Zoologist Answers: WTF is THAT?? (Don't Eat While Watching This)
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On today's episode of "WTF is THAT??", we'll be going over some of the most objectively heinous creatures that have gone viral in the last couple of years. While they often show up in places one might hope to never find them, they serve as a reminder of the incredible ways life has adapted to this planet -- no matter how gross it may be.
As always, a huge thanks to Gian for the fantastic editing! :)
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you are a very big inspiration to me and you keep me wanting to learn about all of the plants and animals of now and the past :)
Birds are technically a kind of animal so this is a natural pairing.
Too bad it's US and Canada only 😢
@@abebuckingham8198 No way, birds aren't real. Don't believe the lies!
i watch for the safari hat... this is sad
I would date the safarihatted lady, but no hat? no date.
Lindsay's apology for forgetting her usual hat and wearing a beanie instead was more sincere than 98% of all youtuber apologies.
She is a *_creature_* of habit! 😃
(yea, sorry, I... I'll leave now lol)
Facts.
sad but true
The youtuber makes a fake apology after grooming 12 minors in discord and sending nudes to them, while lindsay makes the most sincere apologie ever bc she forgot her hat
that’s hilariously sad💀
Lindsay gets to say "RAT" and "MAGGOT" in the same episode? That's a win!
RAT TAILED MAGGOTS!!!!!!
@@ashmellow78 RATFISH!
I'm just dying to hear her say "Crab" again
And in the same sentence, being said multiple times!
Bingo!
Horsehair worms are the kind of stuff that inspires horror game developers to create something that will haunt you for life.
Ironically, the tubifex worms inspired a game called Carrion, a reverse horror game where you play as a mass of.. something. These fuckers? Nu-uh, I don't want to see what game developers come up with for them
I don't know about horsehair worm inspired horror game characters, but i DO know about a cordyceps inspired one. I annoyed everyone when the last of us came out and i would not shut up about how cool it was that people were finally recognizing how cool ophiocordyceps were.
@@Skag_Sisyphus Carrion has you play as a mutated tubifex worm, as someone said above, good game
There actually IS a Korean movie directly inspired by horsehair worms named "Deranged" or "Yeon-Ga-Si"! I remember watching it all too vividly as I had eaten jajangmyeon (LONG, BROWN, Korean black bean NOODLES) right before and spent the latter half of the movie puking my guts out due to what I believe was food poisoning, and quite possibly absolute disgust...
Las Plagas in RE4 has to have been at least partially inspired by them.
The way they burst from the body and writhe around.
The fact there's no band out there called Rat Tail Maggots is a missed opportunity.
I know right
Punk or Comedy Metal? I wonder...
I heard maggots referred to as "disco rice" and it makes me hate them a TINY bit less.
But makes me like rice a little less evidently
i have a strong lens prescription and as a kid my older brother liked to mess with me and stole my glasses one day and i was sat in the kitchen while my dad went to get them back and i was staring at a container of brown rice and started seeing mealworms because without glasses everything is 3D. iDONT eat brown rice anymore
as a chinese person i consider this a hate crime
Lindsay: "Don't eat while watching this."
Me: *crunches another chip*
I was eating a sandwich while she said it, but it wasn't a big deal only got flashbacks to an old job where we literally had waterfalls of live maggots
me with my cereal rn
me sitting at the table at lunch right when she uploads the video
*challenge accepted *
I was eating my leftover Chinese food which included rice and chow mein. Did I quit eating? Nope. Lol
Me with leftover pizza
I am a simple specimen. I see a new video about worms, i click.
I see a Lindsay video, I click
That's the video that I learned about Lindsay and I've seen that video about 3 times now... Excuse me while I'll make it 4
May talk to you about our lord and savior Worm Jesus?
Me: Heard it all, seen it all. I've long made peace with this world, its diverse inhabitants, and its myriad phenomena.
Lindsay: Rat-tailed maggots out your ass!
I could not agree more with this statement
It just dawned on me that anyone here in a grindcore band needs to jump on this for their next release's cover art. "Rat-tailed maggots out your ass" even sounds like a grindcore track title.
