How Do Flies Bite?
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- How do flies bite? In this video, we explore the answer. Biting flies have six "blades" on their faces. These are also called "stylets". Each stylet has a specific role in the biting process. The stylets that we see in this video come from a horse fly.
Specimen use made possible by the Chicago Academy of Sciences
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This dude made a biting fly sound like a top secret torture contraption.
Fr, I couldn't tell whether he was describing a Saw trap or a fly's mouth
He made it sound wholesome fr
If you've ever been bitten by a horse fly, you'd understand the fly itself gives the impression it's a torture device just fine on its one.
😂😂
A tse tse fly is a very painful torture
The contrast between the tone and the subject being explained is delightful.
Wonderfully said
It's like if Mr Rogers was explaining it...
extraordinary brilliant i must say
Terrifying
“Made up of… six small blades…”
*soothing piano note plays
Your explanation couldn't get any better than this
Dude is talking like we're in elementary class
"And now for a bedtime story"
@@user-qc8ms5wj1w makes sense for today's generation.
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I see no problem :3
Yes he could. The "straw" is more like a vacuum cleaner rubber tube with a suction cup that slides over the surface
I have a criticism. He said "wood files" which are a thing but then the video showed files for metal. It would have been better to just say "files." I have no idea why they said wood files, just kinda weird, really.
that visual of the paper ripping felt so real
HATED that!
It kinda reminds me of the Don’t hug me I’m scared episodes for some reason
@@clearlikeday Wow, no need to hate buddy, just love
@@davisosborne9459 huh
Maama. Help me. Owww
I love how this video cheerfully explains how a fly uses "blades", "scissors" and "files" to eat me.
Drink you
Plus a lil straw. They forgot to mention the little umbrella they add for yays☂️
Yeah, what's wrong with teeth? Nature could have just stopped at teeth and called it a day.
@@EchoWhiskey11 To feed on a large mammal, a tiny fly has to bite through enough tough skin to break into a blood vessel. It's just millimeters to us, but it's like digging a hole to them. We are blood wells for flies, and that. That is their shovel. I hate this channel.
@@diegolucano3354 Awwww, that's adorable and I love this channel again
I like how the beginning shows a fly on a pike to establish dominance
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I can laugh harder than any of you! See-😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Vlad the impaler
😂😂😂😂
My hatred for flies just quadrupled, thank you for the information!
And cockroaches don't forget the cockroaches! 🪳
Every bug shot, bugs k
The turkey baster did it for me
@@IsraelCountryCube And the goshdarn mosquitoes!
funny...mine sextupled. Added hatred for each small blade
The visualization is actually so much easier to comprehend everything I love this style of learning
Bro just likes telling us a horror story with the most relaxed music theme.
What's wrong with this generation saying "bro" in the beginning of every sentence?
It's the internet mind your business @@SweetDemon11
@@SweetDemon11 It's just for the Meme, relax and don't let the flies bite you.
@@SweetDemon11 Bro, it's not that serious.
You're not being a bro right now, ngl no cap sheeesh!
@@SweetDemon11bro, chill. It’s just a modern slang. Nothing to get moody over bruh.
“These blades pierce the skin and slice it open”
The music: 🎵🎹🎶
I know the music is amazing.
🤣🤣🤣
"Like a pair of scissors!" 😃🥰
Breath of the Wild Vibes xD
Like Mr Rogers
I'm glad he clarified biting flies as compared to all flies. Can't have everyone living with intense fear of common non-biting flies.
The non biting flies smother shit on your dinner.
Your welcome.
No thanks @@RAMROD1847
Thank you, now I calmed down
@@RAMROD1847I think it’s vomit too, non biting ones puke up on food so that it dissolves and they can digest it trough their straw mouth
Yesss!! I was like “does this count as house flys too!?” got me overthinking now✋🏾😭
My dyslexic ass saw the thumbnail and thought I was about to watch a video about how a file bites.
Me too
But im not dyslexic I just thought files "bite" like it's some sort of tool terminology
Help I’m glad I wasn’t the only one 💀
@@pumkin610 it is terminology. files "bite" onto the material you're working on when you're removing material, Biting referring to getting proper leverage or coverage on your workpiece. i was really confused when i started the video and it wasnt about files lol
Or "byte" rather, if we're talking digital files
Exactly. The worst part is that it actually makes sense plus the thumbnail had files and I was curious.
