New species of beetle discovered in the Columbia River Gorge | Oregon Field Guide

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  • @trillium.3.24
    @trillium.3.24 2 місяці тому +53

    Gotta say, those rain beetles are awfully cute!!

  • @frederickheard2022
    @frederickheard2022 2 місяці тому +46

    Chris has an inordinate fondness for beetles, and I love it

  • @liquidsunshineiam
    @liquidsunshineiam 2 місяці тому +2

    Your UA-cam channel is a gold mine of love for Oregon and natural history.

  • @garyburnham7673
    @garyburnham7673 2 місяці тому +41

    It's nice to see a new species being found, I found your video very educational and relaxing.

  • @tularjaggs334
    @tularjaggs334 2 місяці тому +22

    Beetle species described: ~ 400 000
    Beetle species estimated to exist: ~ 1 500 000
    Long way to go but I guess that's 1!

  • @craighoover1495
    @craighoover1495 2 місяці тому +25

    I am glad to see the ice crawler as it was a target species for my collection at BSU in 1976. I never knew what was I was looking for. Many years climbing in the Sierras I always looke d on snowfields the r e too.

    • @OPB
      @OPB  2 місяці тому +10

      You can watch another story we did on the ice crawlers here. enjoy! -Ed Jahn, Executive Producer watch.opb.org/video/oregon-field-guide-ice-crawlers/

    • @craighoover1495
      @craighoover1495 2 місяці тому +7

      @OPB Thanks! I enjoyed that. I now have more questions about the state of knowledge regarding this creature I became aware of so very many years ago.

  • @MuffinKat-ve2qe
    @MuffinKat-ve2qe 2 місяці тому +32

    Just a river between two beetles to make the difference

    • @charleshash4919
      @charleshash4919 2 місяці тому

      @@MuffinKat-ve2qe And a couple of months in emergence time!

  • @ffrreeddyy123456
    @ffrreeddyy123456 2 місяці тому +5

    Rep hoodie! This is epic to watch. Being in nature is well worth it, to get away from the city. Growing up within city limits but having wilderness around the neighborhood was phenomenal. Goldendale is a stone’s throw away so it’s great for me to hear the two unified in some way. What a beautiful area.

  • @minustaco42zero24
    @minustaco42zero24 2 місяці тому +1

    This is why I love this planet we live on its so special and I love mother nature she always has surprises for us.

  • @d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n
    @d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n 2 місяці тому +4

    The rain beetles are so fuzzy and adorable

  • @Cobbmtngirl
    @Cobbmtngirl 2 місяці тому +54

    Dude let a bot fly develop in his arm?! 😳😳😳

    • @JeannetteReed
      @JeannetteReed 2 місяці тому +9

      Don't read this, ye squeamish;
      They gone? My sister, so I witnessed every stage, had a egg layed into her cheek while she slept... by a Congolese fly, an evident😐 bulge 1/2" × 1/4" oval. 2-3" forward of her ear. Every Congolese that looked😳 at it said "😬You MUST not ever touch this!!" The bug, unable to place the egg deep, makes it able to burrow into the tissues of the host. Will only burrow if scratched. So it is Super itchy, So moving crawly, flipping inside and driving her nuts. Gurp
      Were "larval burrowing" to happen massive deep scars at least, and infection complications often result. 😬 Still she's not eager to talk about this ordeal.
      WEEKS dragged by, from Mom what's this? start, to happy happy parasites birthday! 🎉 her, (🤢,me), she, at 12 years old, had to endure wearing a Huge Cone of doggy-mustn't-lick! shame, around her neck at night. (🤭,me). Thick pads over a little dome bandage, at all times!! So as not to jar or brush into it. It 😳 got 🙄 angry 🥵 swollen 🤢 funny colored then papery on top, cracked and was allowed to leisurely stretch and crawl out of her face. 😱 She didn't want to have a mirror and missed her own parasitization!! Big dummy! To see, It was SO COOL!! For me to watch, not to Do so much.
      Just wanted you to know fly in the arm, piece of cake, if only in relative terms.
      I wanted the new bug, but gee whiz, I got a hard no. Decades later still there
      is the scar, a 3/4"×1/2" oval, just barely dented in. So lucky that smart folks knew what to do!!!

