I put fruit flies in a jar for a year
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- This video shows the development of the closed ecosystem in a jar containing fruit flies during a year, depicting various events including plant growth, the emergence of springtails, mites and rotifers and much more!
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I often have fruit fly problems in my home. I make those little plastic bottle traps with apple cider vinegar to get rid of them. But sometimes they get trapped in there and breed. So my little traps end up becoming ecospheres if I leave them too long.
put a few drops of dishsoap into the applecider, it will kill the flies on contact.
@@Creaform003 The dish soap breaks the surface tension on the water, so the flies can’t sit on top. They fall in and drown. That’s why they look like they die on contact.
@@diggoran With the low surface tension the liquid flows straight into their spiracles drowning them pretty much instantly. I prefer it because anticholinesterase in fly spray kill pretty slow.
@@Creaform003 huh, interesting that the low surface tension results in them drowning in two ways, just in case one way wasn’t enough!
Diatomaceous earth can be a huge help if you've got indoor potted friends.
I like how self cleaning the jar is, the glass walls started a mess of algae, fly bodies and the dead coffee leaves, and then was eaten by the springtails and decomposed by other organisms in the jar.
Could probably add a few slugs
Perhaps you could set up multiple versions of the same jar. It would be interesting to see how they might differ over time.
nice idea
Yeah!!
great idea
Lovely idea.
Easy evolution scince the breeding rates of flys too! Great idea
This is the best example of "Life finds a way."
I learned something new about fruit flies though. Didn't know the size of them depended on temperature. That's pretty neat.
When it looked like the entire thing would die... it sprung to life! Not shocked about the fruit flies though, I think they need rotting fruit to really thrive.
"And now they're all dead. And on that positive note..."
I love your humor. lol
My takeaway is the bloodleaf plant is stupidly easy to care for if you can just stick it in a jar and let it vibe, so I might try growing one after some research, plus they look really neat
@@Gay_Priest nah, the closed jar is a eco system itself not perfect but near perfect, without the nutrition for the fruit flies the whole thing would prob have gone downhill.
@@tarkitarker0815 hyperbole
life finds a jar 😌
Yeah so it’s interesting how fruit flies and other small insects probably, can just adapt to the temperature of their environment to such a radical degree that they change their size this much. It makes sense, a larger size means a bigger surface area but a proportionally way bigger internal volume of an object. Which is better for keeping heat in. When it’s already hot anyway, they can prioritize on being as small as possible since they aren’t predators
This was definitely one I’ve been eager to see, sad the fruit flies didn’t last longer but neat to see the plants wilt and eventually power through!
There's a life lesson here, i can just feel it
@@MoonDisast Plants are more resilient than animals?
It gives one hope that after we cook ourselves to death the planet will go right on living without us.
Why would you want fruit fly to live for a long time they are annoying
@@notakiller575 Are you a fruit fly?
the process of adaptation of these plants was incredible.
at first I thought the jar would only have dead leaves and fungus.
but I was surprised to see how life found a way even stuck in a jar
I wonder if the plants were starved of CO2 initially and then bounced back as the animal population grew and made a steady stream available.
"life even in a jar" the scale for life has such a huge variety. for microorganisms little bugs are insanely huge then for mammals the same applies again. You could even make an experiment where you simulate the history of earth itself and how the development went from chemical to biological if we had the time and thousands of lifetimes.
You would basically be a god for the little world you govern.... maybe govern is the wrong word the only thing you do is setting the starting perimeters. I imagine this is what immortals or higher beings would do for boredom. Atleast i would if i neither would have a sense for time or a lifespan.
@@renegranit240 Observe will be more suitable for this.
Beautiful how life finds a way, I thought they where all going to die.
Pretty sure that the "rotifers" are a type of copepod. The copepods you usually see are Cyclops, and they live in large bodies of water, but there are lots of other species of copepods. Some of them live in wet soil. Without competition from the typically-aquatic copepods like Cyclops, the soil copepods probably made their way out of the pot and into the water in the jar.
Fascinating
Could they be stentor caruleus?
@@ChiseledDiamond stentor don't swim like that no ? they seem to have their feet fixed on substrat , maybe I'm wrong ?
@@ChiseledDiamond Stentors in general would either be attached or free-swimming. The free-swimming ones would be in the water column and they'd be moving in a very smooth fashion, not jumpy like these and not next to the glass. S. coeruleus in particular would be a blueish color (that's what "coeruleus" means), not white.
