To choose the next surprise animal, post a comment like this: " Department # - # - # " - Departments: Birds, Mammals, Insects - #s: 1-20 - Example: “Insects 3-1-13”

@Bradmanmate

2 жыл бұрын

Mammals 666

@Bradmanmate

2 жыл бұрын

Please

@AnimeTiddFan

2 жыл бұрын

Insect 8 - 18 - 2

@kodydoesanything5204

2 жыл бұрын

Birds 3, 12, 5?

@Tear86

2 жыл бұрын

Mammals 8-4-39

IVE SEEN A TARANTULA HAWK IN PERSON!!! When I was like 6 or 7 I was in the car with my family near the Grand Canyon and saw one buzz along between some cars just ahead of me. I thought I was hallucinating or that it was one of those giant mosquitoes from the the original Jamanji movie. I was frozen in fear. I think that’s where my phobia of bees, wasps, and all fast flying or stinging insects came from

@bingchilingnice

Жыл бұрын

Bro got some nerves🤣

@emeraldzack910

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry it was me. Sorry for flying along

@Capybara69420

Жыл бұрын

Man I ain't going to the grand canyon, next thing you know I will be 💀

@suntimeguygamer2519

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t but when I lived on a farm a while ago and there was a baboon spider that live just outside my room. And this was a beefy bich!!! And I loved her but then a a month pasts bye sins I saw her then one day I went to see her as usual but was met bye the biggest wasp I have seen in a while and. Oh the terror. It was dragging my precios baboon spider to her nest And that day was when the war started Rip baboon

@bconroy328

Жыл бұрын

The cazador! Yall feelin woozy yet?

People who Played Fallout New Vegas are probably having nightmares from the Tarantula Hawk.

@pmrd

9 ай бұрын

Watching this video almost made me wish for a nuclear winter.

@phoebe5

9 ай бұрын

I mean the fact that all they did to design cazadores is just make the tarantula hawk bigger I think tells you how terrifying it is. Hell u think making it bigger makes it LESS scary because at least then you can shoot it

I can only describe the tarantula hawk as the beautiful embodiment of scary pain. It's so graceful and yet looks so scary.

@verymediocreperson6554

Жыл бұрын

Its ugly as fuck, its like hell shat on a plate, gave it legs and wings and, just for the sake of it, made it so big that it has to be called a tarantula hawk

@SuperAlphaKirby

Жыл бұрын

@@verymediocreperson6554 the 29 Chad's who liked my comment would disagree.

@verymediocreperson6554

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperAlphaKirby a lot of people disagree which is fine, i get why you think its beautiful but im scared af for almost all things with more than 4 legs

@thejestor9378

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperAlphaKirby I am scared of insects with stingers, but I can agree with that. Most derpy idiots would be male Cicada killers, have gone to a garden up north of where I live where cicada killers commonly frequent every year. The males being brutally territorial but not being able to harm you so they just dive bomb your legs with a flying headbutt is just hilariously dumb.

@slider42

3 ай бұрын

That's why I love it and hate it (YOURE MY DISCORD PFP!!!!)

You forgot to mention the nightmarish nature of the tarantula hawks name. These bugs actively HUNT tarantulas, bait them out of their dens for a DEATHMATCH where they sting the underbelly of the spider. This paralyses the large spider within 1-2 seconds, as it’s dragged back into the spider’s OWN BURROW, where the hawk lays eggs INSIDE its back and it’s young eat the tarantula while it’s STILL ALIVE and incapable of moving.

@cogitoergosum9069

10 ай бұрын

😨😰

I have considered going to the grand canyon in the past. After witnessing the most terrifying unit of a wasp ever I believe I will now find somewhere else to visit.

