Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. It injects it's eggs into a host larva (hoverflys), and as the wasp grows it devours the host from the inside out. 😱 #shorts
It’s not the wasp egg that grows. It’s the larva/larvae. They eat the insides of the host. The adult wasp will burst out of the pupa which the larvae shed into. Great video aside from that!
wow that thing is freaky looking. I’m amazed at the spiral formations on the leg armor, it’s really amazing that things can be that intricate and such a small scale. lovely short overall,informative and entertaining,keep it up🙏
Franchise sir, it was a franchise. Consisting of movies, books, comic books, videogames, etc. and I say a franchise because there are a great many crossover events confirming alien and predator are in fact in the same universe, and combine this with the fact they're both made by 20th century fox, they're not two different series, but one conjoined franchise. Like all of marvel, or DC, for example. They both feature a many different series full of hundreds of characters, but they all conjoined I to one multiverse, so marvel, and DC, no they aren't connected, I mean they kind of are cause they have crossovers and are loosely canonical to each other, long story, complicated, but each brand is a conjoined franchise made up of all it's combined ips.
So to clarify that a bit more, superman is a series, so is batman, justice league flash etc, DC is a franchise. It's similar to that, you could argue alien and predator are series and the aliens vs oradot material are crossovers, with aliens/predator being the franchise, I guess. But I find it easier to just refer to the franchise as even just thee alien and predator sides have more going on than just movies so it's in so way just a series. I say superman is a series but that mainly because it's comics, with a few novels scattered in, with no movies or games released in years. Then there's batman, constantly getting new games, movies, etc. So batman is a franchise within a franchise, it's crazy.
@@jamielishbrook2384I normally don’t like to use the nerd emoji, but god damn you earned it dude. Redditor ass writing paragraphs to “correct” an already accurate sentence. You earned this-> 🤓
Thanks! Just manual colorization in photoshop I'm afraid. EDS doesn't show anything interesting with most organic samples, just lots of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen everywhere :)
@@BreakingTaps that is tedious may be someday there will be a neural filter trained on colored and uncolored micrographs and would make the whole process lot easier
The insect world is weird. I saw a documentary of a wasp laying eggs in a worm whilst fighting it in a near death battle. Then wasp gets away. Later the larvae bust open and the worm cares for the wasps lol
And yet most farmers would rather spray poison to get rid of whiteflies, even though it also kills the parasitic wasps, the bees, the ladybirds and other pollinators, birds that eat them, the worms, slugs and snails in the soil, the hedgehogs and foxes who also eat the insects, the fish, crustaceans and amphibians in the rivers, the humans who eat the food being grown etc. They should just create more habitats for the parasitic wasps. It's not hard. The pesticide industry has to be stopped.
Are whiteflies the same as white aphids? Or are you referring to actual flies? I have a lot of aphids in my garden in the spring and summer, but it's not a problem because there's balance in the ecosystem. The aphids don't carry any plant diseases, because they don't always, and they also don't take too much sap because there are enough wasps, birds and hedgehogs to control their populations. Most of the wasps are predatory yellowjackets, and they're my favourite wasps. They're actually really friendly if you give them the chance to be. They're not evil or aggressive like people think they are. They're just as lovely as bees, and just as important too.
The thrips are a problem for the chamomile though. They happen to be carrying a virus. It's not their fault but it ruins it for the other insects, and for me who would like to be able to eat those flowers occasionally after using them in baking because they're delicious. I'm gonna try and increase the populations of predators like ladybirds, yellowjackets, lacewings, pirate bugs etc in the spring and make sure I'm vigilant with deadheading at the first sign of any symptoms. If that's not enough I'll have to move the chamomile to a different area or look into other solutions like organic pheromone sprays to deter them. There are so many solutions to pest infestations that pesticides aren't necessary.
Does it hurt the fly? I know this sounds like a meme but legit wondering. Theres a parasitic wasp that can plant eggs in a caterpillar and it doesnt kill it
How does someone brake eggs? Do they have brake pads and rotors with hydraulic lines? Or are the brakes cable actuated? I didn’t know eggs needed to slow down or stop that much that they included brakes. Learn something new every day! P.S., those brakes must be murder on the hens when they’re laying them. Ow!
I remember c.s. Lewis response to Darwin doubt in God because of parasitic wasp. 'You're anthropomorphizing, the Caterpillar doesn't act like it is pain, you are assuming it is because you would be."