    • @Tser
      @Tser 2 місяці тому +5

      for SCIENCE

    • @tularjaggs334
      @tularjaggs334 2 місяці тому +3

      @@JeannetteReed Love your storytelling, thank you!

    • @JeannetteReed
      @JeannetteReed 2 місяці тому

      @@tularjaggs334 thx tular!

    • @llchapman1234
      @llchapman1234 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Cobbmtngirl All for science. Gotta love this guy! 😁

  • @MsSunstoned
    @MsSunstoned 2 місяці тому +1

    It is exciting. Thanks for sharing & educating.

  • @LonerJoe
    @LonerJoe 2 місяці тому +16

    We've had Swallowtails on our property near Drain, Oregon for 17 years. This year we have seen zero none not a one. There gone. 🙁

    • @GaiaCarney
      @GaiaCarney 2 місяці тому +5

      @Joe_I_Hadley - sad news 😔 I’ve seen very few myself here in Clackamas Co

    • @jeridoney7604
      @jeridoney7604 2 місяці тому +2

      😔

    • @neonice
      @neonice 2 місяці тому

      Everyone is always complaining about the loss of insects yet 99% of their property is still nothing but unnecessary, ugly lawn grass.

    • @ffrreeddyy123456
      @ffrreeddyy123456 2 місяці тому

      We used to have a few growing up around my area but I moved east so I can’t say if they’re not around anymore or this area never had them. They were magical, one of few butterflies that actually looked nice to see.

    • @hottractor1999
      @hottractor1999 2 місяці тому +1

      Same here up in Washington. Sad.

  • @uarestrong76
    @uarestrong76 2 місяці тому +2

    Aww the dog helping look for beetles 💖

  • @XOSpacegodzilla
    @XOSpacegodzilla 2 місяці тому +1

    This is so awesome. I’m proud to be an Oregonian!

    • @pinchebruha405
      @pinchebruha405 2 місяці тому +1

      I’m a transplant from Cali but man do I love Oregon it’s so beautiful 🤩

  • @Tser
    @Tser 2 місяці тому +16

    It was what "pinned" his attention, you mean.

    • @guyh.4553
      @guyh.4553 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Tser booooooo!!!🤣🤣🤣

  • @kindafoggy
    @kindafoggy 2 місяці тому +9

    I'm curious! The Ten-lined June Beetle ("June Bugs" of my childhood in Nevada) makes a very audible churring noise when you pick them up. They have similar "moose antlers" and "fur", but not as much as this beetle.

    • @Tser
      @Tser 2 місяці тому +5

      I didn't know much, so I looked it up. They do have some similar traits but it looks like they're not very closely related! They're both in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (which includes over 35,000 species!) but they're in different families. Rain beetles have their own family, Pleocomidae, while June beetles are a member of the scarab family, Scarabaeidae. Rain beetles are weird distant cousins I guess!

    • @kindafoggy
      @kindafoggy 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Tser Thank you for information. Very interesting!

  • @indigo1615
    @indigo1615 2 місяці тому +6

    So cool!

  • @holly50575
    @holly50575 2 місяці тому

    Fascinating! Thank you!

  • @0.-.0
    @0.-.0 2 місяці тому +2

    I love rain beetles. I have found two rain beetles in the PNW.

  • @samlarkin8102
    @samlarkin8102 2 місяці тому

    Very cool, thanks for sharing this info!

  • @LorettaGallagher-gv1zx
    @LorettaGallagher-gv1zx 2 місяці тому

    Wow, Great Story. I Love Beetles too.

  • @rawberriemilkfake3920
    @rawberriemilkfake3920 2 місяці тому +2

    i saw a beetle like this by my grandpa's pool back in like 2007. i have always wondered what the "big exotic beetle" was and i think its one of these big beetles :)

    • @supme7558
      @supme7558 2 місяці тому

      Ive seen them ny whole life

  • @KyleStansfeld-zi6gc
    @KyleStansfeld-zi6gc 2 місяці тому +2

    That was a great story. I love insects. I live in North Vancouver Canada, I’m always looking for insects I’ve never seen. It’s hard to find unusual insects where I live, but in our interior of our province, you can find some interesting ones. Back in the 80s there use to be huge ant hills, in a town called Kamloops. They were red and black ants, that made huge ant hills under pine trees made of the needles. I haven’t seen any in years. I think it was due to the death of the pine tree, due to the pine beetles. I saw these same ants in Montana. They are very aggressive!