I can hear the bloody title track.
Ten seconds of ultra fizzy max distortion slow riff
"RAT TAILED MAGGOTS OUT YOUR AAAAAASSSS"
*75 second breakdown*
Fin
@@sohamsengupta6470 Perfection
Scorpion Flies are also a thing!
5:14 casual geographic killed all my fear for any type of invertebrate creatures so nuetral.
Lindsay and mndiaye_97, 2 of the best channels to look around when you are looking for actual fun facts rather than 90% of the "fun fact" tagged videos . Thank you both
Love both their channels! Found Lindsay's through his. Quality content.
Could you talk about vertebrate parasites? They kinda creep me out even more because they developed spines and decided to become everyone else's problem
To be fair, humans also developed spines and decided to be everyone else's problem
@@thesalinator3557 😂😂😂 that is so very true! Very fair indeed
I tend to think of my children as vertebrate parasites... but I dont think a video about them would be very interesting to anyone but me 😂
Just like my dads gf
@@Fern635nature documentary style video made by you and your spouse about your children what be so funny to show them when they’re older
During sewer inspections I have found tubifex worms in a backed up sewer line. It was a softball sized lump blocking a 3inch sewer line, it looked like the alien from the Thing.
if i saw one of those come out of a backed up sewer line, I'd simply cry and never return to that profession
Hey another sewer inspector. Yeh they really don't like it when u turn the hot camera lights at them do they start wiggling and jiggling one of the least disgusting things we get to play with daily lol
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
Heeeey they may look gross but they are just trying to help you guys do your job, just super slowly 😂
@loganspratt9319 honestly, compared to other yuck n muck y'all see, some worms can't be that bad as much as im afraid of them the morbid curiosity most definitely would take over!
Lindsay: "don't watch this while eating"
Me, preparing a full meal: "challenge accepted"
Got the spaghetti and my sprite all good to go for a soul changing experience
I vomited on my brother because I chose to not listen to the advice, be careful
How'd it go
Did you win the challenge
@@theblackcatgirl7013 oh I absolutely won lol
I was the college kid that would eat an entire lunch while watching dissection videos for anatomy classes
@@pokemonbrickbronze5947 oh no! Just keep practicing lol
I believe in you
I appreciate the kitty planter as an alternative visual to focus on
the editor was on another level this video, absolutely had me on the floor crying
that mass of tubifex worms is easily one of the worst things i have ever seen in my life. thank you for the new nightmares, lindsay.
you're so welcome
It looks like the stranger things season 3 monster, ew
If you didn't listen to the editor and searched myiasis on Google, the tubifex worms will get at most a second place in your "worst things i've seen" list
I thought the worm stress ball looked like the demon worm curse/infection thing from princess Mononoke
They are just slimy little guys, put um in a bath tub and watch um wriggle
As a child who played in our local irrigation pond, I found all kinds of stuff that I couldn't identify. Usually it was just a frog or a garter snake or a crawdad. Or a spider. I found lots of those and they were all in my books or easily researched online and it was cool. Until I found basically what was happening in the video with the horsehair worms.
It took me a hot second to figure out wtf was happening, and even longer to get any info on the horrible monstrosity I had found coming out of a grasshopper. I think it was a grasshopper? Honestly the whole memory is kinda blurry and overlaid with my internal screaming in horror.
I'm now 25 years old and still more than a little terrified of horsehair worms.
Holy cow what a Rollercoaster of a comment- they're definitely scary little gross boys
Awwww you played with "snips and snails" in an irrigation pond, and you're only 25? That's awesome, despite the nightmare worm. it just makes me happy to hear of 21st century kids living like that. Altho I guess you could live around here, where its still pretty normal , I always assume everyone commenting is from a big city or lives very far away lol...