At the banks of a river by my house, I always see a variety of these collecting mud to make the prison they put the host they have laid their eggs in. That particular breed always uses caterpillars.
Fun fact. Many parasitic wasps like this, especially the nocturnal ones that kinda look like mayflies. They no monger have venom or a proper stinger because of the ovioositor. However they can still use it to sting when threatened, a fact i found out, unfortunately, the hard way when i mistook one for s mayfly one night and grabbed it mid flight with the intention if outting it outside and got stung iny palm. Hurtss like heck for a couple minutes. So even thoigh they dont really have true stingers they can still pack a punch.
“It’s like this,” said the Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp, “I was born inside a baby and ate it from the inside, stealing its life to fuel my own. That is who you are dealing with here.”
This actually isn’t a Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. Those have a dorsoventrally compressed metasoma while this one is laterally compressed. It’s still an ichneumonid but in the subfamily Campopleginae or Cremastinae. These are parasatoids of larval caterpillars and create intricate cocoons after their host dies.
"Oh-vee-pos-uh-tor". Ovi- (meaning "egg"), -positor ("to place" or "to insert"). Like "depositor" or "repository". Ovipositor. "That which inserts eggs".
That's cute. Now I think you should show everyone what bot flies are all about. Same concept, but the larvae grows in a bird, or mammal, including people. When I lived in Central America I dealt with them in my dog a couple times, and in my father in law once. I consider myself lucky, I didn't get any of those. But in 9 years I did get internal parasites and took meds every 6 months or so to make sure they were under control more or less 😆
I think it's more interesting the fact that they know which larva they hunt and which eggs they they don't. If they're so specialized then that means it only works on one larva and that means that they know which Laura would to get out of all of the other species they can attack 🤔 do you think they go to like vocational school rq and get the dl 🤣
They have innate knowledge. They don't even need to learn it. They probably use a combination of scent and knowledge of their habitat to find the right host. They might be able to see visual details that aren't obvious to the human eye as well. They also might look for adults and wait for them to reproduce, so they know the larvae is the right species from memory. Idk how they do it, but they definitely have their ways. It's not nice for the larvae, but someone has to maintain balance in the ecosystem, and the wasp needs to pass on its DNA to avoid going extinct and that's the only way it can do it.
For those that parasitise butterflies larvae, they are attracted to chemicals released by the plant when they are being eaten by caterpillars! So the wasps are really the plants friend : )
@@greeenjeeens And as long as the ecosystem hasn't been disrupted by you know who, the wasps parasitise just the right number of butterflies so that the plants can survive, but not so many that they can't be pollinated by the caterpillars when they grow up and become butterflies. It's all about balance. Thanks wasps.
Can we all just take a moment and thank our collective lucky whatevers that insects aren't any bigger. Imagine if insects were the size of Jack Russell Terrier Dogs, or whatever your ex-wife or ex-husband is!!
I absolutely love hoverflies. I don't want them to die, but I know there needs to be balance in the ecosystem and the wasp is just trying to complete its life cycle in the only way it can, so I don't hate the wasp.
@@greeenjeeens I didn't know there were parasitoid hoverflies. I still love hoverflies though. My favourite are the marmalade hoverflies. Absolutely beautiful! I love it when I can get them to walk on my hand and I can look at them up close. When pollinating insects are on my hand, I like to take them on tours of my garden, showing them all the flowers. Yellowjacket wasps are friendly too. And bumblebees too but everyone knows that.
It’s not the wasp egg that grows. It’s the larva/larvae. They eat the insides of the host. The adult wasp will burst out of the pupa which the larvae shed into. Great video aside from that!
Makes you realize the chestbursters in alien were not that far off from reality
I don’t think anyone actually expected that the egg itself consumed the host
At some point, the egg transitions to the larval stage. We call this growth.
@@XxMidnightToker420xXexactly what I thought, when they said it!!
Certified "umm acctualy 🤓☝️" moment
Isnt this the wasp that made charles darwin lose faith in god
Yes.
@@RamanNoodles01it’s a myth
Nah, it was a Wyte anglosaxan protestant girl they were talking about 🤭
@@generaleerelativity9524 no that’s clearly a wasp
@@willrobbins2550 and this evening's Darwin Award goes to.... 🥁(quiet drumroll)
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wow that thing is freaky looking. I’m amazed at the spiral formations on the leg armor, it’s really amazing that things can be that intricate and such a small scale. lovely short overall,informative and entertaining,keep it up🙏
Bruh my dumb ass read the title as plastic wrap 😭
me too :D
😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣
Me too.
