The Ocean Bug That Can't Get Wet
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2021
- There are at least 900,000 species of insects and the ocean is the largest biome on the planet, so you would think there would be tons of insects riding the waves. But it turns out the sea skaters are the only ones weird enough to make it work.
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_He was a skater bug, she said 'see you later, bug' he wasn't good enough for her_
Comments you can hear. ^^
Sad bugs life
Sorry, bug, you're missing out :D
I love your comment, but one suggestion: “she said SEA you later!” 😊
Avril Lavigne
“The ocean is just bigger water”
Hmmm. Yes.
Yes, very wise.
@Filipineboi mountain are just bigger rock 😳
The earth is just a wet bolder with air
With more interesting stuff
And trees are just bigger grass
"Because the ocean is just bigger water right" is my favourite thing I have heard in months. And you aren't wrong 😂
Well, yes, but...
"...from the standpoint of water.. "
TFG
An island....surrounded by water... big water....OCEAN water
When?
@@76rjackson bigly
“Does he get wet
Or does the water get him instead”
This one is so underrated
Nobody knows.
The water gets him
Q: What’s he like?
A: It’s not important.
There actually are more oceanic insects! Well, more like semi aquatic marine insects. Seal lice live on pinnipeds like walruses, seals, fur seals, and sea lions and can hold their breaths for extended periods of time and withstand over 5,000 feet of pressure.
I had no idea there was lice for marine animals too! Interesting to know.
Sea lice are not insects. They are crustaceans
@@lezlie2k2 yes, you are correct, there are animals called sea lice, and those are crustaceas. Im talking about *seal* lice. These are true lice that live on seals, sea lions, fur seas, walruses, and otters. They are indeed true insects. Its very neat
Thank you for this new knowledge
Theres tons of aquatic parasites that exist. I wouldn't really count those as bugs though, because they live entirely underwater and die without a host.
catching one of these things labeled you as a higher being, they were so skiddish and quick, like a mosquito on the water. taking small bursts of speed and ripping across the surface of the water, just to vanish behind a rock or something.
Jellyfish baby
I am very jealous of that bat shirt.
This was the only thing I wanted to comment about. Come for the beasties, stay for the fashion. What an amazing shirt!!
Sea Skaters: Hey, let's try to evolve to survive in a perpetual salty avalanche.
The most soothing voice in biology is back. I love watching/listening to her. Greetings from The Netherlands.
I almost forgot the word biome actually applies to real life and not just minecraft
pls me too
kkkkk me too
Y'all Minecraft weirdos got it twisted lol
Dang you guys need to touch grass
👉 I was swimming in the ocean in the Palm Beach County area in 2018, when a spider floated by me. He was standing ON the water. Thinking it was a land spider swept out to sea, I carried it about 100 feet back and released it in the coastal bushes and small trees lining the beach. It didn't look like ^these sea skaters.
Nice. It probably wasn't going to have a good time out at sea.
That was so wholesome
Wow, this video has successfully made me feel stupid. I'm 33 and I have never thought about the fact the oceans aren't crawling with insects. I am defeated.
Maybe it’s a 33 year old thing, cause I never thought about it either. (Also 33)I think I just assumed crustaceans had that niche so bugs couldn’t take it
Dude how?
Dude how?
Like you can expect everything from ocean
Octonauts did an episode of them!
Glad I got to learn more about them through you guys.
This channel is gold.
Humans: irresponsibly polluting the ocean
Sea skaters: It's free real estate!
YES! at last some decent info on marine insects. Isn't there something wrong with the comparison of G forces experienced by small organisms and us, this is like the whole "ants can lift 100 times their weight so...", while it is true it's still deceptively impressive, at smaller scales organisms don't work or experience stuff like we do. For example is perfectly normal for insects to lift many times their weight... what i'm saying is that at those scale few things are proportional.
Indeed! The physics gets pretty complicated and counterintuitive. We touch on it for half a second, but the article we pull from also has a good section about energy density for very small insects. "The energy density in the ocean dissipates rapidly towards scales approaching the Kolmogorov length such that the maximum size of turbulent eddies is of the order of 5 cm and contains only 1% of the maximum energy." Really wild stuff! www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64563-7
Right on, the more mass you have have the more you affected by gravity
@@BizarreBeasts Hi, someone asked me in an above comment if I caught any fish in the Sargasso sea, I posted a link to a pic on my Instagram, but my comment got deleted. I then just told them to search for me there to see the pic, and that comment got deleted too. Wtf?
What is the stress experienced at 40 Gs for a fraction of a second vs 3 Gs over the course of minutes? Is that really enough time for the little bugger’s hemolymph to pile up in their feet and make them pass out?
@@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 a lot of yt channels use what are essentially bots to go through the comments and remove spam and posts from other bots, a lot of times something they're getting rid of is soliciting (usually in the form of 'click my link and watch/buy my stuff pls pls pls!') So these bots being quite simple generally just scan for urls or partial urls and delete them. Really annoying and fairly common on well produced channels. Like I had an experience where I was trying to post a link to a page on the video creators own website and it deleted it lmfao
never heard 'Water Striders' I've only ever heard them referred to as 'Pond Skaters' here in the UK
Yup same
Represent!