@flora_7719

Жыл бұрын

Dude, i literally have lived here in their habitat for 16 years and I've only encountered 3, you'll be fine

@craftydegrasse3679

Жыл бұрын

Been to the Grand Canyon never seen one!💜🥰

@somethingithink3731

Жыл бұрын

@@craftydegrasse3679 lucky

@Catchinsomezzzs

Жыл бұрын

​@@flora_7719That's too many times

@moppupaws

Жыл бұрын

@@flora_7719 thats too many.

"The flamethrower was not made for war, nay, it was made to protect us from wasps." "If a wasp normally stings you to be a dick, a tarantula hawk stings you to watch you suffer to satisfy its own pleasure."

@nezaniatoimya

Жыл бұрын

I swear these things should've stayed in fallout why the fuck are they real

@phoebe5

9 ай бұрын

Thing is a lot of your parasitic wasps like these and cicada killers are generally not as aggressive as eusocial wasps like hornets and yellow jackets

Cicadas are already so loud, imagine hearing the Empress Cicada from the other side of the hemisphere

You should invest in a macro lens, especially for the insects! It would be so cool to see these guys up close!

@loker6031

Жыл бұрын

im in your walls

@tiyaku

Жыл бұрын

@@loker6031 oh !

@thouxanmiles6441

Жыл бұрын

@@loker6031 You are in my walls I am in your Mother's sheets, we are not the same.

@thedstroyer0075

Жыл бұрын

@@loker6031 I’m in your locker

@qwer31asd26

10 ай бұрын

no

OMG! I LOVE SPOTTED SKUNKS and this became my favorite segment EVER!

@OddAnimalSpecimens

2 жыл бұрын

They’re one of my favorites now!

I've always been freaked out by cicadas with the loud noises they make as well as their big beady eyes. I had no idea there was a giant version of them.

@spugintrntl

11 ай бұрын

Cicadas were my favorite thing as a kid. They're big clumsy pushovers.

@Serom_974

11 ай бұрын

God: think of any insects that exist in the world. Now, believe me if I say there is a giant version of them somewhere.

@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World.

11 ай бұрын

I was creeped out by them because of their big size.

@BoyKhongklai

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how loud the giants will be

@TheHamsterMaster

8 ай бұрын

@@BoyKhongklai right?

i was honestly suprised he didn't pull out a hercules beetle for the beetle segment, because those things get absolutely MASSIVE

@goldenhydreigon4727

9 ай бұрын

Or the Goliath Beetle

@beelzemobabbity

9 ай бұрын

Maybe he was just wanting to show the giant features

I was stung by a tarantula hawk when I was 8 or 9. I remember the pain fading a lot quicker than I thought it would. It wasn't that bad despite being a hot, throbbing pain that I could feel on one whole half of my upper back where it stung me. There are 2 species that I know of in California, Pepsis Thisbe and Pepsis Mildei. I don't know much about Thisbe's sting, but I've read that a Mildei sting apparently only lasts 5 minutes and I assume that means it's what stung me as a kid. It's either the species I was stung by had a weaker sting than others, or the sting is overhyped by the Schmidt Sting Index. Edit: Just learned that the 5 minute sting pain duration is for the Pepsis genus as a whole. I'd like to see sting characteristics of different species studied more, but I assume no one is willing to get stung for science. I'd do it if it paid well. I would write detailed reports of every aspect of each sting because current records are extremely lacking in my opinion and I think the Schmidt index is kind of shit anyway.

@kuroishinblackheart

Жыл бұрын

you're love to hear about brave wilderness and his sting index

@Random_Nobody_Official

10 ай бұрын

The shit index is kind of schmidt anyway.

@isolated_illustrations

9 ай бұрын

Well that's hurtful. Especially since iirc Schmidt passed away...

@personagenerator

9 ай бұрын

@@isolated_illustrations My condolences to whoever was close, but that doesn't change my opinions on the sting index. Credit where credit is due, he did this all on his own. But one man's personal experience is not nearly in depth enough to rival a more organized and detailed study. This just happens to be a subject not many who have the resources necessary are willing to study due to the nature of the work involved.

