New Zealand Glowworms Eat Like Spiders
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- In some caves in New Zealand there are "glowworms," bioluminescent fungus gnat larvae that glow bright blue and catch prey in sticky webs, like a combination of wanna-be spiders and fireflies.
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Thinking about it... Maggots are just larvae with bad branding.
yeah
@Robbie A I think it has something to do with more common maggots being associated with eating trash and rotten meat. Then there's always the bot fly maggot, which lives in living flesh. *shudder*
@JoaquinElf related to decomposition and rotting stuff, also most generally think they look disgusting when a lot of them wriggle around in decayed/decaying things.
@@Constantine_Cvl8 ++
Fr they need a new PR team
I want to be a glow worm
The glow worm’s never glum
‘Cause how can you be sad
When the sun shines out your bum?
Hey, don't be sad, I'm sure there's someone out there that thinks the sun shines out of your a****** /s 😂😂😂😂
Nominated for Poet Laureate. Like Robert Frost.
Saw these guys pretty often growing up in the South Island. Always felt like they were mimicking the stars, which would make sense. Flying bugs would think towards the predator's lines was towards open sky, in places where open sky isn't available. There's likely other tiny predators on the ground, and flying towards the stars is a good escape strategy, just as long as the stars are real.
Kind of like how our reverse star lights (ground lights when seen from above) confuse the instincts of birds and bugs …and us too actually!
It's even worse: nocturnal insects use stars to navigate. Keeping any fixed point at the same angle makes you travel towards it in a spiral. If the point is a star and thus practically infinitely far away, you'll travel on a practically straight line. If it is a New Zealand Glow Worm or a candle, you're toast.
@@PortCharmers good point!
Aesthetically, I wish that these Glow worms were EVERYWHERE suitable. They are so magical looking at night.
I agree but Houseplants disagree.
I wonder what the first person who stumbled into a cave and saw that thought.
"wow those shrooms are really kicking in" lol
Probably that it was a special place and that they were beautiful
We need to engineer bioluminescent earthworms. It would really cheer up gloomy places like cemeteries.
And fill all asylums in the vicinity with the cemetery visitors.
In this episode, the host chose the "new substitute teacher in Hogwarts" look, and I am all here for it 👍
In 1975 when I bought a section of land to get a house built on the Western outskirts of Auckland, NZ, there were glowworms amongst tree ferns at the lowest point by a small only seasonal stream. Sadly, the stream was a boundary, and the neighbour's small herd of cattle demolished the ferns on his side, the light and drying of less shade destroyed the habitat and the glowworms were no more a few years later.
I have seen the cave ones in the 80s. Also saw bush/fern ones prior to 1975 elsewhere in Reserves in West Auckland. It is a wondrous sight.
I don't think it's better branding. I think it's the fact that they glow.
Glow maggots...
Hmmm
I agree, I like it regardless.
@@zacrintoul Glow Maggots is incidentally also the name of a goth band (/jk)
If there's anything I've ever learned from biology class, it's DON'T FOLLOW THE LIGHT!
Sparkle maggots
Subtitle: glitter larvae
That's creepy...but definitely worthy of being a Bizarre Beast. I would turn it around next time and do something cute, but equally bizarre with flying squirrels!
Yes, but they are pretty maggots.
That's what I was thinking. Pretty maggots!
I've visited theses caves to look a glowworms years back on vacation, they aren't as luminescent as the video makes you think (possibly brightness and saturation boosted), and are super super tiny as well.
Darn.
Please don't believe every word from a random who's been once. The glow worms displays vary. Strangely enough, being a natural population of animals, their population density varies widely depending on temperature, the height of the river, the recent weather and prey concentration. I've been to Waitomo dozens of times over the years. Sometimes the gloworms are dim, other times, very very bright indeed. In fact the last time I was there they were so bright you could read by their light. In any case they're def worth seeing, particularly as they're just a part of the tour. There's also the cave to wonder at too. Gloworms are pretty common in NZ tho they're often missed as their lights aren't that bright and in areas with other light they're easily lost. I live in Auckland and there are several colonies of gloworms that I know of in my area, west Auckland, including a couple in sea caves on the coast.
I had the most amazing time of my life in Waitomo glow worm cave in the new zealand!
in the subterranean river (river in underground cave) they can form a rather large colonies and once your eyes adjusted to the darkness you can see the glowing fishing line goop thing the worms use to trap their prey
I visited the Waitomo caves. Seeing these little glowing blue lights in pure darkness was amazing but slightly waisted on me since I'm nearsighted XD
Oh, that reminds me.. That new Avatar movie's opening soon.
I love your voice. Great narration
They’re so pretty in those big groups, like a starry night!
