The way they wiggle and shuffle or ploop their way into their tiny tube homes with a bumfull of pollen is unexpectedly adorable

@D-Z321

9 ай бұрын

Ploop = plop?

@davidmanchester8978

9 ай бұрын

@@D-Z321 I mean they ploop so not really a plop. More of a ploop.

@switch4960

9 ай бұрын

I needed this tonight

@CBroPhotography

9 ай бұрын

Plant or checkout some Obediant wildflowers. It's hilarious watching their butts sticking out when they are going for the pollen

@baileystinnett7685

8 ай бұрын

This comment

The buzzes they make while digging are so cute. The pollen pants are beautiful.

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

We agree!

@WorldGamersClub143

10 ай бұрын

At first I thought they're stargazers but I was wrong. 😅

@davidmorgan8612

9 ай бұрын

I also got a laugh at the pollen paints with the bee feet sticking out 😂

@Megi3857

8 ай бұрын

​@@KQEDDeepLook😢is ok

Those shots of the pollen pants just sliding down the tunnels was hilarious. Well done!

@MsWinterlife

10 ай бұрын

The bees look like our fluffy ragdoll kitty, with their pollen pantaloons :)

2:25 they are so cute when they crawl to their nests.

@alveolate

10 ай бұрын

they're so furry and chubby!! btw do these ones have nasty stings?

@sheriffbutterball7824

10 ай бұрын

I like to think they kinda slide down front first so they don't mess up the pollen pants

@prismoth.

9 ай бұрын

@@alveolate no

Nature is odd weird and amazing all at the same time

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

That's our show in a nutshell, thanks!

@OptimusPrime-od3zh

10 ай бұрын

@@KQEDDeepLook no problem 😊

@NoobsDeSroobs

10 ай бұрын

So is punctuation.

@OptimusPrime-od3zh

10 ай бұрын

@@NoobsDeSroobs wdym?

@OptimusPrime-od3zh

10 ай бұрын

@@NoobsDeSroobs no seriously what are you talking about?

This channel truly deserves much more recognition than it has, the amount of information and clear footage is marvelous

@godbelow

10 ай бұрын

This channel has over 2 million subscribers...what more recognition are you referring to?

@bonk4481

9 ай бұрын

@@godbelow 2 million more

@darcieclements4880

9 ай бұрын

Lol never enough for good science channels. I was shocked how low sci show was given it's the best science channel on KZread.

@beccas58

9 ай бұрын

The segments are never boring and just the right length stuffed with knowledge.

@isocarboxazid

9 ай бұрын

@@godbelow 8 billion people on the planet. There are more than 2 million people living within 3 miles of me. Small fraction of human population. Not sure why you felt the need to argue about this, get a life.

Awww the little pollen pantssss ❤❤❤

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

POLLEN PANTS

@astronomical_sayr

10 ай бұрын

​@@KQEDDeepLookPOLLEN PANTS

@BryleMilan

10 ай бұрын

POLLEN PANTS

@mreggster7356

10 ай бұрын

@@BryleMilan POLLEN PANTS!!!

@treystephens6166

Ай бұрын

POOPY PANTS 💩

The music is my favorite part. It’s the icing on the cake seeing lil wiggly bee bums with pollen pants. :)

Love the pollen pants, and I felt so bad for the bees whose hard work was spoiled by those pesky bee flies.

The delivery of "pollen paaants" made me smile so hard

I love those pollen pants 😅

@Re_Been

10 ай бұрын

why is your comment says 3 days ago?

@astronomical_sayr

10 ай бұрын

​@@Re_Beentime traveler?

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

They are a Patreon Subscriber! www.patreon.com/deeplook

@astronomical_sayr

10 ай бұрын

@@KQEDDeepLook oh

@danielthecake8617

10 ай бұрын

I prefer time traveller.

2:00 And not a few days ago, I was walking around Aberdeen, and seeing bindweed flowers thought to myself, “surely, these are morning glories!” Thanks for the clarification, Deep Look!

@KQEDDeepLook

9 ай бұрын

😁

I thought bee flies only attacked tree bee nests not ground bee nests! But why is betrayal EVERYWHERE when you're SMALL?

@TragoudistrosMPH

10 ай бұрын

... although big ones... Humans and chimps raiding neighbors, Kleptoparasitic birds... Nature is sometimes rough, but some species try and be better!

@pyalot

10 ай бұрын

Life is hard. So any cheatcode you find to make it a little easier, makes it so your offspring has a bigger chance of survival. Much of earths life could be described as a collection of cheatcodes. There are very few organisms that don't profit one way or another from other life, very often at its expense.

@quitlife9279

10 ай бұрын

The bees deserves it, they stole pollen from the bindweed flowers. The bees are the true freeloading parasites, the beeflies are the real pollinators.

