Finding Australia's CRAZIEST Insect! Mountain Katydid
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2024
- Meet an "old friend" of this channel, Acripeza reticulata, the mountain katydid. A very intriguing katydid species native to Australia.
But that's not all! There were many other fascinating creatures on this outing, including mantids, golden orb-weavers, other katydids, and giant grasshoppers.
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The combination of technical and measured speech with all intent to inform and the occasional tone-consistent segue into rude language and a good joke is just beautiful. Keep doing what you do.
Haha, it's definitely become something of a "brand" for this channel, so to speak.
To this day, I still can't get over how beautiful Australian forests are.
But it has one thing that makes it unbalanced. The wildlife
I love adventuring vicariously through these, especially when spring hasn't sprung here yet. And that Katydid is spectacular.
I think that’s one of the main reasons I really enjoy the field trip videos - a sense of vicarious adventure. They let me relive a lot of my most interesting trips, and allow others to experience the same.
I love that you're giving a spotlight to these often overlooked but nonetheless spectacular little animals. I absolutely love the katydids
Thanks!
Videos about overlooked animals generally do quite poorly as far as viewership goes, but they’re still definitely worth making.
Love your out door adventures. And your narration. More please .😊
Your stuff is always so cool! To the point, educational. I love your dry wit. Always a pleasure when a video pops up.
Pan-web orb-weaver is still wrapping its prey to this day., Great content as always!
Love the katydid show off! Predatory katydids are arguably my favorite predatory insects, I've just found it funny for the longest time that (how I like to think about it) one random katydid a couple million years ago decided to munch on another bug and now there's a whole group doing it LOL
Katydids are such awesome insects.
Unfortunately videos about them have a tendency to underperform, and this one seems to be no exception.
@BugsandBiology yeah, the main reason I would guess is that most viewers of entomology based channels have an obsession with the arachnid/myriapod half of it.... or generally they want the fear factor from the bitey things (and katydid bites hurt they just don't know it LOL)
@@Broly-sd4qp Katydids, even the ones more inclined towards herbivory, have bitten me far, far more times than spiders. I've only taken one non-intentional bite from a spider (a jumping spider that got stuck in my shirt), but katydids have nibbled on my hands more often than I can remember.
I think also, for my channel in particular, "big scary/deadly spider" is the main catalyst for views. Even centipede videos, which were my channel's original focus, tend to not do very well. Although paleo-content has shown some serious promise as of late.
@BugsandBiology and all of that makes sense! I'll be here for whatever you're posting, even if I forget to comment lol, so best of luck with whatever content you keep making! Random offshoot question you don't have to bother with if you don't want to, but do you have any New Caledonian inverts you know something about you could talk about at some point? I know it's a little niche, it's just a place I've had a long held interest in~ with info being a little hard to find :) thanks for the replies btw! Always great when the creator is in the comments
Unfortunately I have no access to any inverts from that locality; Australia has very strict import/export laws when it comes to live animals, and we’re only allowed to keep native inverts.
Brilliant video. Great snark and relaxing vibe.
Thanks mate! Gotta find some Acripeza when you make it down here.
@@BugsandBiology You bet! It's on my target list
Curious little blighters, the lot of them.
Katydids are so underrated, they are so cool and variable in appearance, im glad you made another video about them. Acripeza reticulata is indeed, a very cool katydid. Chlorobalius is my favourite though, its a shame they’re only found in the less populated inland regions.
I'd love to film Chlorobalius. Or Alectoria superba. But I can't see myself getting to the right locations anytime soon.
@@BugsandBiology Isn’t there a spot with both of those 2 hours or so west of Brisbane
May be very wrong though.
edit: nevermind its 5 hours
Love what you get to see on your local walk ❤
BRILLIANT keep them coming mate 😉👌
There are so many interesting katydids there! Very good video!
Katydid diversity is seemingly boundless. Such fascinating insects!
@@BugsandBiology Yes, they are fascinating, even as pets!
Australia is quite exotic for most of the population of the northern Hemisphere anyway. I thought that all catydids are are at least omnivorous.
I loved your description of the Orb Weaver webs as a "Splendid Summer Sunrise." I love how ornate those spiders are.
Great video as usual. Hope you are back to full health soon!
It’s weird - I recovered from the worst of it very quickly, but the residual coughing/sniffing is taking forever to really go away, though I otherwise feel pretty normal.
Great video!
Love these adventures!! I learned a lot from this one, as always with your videos, and since I live on the other side of the world, a lot of the creatures you feature are new to me!! Those Austrophlugis are so adorable in my opinion… though to a little insect I’m sure they’re absolutely horrifying lmao, they look very similar to the Phlugis we have in the americas, I’m guessing they’re quite closely related
They are very close relatives, both belonging to the tribe Phlugidini.
@@BugsandBiology That’s awesome!! I’ve heard them referred to as Alien Raptorial Katydids, which is honestly one of the coolest animal names ever
I love your passion. I love it. I have visions of you being like some masterful old anime character when you get older and have grey hairs and such haha.
Haha, guess that’s something for me to aspire towards
I just wanted to say how much I love this channel, I also was very scared of any type of crawly animals, but these videos are helping me to overcome this fear, hopefully I lose my fear of of centipedes soon enough and start to love them as much as I love spiders
Centipedes are a fair bit more gnarly than spiders, so I can definitely see why overcoming your fear of them might be a tad more complicated. But I'm sure you'll get there eventually!
So if the rocking motion is to mask the Predatory Katydid’s movement, would that be the same as for the Stickbug?
Yeah exactly the same
My Boa constrictor does the rocking motion before it strikes.
Just found your channel and subbed. the 32 spotted katydid was a pleasant surprise to see(for me). lotta cool finds, awesome vid.
32 spotted katydids are a treat to find for sure. I hear them all the time, but it’s not often that I actually see one.
Love it
Hey mate haven't seen a video of yours in a while. I love your videos they're very calming which is what's I need as I'm currently in hospital with the big C word so calming is what I need.. I Also really love your art . That picture of the giant centipede a while back blew holes in my mind. Thanks for being you dude. ❤ PS I really like the mediaeval string music that accompany your videos. It's the icing on the cake.
Hope you get well soon, and I’m honoured to know that my videos, of all things, are helping you in this difficult time!
@@BugsandBiology I always wanted to be an entomologist but ended up with boring work instead but really thank you 💙
Have you seen any Acrida conica? they're my grasshoppers here in the Eastern states!
(Green Slant face is an awful name)
I have seen a couple, or at least something very similar. None too recently though.
Hexopoda used to be in a subphylum called pancrustacea which also includes crustaceans, but it also used to be in the subphylum uniramia along with myriapods. So are Hexopods more closely related to crustaceans or myriapods?
Crustaceans
@@BugsandBiology OK, I also heard velvet worms are a type of arthropod, it that true?
They are not, but are among the closest living relatives to arthropods.
@@BugsandBiology Both groups are in the superphylum ecdysozoa right?
Yes
you had to say that to flex on us
"Not anywhere exotic or remarkable" ...My brother in entemology, you live in Australia. For most of globe, You ARE our benchmark for exotic or remarkable animals 😂😂😂😂
Eh, it’s a tad overblown. Basically every continent outside Europe, Antarctica and (maybe) North America has more exotic wildlife than Australia.
Cowboy cosplayer 😂😂😂😂😂 I believe I know who you mean... That was a ballsy comment lest you be sued 😂😂😂 stay brave mate 😂😂😂
deer god this was a video showing someone ugllyer than i am my condolences