I wonder if anyone has compared the glowworm luminescence genes to fungal luminescence genes.
Also I should go for a night walk again this summer. There is a population of glowworms in a reserve not too far from me, and they do look very pretty.
That's a really neat angle. I'm wondering if maybe all the relatives were in one place at one point, when continents were closer
@Karan Raj That was my thought too, especially as the ancestral glowworm lived in such a close relationship to mushrooms.
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I love it when CZcamsrs visit New Zealand, it is weird hearing them talk about my home land!
This made me think of the Barnacle enemy in Half-Life, and that they should have glowed.
I would love to learn about the fungus gnat that pollinates chocolate.
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Love the glow!
Thank you for including more information :)
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Bioluminescence is totally fascinating.
I still hope for a vampire squid or even a Greenland shark to become one of these bizarre beasts.
Either of those would be great! Vampire squids look scary, but really just eat marine snow (dead animals and refuse that filters down to their abyssal home). Greenland sharks can live for a ridiculous number of years, I'm pretty sure it's in the multiple hundreds and are often blind due to a parasite on their eyes.
We actually did a short, narration episode about vampire squid! It is part of a video series we have been working on with Nautilus Live. The format is a little different, but we've been having fun with it! And who knows! We might do a pin episode about them one day too! They are really cool and so are Greenland sharks!
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They’re like fairy lights. No wonder prey get lured in and trapped! This is straight out of folklore. :)
i wish the fungus gnat larvae in my house did something cool like this instead of eating my plants :/
Ooh, I've been there and seen them! It is indeed pretty, and creepy!
its weird how close they live together
you would think the light bait becomes less efficient when the entire roof glows
especially if they get wings to find their mates far away in the end
Gotta love what's around
Feels like an Halloween special
Cool stuff, thank you for sharing
Man... that pin sounds cool
I think it's fascinating that many insects have evolved adult stages that do not eat. Such a counterintuitive evolutionary strategy!
You look very classy ib that outfit. Great video, I've always been curious about glow worms, ever since I was a kid.
I love things that glow and also Sarah's shirt
YES!!
That's so beautiful
Still pretty cool!
I wish I had a Specialized Light Organ in my abdomen
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Kinda weird an organism would evolve to hang under mushrooms and eat spores since you got the fleshy mushroom cap right there filled with all the required nutrients to make the spores, also i doubt spores are all that nutritious, i guess they would capture a ton of them and they are kinda like diet seeds.
wow!
YOU"RE MAGGOTS!
Seriously, though, I'd love to see these guys. We have some near where I live in Aus and just haven't had the chance to see them. A cave full of stars. They might be maggots but at least they're pretty maggots.
Cool.
My brother has these on his farm in New Zealand it's awesome and lucky
"Worms" is also erroneously used for butterfly and moth larvae, e.g. "Silkworms" and "Armyworms".
That’s so cool! I can’t wait for my pin
Those worms told me I should do a terror.
Ooh! Those are cool! Can't wait for my pin!
Still waiting for your video on Ramisyllis multicaudata!!!
How did this glowy worms from Pandora settle on earth
Why the maggot hate?
NICE
Where did you get that cool owl chain Sarah @2:58 ?
I think my friend got it at a craft fair a few years ago!
@@sarahsuta9672 Very nice! Both Owl chain and the Glow worms :)
Great video but could you folks keep the music lower in the mix? It’s kinda distracting.
What is that first animal in the water, and why do I want to pet it sooo bad
It is a giant salamander!!!! We actually did an episode all about them. czcams.com/video/Hw2rPlmVj7Y/video.html
Fungus in their name meant there's some kind relationships between the gnat and fungus. What is that relationship?
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Look, so long as it won't lay its eggs in ME, I still think they're pretty
I thought avatar or a video game invented these things but they are REAL?
Oh come on! Why would the south american species lack the bioluminescence :( well, i guess new zeland and australia win this time around for the Coolest Maggot Award
The closest relative of the New Zealand glowworm is the Australian glowworm? I thought they had no cross over species?
Look up Swamp Harrier. :-)
They could have just been called Glow Maggots but no call it a Glow Worm its not like theres lots of other animals that are alredy called that. Cool creature but whoever named it gets an F for being unoriginal
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Wha?
It looks like snot. A cave covered in snots. It’s gross. The light just accentuates the boogers
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All the pretty things are murderous... Why is life so hard?
money from merch should go to protect some non-human animals instead...
When I saw the title of worm with better branding in New Zealand I instantly thought of there Prime Minister !
I really wish ya'll would stop flashing spiders on the screen out of nowhere, and I doubt I'm the only arachnophobe in your viewers who hate when that happens.