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@SWatson410

4 ай бұрын

I have a topic request: The news hasn't been covering it, but there has been an increasing occurrence of Leishmaniasis in the Southwest US. This is a disease that affects humans and their pets with potentially deadly outcomes. It's caused by a microscopic parasite, which is spread by sandflies and can be transmissible by dogs to their owners. It would be very interesting to see and could help inform more about this emerging health threat.

@TheBullethead

4 ай бұрын

Allergies only appear in the medical record circa 1900, about the time that disease theory took hold and folks rich enough started keeping their kids and all they touched as clean as possible. And thus these kids' immune systems, which were bred up since the beginning of time to be at all-out war with the universe, suddenly had no more real enemies to fight. but you can't stop an army in its tracks that's been many millions of years on the attack. So the immune system, lacking real enemies to fight, started going off on harmless stuff like pollen, dust mite poop, and whatnot, instead of actual pathogens and parasites. And thus, allergies in city folks. Country folks, who get exposed to all sorts of diseases and parasites from birth, and are actually encouraged to eat dirt as children, thus have a base level of disease and parasitic infection providing an endless supply of valid targets for the immune system, so it doesn't get distracted by false targets like pollen and dust mites. And thus, country folks are healthy and don't have allergies. So go eat some dirt. It'll cure your allergies.

Yeah right Mom you're not going to trick me into cleaning my room with this

@woody442

4 ай бұрын

I just cleaned mine last year. That gotta do for a while.

@Boogie_the_cat

4 ай бұрын

If you owned a microscope, you probably would clean more often. Everything is disgusting close up.

@woody442

4 ай бұрын

@@Boogie_the_cat Its not dirt, it’s a sample farm.

@woody442

4 ай бұрын

@@Boogie_the_cat It ain’t just dirt, it’s a sample farm.

@idontwantahandlethough

3 ай бұрын

you're not even my real mom, *_DEBRA!!_*

Remember that making your bed keeps in the humidity and darkness and fosters dust mite survival. For safety, I don’t make my bed.

@Ezeekey

3 ай бұрын

That just changes where the mites are living though. For optimal safety, I sleep on a hard wooden floor. No crevices for mites to hide there.

@frozenfeet4534

3 ай бұрын

I sleep in hell. the elevator is slower than I'd like but the mites cook right off

@dforrest4503

3 ай бұрын

@@Ezeekey but the cockroaches!

@oliverholm3973

2 ай бұрын

​@@dforrest4503 I live in a cold climate, I only need to worry about truly tiny things.

@williamchamberlain2263

8 күн бұрын

​@@oliverholm3973 no Skin Spiders for you

I remember learning this in grade school and crying myself to sleep for weeks bc I could feel myself surrounded by mites

@serotoninsyndrome

4 ай бұрын

And all the while, the mites supped upon your tears....

@idontwantahandlethough

3 ай бұрын

one time we watched a documentary about bacteria in 5th grade. Alison got really scared and stood on her desk to "hide from the germs" until my teacher reminded her that germs are in the air too. Then she just started crying. It was kinda funny, kinda sad

@darcieclements4880

3 ай бұрын

But is friend. Just need air filter to clean poo.

@blablah127

3 ай бұрын

@@darcieclements4880 a 20x20 box fan is perfect. They make air filters the same size and you can just tape it to the back. I’m getting one tomorrow.

The visuals of the leg hydraulics working at 10:47 are pretty incredible

Honestly the more you study the microcosm the more you start to wonder… am I a person… or just a massive collection of cells reading instructions on how to build and maintain a city (aka me).

@blablah127

3 ай бұрын

Yeah 😅

@happygolucky9004

3 ай бұрын

Definitely a collection of human cells and a whole ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, viruses and protists in your gut and on your skin!

@Kevin-iv3lv

Ай бұрын

Yep. We are tiny organisms on a muddy sphere floating around a star. Insanely mind blowing. At least that's my opinion. 😁

@williamchamberlain2263

8 күн бұрын

And consciousness is just the newspaper headlines. Not even the tag lines.

As someone who cleans abandoned homes for a living it’s comforting to know that there are so many of these little dust-shitting bastards sifting around in the filth. I say this with love

@blablah127

3 ай бұрын

I can’t tell the tone here, are you joking or nah 😅

@MudaGameStudio

3 ай бұрын

@@blablah127 sadly I’m telling the truth! 😂 Not about being happy about the dust mites lmao but I do clean abandoned houses and there are quite a number of terrible little creatures sometimes 😂

@blablah127

3 ай бұрын

@@MudaGameStudio geez. Hope it pays well 🫡

@MudaGameStudio

3 ай бұрын

@@blablah127 it depends! Where I live it’s actually very decent pay, but I’ve heard horror stories from some other people that have done it for much less in other areas 😟 it depends on the severity most of the time!

