Bugs, Bees, Beetles, Butterflies & Body Lice - The Most Successful Animals on the Planet!
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Insects are, really without question, the single most successful group of animals on the planet. They are very likely the most successful group of living things on the planet. And this is true not just now, but ever! Insects rule the world from ants to termites, praying mantises to beetles, butterflies to bugs, insects are the rulers of Earth. And today, we complete our tour of every single order of insect alive today!
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Why do you pronounce the p in ptera when it's in the middle of a word? Pronouncing the p obscures the translation, so is there a good reason for this or is it just a naive approach that has become too common to fix?
I want a golden spacewaggon xD
Are insects and crustaceans from the same...form ..or is it convergent evolution? Or is it a convoluted mix of both in an evolutionary coincidence?
But also: What's that about bees and wasps ^^
What’s more surprising
1. The quality of ridge wallets for their price
2. Hypodermic insemination
Tune in next week to find out!
"we could make beetles for the rest of my life and never run out of content" ... OK, so then what is stopping you? That sounds amazing.
The incredible diversity of non-beetle animal life that I also want to explore!
@@ClintsReptilesi freaking love beetles
@@ClintsReptilesadd in more beetles 😁
@@ClintsReptiles Also it's called Clint's Reptiles, so it would be weird if Clint stopped making videos about reptiles. But I would totally watch Clint's Beetles.
Clint's Beetles NOW!!!!
My little cousin used to have ant lions on his yard he’d feed every day.
Called them his “Pit creatures.”
Clint was a smart guy building up his channel with animal care videos. Now he gets to geek out to a huge audience about phylogenetics, he's living the dream 😂
Plot twist, came for the phylogenetics, stayed for the pet videos
That's... what I"m here for.
it needed to be done-a guy describing every order and genera of animalia and what it all means👌
Only ever came for the phylogenetics and geeking out 🤷♀️
@@yousonofadingus
I only broke this habit of mine to help him discourage me from ever having children.
J/K
I had NO IDEA that "cooties" were a thing! I always thought kids used it just to mean 'gross' when they say, 'boys/girls have cooties". I didn't realize they were accusing them of having lice!
I don’t think most children know that tbh! 😂
So not just me then lol thought I was alone lol
OH! So Parents told their kids to not get too close to others with long dirty hair, seeing as that's how the lice transmits and gets on to the next person, and they do this by telling their kids that the others with the bad hair have 'cooties'. Kids not paying attention only understood the part of other kids have cooties, and especially dirty kids with long hair = dirty boys with unkempt hair - 'boys have cooties' and girls with usually a longer hairstyle - 'girls have cooties'. This then became the shorthand for "kids of the opposite gender have 'cooties' ", ~war of the genders~ style. Then as we grew up we got better at keeping to ourselves and not touching heads/hair, we also realized we never knew what cooties were and all collectively thought that it must've been made up. BUT NO, cooties is a real thing, and it's the lice we used to get back when we believed in cooties but only as a thing the opposite gender had!
Iam 40 and never new that
I guess we should be happy that cooties are rare enough for us to have collectively forgotten about them.
entomologist here. my adhd is SCREAMING in joy for this video
do everyone have adhd now?
@@carlosandleon No, but most people don't talk about their non-adhd.
ADHD + Entomology ♥️
omg literally me
not an entomologist but have an interest in entomology and SAME
The fly sound effect playing in my headphones got more of a reaction out of me than jumpscares do
I slapped my headset XD it got me too
As a fish, I no longer get confused at these thumbnail titles.
Once you realize taxonomy is an incomprehensible mess, it somehow makes a lot more sense lmao
@@lingus1382 Yeah
Because evolution is mostly chaos 😂
@chriswolfe403 this is a perfect comment.
You win the channel today.
I love how something being 'the hagfish' of a group now has a coherent meaning. It's a great shortened way of saying something is just outside of a clade, but has enough similarities in their ancestry that you can tell it's distantly related.
Wait, it doesn't refer to the dude down my street who coats his arms in slime?
well the point of the original hagfish video was that it could either be in the clade or out of the clade, and the group would still be monophyletic, so it's not necessarily out of the clade. just depends on your point of view.
