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The Extraordinary Life Cycle of a Hornet Colony
813 views / 1 likes - addedAfter a hornet queen lays hundreds of eggs, her workers set about feeding the larvae chewed-up prey. With tiny waists, the workers can't digest solid food; they instead subsist on drops of amino acid from the larvae. From: KILLER HORNETS http://bitly.com/
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CARROT Growing from Seed Time Lapse - 100 Days
364 views / 0 likes - addedIt took me 4 tries and 1,5 years to get this one somewhat right. Should have adjusted the camera angle a bit earlier but unfortunately there are no reshoots when you do these kind of timelapses :)Bugs attacked the green parts again at day 26 but i managed
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Watch: Glowing Bug Attracts And Devours Prey
584 views / 0 likes - addedThese wormlike larvae use bioluminescence to attract their prey. Read about other glowing insects: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120830-glowing-cockroaches-bugs-science-animals/ Watch Scorpions Glow in the Dark https://www.youtube.com/wa
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Jewel Caterpillar from the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador
865 views / 5 likes - addedWhat looks like a tasty gummy sweet is actually a Translucent Jewel Caterpillar from the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. This species is probably Minacraga argentata and belongs to a family of moths known as Dalceridae whose larvae are also called slug cate
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The Voice Of The Natural World - Bernie Krause
639 views / 0 likes - addedBernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes -- the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae -- for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices tho
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Honey Bees Make Honey ... and Bread? | Deep Look
832 views / 1 likes - addedHoney bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight – and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread. JOIN our Deep Look community on Patreo
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The Secret Lives Of Baby Fish - Amy McDermott
850 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-secret-lives-of-baby-fish-amy-mcdermott Coral reef fish, like the yellow tang surgeonfish, begin life in a fascinating and weird way – as tiny floating larvae! These babies are capable of drifting thousands
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The weird and wonderful metamorphosis of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer
963 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-weird-and-wonderful-metamorphosis-of-the-butterfly-franziska-bauer In order to become a butterfly, a caterpillar’s body dissolves almost completely
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These researchers are putting fly babies into virtual reality
290 views / 0 likes - addedBugs and fish dont play video games or attend teleconferences, but they can still explore virtual realitycomplete with visual effects, tastes and smells. A new system called PiVRnamed after the low-cost Raspberry Pi computer that runs its softwarecreates
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Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air
554 views / 1 likes - addedHornworm moth larvae have several tricks to defend themselves against predators. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/watch-caterpillar-fling-its-beetle-attacker-through-air Read the paper ($): https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-art
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Sea Urchins Pull Themselves Inside Out to be Reborn | Deep Look
1,332 views / 3 likes - addedConceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations in nature. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LO
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Shedding Light on the New Zealand Glow Worm
671 views / 1 likes - added*** We're now on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/scifri - Please Help Support Our Video Productions! *** Viewing these New Zealand glow worms, you can be forgiven for thinking you're looking at a star-lit night sky. Using a small light organ at the end of
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Snippet: Larva devour a pizza in 2 hours
469 views / 0 likes - addedWatch a maggot ‘fountain’ devour waste food. Findings could help grub farmers using human food waste to produce larvae-based chicken feed. Read more - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/watch-maggot-fountain-devour-pizza-2-hours Read the paper - http
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These Aren’t Minions. They’re Robots That Swim Around Solving Mysteries | WIRED
740 views / 0 likes - addedScientists just released robots that look like Minions into the Pacific Ocean. The little bots are on a mission to unravel one of the great mysteries of the sea: what the hell are marine larvae up to? Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http:
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Potato Growing Underground Time Lapse - 92 Days
201 views / 0 likes - addedSuper excited about the massive harvest i got from this one, totally worth 3 months :) At 0:49 you can see when the fungus gnat larvae are starting to munch on everything that's underground. Probably ate some tiny potatoes as well in the process. if i kne
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What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look
656 views / 0 likes - addedPlenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. And each miniature mansion the trees build for the wasps' larvae is weirder and more flamboyant than the next. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http:
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The Bugs That Lay Eggs All Over Your Body
532 views / 0 likes - addedFor some bug babies, your body is home sweet home. Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young loa loa worms can travel throughout your body even across your eyeball! Lets explore al
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So Where do Jellyfish REALLY Come From?? | Deep Look
27 views / 0 likes - addedWhen grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging tentacles. But their best trick is when they clone th
