Parasitoid wasps: Like the Alien movies, but real!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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Imagine that after it punches it's way through your chest it makes you tuck it in and cook it dinner. That's what this wasp actually does!
Cotesia golmerata, arguably the most interesting animal in all of nature. I (TC camera op James) have been trying to film this for the last three years. This was my white whale. Hope you enjoy it!
Original score by Richard Collins. Check out his other work here: www.richardcol...
Here is a link to the specific track used in this.
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Narration by Dave Gillies.
Additional footage by Richard Mann.
Special thanks to the following people.
Mark Bushell
Mark Pajak
Rhian Rowson
Dr. Gavin Broad
Prof. Marcel Dicke
Dr. Ross Piper
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Nature is scary in general, but insects are on a whole different level of terror.
@Hayden VI God: Lucifer...
Lucifer: What?
(God throws book of creation at him)
Go crazy.
You need to see a life cycle of micro organism, It is also very different from other.
@@wesleybradshaw2609 he made the boogie man it scared 3 people, then Lucifer made a Republican they scare people at election times. The he made oprah Winfrey she scared thousands. Then he made the spiders and wasps..them fuckers scare everyone lol
"Mercy is for the weak"
- Invertebrate fauna probably.
@Dick Borbon I am atheist rat
The quality of the footage here rivals some multimillion-budget documentary channels and studios
Thanks!
really i still try to understand HOW the hell they showed a footage so big of such tiny catterpillar and the even more tiny wasp larvae the catterpillar in that footage is like the ground and the wasp larvae digging upwards
@@KD-1983 Richard Collins did an original score for this, www.richardcollinsmusic.com/
Yeah it really makes you ask how much money goes toward the production staff and how much goes to fat cat producers.
@@firegator6853 macro lenses It's what most likely they used
If I'm an insect and I start hearing the soothing voice of an English voice actor, I'd know something is up
Especially when Ridley Scott's the cameraman
😂😂😂😂😂😂
But the narrator of this video is Scottish
Totally Scotch, lol.
Hahaha😄😆
When I was about 13 years old, in my garden there were a lot of caterpillars and I was very excited to see how these insects became pupae and then butterflies, but I remember looking at a caterpillar and seeing that it behaved strangely, to which I kept observing when suddenly , those worms began to emerge! I was simply shocked because I didn't understand what was happening, how it was possible that worms came out of a caterpillar, I was appalled, but then I did some research and found out what it was. A bit mirk.
Looking at this video and comparing your experience I don’t see how you weren’t scared for life
I would've burned the wasps.
@@thediaz07no trust me you want the wasps. The wasps won't eat your garden
@@Sheenifier but they'll eat my brain 🧠
@@thediaz07 understood. You got caterpillar for a brain
Wasp: imma end this whole man's career
Catapillar: Imma turn this into my career
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
General kanobi
Underrated comment
The second one is funny.
Dang is it me or does the insects baby have more mass then the mama catapiler
Caterpillar: WTH IS GOING ON???!? WTH ARE THESE THINGS COMING OUT OF ME???!?
2 minutes later
Caterpillar: Mah babies
Like Randy Marsh😂
lmao
Right that's so weordt
😆
@Tyler Stone OP said that because the caterpillar takes care of the larvae like its own babies
Imagine just being a chill caterpillar on a leaf then see a bunch of cameras focused around you for a documentary of wasps
And it gets worse that they're just to watch how you get zombiefied by a wasp. That caterpillar watch them... just staring at it... without helping...
Damn, that's one hell of an observation
U act like they gaf
@@joice2871
The level of irrationality and irrelevance with respect to the nature of your comment is by far the most insufficiently nonsensical response I've ever seen on social media. And I debate creationists.
Be proud of that. It's not easy to be nonsensical. Even trying to be irrational requires a level mindless structure.
But you have managed to demonstrate the existence of pure academic ignorance with the social morals of a cockroach seeking anything they can attempt to poke fun at wherever it appears to be editable after dark scurrying legs can find for itself.
😂😂
the fact that the caterpillar is alive and takes care of the larva is insaneb
Right? It thinks it gave birth to those things lol
It literally fought for its life against the female wasp and in less than a month he became a babysitter
My body my choice...yeah...no.
The wasp : *slaps the top of caterpillar*
"This bad boy can fit so many larvae in it."
this comments wins them all!
Pimp my caterpillar
LMAOO
@@RazorM97 🤣
disgusting
The fact that the larvae feed on the caterpillar’s insides without killing it, then burst out & force it to protect them until it starves to death is insane.
Nature is weird, man.
Yup
Kind sir please inform the spoiler beforehand, mind you.
Do I dare point out the similarities in your description betwixt a human mother and child?
@@jueylewisandthebrews as a new mom just born my baby this is highly disturbing image :V
you know what they say...."life is not fair" lol
This is like a car crash. Hard to watch but hard not to. Incredible.
"You're like a marshmallow in slow-motion. It's like I'm watching you eating salad through a windshield."