It really means they are inside the clade but occupying a "basal" position. You can always debate what a certain label should include or exclude, but there is still a clade regardless of what you call it that includes both hagfish and the rest of Vertebrata, with hagfish being "basal". It's more debatable what "basal" really means, and not every clade has its obvious "hagfish". But it is a useful and mostly accurate way of framing things
The word you’re looking for is “outgroup.” Clint uses “Hagfish” as a synonym for an outgroup in phylogeny.
@@Glory2Snowstar
No, slimy pseudohumans belong to either of two latge clades:
Politicians, Lawyers.
Sometimes the basal hagfish of this group, usually referred to as an opening in a donkey, but meaning our opening that evolved and develops first. The third clade within the bigger one.
The collection of the three is called Cladus Pessimipseudohominida.
13:46
Clint: Because they only have one goal,
Ad: Chocolate
a worthy goal
@@blitsriderfield4099 The captions inform me Clint's going to make a video on the Beatles.
Lol ads how quaint
"Aah, chocolate! I remember when chocolate was first evolved!"
"...I ALWAYS HATED IT!"
@@FAD4LIFE94 well some of us don't want to pay for something we can get for free
The word "bug", etymologically, was only first applied to arthropods in reference to one singular species, and only later was applied to its many relatives: the bedbug. The word originally meant a malevolent haunting spirit (it's related to the "boogy/bogey" of "boogyman"), and if there's anything horrible that plagues you unseen while you try to sleep, it would be bedbugs.
Scientifically, in a modern sense, it refers to the “true bugs,” like assassin bugs or shield bugs(usually stinky)
@@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD Bed bugs are under true bugs. They're hemipterans. So even in a modern sense it still built out from them.
@@chucklebouf5379 this might sound stupid but I always figured they were arachnids, related to ticks and mites💀
@@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRDI always assumed they'd be some sort of flea
Yep.
It is exactly why common English palace everything nasty from viruses and bacteria to worms and arthropods are referred to as 'bug'.
Even including old magic spells for said evil being.
Autistic guy with a LIFELONG special interest in bugs here. Insect taxonomy is my favorite subject on the planet and I could spend a *hundred lifetimes* talking about it without coming *close* to running out of material.
yooooo what's your favorite bug
@@LimeyLassen Good question! There's too many to choose from!
But if I had to narrow 'em down, I'd say beetles, drone flies, mantises, or *any* butterfly or moth!
I'm autistic and I just found out phylogyny is a thing. Now my mom is so tired of me because I just want to talk about how everything is a fish 😂 it's the best thing ever
Ladybugs sometimes being called "Ladybirds" makes it even more confusing. lol
Ladybeetles are insects, and California decided that all insects are fish. Birds are also in the clade of fish. So technically ladybeetles and birds are both flying fish, that’s how you could confuse them.
Their full name is Ladybird beetles. "Ladybird" was someone's last name.
In Dutch they are called 'lieveheersbeestje', literally translated: 'lovely Lords little beast', and you think the English version has it rough.
@@theGypsyViking
No, I think it’s actually „Lady’s birds“ referring to the Virgin Mary. I don’t know why they are called „birds“, but in German they are called „Marienkäfer“ = „Mary beetles“ and most Scandinavian names also refer to Mary. I think that the English „ladybird“ also refers to her.
@nablamakabama488 according to etymonline, it's 'bird' because in medieval English usage this could mean 'young woman/lady in waiting'. So they are the Virgin Mary's Lady's in waiting. Because they wear red, just like she is often depicted in that era.
“ can we see if this velociraptor truck can fly?” This is a sausage to me.
I'll bring the mustard
Literal translation of German idiom spotted!
@@lemonlordminecraft yeah I knew that, I’d like to learn German.
Beetles are one of the few clades of insects where I feel I have a better chance of saying "awww" or "cool!" When seeing one as opposed to "dear lord, make it to away" haha
Most of the beetles I see are scarabs that literally don’t even know how to walk right, let alone fly, or Japanese beetles, clumsy and nasty invasive things. Sadly, not much in the way of cool beetles near where I live, at least that I can see.
BOY you can't just casually drop that AntsCanada collab, I'm hype as hell now! 😂
Terry Pratchett's novel The Last Continent introduced a god of evolution who also had an inordinate love of beetles.
Just wanted to say thanks Clint. I've been watching your content for it seems like forever now. Got into you from the reptile community but throughout enjoying your channel and all your videos I've learned so much more. And as a 37 year old guy out of school and fully employed to try and pay all the bills. You dont realize how hard it becomes to actually continue to educate yourself as you get older and be able to actually enjoy doing it at the same time. So once again thanks man, I appreciate what your doing.