@blablah127

3 ай бұрын

@@MudaGameStudio that’s a relief. Keep the PPE on and make that bank

I'm all itchy now. Thanks. Thanks for that.

@zJoriz

4 ай бұрын

r/thanksihateit

@pheart2381

4 ай бұрын

Scabies...

@charlesreid9337

3 ай бұрын

it's all the mites climbing ypur body to watch the movie about them

I am glad the mites don't gross me out. As a gardener and houseplant lover I would be very interested in seeing a spidermites up close like this video

Big fan of the EXTREMELY scientist-coded action of seeing a weird spot on one's face and immediately going "oh I gotta scrape that and look at it". Ah, microbiologists and their bodily excretions/bodily ecosystem.

I used to be a veterinary nurse (had to leave the field due to health issues) and as sad as it is when an animal has mites (other than the usual amount of demodex), it's super cool to see them under the microscope. My first time seeing them was on a slide from a rabbit with itchy ears... E. cuniculi, I think? I was so excited to show the senior nurses!

I find their little arachnid forms quite endearing. Same with ticks, despite all the problems they bring, I find them kinda cute.

@davewalter1216

4 ай бұрын

Ticks are just big blood-sucking mites, so your endearment of ticks is consistent with your appreciation of other mites.I find mites fascinating, but I feel revulsion towards ticks, mosquitoes, leeches and any other organism that seeks to graze on my blood. That's just me, though. Go ahead and like ticks: they certainly like us.

@charlesreid9337

3 ай бұрын

look at a closeup of a tick from the front. theyre nightmare fuel

@oliverholm3973

2 ай бұрын

​@@davewalter1216 I don't mind mosquitoes; If they were quiet and didn't leave an itch, I'd let them have their milligram of blood. However, ticks? They're disgusting in every conceivable way.

This _"MITE"_ be one of your best puns so far Haha

I can't believe I'm sometimes seeing the photo receptor 'eyes' as heart-shaped on the water mite. 16:48

Bedbugs freak me out more than mites. ^^

@OldManBOMBIN

3 ай бұрын

Dude, I'm a maintenance man for some low-income apartments; I've only been doing it for a couple of years now, but I've seen some things - and I've heard about some other things. Bedbugs are no joke. For anyone reading this who doesn't know, bedbugs can reproduce pretty crazy fast, and adults can go for a year with no food. Just waiting to feel the heat of your body so they can suck your bone juices. They suck, but you gotta admire em a little.

Ah, the mighty mite, unsung heroes of... making and being dust!

Demodex looks like a tardigrade crossed with a glow worm under the UV light, how cute!! 💖

@peopleeps4756

4 ай бұрын

I am delighted by my facial follicle friends 💖 I love being an ecosystem and a universe within another ecosystem and universe :]

I am a massive Mite fan 😍. I draw cute manga versions of them and am somehow really into them at the moment. I actually find them cute. They are welcome to walk around on me. So thanks for this video.

@conanhighwoods4304

4 ай бұрын

That username and pfp tho. But yeah, I remember hearing about someone who made a story or something about a (dust?) mite society. I do not remember much except I think some had office jobs and they did not live long.

@whiteobama3032

4 ай бұрын

Mites are cute af, facts!

@darcieclements4880

3 ай бұрын

Yes, we should not be creeped out by mites. Most mites are friends. It is not their fault that we are allergic to their poop and as somebody who falls into this category I can say it's quite controllable with really good air filters and vacuums. Mites do not creep me out and I don't think any of us need to be creeped out by a critter that has been part of our ecology since before humans were humans.

Absolutely vacuuming and cleaning the pet food bowls and everything after this. Just cut their numbers down more often 😂

The fact that mites are used in the production of mimolette is what first made me try the cheese. It really is a good cheese. For some reason, the thought of eating the mites is actually kinda cool to me. Especially if they're still alive at that point. I think the rind (or at least, the part of the cheese closest to the rind that's still chewable), is the best-tasting part, too.

This channel rekindled my childhood habit of keeping a jar of living swamp water on a windowsill. Now I turn the phone off and watch the ostracods and copepods drift about inside of my backyard sea monkeys world

@mcgritty8842

3 ай бұрын

That sounds disgusting

I love how i can almost always exspect i very well made video from this channel every week or two

I love Journey to the Mite-o-cosmos!

I get some allergy response from my cats shedding but most of it is the dust mites in my bed and pillow. Evidenced by realizing I am always sneezy in the morning, and currently don’t have a dust mite cover on my pillow like I used to!

I keep my mites well fed and entertained. They are grateful.

@erinmac4750

Ай бұрын

I hear you! Mine even get the bonus of fine peat dust that comes in through my windows. 🪲

Dusting your house is just destroying dust mite habitat 😂

This is why you don't "make your bed". You pull the covers down to let your bed air out and let daylight hit it during the day.