Such a horrifying image with such a calming voice.
10/10
And the cute lil jazzy chords? I’m horrified and relaxed at the same time!
sans undertale my beloved
Watching a horror movie while listening to classic music
And such a stupid name, I mean even fish are not called swim’s 😂 pointless annoying insect.
@@Kinemio "im actually supposed to be on watch for humans right now." -sans, in the first few seconds the first time you meet him
“Inside the mouth of every biting fly are… ✨🎶… 6 small blades.”
NICE COMMENT+HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY+ YOUR COOL
@@gemimamay941the nicest bot I've ever seen
@@kolyashinkarev7366yeah lol
@@kolyashinkarev7366 he's an anti uttp
@@kolyashinkarev7366 the bot got his character development
Flies: bite now, pain now
Mosquitos: bite now, pain later
No man for mosquitoes it would bite now, itch later
I'll take the pain of a fly bite over a mosquito itch any day.
But fly bites also itch for as long as mosquito bites itch
Lmao. Why do I hear this as a foreigner who owns a grocery store talking about buy now pay now or buy now pay later? Lmao 🤣
Mosquitos are flies ;)
Like, literally
The sound design in your videos is aways so delightful
Wow, I cannot thank you enough for putting this visual representation permanently in my mind.
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Bored MFS proceeding to forget about this in the next few hours:
“One last short before I sleep”
The short:
Especially when theirs a flie flying around in your room
No joke iam abt to sleep rn then i saw this video 😭
Same@@omn4682
True
Legit watching this at 12:30, I got caught in the loop @-@
I like the contrast between his calm voice and the fact that fly bites are them stabbing, piercing and devouring us like oranges
The charming piano at the end made me laugh 😭
Bro, how do you eat your oranges?
Oranges?
That liquid is acidic (btw).
They'd turn us into a slushy if the oxygen was at 50% and the pressure was a wee bit higher.
Imagine if flies were bigger than they are now. Someone should make a horror movie out of that.
Being able to explain this sort of thing, especially as it relates to a bug, with this calm of a demeanor, is a psychotic trait.
Change my mind.
no, it's a human trait. flies and humans are both natural and it's also natural to be curious about your surroundings and learn. the fly exists as it does why is it psychotic to be interested in talking about it? i'm more worried about the people who hate bugs so much.
I ain’t gonna change your mind cuz you’re 100% correct here
@@LoveInUnreality I don't hate bugs. I just don't like them. And they don't understand the concept of personal space, which makes them even more annoying.
Flies got a whole Swiss Army Knife built in!!
Some other species of flies will simply just puke (excrete) bile liquid onto their chosen food source and then vacuum it up with a proboscis (straw-like appendage found on butterflies/moths too)
@@alecmiller6084 Yeah, I know of this method that the common house fly uses as well.
BILL TIN
Clearly created
That's insects as a whole for you.
If school was taught like this, I’d be a genius. The sounds in the back and how he speaks just woke up my inner child and I was attentive the entire time.
This is why everyone remembers Bill Nye
Wtff i didn't even know flies can bite... Have you ever been "bitten" by a fly?
@@onomonapoetikonmonomonapoe1742Blud ain't never encountered a horse fly 😭💀
@@onomonapoetikonmonomonapoe1742 yes, black fly 10 times worse than a mosquito
*_Deer flies have entered the chat._*
Good news is, I'm no longer afraid of needles.
Bad news is I'm now afraid of Fly "teeth"
Yeah, next time I get bit, this video is going to cross my mind. I definitely will feel more violated.
I was once bitten by a either a deer or horse fly which carried bad bacteria which caused infection painful cluster of holes in my legs had to take anti biotics for weeks and caused permanent scars. If left untreated would've maybe caused sepsis and death
Just look at a needle under a microscope and that fear will come back
@@danielsonn3046
Do you feel better now sir?
@@pillow1557 yes was a few years ago
I swear the thumbnail said files it even had two files.
The fact that it’s appropriate enough for children to watch is amazing!
what
fuck do you mean "what"
@@Pest_the_Hot what does that comment mean how can a fly be r rated
@@xoneqraft I'll tell you, go watch The Fly (1998)
@@Pest_the_Hothe is asking how it could be any other fking way you m0r0n. ofc it's safe to watch, how could it even be r rated.
