Have a little army of zebra isopods and they do act like piranhas but mostly for potatoes and zucchini. Fun seeing them swarm tho, and they do eat the occasional dead insect.
Quite interesting to see how isopods evolved and changed ever so slightly for almost every environment. Now just makes me sad we don't have trilobites anymore ):
Just when we thought it was safe to go back to the water and we see this video on Flesh-Eating Sand Piranhas! We are going to need a bigger boat and keep our feet inside.
When I was a kid, I walked on the beach as the waves splashed at my feet and I had this sharp pain on my ankle. I looked down and saw something like one of those small conch snail stuck on me. I pulled it off and was curious on what was it. 20 years later, the question still bothered me until now. I'm now grateful to know what these little things are.
It was probably something else... I know they say the bite stings like a razor but honestly most bites from these things you will never ever notice... You could've been bitten/stung/nicked by ~any~ number of things at the beach.
I always thought is was microscopic barnacles or something since when you climb on rocks you get cuts all the time so why wouldn't sand be any different Now I know it's just my imminent consumption
As a Californian, I was honestly surprised to learn that they’re only found in a few places. I’ve been to Indonesia a few times, now it makes sense y I never see them there.
Seconding the comparison to The Bay. In addition to being about marine isopods eating people alive, it's even more horrific with the hindsight of the COVID and how malignant negligence enabled its spread.
We also have the normal burrowing/filter feeding ones over here (Emerita analoga, pacific sand crabs) which are super common and similar to the east coast ones. There's also stuff like Megalorchestia californiana (which surprisingly I've caught). Isopods range from giant isopods and springtail goobers to the tongue replacing parasite, so they're basically everywhere
I think you have the cute mole crabs but there, they have flesh-devouring sea bugs. Makes me happy that shrimps have never thought of using all their limbs as weapons…
Lol in my native language we call roly-polies "piss beds" and so I've been conditioned to think they're disgusting solely from their name. However, for some reason my brain tells me these flesh-eating bugs are kinda cute.
i think more attention needs to be given to whoever does the music for these. it really brings the experience all together! the fact that each video appears to have a unique track composed especially for it is SO cool! i wonder if there's anywhere we can listen to the tracks by themselves...
Hi @josemembreno3134, Seth Samuel composes an original score for each of our episodes. For now, there isn't a way to listen to the tracks by themselves. You'll just *have* to come back and watch more of our episodes, lol.
I was exploring a beach on my way up to Big Sur, i paused next to a giant 🪨 boulder, my feet stared sinking into the sand and I felt safe as I had my rubber croc sneakers and I had no idea these things existed! As the tide left i started feeling a ton of little bites between my toes and top of my feet, they were squirming everywhere and coming in and out of the holes of my crocs! It was a nightmare!!!
So that’s what they are! One time I was at a beach (in California) and one of those sand piranhas decided to try and eat my foot. Got it off but I’ve had no idea what it was until now. Thanks Deep Look!
So that’s what was causing those sharp stinging pains whenever I tried to get my feet wet. Now I know there are tiny crustaceans made out of bits of me wandering around balboa.
Water shoes, i always wear water shoes, people think I’m weird for it, but you never know what you could step on. And the bites from them would probably hurt less
I remember during a trip to California, me and my siblings were exploring a beach, but evertime we put our feet in certain tidepools, our feet would sting. Now I know why.
@@HauntedMushroom96 I grew up there and so did my parents and grandparents. My father and grandfather were surfers and lifeguards. I never heard of these, nor experienced them, and neither did my parents or grandparents. So for me, never in 100 years. Literally.
@@shakeyj4523 I was just thinking the same thing. My family on both my mom and dad's side are all Cali natives and none of us have ever experienced anything like these little critters before. They gotta stop trying to make people afraid of the beach lmao.
Yeah road tripped to the pacific northwest, noticed em every time i dug in the sand. They were also on any dead animal matter along the shore line, where it was damp.
I've spent my entire life on the coast of western Wa and I've never ever been bitten by anything like that.. from Neah Bay to La Push.. never ever seen anything like those.. sand fleas in their billions but nothing like that
I placed my toddler in about 6 inches of water on a beach on Pearl Harbor. In less than a minute he started to cry and his white rash guard started to get red spots on it. He got about 10bites from these horrible little sand lice.