Love the music, especially in the beginning.

Mites have always been dear to me. Not really sure why. I loved watching those velvety little red mites scatter from underneath rocks (except for the times I thought my blood was made of them, LOL). Just amazing to me how small some arthropods can get!

Im psyched. I was actually able to buy the microscope this time they were available. Can't wait to start looking into the microcosmos, gonna be bringing in so many samples from everywhere i can think of.

32:31 I don't care what you say, I started eating my dinner and I'm not stopping now!

Am I the only one who finds these fascinating and not at all scary? The constant reminders that they "should" be scary get grating.

@robbdudeson346

4 ай бұрын

There are Actually quite a a FEW like Alot actually... Of Symbiotic Mites and even other microscopic organisms such as you know viruses which were actually 8% virus as a human being... And 30% bacteria by weight. Often people don't realize how the microcosmos actually keeps Us Alive. They only see the creepy thing lol

@robbdudeson346

4 ай бұрын

Many Viruses actually make us stronger, not weaker, by activating geans that lay dormant and they change our physical Cellular makeup and even improve the bodies Cellular Environment Itself by producing compounds and proteins that are needed in other parts of the body which would have otherwise not have even been produced at all...

@sleepybear2391

4 ай бұрын

Same here, im like "yes we get it, creepy crawlies". I love bugs of all sorts and watch these sorts of videos to escape that kinda burn-it-with-fire mentality

@mabelmabel8112

4 ай бұрын

absolutely same, like. its just bugs, they arent doing anything all that scary and theyre not even that gross. like sure the poop thing is conceptually gross but this channels bread and butter is that invisible, bizarre animals live and die on basically every surface and water droplet, leaving behind corpses and other conceptually gross stuff. what makes these ones unworthy of love edit: the last two are much more respectful and its mostly the dust mite one that bugged me

@okzoomers

4 ай бұрын

I love the demodex "follicle mites" so much. They have these cute stubby legs in their tiny little scrunched-up bodies, and big long tails that stick up out of the follicle with the hair. They can live their entire life cycle inside a follicle, harmlessly eating sebaceous secretions and dead skin, and laying their eggs inside the follicle. They are a fascinating clade, and reflect the beauty and intricacy of ecological and coevolutionary relationships.

The pen is mitier than the sword. Because we stick pens into our clothes and generally touch pens more often than swords

Thank you. You gave me the motivation, to go and change my overdue sheets.

Ah spring. When the soil bacteria wake up. Cherries are already blooming here in DC, it's two weeks early, seriously, yeah, it's warm, and the soil is waking up. I like videos about the things frozen in the arctic that are going to unthaw this year, too. Things our immune systems have never seen

Lordy , thank you JTTM, another fear unlocked. Imma order the John Travolta Bubble this weekend and make sure I never touch anything

Journey to the MITErocosmos

Eh, we have trillions of other life forms living on us. Or inside. How bad is it to have another?

This is so well put together, thank you, I’ve been subbed for a while but was putting off watching any videos because the whole concept of the microcosm baffles and unnerves me, I’m glad I watched this one first, honestly all the factual information the calming voice and the perfect music, like shi I’m watching a documentary not a yt video lol, now it’s time to binge watch, much love

This is the best video on the entire channel

I really like how unique the microcosmos is

Thank you for this!

Yes you could study biology and still never hear much about archaic mites. In the 1800s there was a scientist who showed with electricity that he could cause the archaic mites in our body to become extremely over agitated I found that very fascinating but of course everyone thought he was crazy and he was before his time.

Has James ever looked into what's living in honey? or in in colonies? Mold scores? or in liken?

@Sheepy007

4 ай бұрын

Honey is anti bacterial and antifungal so I dont think you would find any noticable life within it

@pheart2381

4 ай бұрын

Honey is anti-bacterial. Mould spores and lichen would be interesting.

Thanks for your highly interesting channel. Your videos are excellent and the optical quality of your system is amazing. One question: How do you identify all these little creatures ? Do you have a microbiology book or something like that to look it up ?

Brilliant video Hank❤

When I made the decision to just accept being aware of all the things living on and in our bodies and not freaking out about it like I did previously it made me resilient to things like this so that I can appreciate how interesting it is instead of freaking out. What I was not prepared for was the crying, screaming, bleeding face of a tiny critter but rock on?

You should do a video about _Valonia ventricosa._ It’s a huge single cell algae the size of a grape.

I'm horrendously allergic to everything outdoors, and not allergic to dust mites at all. They were so surprised they tested me twice. It's fantastic.

Calling it now this channel is gonna go far! keep it up dude! [And rember me when your famous lol]

showering the dirt off? No, showering the mites off 💀

Mites are amazing! I know some can be troublesome, but I like their company.