Always heard em called water skippers
They're also referred to as Jesus bugs too. I always called them water striders
We called them water spiders. I'm from Indiana, take it for what you will.
I'm curious about one thing that wasn't mentioned salt. Where do they get freshwater or do they drink salt water and then eliminate salt? Other ocean-going land animals have to make that adaptation. And the hardest thing for fish to do is keep a ionic balance in their bodies.
The ocean has a thin layer of fresh water from rain. It doesn't mix in.
It was talked about in a sea snake video I watched. Pretty sure it was Sci-show.
@@cleverusernamenexttime2779 Ah yes now that you mentioned it I remember that. 😃
I've seen some of these hanging around Sargasso weed when I was becalmed in the Sargasso Sea.
So that’s what those things are!
My family has a cottage on a pond in Plymouth and I grew up with the knowledge that water striders were little black circular dots with 4 long legs and 2 really short ones.
So I’ve always been confused when I looked them up and got a completely different creature.
What we have are freshwater sea skaters
As I learned from one of the Land Before Time sequels, The ocean is some "Big, Big, Big BIG WATER~"
I saw these once at the beach and thought nothing of it, now I have a new interest for these little buggers.
...that is weirdly cute
Ikr I see them often in pools (:
So I'm not tripping. I saw one of these little fella when I fish yesterday. I thought it was a water strider
Surskit: Ocean edition
Love Bizarre Beasts! Thank you for a very good presentation!
I love the ocean bugs.
I also like the land crustaceans that live in the leaf litter near my home.
S p i d e r s
@@BlueRGuy I s o p o d s
@@BlueRGuy spiders belong to the subphylum Chelicerata, while crustaceans form the subphylum Crustacea. spiders are not crustaceans.
oddly enough though, horseshoe crabs are not crustaceans, but chelicerates just like arachnids
“This may surprise you, but insects are land animals.”
The Waterbug: *Suprised Pikachu face*
Well... Next time my Dad refers to lobsters as 'sea bugs', I'll have a snarky retort for him!
They are bugs tho...?? They just aren't specifically "insects". Arthropods are arthropods.
5:50 - I get why living longer is an advantage for a spread-out species like that, but why would growing slower be an advantage?
Slower growing, less consumption of energy?
@@verthandi8379 Sounds plausible. I thought the reason there were so few sea bugs might be that it's hard for something small to catch any food on the sea surface.
For an animal with an exoskeleton growing can be very energetically taxing. If they do have to deal with periods of starvation it's probably good not to go through several moults in rapid succession
Things like longevity, growth, and metabolism tend to be linked in biological systems.
Grow slow, live long. It's kind of a trend in the animal kingdom.
The insect's would-be niche is already filled by their cousins the crustaceans anyway.
Can't unsee the sea skater jumping out of the way of that (relatively) giant drop of water that some "scientist" very intentionally aimed and released at the poor thing! Mahadik, Hernandez-Sanchez, and Arunahalal I'm pointing my finger at you! And don't act all innocent over there Et AL, if that is even your name! Peta has been CC'd on this.
"Do you see 'em? I don't see 'em. Damn these No-see-ums." lol
When other bugs see the sea skater, they yell “do a kick flip”
I've never bought anything off of CZcams CC's. For the first time, when I go to support and buy, the pin club is full! 😭😭😭
It’s open again now!
Wooo! Always happy to see a new update!
I love the trio jumping from the water surface....too groovy.....bugs rock!
So you’re tellin’ me that giant garbage patch in the ocean is a fricken’ NEW HABITAT that has a POSITIVE EFFECT on a particular species of animal, and since this animal is close to the bottom of the food chain it could provide a new food source for even more animals?! We truly are living in the Anthropocene Epoch
its genuinely interesting that insects are so rare in the ocean even mammals and birds live there
Neat video.
Important question: where does one purchase this shirt?
I didn't know there's a bug in the open ocean surface. Thanks Bizarre Beast for the amazing content.
"so now we're at sea... How are we going to get back?"
One bug: "I have an idea..."
Love your channel
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-grabs a bucket of water-, - finds water stridder- , - dumps bucket of water on stridder-
And this is how you make wet stridder
0:25 Damn. Those are nice.
I approve of this message
The eerie opener music was on point
Great Pacific Garbage Patch: hated by everybody
sea skaters: It's free real estate
I often see these guys in the pool swimming fast and cleaning the pool from drown insects :D
The swimming ocean spiders scare me
Thank you, nice video
most bizarre beast episodes: (really cool sciency stuff)
this one: *the ocean is just bigger water*
Growing up in Oklahoma, crawdads were often called “mud bugs” . No matter the name they are mighty tasty.
I call them crawdads, and yes they taste good
I don't know how or why bugs living on top of water even evolved, even humans who don't really live on water get eaten by big fish that live in there!