Producer for this episode here! I was a willing volunteer! Very willing! The bite hurt for second then I was just left with a little nibble/s! Just like when you cut yourself shaving. That’s why we wrote that line!
So that's what these are! We have a ton of them at our local Beach, and they're nothing to be really afraid of, you'll be getting back to your car and realize you have a bunch of them in your shorts, and they itch pretty bad, but you shake them off, brush them off, wash them off, whatever it takes. They just itch, and make the whole experience less pleasant. They're not always at the beach though, they seem to come in waves. If it's a bad day for them, just keep away, unless you don't mind the itching.
Early they said in the video that they'll go for dead animals, but the film crew still decided that they needed a live subject. That's dedication, or torture depending on intent.
Mmmm I think I’ll stick to wearing shoes on the beach so I don’t have these guys nibbling on me. But they must make for delicious treats for smaller sea birds!
Fun Fact: Pill bugs and shrimp are both crustaceans, clams and snails are mollusks, and all of the mentioned creatures eat rotting material. . You are already eating the bugs.
I grew up thinking these were harmless sand crabs. They were so common on the beaches that, as children, we briefly held them before they quickly buried themselves in the sand. We were lucky, I guess, and I'm grateful to have not been afraid of them then. From now on, after seeing this video, I will be.
Where I live we have these things called sand fleas which are basically just clawless crabs (make great bait) but never knew the pacific has actual flesh eating things, isn’t that nice
Huh. When I was a kid I cut up all the back of my heel walking in bad shoes. Went in swimming after and when I came out of the water there was loads of a similar isopod, what I know as a sand flea, chomping down on my wound.
I am from Taiwan, and I've never encountered these things over my entire life. Which got me curious, so I checked on various sources, and I don't think there's any formal report of people encountering these things on our beaches either. Do you mind sharing the source on that?
Hi @mikechiu9767, This review paper mentions that Excirolana chiltoni have been reported in Taiwan: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/100390/element/2/17// This paper from 2001 also mentions them: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/research.nhm.org/pdfs/4970/4970.pdf It's possible that they aren't very abundant in Taiwan and that's why other sources, like this one, don't show them there: www.gbif.org/zh-tw/species/2212911
Thank you Deep Look! I love the music and foley in this video, and my top three favorite subjects are music, bugs, and videography, so I just wanna say that this channel is inspiring! Much love! 🤍
@@KQEDDeepLook I love all you guys; but Laura, Seth, and Mark are all huge inspirations for me as an upcoming musician, foley artist, videographer, and (hobbyist) entomologist! Thanks for being awesome and showing the world how cool arthropods are! Not to be too gloomy, but will there be any chance that you guys will talk about the death by a thousand cuts that is currently happening to insects? Their silent extinction is really sad to me. :(
One time i was at my local beach, Lincoln City, OR. I had my foot in the water, suddenly it was swarmed by these things. I instantly got multiple bites, they were all painful and bleeding. Hurt worse than a bee sting. I have never seen them before or since.
20+ years later. This solved the case of what ate my fish as I tied it threw it back into the ocean to stay chill. When I went to pull it up. I saw these guys.
I have pet isopods and I just thanked them for staying as cute leaf munchers and not these nightmares
Have a little army of zebra isopods and they do act like piranhas but mostly for potatoes and zucchini. Fun seeing them swarm tho, and they do eat the occasional dead insect.
Quite interesting to see how isopods evolved and changed ever so slightly for almost every environment. Now just makes me sad we don't have trilobites anymore ):
Depending on the type, isopods love eating meat just as much.
@@purpleblah2 As long as it isn’t MY meat
*real isopod hours*
Respect to the flesh/blood donor humans, that's dedication to footage (pun intended)
I couldn't imagine anyone sitting on the shore front in their speedo. Ouch!
I felt that joke as if you had stepped on me lol
You son of a pun
666 👍
Just when we thought it was safe to go back to the water and we see this video on Flesh-Eating Sand Piranhas! We are going to need a bigger boat and keep our feet inside.