I audibly shrieked.

At 17:00 the water mite's eyes are shaped like hearts. I must say that it's endearing. 🔬

I clean my room pretty consistently but I never was able to clean under my bed for obvious reasons, and I know that there is a considerable amount of dust collected down there. Seeing this video makes me just wanna move my bed and clean- no burn it all down. But it’s currently 2am right now and I live in an apartment. Guess I’ll be having nightmares tonight.

Water mites, with their red color being a warning sign, but red is the first color to go in darker environments

Love to see Hank work on this

thank you for embedding the dus mite poop into my head

If the Demodex live off of dead skin, then having them on your face is already a symbiotic relationship by definition. I think I’d rather think of them that way, too.

@mcgritty8842

3 ай бұрын

Well, if you wash your body, you’ll remember some of those dead skin cells… don’t be gross and think a mite can justify your ideals

Some scientist: "Uh, Doctor? The mites seem to be dancing." Doctor: "Write that down, write that down!!"

🔥 fire works 🔥

this made me itchy

The music is so creepy. Its perfect lol

There is a growing link between demodex population density and severe acne.

Ive always been curious what we may feel and look like to micro orginisms. Imagine if we were their size then a human would seem like a giant mythical god. Makes me think about what that would look like in our universe. Our entire universe could be a speck of dust hitching a ride from some space turtle

I actually think it's cute Demodex mites are enjoying my greasy face, glad someone is

May I ask how the sound design is done in these videos?

i absolutely love mites, theyre really adorable and fun, interesting little guys Edit: the constant reminding of "oh no theyre horrific!" is quite tiring, hearing it from educational channels especially. they are like any other creature and shouldnt be demonized out of comfort when you are actively teaching about them.

a 36 minute Journey to the Microcosmos? yes please 😍

i immedietly started frantically cleaning my home after watching this.

Why reinforce all the unfounded fears and arachnophobia for the introduction ...

Are there dust mites that produce Webs? They are Arachnids. I know ones like Spider mites but what about others? Especially water born ones.

Time for a Helldive into the microcosmos.

Could have portuguese legend, it would be amazing, more than it is. Thanks, and congrats for your job. Hugs from brazil❤❤❤❤

Look at those little guys just derping around, they're so happy. Sad that these cuties cause so many problems...

I believe the standard pronouncement "That's BS!" is a misnomer: we should be saying "That's MS!" All hail the mites!!

Now I'm holding my breathe, forever.

I just keep trying to rub Demodex out of the corners of my eyes now even though not once did you say they would be there specifically ahhh lol 😅

Oh "Cheeses" ... I thought you said "Jesus" hahahaha

Bro, when you think about it, we’re the mites of our own planet

@erinmac4750

Ай бұрын

Truth! Mitély underrated comment! 🪲💚 (Yeah, I know it only has 6 legs, but if you star at it long enough, then look at something white, the afterimage is red! 😸)

So, I was eating… lmfao 😅

Demodex kinda sounds like the name of a Rave Electronic Music Scene from maybe Europe or Turkey or Florida or ...

only mites that bother me are dust mites i’m allergic

Hank, You didn’t tell us where the butt on the Demodex is. DFTBA

"How many mites butts are now on your face" ❤😂❤😂

Are you one of the voice actors on Midst?

I've searched and searched, yet I still can't find any Demodex 😔

@katiekane5247

4 ай бұрын

You have to go deep enough for damp tissue. Hair follicles are a good spot. When you scrape a dog for Demodex, you have to get to the capillary level of the skin.

To be honest the black hole in the floor filled with unspeakable monsters was worse than the spiders, but yeah, then I saw a 10 cm diameter spider ... I wonder if there is a species of venomous spider that just bites large mammals so they die, and then eats the flies that come

Welp. I'm going to buy *all* the UV lamps.

I'm going to seriously regret watching this and I might just have to take a bleach shower after but I must know knowledge!

I didn’t need to know this 😖 I’ll just take myself out now, thanks…

The mites might might not be enough to get me to clean

The eyelash mites command me to destroy the world... I MUST OBEY!! @_____________@

This is a real life horror movie😢

I have literally sneezed while watching this video...

"Theres no such thing as mites " came from a coworker.... apparently shes never heard of a microscope.

@SwampyColorado420

4 ай бұрын

Ignorance is bliss.

there's a little bit of bioluminescence going on in one of the mite's legs at 9:09

stack overflow.. too many before we get there's

*glancing at random bedroom dust with suspicion

@erinmac4750

Ай бұрын

Just remember there's more of them than there are if you......😸

Come with us as we explore the Humancosmos; a complex and exciting world, filled with organisms from viruses, bacteria and fungi, to tiny animals that inhabit virtually every inch, and pore, of our bodies.