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Busy Bees
1,194 views / 3 likes - addedYou see them when it’s warm outside, hanging out in flowers and working away. Bees! Check out what these buzzing insects are up to, and how you can tell the difference between a bumblebee and a honey bee. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help suppor
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Watch a Hercules Beetle Metamorphose Before Your Eyes | Nat Geo Wild
984 views / 1 likes - addedWatch this beetle go from larvae to giant. The Hercules beetle is one of the largest flying insects in the world. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About National Geographic Wild: National Geographic Wild is a place for all things animals and
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This Weevil Has Puppet Vibes But Drills Like a Power Tool | Deep Look
24 views / 0 likes - addedThis fuzzy acorn weevil cant crack open acorns like a woodpecker or chomp through them like a squirrel. Instead, she uses her incredibly long snout, called a rostrum, to power-drill through an acorns tough and resilient shell. And it's not just lunch on h
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Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? | Deep Look
372 views / 0 likes - addedTo find its place in the shade! Each hollowed-out seed is home to a head-banging moth larva, just trying to survive the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dee
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California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride | Deep Look
299 views / 0 likes - addedThe California floater mussel does a surprising amount of travel - for a bivalve. First it gets ejected from its parent's shell into the wide watery wilderness. Then it leads a nomad's life clamped on the fins or gills of a fish. Once it's all grown up, t
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Yellowjackets Roll Tiny Meatballs For The Babies | Deep Look
132 views / 0 likes - addedWhy is that yellowjacket crashing your BBQ? Well, she wants what you're having: burgers, hot dogs, fish and turkey. But she doesn't eat them herself. Her nest's larvae need that protein to develop. So she carves up your dinner and makes teeny-tiny meatbal
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How Much Gold is in Our Poop?
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A Real Alien Invasion Is Coming to a Palm Tree Near You | Deep Look
437 views / 0 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook The South American palm weevil is bursting onto the scene in California. Its arrival could put one of the states most cherished botanical icons at risk of oblivion. DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4
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A Drain Flys Happy Place Is Down Your Pipes | Deep Look
29 views / 0 likes - addedEver wonder how those tiny, jumpy flies got onto your bathroom wall? Well, they came out of your sink drain after growing up down in the pipes. A goofy, long mustache, fuzzy wings and some aquabatics help them survive in that soggy environment.SUBSCRIBE t
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Why Do We Have To Sleep?
583 views / 2 likes - added…and how did it evolve in the first place? Tweet ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSsleep Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSsleepFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Why do we sleep? We spend a third of our lives in slumber, but science has yet to determine exactly why we
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Leaf Miner Fly Babies Scribble All Over Your Salad | Deep Look
289 views / 0 likes - addedThis flys larvae tunnel inside bitter-tasting greens like arugula and kale, leaving squiggly marks behind. The plants fight back with toxic chemicals. So before laying her eggs, the fly mom digs into a leaf and slurps its sap a taste test to find the leas
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A Baby Dragonfly's Mouth Will Give You Nightmares | Deep Look
325 views / 0 likes - addedDragonflies might rule the skies, but their babies grow up underwater in a larva-eat-larva world. Luckily for them, they have a killer lip that snatches prey, Alien-style, at lightning speed.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtDEEP LOOK: a new ult
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The Ingenious Ways Plants Defend Themselves
1,203 views / 4 likes - addedA new study has found that when certain plants are damaged, they can emit a chemical to ward off insects. They can even team up with other plants to keep pests away! 5 Weird Ways Plants Can Eat Animals - https://youtu.be/6j8IFHaHYFY Sign Up For The Seeker
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Cooking in the Future Will Require Creativity. Here's One Solution. | NYT Opinion
144 views / 0 likes - addedThis is part three in “We’re Cooked,” a three-part series from NYT Opinion. Watch part one here: https://youtu.be/kOcLyyVyb6o , and part two here: https://youtu.be/m6xE7rieXU0 Mealworm soup. Chile-lime cricket tacos. Charred avocado tart
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This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House | Deep Look
255 views / 0 likes - addedThe Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit dengue fever and Zika, makes a meal of us around our homes. And her eggs are hardy. They can dry out, but remain alive for months, waiting for a little water so they can hatch into squiggly larvae.Please join
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Ants Are Growing Food and They're Better at It Than We Are
671 views / 2 likes - addedBelieve it or not, ants started farming way before we did. How do they do it? What A Bug Scientist Says About 'Ant-Man' - https://youtu.be/-nUpY4M1dWA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Ants Mastered Sustainable Agri
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Primitive Technology: Round hut
496 views / 0 likes - addedI built a round hut using palm thatch and mud walls to replace the damaged A-frame hut built a few months ago. The A frame hut was damaged due to torrential rain and poor design elements considering the wet conditions. The thatch had rotted in the part of
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How Do We Know Were Tired?