When I was a kid, I walked on the beach as the waves splashed at my feet and I had this sharp pain on my ankle. I looked down and saw something like one of those small conch snail stuck on me. I pulled it off and was curious on what was it. 20 years later, the question still bothered me until now. I'm now grateful to know what these little things are.
Cone snails can sting with their hydraulic harpoon tongue.
It was probably something else... I know they say the bite stings like a razor but honestly most bites from these things you will never ever notice... You could've been bitten/stung/nicked by ~any~ number of things at the beach.
I always thought is was microscopic barnacles or something since when you climb on rocks you get cuts all the time so why wouldn't sand be any different
Now I know it's just my imminent consumption
As an Australian, I’m surprised this isn’t found here.
As a Californian, I was honestly surprised to learn that they’re only found in a few places. I’ve been to Indonesia a few times, now it makes sense y I never see them there.
🤣🤣
Yeah huh 😊😊😊
Yeah if they were in Australia they'd need to be venomous, too.
Oh I'd be happy to smuggle a few million in for you if you want😉
*Kudos to the volunteers that had to sacrifice their limbs and feet during the making of this video!*
Thanks for unlocking this new fear for me
Knowledge is power, no?
@@KQEDDeepLook absolutely not!
So nasty and did not need to know this. Ugh
@@KQEDDeepLook Sometimes, the naive one is the happiest one!
😆ikr
Getting sand in your shorts has never been scarier.
Nawwww, that's the last thing I needed to comprehend 😭😭😭
Thanks for that ☠️😝. They just get worse and worse the more you think about them, lol.
getting sand in your underwear 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Just make sure they don't make their way up your pee-hole. 😬
No more sx on the beach.
There's a horror movie just waiting to happen here.
It's pretty close to The Bay.
Seconding the comparison to The Bay. In addition to being about marine isopods eating people alive, it's even more horrific with the hindsight of the COVID and how malignant negligence enabled its spread.
Adding a third recommendation for The Bay. Best horror movie set on the 4th of July.
Ooh, like quick sand that eats you, I like it. As an idea. I like it as an idea.
Not really, would be as horrible as what the alien franchise has become
I live on the east coast, we have sand fleas wich are harmless and funny.
YOU HAVE FLESH EATING SAND FLEAS OVER THERE!?
The east coast does have relatives (fish lice) that will swim up to you!
And they can stay over there. We can keep the cute funny ones, and they they can keep the foot munchers.
We also have the normal burrowing/filter feeding ones over here (Emerita analoga, pacific sand crabs) which are super common and similar to the east coast ones. There's also stuff like Megalorchestia californiana (which surprisingly I've caught). Isopods range from giant isopods and springtail goobers to the tongue replacing parasite, so they're basically everywhere
We have both.
I think you have the cute mole crabs but there, they have flesh-devouring sea bugs. Makes me happy that shrimps have never thought of using all their limbs as weapons…
Deep look trauma was not on my video feed today.
The more you know...
@@KQEDDeepLook The more freaked out I become....😨
@@KQEDDeepLook Can you do video on Owlflies in future? AKA Antlion but in trees.
Yes, why does UA-cam think I want to know this?
Roly Poly: hi, I’m second only to the ladybug in terms cute bugs.
Everything closely related to it: your flesh and your nightmares are delicious!
Have you seen a ladybug on a feeding frenzy yet? 😉
Lol in my native language we call roly-polies "piss beds" and so I've been conditioned to think they're disgusting solely from their name. However, for some reason my brain tells me these flesh-eating bugs are kinda cute.
Why is everything related to the pillpug nightmare fuel?
Wait till you go deep sea and meet the real big ones.
i think more attention needs to be given to whoever does the music for these. it really brings the experience all together! the fact that each video appears to have a unique track composed especially for it is SO cool! i wonder if there's anywhere we can listen to the tracks by themselves...
Hi @josemembreno3134, Seth Samuel composes an original score for each of our episodes. For now, there isn't a way to listen to the tracks by themselves. You'll just *have* to come back and watch more of our episodes, lol.
His name is Seth Samuel! He has a little behind the scenes video from a while ago: ua-cam.com/video/as5vqInrwoA/v-deo.html
@@lemon9bug whoa!! thanks for the info! that's awesome!