@@montananerd8244 1998
I saw one coming out of a cricket as a kid. Surprisingly, the cricket was still alive when the worm exited, so I fished it out of the water and put on some grass. No clue if it survived after that or not. It wasn't a reptile or an amphibian, so it could only hold my attention for so long
Edit: I'm 23 for whatever that's worth
Horsehair worms are definitely shocking and freaky but I can’t get over the fact people genuinely thought they came from horse hairs that fell into water lmao
As a worm myself, I can confirm these are indeed worms.
Werms
Werms
Werms
Werms
Does your boyfriend still love you?
4:25 Nooo. When me and my family went to the hotsprings a few years ago, these nasty things were all inside the water. I forgot abt them (while swimming) and drank some of that stuff and this is bringing back memories 😭
I just found this channel through shorts and I immediately subscribed. Her vibe is immaculate and she knows her shit. 10/10
my room was pretty much empty at this point so apologies if it's more echoey than normal!
maybe try a lavalier mic if you haven't yet?
@@zildjiandrummer1 that’s the plan! :)
I personally enjoy how she talks calmly while explaining and then all caps a single word or syllable along the way. "Rat tailed MAGGOTS".
I actually learned about rat-tailed maggots as a kid from Magic School Bus, and was always pretty fond of these li'l mousey-caterpillar-y bois (I've been told that 'I love rat-tailed maggots' was a sentence most would not expect to hear). Never learned they could be human parasites, and I probably could have gone without that information. Still find them cute as long as they're outside where you can see 'em.
I find them sort of cute but also extremely disgusting at the same time
My first reaction was how cute, almost like a longer tadpole. I've once found a big chubby pale 'caterpillar' inside an apple and I kind of liked it, but smaller insects are kind of disgusting.
Nice videos.
Maggots of the green-bottle fly are used in medicine to clean out open wounds eating the necrotic and infected flesh so that the wound can heal.
Maggots of the Black Soldier Fly are used as composters turning waste plant and organic materials into high quality compost.
Maggots/larvae of the dermestid beetle are used to strip away the flesh from dead bodies reducing them to skeletons (they are apparently particularly fond of brain tissue)
And of course died blue bottle larvae and their pupae (casters) are used by anglers all around the place, especially good for carp.
My life has been greatly improved: I'm highly disturbed, and my life will never be the same.
Talking about this stuff like you do is an art form.
Myiasis is probably the grossest infection I know of
There are many a cases of people who have maggots eating away at the inside of their noses.. imagine how that feels
There was a case of a kid, this made its way to Monsters Inside Me, that had a maggot eating at his eyeball,
Many cases of people with botflies.. including a poor man who had one in his scrotum,
Screw worms eating away at people's scalps and shit
And a bot fly was once found in a brain
Yep, maggot eating your brain
Worms are also terrifying
Tapeworms living in your guts is bad.. but them living in your brain, riddling it with holes and cysts is bad.
Hookworms crawl through your feet when you walk and drain you of intestinal blood.
Ascaris roundworms crawling up your throat to be swallowed and coming out your mouth and nose.
Worms living throughout your body and killing you by laying eggs that cause stroke and heart attack(you get them by swimming)
Worms that eat away at the inside of your liver...
It's horrible
Back, what worms that cause strokes and heart attacks ??
@riverdeep399
It's a worm known as schistisoma, which causes schistisomiasis. They are known as blood flukes and usually cause not many issues. Occasionally their laid eggs migrate to important and easy to obstruct areas like the small vessels in the brain, and cause strokes.
The larvae burrow through your skin and use you as a final host, after emerging from snails, making freshwater snails the second most dangerous animal on earth behind mosquitoes
Forgive me for giving such a brief and confusing description in my original comment
Monsters inside of me was the bane of my existence as a child. I had terrible nightmares and didn't like to go outside or eat food my parents didn't cook for fear of getting parasites
@prettypyrenees
Trust me
I feel you, towards the end I did start getting some sleepless nights towards monsters inside me, but for the majority I liked it..
Guess it was my fucked up, knowledge loving brain that absorbed it despite the horror.
Though I must state the only one that before the nightmares ever creeped me out was the Ascaris one where she was puking worms.