The fact that some flies have built-in wound-disturbers is the most resentful/metal thing I can think of
the fuc* do you think teeth are in your mouth
They need their blood sir.
“Metal”
Horse and deer flies they are also painful and some can carry bad parasites and bacteria
Im an engineering student,i would love to find a channel that explained engineering problems the way u explain biology,cause its genius.
Have a look at the engineer guy and real engineering
@@astraios3473 damn man,its what i was looking for!thank you so muchh :)
Eyyy
It may sound dumb, but hear me out. I'm an engineer and work with a lot of non technical people. One day I was explaining how a centrifugal pump works to my 5 year old, and she explained it back in her vocabulary to make sure she got it. In this example, she described it as being like a floor fan for liquids.
Now, obviously it can be made to suit the audience a bit better, but if you have a 10-12 year old, I bet you could get some great simplification on complex problems.
@@andyslaven5538 very interesting,is like asking for opinion of something happening in the world to someone that doesnt watch tv or see internet
This is my new favorite channel. The absolute calm in this video and the crystal clear explanation is mesmerizing
I'm begrudgingly liking this video, because it was both educational and made my skin crawl
Same 😂😂😂
Once a fly bit me,I jumped inside the pool to get that beautiful chlorine in the wound to disinfect it,LOL 😂
That is a perfect description of my feelings right now.
Exactly...
As a pest control tech and soon to be associates Entomologist I have to say this explanation was 100% perfect in every way
as a non-bioengineer/non-entomologist , i have to say, im currently getting poptart crumbs all over my sheets.
"Do you have flies that bite?"
"No, we have flies that cut, file, dissolve and suck"
Just like a serial killer
What's with these comme-oh.
It's giving "Dracula don't suck! He scrapes and licks!"
@@Pepe_Roni_Aye I swear to life I was thinking the same thing I was hoping somebody peeped it too lmao 💀😂
@@RJizzle2000 the auras an EXACT match😁 While reading all I could see was the tongue wagglin..ol freak ahh lol
You have just introduced me to a new fear of biting flies. Thanks !
I’ve never been so interested in a fly video until now
Ikr, I'm in aw of a flys teeth rn
😂 thats the truth
The background chimes and stuff bring me such a huge sense of childhood nostalgia and I can’t get enough of it
same for me. i wonder why
Same. I love it ironically combined with content like this 😂
Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood vibes
I’m so happy you noticed that as well
Suddenly those giant fly enemies in Dark Souls 3 just became ten times scarier
😈
Except they literally have human mouths, and not any of the proboscises shown in this vid?
@@victorvillegas911 Nah, that just makes me think they have two jaws now; the “human” mouth is a front for their hidden saw blade teeth and that one tooth that’s basically a straw? Yeah that one would explain how they projectile vomit those bleed inducing leeches on to the player.
Great, now I’m even more freaked out by those enemies. Never trust a giant insect that smile “humanly” at you.
The way you explain no one's can beat you ❤
* Calls my accountant *
"Yeah, how many electric rackets can I buy?"
"I taught I told ya, i ain't in the racket business no more"
Yeah hello, Air Force? You know that agent orange stuff you used in the 60’s? Do you have an insecticide version?
"Can you explain this like I'm 4 years old?"
This guy:
I feel like a traumatized 4 year old right now
"Just one last short"
The last short:
Best and truest comment of my day
I don’t think the composition for these videos gets enough credit. The music perfectly fits how mysterious and whimsical the vids can be
Crazy how such small creatures can still evolve to be so complex
Guess what some people still think this was an accident
@@mohamedkhalid5848lol so it's god made a little monster that sucks human's blood? What a good god 😂 fuck that god then
Sure it looks like that, but it didn't just appear out of sudden. You can see related groups have more/less complex structures like those
If it helps make more sense flies aren't small at all they are made of hundreds of thousands of cells with many moving parts of their own. They just seem small to us, but were just bigger, it's like comparing a sky scrapper to a mountain
@@mohamedkhalid5848Ffs evolution by natural selection does not only involve random mutations. It's more nuanced than 'species evolve by accident'. Learn how it actually works before rejecting or criticizing it but of course you won't do that because you've already decided what the truth is haven't you?
i don’t think there is anyone more deserving of a netflix show than you man i want hour long segments of this
No way, some fake historic documentary about Cleopatra and ancient alien definitely more deserving 😂
I vote within 10 min well all be asleep
Normally when I watch stuff like this I get unsettled, grossed out, and traumatized. But for some reason the way you describe everything just seems so peaceful.