@darcieclements4880

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, best to assume exceptions are highly likely in all things biology. The worst thing you can do is assume "always", "all", "never","only".... especially with flies... There are flies infected with other flies that catch other flies to infect them so that all 3 species land in one host at the end when the final one in the series bites a big mammal. I'm oversimplifying that but ... Yeah

@blingbling2841

9 ай бұрын

Because it's the NON-HUMAN world out there in the wild.

0:42 to 0:45 Hello likely varroa mite! (little red guy on the flower; think of them like giant ticks that live on bees. Not native; not good)

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Wow good eye to spot the mite! We were thinking it might be a red spider mite.

@VeniVdVici

10 ай бұрын

@@KQEDDeepLook That possible, but it seemed very excited by the presence of the bees. Both mating and foraging are considered likely vectors for when the mites get to hop bees and/or colonies.

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

We're looking into a story about varroa mites - stay tuned!

Hey Deep Look, request to know if you'll make a segment on the Spotted Lanternfly? They're an invasive menace in the northeast and your channel is perfect to help bring awareness and educate us on this insect. Thank you! Edit: typo correction

@justalittleloser2482

10 ай бұрын

Ive heard that trying to increase awareness has led to people smashing EVERY bug they see- or even turning to bug spray, and accidentally killing tons of native bugs! A video on them might do more harm than good

@EmperorHelix

10 ай бұрын

@@justalittleloser2482 respectfully, that's ridiculous. Turning to poison that kills everything is the result of people not knowing what to look for. Proper Education doesn't result in that.

@Blackguard9099

9 ай бұрын

Possible but unlikely, given that Deep Look appears to be based in California.

@tylernaturalist6437

9 ай бұрын

We’ve got them here in Brooklyn NY, they’re awful, I go out of my way to destroy every lantern fly I see 😂

@pbase36

9 ай бұрын

@@tylernaturalist6437 get the nymphs too. small and bright red.

Nature can be both horrifying and adorable at the same time

The camera work is nothing short of amazing. Great job!

@KQEDDeepLook

9 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@onkelpappkov2666

9 ай бұрын

I was baffled the whole time. I get that most of nature footage is just pointing a camera at a spot for hours and then cutting out the juicy bits but wow, those were some clean, perfectly focused shots of hovering flies.

Hi my day got just 200 percent better

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Glad we can be of assistance!

@weeklyvideos8447

10 ай бұрын

@@KQEDDeepLook OMG i didnt think someone would reply 😃😄 me and my dad always watch your videos he we are always ecxited when a new video comes out. ❤️ your channel

Morning glories were always one of my favourite flowers, but now they are even more because they are the only reason this beautiful bee exists.

Unfortunately, bindweed in Colorado is aggressively invasive. Choking out native plants and wrapping around structures. We are told and tasked to remove any we find. Luckily we found an insects that eats bindweed so the numbers in our native areas should be dropping into a controlled population.

@notyesbetothefallssorcerer3272

10 ай бұрын

Yep. We Coloradoans have to appreciate all of our wildlife, including bugs. 😊

@pollenmicrobes

9 ай бұрын

Thankfully this bindweed is native in CA and one species is even protected!

@adriennecloeter7394

8 ай бұрын

Is this the native one? Because I see a lot of the invasive bindweed in California

the cuteness is unbearable

Amazing pictures! And amazing soundtrack by Seth Samuel!

We have similar flies in the Netherlands, which shoot their eggs into solitary bees’ nests, but the tunnels I’ve never heard of. Quite amazing…!

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Very cool - do you recall the species name?

@boud86

10 ай бұрын

The one I am most familiar with is Anthrax anthrax, which I have seen around the bee hotels in my garden. Bombylius major is also quite common, parasitizing on what we call ‘sand bees’ (Andrena). They are quite beautiful when foraging on flowers. But in the dunes of The Hague, you can also find less common species. Although I am not be sure if they have the same ‘shooting’ technique. They are all part of the family of bee flies (Bombyliidae) :) We call them them ‘wool hoverers’ (in Dutch ‘wolzwevers’, due to the hairy bodies of some species. ‘Bee flies’ is a term that we use to refer to a various hover flies that look like bees.

Man the male bees are on the next level of thirsty lol

I am entirely too emotionally attached to these bees. They looked so adorable peeking out of their turrets, or with their pollen pants. And I was even angry at the bee flies for killing the baby bindweed bees!

@Girl-SuS-3000

2 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to say this in front of you but that's how nature works there is literally nothing you could do about it

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to another fantastic video! I'm always impressed by the clever and captivating content in these videos. The way the text is presented adds an extra layer of interest, and I can't get enough of how enchanting these little creatures look through a macro lens.