Insects are probably the most underrated animals on the planet. Thank you for allowing us to get to know them.
Posting a comment on Clint's Reptiles videos until he makes a video about the Harris Hawk and/or the Caracaras, some of the best living predatory dinosaurs. Striated Caracaras are on the same level as Goffins Cockatoos, and they are extremely predatory. Harris Hawks in the Sonaran Desert hunt and live in social packs from 2-7 of related and unrelated individuals, using a variety of sophisticated tactics. They are literally living pack hunting therapod dinosaurs. Because of this they are extremely common in falconry, they accept the falconer as part of their packs.
Same level as cockatoos?
@@HuckleberryHimScientists recently published a paper on them, wild Striated Caracara can pass puzzles built for Goffin's Cockatoos, and in some case did better. Also they would apparently run excitedly at the tests to solve them when the scientists put them down
Clint, you’re enthusiastic glee at the statement, “…mate! That might be the most horrifying of all!” That pure joy is so infectious!
Finally, I've been waiting so long for Clint to talk about how crazy wasps are. I think out of all insects they deserve their own video (or more likely, videos) the most with how weird they are.
It's also worth mentioning that Hymenoptera is most likely the true most speciose insect order, we just don't know about most of them.
I hope he talks about the smallest known insect and smallest known flighted insect, both are fairyfly wasps and are WEIRD
I had to comment so my profile pic would show: the ever so cute boll weevil. When I was very young, I put an ant lion in a large jar of sand and fed it ants and other small insects after it made its funnel. Imagine my surprise when I looked in the jar after a few days and found this great big thing flying around in the jar! Later, I found that this was the adult Myrmeleon. This was one of the sparks that led me to become an entomologist. When I was a young teen I had a girl friend for a rather short period of time who chided me for always looking down when I walked. I thought this but didn't tell her that the insects crawling around my feet were much more interesting than she was
My mother's garden has a sandy section where there are hundreds of ant lions. They fascinated me as a kid, and I spent hours feeding and watching them. The adults are universally deep, metallic, ink green with black wings. They are such delicate creatures and I always think dragonflies are coarse beside them. Every spring I look forward to the marvelously delicate and ethereal beauty of the gold and green lacewings. Summer is cicadas and all the gaudy grapevine beetles and their relatives.
Clint turns everything we know upside down. Dinosaurs are reptiles. Whales are fish. Cats are birds. Snakes are dragons. Elephant Beetles are battle droids....crazy stuff.
Shoutout to my 10th grade honors biology teacher, Mr Anderson. We had to create an insect collection the summer before his class with at least 100 specimens from at least 10 orders, all identified, pinned, and labeled. For extra credit, we could max at 200 insects. Most of us did. We could only have two of each identified species, but if we could determine male vs female, we could have two females and two males. (I learned to love ovipositors.) I still remember thrips because of his class, and I remember that ants, bees, and wasps were in the same order. This video was a wonderful blast back to Mr Anderson’s class, the summer I spent running around with a butterfly net, and my mother’s long suffering patience in letting me store many insects in the freezer before pinning them.
I had a pet rhino beetle for a time. Like the first one you showed. He was identical to the beetle shown at 27:42.He was beautifu. I rescued him from a restaurant parking lot. I kept him in an open 2 gallon glass bowl. I gathered leaves and sticks out of my yard. Fed him blackberries. He started "drumming" in his enclosure after a month or two, so I took him outside. He took off, flying into the forest.
I’m just reading comments before the video but I’ve been on the side of ants being wasps for a long time now. It’s makes complete sense to me.
Not even the pathetic goldplated Tesla Landfiller cameo could ruin this video, that’s how good Clint and crew are at what they do. : )
Hey you know in fairness, at least it won't rust like the normal ones do
I wrote a paper on the evolution of halteres in college and I’m pretty sure Diptera evolved from a sect of Mecoptera, and halteres are primarily sensory organs (they have mechanoreceptory campaniform sensilla that exist on all insect wings in much higher concentration) and don’t generate lift to allow them to more accurately sense forces on their body. Also in some more derived and very successful clades they swing their halteres while walking too and it’s not really clear why! Also I personally would love a full video on Diptera, there are so many unique body forms and ecological strategies that no one thinks about when they think of flies
wasps and flies are really the most underrated bugs. their evolution and ecology are sooooo interesting!!
