Life Underfoot is a channel where we take a deep dive into the natural world to deliver high quality videos about wildlife! Everyone on our team has a biology degree and experience working in the field as both researchers and educators. We came together with the goal of creating videos that were both entertaining and educational and giving people a new and positive perspective on some of the lesser known wild animals often dwelling just out of sight or hiding underfoot.
The Life Underfoot Team:
Dr. Andrew Hoffman (Channel Creator and Host) - BA - Biology (Hanover College), MS - Biology (Missouri State University), Ph.D. - Fisheries and Wildlife (The Ohio State University)
John Buffington (Graphic Designer and Animator) - BS - Wildlife and Conservation Biology (Ohio University)
Zach Truelock (Videographer and Producer) - BS - Wildlife Biology (Purdue University)
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I found one between the screen and glass in the downstairs window, and she repeatedly struck at me through the glass when I just stood in front of her, so I'm not too sure about "docile"
A friend just saw one today in New York. Very interesting looking critter.
Timber Rattlesnakes tend to be more mild-tempered than Eastern Diamondbacks.
Terrified of them, but I respect them! My aunt was visiting my grandma last year (lakeside house), and she put on a sweater from a dark closet. A few seconds later, she felt something on the side of her face. It was a dock spider. We caught it under a plastic bowl (after panicking) and put it outside. My cousin also had one crawling on her head when we were swimming off the dock once. Nobody I know has ever been bitten.
i saw one outside dragging leaves and digging .I didn't know wtf it was🤣 TYSM
Found one today in Michigan as big as my pointer finger.
there so cute
So, its an opportunist?
Happy Double Brood 2024!
I adore these little guys and couldn't imagine a summer without them either! There's also a very deep, almost humming/drumming bass noise that I'm familiar with that is very different and I've been curious as to which cicada makes this wondrous sound that seems to be everywhere at once. Am wondering if it's actually a periodical cicada.
LOVE THIS INFORMATION! It’s a relief to know someone in my area is so dedicated, informed, and well spoken. I love snake thanks for the awesome vids
Form Savannah ga just seen one of these
In Cincinnati Ohio lol
Got one in my daughters power wheel
My neighbour hate snakes but I so badly wish they would move in. With heavy clay soil and always wet when raining I would need to make a way to want to be here. Last year I seen one with the thought of moving it to my garden. My biggest fear of them around is when time to mow the grass.
I just found one on my porch. I live on the coast of Mississippi, as far south as you can get here, right next to the Gulf of Mexico & have never seen one of these. I thought it was a moth or something at first and then it jumped and scared me, so I google image searched it and ended up here! Thanks for the vide!
Im infested with these .. i just uploaded a shorts video please tell me is it the same spider?
Cool video I found one today hanging out on a semi tire had no clue what it was until I googled it and came across your channel
It looks like a wolf spider to my untrained eye.
Mr. Darcy ? Lol , u guys must be fans of the movie 🎬.
Awesome presentation
I found one of these pregnant in my room on the ceiling tucked in the corner ........I killed it cause I had never seen one before and I was 6
One of these dropped from the wall onto my neck in the dark as I was walking through the hall in my old house. I was literally frozen for 20 minutes yelling at my phone to call a WITCHER!
They are nasty little bitters!!! I’m pulling up my bushes! 😅😅😅😅😅😅 she wants a piece of you you fool! Not a fan,my cats bring them in thru the dog door, quite alive and I have to catch them. One got under the kitchen cabinets. Time to mone I thought. Well three months later I came down got coffee having forgotten about the snake. There it was sunning itself at the back door. Guess it lived on dog food and the water there! I took it outside! 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Found the head of one in the backyard here in coastal Texas. It was just the head. The ants must have eaten the rest of it. It was so unusual I had to look it up.
I just moved to Ohio after being a westerner for 39 years. Today I came upon a lovely marshy pond on a hike and was stoked to see a wild big frog! (I had only seen tiny tree frogs as a kid) I heard the deep twang and immediately thought it sounded like my banjo haha. I heard many of them, I’m excited to go back when I have more time to sit and watch. Thanks for confirming the sound and for informing me on the type of frog!
One just jumped onto my boyfriend and it was at least 2 inches and I was like WHAT IS STARING AT ME
Same thing just happened to us. I freaked out lol
I have no issue with the red eared slider I have been asked if I would take care of, but it pains me to see anything captive even if it’s being well taken care of because I feel like he is bored and missing out on the wonder of being in the wild and FREE and I been truly considering releasing him in a very nice big park here in the Foothill Mountains on the border of North and South Carolina and believe they are native to this area as I see them very often as I rescue them from the road here. Any thoughts or opinions you could share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
is this dave grohl
What if I already took pictures of it before I knew about this app?
Vandana
Great factual video, I hope those awesome salamanders a safe journey
Are you there yet
😂good to know they eat garden pest❤
I know this video is old, but just had to say this is an amazing video. I just found my first marbled salamander. I was hoping to find their spawn as well but it is spring.
If you use a piece of gum attached at the end of thin string, you can "fish" them out from the holes they make
So I overturned my John boat which stays at a private lake in my city in SOUTH VA and it was absolutely full of these now not the really long legged skinny ones that inhabit every square inch of shoreline of every lake on the east coast but fishing spiders and they had hatched and all were about as big as adult wolf spiders and just one huge on like the on on the other side of that timber not as big as the female but I’ve seen them this big plenty but anyway I got all of them out I could especially the big one then while fishing terrible pain on back of calf and my calf swelled up and had the two little injection marks but yeah swelling lasted a long long time but next day won’t bad at all
They are absolutely huge In New Brunswick. Freaky af.
hey where is this place?
I wasn't done yet but i acciddenty pressed send. I had my turtle's in a pond at my parents house but they both died so the house had to be sold. I moved to a apartment in Laughlin where they where kept in a plastic storage container and i couldn't see them like that knowing i could never afford a house of my own to build them a pond, so i had to let them go. They now live at turtle BAY east of davis dam
I just let 2 turtles free i lake mead this morning. I had them for 18 years. Life struggles made me had to let them go because i couldn't care for them
So the Eastern garters in the garden video are female but What about the male Eastern garter snakes they should be in the garden video cause when females are pregnant and have babies what about dads like males they should be here too
So that means what about dad’s
Prey is not dead. It is paralysed so that the meat is fresh for the babies when they hatch.
Is there solid proof of these guys feeding on any other foods stuffs like detritus molds or fugus??
This was an awesome video! We found one today crawling through our kitchen floor while we were homeschooling and our kitten was trying to play with it. When we were able to get a closer look I immediately started googling until I stumbled upon this video and I’m pretty sure we had a male dark fishing spider in here! A wonderful way to just throw a science lesson in when it’s right there in front of us. Thank you for this content! Looking forward to more of your videos!!
SAVE THE HELLBENDERS
I love the tone of this presentation. Your positive presentation might save the lives of a few thousand who would otherwise be killed. Your lack of sensationalism is very much appreciated.
Great video!
They are awesome I found one pregnant this year n it was the size of my hand 🖐️ incredible n I’ve actually watched it catch and start eating a tiny fish while I was fishing! They get bigger than wolf spiders and they get mistaken for wolf spiders all the time
Thank you for making this video, its great