It’s too whimsical lol it’s like a Pixar movie while this thing is devouring you.
Yeah 0:54 reminds me of the style Crash Bandicoot Titans OST, that really unlocked some memories… I love this music style
I was exploring a beach on my way up to Big Sur, i paused next to a giant 🪨 boulder, my feet stared sinking into the sand and I felt safe as I had my rubber croc sneakers and I had no idea these things existed!
As the tide left i started feeling a ton of little bites between my toes and top of my feet, they were squirming everywhere and coming in and out of the holes of my crocs! It was a nightmare!!!
Carnivorous pill bugs… I’m stuck between admiration, mild fear, and dismay. If it’s not a friend, then why must it be adorable?
"If not friend, why friend shaped?"
Let just say... This one is zombie version of our loveable Roly Poly
Now do a search for Giant Isopod.
The enormous deep sea relative of these creatures.
These sand piranhas bit me at our local beach in Goa (India). Unfortunately I didn't know who they were. Thanks to the deep look for educating us.
So that’s what they are! One time I was at a beach (in California) and one of those sand piranhas decided to try and eat my foot. Got it off but I’ve had no idea what it was until now. Thanks Deep Look!
Glad we helped you solve the mystery.
woe to someone that passes out on the beach in that tidal zone.
Shudder.
I mean, I'd be more worried about getting carried to sea...
Oh you’ll wake up real quick when they start to bite. They hurt!
Cross those off as spring break destinations...surprised they havent shown up on CSI etc....lol
Ah yes, the bitey boys
Ah yes
hahaha i like this name. the bitey boyes
So that’s what was causing those sharp stinging pains whenever I tried to get my feet wet. Now I know there are tiny crustaceans made out of bits of me wandering around balboa.
I almost had a shock at night I thought it was a jellyfish arm! 😭
If these were hear in Australia, they would be the size of a dog and have venom.
At least they'd be easily visible!
These critters take "looking like a snack" to a new level
@ 3:25: This PSA obviously brought to you by sharks.
I KNEW there was a reason why I preferred mountains to beaches. XD
Don't give up on the beach!
@@KQEDDeepLook Too late.
Mountains will always be superior 🔝 🏔️
Depending on which mountains, some do come with leeches 😄
@@sendoh7x still better
Good Lord, and they live exactly where I do! Maybe I should wear socks next time I go to the beach
LOL, no socks needed. Though socks with flip-flops is a beach look that seems to never goes out of fashion. Seriously, you should be fine on dry sand.
@@KQEDDeepLook maybe just bring socks for walking through the surf, then. Just in case.
Water shoes, i always wear water shoes, people think I’m weird for it, but you never know what you could step on. And the bites from them would probably hurt less
Just go with a full hazmat suit already.
I always wear beach shoes when I go there. I got my feet nipped at by dogfish(tiny sharks) on the east coast of the U.S. and Canada multiple times.
seeing the wound with the sand made me cringe so hard
No kidding.
Its just sand dude
It’s coarse rough and gets everywhere
@@KQEDDeepLook How did you all prevent infections?
@@bruhb7611don’t forget irritating
1:32 anything for measurement except the metric system 💀
0:20 Me and the bois pulling up for some sand sprinkled yum yum
Real
Suddenly my legs itch.
1:05 *laughs in Atlantic*
Commenting so your comment is recommended by UA-cam.
No kidding. I'm from Indiana, and these things horrified me when I moved to Washington.
Lmao
You have tics with lime disease buddy lmao from the pacific
Common Atlantic W
New fear unlocked.
Noooo...! Knowledge is power. Just don't hang out on the wet sand and you should be fine.
These are anything but "chill-toe-guys"... ok I'll see myself out.
Nice!
Great ;^; now I have to watch out for sand piranhas when at the beach T^T
Only if you're standing in the wet sand. You're safe on the dry sand!
@ OMG U replied to meh!
And ah! Got it, thx for the tip if I’m at the beach!!
Always happy to find out that most blood sucking or flesh eating animals or parasite live thousands of miles away from me haha
I remember during a trip to California, me and my siblings were exploring a beach, but evertime we put our feet in certain tidepools, our feet would sting. Now I know why.
The more you know ...
