Filming this changed how I see WASPS!
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Wasps are more amazing than I realized! Flight sequences were all captured by filming at 6,000fps.
Bald-faced hornet - Dolichovespula maculata
Braconid wasp - subfamily Braconinae
Tobacco Hornworm Parasitoid - Cotesia congregata
Sawfly - Macrophya sp.
Wood Wasp - Xiphydria maculata
Aulacid wasp - Aulacus sp.
Ichneumonid wasp 1 - Acrotaphus wiltii
Ichneumonid wasp 2 - Trogus sp.
Wingless jumping parasitoid - Lelaps argenticoxa
00:00 - bald-faced hornet
00:32 - Braconid wasp
00:55 - tobacco Hornworm parasitoid
01:48 - sawfly
02:19 - wood wasp
02:39 - Aulacid wasp
03:16 - hamuli
03:39 - Ichneumonid wasps
04:33 - wingless jumping parasitoid
Special thanks to Dr. Matt Bertone for use of his still images and assistance collecting and IDing these species! Check out his photography here: www.flickr.com/photos/7679027...
Thanks also to Michelle Lotker for sharing that parasitized caterpillar, and BugGuide user Skitterbug for uploading those spider pictures with a CC:BY license.
Music licensed from SoundOfPicture.com
Becoming a gardener changed my relationship with wasps. They like to hang out on sunflowers and other tall flowers, waiting to mess up some pests.
In my entomology class, everyone was assigned a taxonomic family of insect to do a presentation on. I landed on ichneumonidae, a large family of parasitoid wasps that I already adored. I think I ended off the presentation with something like "I love wasps, even the scary ones, and I need you to love wasps too".
Ichneumonidae is prob my fave too.
my favorite wasp family is pompilidae, but I love all the wasps lol. I wish people liked wasps more
I've been stung way more this year then I ever have in the past and I still respect and love Wasps.
"I also made some enemies that day."
Definitely don't love them 😂😂 you're never gonna sell it to me
Your work helps illuminate the tremendous beauty of the insect world.
I started to respect these creatures more after becoming your subscriber. Thanks!
Olha o ludo : )
I'm a huge wasp fan. Even the "scary" ones, as long as they're not nesting in a problematic location, are fine with me. So much pest control and pollination. And those Braconid cocoons on the hornworm caterpillar are a gardeners best friend!
Yes!! Absolutely! I LOVE bald faced hornets, they're so neat!
Saw them fly around my crops, and then flying with a catterpillar
Everyone always jokes about hating wasps, but I, for one, truly love them. They're decent pollinators, great pest control, and are fascinating to watch and learn about.
I love, red wasp, stinging therapy🚬🫠
with a little bit of fire ants on the side 🔥🐜
Where I live in Southern California paper wasps were once abundant. We had multiple nests under the eaves and in the hedges every Summer. About fifteen years ago we had our first wasp-less Summer, and I have not seen a single paper wasp since. We have experienced a steady decline in the number and variety of insects of all types since then. The exception is flies - we have lots and lots of flies. I don't know what worries me more, the dramatic change in the biota or the fact that no one else seems to have noticed.
I just saw a yellow-jacket with a FAT abdomen literally a minute ago. Slow notion really showed me that they're beautiful. It's like a butterfly lol. Also they are very important for the ecosystem and the environment. It also helped that I smoked a joint while this happened.
I’m always reminding people that they’re important pollinators 😂❤
also they hurt people for fun. and I hate people! wasps are awesome
I used to be really afraid of wasps (an early childhood memory where I stepped on a nest and didn’t realize until they all started stinging me-the first sting was right in the perineum). I hated wasps. But in recent years I’ve been looking at every living thing as the magnificent creature it is. I never would’ve guessed that insects can exhibit personalities! As far as wasps, now if there’s one stuck inside a café, climbing the window looking for a way out, I’ll let it crawl on my hand and I’ll take it outside. The relationship totally changed. They can be so gentle, so adorable.
I legitimately winced at reading where you got stung. That sounds like it was excruciating.
lol it's worse getting stung under the eye. @@waxwinged_hound
Wasps are one of my favorite insect groups. Theyre so fascinating and important as both pest control and pollination. We dont realize how much they do for us and their ecosystems by removing a percentage of plant eating insects. Theyre so beautiful and diverse and fascinating. And mostly chill! I spend a lot of time observing them in my yard for fun, and ive yet to be stung. My favorite groups are probably Sphecids and Mutillids, but there are many many amazing and beautiful wasps out there. Edit: this is like the most Wasp-positive comments section ive ever seen! Heck yeah!
