Predatory Plants: Lure of the Cobra Lily
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2014
- Discover one of the most unique hunters of the plant kingdom, and witness how the cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher traps.
Learn more at KQED Science: goo.gl/X1UR8l - Věda a technologie
Carnivorous plant to insects.
"You bite me, I eat you."
I laughed at this too much
Nari S. Lin wrong neighbourhood nigga
Bug: You taste good, chomp!
Plant: So do you, yoink!
Every bug is gangster until a plant decides to eat it for a meal. 😂😂
Nari S. Lin how have humans not developed this strategy
And they say we’re the most advanced species
It’s so sad to see the dragonflies stuck in those paddle plants... they are beautiful bugs that eat mosquitos.
Abc xyz Those are actually damselflies, a relative of the dragonfly. Dragonflies have much thicker, stockier bodies.
Same with spiders but people smash them all the time
Berh Baer I see plenty of them around the pond in the housing development I live in, they don't seem to be under any threat.
@@xmicrowavedhotpocketsx3624 Spiders suck though, some bite. Dragonflies don't.
@@metamorphosisx6641 Dragonflies do bite, actually. If they feel in danger, they'll bite anything nearby.
Yeah, I remember the last time I was eaten by a salad.
Kenneth Kustren Sedgehun?
it’s a shame the global warming hoaxers have ruined fact-based science with ‘consensus’ based assessments.
😂
Kenneth Kustren 😃good times
Are you a buddhist?
"imagine sitting down and eating a salad-"
lost me
They should’ve named it “ come on in I got some candy”
Pretty much any carnivorous plant
@LaumiRez lol
@LaumiRez Or you can name it in actual Latin:
Intra habeo dulcia
Vegans: *confused screaming*
Those vegans can't explain this
I’m just now getting into plants especially carnivorous ones. I am amazed by these creatures.
you should play the game silver case
Thats a Pokemon weeping bell
Hiii
#FactsMyGuy
Victreebell
@@AfterAllWeAreHuman it's both weeping and victoree
open pitcher plants make more sense
I loved the music. It was so chill and perfectly paired to help me listen to what was being said as well.
From 3:20 to the end was pure bliss!
*Okay but how did they get these angles*
That's what I wanna know now
probably a similar probe to the kind used by doctors when the need to see into the intestines.
Ikr I was wondering the same thing!!!!!!!
Spyfly
You know how Dedelus glued a string to an ant to thread a conch shell? Yeah that
Man, nature for sure is scary, even more when you are so little
I'M TIRED OF DRINKING, I WANNA CHEW!
Lmaooooo
Haha how did Calebcity get here?
Barry Rice is the best professor, i took every class he offered and had no idea he had these videos and books
they should have called it cobra pitcher plant then
Its flower does strongly resemble conventional lily flowers though. It's quite beautiful.
Cobra Lily sounds better
humans are romantic like that.
I actually like that name better.
*Darling Cobra*
5:05 Yeah I'm pretty sure we've all seen Little Shop of Horrors
Im from California and I had no clue we had plants like these!!
yup you have some awesome ones! Even venus flytraps are native to & unique to America (US)
The plants are gorgeous!!! 💚
Guys, Darlingtonia is one of the most extraordinary carnivorous plants! Beautiful and fascinating. Brilliant! Beautiful video!
sadly really really hard to grow outside it's natural environment though :(
The Legend of Lily Cobra
There was once a lazy cobra. Rather went out to find food, he just relax on the lily pad. The fairy got mad. And boom! The fairy turned him to a Lily Cobra.
"Imagine sitting down ready to eat a salad, and then the salad eats you"
The writhing fluid at the bottom was actually like... Nightmare fuel XD
I love how I went..
"What's ur fav flower?"
"Lily-"
"Awh that's swee-"
"Cobra lily.. 🙂 you can search it up"
Great video. Absolutely loved it.
Next up - The Killer Salad from Mars!