  • @christina41453
    @christina41453 Місяць тому

    Bugs are so cool! Can't believe we're taught to fear them from an early age. I enjoy constantly seeing new varieties every year since I've moved to the PNW!

  • @ahilbilyredneksopinion
    @ahilbilyredneksopinion 2 місяці тому

    The critters of the world are really fantastic....I love how little we truely know...

  • @joangordoneieio
    @joangordoneieio 2 місяці тому +5

    The Rain Beetle of happiness is often found in your own backyard!

  • @ronburgendy6999
    @ronburgendy6999 2 місяці тому +8

    So many cool bugs! Save the bugs!

  • @reesedengler1268
    @reesedengler1268 2 місяці тому +5

    OK so if that turns out to be a new species of beetle will it be named after the guy, (or dog), that found it? Seems only right.

  • @PaulColeman-l9b
    @PaulColeman-l9b 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you.

  • @feelincrispy7053
    @feelincrispy7053 2 місяці тому

    This was a fantastic video. The framing, editing, the sound, direction and narration were very well done even if the channel has broadcaster backing. I’ve seen pbs backed channels that are dismal, so a strong backing doesn’t always mean a good production

  • @melissa48
    @melissa48 2 місяці тому

    This is awesome! 😍

  • @0.-.0
    @0.-.0 2 місяці тому +1

    I LOVE THE ICE CRAWLER. I'M SO JEALOUS. I WENT UP YO THE MOUNTAINS MANY MANY MANY TIMES TO LOOK FOR THEM

  • @kellydorazio
    @kellydorazio 2 місяці тому

    So amazing 👏

  • @hottractor1999
    @hottractor1999 2 місяці тому +1

    Very cool!

  • @jeannefoster5594
    @jeannefoster5594 2 місяці тому +1

    During the display of the bot flies while he was explaining about the one that developed in him I was waiting for the “and here it is” while point to one of them.

  • @chair6180
    @chair6180 2 місяці тому

    Very cool stuff

  • @neverhomepnw
    @neverhomepnw 2 місяці тому +5

    How about a mini doc about wolverines next?

    • @OPB
      @OPB  2 місяці тому +1

      How about this one? -Ed Jahn, Executive Producer ua-cam.com/video/jW1O0h9-CTE/v-deo.html

  • @rallymurrah
    @rallymurrah 2 місяці тому +1

    So cool man bugs are Awesome

  • @jeffreycarman2185
    @jeffreycarman2185 2 місяці тому

    What a beautiful bug!

  • @SupremeChalupaSnoke
    @SupremeChalupaSnoke 2 місяці тому

    He’s totally going to discover Bigfoot while out looking for Beetles 😄

  • @AirBizkit
    @AirBizkit 2 місяці тому

    Is there any way to volunteer to help the scientists doing this research?

  • @goanna2012
    @goanna2012 2 місяці тому

    I love bugs ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ studied them back in the 80’s we got plenty in Australia 🇦🇺

  • @lazy_lefty
    @lazy_lefty 2 місяці тому

    Of course this guy has that crazy mustache lmao

  • @HeTooFunny
    @HeTooFunny 2 місяці тому +1

    Letting a bot fly develop in his arm is BEYOND insane 😭😭😭

  • @bigdawgpelchee5413
    @bigdawgpelchee5413 2 місяці тому +1

    Nice

  • @XZumex
    @XZumex 2 місяці тому

    I would find beetles like that and their larvae all the time as a kid growing up in Vancouver. Except the ones I found where dark red and hairless.

  • @DeadChief-rj1sj
    @DeadChief-rj1sj 2 місяці тому +2

    Hypothesis
    The the migration happened somewhere before the Columbia River carved it's way through the Columbia River Gorge. Before that, it had many paths through the cascade mountain range. Geological evidence strongly backs this theory.
    One lonely group of Rain Beatles with Beatle Alopecia and a love of spring sunshine shunned by the main group. 💛
    Barely surviving the Catastrophic floods

    • @DeadChief-rj1sj
      @DeadChief-rj1sj 2 місяці тому

      Approximately what elevation?
      Compared to the closest Oregon population

    • @Tser
      @Tser 2 місяці тому +1

      Close to the actual story of the Camas Pocket Gopher XD It only lives, now, in the area of the Willamette Valley that was hit by the Missoula Floods, and nowhere else on earth!