I think the “scary” wasps are fascinating too- they’re cool in the same way birds of prey are, efficient hunters on a tiny scale. I work in gardens inches from flowers swarming with hunting and nectaring wasps, and I’ve never been stung.
Beautiful video work, people don’t realize the beautiful colors and stunning iridescent, cellophane like wings that these insects have. And they’ve come up with so many ingenious adaptations and life histories to survive in the ecosystem!
My go-to description for them for the non bug people is that if they think of bees as friendly dogs, than wasps are the wolves- big, strong, respectable predators that are an important part of a healthy ecosystem.
great video, there aren't nearly enough people out there who highlight the beauty, diversity, and intricacies of wasps
Most "pest" wasps over here (western Europe), are pests because they occasionaly sting during foraging. I got over my fear of wasps by feeding them and moving slowly, and predictable. Works exactly the same way with wild horses, funnily enough.
If you get scared, and move fast, you might be seen as a threat. Move slow and confident, and they won't harm you. If you are allergic, take care, and a epipen.
I've got a small pupae cabinet, of Aglais Io butterflies, probably infected by parasitoid wasps. Would have liked them to grow up as butterflies, but they have become food. Got stung by the nettles, which I foraged for food. Such is nature. And life as a whole.
It hasn't accoured to me that wasps could be this beautiful
Wasps feel like the bug version of those angry lookin modern angular cars with v8 engines and road-raging impatient drivers
If you get a wasp in your house. Found the best and easiest way to deal with them is to stand by an open door/window, snap twice about a second apart, and then quickly point out.
Amazing shots! Our crew got on camera wasps that live in symbiosis with figs. The tree depends on the wasp to pollinate its flowers, but in return, it offers a hidden place for the insect to lay its eggs. The footage is incredible!
Wasps are amazing. You got me taking a closer look in our garden. 17 different species so far. Some large (Great Golden Digger) and some small (Blue Eyed Ensing). Thanks
The black and white patterning of that wood wasp is gorgeous! The white floppy antennae, big round eyes and endearingly clumsy takeoff make it look kind of cute.
I love wasps! They are just amazing. Really wish more people could see that.
Simply fascinating! I'd love to see damselflies and dragonflies in flight!
damselflies yes please!!
I so very much enjoy your videos. They are wonder-fully done and opening up a whole new world for my exploration. I am enormously grateful.❤
It’s so cute the way they raise their arms when they took off flying
Like Superman I love that
Where I work, I am very open for my love and fascination of wasps. I even managed to convince some people theyre cute. One person dismissed them as wannabees, but then I told him that its most likely the other way around, in that bees are wannawasps. It was enjoyable to see everyones reactions.
I hate autocorrect
It's true! Bees evolved from wasps.
wasps are one of my favorite groups of insects. they've always been special to me. i had the honor of watching a paper wasp building her nest recently, i just sat and watched for hours. absolutely beautiful and intelligent creatures.
Wasps are by far my favorite insects and always have been since I watched a mud dauber emerge from its mud cocoon after feeding on a stunned spider its thoughtful mother packed away for lunch, sedated and ready to be consumed alive.
I've had very bad experiences with wasps when I was a kid but I still can't help loving them. I just think they are really neat.
One of my most cherished entomological moments was seeing a whole bunch of giant ichneumon wasps ovipositing into an old dead tree with pigeon horntail holes. Their ovipositors are so insanely long, to get them positioned right to go into the tree, they have to suck the ovipositor out of its sheath and coil it up inside their abdomen, where it stretches out a yellow membrane. Once they've finished ovipositing, the whole process starts over again as they coil up the ovipositor to pull it out of the trunk. Best hour I ever spent staring at a tree!
I was also excited to see the Trogus, as I have a special fondness for them. I've reared quite a few spicebush swallowtail caterpillars and gotten Trogus sp. wasps out of them twice. They are truly elegant and as lovely as the butterflies!
you have changed my view on insects completly, i am very grateful!!!