I still hate and am disgusted by them
Then again I think the main things that caused nightmares were that a, I liked watching TV at night, b, I liked animal planet, and c, monsters inside me ads play on animal planet, plus the creepy imagery and music, all together caused nightmares.
Also I assume you outgrew it, but just remember, fear in moderation is good, but like all things, too much of a good thing is a bad thing
After all, a life lived in fear is not a life lived
@@zcarp8642 jeez, we must have been living out the same childhood. I remember the worm puking episode. Funnily enough it made me less afraid of the worms themselves and more afraid of puking. Like what if I happened to puke and there just happened to be worms in it? 8 year old logic is certainly confusing. I still have a phobia of vomit to this day though...
I remember in my first semester at uni we talked about parasites and saw videos of the Horsehair worm and others that were even worse… right after that was lunchtime and no one felt like eating… it was so unbelievably disgusting like there were worms coming out of a cows eye and a boys head… that was the point were I really started to question my choice of studying biology 😂
When I took AP bio we had a similar slide show on nematodes and what not different “worms” and man. It was awful. Like horsehair worms but for humans. And same thing we had lunch after and we all just sat there. Especially when the teacher who had written her dissertation on nematodes told us a story about finding one in her food at a restaurant… and the waiter tried to pass it off as a piece of vegetable
I'm just dreading the day she covers bot flies.
@@blackwingroseew, yeah, bot-flies are horrible 😭 y’all ever seen the show Monsters Inside Me? 💀
@catxolotl6728
I do remember monsters inside me, and believe it or not, I LOVED the show!
Though towards the end, with me watching at night and their... well.. traumatizing ads, caused nightmares!
Also the botfly episodes never bothered me. Most episodes never bothered me. Though the Ascaris roundworm episode of the woman puking up worms? That still stays with me.
Ascaris roundworms are the ONLY parasite that truly grosses me out.
Loa loa, which is an eye worm? Nope.
Liver flukes, tapeworms, brain eating amoeba, hookworm? Nope.
But ascaris? HELL NO
Gian's editing is getting even better. There were numerous times where I had to pause or rewind the video because I was laughing too hard and missed something. It really adds a lot to the videos and helps create this channel's identity ☺
100% agree hahaha it adds so much rizz straight up
I know i was laughing so much at 9:32
For y’all wondering, Goridus aquaticus doesn’t *really* control the minds of insects. It just feasts on all of the liquid that insect takes in, essentially dehydrating the Arthropod, and thus forcing it to always be near water to replenish the lost liquids
Saw you in your colab with Casual Geographics, subscribed and liked what I saw! Very entertaining and very polished.
then I went in the backlog and realized you have been doing UA-cam for less than a year!? Wow! Fooled me! Your product is nice, unique and polished like someone that has been doing this for years! I watched the early vids and the quality jumps leaps and bounds in those 7 months. Great job!
Eating while watching Lindsay talk about worms is just UA-cam hard mode.
Even harder if you're eating something like ramen noodles or spaghetti.
@@peggedyourdad9560 Can confirm...
@@drslimemold rip
@@peggedyourdad9560 I realized my mistake too late
@@peggedyourdad9560 wdym? they become even tastier
That first one brought me to a horrifying realization that I knew more about those horrifying worm balls than I thought I did because I used to feed them to my aquarium in frozen form…
i usually prefer them live, with some spegetty sauce. they have a nice interesting texture when you swallow them
@@kirill2525 omg yes the texture is so stimmy 🥺🥺😍
I like the beanie. People should mail her different hats so she has a different one for every video lmao.
omg yes please
I love this
You know how sometimes people will say, "Go to hell!", and you're like, "That's fine, because you can't literally send me to hell😊🙃"?
Casual Geographic said to check out your channel and then I got here and learned about rat tail maggots and well.... Hell is real guys. It lives here. Casual Geographic sent me to the hell that is Lindsay Nikole introducing new ancient parasites for me to fear.
Your delivery is perfect, Lindsay. You are so entertaining to watch. Please never stop making videos.
