I like how at the end, when she says "the bugs always win", it waves it's arms really fast like a victory dance lol..
"Library of Life". Well, I guess it has a better ring than "Library of Formaldehyde-Cocktail Dead Body Soups"
For some reason the time lapse of the beetles eating the flesh is satisfying
you may find it satisfying because they are so delicate and they leave a perfect skeleton and clean off the waste
So much information in a 3 minute segment. I can learn more from a 3 minute video than a 1 hour college lecture.
informative ,cool to look at and got to the point in a 3 min video so satisfying!
Subbed, Great video
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Can you do an episode on ants? They are awesome little creatures and are deadly in the insect world!
Or Japanese Hornets, a small number of them can kill thousands of bees and take over their entire hive!
Thanks for reading
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I not going to sleep tonight.
Raw Lazy I thought I was the only one XD
RailFall Tail Same
Vainglory Player No, not really.
Brandy Reyes yes because your a girl
*insert lenny face*
Hi Lauren,,,
Nice one,, gives me goosebumps
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Yep it’s official.
I’m getting cremated when I die.
I refuse to get eaten dead or alive by bugs!
It is made me realize how nature is really amazing system
I like how they snuck in that Harley Poe’s “Hearse Song” instrumental, subtle.
this is the best educational and rather entertaining channel on youtube!
Meow thanks!
Well, disguting, but in a good way, it's just reality! Awesome video, like always :)
+Guilherme Vecchi We're glad you like these good disgusting beetles!
Library of Life = LoL
Mother of science!!!!
Love the small hints of the hearse song tune in the background music
I'm predicting that this channel is going to have at least 500,000 subscribers in 4 more months.
We hope so, Twineline!
*0:48** HEDWIG NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!*
BUGS ALWAYS WIN
+Charlotte Carter Indeed they do!
+cockney gyal what are you trying to tell me, that bugs might be hidden in products i use on my face :O
Chicken Dinner I have a dick
Omg 😆 The song is awesome! I remember telling scary stories with “the worms crawl in the worms crawl out. In your stomach and out your mouth.” 😂 childhood memories!
Thanks for the info!
now to see where to buy some!
that hearse song cover tho
thanks 💀
sad thing is that I learned more by watching your youtube videos then studying biology for 5 years..
+Alpha Aesthetics Ha! Thanks for the great feedback!
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Great vid! thanks for sharing
Wow That's Just AWSOME!
It Kinda Gross But Still AWSOME!
Pixelboy 11: I feel exactly the same way. It's amazing how they can pick a corpse so cleanly.
The "grossness" aspect for me is their munching noises, if that's indeed what I'm hearing at times. I can practically hear them slurping, smacking their lips and going "om nom nom nom nom nom" when I watch their mouth pieces and jaws at work. Still, it's fascinating what they can do. I was also surprised that beetles were the insects, not flies or some other kind of bug.
I'm eating some pizza and then I realized it was a bad decision to click on this video after 10 seconds. i just had to keep going. Now I'm wondering, who eats the bugs after they die? Who eats them after them? o.0 Awesome video by the way!
+Kasper Infiniteuniverse Kudos for keeping on! Thanks for the comment!
+Kasper Infiniteuniverse Interestingly, when the scientist checked the stomach contents of that owl we filmed, it was filled with the remains of little black bugs...
Hi Lauren! Great narrative voice.
I like how you played the hearse song at the end it's one of my favorite song's!!!!
Antman < Beetleman
10000000 thumbs up
10000000 thanks.
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Thanks!
These videos are fascinating. Lots of things to learn.
That little bird. Im literally screaming into my pillow trying to get the image outta my head.
The last line touched my heart and enlighten my brain.
"in the end the bugs always win" such a good quote and a great video
nice inclusion of the "don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by" nursery rhyme at the end.
Another excellent video
I really need to know where you source your music...!
I begin to itch everytime i watch anything related to bugs
This was very fascinating! I knew very little of the actual process going in; I feel very informed now :P
Thanks!
This is LEGIT making my skin crawl!!
what an amazing channel! you have a new subscriber!!💙
Welcome, Angel!
Nice touch with the hint of hearse song at the end of the vid😄
Excellent choice of music at the end!
The fact that I enjoy watching this types of videos
I got to see similar in real life. Lived on a property that had horses and one died. I'd visit it everyday to see what happened. After about a week the bloating went down and couple more days the stomach was moving from all the bugs inside. It was pretty gross. To me it was better than reading it from a text book.
I came here expecting a time lapse of beetles eating a corpse, but left with an existential crisis
This channel deserves more subs
IKR
Nice subtle and appropriate use of "The Hearse Song".
Glad you noticed! We are lucky to have a terrific composer, Seth G. Samuel: www.sethgsamuel.com/
What a great channel to binge while eating breakfast!
I don't know why but for some reason this was satisfying...