-Time bending Scout
@@Ze_N00B lmao I just watched that like 10 minutes ago
perfect description!
It's so physically uncomfortable but I can't stop watching due to curiosity
@PARK give it a rest
The fact they lay their eggs into other "guests" and they develop inside them is not that special, but the fact they also REPROGRAM the guest to protect them to death when they grow out... that's the truely scary part
it is like we raise and develop the AI.
Truly*
@@danilozaurus7797or we develop the AI to develop our children lol and do shit for us like slaves. That's the only comparison I see. And AI and God have two key values that are amazing and terrifying same time. We should stop with it though.. it will lead humanity to extinction.
After they hatch, they get a bar mitzvah.
@@danilozaurus7797Just for the AI to feed on our minds later on
The mind-blowing thing is that the caterpillar was forced to be the caretaker of its parasitic killers. It was completely zombified at that point. Nature is truly more bizarre, twisted and disturbing than any horror story I've seen. For anyone writing horror, take your cues from Mother Nature.
Yeah, the Alien writers actually toned it down.
Meanwhile, there are people out there who lose their minds if preferred pronouns are not enforced.
@@wesmerit8855 lol
@@wesmerit8855 Dude could people like you just stfu and stop bringing this shit up so randomly 😂
@@wesmerit8855 🐹 ⋆ 🐷 🎀 𝑅𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝑒 🎀 🐷 ⋆ 🐹
Caterpillar: what can I say, they're my babies now.
Here, I shall give you my like so your underrated ingenious comments can grow.
Made me laugh
but why
@@christianmarx3249 which one of is you talking too?😂
"I have been tricked!..but they arrrre kinda cute."
Holy crap I can’t believe it’s actually WORSE than I imagined
Turned Charles Darwin pretty much into an Atheist...😂
im scarred
Read this in Gordon's voice
I wonder why the caterpillar create a harden web to protect the baby Wasps?
The plant food is just under the caterpillar, why didn't the caterpillar eat it?
It's because his stomach already being cut opens? Hmm that might be it.
It guess the caterpillar view those Wasp as it offspring and die happy.
@@condorX2 the narrator touches on that in the video by saying there are powerful chemicals racing through its body, caused by the larvae
That initial fight between the caterpillar and the wasp was MMA level
For real, that was intense and that caterpillar sure f'ed up the wasp
The caterpillar paid the ultimate price in child support.
LMAO YES
This comment is pure gold
Omg ...LMAO
hilarious.....:)
And he's still baby 😅
"As well as being incredibly aggressive"
*Wiggles violently*
🤣
Arthur from the Minimoys could have his own Alien movie, without special effects !
😂
Paid actor.
The narrator feels like he's persuading me to join the Thieves Guild
Ave, true to Caesar!
Oh wait, wrong game...
omg he does sounds like that guy
Brynjolf has left his thieving ways behind him, and has since made an honest career out of nature documentary narration.
Never done an honest day's work in your life for all that coin you're carrying, eh lad?
@@CaIamity_ we won't go down quietly. The legion can count on that
I am a huge fan of horror movies. This right here shook me to my core.
That's honestly scary
I heard this can happen to humans ;)
Damnnnn
@@1911dawg AYO WTH
@@trickyclown3719 dude he means parent hood lmao
Imagen getting bitten by a wasp... only to have babys emerge out of your skin 2 and a half weeks later! THATS SCARY.
This is why you should always evolve your Caterpie.
Good thing they evolve early
Bro-
Ninjask doing em dirty
@@shenalkagunasekera2574 😫😭😭
What if the metapod evolved to venomoth instead?
Incredible footage!
Wow! Thanks! Your channel is amazing!
Hey ants aus your here too!! I love you! Greetings from finland!
Yo, ur here too. How's the ant house going
Ants Australia and Team Candiru: have more than 20k subs but still aren't verified.
Me: *confused screaming*
@@TeamCandiru was
that went from *horrific to wholesome to tragic* right quick!!
...where was the wholesome part?
@@blakksheep736 the part where the caterpillar uses its own silk to reinforce the cocoons and then stands guard against predators
@@joeyb6285not wholesome what the hell but nature is nature
the patience of the cameraman and the team to film these things..just amazing
its all set up in a studio.
@@monsterx3055 ah yes, the wasps are paid actors!
@@monsterx3055 proof?
@@monsterx3055 citation needed.
Meanwhile, the caterpillar is yelling “For God’s sakes, man!! Put the camera down and help me!!! I’m slowly being murdered!!! They’re emerging from my body!!! Why are you still filming???!!! Aughhhhh!!!!”
I never met a wasp that I liked or thought deserved continued existence. As of today, there are still no exceptions.
better to spray the crops with pesticides that go down the water pathways until all creation is contaminated, you will cherish this wasps after you witness your kids suffering mind and physical disturbances from the poisons we release, just think.
There's a parasitic wasp that preys only on ticks, how about that one? Other than that.. yeah I'm good.
