New species of beetle discovered in the Columbia River Gorge | Oregon Field Guide
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- In 2017, Oregon State University scientist Chris Marshall discovered a new species of rain beetle living in the Columbia River Gorge. Finding them took time and patience because rain beetles, or Pleocomidae, spend their whole lives underground. They generally only emerge during fall’s first big rains when they come out to mate. Marshall discovered that these beetles emerged to mate in the spring, rather than the fall when other rain beetles typically mate. But to date, little else is known about their life history. This story originally aired on Oct. 19, 2017.
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Gotta say, those rain beetles are awfully cute!!
Ridiculously cute!
Chris has an inordinate fondness for beetles, and I love it
Just a river between two beetles to make the difference
@@MuffinKat-ve2qe And a couple of months in emergence time!
I am glad to see the ice crawler as it was a target species for my collection at BSU in 1976. I never knew what was I was looking for. Many years climbing in the Sierras I always looke d on snowfields the r e too.
You can watch another story we did on the ice crawlers here. enjoy! -Ed Jahn, Executive Producer watch.opb.org/video/oregon-field-guide-ice-crawlers/
@OPB Thanks! I enjoyed that. I now have more questions about the state of knowledge regarding this creature I became aware of so very many years ago.
Rep hoodie! This is epic to watch. Being in nature is well worth it, to get away from the city. Growing up within city limits but having wilderness around the neighborhood was phenomenal. Goldendale is a stone’s throw away so it’s great for me to hear the two unified in some way. What a beautiful area.
It's nice to see a new species being found, I found your video very educational and relaxing.
The rain beetles are so fuzzy and adorable
Your CZcams channel is a gold mine of love for Oregon and natural history.
It was what "pinned" his attention, you mean.
@@Tser booooooo!!!🤣🤣🤣
Beetle species described: ~ 400 000
Beetle species estimated to exist: ~ 1 500 000
Long way to go but I guess that's 1!
Dude let a bot fly develop in his arm?! 😳😳😳
Don't read this, ye squeamish;
They gone? My sister, so I witnessed every stage, had a egg layed into her cheek while she slept... by a Congolese fly, an evident😐 bulge 1/2" × 1/4" oval. 2-3" forward of her ear. Every Congolese that looked😳 at it said "😬You MUST not ever touch this!!" The bug, unable to place the egg deep, makes it able to burrow into the tissues of the host. Will only burrow if scratched. So it is Super itchy, So moving crawly, flipping inside and driving her nuts. Gurp
Were "larval burrowing" to happen massive deep scars at least, and infection complications often result. 😬 Still she's not eager to talk about this ordeal.
WEEKS dragged by, from Mom what's this? start, to happy happy parasites birthday! 🎉 her, (🤢,me), she, at 12 years old, had to endure wearing a Huge Cone of doggy-mustn't-lick! shame, around her neck at night. (🤭,me). Thick pads over a little dome bandage, at all times!! So as not to jar or brush into it. It 😳 got 🙄 angry 🥵 swollen 🤢 funny colored then papery on top, cracked and was allowed to leisurely stretch and crawl out of her face. 😱 She didn't want to have a mirror and missed her own parasitization!! Big dummy! To see, It was SO COOL!! For me to watch, not to Do so much.
Just wanted you to know fly in the arm, piece of cake, if only in relative terms.
I wanted the new bug, but gee whiz, I got a hard no. Decades later still there
is the scar, a 3/4"×1/2" oval, just barely dented in. So lucky that smart folks knew what to do!!!
for SCIENCE
@@JeannetteReed Love your storytelling, thank you!
@@tularjaggs334 thx tular!
@@Cobbmtngirl All for science. Gotta love this guy! 😁
We've had Swallowtails on our property near Drain, Oregon for 17 years. This year we have seen zero none not a one. There gone. 🙁
@Joe_I_Hadley - sad news 😔 I’ve seen very few myself here in Clackamas Co
😔
Everyone is always complaining about the loss of insects yet 99% of their property is still nothing but unnecessary, ugly lawn grass.
We used to have a few growing up around my area but I moved east so I can’t say if they’re not around anymore or this area never had them. They were magical, one of few butterflies that actually looked nice to see.
Same here up in Washington. Sad.
This is why I love this planet we live on its so special and I love mother nature she always has surprises for us.
