The Stealth Fighter Of The Insect World
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Luna moths are known for their elegant tails, but what's the purpose of these tails?
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I woke up this morning to the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, such a beautiful Luna Moth! I’ve never seen one in my life and actually feel blessed to have seen one. He hung around for about 12 hours ( all through the day he stayed in our gazebo ) when it got dark he took off. Such a cool thing to see
Today I saw a luna moth and I was so shocked bc my freind found it on the web AND ITS not rare but it's rare to SEE
I actually got to see one in the US, it was majestic af! And it was really big.
One visited me today!! 🙌🙌🦋🐛🌪
Saw my first, in 44 years last night...after looking up the symbolism, it made me happy, after some recent turmoil in my life..
@@missunderstood6862 wow so cool!
@@JehRoniMo11 ☺
So, that evolutionary trait lets the moths get more tail?
ayyyy
Well, technically that's the ultimate purpose of all evolutionary traits.
Ha!
Luna moths are beautiful I love them
I know I saw one today
Thanks man
Sounds like a party @ 1:40 "taking a group of Luna moths and snipping the tails of half of them... ...then in a room full of Bats... tying them to the ceiling with fishing line so they just spun around and around..." in order to see how long they'll last
That's a very cruel science experiment
Who thinks of these things? Tie bats by fishing string and cut the tails off of beautiful lunar moth????
Some mad scientist that's who 🦇🦋😒
Poetic
That's why they were an ingredient to invisibility potions in skyrim
Luna moths can't escape my grasp for making potions!
No this is Patrick
Skyrim have Luna Moths?
yo what!
Why ask us to tell you anything in the comments when you don't read or reply to them?
More comments = more $$$
Get over it
Actually, the amount of ads viewed on a video gain them money. The comments, likes, dislikes, or respreads don't affect the profit in any way.
They Read them... and sometimes reply.
I've seen Trace reply to people in videos from his own account and also I've seen DNews reply to people.
They probably just have a limited time to spend in the comments before they move on to whatever their next video is or whatever they do in their personal time.
XThePanda Well spreading the video leads to more views so...
Despite being 3 years later, thanks for making this - I'm doing a presentation on the luna moth and was looking for something to explain this fact about them
I saw one of these hurt in my back deck so I protected it until it flw away
They honestly look like some sort of mythical creature.
I just took a photo of one of these here in Georgia, this insect is huge & Beautiful!!!
Same!
Thanks man!
Yes yess one just visited me today!
@@LunaTheStars hi cool flight bug 👋🤠
When I was 16, I had a luna moth land on my arm while letting the dog out before bed. It didn't flutter away when I touched it, so I took it inside. Long story short, I had a beautiful pet moth for 2 months. After watching this video and hearing they only really live for a week as adults makes me feel special that I somehow got to have a 5 inch long parrot for that long!
no
@@vrabiealexandru2755 yes
Normally I wouldn't support taking an animal like a luna moth or any moth really from the wild as a pet, but the fact that it didn't run away from you makes me wonder if it had something wrong with it in the first place. Anyway, if it managed to live longer in captivity with you and instead lived a week, I guess it's no harm no foul, although you definitely may have interfered with its reproduction.
I just saw one of these for the first time and it was beautiful poor thing was stuck by the side of the door because I guess it thought maybe it can go through the window I picked it up and climbed on my finger and I took it to the nearest branch of a tree nearby
My favorite animal. Many people don’t have an insect as a favorite animal. They’re such beautiful animals. I thought about raising them.
Why are his eyes so far apart? I like to here some scientific explanation quoting studies
Had this moth at my gas station a couple of months ago. Very pretty. Now I know what it was. Thank you.
I seen my first luna month last summer. Beautiful
I love these babies. Had to rescue one from a coworker that freaked and wanted to smash the big bug
I become a stealth fighter especially when women resist me.
Wtf....
Arshy Chan he is a troll look at his name nice joke tough
I wonder why they resist you, who wouldn't date someone named sex offender?
I sexually identify as a slice of pizza.
nullins XD
I'm in Vermont and this lil creature stopped by on my trailer to show me its beauty 🙂
I like the coevolution of the blue crab and the clam. Stronger claws=stronger shell=stronger claws=stronger shell=you get the point.
I frequently get Luna moths at my back door. They're beautiful and mysterious. Last night one stayed on the ceiling of the eave of the back door. Today it was just sitting on the deck, fluttering its wings. I didn't know if it was dying or what, so I touched its wing and it quickly fluttered about 2 ft. away. I hope it wasn't dying.
Still a better stealth fighter than F-22 and F-35.
What do you mean? Both those planes are phenomenal.
