I've never heard about these flies before. Added to my list of things to look for in the garden. 😊 Cheers

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting! They are a bit unusual aren't they?!

@Chickenandfriends-dj4vt

6 ай бұрын

Me too!

Your narration hits all the right notes. You got a great voice for this! Thank you for sharing information about this fascinating creature with us!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! Awesome comment!

@Dahaka-rd6tw

6 ай бұрын

@@oneminutebugs Coul you do video on Gladiator Insects or Mantophasmatodea? I was introduced to these insects through 'Weird n Wild' cards.

@darkstarmatter5678

6 ай бұрын

no. Too weird. And wild. @@Dahaka-rd6tw

@Dahaka-rd6tw

6 ай бұрын

@@darkstarmatter5678 Not at all compared to flies who evolved to take same lifestyle as spider wasp. It just that there's barely any videos about these guys in KZread

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@Dahaka-rd6tw My list for future videos is getting longer and longer! 😃

You know life sucks as a spider when even your food wants to eat you

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Swings and roundabouts! 🙂

Certain flys are nightmare fuel… like the bat fly. It’s crazy it doesn’t hurt them, but they are so creepy!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Ah yes bat flies! There's a good topic for a video. Thanks!

@victory8928

6 ай бұрын

There is even a communal species of bat flies who have developed ways to ward off bats as well

Thank you for sharing such an incredible world with us. Your videos are magnificently illustrated, beautifully narrated, and clearly described. You are a master at your craft. I hope you continue producing scientific content for many years to come.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Another super interesting video, never knew a fly would be an adversary for a spider. Also it reminded me of the Mud Dauber wasp.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! So many twists and turns in the insect world. Mud daubers would make a good story, I will put them on my list! Thanks for commenting. 🙂

This is the first video of yours that I’ve seen but it is quite informative and entertaining Thank you You’re killing it 👍

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Jack! Very nice of you to say that. 🙂

Im 58, and this was my introduction to the amazing Spider-Fly. Thank you very much! 🕷🕷🕷

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

Thank you for the video, I like your style, it was straightforward and easy to understand! I had never heard about those flies before; It's always interesting to learn more about animals from all places of the world!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your positive comment! So glad to hear you like my style. Awesome feedback. 🙂

Really cool video and very original. Never heard of spider flys before. This channel should get way more attention! 😁

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! I hope my channel gets more attention too! 🙂

Very interesting. If I find any dead spiders I should put them in containers and see if any spider flies emerge.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

You never know! That's how the original research was done on the biology of Ogcodes.

Nature never ceases to amaze me, how many life forms have evolved such specialized ways to survive, obtain food or find a way attract a mate. Life on our planet is so amazing.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve! Life on Earth is pretty cool. 🙂

Fantastic video! Thanks for posting that interesting info.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the positive comment! 🙂

Nicely done , Thanks Muchacho Subscribed

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great comment and for the sub! 🙂

I encountered a spider fly not so long ago, and had trouble identifying it until I spotted the thumbnail of your video and here I am. I took plenty of pictures of it at the time.

@oneminutebugs

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for commenting.

Love this channel. Keep making these wonderful videos.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do! 🙂

Fascinating indeed. Can’t get my head around the intricate grand design of such creatures! Glad my favourite orb spiders aren’t in danger though I am fond of the crab, and how it can change colour. Really appreciate your knowledge and way of presenting information 👍

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yes, they are unusual. The incredible diversity of insects never ceases to amaze me! Thanks for commenting.

@thehellyousay

6 ай бұрын

what grand design? seriously? are you concussed? do you even conceive of what such designs say about such a designer, or are you just so thankful to be here, not realising your only "purpose" insofar as can be coincidentally inferred, is fertiliser? geez. grand design, my ass. evolution merely fills every available niche, just as water fills every depression: inevitably.

@uncletiggermclaren7592

6 ай бұрын

It is far better than a "design". It is all random chance, dictated by the environment and the give and take of all the OTHER life forms. Explaining Evolution by the quite pathetic word "design" is, or OUGHT to be, frankly unworthy of a thinking being.