This should be on PBS!
Phylogenetic analysis teaches us that all insects are crustaceans. Keep up the great work!
0:22 Oh hey it's the Bug Museum near Colorado Springs with its giant beetle! What a neat little place to check out for being in the middle of nowhere.
'... that we know of.' Wow, that was ominous.
I have seen these water skater type bugs in freshwater alot around my home usually in the canals but I had no idea they were capable of living in the ocean.
Please keep making more videos!
I bet Silverfish/ Earwigs are related to Sea Skaters... I encountered Earwigs living in a home by the River. They are attracted to moisture & dark places. They swarmed into my home every time it rained and are VERY ABRASIVE like Ants once they smell water. They have claws like a Crab and lifts their back stingers up when they feel in danger.. They live in the walls, cracks, any space of a place like Roaches, and the same goes for any soil around a home/building etc. .. They are at your front step!
Those bastards are crafty too!
A bunch of Earwigs got into my Pet's food & water bowls that has lids on😖
I moved since then...
Water Strider: Bruh they took over me
Ocean currents and chance encounters, how romantic!
i'm always so excited for bug episodes!
There's more than 5 sea bugs we've only explored 10% of the ocean
yeah, weve explored the surface waters, how do you expect an insect to survive at hundreds of metres under the water unless they are a parasite on/in a mammal
Me: why aren’t bug types weak to Water
Game Freak: *sweats nervously*
Q: What does a sea skater Do when it's finds its mate?
A: it dances with it!
can you really call the ocean a single biome though? it has different weather patterns in different places, the chemistry can be different place to place... it really seems like it's a collection of biomes
it looks the same everywhere except coral reefs
@@Engifarting456 that's not what describes a biome. The plants and animals living in a place are what define a biome.
@@ShadowDrakken corals are animals 😉
@@Engifarting456 "looking the same" is not what define a biome. Quit being intentionally daft.
I’ve seen them 1600 miles from any land between Mexico and Hawaii where little birds called Storm Kestrels eat them without landing on the water. Literally thousands all around.
It’s ironic that people would eat sea big as and gag at the thought of land insects. Think about what those lobster and shrimps eat. If a dead body falls into the ocean guess who partakes in cleaning up and y’all eat them
I love bugs too, even mico organisms which I play with at my job.
"The ocean is bigger water"
Yes, the floor is made of floor.
oh i scooped up a bay nettle this weekend and it had tiny little isopods in it too :0
All I have learned from this video is that there are water striders in the ocean but they smol bois, and also that the trash we have thrown in the ocean is simultaneously both hurting and helping various species in the oceans.
*Sea skater lookin' like Patrick from Spongebob.*
It's like 2 am and I need to remember to watch the rest of these videos when I wake up
You’re an underrated channel
A human can also withstand 40g at the durations a seabug can possibly generate during acceleration.
Omg I need that shirt!! PLEASE tell us where you got it??
Rather than washing out and then adapting, it's probably more likely that the skaters got washed out to sea all the time and the ones that survived were the ones with mutations that allowed them to survive.
Thank you
(flexing with mooscles)
"Are sure about that?"
Called these "Water Skippers" as a kid lol
I grew up in NC about an hour from the eastern coast. I used to go to the OBX beaches for years and those sea skater things were everywhere, we used to get them in our backyard pool. The worst however has to be dock spiders which are exactly what they sound like. Spiders that love docks. Big gnarly bastards that look like jumping spiders on steroids and crack that can literally jump 3+ feet in a single bound over water surfaces and traveled in herds. Where you see one dock spider expect a hundred more of them hidden nearby. Pretty sure sea skaters were one of the dock spiders favorite snacks, aside from fish of course. Yeah, dock spiders hunt fish.
Interesting information
It's the things in my bathroom that pop once in a while and flow it down the drain
This is so cool!
She sounds exactly like Caitlin from Ask a Mortician. Neat!
The narrator has such a nice calming voice
SiMp
@@midloran 🤷
OK, silly question maybe... but aren't G forces a direct consequence of how much mass an object has? A paperclip falling to the floor will be able to withstand more Gs than me falling to the floor, even if I and it were made from the same material. Likewise, I'd think a lighter bug should be able to take off with more Gs than a heavier one... so is that actually a weird thing?
Just when I thought the ocean couldn't be more terrifying now I have to worry about the waters surface too
That shirt is so awesome!
Lmao until a boat passes it by lmao
I didn't know about this little fellows. Thanks
The thumbnail look like Patrick Star if he got transformed into a freaky bug.
Apologies for asking something completely unrelated to Halobates, but where did you get that bat blouse? And indeed your other excellent zoological apparel?
Not sure who im thanking but. i love the background music selection
how do they get moisture without too much salt?
It's funny to think that those lil bugs have no idea how they can, they just know they can.
Interesting!!
When do these Sea Striders sleep ?! If the ocean is always filled with predators and currents don't stop ?!