@m.i.c.h.o

9 ай бұрын

@@personageneratorwell said. Although I have no experience with getting stung (save for yellow jackets and some ants) I agree with you. One mans experience cannot replace a study on many

*Cazadore senses tingling*

@peanutbutter6720

Жыл бұрын

As soon as he pulled it out I got flashbacks

@__Gaz__

Жыл бұрын

Off to nipton I guess

hey i know that the main focus of this channel is education and talking about the individual specimens and all that, but do you think you could a video on how to prepare specimens? be it wet specimens, drying, dyeing or pointing insects i still think it would be really cool and educational content also while i'm here, birds 5-3-19

@JustN1Shott

Жыл бұрын

No

@pearbear3281

Жыл бұрын

yeah same ive been wanting to do that stuff

@Get_Splooshed

Жыл бұрын

“I just wanna take some photos” type vibes

@skyisbored103

Жыл бұрын

@@Get_Splooshed animal preservation interesting as hell I tried to do it with a mouse that died of starvation in my garage, but the bones were too thin during the fleshing stage

@trippymlgjunkrat5749

Жыл бұрын

@@skyisbored103 Jesus christ

I was not guessing a grasshopper, I was thinking a beetle! These are beautiful bugs.

@officialgrindr

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking beetle too, maybe Hercules. But the grasshopper surprised me too!

Is this taken from a livestream? I would love to watch your livestream if its like this bcs its chill, fun, and relaxing Edit: stop with the amogus guys😭😭

@jaydiscord7591

Жыл бұрын

Amogus

@ballsgaming7595

Жыл бұрын

Amogus

@elfhat8452

Жыл бұрын

Amogus

@240zAt15

Жыл бұрын

Amogus

@arsonsnail

Жыл бұрын

Amogus

I had some ravens I had made friends with, and they gave me a live cicada. Thanks for bringing back good memories dude.

I actually have a tarantula hawk outside my house. They are very big and terrifying non the less. I casually see them here and there dragging tarantulas they paralyzed along the bushes. I don’t like tarantulas crawling in my house so I just t let the little demon do it’s thing. I’ve also heard they are not aggressive towards humans they only attack if they feel endangered. It’s been five years now and I’ve only seen it like about six times. I’m just hoping I don’t get stung by one.

WE LOVE SPOTTED SKUNKS! this became my favorite segment ever. :] 8:53

a tarantula hawk got me once and lets just say nature was kind enough to knock me out💀💀

The skunk is white with black stripes. If you look closely you can see that there is a part right above it's hind legs on it's back where there is a two white "pockets" of white fur, the leftmost in the first shot of it is weakly connected with some of the other white, but the right one is like a spot and not a stripe. Also if you want to see the stripes they go as follows, 1: starts at it's head and goes down the middle to the base of it's tail, 2 and 3: connect by the head and go down their respective sides of it's back and then towards it's stumache, and 4: Is a stripe on it's tail. that's my take on it at least. Love your videos btw, thank you for showing us all of these amazing animals! :D

I just saw a tarantula hawk about two weeks ago outside of my office in Chandler, AZ. It was the most massive flying insect I've ever seen. It was like a small bird. It was almost unbelievable it was so large.

I absolutely love carpenter bees and the attention they're getting lately. I had one make a burrow in a tree in front of my apartment. It was so cute watching it work and fly around. It looked almost like it trusted me.

@jazzfeline5970

8 ай бұрын

One time, my girlfriend and her roommates built a tiny wooden house for some carpenter bees on their porch. They ended up accosting anybody on the porch and would sting anyone that got too close to the house. They also destroyed my wooden swing set when I was a kid, and harassed me every time I tried to get on the swing.

@inzane101room

3 ай бұрын

I have some living in the trees in front of my apartment!!! Silly creatures :D

Once he pulled out the tarantula hawk I could feel my soul leave this earth after saying hell to the nah

This guy is such a cool biologist/zoologist/entomologist. Let’s be best friends.