21:16 That scared the life out of me lol, I thought there was a fly in my ear
While you're wrong to pretend that common names are clades, I do agree that ants and bees are wasps. Not because "you can't evolve out of a clade", but because they all really do have the necessary traits to be considered (flightless or fuzzy) wasps, even though it's a common term.
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"What's this about bees being wasp's?" I already know but would love to see that video, as well as the one with Mikey
CLINT'S REPTILES AND ANTS CANADA CROSS OVER‼️‼️♥️ OMGOSH MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT‼️My two favorite channels 💖
I can't wait to see the collaboration video with Ants Canada. I've been watching him for years, and I am loving his current giant rainforest vivarium series.
Bee and wasp video? Yes, please!
I'm so glad you identified the snake flies. I first saw one about 20+ years ago in Northern California. I thought it was one of the most terrifying looking insects that resembled a lacewing. My sister brought a plant from Northern Cal to Idaho and I started seeing them in Idaho and Nevada, where I had previously never seen them. I was almost convinced that she had inadvertently spread them to the other states. I never knew what they were. And believe me I searched every time I thought about it, to no avail. So thank you, Clint. I finally had a name for these horrifying animals. I have to add that they scare the crap out of me because they are so small and those mouth parts. I'd rather be confronted with one of the big cats, (lion, tigers, leopards, etc) almost.
FINALLY! MORE BUGS!
I know, right?
You know that only hemipterans are bugs? If this video didn't teach you anything.
@@billyr2904 In my native language, insect and bug are used with the same meaning. So it doesn't make any difference to me :D But yes, I learned that it does make a difference in English.
The AntsCanada-Clint’s Reptiles collab NEEDS to happen!! Both channels are incredible and show just how fascinating and special our fellow creatures are, no matter their size!
If you said one beetle name per second, it would only take just over four and a half days to name all described species.
ANTSCANADA MENTIONED, LET'S GOOOOOO
You could say ants and bees are all wasps. But I'm still gonna say wasps and bees are ants.
At least they are not fish.
You can say whatever words you like, but that doesn't change the truth. 😊
how does that make sense
And here I've been calling all ants and wasps, bees. I'll keep it up. This dog is too old for new tricks
And wasps and ants are bees. And so are sawflies.
Beetles have got to be the most underrated animal group out there. Please, Clint, give them some more love! The people deserve to see how wonderful they are!
I have an inordinate fondness for beetles.
Who first said that: god has an inordinate fondness etc. . . .. darwin?
@@AdDewaard-hu3xk 30:02
Your laughter about the scorpion fly's genitalia at the end was insanely infectious, thank you for putting that in the bloopers 😂😂😂
My Saturday mornings just aren't complete until I've had my weekly dose of Clint's Reptiles. This is a special treat because BUGS! Yay for bugs, and sad for bugs. When's the last time you had a good bug SPLAT on your car's windshield? We used to have to clean our cars on the regular all summer long to spray down all the splatter. There just aren't as many insects anymore, and that's sad for spiders and birds. I'm sure if humanity disappeared insects would make a huge comeback.
I got absolutely ripped and decided to watch this guy geek out on bugs. He is such a huge nerd, and I love him for it. The outtakes were aces 👌🏻
Nice to see you cover insects they're amazing
Worth noting that not only are insects the most speciose group, arthropods as a whole, and maybe insects in particular, are by far the most massive (in terms of literal collective mass) group of animals.
What's this about bees being wasps? I always thought bees, wasps, and hornets were distinct (though related). Clearly I was misinformed.
Love the phylogeny videos (also the pet videos too), look forwards to seeing more!
I think the trend towards using monophyletic clades is somewhat new, and people are really resistant when I tell them exactly what the thumbnail says. Bees and ants *are distinct* in the sense that they have specific features that separate them from other wasps. But they are still *also* wasps because you can’t evolve out of a clade. But anyway I get what you are saying this felt like a bombshell when I learned it!
@@lukeybukey3081 and to be fair there are many wasps that look less like wasps than bees or ants do.
Basically you can say ants and bees are special groups within the broader wasps, i.e. they are special types of wasps. They are also wasps just as wasps are also insects, which are also crustaceans, which are also arthropods, etc.