  • @SnakeGodDiamond
    @SnakeGodDiamond 2 місяці тому +1

    "Nope - that's the male..." - tosses beetle aside.

  • @MARDISTRONG-qv2cx
    @MARDISTRONG-qv2cx 2 місяці тому +1

    Watching this show I'm over here in Washougal WA and I thought I've seen a furry beetle and it was flying around in the front of my yard so in the field that was in front which now they're building houses on

  • @YungSteambuns
    @YungSteambuns Місяць тому

    interesting, the antennae from the rain beatle is identical to the june/watermelon/hissing beetle

  • @poisonbunny420
    @poisonbunny420 2 місяці тому

    I was trying to catch a squash vine border moth. I’ve never seen one before. But this one was Disguise as a tarantula hawk wasp. laying eggs On coyote vines. It had bright orange wings and a Metallic blue body with those little hangers wings for big legs. I still can’t find a picture of the one I seen online. I was so close to catching it but it slipped out of the bottom of my net through the vines.

  • @cherylmarcuri5506
    @cherylmarcuri5506 2 місяці тому +1

    Have to say, your facial hair is fascinating in its own right.

  • @Lardzor
    @Lardzor 2 місяці тому

    There are over 400,000 named species of beetle. Now there are still over 400,000 named species of beetle.

  • @E.E.Wilson
    @E.E.Wilson 2 місяці тому

    I always take weather, ambient environment, and elements as the reason for the season of presentation. Totally cool, we can see new bugs here every year, got university saying same specimin, new body. nice!

  • @mark6302
    @mark6302 2 місяці тому +1

    Dr. Dapper, Fancy Entomologist.

  • @MWPdx
    @MWPdx 2 місяці тому +1

    The true bot fly was inside that guy the whole time.

  • @-crazypants-3199
    @-crazypants-3199 2 місяці тому

    They are so cute.

  • @Macarena22279
    @Macarena22279 2 місяці тому

    I think it's Ringo!

  • @lukesworld6172
    @lukesworld6172 Місяць тому +1

    Who ever didn’t name this video ‘Dog discovers new species of beetle’ should be fired

  • @0.-.0
    @0.-.0 2 місяці тому

    This guy seems cool. I want to meet him

  • @agentbarron9768
    @agentbarron9768 2 місяці тому

    As a gardener im thinking oh no another bug to eat my plants and fruits yay
    The entire citrus industry is at threat from a tiny bug

  • @guyh.4553
    @guyh.4553 2 місяці тому

    Biodiversity seperated by a river. Gotta love it. Cool job! I thought about going into entomology for a while. Then I learned about the completely gross types of insects like the bot fly. Very cool though. Just goes to show we still don't know everything!

  • @robertschumann7737
    @robertschumann7737 2 місяці тому

    Spider hawks and tarantula hawks but no low flying buzzard hawks? Mr Anderson would call that collection... incomplete!!

  • @Wemissjericho
    @Wemissjericho 2 місяці тому

    Hey i know those beetles pretty well never knew they were a undiscovered species lol 😅 white salmon washington had quite a few of these

  • @thesquatchdoctor3356
    @thesquatchdoctor3356 2 місяці тому

    Aw man, not much you can do once an insect lays eggs in you except wait it out, cause if they die and stay inside it's even worse.

  • @imeaniguess.6963
    @imeaniguess.6963 2 місяці тому

    Once he talked about needing a male and female to determine if it’s a new species the title gave it away. However, finding it in the backyard, mid dig, larvae as well, leads me to believe it was staged and that they had them both the entire time.

  • @theprecipiceofreason
    @theprecipiceofreason 2 місяці тому +1

    These beetles are all over the north of Oregon. We called them Copper beetles or digger beetles in the east. They are by the rivers and in the good dark clay mix lawns.

  • @supme7558
    @supme7558 2 місяці тому

    Ive lived in vancouver wa my whole life and seen these 🤣

  • @cinemoriahFPV
    @cinemoriahFPV 2 місяці тому

    I found a dead one of those in Idaho about 12 years ago.

  • @rebeccan7276
    @rebeccan7276 2 місяці тому +1

    I see rain beetles in my yard every year, I'm going to try to get some iNaturalist observations of them.