@@antoniolima1068 A little dramatic but I get your point. What wasps do may be horrific, but it keeps ecosystems stable and is an excellent alternative to pesticide use. They definitely deserve continued existence, when they aren't doing parasitic horror show stuff, they are doing many other ecological services like pollination. Having them gone would not only result in their prey species overpopulating, but would also result in the deaths of numerous flowers (bees and butterflies don't pollinate everything) among other things, mostly related to plant health. A shame people only judge them by their covers, considering that when it comes to wasps, that's often the least charismatic part of them.
@@chitinskin9860 theatrics are fun and sooth my artistic nature, natural kingdom is a infinite source of inspiration, i would advise japanese horror manga artists to look into this wasps.
If you care about allegorical reasoning, pounder the parallel between narcissists/fly vs empaths/ bees, how can a bee tell a fly that polen is better than s###, we have deep social problems from this precise conundrum, both are a species necessity.
Wasps prey on all kinds of herbivores that would ruin plants
like aphids and weevils
Wasp looking at a caterpillar: "It's free real estate."
And free day care, yayyyy
No, you saw the damage the wasp took.
Literally
Wasn’t free. It cost damage
@@RamdomView Ya must be fun at parties.
Not me getting emotionally attached to a caterpillar and then being crushed by its death
Pwnt
What I'm most intrigued by is the "mind control" aspect of this. If she simply laid they eggs and they parasitically grew from within the caterpillar, that wouldn't be any kind of shock, but this fundamental change of behavior to become sacrificially altruistic towards the offspring of its former prey is fascinating and disturbing.
Maybe That's why the Davos Elitists want us to eat these insects. 🐛 To further the hive-mind. 🐝 🐝 🐝
this is just me guessing without further research but i'm not sure that it's necessarily mind control...it looked like the parasites covered themselves with the caterpillar's own silk, possibly to deceive and be accepted by the caterpillar as its own. in return this could cause some instinctive trigger in the caterpillar's dna of taking care of them, even if these caterpillars don't have their own young at that stage cycle
He explains that it isnt common
@@Master__Chief117 makes no difference to this comment
@@sneakycheeky531 if it isn't common, then that means there's no mind control and this caterpillar is just bored or somethin. You seem to be the only one saying irrelevant shit
I was so sad when the caterpillar died, wtf. It was like my favourite character of a show dying.
Right?
Such character development, for such death.
@@Lucas_Nuts man we could of had another season but the writers didn’t have enough money to keep the show going
it was cute too!
If only it would've snacked on the extra leaves and made it's own cocoon towards the end they could've flown away together
Some game of thrones shit that happens in our backyards
“It will protect the cocoon from any intruder.”
The caterpillar with a bug on its face: *Y E E T*
Tbh this is one of the funniest comments I’ve read this month haha
7:11
I'm dying, I agree with Chris, funniest comment I've read in a long while. Made me choke on my tea 😂
That insect got yeeted into next week :D
Why he protec tho
Incredible camera-work. What a mind-blowing video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
seeing that caterpillar throw down with that wasp made me realize how tanky they really are. as humans, we think they're small, squishy, and helpless. but in the insect world they're basically tubes of muscle!
The insect world contains many powerful beings. The ants for ex can lift items 10-50 times their mass.
That's the equivalent of a human (probably 60kg on average) lifting a 3 ton object.
1. The square-cube law works in both directions. This means that as a species's average size decreases, the more efficient it gets strength-wise. It's why fleas can jump and fall many times its height without injury, but an elephant can't jump without destroying its legs.
2. Their skeletons is literally their outsides. That means there are no bones inside to take up space, which leaves more room for muscles.
depend on type of wasps... carnivore wasps already had if flying to their nest
@@darnit1944 60kg on average???
@@Sjaapdespaak Why are you acting so surprised?
The fact 70% have this happen to them is insane, and the fact the caterpillar becomes a care taker is a whole other level of wild
Nature's way of saving the plants from being overeaten!
have you heard of the Cuckoo Bird?
It's not insane because this is how ecosystems do population control. Some animals are eaten, some animals are used in other ways.
It's a very delicate balance.
The less of these caterpillars are there, the less the wasps can breed, and the more caterpillars are there, the more the wasps can breed. If the caterpillars go extinct, the wasps will follow. And if the wasps go extinct somehow, the caterpillar population would go out of control, likely impacting the feeding habits of some other animals in their ecosystem.
@@Emajenus well explained!
@@Emajenus ik it's to keep everything balanced it's just that i think it's an horrible way of dieing. I'd rather see the wasps just kill and eat and the caterpillars instead of this. But it is what it is
the fact that the caterpilar is alive and defends the wasps just blew my mind!
But why does it do that
@@midking4281 to defend the wasp cocoons?
That is just one of the miracles of creation.
@@amananifer3511 useful reply
@@sneakycheeky531 I just realized how stupid my comment was
The narrator has a soothing voice and makes anything not so scary
True asmr vibes
Reality is often more disturbing than fiction.