It's just like how dolphins are fish. ;)
@@lukeybukey3081 Bees really don't have features that separate them from other wasps. There are common features found only among bees, but there is nothing you can point to that would lead you into grouping all apocritans except bees and ants into one category. Bees pretty much look like all wasps do, and it takes a very close examination of a wasp to tell you if it is a bee.
I just want to say that I've gone from being able to pass high-school biology to being conversant in the principles of Linnaean taxonomy in a few years and your videos have been a large part of that
There are a good number of papers which estimate not only dipterans, but especially hymenopterans too are the most speciose order of insects rather than beetles. So yes do Hymenoptera!!!!!
If there is a species of anything, there's a good chance there is a species of Hymenoptera that specializes in parasitizing it.
25:18 now I want an antlion tattoo with the caption "ce n'est pas une libellule"
Hey Clint, I know you probably won’t see this, but on the off chance you do, I just wanna let you know your channel has rekindled my childhood fascination with the animals of our planet, particularly with dinosaurs, and I just wanted to thank you for that. It’s been a real treat to get excited about that again.
Also, these phylogeny vids are some of my favorite videos on UA-cam, and I think it’d be a neat idea to take the fauna of a fictional world, like Subnautica or Pokémon for example, and make a loose phylogenetic chart with them. Not only could it be pretty fun, but it would give a neat insight on the type of work that goes into constructing phylogenies. Take care!
Same! I love this!
Might be interested in the ecologies/phylogenies of Monster Hunter and James Cameron's Pocahont-I mean the movie Avatar.
@@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 Yeah, those would also be pretty rad!
My favorite thing to start off my Saturday, Clint and crew to share some wisdom. ❤
Yay. After catching up with my Saturday morning of global realpolitik I feel much more comforted now you've made my skin crawl too.
I think if I saw an AntsCanada+Clint collab video about hymenopterans (or literally anything really) I'd call in from work and cancel all of my plans just to watch it.
I'm Niki from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and I'm very interested in Lepidoptera, Odonata, Neuroptera.
21:16 - Now THAT was a noise-canceling headphone jump scare!
Ants are the best pet!!!
I have no idea how people keep differentiating insects from animals. Saying insects aren't animals is like saying grass isn't a plant.
YO I LOVE BUGS!! Thanks for the vid, Clint!!
I LOVE BEETLES!!! I was looking into being an entomologist and I decided if i ever did, I would choose the beetles as my focus!
It's an ants worlds, we just live in it
21:15 i was wearing directional headphones and got freaked out 😭
Goooooooood Morning, Clint's Reptiles-philes (or do we need a better fan name?)! 🌞
How about the " Clint's R- US's
Nope this is good
We are Clint's Reptiles
The Clintstones
I know this is a reptile channel but as a bug/beetle/thryp lover since childhood, this vid makes me so excited
I should've seen it coming when you said bees and ants are wasps. So crickets, locusts, and katydids are grasshoppers, leaf insects are stick insects, lobsters and crabs are shrimp, etc.
I’ve been waiting to get back from holiday to finally watch this. Thank you for giving me a minute to appreciate the diversity of beetles.
Bees, ants and wasps, oh my yes please!
Of all the UA-cam videos I have ever watched, this is definitely one of them.
I was hoping it would be!
wants to hear more about Clint being bit by fleas...
I love how the very aggressive and most common form of "Yellow Jack" (the ones that make nest in grounds or hollowed out trees) you see in the USA is literally just a smaller "Bald Faced Hornet." And the Bald Faced Hornet is a Smaller Asian Giant Hornet. All three have nearly identical features, and markings but with different coloration. So they're likely as related to each other as the Widow Spiders are to each other despite being spread around the world.
Most yellowjackets belong in the genus Vespula or Dolichovespula, while hornets are in the order Vespa. In contrast, all black widows are in the genus Latrodectus.
@@matyaskassay4346 Well issue is there is a lot of nuance within that though.
What is most commonly called a Yellow Jacket in the USA is most definitely a form of Hornet. Right down to tiny details like hairs. They're literally just smaller Bald Faced Hornets but with brighter coloration. They're also just as aggressive as hornets. Live nearly identical lives as their larger cousins.
I've gotten to a point that I don't really care if they gave them a different classification.
I think the issue arises because there area lot of waspe given the name Yellow Jacket even in the USA. But the aggressive one that terrifies the public's mind is far more Hornet like than all those other varieties.