I actually do feel a little better knowing that I can't be mind controlled by parasitic worms. 😅
Or at least that particular parasitic worm. 😰
The Strain had a really great take on that lol
Yet
I thought about Cordiceps but those are fungi.
Then I want to direct your attention to those snails with disco eyes. Their eyes are not disco eyes, those are mind-controlling worms.
There are some parasitic worms that do infect humans and burst out of the skin when the host enters water and they can be up to a meter long
I almost felt great but then I saw the or 😢
the cat in the background just makes me laugh
Just like I said “he is too derpy to sell”
you know it’s gonna be a good week when you start it with a 13 minute long worm video from Lindsay
I remember we used to get these cubes of dried Tubifex worms for our cichlids. I never really knew about how disgusting they are alive
By far one of the most interesting, educational AND entertaining channels on UA-cam. Thanks Lindsay!
I actually already knew about horsehair worms because your videos instigated a research binge in me a while back.
I introduced my senior presentation in undergrad with, "yeah I'm a little tired because I've spent many hours this week looking at parasite infested beagle guts so sleep hasn't been all that great..."
I was introduced to them via video games
The tail maggots are a little cute, somehow, but I'm filled with a sense of horror after watching the video. I'm glad I know what that worm mass actually is because if I saw it IRL without knowing I would die instantly. I love the energy you bring to videos; you're cool like a TV character kind of cool!
Squeeze the forbidden stress ball
@@Mr.Agateophile. NO
She doesn’t really talk about it but rat tail worms actually are adept snorkelers, the tail is actually a breathing tube with they can grow/elongate to a few feet in length. So they can chill on the bottom of a puddle/pond and just reach up for air instead of swimming.
I didn't think about this until I read your comment about TV character cool, but the combo of Lindsay's vocal inflections and Gian's snappy editing are very reminiscent of old school Bill Nye the Science Guy. They're like the short form, low-budget, highly aggressive version.
I find that naming things I was once phobic or grossed out about makes them more palatable. (That's probably not the best word for it under the circumstances, but you get what I mean).
I now christen spiders and have had several fleeting attachments to a leeches, all coincidentally named Bernard.
I haven't started naming my intestinal parasites yet, but I guess the day will come. Despite all protestations to the contrary, we know you're up there my little friends, right where you belong.
All jumping spiders are Little Buddy, and larger ones are Arachne.
My daughter has named all spiders Tony.
I've been watching your video almost nonstop for two days. This is the first that really makes me shiver.
entertaining, i love the editing and your redibility and thank you so much for the content
I fricken love the energy you bring to the subjects you talk about! and as a Slpipknot fan I have a personal affiliation with the Maggots hehe
Maggots forever
What's up fellow maggot
"if you were to eat them for some godforsaken reason"
Says the person who ate leftover refried grubs.
touché
I have some containers in my garden with rainwater in. The birds and squirrels drink there. I noticed rat tailed maggots last week and thought "great, more hoverflies" (I like hoverflies). Now I'm not so sure....
thank you for the little comment at the end about eating them because i had an intrusive thought of that being angel hair pasta and was sooo upset with myself
Thank you for your hard work, we all appreciate it. Your an amazing, wonderful, and incredible person. ☺️😊😄😃🤩😍
thank you so much!
I'm glad you addressed the hat change, it was rlly stressing me out 🙄😪
my fav is the Tampon, just because it looks super crazy and the fact its tail is a snorkle just shows
Honestly, the tubifex worms became instantly more likeable when I realized it was multiple worms. I thought it was just one girthy, thick worm with tendrils schlooping along the floor
Oh, Lindsay, While living in Ohio I moved into a place with no garbage disposal, so some unfinished cat food got thrown in the trash now and then. When the weather warmed up, I learned that was not a thing I could do. Woke one morning to a kitchen covered in maggots and was completely freaked out. It was a disgusting job to clean them up and get them out of the house. Sealed garbage can was immediately purchased and kept on the landing outside the kitchen.
you should include a "How to kill it ? " segment about all the species after you present them for our peace of mind
Oh I hope that was supposed to be a joke. It’s a bad one at any rate. They’re not hurting you in any way, so why would you want to kill them? They’re an important part of the ecosystem….humans are the ones that are fucking things up.