Fiction is a twist on reality
@@Ali-fb5km reality is more twisted n complicated though.
Just like parents in law..
Multiple chest busters on the same body...?
In the fiction, it was the humans and I didn't care but here we have innocent baby animals.
Caterpillar is like "I have no idea what these are, but they came out of me so they must be my babies and I love them."
It's brain was chemically hijacked by the wasp.
@@MahouShoujo-Studios Yeah, that tends to happen in one way or another with wasp venom. The exact composition naturally varies from species to species but it's usually a cocktail of proteins, peptides, and neurotransmitters like acetylcholine that paralyze insect nerves and cause pain in mammal nerves.
@@andrewsinclair7159 I'm looking back at my comment and I'm like "I used the wrong 'its'. My entire statement is now invalid.
@@MahouShoujo-Studios We are both big dumb nerds.
@@andrewsinclair7159 Yes we are. But nerds are cool nowadays so :)
Larvae: We will eat your non essential tissue and won't spill any blood bursting out and in return you take care of us till you die, okay?
Caterpillar: This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever
its called parenting
Biden : Bet.
@@Guerilla423 hotel : trivago
@@warfar53 The worst, is true XD
Still a better deal than the TPP Obama tried.
the fact they got uplose footage of all the processes and different steps of this is INSANE! especially the larvae eating and coming out of the caterpillar, actually insane footage, and the 9M views that this vid got seems to agree! keep these videos going and this channel will be at million subs no time!
Note to self: Do not come back as the Large White Caterpillar.
@sherry your pic profile is bird
@sherry I mean they suffer at the hands of other animals too
@@TomSNC especially humans.
@@TheAnimationStationTAS Im not sure of that 100% as theyve been suffering at the hands of each other long before we existed. Humans can be pretty shitty with a lot of things tho but other animals aren’t devoting the resources to save other animals that humans are. However humans are also destroying the environment, so it’s like a 1 step forward and 1 or 2 steps back kinda thing
@@TomSNC sorry, I thought you meant humans suffered at the hands of other animals.
Gardener: I hate caterpillars.
Wasp: I got you bro.
Gardener: Wait..
*"70% of large white caterpillars suffer this fate"*
Well, I now know what I don't want to be in my next life
The time I was reincarnated as a -slime- caterpillar
@@dioxide39 shut up
@@H2Ojellyfish what is wrong with you?
@@Warframe_lover42 shut up
@@juansandrik9549 lol no I won't
Makes the film Alien seem all the more believable .
These parasitic wasps are what inspired it.
This might be the sickest most disturbing thing ive ever seen an insect do... its bad enough that they burst from the caterpillar but that its possessed to give it life for them afterwards is horrifying
You have a weak constitution..
@@placeholder2617 My constitution has nothing to do with it, I am not physically repulsed by this, more that I find it mentally disturbing that a creature exists that has the power to enslave another creature in this way
without tactics like this happening for millions of years you sir would not be on this planet. we have all come from survival of the fittest.
@@industrialfear5055 That is not survival of the fittest. Many insects lay their eggs in the body of another, in this symbiotic way. Yet for that creature to then willingly give its life protecting the very thing that is causing it pain and feeding upon its body that is not survival of the fittest.
Interesting take. They enslaved it. Just like evil spirits do to people who wont ise the right means of getting free. JESUS
I like how the caterpillar attempts to eat the wasps wing like a leaf lol
Could you imagine being in such agony, as you're being tortured medieval style. And before finishing you off you hear a voice yell "any last words?!" You cry out with every last bit of life you posess, "Buh... buhh......... BACON SANDWICH!!!" as you blissfully accept your doom and fade into the hereafter.
XD
@@LionofJudah444 what
@@LionofJudah444 ....yikes 😬
@@LionofJudah444 that's what the caterpillar said fr
Catapillar: GUYS HELP-
Other caterpillars: nah we got some leaves
Num
*L e a v e s*
Jeff caterpillar: nah man you'll be fine. Happened to me last week and doing great
Caterpillars: Nah we got to eat these leaves
*A LITERALLY AN ALIEN-LOOKING CYCLE IN THE INSECT WORLD*
This channel: *proceeds to put an uplifting song background*
I’ve always known a wasp did this to a caterpillar, but I never would have imagined the caterpillar to help the larvae even after they emerged from its body (The fact that it left no fatal wound shocked me completely 🤯).
An incredible video on a disturbing and educational level.
The larvae did leave wounds, look closely.
Also how do they get the caterpillar to protect them?
@@garkeinen7034 Maybe the catpiller thinks it's there children who knows ?
@@garkeinen7034 insects have feelings. I bet the caterpillar looks after the young as if they were their own. It probably fucks with the caterpillars head. Like when a human being sees a puppy we naturally wanna nurture it, and care for it even tho it's another species. Maybe larvae are "cute defenceless babies" to a caterpillar. Fucking bizarre.