@@Alte.Kameraden bald faced hornets aren’t hornets. They’re yellowjackets in the genus Dolichovespula
@@Eosinophyllis Then so must be Giant Asian Hornets as well. As I mentioned the only real difference is size/colors. In fact Giant Asian Hornets look like Ground Yellow Jackets just big and Orange. All three are very aggressive species and share behaviors. It's actually not uncommon seeing Ground Yellow Jackets and Bald Faced Hornets fighting over the same food source as well.
I've been enjoying your videos so much, Clint. I have an inordinate fondness for ants (but that's because I studied one of them for my PhD). The nerdy enthusiasm is infectious here and I love it.
9:50 an other option is to live near wheat fields: wheat thrips are a very common pest, and on windy summer days they'll let themselves be carried over by the wind to spread, so you find themselves all over your windows, and your ceilings if you left your windows open to have a bit of breeze.
They are rather annoying because they get everywhere so they're itchy (they don't bite or anything but having a small bug walking on your ear is distracting) and have a tendency to get themselves stuck and die between the LCD and the backlight of computer displays.
Holy wow I did not expect you and Mikey to even plan to do a video!! Ants are definitely among my top 5 favorite animals ever.
It would be cool if you got to see his vivariums and crazy formicariums in person and talk about them.
NEVER in my life did I think my two most favorite biology channels would interact!
You are such a wholesome and a delightful presence on UA-cam!
I love your videos so much 🤣 the scorpionfly’s tail comment shocked me into laughter. I’ve always loved learning, but you make it so fun!
Edit: got to the bloopers at the end of the video and I’m glad I’m not the only one who laughed 🤣
So excited to learn about something new, I only came here to revise the names , and now I find out about Twist-winged flies - Fabulous
I'm so happy to see Clint landed a sponsor, I saw the ad read coming but still was really fun.
I caught a snakefly once when we had our practical bit of the taxonomy course in biology. The panic I had when it was just sitting on the outside of my net was extreme, but I managed to capture it! I think that is the only time I've ever seen one
I can't wait for the next weird mating video!
21:17 the buzzing sound made me jump 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the warning! 😅
I had many friends at uni who went on to do entomology. We used to have great discussions on how to shift the taxonomic system to include thrips with the birds
I do indeed have an inordinate fondness for beetles.
That said, flies used to be among my favourite animals as a child (right up there with spiders). I loved catching them off windows and letting them outside. I still do that sometimes.
9:10 "...something you've probably never heard of."
>farmers, gardeners and horticulturalists worldwide: *we beg to differ*
Would love to see a video on the hymenoptera. They are a fascinating group of insects.
A few summers ago, a dobsonfly visited our window screen and earned the nickname "hellbug" until we finally identified this thing that looked like an antlion, but wasn't.
It earned that name by being huge, menacing, and readily (and enthusiastically) sparring with the pine needle we poked it with
my yard ants are definitely a boon -- I don't even need a lawn mower anymore 😂
you showed me mere secconds of termites and now i am going to go play empires of the undergrowth some more thankyou clint
Well, I know it's a colossal task, but I must insist:
SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! SPIDERS! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷
Arachnids in general would be a good subject.
I've heard from a parasitologist that hymenopterans probably are the most speciose order of insects, even more than coleoptera. It's just that it is often hard to tell various parasitic wasps and fig wasps apart from each other, and most are tiny. There are so many that haven't been discovered yet or are sitting on a plate in some office waiting to be cataloged.
I saw a snakefly for the first time this April, when I was in Texas with my dad for the eclipse. Darnedest critter I’d seen in a month of Sundays!
16:07 An Ants Canada crossover is in the works! I hope you get to meet Godzilla
The antlion woke some horrifying childhood memories, I didn't know it was a real thing! 😂 Anyone else watch Moomin as a kid?
Years ago I saw some caddisfly larvae in a creek at the beach and I had absolutely no idea what they were. I eventually found out when I saw an episode about them on pbs's deep look. Fascinating critters.
An amazing video! Horrified that thrips are their own thing as a plant parent but glad to know there are so many beetles! I LOVE THEM
20:41 halteres means dumbbels, which makes them even more funny. spot on name!
I have to say, my fondness for beetles is incredibly ordinate!
think the scorpion flies are cool.
had never seen one before in the wild but suddenly one day at work (Kindergarten) a kid came and said he had found a new bug.
yes it where a male Scorpion fly. :D