Maybe it's your voice. Maybe it's the way you present it. Either way this is very educational and somewhat soothing.
Thank you😊
Dude is like the Bob Ross of horrific biology.
i know i lov ehis content
Tell me you're a millennial without using stupid slang or telling your age.
"Traumatized"... My god. We're such a pathetic generation.
@@vinculaomega5283🤣🤣
@@vinculaomega5283sure bud, well I would blame your lack of comedic awareness and awareness of dramatic satire on your generation, but that's disrespectful to do so. Afterall I can't stereotype a generation based off of the ignorance of one lone neanderthal like yourself can I? No I suppose not, but maybe I can teach a primate today, on how to understand satire and dramatic hyperbole. In hindsight, I suppose this is why school is important
The music and the tone is so delightful
this is why giant predatory insects are one of the scariest tropes
I like how you titled the video and then in the video you explained exactly how flies bite. Thats strangely rare on CZcams
I never thought I would choose to and be actively excited to learn about insect biology but your channel makes it so.
This is the best explanations on blood sucking flies. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
New fear unlocked: Biting flies 💀💀
Yooo thanks for 26k likes guys ive never had this much in my whole life
He was talking about horse flies
Mosquitoes were already a fear to me
@@yolanchenaoui9581 that doesnt help it just makes them more unpleasant now
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@@dogbot55 even better 🙃
That is far more equipment than I'd ever expect on a fly. Incredible!
Mad props for that fabric blood effect
Ikr!?😂
I read this as "How do files bite"
My brain is doing some trickery
Please keep doing stuff like this, no fact is too small, and even the most boring of subjects have gems
Yeah, I wanna know how the scrotum works. What goes on behind that mysterious leathery curtain?
How does it keep moving when changes temperature? You could use a muppets version of a ball bag that waves at us before it comes towards us with the melodic piano and satisfying fluid sounds and end with a splat.
What else could they do?
“Why are you scared? Its just a little fly!” The fly:
The videos on this channel exist in this very narrow space between "incredibly soothing" and "incredibly terrifying"
Incredibly disturbing told in the most soothing manner😅
Dio Brando
Yes
The visual explanation is amazing
That was the best way to explain this to anyone. Even had visual aids. 10/10
Wow that was so explicit. I didn't think I could hate biting flies any more than I did before watching this.
I can't explain it but the demonstration of the straw was the best bit.
This is the best explanation i have ever heard
When i was a scout, the summercamp we went to every year was horrible for the horseflies that would land on top of your head and bite you on your way to anything. We figured out if we held a stick straight up above our head they would try to land on that instead. It was quite a sight to see packs of young boys walking around with sticks like that.
Wait, that actually works?! 🤔
Modern problems require caveman solutions 😂
Whoever played the piano in this short deserves a lot, and I mean A LOT of credit for how fascinating this short is. The first chord sets you up, makes you need more. Small resolution, but incomplete. Some question sounding notes like you're hopping on stones across a creek. Then, the perfect complete resolved chord at the end. It's so pleasing 😍.
Okay Beethoven, chill out.
“I can do, the cowboy accent..”
“Howdy partNEr.”
Settle down mozart
The whole short is set up like that the sound effects like the cutting or the fly drinking it's all just to please your brain although it annoys the hell out ofe cause I hated how cringe these videos were even in school
@@AdhvaithSane "no one will believe this"
Calling that a bite is like calling being hit by a train 'a bump'
Yeah bro straight up operation going on your arm
@@north6star my favourite part was the two serrated parts of the mouth sawing at the wound lol that's too savage even for nature
Nature created the Shrike, so no it's not lol.
Well, it is for the people on the train
Hahahaha
Fascinating video! Those biting flies seem well-designed for their vocations. Very interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing this with us 👍
That large scale representation was terrifying
I both hated and absolutely adored this explanation
It’s really just as good as every other video by this channel
Smaug the dragon: _"My teeth are swords, my claws are spears, my wings are a hurricane!"_
Bitting fly: _"That's great, but my mouth is a _*_toolshed!"_*
I thought that I couldn’t possibly hate flies any more than I did. Thank you for showing me that’s not the case!