@@aestheticbeatz5700 Insects are not nearly complicated enough to have feelings. They have, at best, a basic spectrum of emotions. You are anthropomorphizing them too much.
that caterpillar is more of a mother to their children than the wasp that laid them
Just like my mom tbh
In a gruesome way😂
high society types
A mother by our defenition ..animals dont all work the same.
Interesting
This dude just said "70% of these caterpillars will go through the same fate" and there's something spine-chilling about that
@@nobody7817 thats a nice fact i tell random people lol
Cells have a kill switch, i kinda wish all life had a kill switch. Id just nope right out of it. Something too terrifying, could nope right out.
I feel sorry for them. I might go looking out and kill a couple of these wasps when I see them.
@@pamelapap Why? Its nature
@@pamelapap You shouldn't do that.
There is a reason why so many die.
It's nature's ecosystem,it's balanced as it has to be.
It’s crazy how the Caterpillars look changed from 2:20 when it got bit to 7:00 when it’s protecting the baby wasp. Almost like it mutates
At first I was like "Oh, it's only a few larvae, that's fine I guess". Then I saw just how many there were, and it made me shiver with fear
When he said 50, it made me spill my drink...
How do they even fit inside without killing the caterpillar??
Makes me wonder just how much of that caterpillar is still a caterpillar when all those larvae are grown
@@WahlVids None.
@@FishyDaGamer They begin as tiny eggs and, of course, not all of the larvae make it. There would be some fierce sibling rivalry going on in there!
When I was a kid I used to collect caterpillars (whites and tortoise shells) tank them, feed them, give them something to pupate on and eventually release the hatched butterflies.....at least that was the idea.
The amount of the Whites that were parasitised by these things was horrifying and most collected as fairly developed caterpillars suffered this grizzly and unpleasant fates.
I switched to collecting butterfly eggs and hatching them out safely away from the wasps in the end.
This is the first vid I've ever really seen on the process that I'm so personally familiar with. Great educational content.
I had the same exact experience, it was honestly traumatising and horrifying to see so many tiny worms burst out of the caterpillars body
I also used to collect caterpillars when I was a kid. I also remember having the same problem. I used to take my caterpillars on my hands and let them crawl on me. One day I noticed that one caterpillar seemed to be more squishy and soft when I touched it. It was as if it was empty on the inside. At first I thought it was not eating enough but it was getting worse each day. I started to worry about it. Then later I found the caterpillar with wierd little yellow ovals next to it. I started to cry. That was the most horrible experience I ever had with collecting caterpillars.
Oh..I tried keeping one of these caterpillars and he started not moving after a week or so, maybe it was because of this? But thankfully I released him into the open before I could see anything more
@@zeath_zolaries3508 they go yeet into the flames thats all i can say
Where must you live for this to be a problem?
Nature has got to be the best source material for sci-fi authors. Amazing stuff
Yup. Definitely.
I mean how can you design creatures without understanding them
The movie The Fly was horrific also :::::O
It's pretty difficult to source stuff from anything other than nature as nature is the only thing we know.
I can't think of anything in any sci-fi that wouldn't be based on something known to exist.
Yeah this is literally what happens in 'Aliens' , pretty sure those movies are based on this behaviour...
Subscribed. Decision was a complete no-brainer😏. This channel is a winner. Bravo!
Nobodies talking about how fitting the music is to the occasion this is a job well done fr
It really made it look like a thoughtful epic tale about nature.
wasp:imma implant my children on you!
Caterpillar: *our* children
Technically wasp children was born from the caterpillar,so its not completely wrong 😅
@BLADE except humans need a man and a woman to have kids???
*USSR National Anthem starts playing*
@@raphaelj.r5804*USSR anthem intensifies*
Your pfp is everything to me 😭😭
I never thought one day I was going to watch a survival battle between a parasitic wasp and an aggressive caterpillar, narrated with a Scottish accent, for 8 minutes.
Yeah, I just had one of those "What the hell did I just watch?" moments myself.
This is not something that surprises me about myself.
I just realized umi watched it for 8 mins
His accent sounds Portuguese to me
It’s not one of those things you plan for m, it just happens 😂
Its like in alien resurrection, the anthropomorph alien thought Ripley was her real mother.
Caterpillar: let me tell you all something
Baby wasps: what?
Caterpillar: you all are adopted.
this is one of the funniest comments
My brain: It's disgusting.
My eyes: *Don't stop watching!* 👀
My larvae: Don't stop living
I WANT TO STOP BUT I CANT
it's sickeningly mesmerizing. it's very well-done.
It's like a car crash!! I CAN NOT STOP!!!!
And here it is folks, the definite proof that your eyes do hate your brain that much, possibly from being forcefully leashed to it and being prevented from going anywhere out.
Caterpillar: “Aw sweet! I won that fight!”
*Cameraman keeps filming*
Caterpillar: “… didn’t I?”
Caterpillar: “… didn’t I?”
Caterpillar: "Mr. Cameraman, I dont feel so good..."