Me too 😢
Dude, me too. Even though I immediately knew what it was from the thumbnail, haha.
My dyslexic ass read this "plastic wrap"
Same 😢
If only I had a dollar for every time I've told a parasitic wasp to keep its damned ovipositor to itself...
Fun fact: this is what inspired the Xenomorphs in the Alien and AVP movies
Franchise sir, it was a franchise. Consisting of movies, books, comic books, videogames, etc. and I say a franchise because there are a great many crossover events confirming alien and predator are in fact in the same universe, and combine this with the fact they're both made by 20th century fox, they're not two different series, but one conjoined franchise. Like all of marvel, or DC, for example. They both feature a many different series full of hundreds of characters, but they all conjoined I to one multiverse, so marvel, and DC, no they aren't connected, I mean they kind of are cause they have crossovers and are loosely canonical to each other, long story, complicated, but each brand is a conjoined franchise made up of all it's combined ips.
So to clarify that a bit more, superman is a series, so is batman, justice league flash etc, DC is a franchise. It's similar to that, you could argue alien and predator are series and the aliens vs oradot material are crossovers, with aliens/predator being the franchise, I guess. But I find it easier to just refer to the franchise as even just thee alien and predator sides have more going on than just movies so it's in so way just a series. I say superman is a series but that mainly because it's comics, with a few novels scattered in, with no movies or games released in years. Then there's batman, constantly getting new games, movies, etc. So batman is a franchise within a franchise, it's crazy.
Anyway sorry, rant over.
@@jamielishbrook2384I normally don’t like to use the nerd emoji, but god damn you earned it dude. Redditor ass writing paragraphs to “correct” an already accurate sentence. You earned this-> 🤓
@@krusader9508 and? Iake no effort to hide the fact I'm a nerd.
Are you sure it’s not “Ovipositor”? Would make a lot more sense to me.
Yeah. I’m pretty sure organisms like these don’t use posters of eggs to deposit said eggs into other organisms. “But it’s a 4 color lithograph!” 😂
Ovipositor rhymes with depositor. That 's' makes a 'z' sound.
It doesn't just rhyme with depositor, it's a compound word from Latin roots meaning "ovi (egg) depositor".
@@ddichny
Aka: a “portmanteau”; a word made from two other words. Like “endorphin” is a portmanteau of “endogenous” and “morphine.”
Ovipaster lol
Sounds like a franchise ;)
lol i knew the term oviposter from bad dragon and being on the internet too long lol
Yup first thing i thought of 🤠
😭
Owh. Nature is terrifying.
Really cool images. Is the colorization done with EDS data?
Thanks! Just manual colorization in photoshop I'm afraid. EDS doesn't show anything interesting with most organic samples, just lots of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen everywhere :)
@@BreakingTaps that is tedious may be someday there will be a neural filter trained on colored and uncolored micrographs and would make the whole process lot easier
The insect world is weird. I saw a documentary of a wasp laying eggs in a worm whilst fighting it in a near death battle. Then wasp gets away. Later the larvae bust open and the worm cares for the wasps lol
They bust a nut with a stinger...my dumbass thought caterpillar was actually taking care of the babies by choice
There's a different parasitic wasp called Encarsia formosa that is about 1mm long; it's prey is the whitefly, a common garden pest.
And yet most farmers would rather spray poison to get rid of whiteflies, even though it also kills the parasitic wasps, the bees, the ladybirds and other pollinators, birds that eat them, the worms, slugs and snails in the soil, the hedgehogs and foxes who also eat the insects, the fish, crustaceans and amphibians in the rivers, the humans who eat the food being grown etc. They should just create more habitats for the parasitic wasps. It's not hard. The pesticide industry has to be stopped.
Are whiteflies the same as white aphids? Or are you referring to actual flies? I have a lot of aphids in my garden in the spring and summer, but it's not a problem because there's balance in the ecosystem. The aphids don't carry any plant diseases, because they don't always, and they also don't take too much sap because there are enough wasps, birds and hedgehogs to control their populations. Most of the wasps are predatory yellowjackets, and they're my favourite wasps. They're actually really friendly if you give them the chance to be. They're not evil or aggressive like people think they are. They're just as lovely as bees, and just as important too.
