I admire your self-control to not say "flea-search" at the end of the video.

@JayBirdJay

Ай бұрын

I was just about to say the same thing

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

all the good ideas always come after I push publish!

@gus473

Ай бұрын

@@AntLab 😅 Welcome to the club! 😎✌️

@APerchOfPillows

Ай бұрын

I wholeheartedly believe you did the right thing not picking the low hanging fruit and thank you for not.

@wyliem

Ай бұрын

Too intelligent to say that

What amazes (and frustrates) me most about fleas, is that they are almost impossible to crush. It's like they took refuge in a lower dimension.

@mariannaluciliasericata4195

Ай бұрын

It is an adaptation to their parasitic lifestyle. They have flattened their bodies laterally to make it harder for their vertebrate host to squish them while scratching. I find that fact amazing. Other parasites have opted for flattening dorso-ventrally.

@mmseng2

Ай бұрын

@@mariannaluciliasericata4195 Yeah, the adaptation itself is amazing, but I actually find the sheer physics of it even more incredible. Trying to kill a flea by squishing it between two fingers is like trying to destroy a piece of paper by squishing it between two water balloons.

@reviewchan9806

Ай бұрын

I'm glad not all bugs have this adaptation. It's honestly them most broken trait imaginable for a parasite

@thomasmuller1850

Ай бұрын

You need to squash it with your nails to skin. It will break them, if you use enough pressure.

@Triggernlfrl

Ай бұрын

I rub them till they look like a skidmark...

man i love your videos so much .. straight to the point, no blabla, no hooks, just facts and beautiful images

@ingriddurden3929

Ай бұрын

makes you forget what you are looking at ! a nasty parasite that is a true nuisance ! but still amazing to see.

As a former entomologist, I'm embarrassed to say i never know fleas were holometabolous

@silverfox9004

Ай бұрын

you're not alone, I'm an entomologist in college and was suprised to see that they have larvae instead of nymphs

@grimportent8792

Ай бұрын

It does feel kind of weird that they undergo metamorphosis. Something about them just leads to the assumption they wouldn’t start as larvae.

@mrpickles-hb6zx

Ай бұрын

I'm ashamed of you, you didn't even think about it?

@spiderplant

Ай бұрын

@@grimportent8792 they really have that vibe

@pengen_gantinama

26 күн бұрын

They can easily get confused with louse or bedbugs, which have nymph instead of larva stage.

I had to replay 1:59 to 2:04 several times. Thats absurd! It means some one some where is a professional flea farmer.

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

correct

You gotta wonder what the world is like for a flea mid-jump. Total random and hope to land somewhere safe, or intentional and coordinated? Either way, wild stuff.

@mmseng2

Ай бұрын

Definitely slow motion with The Blue Danube as a soundtrack.

@KeaveMind

Ай бұрын

Did u ever see frogs jump? They kinda just jump but they dont land. Often they just do a belly flop or tumble on the ground until they're upright again

A jar of fleas is the prank peanut brittle jar of the insect world

@eewilson9835

12 күн бұрын

jar of flies is an alice in chains album

I don't know why KZread has been so insistent that I watch this video, but I'm glad it was.

I never knew adult fleas jumps were so spinny and wonky, always assumed it was like a jumping spider or grasshopper, though without a wide base or wings i can see why they would have such an uncontrolled jump, great work!

Yet another amazing video I will not be sharing with my spouse...

@AdornThyHeadset

Ай бұрын

But definitely one I will share with my louse!

Amazing captures. Thanks for sharing your findings!

So cool to see your videos popping up on other channels! Thanks for another interesting insect.

@5:49 "I remember my college days, wild times! What'd you get up in college?" "Measure flea heads for 6 hours a day..."

I love these videos because not only do I learn things, I get to see cute lil buggos jumping/flying/just moving around!

Amazing images (especially from the SEM) and video! Always something interesting in the Ant Lab! 😎✌️

thank you so much for your work. i have left the researching field for half a year now and i miss it so much, thank you for sharing this feeling.

"Twenty minutes on the floor looking for fleas" yikes. Needle in the haystack got nothing on that! People used to find fleas by walking into the room. And what did you do with them when you were finished filming? I really HOPE you didn't humanely release them into the wild!

@slwrabbits

Ай бұрын

I once dropped an actual needle into a box of hay.

I love what you do , but I prefer the moths . 🦋

This is so interesting! I’m not a fan of fleas but seeing them up close really helps me to appreciate their complexity.

😮THATS CRAZY THAT THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY DO GREAT VIDEO NOT YELLING ALMOST COMPLETELY BLIND CAPS HELP STAY SAFE EVERYONE

@gus473

Ай бұрын

Appreciate the explanation! Have you tried any of Google's vision accessibility features, like on their Pixel phone? Truly helpful! 😎✌️

@VeneraBerens

Ай бұрын

@@gus473 THX BUT MOST OF MY VISION ISSUES ARE CATERACS AND VISION DISTORTION FROM A SEVERE CONCUSSION A FEW YEARS AGO THX ANYWAY FOR LOOKING OUT FOR ME BEAUTIFUL FRIEND MANY BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND LOVE ON YOUR HOUSEHOLD ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL FRIEND

@aaronarellano7395

10 күн бұрын

APPRETIATE THE EXPLANATION! HAVE YOU TRIED ANY OF GOOGLE'S VISION ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES, LIKE ON THEIR PIXEL PHONE? TRULY HELPFUL!