Aww the dog helping look for beetles 💖
I love rain beetles. I have found two rain beetles in the PNW.
So cool!
The Rain Beetle of happiness is often found in your own backyard!
That was a great story. I love insects. I live in North Vancouver Canada, I’m always looking for insects I’ve never seen. It’s hard to find unusual insects where I live, but in our interior of our province, you can find some interesting ones. Back in the 80s there use to be huge ant hills, in a town called Kamloops. They were red and black ants, that made huge ant hills under pine trees made of the needles. I haven’t seen any in years. I think it was due to the death of the pine tree, due to the pine beetles. I saw these same ants in Montana. They are very aggressive!
I'm curious! The Ten-lined June Beetle ("June Bugs" of my childhood in Nevada) makes a very audible churring noise when you pick them up. They have similar "moose antlers" and "fur", but not as much as this beetle.
I didn't know much, so I looked it up. They do have some similar traits but it looks like they're not very closely related! They're both in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (which includes over 35,000 species!) but they're in different families. Rain beetles have their own family, Pleocomidae, while June beetles are a member of the scarab family, Scarabaeidae. Rain beetles are weird distant cousins I guess!
@@Tser Thank you for information. Very interesting!
It is exciting. Thanks for sharing & educating.
This is so awesome. I’m proud to be an Oregonian!
I’m a transplant from Cali but man do I love Oregon it’s so beautiful 🤩
The critters of the world are really fantastic....I love how little we truely know...
OK so if that turns out to be a new species of beetle will it be named after the guy, (or dog), that found it? Seems only right.
How about a mini doc about wolverines next?
How about this one? -Ed Jahn, Executive Producer czcams.com/video/jW1O0h9-CTE/video.html
Fascinating! Thank you!
This was a fantastic video. The framing, editing, the sound, direction and narration were very well done even if the channel has broadcaster backing. I’ve seen pbs backed channels that are dismal, so a strong backing doesn’t always mean a good production
Wow, Great Story. I Love Beetles too.
So many cool bugs! Save the bugs!
Very cool, thanks for sharing this info!
During the display of the bot flies while he was explaining about the one that developed in him I was waiting for the “and here it is” while point to one of them.
i saw a beetle like this by my grandpa's pool back in like 2007. i have always wondered what the "big exotic beetle" was and i think its one of these big beetles :)
Ive seen them ny whole life
Letting a bot fly develop in his arm is BEYOND insane 😭😭😭
So cool man bugs are Awesome
I would find beetles like that and their larvae all the time as a kid growing up in Vancouver. Except the ones I found where dark red and hairless.
Thank you.
What a beautiful bug!
Nice
So amazing 👏
Hypothesis
The the migration happened somewhere before the Columbia River carved it's way through the Columbia River Gorge. Before that, it had many paths through the cascade mountain range. Geological evidence strongly backs this theory.
One lonely group of Rain Beatles with Beatle Alopecia and a love of spring sunshine shunned by the main group. 💛
Barely surviving the Catastrophic floods
Approximately what elevation?
Compared to the closest Oregon population
Close to the actual story of the Camas Pocket Gopher XD It only lives, now, in the area of the Willamette Valley that was hit by the Missoula Floods, and nowhere else on earth!
This is awesome! 😍
I LOVE THE ICE CRAWLER. I'M SO JEALOUS. I WENT UP YO THE MOUNTAINS MANY MANY MANY TIMES TO LOOK FOR THEM
Very cool stuff
Very cool!
These beetles are all over the north of Oregon. We called them Copper beetles or digger beetles in the east. They are by the rivers and in the good dark clay mix lawns.
I love bugs ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ studied them back in the 80’s we got plenty in Australia 🇦🇺
I was trying to catch a squash vine border moth. I’ve never seen one before. But this one was Disguise as a tarantula hawk wasp. laying eggs On coyote vines. It had bright orange wings and a Metallic blue body with those little hangers wings for big legs. I still can’t find a picture of the one I seen online. I was so close to catching it but it slipped out of the bottom of my net through the vines.
interesting, the antennae from the rain beatle is identical to the june/watermelon/hissing beetle
Watching this show I'm over here in Washougal WA and I thought I've seen a furry beetle and it was flying around in the front of my yard so in the field that was in front which now they're building houses on
Is there any way to volunteer to help the scientists doing this research?