Caterpillar: DON'T MESS WITH MY LITTLE BABIES!!!
Thank you
**Video Pauses**
Narrator: "He didn't."
The mother wasp be like: you can eat my wing but in exchange, protect my eggs let them grow fabolus
" OH GOD!!!! I'M GONNA DIEEEEEE!!!! THEY'RE COMING OUT OF MEEEE!!!! oh well, might as well help these guys at this point..." 🤣
if you can't fight them, join them lol
@@kawaiigirl8528 hehehehehehehe
Lolll I'm laughing too hard at 2am
@@imjy215 now it's 2 am for me
they did look a bit like baby caterpillars.. i wonder if that was part of how they got away with getting the caterpillar to mother them.
That caterpillar seems like a nice guy. He got baby wasps put in him, they ate holes thru him and he still turned around and tucked them in. Nature is definitely something else!
aha... 'cept it's not really "himself" anymore
Lol she just forced him to be her baby daddy.🤣
@@susiebear3316 he didnt even receive child support either.
@@jrock865 Ofc not he's a male. He's lucky he does not have to pay alimony.
El Cuck-o Supremo
This is taking Stockholm Syndrome to another level.
I just wrote that too. Kindred minds.
Exactly!!!
LOL
thats what i thought too
Remarkable film. Thank you! I found you when I discovered cocoons on my broccoli plant that had caterpillars draped over them, and was intrigued as I knew they weren't eggs of the large white. In over 50 years of gardening I had never come across this caterpillar behaviour before nor seen the chrysalids of Cozia glomerata.
That's just so extreme, how such a tiny group of neurons in a tiny insect, is able to survive by completely changing the behaviour of another insect. Turning a non maternal host into the best mother ever.
Unbelievable complex.
How does that even happen?
I studied some neuropsychology, and this is just fascinating
Called love dummy
@@prosper309 suuure that's what it is.. would you protect your tapeworm because you love it? Or how about raising some botflies in your skin out of compassion. Yeah right. This guy made a very good observation and your response is laughable. But yeah, he's the dummy.. 😂
@@leevmeealone3360 he has a point, why do we protect and feed our pets? Us humans tend to think that we have tamed these animals and called them our pets, but what if our pets have tamed us, they literally live the high life, they dont need to work, find shelter, they just need to exist and be loved.. They tapped into our neurochemistry by releasing oxytocin, the same chemicals we experienced first with our mothers as babies. Now how is it that an entire other species did that to us "conscious" beings. I think if you scale that down, its manipulation of oxytocin, or love dummy.
It's not maternal instincts. The wasp doesn't have them, the butterfly doesn't, so how could the wasp implant them in the caterpillar? That's just the spin the narrator puts on it. The grubs, either by eating the fat reserves or the little nodes in the caterpillars body that digest the caterpillar and turn it into a butterfly, stops the caterpillar being able to complete its life cycle. So its stuck, on hold. When the grubs spins its cocoon this triggers the caterpillar to reinforce the cocoon it can see, perhaps its body thinks it's now pupating and so the caterpillar stops moving or eating. The caterpillar when in a cocoon will wiggle when it feels threatened, and in any case the caterpillar is stuck in that phase of its life cycle. So it stays still, like it would if it was in a cocoon, and reacts to danger
@@blackmog1396 I disagree, every single living thing on this planet that can reproduce has maternal instincts. You mention that the wasp doesn't have maternal instincts but how is that so, if its risking its life to reproduce? I think maternal instincts to protect your offspring is a hard lined code in every living things DNA. I don't think anyone can fully understand why the caterpillar protects the wasp offspring, or just nature in general. Its extremely interesting and terrifying to say the least...
Imagine u watching this incredible footage and then out of nowhere a child slaps the plant and kills everything instantly lol
good.
Or a lizard, frog or bird, in a blink of an eye, eats the whole taco before you even notice...
that would be a titan about to wreck havock in there eyes
A better fate for all
Soccer Mom: "Child rearing is the most rigorous ordeal a being could ever undergo."
Cabbage White Caterpillar: "Observe."
Rhino beetle :" Very facnating of you little one however you need to eat i have seen a cute caterpillar." "But first become a butterfly next win her."
As creepy as this video makes them seem, those wasps are actually incredibly useful in controlling pests.
Just like cicada killer wasps
"I used the pests to destroy the pests"
Since when is a caterpillar a pest?
@@XxW12ARDx0x7IONxX I wasn't talking about caterpillars in particular, but yes, depending on what kind they can be pests, eating up your garden.
@Bendetoma Ahhh. I am limited to personal experience with everyday household pest.
I honestly feel bad for the caterpillar, gets ripped from the inside and being ripped from inside out, protecting the larva’s and then starved. Like god that’s a way to go
I know it's not related to the comment but... Oh wow, sports🌈.
@@UnKnown-tv1fx XD
I'll never get over how privileged we are to see footage like this, simply mind blowing.
Yike
I’ll never get over how privileged I am to not be that caterpillar.