Thank you so much for doing your work and sharing it

AMAZING shots! and some great research! keep up the amazing work

Watching fleas yeet themselves in slo-mo is something I didn't know I needed.

You folks made flea larvae not just interesting, but captivating!! 👍

Congrats on another amazing video on insect motion. As a zoologist and parasitologist, I found it utterly fascinating!

I didn't expect to ever watch a flea unboxing video, but here we are. Also why are larval fleas actually somewhat adorable?

Your videos never cease to amaze me. I just with they came out more often!

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

If they came out more often, they wouldn't have so many interesting (and new) things in them!

Very nice. I've never thought of how flea larvae move

So here I find myself in the middle of the night watching a video on how flea larva moves; and I find it utterly fascinating! It's impressive how you can make something like this interesting.

The information that you can order hundreds of fleas makes for some cathartic reminder I can always take revenge. Thanks for making informational videos in general.

Thank you AntLab! I just learned sooo much about the amazing tumbling flea.❤

Love these videos! It's so cool to see insects in ways I've never seen before

neat history review on a buggy subject

Watching the larvae crawling sure explains why diatomaceous earth works so well to combat fleas

Anything that sucks blood makes my skin crawl. Fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, ex wives...

That's really very fascinating! It's amazing how an animal known for its legs and leg power doesn't even have any at the start of it's life. Nobody wants to deal with a flea infestation, but they are a really interesting rabbit hole of biology to study. Great job on getting this video!

I was vacuuming my home and found the larvae in my dust cup of the vacuum. I have never seen the larval state of fleas until tonight. I've been having a problem with fleas in my apartment so I'm vacuuming, using diatomaceous earth, using knockout spray, capstar and Frontline plus on the dog and cat. They are so hard to get rid of!

You haven't posted anything in 3 months, and now you've come back. I missed you.

Now i feel like stuff is crawling on me.

The fact that you can buy fleas makes me think that some people out there are playing very mean pranks

Thank you! I always look forward to your postings.

just amazing, thanks so much for your effort and straightforward videos!

The maxillary palps at the lower head reminds me of the front legs of my greek turtle. - Your videos are outstanding!

in slow mo, they look like they just rise and float away while spinning like a gmod model

This is the nerdiest channel I'm subscribed to.

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

yr welcome

They are amazingly built. I researched them years ago. How can something so tiny be made so intricately... especially their legs. God is real❤❤❤

Weird how you can see the throughgut of each flea larva filled with the gross mixture they eat through their exoskeletons.

I think it's important, maybe even vital to study fleas and other pest insects so we can better understand them and control them. Great work!

"I have to go, my planet needs me"- The Flea

First time seeing your channel. So very interesting, in a fun way. Amazing how many critters must eat either their own poop or the poop of adults of same species in order to be healthy. Thanks for sharing.

2:12 "Flea feces with eggs" Thank you, just what I always wanted :D

Excellent video; you are very good at explaining so the general population understands. Thanks!

I'm already intimately familiar with a lot of this (I work in animal welfare and one of my best friends teaches and researches parasitology and entomology in terms of veterinary medicine), but the images and videos are great material. Thanks for sharing prior to publication!

You can just... buy fleas?

Keep up the good work!

Those baby pictures warranted a heads up.

Very interesting!!! Thanks for teaching me something that I didn't know!!!!

The most surprising thing about discovering larval cat flea is that it means cats have a larval stage and I have never seen one!

Wait, this channel is getting so many views now! So well deserved!

As always, fantastically amazing. Great science.

its Flea-ing the scene

0:00 the jump 💀

What I'm more interested in is why do so many bugs have a larva caterpillar like stage where they're basically weird worms... Like what is the benefit of that in terms of evolution? Crazy they go from worm like to something so completely different that you'd never guess (without prior knowledge) looking at diff life stages that they're are all the same species....

Very interesting and fascinating to watch.

Show them side by side with adults to show how big they are

0:04 flea: do a flip *flips*

Imagine being able to jump ~200 feet in the air lol. What an incredible pest.

@katiekane5247

Ай бұрын

The trade off is being hated and blamed for plague 😔

Them hooks are good in the wild to hang on the branches, grass,... so they don't fall of and can push themselves more easier. If you put yourselves in their eyes, you would want to move around easier. On solid ground they have a disadvantage. You should film insect on how they move around what occurs in the wild for natural movements. First time viewer here

Superb video, thank you. That slow-mo footage must have taken *ages* to record. Zack Snyder would be proud! 😂

Mail order fleas After enduring several infestations in various domiciles over the years I find this to be a disturbing development

ihatefleasihatefleasihatefleasihatefleas im so itchy WHY DO I KEEP WATCHING WHY IS IT SO FASCINATING I HATE FLEAS SO MUCH

@iamjustkiwi

Ай бұрын

I think its human nature to want to learn more about the things that scare or disgust us; it's a good way to confront difficult stuff.