The thrips are a problem for the chamomile though. They happen to be carrying a virus. It's not their fault but it ruins it for the other insects, and for me who would like to be able to eat those flowers occasionally after using them in baking because they're delicious. I'm gonna try and increase the populations of predators like ladybirds, yellowjackets, lacewings, pirate bugs etc in the spring and make sure I'm vigilant with deadheading at the first sign of any symptoms. If that's not enough I'll have to move the chamomile to a different area or look into other solutions like organic pheromone sprays to deter them. There are so many solutions to pest infestations that pesticides aren't necessary.
So this is where the storyline came from for Aliens the movie.
Alien plot began with this knowledge
Does it hurt the fly? I know this sounds like a meme but legit wondering. Theres a parasitic wasp that can plant eggs in a caterpillar and it doesnt kill it
Really cool that we use pesticides to control insects and these guys out in nature have a full ecosystem that balances each other out.
They use these wasps too to kill aphids. If you watch Deep Look aphid video, you'll see
Oviposter ❌ ovipositer ✅
The Xenomorph of the insect world.
The spiral ridges are really beautiful.
So, basically the plot of Alien lol
You can’t make an omelette without braking some eggs
How does someone brake eggs? Do they have brake pads and rotors with hydraulic lines? Or are the brakes cable actuated? I didn’t know eggs needed to slow down or stop that much that they included brakes. Learn something new every day!
P.S., those brakes must be murder on the hens when they’re laying them. Ow!
Kane said he seen thousands of eggs there … THOUSANDS!
what's this a reference to
@@fixedguitar47 thanks 👍
Brilliant. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Imagine being born as a hoverfly larva, only for a parasite wasp to inject it's eggs inside your body.
Hoverflies are beautiful and really important little creatures as well. I miss hoverflies. I can't wait for spring to return so I can see them again.
Humm… did my wife copy this wasp’s tactics or was it the other way around? 🤔
“God is good.” 🙌🏾
Well parasitoid technically is the correct terminology since the wasps always kill their hosts. A little semantical though ik
The idea of life form busting out of other animal is terrifying as it can be.
I remember c.s. Lewis response to Darwin doubt in God because of parasitic wasp. 'You're anthropomorphizing, the Caterpillar doesn't act like it is pain, you are assuming it is because you would be."
This wasp family's sound like pokemon
Anyone still think this kind of nightmare had a designer?
Sounds like the frozen burritos I eat
Sounds remarkably like a highly popular smash movie series to me, how about you?
I had a HARD, PHOBIC time watching this!!
Imagine if it's human life-size. Those body armour tho looks badass.
Thank GOD nobody dead on this one
It resembles to me like; wasp->washington, egg->ra, host->pale
Nice! Could you please do more videos on diptera?
Because of creatures like this, the word Host scares me greatly 🐝
At the banks of a river by my house, I always see a variety of these collecting mud to make the prison they put the host they have laid their eggs in. That particular breed always uses caterpillars.
If wasps weren't so tiny, Lovecraft would be historical fiction...
Fun fact. Many parasitic wasps like this, especially the nocturnal ones that kinda look like mayflies. They no monger have venom or a proper stinger because of the ovioositor. However they can still use it to sting when threatened, a fact i found out, unfortunately, the hard way when i mistook one for s mayfly one night and grabbed it mid flight with the intention if outting it outside and got stung iny palm. Hurtss like heck for a couple minutes. So even thoigh they dont really have true stingers they can still pack a punch.
The Xenomorph of the wasp species.
Hoverflies *exists*
Parasitoid hoverfly wasps *my offsprings will never be hungry no more*
The animal kingdom is seriously more alian than any alian show
“It’s like this,” said the Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp, “I was born inside a baby and ate it from the inside, stealing its life to fuel my own. That is who you are dealing with here.”
Oh cool! A new entomology channel.
That's the thing people don't understand about the importance of wasps and hornets. They prevent destructive insects from becoming plagues.
Once again, insects are fucking metal
PosITOR... like egg-deposITOR
No pastors were harmed here
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Ovipostor , like an imposter except its oval.
This actually isn’t a Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. Those have a dorsoventrally compressed metasoma while this one is laterally compressed. It’s still an ichneumonid but in the subfamily Campopleginae or Cremastinae. These are parasatoids of larval caterpillars and create intricate cocoons after their host dies.
For anyone wondering it's pronounced "ova poziter" like how positive sounds but positer, ova like ovary. Ovipositor.