@@contentstarved991 The caterpillar must be thinking the same about those monkeys living inside boxes all the life being slaves.
@@raptorduck8785 grr edge
@@raptorduck8785 which monkeys?
Caterpillar: "I'm going to nibble you to death." (Terrifying - being bitten to death by an obligate vegetarian.)
Wasp: "Just wait till my offspring comes along."
"You can't beat me."
"I know, but they can."
''How the little piggies will grunt, when they hear how the old boar suffered'' Ragnar reference xD
@PARK Can I have a crate full of whatever it is you're taking? xD
@PARK i would like some of whatever your on.
Why am I watching this before breakfast? I ask myself.
Then I see we’re having cauliflower caterpillars, and I’m relieved.
Fiction: "I am the weirdest and most illogical thing in the world!"
Reality: *_Hold my nature_*
A lot of the strangest things that happen in reality would be called out as unrealistic if they happen in fiction.
You ever been thinking about someone and just bump into them in the street a day later? Happens in reality, but if it ever happens in fiction, people would just call it convenient writing or deus ex machina.
@@Emajenus Also, you could just base fiction things (like Alien movies) on nature not too known things (like this wasp birth cycle) and people would call it an original awesome idea.
@@Mostbee Enforcing the importance of first impressions, eh?
@@Blizzburn Not actually first impressions, but "fame" or knowledge of concepts, we're less supposedly to know about a particular thing of a particular ramdom specie, than an concept shown in a famous movie or something in pop culture, I've never watched any of the Alien/Predator movies actually, but I know things about it from pop culture in general.
So yes, it becomes less impressive when you know the actual "source" of a cool concept.
@@Mostbee Basically something like what Last of Us did by using an actual fungus that reanimates bugs and applying it to humans.
PTSD
Lel, i feel u
Yes nature is terrifying
PTSD, Anxiety, crippling depression there is no question you should kill me, let me be with harambe I feel like shit everyday.
@@herangelface I-
Huh
My daughter and I collected a cocoon and identified the moth. We watched and waited for days.. and then, after much patience and good wishes, we observed movement-- It was hatching. It was not the moth that emerged though, but a parasitic wasp.
did you crush it then?
Yes this is another kind of parasitoid wasps. Only one wasp larvae can survive inside one caterpillar larvae, and then it consumes everything inside the host before pupating . It is another level of horrific experience for the host😂
@@hchiu9098 jeffrey dahmer wasn't that weird after all 🤡
And great guardians you are. 👍
HORRIFYING
I appreciate that the narration put the focus on the wasps' perspective. We already know how the caterpillar feels, there's no need to narrate that part, and you took full advantage of that
Wow thats disgusting but so interesting.
In my opinion, it's the most interesting thing that happens in all of nature.
@@TeamCandiru it's definitely up there.
I know, right: Just like reproduction between two humans.
@@TeamCandiru eh you haven´t heard of physics i guess
@@martini.1999 space is mindblowing
*daddy caterpillar sees the kids*
This caterpillar: "I swear they're yours!"
under-rated comment.
AHH yes I forget the milk-i mean honey goodbye
Technically the cartepillar is still baby
The life of an entomologist is truly fascinating. My late Dad used to work as an illustrator for for an entomology research company and the illustrations (which I still have many of) he painstakingly drew by hand using microscopes to view all the minuscule details are breathtakingly amazing. Insects can really look like the monsters of our worst nightmares but on a miniature scale.
hey! is there a way to find pictures of your Dad's drawings? they seem to be beautiful
@@andreacab1312
Most of the pictures I have are draft sketches of insects he was required to draw for various department thesis or copies of pen and ink drawings he did for illustrations that went into various kinds of encyclopaedic volumes researching entomology and the evolution of insects. These copies are I believe still technically under the legal ownership of the authors/printing companies, so I could end up in a lot of legal tape if I started distributing them myself. Although I do have other sketches/illustrations, cartoons and artwork my Dad did over the years. I’m just relieved Dad had the aforethought just before he died to pass all of this to my daughter (my brother would have thrown them all away) for safekeeping and as a very precious family heirloom. We even have sketches my Dad drew of my Mum sunbathing at St Ives in Cornwall while on their honeymoon in 1948. Dad lost his eyesight in the last few years of his life, nothing hurt him more than not being able to draw.