@personman2346

Жыл бұрын

Biology is cool

*Heads North from Goodsprings* “Why do I hear combat music”? *dies*

The way this video is organized and set up is absolutely phenomenal, cannot wait to watch more from this channel in the future

I'm intrigued to hear your thoughts on 'if insects feel pain', I had a lecture on the topic this week relating to pain and nociception, investing what a fly does when being eaten as it continues the same behaviour even after the cerebral ganglion has been removed indicating they can't feel pain' however it's a difficult one as it almost seems like a stress or flight response to begin with which could be pain. I just wondered if you had any thoughts on that since you're around the animals so much

Just thought of how interesting it would be if this place experienced a night at the museum situation 😂

Pretty sure the heaviest insect ever was a Goliath beetle that weighed 100 grams. That's like, 30 grams heavier than the heaviest weta.

This is the most educational informercial ever.

man seeing those things gives me ptsd from my time in the mojave, i was jumped by 6 of them things while i was leaving goodsprings heading down to the strip

@Prootgen

Жыл бұрын

Those things where even scarier than those lizards down by that mining town down the highway

i have to say unfortunately living in Arizona ive seen 1 tarantula hawk in my life, and it flew into my grandmas house. Im already deathly afraid of wasps/bees in general so i ran and like the brave woman she is, beat it with a broom till it was nothing but a gross looking spot on the floor.

@anomalocaris_man

Жыл бұрын

bees are very good for the environment, they CAN sting, but they only sting in self defense, wasps are a bit more aggressive but as long as you steer clear from them, you're fine, leave them bee.

@ploopydiper

Жыл бұрын

@@anomalocaris_man keep that same energy when one is buzzing around your house lmao

@KnownAsLyant

Жыл бұрын

@@anomalocaris_man it came in their house why would they js leave it alone??😭

@tatelabianca666

8 ай бұрын

@@anomalocaris_man yea, leave them wasps bee! I like that.

you make the looking and leanrning about dead things so much fun! it's like watching deadpool doing the same with his weapon collection. I love it! So much energy, so much fun !

They’re not only in the Grand Canyon, They’re all over Arizona. Born and raised in AZ and Out of all the the creatures that want to sting or bite you, ive always been scared of these guys…

Imagine getting stung by a tarantula hawk and screaming and attracting more to come sting you-

@teoborges3949

Жыл бұрын

At least they arent the same size as a child

@kindahungry8505

Жыл бұрын

We got like a lot of these in Texas though I can't tell if that one is huge or he is small.

Question: Did you win the Guinness book of world Records for having the most amount of animals in your collection?

@spartanv4335

Жыл бұрын

The collection belongs to the University of Michigan. He’s alumni there, and gets access to it.

@blowfish8203

Жыл бұрын

@@spartanv4335 Those aren't his?

@spartanv4335

Жыл бұрын

@@blowfish8203 No

@hereisaname8567

Жыл бұрын

@@blowfish8203 who tf just keeps hundreds of thousands of well preserved specimens from hundreds of years ago in a private collection lmao

@VardinTar

Жыл бұрын

@@hereisaname8567 Research through evolution through thousands of years to compare and contrast (Just a guess)

I've seen 2 of the insects you showed in the wild. Saw Acrocinus longimanus years ago in Mexico. Awesome beetle. Saw huge cicadas in Borneo on short term mission trips. One longhorned beetle that you could have shown is Titaneus giganteus. At least as impressive as the 2 biggies you showed.

This just made me more scared of bugs and things that fly

oh man I love insects sooooooooooooo much.i recently found out your yt channel and im OBSESSED with your videos,you know there arent many yt channels that talk about insects and i was soo happy when i discovered your channel, so if i had to choose the next animal id choose Insects 17-07-08 btw your content is amazing but do you stream or something?