I always take weather, ambient environment, and elements as the reason for the season of presentation. Totally cool, we can see new bugs here every year, got university saying same specimin, new body. nice!
"Nope - that's the male..." - tosses beetle aside.
The true bot fly was inside that guy the whole time.
He’s totally going to discover Bigfoot while out looking for Beetles 😄
There are over 400,000 named species of beetle. Now there are still over 400,000 named species of beetle.
This guy seems cool. I want to meet him
Dr. Dapper, Fancy Entomologist.
I think it's Ringo!
Of course this guy has that crazy mustache lmao
Have to say, your facial hair is fascinating in its own right.
Aw man, not much you can do once an insect lays eggs in you except wait it out, cause if they die and stay inside it's even worse.
They are so cute.
I found a dead one of those in Idaho about 12 years ago.
Hey i know those beetles pretty well never knew they were a undiscovered species lol 😅 white salmon washington had quite a few of these
Who ever didn’t name this video ‘Dog discovers new species of beetle’ should be fired
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No but it's one of the best I've seen in the last few days that's for sure
Anyone interested in fractals there’s a great documentary on Prime Called ‘Inner world outer world’
Biodiversity seperated by a river. Gotta love it. Cool job! I thought about going into entomology for a while. Then I learned about the completely gross types of insects like the bot fly. Very cool though. Just goes to show we still don't know everything!
Once he talked about needing a male and female to determine if it’s a new species the title gave it away. However, finding it in the backyard, mid dig, larvae as well, leads me to believe it was staged and that they had them both the entire time.
As a gardener im thinking oh no another bug to eat my plants and fruits yay
The entire citrus industry is at threat from a tiny bug
It’s sad to see so many dead insects 😖 -I wish quality photos and excellent notes would suffice.
Photos, notes, or models will never replace having the actual specimen. That goes for literally any subject, it is a fundamental part of life.
It's important for reasons like this. One day you might need to compare with a species you have not seen! Or extract DNA
Yikes!
Ive lived in vancouver wa my whole life and seen these 🤣
I see rain beetles in my yard every year, I'm going to try to get some iNaturalist observations of them.
Spider hawks and tarantula hawks but no low flying buzzard hawks? Mr Anderson would call that collection... incomplete!!
He let a what develop in his arm??? 😳
No kidding, to find a new species would be a Thrill! Like a patent more than an Oscar.
Mr Bug has been right there for Eons and we just noticed. May we preserve them, not like N. Americans on choice real estate, till noticed. 🎉
Wonder what his favorite band is?….
Beatles possibly 😬
I want to see his personl botfly, it's earned its own box/title card
I love all the bugs so much. 🪲
I use to collect and pin insects w/ small groups of abused and emotionally disturbed children. I distinctly remember being called a murderer once by a female staff. She was dead serious 😂. What a wonderful collection of specimens.
A new species. And it may be endangered! The whole area needs to be closed off and people removed. Make a national wildlife refuge called Rainbeetle National Wildlife Refuge.
People in Oregon are so weird.
Cnris' true loves, all have pin stuck through their lifeless corpses, reminds me of Ed Gein ! ladies beware don't become part of his collection.......
oh now that I pay closer attention, ladies are probably not on his radar...
Bug slouter
Ugh, Bot flies, like in the movie "Alien!" But these beetles are sort of cute & fuzzy. I recently came out one morning to an enormous beetle (maybe, or...?) in my kitchen, never seen anything like it here & I've been in Oregon, in the forest, for 8 years. I didn't know if it was fast moving so I just squished it (sorry!). A couple of mornings later I found another slightly smaller one---I thoought I'd squashed it but tried to be gentle-ish so I could get it identified. Tipped it into a plastic bag, it started moving, so into the freezer. Where can I find out what it is & if I need to worry about it...OK, let's just say I don't want it here; my rule: you are welcome in my woods unless you are poison oak, but my house is mine & it's invitation only!
You gentleman looking for females and then the shot of you leaving is pretty funny after that late to the party comment.
What a waste of time.
If we wanted a girly-boy narration we would go to the local dipschits-r-us locations and not here
@@tymz-r-achangin Fact
I really liked it❤ I learned alot🎉 also I learn about birds and reptiles mammals too O ocean too😂👏great job from mara👍👩🦼👩🦼