Man! Got to love this type of Diptera!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

Fascinating video. Thanks for taking the time to make it

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for commenting!

Very interesting. Thanks! 🙏

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

Thank you! I believe you followed the same formula I did for my senior seminar in college. Well laid out and segwayed naturally from one aspect to another. Hope you keep making videos!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the fantastic comment! New video loaded today! 🙂

First time I've seen one of your videos, and it's a good one! I've never heard of these spider flies before, and having now done so, I'm just thankful I'm not a spider. I need to check out more of your videos, but if they're half as good as this one, you'll be gaining a new subscriber.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

Great video!

@oneminutebugs

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙂

Great video. Thanks This just came onto my feed an I became an instant fan/subscriber.👍

@oneminutebugs

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for the sub!

Super interesting! Also, your videos have great pacing. They have a good amount of digestible information (with very nice narration). Can’t wait to watch some more of your videos

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps for your positive comments! 🙂

Awesome video!!!!!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!! 🙂

Omg, this is one of the best channel!! I am going to try to share it, so you get all the views you deserve!!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

How utterly horrifying. Makes me glad I'm not bug sized.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

It's a jungle out there! 🙂

Spider flies are new to me! Very interesting and informative. Thank you!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

When your lunch tries to kill you in the literal sense.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Ah but the adult flies might be eaten by spiders. Swings and roundabouts! 🙂

An old man telling a story about insects like it's a bedtime story. I can't say no to this.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Cool! Should I pretend to smoke a pipe? 🤣

@SavaCHari

6 ай бұрын

@@oneminutebugs By any means, yes!! Do whatever you can do to make it shine for your own channel! ❤

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@SavaCHari 👍

What a fabulous and interesting video. And so informative. I've managed to find and photograph just one of these flies and they do look quite odd but neat markings.

@oneminutebugs

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your positive comments! Glad you found one of these flies - they are a bit different! 🙂

Excellent.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

I had heard of spider flies back in Invertebrate Zoology class, but it was more of a footnote with little information. thanks for providing that!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! 🙂

Hey, new subscriber here. KZread suggested your video to me in my Home page; probably because I’ve been watching a lot of insect and spider videos lately. Great video, keen to see the one about the Australian spider hunting wasps. Thanks!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub CD! Hoping to get some footage of spider hunters this summer. 🙂

That was so funny with the spider 🕷️ eyes 😂😂

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Awesome. Glad you liked it! 🙂

I've never heard of spider flies but surely I arrived here due to the reputation of tarantula hawks or other parasitic wasps. Nice to know there are flies who are also parasitic. Amazing video by the way! It would be even more amazing if you could put a picture of the leftover exoskeleton of a spider after an emergence of a spider fly. Good work! 👍

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your positive comments! Unfortunately, I can only go with the images I have, or if permission has been granted to use other images. Copyright and all that! 🙂

Thanks

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Transitions are fine. Love the content!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 🙂

@SchitzoTheDog

6 ай бұрын

@oneminutebugs you give your content YOUR way. Otherwise you're following someone else.

Woah they’re so cute

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Most enjoyable, thank you! I learned a lot from this video. :)

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Hope you like the next one too!

Never heard of these little buggers. Pretty amazing.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yes they are indeed! 🙂

My my my, said the fly to the spider.

First time viewer. Spider flies are also new to me. Will check out your other vids tomorrow and will possibly subscribe. GREAT content, fascinating topic. Thank you from Virginia Beach.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great comments Jeff!