How often do californians have to deal with sand piranah's
@@HauntedMushroom96 I grew up there and so did my parents and grandparents. My father and grandfather were surfers and lifeguards. I never heard of these, nor experienced them, and neither did my parents or grandparents. So for me, never in 100 years. Literally.
@@shakeyj4523 I was just thinking the same thing. My family on both my mom and dad's side are all Cali natives and none of us have ever experienced anything like these little critters before.
They gotta stop trying to make people afraid of the beach lmao.
KILLER ROLY POLYS haha!
stashing these fellas in my "horror monster inspiration list"
I can’t wait till Steven Spielberg gets a hold of these guys
So eating rotten stuff in between servings of human blood...doesn't that present a danger of infection?
"Here's one biting on a foot..."
**Quentin Tarantino wept**
Wow that was disturbing and compelling!
I love this channel 😊
Loved it! Thanks for the preview!
I was already afraid because of jellyfish, now this is a new fear. Thanks.
I had one of these latch to my leg in Southern California when I was a kid. It freaked me out so bad I never wanted to go back in the water.
So sorry to hear that!
Yeah, beach trip wouldn't be the same anymore after watching this documentary
Yeah road tripped to the pacific northwest, noticed em every time i dug in the sand. They were also on any dead animal matter along the shore line, where it was damp.
I've spent my entire life on the coast of western Wa and I've never ever been bitten by anything like that.. from Neah Bay to La Push.. never ever seen anything like those.. sand fleas in their billions but nothing like that
Same here for Southern California. Sand Dabs yes. But they don't bite.
Same, I live by puget sound and though ive seen lots of different isopods and relatives at the beach, theyve never bitten me (to my knowledge)
Always learn something new!
Wow these rolly pollies rude af. Never knew these were a thing, thanks Deep Look fam!
I placed my toddler in about 6 inches of water on a beach on Pearl Harbor. In less than a minute he started to cry and his white rash guard started to get red spots on it. He got about 10bites from these horrible little sand lice.
I’m pretty sure the person in this video was an unwilling victim because there’s no way they were a willing volunteer.
Producer for this episode here! I was a willing volunteer! Very willing! The bite hurt for second then I was just left with a little nibble/s! Just like when you cut yourself shaving. That’s why we wrote that line!
oh my,@@mimischiffman626, the dedication.
did you survived though?
So that's what these are!
We have a ton of them at our local Beach, and they're nothing to be really afraid of, you'll be getting back to your car and realize you have a bunch of them in your shorts, and they itch pretty bad, but you shake them off, brush them off, wash them off, whatever it takes. They just itch, and make the whole experience less pleasant. They're not always at the beach though, they seem to come in waves. If it's a bad day for them, just keep away, unless you don't mind the itching.
Why do I watch these before bed
Love this channel. You guys!! So good.
It premieres on my birthday
@worldofanimations456 happy early birthday!
@ it is my birthday
@worldofanimations456 happy birthday!
@@bmo14lax thanks
"What is this creature taking a bite out of your toe?" Idk but it looks like a creature thats about to be stepped on
Thanks I hate beach piranhas 😭
I always wondered what those scribbles were, and I attributed any cuts/sores on my feet to barnacles, which are pretty common
One got into my swimming shorts once, let me say- it sucked!
Yikes!
Of course it sucked - thats what sand piranhas do!
Thanks, Laura, you were very interesting telling me about these little creatures.
Have a grand Christmas, sweetie.
I wish you rainbows.
Yes, take a dive, and then when you come out of the water, get some on your feet. Lovely...
You should be fine if you don't hang out on the wet sand. Enjoy!
Early they said in the video that they'll go for dead animals, but the film crew still decided that they needed a live subject. That's dedication, or torture depending on intent.
Mmmm I think I’ll stick to wearing shoes on the beach so I don’t have these guys nibbling on me. But they must make for delicious treats for smaller sea birds!
They like moisture so just dont stay in the wet zone too much
This preview is giving my nightmares, does that mean I should stop subscribing to this channel?
Nah bro
It means you should watch it twice so the fear become familiar
Don’t be a coward
Beautiful and terrifying! That circular motion just gave me the heebie jeebies. I've never seen a bloodworm and not sure I want to. Well done!