I watch this one wasp that likes to pick up spiders and fly up to a tree, it always goes to the same spot because there are so many spiders. The spiders dart away into hiding spots but with persistence the wasp catches one
Wow! I didn’t know sawflies were at all related to bees, wasps or ants despite them being hymenopterans. Also, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the slo-no shots you get to capture! Truly amazing and unique stuff!!
Bald-faced hornets are gentle away from their nest. I have videos and pics of me getting D. maculata to crawl around on my hand after persistently putting my fingers in front of them- on my FB page. I've never been stung doing this. They keep invertebrates feeding on plants in balance and are an important part of the web of life. The Hymenoptera are my favorite insects because I'm a plant guy. They're interconnected whether they protect and pollenate, of feed on on them- like sawflies and gall wasps.
edit: spelling
suuuper cool. over time wasps are really growing on me more and more with how diverse they are
As a few year Polistes paper wasp keeper, I indeed appreciate them on another level
Just such top notch stuff as always!
I’m always elated when someone makes educational content about wasps. So many people think of wasps like yellowjackes as just bees that are mean for no reason, but they’re a really beautiful and diverse group of insects
People might find parasites scary, but I find it super cool how each species has adapted to target very specific hosts, sometimes choosing only a single other species to lay their eggs.
I was stung laying in bed trying to fall asleep by a yellow jacket, they will absolutely sting you just because. Come to Texas and I'll show you.
This was incredible, I had no idea what a huge portion of global wasp diversity are parasitoid wasps. It amazes me that so many of these species have a unique relationship with a single family or species of plant or insect that they depend on for successful feeding and reproduction. It reminds me of the dynamic pollinator/plant relationships that we often observe in nature. Great video!
This is so freaking cool! Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm learning more about the food web all the time. Such great footage, too. Sharing this one for sure!
My mom has somehow made friends with the wasps around her house. When she goes to garden they follow her around and land on/around her and just watch what she's doing. They've figured out that her funky human activities stir up things for them to eat! An unfortunate side effect is that they're now very friendly and curious of people and will come buzz you when you walk around outside. Scary at first, but they generally get the message if you shoo them off. Social insects are way more intelligent and amazing than I think humans even realize!
Learning about wasps was why I decided to pursue entomology in the first place. beautiful video showing off one of natures most beautiful beings. Also I got called the wasp whisperer at my part time job and I'm rolling with it
I love how they fly by doing a little hop and throwing their arms up into the air, then flailing them around
I found your channel in studio research. I've only recently become interested and I'm blown away! Yours is the most amazing closeup footage of a bald faced hornet I've seen and I've got quite a bit of it. So cool! Thanks for this.
The filming is beautifully done.
Wasps are amazing and interesting insects and i even think they are cute. Sadly most people are scared of them and therefore want to get rid of them. Those insects deserve more love.
So cool! I still find them a bit unsettling but also fascinating
Amazing! I love the body structure of wasps, there's so many variations. I lived in Arizona for a while and I managed to see a few tarantula hawks which are massive and kind of intimidating, but very beautiful. I also love mud daubers, they are strange looking and build nests out of clay which is fascinating to me. Thanks for your videos!
thank you so much for the hard work you put into these videos! I can't imagine the hours involved in collecting specimens and lining up great shots
I have been doing too much reading about wasps lately. Truly a fascinating insects. This video could not have been better timed for me!
I loved that the bald faced hornet was keeping one foot on the ground while still flying. Also that middle leg jumper was so cool!
I love wasps and I love this comment section! Thank you for making this video and filming all of them, it's incredible to watch!
Beautifully informative video! Keep up the great work
Wasps have velcro wings? haha, that's cool.
I once heard someone say that for every single insect species there is at least one parasitoid wasp specificly evolved to lay its eggs in that species. Not sure if that's true, but there sure are a whole damn lot of wasp species!
I had been observing and photographing a large bald faced hornets' nest at head height in a holly tree for a couple of months until someone deliberately destroyed it. It was fascinating to see how the outside structure evolved as the colony grew. I had taken photographs from directly in front of the entrance with no negative interactions. As you might imagine, I was very sorry when someone destroyed their home. All that I can say, is that I hope the perpetrator(s) got thoroughly stung for their pointless action.
Raccoons, skunks, badgers and bears all attack social wasp nests to eat the young. So it might have just been nature happening instead of stupid humans.
oh man the rage I felt when you said someone destroyed it. it always hurts when something you look forward to seeing all the time is destroyed by someone.