Appreciate that you include the source

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Under our feet is a warfare of creepy-crawlies we barely notice.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely! 🙂

Eduardo, from Spain. Never heard about them and they are truly remarkable!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks you Eduardo! 🙂

The spider fly, one more nail in the coffin of creationism. Such a highly specialized insect could only have come about via evolution. It's "mouth" and reproduction cycle says it all. Thanks for the video, I didn't know about this insect.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Well said! Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙂

Cheesy FX❤ Brilliant stuff

@oneminutebugs

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! 😃

That is a well-named fly. It looks like a linebacker that never skipped arms and shoulders day, and his poor little head got dwarfed in comparison. What a chonkster! 😂 I'm afraid they're an enemy of mine, though, because I actively cultivate a rustic wolf spider population to outcompete the black widows and brown recluse on my property. Anything that bugs my wolf spiders bugs me, too.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

It's a bit of a lottery with these flies. They lay masses of eggs because most larvae don't find a spider to drill into. I reckon your wolf spiders are in more danger from birds. Hope this helps!

What a fun video! I love learning about new horrors of the arthropod world, in addition to my genuine interest and curiosity I also love learning to use this knowledge in horror roleplaying games! Thanks for presenting this fascinating topic so clearly and with good humor.

@AnnLiesArtist

6 ай бұрын

Oh just reached the end of the video. To answer your question I’ve never heard of spider flies before, which is pretty surprisingly since this is a topic I’m interested in! Consider me a new subscriber.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks very much! 🙂

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

Very nice narration, it would just be nice to have more pictures/video of the organisms in question!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I agree about more footage. Sometimes none is available.

Seems like a really rare occurrence for a larva to encounter a spider. Lottery style.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

I agree, a lottery indeed. That's why spider fly females lay so many eggs. Thanks for commenting! 🙂

Never heard of spider flies before, only wasps. Though most amusing part is the little ‘red light, green light’ game they play to climb up to the abdomen.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for commenting. Yep, stop, go, stop, go, stop, go, drill! 😀

Book lungs are air gills. The external ones moved inside when their ancestors stopped being aquatic.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yes indeed! Thanks for your comment. 🙂

Wow never knew a fly like this existed. Thanks for educating me

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 🙂

I like learning about new animals and insects, and I really like that you are not reading directly from a script…

Inch along like a … that head to tail movement. 😂

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Haha! I was going to edit it out, but I'm glad I left it in! 🤣

Really lovely voice and face, and content, of course, that's why I'm here! New subscriber.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for such a lovely comment - and for the subs! 😊

Why only spiders? If these fly larvae could burrow into locusts and other insects, they'd have more chance of finding a host.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Great questions. The larvae may attempt to burrow into other insects but would not be able to develop inside. They can only develop fully inside spiders.

@chitinskin9860

3 ай бұрын

They would also have to deal with competition, parasitoid flies are not in short supply, so they often have to specialize in a particular host so that they have a better chance at competing with not only other flies, but other parasitoids like wasps. Generalist parasitoids tend to be crummy competitors, but having more options means this shouldn't be a problem. It all boils down to whatever they managed to adapt towards, and this fly went for specialization.

@oneminutebugs

3 ай бұрын

@@chitinskin9860 Well said! Thanks for commenting.

Just found your channel and am really enjoying it. Im working my way through Stephen A. Marshall's tome on flies. The larva movement is really the most fascinating part of this species for me.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Tyler! 🙂

Never heard of a spider fly until your video

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙂

Step into my parlor said the spider to the fly. That's when the spider knew, she'd fucked up.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Excellent comment! 😀

2:27 would’ve been nice to interview him, not possible though.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yes indeed! He was a legend. I'm planning to interview some current entomologist next year. Stay tuned!

I had never heard of these flies, but am glad to have done so. It's rough out there!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Indeed it is! Thanks for commenting. 🙂

If spiders eat adult spider flies then that’s one of the craziest predator/prey interactions. Like humans hunting adult lions with their bare hands but then standing no chance against the cubs.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I can imagine that the adult flies would make a good meal for a small spider. Love your thinking with the lions. I reckon you have the beginnings of a sci-fi/horror novel there! Thanks for commenting. 🙂

Yet another version of parasitic creature from which the xenomorph from Alien was based on. I have been interested in insects and spiders all my life, but never heard about Spider Flies. Thanks for the informative video.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I plan a video early 2024 on Xenomorphs vs Insects! 😁

Very interesting. I found the video slide to the side distracting. As a viewer I would find the video less unsettling without the slide.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Noted! I will use a different transition next time. Always learning.