Props to the ppl who helped protect the bees, good Karma and noted.

"Pollen pants!" gave me a giggle. Bees with bloomers!

Pollen pants ❤ perfect. Amazing video and content. Thank you for improving my knowledge. Cheers from England.

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

POLLEN PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks. It's not often I see a good short video on a native bee species or any native pollinator for that matter.

@gabrielaquiros1966

10 ай бұрын

Hi @KenS1267, I produced this episode of Deep Look. I produced an episode about another species of ground-nesting bee in California. This one digs nests at the beach: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h5qBpbySm6qbiNI.html And former Deep Look producer Mike Seely produced this episode about carpenter bees native to California: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ip6DyMR-h7mooKg.html Enjoy! -Gabriela

@KQEDDeepLook

9 ай бұрын

You bet.

0:57 Aww, so cute!! What a beauty, keep it up!!!

Laughed so hard at the interrupted mating part!

These bees remind me of Australian Dawson’s bees, which are just as aggressive during the mating season.

Always love watching stuff from deep look and eons and I am actually going to the Grand Canyon today because of eons video on it and because of deep looks videos on the peregrine falcon. Keep up the good work you guys are doing great! 😊👍

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

That is awesome! We love eons!

Loved the zoom edit into the inside of the hole, I’m glad to see flys aren’t just pests to humans 😂

When those bees invent the doorbell camera, it's all over for those flies, man.

We : Nature 🌿🍃 is beautiful!! Le Nature :😒

2:21 the little teenie tiny feet sticking out 😆😂

I'm just here for the "Pollen Pants" ;_; so freaking cute!

"Nature is unfair" universal truth

Forget this. If I were a zoologist, I would've called that the "Cuckoo fly" for reference

2:30 can we appreciate how perfectly round that nest is.. also beebutt

omg i love the little buzz they make

the fact that when a actual bee comes near me irl im scared, but when im watching these types of videos im calling them adorable

Thank you for this whole series, but especially this one. Love it!

they’re so cute omgg

Bees are so cute. I pet them when they're sleeping in my wildflower garden. They sleep under leaves or tucked in flowers

Those pollen pants look cute on them!

The pollen pants make them look like Sir Mix-a-Lot with his parachute pants😅

Pollen pants has to be the cutest thing I've heard yet

The "pollen pants" part was adorable, lol.

That bee flies with style with those pollen pants 😂

What a wonderful video! Thank you! I have a Hive or Colony I don't know which to call it, of sweat bees. They've taken up residence in a patch of ground that is dry and hard. But they come to my yard for my flowers and water and when I walk over there to watch them take it all back down into the ground it just fascinating at Thrills me!

omg, they are sooo adorable! 😆

I really enjoy watching insects and other animals build stuff, it’s so fascinating that they can do that even without much of a literal brain

Bees are one of the most adorable things in the planet. They’re literally the opposite of wasps and hornets

Those lil legs when they wear the pollen pants while going in lol! Reminds me of Yosemite Sam

the pollen pants shuffle into their nests was cute

Pollen Pants! So cute :D Thanks, for showing us this Gem.

@ghostmanscores1666

9 ай бұрын

Pollen pantaloons

I love that "pollen pants" 🐝

2:21 Pollen Pants!! 🥰🥰

the tilt shift makes the shots look unreal, keep it up!

I love watching bees doing their bees stuff. Buzzy business with their fuzzy body🐝

I love Deep Look! I always learn so much about nature. Bee flies are something I would like to know more about? We have them in our area. What are they for in nature? I love learning about Bees in general. Thank you Deep Look 💜🥰✌

Your videos are always interesting and amazing to look at. Thanks. ❤

Awww these bees are sooooo cute in their nests 🥹 (I love how their nesting parking lot was cordoned off)

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Good karma right there.

@angelitabecerra

10 ай бұрын

@@KQEDDeepLook Very good karma. Wish more people/places took care of vital nature spots like this. Cordon off a nesting spot for a short period of time to give a species a fighting chance; no real hassle to us, real win for nature

Seeing insects up close shows a whole side of them that you'd usually ignore because of their infamy.

@sailor5853

6 ай бұрын

what you saying, i always loved insects

@YRO.

6 ай бұрын

@@sailor5853 Not all people are the same.

Why do the bees look somewhat cute

So nice to see there's an actual use for bindweed (which is terribly difficult to get rid of)

I love Bombyliidae. They're easily my favorite families of fly. And they're cute, too ! I've seen those vertical tunnels of solitary bees too, but never the horizontal ones - and there's like half a million bombyliids around, so you'd think the bees would've learned to adapt, but no...