Fun Fact: Pill bugs and shrimp are both crustaceans, clams and snails are mollusks, and all of the mentioned creatures eat rotting material.
.
You are already eating the bugs.
I grew up thinking these were harmless sand crabs. They were so common on the beaches that, as children, we briefly held them before they quickly buried themselves in the sand.
We were lucky, I guess, and I'm grateful to have not been afraid of them then.
From now on, after seeing this video, I will be.
* brings flamethrower backpack * Helldivers taught me a thing or two about getting rid of bugs .
Where I live we have these things called sand fleas which are basically just clawless crabs (make great bait) but never knew the pacific has actual flesh eating things, isn’t that nice
men of culture we meet again
Was looking for this comment
what, her voice?
Genuinely never even heard of these until today
Premiers are so stupid
Huh. When I was a kid I cut up all the back of my heel walking in bad shoes. Went in swimming after and when I came out of the water there was loads of a similar isopod, what I know as a sand flea, chomping down on my wound.
ah - feet
I never knew about this creature. UA-cam once again making feel like I’m not from earth.
These are the stupidest thing. Just release the video
Respect to the guy who got bitten by those nightmares
I am from Taiwan, and I've never encountered these things over my entire life. Which got me curious, so I checked on various sources, and I don't think there's any formal report of people encountering these things on our beaches either. Do you mind sharing the source on that?
Hi @mikechiu9767, This review paper mentions that Excirolana chiltoni have been reported in Taiwan: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/100390/element/2/17//
This paper from 2001 also mentions them: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/research.nhm.org/pdfs/4970/4970.pdf
It's possible that they aren't very abundant in Taiwan and that's why other sources, like this one, don't show them there: www.gbif.org/zh-tw/species/2212911
Thank you Deep Look! I love the music and foley in this video, and my top three favorite subjects are music, bugs, and videography, so I just wanna say that this channel is inspiring! Much love! 🤍
Glad you enjoyed the video! Seth Samuel composes an original score for each of our episodes!
@@KQEDDeepLook I love all you guys; but Laura, Seth, and Mark are all huge inspirations for me as an upcoming musician, foley artist, videographer, and (hobbyist) entomologist! Thanks for being awesome and showing the world how cool arthropods are!
Not to be too gloomy, but will there be any chance that you guys will talk about the death by a thousand cuts that is currently happening to insects? Their silent extinction is really sad to me. :(
I will never forget these creatures, they were at a beach with my family and i kept telling them they kept biting me and they didnt believe me
Me, 7 secs into video: That’s it. You’ve convinced me. I’ll never go outside again. 😌
The camouflage on these creatures is incredible!
I've been bitten by these things while I was in Mission Bay near San Diego. It feels like getting poked and the salt water adds to the sting.
New fear unlocked: Getting eaten by beach piranhas
Wow, nature never ceases to surprise us! These tiny creatures are fascinating yet fierce. I wonder, how do they play a role in their ecosystem? 🦀🌊
Well this got me goosebumps. These guys will be in a monster movie someday
Hey Deep Look. Can they transmit diseases the same way mosquitoes do ?
No, they don't.
Great! I can't go in the water because I am afraid of what will eat me. Now I can't go NEAR the water for fear of what will eat me.
The dry sand is safe.
Imagine getting splashed by a wave and one of them ends up in yo eye 💀
These guys are the heros who keep our beaches clean !
Are these also known as sea fleas?
One time i was at my local beach, Lincoln City, OR. I had my foot in the water, suddenly it was swarmed by these things. I instantly got multiple bites, they were all painful and bleeding. Hurt worse than a bee sting. I have never seen them before or since.
I live along the east coast so I have never even heard of these things before. Also imagine getting paid to stand there while they eat at you.
I was gonna say, I’ve never seen them before. They’re only found on the pacific, that explains why.
Welp looks like im bringing my flamethrower to the beach
Always be prepared. 👍
Lived on the Pacific coast for 30+ years. Never encounterd these.
Those are known as sand fleas or sea fleas and they creep me out
Fantastic and super informative video, as always!
20+ years later. This solved the case of what ate my fish as I tied it threw it back into the ocean to stay chill. When I went to pull it up. I saw these guys.