Morbid fascination kept me here to the end. I think I've had my fill for another few months.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting

😂 i keep tarantula in my living room with me watching TV 😂💯🕷

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Doesn't everybody! 🤣 🕷️

Spider Fly: *UNO Reverse Card* Spider: "What the.. ??" 😳

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Yep! 🤣

@briantaylor9285

6 ай бұрын

@@oneminutebugs Spider Fly (voiced by Jeremy Irons): "I'm not your typical house fly, arachid...."

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@briantaylor9285 Awesome!

I saw one of these years ago and thought it was some sort of deformed tiny bee! I couldn't find and ID for it anywhere, but now I know!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad to help. 🙂

No I haven't seen one here in the US,(phx, az, )but this is great science 🤓 ty 👍

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Mike!

I gotta admit the flies look kinda cute to me

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

I reckon so too! 🙂

I have seen those spider flies, but wasnt aware they are spider parasites!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

That's great. Thanks for commenting!

Great presentation. I Live in California and have never heard of spider flies until now. I am a gardener and have a keen interest in arthropods, worms, mollusks and micro-organisms, etc. found in natural and garden environments. I just googled Ogcodes in North America and found a source stating that there are about 60 species of small-headed flies in 7 genera in North America. Not sure why so little is known about them.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much Bruce! I guess they are relatively obscure and suffer from a lack of entomologists! 🙂

This was new to me

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting us know!

I wish we don't have them here! I don't want anything killing our jumping spiders outside! 😭

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Only a few larvae out of all those thousands of eggs find a spider. Your jumping spiders are more likely to be killed by a bird or another spider! Hope this helps. 🙂

Damn I never considered that a parasite would clump on a live spider and stop to evade its focus

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Amazing isn't it!? 😲

Lasia is my fav acrocerid genus. They look just like scarabs!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Tanner! I just checked out Lasia - amazing! My search led me to Lasia pulla - the 'hummingbird fly'! Incredible. 😃

@tannerbland9827

6 ай бұрын

@@oneminutebugs our AZ endemic is pretty cool too I think it’s Lasia klettii

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@tannerbland9827 That's amazing! 😲

Dang dude…We’re looking at you more than the fly…

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting

Spiders eats flies and flies eat spiders. Makes sense.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Sure does! 😃

Great

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

and so the circle closes!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Indeed it does! 🙂

Strangely enough, I mentioned weird looking fly things to my friend yesterday. Now, I have seen this. Not the same, but very similar. Greetings from Dimboola, in Victoria, Australia. (Little DESERT region) 😊

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Hey Nancy from Dimboola! I'm from Pomonal. 🙂

I am nearly 60, and still have an irrational dislike of spiders. It's not fear, but hatred. Their existence is fine, but not near me. It's like they all want to get to me, and find a way into my ears. That in mind, I'd like to protest the label "Spider Flies". I see what you're doing there, mate, but the idea conjured for me is a flying spider. Frankly, I would never leep again, if I thought a spider could literally fly. No, "Spider-Eating Fly" is a completely acceptable name. Thanks

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

I hear you! Common names can be misleading. But it's not a name I made up, it's the accepted common name in entomological circles. 🙂

"Inch along like a...a...I dunno..." INCHWORM? 😂

@oneminutebugs

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣Love it!

No, very interesting!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks James!

But does the egg mass somehow draw the attention of potential host spiders? If so, how? How long can the larvae wait in hopes that a host come by and how can they distinguish between a spider and any other invertebrate animal that might wander on top of the egg mass?

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Great questions! The egg mass doesn't attract spiders. The strategy of the female fly is to lay huge numbers of eggs so that some of its larvae may find a spider. Larvae would probably hook onto any suitably hairy animal that wandered by BUT a larva would die if it's not a spider. The larvae can only survive a few days outside a host. I reckon the percentage of larvae that do find a spider host would be quite low. Thanks for the questions.