Nuclear Hellfire
I love the explosive and expressive way you speak when you talk about theese things. It gives a varied rhytm and makes it easier for my adhd brain to fokus on what you are saying. I often get distracted and start thinking about other things if the person speaking has to monotone and calm way of speaking.
Yes another awesome biology video!!
thank you!
I LOVE this cat-shaped flowerpot or whatever it is in the background
watching things like this give me so much anxiety and make me so nervous for several days but its so interesting as well and i cant help watching it 😭😭
I've seen rat tail maggots here before. And I've seen a horsehair worm IRL tearing out of something's body that got drowned in a tiny puddle by a river. Me and my bf just had dinner at a fancy riverside restaurant and took a walk down the river and saw this in the tiny puddle, and started googling frantically. It really did look like a hair but I knew it was a worm. We found out way more than we bargained for. This was about 10 years ago
When I was a child, me and my friends used to pick rattail maggots and organize maggot races. Gross detail: we used to find those near manure piles.
Of note, we named them “bruchitopo” (Italian), which is like “mouse-caterpillar”
I was eating all through this episode 😅. And now I’ve seen so many scent bird advertisements that you’re the person who cements me trying it 😂🤤.
As always a great episode 👍🏼🥰
Lindsay, you have solved a mystery that has haunted me since I worked for the boy scouts; freaking gordian worms leaving a jericho cricket in a shower hall are terrifying.
Lindsay, I used to have a pith helmet. It really helped when I was doing "Community Service" cleaning the perimeter of Cook County Jail. "
I was promoted to Crocodile Dundee And never got a sunburn
My life is now about 1000% worse then it ever could be before this video......Keep making them, it was really interesting!
Okay darlin, I just wanted to say that the WTF is that series is probably one of the best on UA-cam, and I just saw your short about extinct sharks. It was great because it's hard to find something like a shark, that I have never heard of. I suggest doing whole long form video on extinct sharks. That would be fascinating I think.
There is nothing I can think of that would up as make maggots and worms “better “ but it was worth it to hear “RAT TAIL MAGGOTS “ 😂
I'm aware of how old this video is now, but watching it and seeing the Drone Flies unlocked some deep memories for me
A school I used to go to went a lot longer into the summer, and these flies would show up then, especially around sweaty people
Sometimes they'd land on someone and drink the sweat off them, which felt like a very tiny sting (it was harmless, it happened to tons of people)
So I ended up calling them "Sweat Bees" because I was young and thought they were bees
I never saw their maggots, though, despite how common they got around there
Actually about horsehair worms. There have been cases humans and other mammals hosting them.
In 2008 (I believe) there was a case in Japan where a woman went to the hospital because she was experiencing throat pains. After a check up it was revealed that horsehair worms were growing in her throat and they had to be removed. It’s believed that there were larva present in the lettuce she was growing and she didn’t wash them properly, causing the larva to cling to her throat and just developing there.
I’m trying to prepare myself but something says no amount of preparation will cut it here..
your videos are really fun and you making learning biology really fun (sorry for my english but i´m from czech republic).
Have never said “WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT” out loud in my life until I saw that tube worm mass. It really helps knowing what they are so thank you 😭❤️❤️❤️
I grew up as a farm kid and in one our stock ponds (and only this one in particular, for some reason) it was possible to see clumps of horse hair worms in the warm, shallow areas. And the old folks I knew (rural Arkansas in the 1970s) did believe that they were horse hairs come to life.
I ate while watching this. No biggie. Also between you and CG, this is some of the best and most charismatic education on nature I’ve ever seen.
...questions if this bag of sour gummy worms, bugs, & other creepycrawly shapes was a good idea before this episode...
I look forward to these episodes 💗💗
well beside the eldritch horror that tubifex worm stress ball is i got a good laugh, love your vids
0:35 I took that as a challenge. Let you know how it goes
Omg Denji at 4:21!!!!