*Predatory Plant: Lure of the Cobra Lily*
One of the most unique hunters of the plant kingdom is the cobra lily, or _Darlingtonia californica_. Witness how it uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher traps in our latest KQED Science video.
See photos and learn more from producer Josh Cassidy at KQED Science: goo.gl/lMtmQg
Nice
KQED
Go back to making content like this, please. Honestly, this video was excellent in every way. Your brand new stuff? Not even watchable. constructive brutal honesty in criticism is a commodity these days stranger, take it where you can.
Please try to make a lengthy and informative documentary on plants really amazing. 👍
So how do the midge larvas slime mites etc find their way into the plants?
If someone thinks plants are boring they they should check out so many types of carnivorous plants. They are so interesting and fascinating!
Pretty much any living thing is interesting if you study it in enough complexity
I never thought I would experience being vored by a plant
The villain Poison Ivy.
Yes officer, this post.
Send it to a Vegetarian or Vegan, and tell them that even plants eat meat.
Hahahahah nice idea😂😂😂😂
@@HighFlyinAFGuy and I was joking try to have some sense of humor.
@@holypain8152 nice try champ. think about what you have to say before you say it next time, now go put your nose in the corner.
People can eat what they want, their money, their lifestyle
Oh shoot, u were joking, ma bad
A fascinating topic.
Never thought I’d be freaked by a plant😂
I need the soundtrack to this! But I absolutely love this video. Thanks to caring botanists like this for spreading consciousness and knowledge.
Fabiola Godinez my thoughts exactly!
Song that starts at *3:19* is Blind Divine Untitled I
This is so cool! ✨ beautiful footage 🤓
I'm in love with the place...
wonderful video!
Close to once the video ended, it just hit me, the background music gives some straight up minecraft vibes. Good and interesting choice for such an interesting video.
So cool!! Very interesting!
What beautiful scenery
Absolutely fascinating creatures
The light green color is beautiful
Awesome! Good work!
This makes me never want to take my shoes off.
Geez... Had to make that salad comment huh...
*Adds to list of why I can't eat a salad today... might eat me* 🤣🤣
This is BEYOND INTERESTING👏😱
Theres some growing in michigan 2. It's a pitcher plant that grows in the spring after the ground thaws
WOW that’s so amazing.
I grow these plants as well as sundews. My sundews like chocolate the best but if I give them too big a piece it will rot the delicate pads.
They're stunning
There needs to be an updated version of this video with propwr information. Darlingotnia californica has been founs to secret 1 digest enzyme type, that was unknown before. The fangs it produces is actually produced for added chlorophyl, the fangs have the highest chlorophyll density out of the entire plant, and a study was done to see if it plays any role in the amount of bugs or the diversity of bugs it preys upon and in fact it does not at all. With fangs and without fangs (cut off) the plant still preys on the same amount of food and the same type of food. This suggests that the fangs have nothing to do with cathcing prey and all to do with storing energy from the sun.
A plant being at the top of the food chain is unheard of.
Just beautiful.
Nature is Amazing!!
Are they still thriving with alot of the drought that's being in the west coast?
Aaaand the plants survived the drought. Climate Hoax not coincide with stubborn plants not dying as predicted.
+llymphs What makes you think the droughts were a hoax?
llymphs droughts in a specific area did not kill an entire species which also exists in Oregon as per the video. Make no mistake though, lots of plants did die, and climate change is killing coral reefs, making droughts worse in places like India and more extreme storms like the hurricanes hitting the US are becoming more and more frequent n
I thiink the reasoon coral reafs are dieng off is because there is a massive gold mining operation in africa and south america and they use murcury and acid to seperate the gold tthen they just dump the waist in the river then it goes out to the ocean. It is killing everything and everyone. We will soon feal the effects and if nothing is done this world will be doomed, mark my words!
@@chillville5571.....
Thank you
Excellent!