That fly went outta line 😂. Nature had to create another hitman species.
"Oh-vee-pos-uh-tor". Ovi- (meaning "egg"), -positor ("to place" or "to insert"). Like "depositor" or "repository".
Ovipositor. "That which inserts eggs".
So what organism are we speaking roches tarachulas ?
Amazing creatures, how its so specific is mind boggling
Insane
bro looks dragon wasp💀
Except the hover fly wishes to be a wasp and waits for the moment it can be such.
This is why nobody likes wasps or Hornets they are the a-holes of the insect world and they give regular old honey bees a bad name😂
I need to get my eyes checked, I read the title as Plastic Wrap 😭
I thought the title said Plastic Wrap 💀
Nature can be metal AF.
So it's like ALIENS
Lil bro can even pronounce ovipositor.
That's cute. Now I think you should show everyone what bot flies are all about. Same concept, but the larvae grows in a bird, or mammal, including people. When I lived in Central America I dealt with them in my dog a couple times, and in my father in law once. I consider myself lucky, I didn't get any of those. But in 9 years I did get internal parasites and took meds every 6 months or so to make sure they were under control more or less 😆
Few things in nature horrifies me as much as parasitism
ovi poster lol
Hatsumbaybaybaa!-babamitsimamoo!!!😆
_its the circle ⭕ of 🧬 life_ 🎶
Goddamn xenomorph
Reminds me of the Kytinn race
Same thing happens to any Family man who has a wife and 6 kids.
Its not oviposter bud its ow·vuh·paa·zuh·tr
... absolutely gastly !!! ... 😮😢😮
I think it's more interesting the fact that they know which larva they hunt and which eggs they they don't. If they're so specialized then that means it only works on one larva and that means that they know which Laura would to get out of all of the other species they can attack 🤔 do you think they go to like vocational school rq and get the dl 🤣
They have innate knowledge. They don't even need to learn it. They probably use a combination of scent and knowledge of their habitat to find the right host. They might be able to see visual details that aren't obvious to the human eye as well. They also might look for adults and wait for them to reproduce, so they know the larvae is the right species from
memory. Idk how they do it, but they definitely have their ways. It's not nice for the larvae, but someone has to maintain balance in the ecosystem, and the wasp needs to pass on its DNA to avoid going extinct and that's the only way it can do it.
For those that parasitise butterflies larvae, they are attracted to chemicals released by the plant when they are being eaten by caterpillars! So the wasps are really the plants friend : )
@@greeenjeeens And as long as the ecosystem hasn't been disrupted by you know who, the wasps parasitise just the right number of butterflies so that the plants can survive, but not so many that they can't be pollinated by the caterpillars when they grow up and become butterflies. It's all about balance. Thanks wasps.
Imagine being a fly
Its an ovipositor not ovipostor and its the larva that grows and eats the host
Quantumania 😮😂
вот так динозавры и выглялили !
How do we even find out all this stuff, its just so insane and easy to miss.
Why the fuck are bugs so scary
Kind of like the science fiction movie - alien.
I need this done to me
Damn gurl, nice Ovipositor.
Can we all just take a moment and thank our collective lucky whatevers that insects aren't any bigger. Imagine if insects were the size of Jack Russell Terrier Dogs, or whatever your ex-wife or ex-husband is!!
Ovi-pos-i-tur.
Oh--vee--pause-IT--or.
Not "oh--vee--poss--ter."
Not postor.
Pos I tor, like deposit, ovi like egg.
This little lady is making a deposit at a very specific position.
(Ova-poz-i-ter) ovapositor. AI pronounces oveposter. 😂😂
I thought I said plastic rap
Damn nature, you scary
On today's list of things I really didn't need to know existed...
I absolutely love hoverflies. I don't want them to die, but I know there needs to be balance in the ecosystem and the wasp is just trying to complete its life cycle in the only way it can, so I don't hate the wasp.
Me too, hoverflies are beautiful. Some hoverfly larvae are parasitoids also, so it's almost an eye for an eye?
@@greeenjeeens I didn't know there were parasitoid hoverflies. I still love hoverflies though. My favourite are the marmalade hoverflies. Absolutely beautiful! I love it when I can get them to walk on my hand and I can look at them up close. When pollinating insects are on my hand, I like to take them on tours of my garden, showing them all the flowers. Yellowjacket wasps are friendly too. And bumblebees too but everyone knows that.
the zerg is real
What is the source on the SEM images?