I remember watching one as a kid in our yard. When I was finally bored I picked a twig off the tree absentmindedly, which shook the nest and I got chased back to my house stung and crying 😂 That's one way to learn.
@@scrubjay93 oh man lol. bald faced hornet nests aren't common in my district, but normal paper wasps are. I remember as a child I was being too curious of a paper wasp nest in one of those weird electrical boxes near the road and got stung. only earlier memory of being stung was at a backyard swing set. I found a honeybee and picked it up with my fingers xD. that memory has dulled quite a bit, but the sensation I renember from then is different from the sensation of being stung I'm familiar with now. it felt like a burn in the memory but now it feels like a sting xD
oh yeah there was that one time i was doing some kind of taunting dance by a wasp nest i had been observing for a few weeks. bad idea, one got mad and made a beeline for my nose xD. I observed them less after that 😂
@@silverfox9004I pour gasoline into their nests
I love watching and learning new things with you. This is a great channel to watch. Thank you for your hard work.
I legit love wasps. So diverse and interesting.
I studied entomology and love wasps, but I was once attacked by a nest of yellow jackets while doing fisheries field work. I was carrying a large bundle of long-handled nets down a steep hillside and the handles hit near a nest. The wasps immediately swarmed me as I struggled to clamber back up the bank and then I ran down the road to get as far from the nest as possible. I was wearing a ponytail and they were inside my hair biting and stinging my head and neck. I had on chest waders so they got stuck down my waders stinging. Had a 90-minute drive on dirt roads to the hospital for a shot of Benedryl. I was sick the next day and my face was swollen and it looked like I had been punched in the eye. I'm ultra sensitive to the sound of humming wasps and bees now, that's for sure. 😂 Massive respect for them. 🐝
I've seen tons of wasps in my yard since going native, but no colonies. They've also never bothered me, even when I'm mowing and they were in the grass.
Amazing motion captures. Thanks for sharing!
*Summary:*
- *Bald-faced hornet:* Social wasp, lives in colonies, defends its nest with a venom-injecting stinger.
- *Braconid wasp:* Solitary parasitoid, lays eggs in or on a host insect, larvae feed off and eventually kill the host.
- *Tobacco Hornworm Parasitoid:* Wasp larvae live inside the caterpillar, emerge as cocoons, and then as adult wasps.
- *Sawfly:* Ancestral group to all ants, bees, and wasps; larvae feed on plants, no constricted waist.
- *Wood Wasp:* Lays eggs in dying trees, larvae bore into wood.
- *Aulacid wasp:* Parasitizes wood-borne insects like wood wasps and beetles.
- *Hamuli:* Hooks on the hindwing that attach to the forewing, common in all ants, bees, and wasps.
- *Ichneumonid wasps:* Largest family of wasps, parasitize spiders and butterflies.
- *Wingless jumping parasitoid:* Uses middle legs for high-powered jumps, rare and found in leaf litter.
Thanks to your video my swat away reflexes towards wasps will be a lot less now!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WASPS!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS!
I love your videos. Both for the educational value and the entertainment. Keep them coming.😊
thanks!
Excellent video and information. I also am a Wasp fan and in Minnesota we have the Great Black Wasps that are considered a pollinator and feed on nectar.
2:31 I love this shot of a wood wasp failing to properly take off and just completely flipping on its back.
Everytime one of these videos comes out I am excited to see it!
I love this channel. Thanks for filming all of these creatures.
I love your videos, seeing these videos of insects taking off is so fun. Thank you!
I keep getting blown away with all these creations of life😄 I never knew there even was a wingless wasp until now. For me I let these help me to learn how to stay calm & then project my energy on to the wasp. I haven't been stung by a wasp or was it a bee? - in over 16 years now. I'm still learning to identify these flying & jumping creatures 😊
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Might be my favorite one yet!!
Beautiful. Thank you for the careful presentation.
gotta appreciate this guy for being brave enough to shrink himself and film these wasps for us
I noticed Prionyx specimens in my yard recently, and noticed that they also seem to seek out nectar from native flowers.
First time seeing one of your videos. Instant sub. This kind of content is what the internet should be about. Amazing!
Holy shit, you filmed this? - Amazing work! Insects are sooooo interesting! Ants BLOW MY MIND, for example!
Beautiful video! The more I learn about wasps, the more I love them. Videos like these are great for education and spreading awareness of the underestimated value wasps have to offer. I'm also loving the wasp love in this comment section!