Man this channel is AMAZING!!! Found you on instagram and haven’t been able to stop watching! I love these longer videos. So much information!

lovely video! I like how you're really passionate about all of them. Here in Argentina we have Tarantula Hawks, we call them Matacaballos who translates literally to "horse killer"

Really clean longhorn section, very impressive run. Shame about the new Zealand timeloss, if you look at the SOB there's still a lot of time left to save

this is such an awesome channel! can you please do bird 15-2-2 !!

16:30 is when he brings out the cazador for anyone who clicked for fallout reasons

@Dogmaguy74

Жыл бұрын

Triggered my *Ptsd* .

I'm ninety percent sure a Megascolia Procer dwarfs the likes of Tarantula Hawks, Cicada Killers, and Giant Asian Hornets.

*brings out the tropical carpenter bee* Wallace’s Giant Bee: “Am I a joke to you?”

When he pulled out the wasp I just up and accepted that all my conceptions about bees were wrong for a hot second lmfao

I never knew cicadas could get that big and that Wallace's Longhorn Beetle had massive antennas

I remember the last periodic cicadas. I wasn't very old, still in my single digits I think and I'm 34 now so we're over-due for it again. But they were EVERYWHERE. There were literally clouds of them in air and everywhere you looked there were either cicada skins or cicadas themselves. The moment you opened the door and walked outside at least 5 landed on you.

I like how this looks like one of those shopping channels you’d see in the late 90’s

Hi! New Zealander here, almost got offended when you said the weta (pronounced wet-tuh) was from Australia 😂 (because Australia gets credited for eeeeverything!) Awesome video!

I feel like I'm watching one of those jewelry commercials my grandma used to watch due to your set up hahhaha I love it.

I live in the southwest where Tarantula Hawks live and they're one of my favorite insects! They use their venom to incapacitate tarantulas to lay their eggs, so they don't feel keen on stinging humans, unlike wasps who defend nests. They fly a bit chaotic like carpenter bees but yeah, pretty awesome insects!

Just a question: what’s kinds of “fish” (non-tetrapod vertebrates) do you have in the collection?

I' saw a couple of the giant cicadas, maybe not that exact specie, in Texas years ago. Most they had were bright green but the big ones were dark brown/black and red and much more rare.

The biggest bee is even bigger than that one, its called Wallace's bee, it was thought extinct but a specimen was found

@maiqtyson3278

Жыл бұрын

Me, who watched till the end: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

The Tarantula Hawk scares me more than any Tarantula ever will.

Remember seeing a giant water bug when I was a kid. Scared me but he or she never moved from its spot and I watch it for a good while. Lol

I want to see his preserved blue whale, giraffe, and elephant

@nathanielmandrake1500

Жыл бұрын

Not sure about a giraffe and elephant, but currently no preserved entire blue whales exist sadly. The most famous example of anything preserved of a blue whale is a massive 440 pound blue whale heart. It broke the news with how hard it was to preserve it. He might have a piece of preserved blue whale skin, but not at all a full blue whale as nobody has managed to preserve such a massive carcass before. I highly doubt fully preserved carcasses of elephants and giraffes have been managed either.

@cabriskus4700

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanielmandrake1500 ever heard of a joke?

@nathanielmandrake1500

Жыл бұрын

@@cabriskus4700 ...What’s the joke here? What’s the punchline? You can call anything you want a joke but if it doesn’t even sound like a joke it’s not one. + it’s incredibly hard to read tone through text. It’s weird to come at someone so aggressively considering you can’t really know for sure when people say things on the internet.

@cabriskus4700

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanielmandrake1500 the joke is that he wants to see those animals listed, we all know he doesn’t, get over yourself holy shit

@cabriskus4700

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanielmandrake1500 out here taking your like some fucking professor but has a anime profile picture

If I had a collection like that, I wouldn’t be able to sleep 😂

@jonathanbeen6309

Жыл бұрын

I agree

I think the white stripes are the ones referenced for the spotted skunk. The dark stripe runs down the spine with 2 white stripes on each side. Pure white animals are usually found in snowy environments, so darker colors are more common. Lots of animals have a blonde, albino, cinnamon, pied, or leucistic versions because it’s easier for DNA to stop pigment production, rather than coding for specialized pigment cells. So black with white stripes.