Evolution is a cruel and unusual mistress. Why bother to evolve these complicated countermeasures, yet not evolve to have a basic food processing system?
gg intelligent design
tbh, the argument for and against evolution are so good now that you just have to pick a side and stay. I could suggest that they needed the tails in order to survive, but then I could argue that evolution through natural selection and adaptation would not be adherent at this point due to the fact that the phenotype and genotypes would need to process the information to the next of kin; but this would entail the moth to be captured but freed to progress such a response.
on the intelligent design side.
god did it.
no one can know the 'why', only the how, and possibly when. that's like me figuring out how the first amount of life started, or what made the first thing, how did it all start with the universe or life etc. I can find out 'how' (maybe) and if not, I can try, but I can never find out why.
if I love someone, why would I help them? ...well it's love, but without it, there is no reason to do it, not much reason to do anything.
Honestly there was no benefit to having a usable mouth. If they don't get eaten their first instinct to to mate. Once that's done there is no need to continue on since they have carried the species to the next generation. The special shape of their wings makes it more likely they will live long enough to breed. Having a usable mouth will not make they any more likely to breed. So they don't have a useable mouth because... They don't need it.
Having said that it does seem like an awful existence. Spend your whole life trying not to be eaten. Hibernate and emerge only to have sex with the first member of the opposite species you find then starve to death...
bats: Who the hell needs eyes when they can just have these giant ears lmfao
the rough skinned newt and the garter snake. the snake has proteins that protect it from the newt's tetrodotoxin, and the newt keeps becoming more toxic.
I love in the Northeast and had one of these scare me as I exited the house this evening.
Thank you for this information. One has been at my entrance door for about 18 hours. 😍✨❤️
this was very interesting
did someone say stealth??
no, piss off
I've only ever seen one in my lifetime
The first time I saw one I thought it was a leaf. Had assumed it was to make it less noticeable by prey
I saw a large specimen here in Quebec Canada, I though it was a bird when it flew pass me, I got closer and took pictures it was over 15cm/6in, impressive to see.
Was going to say Tom and Jerry but my other favorite is Sylvester and Tweety.
always on the side of Sylvestor.
More inspiration from nature, fascinating.
Fun fact: Luna moths don't have mouths . So they literally starve to death after like 2 weeks
Wow cool butterfly. Whoah those bats too.
Video is 3 minutes 59 seconds long
3+5=8 8+9=15 15/5=3 a triangle has 3 sides...
Illuminati confirmed
Grey Alien 8+9=17, bruh
What if removing their tails keeps them from maneuvering out of the way faster?
Nah. That theory is boring.
They don't need the tails to fly or maneuver. Even if they did the point is still moot because there's no escaping a bat once it detects the target, since they are bigger and faster. The only defense is stealth.
It is well known in aerodynamics that an airplane with wings can out-maneuver a missile, but to do so the airplane must know when to do so and then pull a number of Gs which comes close to breaking the wings off. What counts is the radius of a maneuver not the speed. Speed only helps in that it is a surprise. Since a vehicle with normal wings can turn inside the radius of a vehicle with stubby wings all you have to do is pull a lot of Gs in an unpredictable direction just before impact.
Walter Clark Moths are slow enough that you can catch them with your hands There's no escape for them.
good point alejandrinos.
But still... Cutting off a tail and then counting how many were caught to prove that the tail makes them more invisible... I just don't like it. Maybe without a tail the flight trajectory is straighter and easier to intercept. I'm always suspicious of sexy explanations to interesting observations.
Walter Clark I agree that it sounds too good to be true, but I think it'd be really obvious if the moths had less maneverability with their tails cut, obvious enough to cancel the experiment and try something else.
Lmao really appreciate the Porygon reference
"What is your favourite cat and mouse example of two species locked in eternal struggle to out wit each other?"
mongoose vs cobras... or is that mongeese, mongooses... o_O?
Von Helton thought of this first.
Yup. F*ckin guvmint stole his genius & his teeth too seems like.
nightjarflying
Of course, a true maverick visionary genius like Von was probably forced to pull all of his own teeth out.
_I bet that sneaky ol' Govt had filled all his teeth with bugs in some nefarious attempt to steal his brilliant ideas !_
AsDeadAsDillinger
Them guvmint molar mouth moles.
nightjarflying
I wouldn't be surprised if I found out that the crazy guy in the film '12 monkeys' was based on Von.
You remember, the paranoid guy who talks to Bruce Willis through the vent in his cell, the same guy who pulled all his own teeth out in an attempt to escape ?
I can see 'Von' all over that role !
AsDeadAsDillinger
Yes I can see that. Good comparison. This is what inspired that film - haven't watched it yet: vimeo.com/46620661
Anybody else disturbed by the fact that the scientists basically set up the moths to be eaten by bats lol
question. if they have no digestion tract.. how do they eat? i mean the species must take in energy somehow.
"The beast with four wings?" Seriously?! Thanks for the spit take all over my keyboard, DNews!
Hi, This is weird. The views are in the thousands and the comment count is a lonely 3.