@katiekane5247

Ай бұрын

So you can more effectively keep them from infesting your space!

dudee we missed youu

so weird finding out what hasn't been looked at regarding insect movement. I mean you even said that fleas are (relatively) well studied insects and yet there was barely anything on the movement of larva

Would love a rove beetle videos, they are awesome and even the larger species like devil's coach horse , and hairy rove beetles fly surprisingly well and unlike ground beetles, rove beetle have surprisingly small elightra and relatively long wings so much so that they have to use their abdomen to fold their wings

Thanks for sharing this incredible information for free. You bring never before seen knowlegde to the world. By the way, how is it that you were financed to do research on such a niche topic? I find it amazing but seems not that important for most people overall I suppose, if you don’t mind the question.

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

this is was a small, unfunded, study. behavioral research like this and most of my other studies don't cost that much once we have the equipment or access to it somewhere else.

@mariannaluciliasericata4195

Ай бұрын

@@AntLab Oh that's great to know. I would love to do this kind of research on topics about little studied groups of insects. I'm impressed by the knowledge you provide with the incredible camera shots of the insects' close up, and I would like to do something similar at some point. Your videos inspire me, so keep up this great work on your channel. :)

As much as I hate Fleas, their mobility is a reminder how Power to Weight Ratio is King.

I hats flees, the larva were so itchy and then soon the biting started

Fleas are hi-tech, thats a young flea in a Mark 3 Iron flea suit

Great fleasearch

I've seen a few of those fallen from my cat when she had a flea infestation

Good video Ant Lab.

Hey thanks for your awesome videos, will you do others about ants ?

@AntLab

Ай бұрын

maybe. there are still ant colonies in the lab (trap-jaw ants), but I don't have any active research projects on them at the moment. Unrelated, I have been wanting to make a video about ants in amber in museums for a while. I hope I have the chance to make that one.

Are the movement strategies of other Mecoptera larvar similarly obscure? I wonder if there are similarities, at least with (for example) the Nannochoristids...

Is there a difference between cat and dog fleas? Or are they all basically the same? Very interesting video! Thank you.

Not really on topic but I just got into mounting insects. But I wanna do they're whole life cycle. From egg to adult n everything in-between. But how do u preserve the eggs n larvae forms?

You are doing heroic work Sir, so I hereby pin this metaphoric medal to your chest.

Imagine if all insects were the size of a school bus, or even lets say a small car. O.o

i wanna know what larvae to adult flea looks like now

Is it a worry that I knew all of this information other than the maxillary palps are used to walk? The benefits of being a stray cat rehome and rehab for many years. Would love to see you do the rat flea too. Now they’re tiny and jump Very well too.

Damn! love the video but Jake was my favorite part

In the business we call it fleaces

@katiekane5247

Ай бұрын

Nice!

Jake is such a chad

Also what is the best way to prevent fleas on the property? I live in the country so no amount of products seem to keep them at bay. I wish I lived in the city/suburbs for this very reason. My pets seem to be covered in them all year round. Tried the flea and tick solutions, the vet brand flea/tick, diatomaceous earth rubs on my pets/house. Garlic and no luck. Using dish soap while bathing them seems to do the trick but I want a prevention for them not exactly a treatment, but I’ll take that too!

have you tried glass surface or any smooth surface that wont allow them to grasp ??

What I wanted to know is how the heck did you get just larva and eggs in one shot without getting any of the adult fleas within the shot did you just leave it open for all the fleas to jump out and how did you open that container to get one or two fleas without them hopping all over the place I’m pretty sure some escaped in your lab. And trust me, I would love to have your job. What is the name of the job? What type of degree in requirements sign me up I’m on a job hunt and bugs or something. I absolutely love, including my favorites arachnids

Really interesting! the movement reminds me of some worm creature we have at my house (in Argentina)... I haven't been able to identify it, but its body remains stiff and it almost builds its own "shell" out of what seems to be dust particles, and it moves by poking its centipede-like head out and pulling itself up the wall. I found some similar worms online that use leaves instead of house dust. If you have any clues, I'd love to know

@Frog_Dogger

Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure that is a bagworm.

@ThunderPanzer

Ай бұрын

@@Frog_Dogger Yeah that's basically what I found online... but I couldn't find one that matches exactly yet

Does the larvae sense smell and or seek it or a light what prompts a direction heading>>>

6:36 The flea larva hauling itself across the carpet sample has small red beads on it. Are those mites? I know that some parasites have their own parasites (which gives a certain grim satisfaction).

I'm on my way to see Cicadas emerge. Will you be studying them? I'd imagine you would be in North Carolina

please tell me you burned them all after the reasearch is done