That cricket is THICC! Call it a thiccket from now on

Dude the Hercules Beetle is like a super heavy beetle that is considered the biggest insect or beetle. I was guessing that before you revealed the fat cricket 💀 Edit: can you do a review of hawk moths cus they are super scary. I hate moths but I would like to see you review moths.

@alioramusman5650

Жыл бұрын

What did moths ever do to you?

@OxyToxyNT000

Жыл бұрын

when he pulled out the grasshopper i thought it was the hedge grasshopper

@mauroc1896

Жыл бұрын

As a hawkmoth enjoyer i am deeply offended but still agree on your idea Like dude, they're just moths that copied hummingbirds homework

@MvGojiSolos

Жыл бұрын

Fr hawk moths are scary

@Weeklongwind647

Жыл бұрын

@@alioramusman5650 look scary. They have wings that scare predators and me!

I dont know how you came by this amazing natural history collection.. But you are incredibly lucky bro.. Most people will never get to enjoy Seeing a tiny fraction of the creatures you have..ill bet a large percentage of your specimens are Very rare or extcinct(sp?)..i spent years exploring museum collections as a kid while my dad worked on his entomologu phd..Thank you for making these great videos bro- they are becoming my favorite on youtube!

The worst pain Ive experienced from a single insect was a queen swedish bålgeting, directly translated bonfirehornet, who was hiding in a boot i put on. The sting was in my toe and it pretty much emptied all its venom into my foot. I had pains shooting from my toe up to my navel in jolts, as if could feel my nerves transmit the pain, if that makes any sense, for about 4-5 hours, and it was full blast all the time.. Safe to say i always shake my boots and step on the toe part before i put then on nowadays. Although a Swahn of bees and pants slipping up when i was collecting honey was even wires since it made my feet swell up like ballons for 3 days and as if they were being scallded with a hot iron constantly

@Kagetora-

8 ай бұрын

Damn, what a painful experience.

I love your honesty and dynamics of the video is damn good

I'm 13 and I've always wanted to be an entomologist. Its so cool to see these specimens. I'm also glad it makes 2 of us that we know that arachnids are not insects! I have a question too? Do you have Goliath Beetles or Tailless Whip Scorpions? I know that they get HUGE too!

@AllHailKingRose

Жыл бұрын

He says he has them all so I think he does have them. It would be great to see those specimens too.

@OxyToxyNT000

Жыл бұрын

" I'm also glad it makes 2 of us that we know that arachnids are not insects!" literally everyone knows that

@ioneoval7668

Жыл бұрын

Wow! You're a genius! You know that arachnids aren't insects! Almost everyone knows that, don't get arrogant about having knowledge about basic biology.

@todosauce

11 ай бұрын

​@@ioneoval7668why are you shitting on a literal child

Australia is the hard mode biome of real life according to the insects.

buy a good macro lens please ,i wanna see them closer & also love your channel.

Did you appear on a video about Redwoods vs Giant Sequoias? I used to show it to my 7th graders and it was so well done. Do any of your videos introduce where you work/where these specimen collections reside?

I love this channel so much

I live in India and have long horn beetle in my childhood.....it has some powerful hooks on its legs. If it land on you and u suddenly try to remove it, it will tear up ur flesh. May be that's where I got my beetle phobia from☠️

just found this channel...gotta say random asf but interesting as hell LMFAOO

Tarantula Hawk's are fairly common around where I am, the way they let their legs dangle as they fly makes them look so much bigger, it's horrific in a very neat way

I absolutely love your set up here bro with the camera angles and stuff you deserve more views

Why is J-Roc doing Animal specimens now?

big PTI fan huh? lol also this video made my skin crawl

Good to find you here, charlie. It's perfect you uploaded a video with giant insects, it's a favorite, so thank you.