Wasps are my favorite category of animal! They're incredibly endearing to me, like a cross between the 'cool' factor of a motorcycle and the 'cute' factor of a kitten. Their often disturbing life cycle only adds to my fascination.
Superb, thanks for your work.
I just love your channel!
thank you very much for these works and for sharing this with me!!!
Wow that's some amazing footage. Great video.
Totally amazing!!!
Incredible as usual
Thank you for this, it's beautiful ❤
As an entomologist with a special interest in hymenoptera, I absolutely love this video 🐝
This channel is criminally under subscribed. Your videos are really something special, so cool to learn that less than 1% of wasps are eusocial. I have been studying ants for years and I never knew that.
This is a nicely put together video! Had no idea how much I wanted to know this. Being able to convey this much understandable information to a high 63yo idiot like me is worthy of praise! Subscribed! 🤩
I live in Australia and most of the ones you see here are solitary and no joke.
Prime example; we were sitting outside on the grass for a class once, when the teacher derailed the whole lesson to say "wtf is that thing doing" and have the entire class stop to watch a wasp the size of my index finger dragging a spider the size of my hand through the middle of the area we were sitting in. It had paralysed the spider and was presumably taking it off to lay it's eggs in the still living spider. Nature is metal, wasps particularly so.
Wasps are easily the most interesting thing I'm terrified of.
An interesting one I found out about last year is the spider eating wasp. I have a mason bee house, and the spider eating wasp uses the same type of hole/tube that the mason bee uses - there were several in my mason bee house last year. It's another solitary wasp and places it's eggs in a tube along with dead spiders for the young to feed on before creating a cocoon to come out of the next spring. They are actually good pollinators, so I don't have a problem with them using the tubes alongside the mason bees.
Excellent, very well done.
theyre so adorable
thank you so much for this video. i am scared of wasps and hornets but seeing how they usually are just super cool parasitoids is relieving. some of them are actually really cute too. okay now i love wasps.
The holes in the caterpillar, and then especially a full-grown wasp emerging from that cocoon... it just feels so "wrong" in a way. Truly terrifying. I've known about parasitoids for a while but that just sent the message home. All the parasitoid wasps I've seen once emerged from some host like that...
I love how they all put their front arms up in the air when they take off, like "YAAAAY LET'S FLYYYYYY!"
i specially love the shot of the first wasp, its amazing how you can see it's torax deform as it flaps it's wings
Great stuff! Thanks.
That was fascinating, great video
Awesome watching the wings...
i have a request: i know it's nearing the end of the season but would you be willing to film a cicada in flight? thanks. i love your videos
Wasps are some of my favorite insects, especially the social ones. My favorite species is Polistes dominula, the European paper wasp. They have such striking colors and a masklike pattern on their backs. And I love how they dangle their back legs as they fly. That's just so weird and it makes them very recognizable.
A neat thing about some social wasps is that they recognize each other's faces. Each wasp face is slightly different, so that they can tell each other apart. In one study, when scientists painted over their face patterns, their nestmates attacked them because they didn't recognize them anymore. There's a lot more to them than most people realize.
I recently encountered a blackjacket nest. I was walking along on a sidewalk, minding my own business, when suddenly I was surrounded by black flying insects. After a moment I realized they were wasps, and there were a lot of them going in and out of a hole in a rock wall, just a few feet away from me. They were checking me out, I think. They looked agitated, swooping around wildly... so I just kinda backed away very slowly, and the farther away I got, the less of them were swarming around me. Then I just walked away. I didn't run, I just went a different way. I didn't get stung even once.
Social wasps really don't deserve the reputation they have. I can understand being afraid of them or not liking them, but I can't stand it when people suggest that they're malicious. I startled those blackjackets but they didn't sting me. I've watched paper wasps build their nests from a few feet away and they left me alone. I haven't been stung since I was a kid, even though I get up really close when I watch them. They just mistake humans for threats sometimes, and respond with the best defense that they have.
sorry for the textdump, wasps are just one of my special interests
Your welcome. We are on CZcams not tiktok so your "text dump" is fine 😂
I was really hoping that this would change the way I see wasps, but after watching it, I still see them with my eyes.
They’re so cute up close!
Great shots. Great insects. Interesting information Thanks!
Awesome job! Look at the thorax! You can see its movements. So much details. Wow.