I could eat just fine during this.
Once, I had a dog that was in his final days and he could no longer be walked outside, so he did his business on the balcony and I just cleaned up.
So about a week after he passed, I finally went to clean the trashcan that is on the balcony, and there was a load of dead flies in there.
The dog had barely been sick for a week, when I went to the vet, I knew in front that he wouldn't come back home. He was near 16 and I just felt that he was dying.
So within about a week, the poop of a very small sick dog turned into a load of dead flies that simply couldn't go anywhere because of the lid.
They are quick little guys
Lindsay: "Dont eat while watching."
Me: "No I will continue to eat my chips and dip while I watch this."
Happy to see you getting sponsors! You are making it. Great content and excellent delivery! Keep up the great work! And thank you for all the hundreds of hrs of schooling and research that took you to get to this point.
You and “Casual Geographic“ would make a hell of a mashup, if you haven’t already and I’ve been sleeping on it.
Man I love having phobias. But you help Mee deal with it (especially when you had to try and eat a scorpion)
It was just a crispy little guy . . .
I also have this phobia and watched this to see if I could get over it .
But now it’s worse.
So thankful I found your channel.
I also love her sense of humor.
Great video.
I know now that I truly love this channel because maggots are on my small list of stuff that completely freaks me out, but for Lindsey I sat through an entire video of her shouting the word at the camera. And now I know about maggots that live in toilets so my terror has increased. *shakes fist in pitiful rage*
Casual geographic sent me (I saw you on his last video!!) ... and I have feelings now ... feelings about knowing what the F is going on... feelings...yup... they're not great feelings, BUT you are absolutely amazing, and your inflections on the word maggots is great and now when I feed my leopard gecko, kevin, his meal worms, I cant not want to say "eat your maggots kevin!! (I know they're not maggots, but still, kevin knows I'm playin) glad to be a new follower!! 💖
i don’t think i would get through these cursed vids without the editing to make laugh and forgot about the horrors lindsay discusses
Love your videos informational and super entertaining. Good luck on the move and I hope you get the hat back.
As someone who loves some parasitology, feel free not to skimp on the hideous imagery. I think seeing late-stage fly strike as a kid helped to strengthen my stomach against some crazy shit.
saw a worm in a water thing we have for the dogs. i thought damn that looks like those weird worms that come out of mantises. cleaned out the tub and stuck in a spiderweb was a dead mantis. felt simultaneously proud to recognise it and. kinda grossed out
i would've gladly attended my bio and zoology classes in uni if lindsay was my professor. really rare to find a teacher that you wanna really learn from and are excited to do so 😂
The first one: i feel better about it. It looked like something i would see after taking a double dipped tab of acid, but they're actually just cool little guys having a snuggle party.
Lindsay, your way of delivering info is so entertaining. I would have been so much more interested in biology class if the teacher spoke like this.
Great job, keep it up
When I was a kid, I used to love to catch, study, and release all kinds of invertebrates, but one day I caught a grasshopper who proceeded to slowly die as a horsehair worm was exiting its abdomen right in front of my eyes. It traumatized me and left me with a bad worm/maggot/parasite phobia to this day and I’m now somewhat of a hypochondriac when it comes to getting parasites. This video was a tough watch 👍
Why did I watch this... I'm trying to sleep.
On another note love the videos (so long as I'm not trying to sleep) keep up the great work 😊
Gian really killed it with the editing on this one
darcys acting as that long necked flower pot cat is absolutely breathtaking
not here too 😭
One thing you didn't mention about the rat-tail maggots is that they're pretty good fishing bait. Maggots in general are, they're my go-to bait for yellow perch.
When I lived in student halls, we had a maggot incident.. they all appeared overnight in the kitchen and disappeared by the morning. It was incredibly gross.
I have a strong sstomach. Like, seriously, I'm rarely phased by this kind of thing. But that last worm gave me the worst chills more than once
This has made me so much more passionate about zoology