140 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Applied Probability course. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription.Sleep is complicated. And there's still a lot we don't know about it, but zebrafish larvae are a surprisingly good place
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A Flea's Fantastic Jump Takes More Than Muscle | Deep Look
375 views / 0 likes - addedBefore they can bite your cat or dog, these little "itch hikers" make an amazing leap 100 times faster than the blink of an eye. So how do they do it? Follow Lauren Sommer in her new job at NPR: https://www.npr.org/people/803934365/lauren-sommerPlease joi
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Got Bees? Meet a Swarm Chaser Up for the Challenge | Short Film Showcase
523 views / 0 likes - addedWhen bees swarm, most people run as fast as they can in the other direction. Portland beekeeper Mandy Shaw does the opposite. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase: http://bit.ly/ShortFilmShowcase #NationalGeographic #S
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The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
482 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways, including by encouraging them to make a homemade ant
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The Fly That Lays Eggs in Toad Nostrils
267 views / 0 likes - addedWe were probably all told to quit picking our noses at one point, and by most standards, this is good advice. But if you were a toad, it might come in handy to scratch away blowfly eggs.Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't WalkSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's ca
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Watch Flesh-Eating Beetles Strip Bodies to the Bone | Deep Look
691 views / 1 likes - addedDermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters. They can pick a carcass clean in just days leaving even the most delicate bone structures intact. This makes them the perfect tool for museum scientists-- if you keep them far, far away from valuable colle
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Why These Bears Waste Food
204 views / 0 likes - addedOffset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll protect 5 extra acres of rainforest for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/join/minuteearth.Optimal foraging theory means that turning down food is sometimes more efficient than
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Watch Ladybugs Go From Goth to Glam | Deep Look
88 views / 0 likes - addedLadybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don't start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for aphids. Once they've bulked up, they transform, shedding
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Upside-Down Catfish Doesn't Care What You Think
820 views / 5 likes - addedYou might suppose this catfish is sick, or just confused. But swimming belly-up actually helps it camouflage and breathe better than its right-side-up cousins. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series
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The Double-Crossing Ants to Whom Friendship Means Nothing | Deep Look
632 views / 0 likes - addedThe Peruvian Amazon is a dangerous place when you're small. So the young Inga tree hires ants as bodyguards to protect its vulnerable leaves. Their pay: delicious nectar served up in tiny ant-sized dishes. But will the ants keep up their end of the bargai
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You Can't Unsee the Assassin Bugs Dirty Work | Deep Look
244 views / 0 likes - addedUnder the bright yellow petals of a tarweed plant, an insect known as the assassin bug kills its caterpillar victim by stabbing it over and over. But does this perpetrator have an accomplice? Sticky droplets all over the plant could be a clue.SUBSCRIBE to
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Born Pregnant: Aphids Invade with an Onslaught of Clones | Deep Look
351 views / 0 likes - addedFemale aphids are the matriarchs of a successful family operation taking over your garden. But dont lose hope; these pests have some serious predators and creepy parasites looking to take them down. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease join
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Once a Spawn a Time: Horseshoe Crabs Mob the Beach | Deep Look
173 views / 0 likes - addedHorseshoe crabs may look scary, but when it's springtime in Delaware Bay, millions of these arthropods show they're lovers, not fighters. They lay masses of blue-green eggs up on the shore. At just the right time, they pop and release the larvae within th
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Meeting a Wormlion Is the Pits | Deep Look
353 views / 0 likes - addedStraight out of science fiction, the fearsome wormlion ambushes prey at the bottom of a tidy - and terrifying - sand pit, then flicks their carcasses out. These meals fuel its transformation into something unexpected.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/
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