" imagine sitting in front of a salad and that salad eats you." 😂 I'm dead.
The insects descend to the deep depth of the abyss
Can you make one of Dionaea Muscipula?
TIL Cobra Lily's were my friends all along.
The ammount of plants has gone down alot recently, although im not sure why. i moved to Quincy CA in 2009 and the whole valley used to be covered in them now its oly the northwest corner of butterfly valley that has alot of them. I always thought it was crazy how they survived such snowy winters.
Probably that crap they’ve been spraying in the air for years.. toxic, unnatural stuff
Shuddup past Devon
First time watching and it's really amazing. The camera footage is really cool. I've been watching bug wars and the footage on there is amazing also. Really well done.
Nature is so cool
It’s interesting how with most ecosystems plants are at the bottom of the food chain usually referred to as the produce, yet here we have an ecosystem where the plant is predating and so the top carnivore
another episode of *When Plants Attack*
About the only time I've ever felt sorry for a fly
Timmsy Yeah, me too. You know they are scared, desperate to get free. Makes me sad.
When plants bite back
What is the music used towards the end?!?
Is it related to other pitcher plants or did it evolve independently?
@Positron Decay sarracenia evolved independently from other pitcher plants like heliamphora or nepenthes.
This is what true genjutsu is
I'm still mind blown that the lily evolved to have transparent spots to confuse the insects
I like the music at 3:21
How the fuck does a plant evolve to do this? To evolve some light spots on the ceiling to trick the insect that there’s a way out. That’s some intelligent evolution. I wonder how smart plants truly are
the so called 'cobra lily' i saw before were different species of arisaemas.
Glad I don't have to worry about my Cobb trying to take a bite out of me while im sleeping.
That fly's name was Seymour.
From beginning i can't see the plant. Your camera too close to the plant.
Is it just me or does the cobra lily look like something you just pick off the ground and eat. They look pretty crunchy though it's probably a bad idea
Cobra Lily: The Sarlacc Pit for insects.
Most pitcher plants just have a vat of acid to kill the bug and digest it. This one has a collection of tiny bugs that eat the prey and that's terrifying.
Very strange looking plant indeed
A huge eco inside a plant
Amazing
The music is low key heat.
i had no idea
Update?
*Imagine sitting down having a salad and letting that salad eat you*
insert "in soviert russia..." comment here.
Sounds like Rand McNelly where hamburgers eat people.
So, Dragon Lilly's are the real estate/ car sales-person of the plant world?
yes, salad eats you if it has tapeworm eggs in its cabbage and spinach leaves
And _this_ nightmare fuel is why horror game environments aren't unrealistic.
Cobra lily looks like a man seeing you and both leaves like hands
I'm thinking of some carnivorous plants for around my house. In the kitchen and the bedroom in particular; lots of flies and mosquitoes
The last line was "D U M B"
How are the plants today? 2019
The plants arent doing as well as they were 10 years ago. Im not sure when this video was made. But when i moved to Quincy CA there were tons of them in butterfly valley. But now they are mostly in the north west corner.
@1:45, me in any Walmart packing lot, trying to find my car after I’m done shopping.
I've seen birds get trapped inside convenience stores for hours because they couldn't comprehend using the same open door for escape. It's like winged creatures associate strictly and only verticality with safety.
I don't really like insects and it makes me kinda happy to watch my plants killing them. There's even carnivorous plants that eat frogs and mice.
fuck you bugs own
Bugs are useful
@@gussferretti9665 yeah, they're food for my plants
@@notAlphax in one way or another if it wasn't for bugs we all die. China got rid of all of them and now it's harder for them to grow crops.
@@gussferretti9665 they deserve it as in there falt but i feel bad people suffering even though they deserve it this is causing conflict in my head
So that’s what it must look like when Cell absorbs you
But don't the insects know if they come they will say goodbye?
Darlingtonia californica🤩
I am creeped the hell out..