@rustyshackleford8022

6 ай бұрын

@@oneminutebugs I wonder if they choose locations based on female spider pheromones as with parasitoid wasps to intercept the wandering male spiders.

@htomerif

6 ай бұрын

I think spiders don't have very tough exoskeletons in comparison to almost anything else. What few things the larva could penetrate (like caterpillars or moths) don't have book lungs and I'm guessing that the larva needs the resources at the book lung to get through the first few instars. If it parasitized a soft-bodied insect it would probably look for the book lung until it died. I wonder if one could successfully parasitize another soft-ish bodied arachnid like a whip scorpion?

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@htomerif Looks that way! From the literature: "eventually all larvae end up in the book lung area of the spider and attach themselves in the air pockets between the lung lamellae, and breathe outside air."

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

@@rustyshackleford8022 The literature says: "Eggs may be deposited on dead twigs, but always away from the intended hosts". The literature doesn't mention spider pheromones. 🙂

That's the worst thing I've ever heard in my WHOLE life!!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

There's worse than that!

My general thoughts about all these intricate and somewhat unique and bizarre lifecycles is that I don't honestly believe this can be all "evolutionary mutation/accidents"... there has to be a major element of actual Intelligent Design involved... forget "religion"... what if you were ALL POWERFUL and ETERNAL... What would YOU do to amuse yourself, stay busy, and try not to be bored?... Remember "eternity" is FOREVER... and you can do ANYTHING...

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting.

First time I've heard of flies doing this. Awesome...and obviously, a little scary. I actually already liked and respected spiders in general, but..now..I also have sad spot of pitty for them.

@wedontagelikemilktho.7839

6 ай бұрын

Don’t let arachnophobes read this, they hate spiders more than mosquitoes and will attack you too if you like spiders.

This was a fantastic video-- and I wish I never clicked on it. Thank you for not showing the fly emerging from the spider.

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Israfel36

6 ай бұрын

@oneminutebugs I did very much, thank you. I have a feeling that your channel is going to be one of those channels that explodes in popularity. Good luck, sir 👍

It *bugs* me that they all lay their eggs in 1 heap. Safety in numbers? But there would be so much competition!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

The idea is that lots of larvae in one area, some larvae are more likely to find a spider. 🙂

I saw a hills hoist at a friends house in texas! Had no clue what it was called though.

@oneminutebugs

3 ай бұрын

It's a cool invention!

How utterly hideous and fascinating!

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Awesome comment! 😃

"We have spider hunting wasps here in Australia". Of cooooourse there are. PS. Great video. 😉

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! 😃

@familyhelpdeskhelpdesk270

5 ай бұрын

Oz has bloody everything even poisonous mammals, so this is absolutely no surprise!

Wow that is extremely interesting! How do they know they have attached to a spider and not another insect? The leg hairs?

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting Aaron. It's a bit of a lottery. I think they would attach to anything that is suitably hairy - only some of them would find a spider!

Alright, some feedback. I'm pretty sure you did the slides as a creative way to do cuts. At first, I was like, "that's neat. I wonder why more people don't do it like that." And then after about the fifth "slide," I stopped the video. It was weird and disorienting. Just my two cents. Don't spend them both in one place. And then I realized someone else pointed them out, so I guess this was a very long... "seconded."

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the constructive criticism. I hear you! I will use the swipe transition much more sparingly and also make it a little slower so it is not so jarring. Always learning! 🙂

I was about to comment that they are feared in the tarantula hobby, but I had them confused with the Phoridae. They share a similar common name in German ("Buckelfliegen" literally means "hunch-back flies"). Or are Acroceridae also a problem for Theraphosidae?

@oneminutebugs

6 ай бұрын

Great comment and question! Yes Acroceridae parasitise Theraposidae. Schlinger lists them in: Schlinger EI (1987) "The biology of Acroceridae (Diptera): True endoparasitoids of spiders". Pp. 319-327. In Nentwig W (Ed) "Ecophysiology of spiders". Springer Verlag, Berlin. 🙂