  • @pinchebruha405
    @pinchebruha405 2 місяці тому

    Anyone interested in fractals there’s a great documentary on Prime Called ‘Inner world outer world’

  • @holly50575
    @holly50575 2 місяці тому

    Yikes!

  • @ashleya-kl2pl
    @ashleya-kl2pl 2 місяці тому +5

    It’s sad to see so many dead insects 😖 -I wish quality photos and excellent notes would suffice.

    • @FirstDagger
      @FirstDagger 2 місяці тому +4

      Photos, notes, or models will never replace having the actual specimen. That goes for literally any subject, it is a fundamental part of life.

    • @nataliet8149
      @nataliet8149 2 місяці тому +2

      It's important for reasons like this. One day you might need to compare with a species you have not seen! Or extract DNA

  • @jawharp9467
    @jawharp9467 2 місяці тому +4

    My comment has no value to the reader.

    • @16-BITFPV
      @16-BITFPV 2 місяці тому +2

      No but it's one of the best I've seen in the last few days that's for sure

  • @StealthFB22
    @StealthFB22 2 місяці тому

    He let a what develop in his arm??? 😳

  • @okamisan3642
    @okamisan3642 2 місяці тому

    I use to collect and pin insects w/ small groups of abused and emotionally disturbed children. I distinctly remember being called a murderer once by a female staff. She was dead serious 😂. What a wonderful collection of specimens.

  • @JeannetteReed
    @JeannetteReed 2 місяці тому +1

    No kidding, to find a new species would be a Thrill! Like a patent more than an Oscar.
    Mr Bug has been right there for Eons and we just noticed. May we preserve them, not like N. Americans on choice real estate, till noticed. 🎉

  • @scottpitner4298
    @scottpitner4298 2 місяці тому

    Wonder what his favorite band is?….
    Beatles possibly 😬

  • @avery2041
    @avery2041 2 місяці тому

    I want to see his personl botfly, it's earned its own box/title card

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 2 місяці тому +1

    A new species. And it may be endangered! The whole area needs to be closed off and people removed. Make a national wildlife refuge called Rainbeetle National Wildlife Refuge.

  • @thehairywoodsman5644
    @thehairywoodsman5644 2 місяці тому

    Cnris' true loves, all have pin stuck through their lifeless corpses, reminds me of Ed Gein ! ladies beware don't become part of his collection.......

    • @thehairywoodsman5644
      @thehairywoodsman5644 2 місяці тому

      oh now that I pay closer attention, ladies are probably not on his radar...

  • @creaturedomes9364
    @creaturedomes9364 2 місяці тому

    People in Oregon are so weird.

  • @vintagelady1
    @vintagelady1 2 місяці тому +1

    Ugh, Bot flies, like in the movie "Alien!" But these beetles are sort of cute & fuzzy. I recently came out one morning to an enormous beetle (maybe, or...?) in my kitchen, never seen anything like it here & I've been in Oregon, in the forest, for 8 years. I didn't know if it was fast moving so I just squished it (sorry!). A couple of mornings later I found another slightly smaller one---I thoought I'd squashed it but tried to be gentle-ish so I could get it identified. Tipped it into a plastic bag, it started moving, so into the freezer. Where can I find out what it is & if I need to worry about it...OK, let's just say I don't want it here; my rule: you are welcome in my woods unless you are poison oak, but my house is mine & it's invitation only!

  • @sunfish87
    @sunfish87 2 місяці тому

    You gentleman looking for females and then the shot of you leaving is pretty funny after that late to the party comment.

  • @supme7558
    @supme7558 2 місяці тому

    Bug slouter

  • @lionsdejudah
    @lionsdejudah 2 місяці тому

    What a waste of time.

  • @tymz-r-achangin
    @tymz-r-achangin 2 місяці тому +2

    If we wanted a girly-boy narration we would go to the local dipschits-r-us locations and not here

    • @16-BITFPV
      @16-BITFPV 2 місяці тому

      @@tymz-r-achangin Fact

  • @Jiminycricketsconscience
    @Jiminycricketsconscience 2 місяці тому

    I love all the bugs so much. 🪲

  • @cristobolpolychronopolis9723
    @cristobolpolychronopolis9723 2 місяці тому

    I really liked it❤ I learned alot🎉 also I learn about birds and reptiles mammals too O ocean too😂👏great job from mara👍👩‍🦼👩‍🦼