Even though there are obviously more than 3 comments.
I just realized this moth looks exactly like Rosine.
Luna moths signify new beginnings as they represent a continuing quest for truth and knowledge, the gift of intuition, psychic perception and heightened awareness. Things that are associated with “seeing the light”
My favorite eternal struggle is humans vs other humans.
Incredible
Wasn't this just on the Reddit front page the other day
cute luna moth😊👍👍
i 1st saw this butterfly on Zoosk when sum1 had a selfie, & my 1st thought was omg it looks like a miniature dragon from Avitar, then started googling it & got here
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that'sso cool....
I can see the moths with just enough tail dealio goin on to escape bats passing on their genes in a flurry of evolution... neato
The cane toad and all the other toad eating carnivores in Australia.
Nice Pokemon reference
wait, shouldn't that be 'the beast with eight wings'?
Beast with 8 wings. Each Luna moth already has 4 wings.
so it developed a high tech radar technique but couldn't develop any form of a digestive system ? ... cool
"looks like porygon" lmfao
Peregrine falcons versus doves. A million year evolution of who could be the fastest in open prairies.
My fav moth
Strangely detailed childhood trauma, Julian...?
I just found one in my yard in Fl . I think a female , but it's yellow not green , very strange critter ! It looks like it has ears that look just like leaves with holes in them .I would watch for it when its the green catapiller cuz I think it packs a mean sting
I'd guess the 'ears that look like leaves' you saw are the antennae and they're shaped like that to catch their potential mates pheromones in the wind.
Pretty cool design by nature.
@@Rickiye dang ,that thing is so high tec ! Its got the largest legs of any moth I've ever seen .its kinda funny finding this thing at the same time as nasa brought back the space rocks and I just watched the movie evolution ! I thought I had a real space critter on my hands 😅😂🤣
I once saw a Luna moth
I seen one!
Zangoose and Serviper.
I thought they only exist in Skyrim.
"makes them look like porygon" was that a pokemon reference? XD
That’s a cruel experiment 🔬
Why do dogs and cats hate each other?
Where did you get your shirt!!?
Internet! It's my new favorite shirt. www.amazon.com/Rocket-Factory-Evolution-Hockey-t-shirt/dp/B0081GC346
PORYGON!!
Quick get the pokéball before it uses the Tri-Attack move on your Pikachu!
Oh yeah? Lets see it fire off some missiles!
Take that, nature!
Blood and kyrip. (Correct me if I spelled it wrong, I probably did!)
Praying mantis vs any prey insect.
Ichy and Scratchy
Hey! It’s me
Hello cute moth
@@billcipher5302 yooo silky how’s it hanging
Apocalyps and Cable
Intelligent design or mindless evolution?
I have moon moth its yellow in color.. i want to show u
That bat looks like me... ugly! :p
Wait so these moths don't have digestive tracks? Soooo they don't eat food? If that's true does that mean they are just born with enough fat to hopefully mate with another then die?
Well no. Like all moths and butterflies, they eat during their larval stage. There the luna instinctively gorges themselves with enough food so when they develop into an adult they'll have enough energy to last them that full week.
When I was little I caught one of those in a jar
Hi DNews i love ur show but can u do an episode about brainwaves and binaural beats
Tons of info on google
I'm really curious how and when to use em
I will freaking scream and run away in fear if i every see this moth... in hate insects especially moth. Just disgusting
there's one in my backyard
...Porygon. :D
I have this
Wolves and man. But we kinda won that a while back.
Tshirt win
just saw today
Humans vs microbes!
War of the Worlds right?
Cat and dog?
LOL Porygon
The bandwagons full please catch another
How can people watch this video and think this just evolved. The mechanics of this moth literally scream that a creator made it.
I really don't understand some people
infinity pool The same way the peppered moth evolved. Something rare and obscure doesnt quite suggest that it was designed.
Bud, he clearly explains the completely conceivable (to logical human beings) concept behind evolution.
It not only makes sense, it makes more sense than saying a magical being just decided to put it on this planet, because, why the heck not?
Just because it's beautiful, doesn't mean it was created by a god. It's beautiful in its own right, because it took thousands of years to change minutely from generation to generation to get to this fantastic point.
Hang on a minute, if the moths don't eat then where do they get the energy from? I mean sure it can survive off the fat but where did the fat come from, if it was born with it then it's parent must of passed down the fat, but that would mean that the parent had fat to pass down so how did the parent get it.
I thought all living organisms required some kind of food source for energy? Maybe I just misheard him.
I'm just guessing because I didn't look it up but I think they go through metamorphosis. So the fat is from the previous form of a caterpillar.
That doesn't answer the question.
The caterpillar/larvae ate things?
Ahh, that would make a lot of sense actually, thanks.
No problem sir
How many video's do you make in a day? unless you wear the same shirt.
I'm a guest host so I write 2 a day while I'm visiting.