Bro chose the calmest music for the scariest subject LOL 😂
Edit: OMG 1K LIKES! (I usually get 2 or 3)
Edit 2: okay… ALMOST 3 THOUSAND!? CAN SOME OF YOU SUBSCRIBE PLS!?
He really puts the gentle piano sounds in the shorts to make them fascinating. His music in the shorts is very nice.
I felt like I was watching Mr.Rogers😂
Thought it was more breath of the wild
You're weak for thinking this is scary
@ximirux2408 yea, it's just facts.
the way flies bite is way more sophisticated than I would have thought
_4 seasons starts playing_
This was a low key terrifying experience😭
No HIGH KEY terrifying experience 😭
This guys has the coolest job ever
When you really think about it, this is a horror short 😅
Was you're dad ate by flies when he went to get milk?
Unless your a corpse this isn't scary kids are curious and will not find this terrifying.
And for adults Flies are fat inefficient mosquitoes without malaria.
I'd be more afraid of there eggs as an adult as that's how they get you by numbers.
I didn’t even have to think about it the fly has a fucking swiss army knife of chaos in it’s mouth
Fly has a whole cutlery set 😂
😊😊👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣🥄🍽️
I am now terrified of flies now... thanks
He’s talking about biting flies, like midges and horseflies.
They can’t Bite us since our skin is actually very durable against their teeth I think.
Never knew flies were this scary
Your voice is so calm and what you're explaining in so frightening, I'm unlocking a new fear here !!
Your music choice for your videos feels so respectful to the animals you teach us about, Im a huge animal nerd and it is so appreciated to see people treat nature like a treasure rather then just a object for us to take advantage of.🙏
The music plus the way he's talking makes it sound like an old educational show for children.
These sounds remind me of what i used to watch before going to bed when i was a kid. Kinda makes me teary eyed, thank you
Piano? lol
It's the calm voice with the peaceful music that explains something kinda off-putting or disturbing which I find creepy
This man's creativity is on an insane level! Love it!
I love the dramatic music at the end like the bite was brutal! 😂
you have the calmest voice I've ever heard in a week, I'm grateful
I think you meant to say "bro has the calmest voice I've ever heard in a week, I'm grateful"
Love the way he talks to us like we are toddlers
A man explaining what flies are in a "wes anderson movie" kind of style is so amazing
This is the teaching style needed by so many for so long.
The absolute irony is, the thumbnail for this video showed the files and I read files when it was actually saying flies. I'm into machining type videos and what not so I thought this was along the lines of something I usually watch. Lucky for this channel, and myself, I'm also into biology and I'm surprised I am only just now hearing about this channel! Excellent content. I've already subscribed and shared it with my family!
Yup - same. 💀
Same here, I was excited to find out :(
New fear unlocked: getting bitten by a fly 💀💀
horse flies are the biters and you should be afraid of them. those bastards hurt, a lot.
Him explaining: 💀
Background music: 🎹🎶
Cheerful says “…And that’s how flies bite” like he didn’t just drop the most disturbing informations I learned this year 😂😂😂
None of his videos have ever disturbed me until this one. He went full on no chill.
Flies really got a whole factory's worth of machinery just for stealing blood 💀
Not designed to bite and drink blood but fruit. Their current course is result of the fall.
Never seen such clear way to explain something
my dyslexic brain reading as "how do FILES bite"
LUL I just noticed that it was flies! I do this all the time!
Mine was like you just wrote the title again??
My dyslexic brain reading you comment as " my dyslexic brain reading as how do flies bite"
Lmao and me reading you’re “files” as flies and trying to figure out where the dyslexia is 💀
Files may not bite, but if you get cut by running your finger along a file too fast it’s over
You're so good at explaining things that even a young child can understand.
Thank you for being inclusive 💕
I love how you have the piano tones, it reminds me of my childhood shows for some reason
No matter how difficult or complicated a lecture is, if it's explained like this guy even the janitor would take the class and listen
Didn't want to know this, but interesting 🤔
The way these are edited is so cute but the actual content of the videos sends me
You teach better than what a teacher teaches.
probably the best use of a short i've seen so far