@firegator6853

6 ай бұрын

As the victim adapts so does the one that benefits of it...this reminds me of cuckoo bird situation where they depend on certain host bird truly an interesting relationship

Let’s hope the pollen pants isn’t a new fashion trend

amazing story and amazing video as always! great job！

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow!! 1:10 I thought this was a cartoon 😮

I thought that bindweed was a non-native species in the US, how is it that they only rely on bindweed flowers for pollen? EDIT: Looks like there's a native bindweed, Calystegia, and a non-native, Convolvulus! The bee uses both.

@gabrielaquiros1966

10 ай бұрын

Hi @giddy7079 I produced this episode. You're right that there are native and non-native bindweeds and that the bindweed turret bee forages in both. According to the University of California, Davis, scientists who research them, the bees we filmed were foraging on Calystegia occidentalis, a native species of bindweed. But elsewhere they do forage on Convulvulus, which isn't native. Thanks for watching! Cheers, Gabriela

@giddy7079

10 ай бұрын

@gabrielaquiros1966 thank you for your response Gabriela, amazing work as always.

@quantumblauthor7300

9 ай бұрын

I guarantee you, bindweed is VERY native

@pierreabbat6157

9 ай бұрын

Isn't the morning glory Ipomoea? Do those bees use sweet potatoes?

@gabrielaquiros1966

9 ай бұрын

@@pierreabbat6157 Hi, I produced this episode of Deep Look. According to the University of California, Davis, scientists who research them, the bees we filmed were foraging on Calystegia occidentalis, a native species of bindweed. Elsewhere in California they are known to forage on Convulvulus, which isn't native. Both Calystegia and Convulvulus are in the same plant family, Convolvulaceae, as Ipomoea. But I don't believe that these bees forage on Ipomoea. Thank you for watching! -Gabriela

i was caught off guard by how cute there lil pants are

My favorite deep look video are the bees

these bees are adorable ☹️💕

Lol I love how they don't even use their pollen covered legs they just slowly drag themselves in haha

Man i love solitary bees.. so much diversity

you earned a like for the pollen pants. i couldn't not smile at that

They are so cute with that pollen pants😂😭

POLLEN PANTS ARE SO CUTE

Pollen pants is everywhere

those lines are so important for these bees, imagine letting people just step on them nests and a bee fly bombing eggs here and there easily from crushed tunnels :'

the pollen legs are so cute!!!!!

Love your videos about solitary bees!😍

@KQEDDeepLook

10 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Bee : Work Hard Fly : Bird Smart

The music by Seth Samuel is phenomenal. The bees are cool, too.

This was beautiful! I was gonna say that the wasp was more gross when laying egg on spider, but the beefly was more terrifying!

God I love these, love nature's robust persistent ways of perseverance. You can see the beauty of the yin and yang of influence is aww inspiring

California is full of interesting bees!

The complexity of nature is astounding

The bee turrets remind me of the turret spiders (my absolute favorite videos of all!), and I have a question: How have they - and all the other critters in your films - been doing in all the wildfire disasters over the last two or three years???

@Kurominos1

10 ай бұрын

im not from that area but if humans dont interfear or make bad stuff Most animals or Plants that live in areas where its normal to have fires are adaptet to deal with fire when you watch and look at the wildfires in Australia most dead or dying animals where around human setlements stuck on or near fences or climbet non native trees/plants for instance native australian trees like eucalyptus dont really burn so during a fire animals are safe by just climbing all the way up sadly animals dont see the diffrence between a native tree wheres safe to climb up and non native introduced trees who arent safe cause these trees mostly come from areas where no fires are so these trees /plants dont have any defence and just burn completly down with all the animals up there most fires ,floods and others are only so worse now cause we humans changed the evoriment for us but made it worse for everythign else ( including us)

@TheDweeb002

9 ай бұрын

I’m sure she sends them an email every 6 months

@pollenmicrobes

9 ай бұрын

Hello! I'm one of the researchers KQED consulted for this and so have been going to these sites the past few years. Funny enough, the plant they get their pollen from (Calystegia) is doing REALLY well right now, I think in part due to all of the dead trees (they are climbing vines), full sun, and the rain we got his winter. We were a little bit worried early this spring because of the heavy heavy rain we got this past winter though, one site in particular had a lot of nests washed out. But the bees at the other sites were out in abundance, and with plenty of food!

@Delcat42

9 ай бұрын

@@pollenmicrobes Thank you so much! That's awesome to hear!

Bees that don't live in colonies don't die after mating

Imagine living comfortably in your burrow, when out of nowhere a fly flies to the entrance, lays an egg, and flew away

I’m just imagining that little red mite @ 0:44 coping with life after seeing three Kaiju brawl it out over reproduction

falling in love with these narrations. ❤️

the fluffy pollen pants are too darn cute

I like how you said "Pollen Pants"