The giant weta is almost extinct today but if you take a look at old pictures of them you really see how big they could get. The one you had there was a tiny one.

Watching all of your videos while eating spaghetti... *Slurp* interesting *slurp* *slurp* My sister walks in... "Aight we need to talk about this"

New Zealander here, good to see the Giant Weta on here, they are still endangered but numbers are on the rise

15:01 YOU KNOW I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF THE POSSIBILITY OF Having nightmares🛌 about the insect's🦗🐝 that i just saw in this video and the fact that you even brought it up was little bit funny

Actually the largest bee species is the Wallace's Giant Bee but they’re extremely rare, actually recently rediscovered which is cool so you probably wouldn’t have a specimen to show…

Weta can be terrifying. I once got home from school, let out a sigh of exhaustion, and noticed a scratching sound from my right shoulder. Looked to the right, and there was a Weta on the strap of my bag. I just calmly put my hand between it and my face, and bitch slapped that sucker into the wall, where he exploded. Poor bastard. Another one was hiding on the inside of the curtain on my door, and when I reached over to open the door, it reached out with a forelimb and scratches my arm, making me bleed. Those claws are no joke. Sharp as razor blades.

Insects #3 #7 #17 Thank you. I love your channel & content!

Hercules moth: 'Am I a joke to you?'

I am so happy I discovered this Channel, I've always th ought the heaviest insects would be either a beetle or a stick insect.

Kind of love the layout, but you could maybe use it as a seque for a smaller period of time, more than an overlay

oooh i didnt know Xylocopa bees sting, they are usually very chill.

You can tell the difference really easily actually by how long it’s been since you’ve seen one

There’s nothing like the thrill of seeing a tarantula hawk crawling out of a hole and buzzing around while you’re taking a stroll through the wilderness without having even heard or seen one before. I got tf out of there in a snap. Turned around and ran in the direction opposite of this fucking wasp, got in my car and drove past the speed limit all the way home. I watched Coyote Pete’s video that night where he stung himself with one of these and didn’t have a good night’s sleep. I was not settled to say the least

Now, as alone in my opinions as I may be ... I think wasps are wonderful! They're scary sometimes if they fly by your head or if you did something to upset them (aka. they start getting defensive), but otherwise they're just nice little buzzy guys and gals. Even the yellowjackets near me can be very sweet - it's just that they're quick and assertive, so they seem intimidating. But that behavior means they're outgoing enough to fly right up to me and eat honey off my bare fingertips! Paper wasps are also lovely, but much more reserved and shy (usually). Reluctant to sting in my experience, so long as they aren't being threatened heavily. It took me a while to gain trust with the hives near me, but once I did, they're similar - crawl right onto my hand, lap up honey from my fingers. One of my girls had so much honey she got tired, and decided to take a little nap on my finger! I took a video of it that I love. Really though, if you ever consider observing wasps more closely to try and lose your fear of them (which I recommend you do, unless you have a severe allergy!), the common denominator is a love for food. Sweet foods for adults such as honey and nectar (they also appreciate water), and animal protein like caterpillars or raw meats for the larvae. They are honestly such beautiful, intelligent and interesting animals; they're just misunderstood and maligned a lot. And they will remember you for better or for worse, so get on their good side and you have a new colony of friends!

I was a bit surprised when you pulled out one my local insects I expected some big ass behemoth from South America or something I’ve never heard of. glad to know we’re the ones that get the massive wasps

what about the hercules or elephant beetle? arent they much heavier? nice video tho :)

"bug collections?" "byeah"

16:40 Man that physically made me tear up a little, Jesus Christ.

One of my grandpas rest in peace used to collect the Bugs and insects like scorpions and even lizzards I used to think it was so cool so I started to do the same until my mom caught me and made me stop that habit

Absolutely disgusting, but straight up fascinating. Watched the whole thing.