@@Jjudes9665 oh ok i understand, you're doing such a beautiful thing, you keep his memories and legacy alive with these drawings
I have an insect phobia (with few exceptions) and that’s what I always say. They literally look like horrific monsters
@@rainpoetry3695
Where you can now see these astounding little creatures in all their fascinating detail with powerful electron microscopes, they truly are the horrific monsters that movies have strived to portray for decades now. Seeing these insects in such detail gives me far more appreciation for the sheer effort my Dad put into each and every one of his drawings. The microscopes Dad used then back in the 1960’s -1980’s were nowhere near as powerful as todays microscopes. This sadly was the downfall of my Dad’s eyesight. His determination to present the world of entomology in all its finest detail literally began the diseases that claimed his eyesight. The repetitive strain on his eyes drawing such minute detail while using a microscope at the same time put a massive strain on his eyesight, gradually destroying his central vision. In the last few years of my Dad’s life the only eyesight he had remaining was 10% peripheral (outer edge) vision around his right eye. Other than that he was completely blind. No one more than he appreciated how precious the gift of eyesight is. He was a staunch supporter of charities for the blind, especially The Macular Society and Sightsavers, a charity that helps people in the third world with eye diseases and cataracts. Cataracts cause blindness to over five million people every year in our world’s poorest countries. Over half of human cataracts in these countries are sadly never treated due to lack of funding, surgeons and facilities. My Dad was so passionate about sharing his gift of being able to draw, encouraging many children locally and in his travels to aspire to their artistic talents. I’m very proud of my Dad’s achievements.
the ability nature channels have to capture these mini battles is insane
We need to appreciate the fact that Antman is being a good cameraman
I love this comment so much for some reason, it deserves more likes
The Ichneumon Wasp was the inspiration for the movie “Alien.” The writer read about this species and created the storyline for the movie. Kinda interesting when the host is a caterpillar…..not quite so much when it’s a human.
Source,?
Got a source?
You literally can search it...
honestly ichneumon wasp have a particular spot in my mind, im fascinated by them. When I was a kid we took a field trip to some flower field but I just remember this giant black wasp flying by me with what I thought was a huge stinger. I was so terrified and disgusted at that time, I thought how could bugs exist like that? It wasnt until I was older that I tried researching that bag and understood that insects are just elite life forms in a small body. If they were bigger and smarter bugs would absolutely terrorize the planet.
It also was one of the main reasons Darwin stopped believing in the Christian God thinking that no all-loving being would create something like that.
I remember reading a book called Micro by Michael Crichton where some humans get miniaturized. One of them gets stung by a wasp and has parasites in his arm, and wasp larvae the size of bowling balls were like coming out of his arm and crap. Always thought it was a sci-fi horror thing, but no this is real. Nature can be ugly at times.
Read the webtoon "Hive" lol Insects are giants instead
It has so much worse than laying eggs in humans
@@reader-7623 I was thinking about this webtoon whil watching the video xD
Thank you for the book suggestions! I was looking for something like this for a while.
Repent
That was one of the most intense things I have seen today, and that is saying a lot
The quality of the footage and narration are incredible. Better than most TV productions. You deserve great success and many more subscribers. Great work!
Thanks!
I thought my life was s***, now im just glad im not one of these caterpillars.
Well there is always reincarnation, hopefully if it exist i come back as a human.
@@Ilovegrunge123 or as a pet dog.....their lives are the best if they are raised properly and not thrown outside
*yet*
I have no idea what to comment but I guess this counts
No cap Thank you God 😂😂😂😂
Caterpillar : *eating peacefully*
Wasp: *what a perfect place to put my BEBEH*
Caterpillar: "Our" behbeh!😌
Would love to see Frank's take on this.
So wait a female wasp basically got a caterpillar
Pregnant
I’ve been itching this whole time and I can’t stop
Me looking for relaxing video before go to sleep :
You ain't alone bro
Literally 5am right now, don’t need sleep
Omg same
Me
And now am terrified
that Caterpillar is like "i'm not even mating yet, did i just gave birth to jesus larvae?"
Caterpillar:
"Oh,you're approaching me?!"
Wasp:
"I can't lay eggs without getting close to you."
Caterpillar:
"HOHO. THEN COME AS CLOSE AS YOU'D LIKE."
Is that a JoJo’s reference?!
John Takito is the same type of Stand As Anubhav Debnath
ZA PARASITO
@@poc6003 stinga stinga stinga stinga stinga!!
One of the best nature videos i have ever watched, multiple larvae coming out of caterpillar was scary because i thought only one larva would come out
If this is the shit we’re able to observe then just imagine the crazy shit happening in the ocean depths that we haven’t been able to witness
I Don’t want to know what’s down there lmao. Shit is scary to think lol
That’s the reason I don’t wanna go on a cruise 😂
Facts indeed
People think its a joke bro. I really think there are fucking sea monsters and strange creatures there.
Squidward playing the clarinet
My life may be shitty but goddammit I'm glad I'm not one of these caterpillars
Hey I saw you in reddit!
you'll next life maybe..
WORD!
We are all only catepillars fou ours politicians..... :-)
@@slothflutes222 think about how many insects there are in the world… the odds of becoming one in our next life is way too high😭
Wasp: Do you want my children?
Caterpillar: NO!
Wasp: (Forces her children on him)
Caterpillar: Fine ill baby sit them $10 an hour.
Nahhh...she bitchin babytrap that caterpillar
The first half had potential....
Lame
Bro i can't imagine what this would go
if it's a doujin
The grubs are like "oh shoot, forgot to pay rent!"