While in grade school, I bred fruit flies in jars with air holes poked through the lid. I was so intrigued by the mutations and evolution happening right in front of me. I even looked at them under a microscope to study the dominant and recessive genes. It was a really cool experience
Happy to see you return to uploading. Soon as I saw the notification, I clicked. I hope everything is going well for you. It's great to hear the community was very supportive.
I have missed you, and I hope you are doing well. I always enjoy the way your jars show us that life will find a way. The constant evolution of species within a closed ecosystem reminds me of our World. Life is both fragile and insistent. Your pleasure at the appearance of a new life form in one of your jars is shared by your faithful Jarmy, and your inquisitive mind always makes me think. Thank you.🖤🇨🇦
I'd be curious to see one of these jars with a little sensor package in it, both to see the readings of different atmospheric conditions and to see if the sensors survive
Would be cool to use magnetic charging for it
Thanks to you i made a jar too about a year ago. Its a freshwater ecosystem from a pond in groningen. I caught a water scorpion, but it died after maybe a month. The plants survived for about 4 months, then the algae, detritus worms and snails took over. For a long time no plants were growing until the start of this summer. The algae reduced and made space for these pine-like plants. It produces a lot oxigen judging by the bubbles coming from the algae and plants. It's a very interesting hobby.
I love the fact that your coffee plant thrived in such environment for a year.
While mine dies after a month of watering and caring XD
Who said he stopped tending to his plant ? 😢😂🎉 there's a lot of plants in the jungle and if you wanted a big booty latina named mami seata she's in brazil with the cheese check the Brit first before you gaze the star when the toilet shakes jump a fart to zip it up and ship it if there's anymore to sell go at all costs the sea is rising so drink a mop water bucket out of the mcdonalds fountain
@@NoahFense69 Good comment 👍
@@NoahFense69the fuck are you on abt🤣
@@NoahFense69concerning
Patience is a virtue, one I do not possess so thank you once again, for doing these “learning jars” that I could never. I hope you are growing like those plants after a little down time 🤗🤗✌️
Something for future projects, try adding a mini magnetic aquarium cleaner inside the ecosystem. You could wipe the algae from a small portion of the glass, giving a clean "window" to view to the plants inside.
Good idea
Idea: at the end you got me thinking. What if you took a pot and filled it with native plants and animals and surrounded the pot with pond water, creating and “island ecosphere” with both a terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in a jar. This idea seems so cool I may have to try it for myself!
Why don’t you just do it yourself…
Great video, not exactly for the flies, but to hear from you again, I hope youre in better times now... Cheers my "jarman"... 👍👍👍
I have dabbled in breeding fruit flies, I wasnt expecting them to last too many generations as mites become a serious issue after a few cycles you end up with too many mites per fruit fly as the just abandon dead ones and move over to new ones. You cant really get rid of them either as they are almost always paired with them
i'm convinced that this guy is one day gonna create life in a jar
maybe even a new species
... ахахах.. я уверена, что так и будет)))
Man your videos and narration are very calming and help me relax at night. As a biology student, I also appreciate all the little bits of information you add to these videos. I admire you, as I too wish I had the patience to develop this hobby. Greetings from Costa Rica :)
The springtails are so cute!! I had no idea they came in the shape of round!!
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It's really cool whenever those new species pop up and form an ecosystem, just goes to prove that life always finds a way!
Hey! I just want you to know that we all love and appreciate you! Don’t try to push yourself okay?
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Wake up babe, new Life in Jars video just dropped
Fascinating! Interesting that the one organism you added is no longer viable but so many more came from the presence of the soil. Glad to see you posting again!
I've done fruitfly cultures a few times and every time they die like that in the end and I think the reason is that the food we put for them starts to give out some gases after it rots and the air no longer remains breathable for them. One time I had put mashed potatoes and vinegar mixture as the media for them and long after that culture died I opened the bottle and a little air explosion happened like PAT! Even though there were little holes I had punctured into the bottle for air for the flies, the surface tension couldn't let the gases escape from the tiny holes.
It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. The way you present the worlds you create is magical.
Thanks for another great video. I'm always sad when they come to an end. I could watch them for hours. The Springtails are adorable.
We had a small water leak last summer that we weren't aware of. Because of it, we also ended up fighting a mold bloom. In addition to the leak & the mold, we had a huge fruit fly infestations - in the basement. (?!) Which is how I learned fruit flies love mold.
So, i wonder, if you added some mold to the jar set-up, would the mold grow? And if it grows, would it support a fruit fly population? Or would the mold kill the plants? -- The 'butterfly effect' is certainly a factor in a small, closed habitat!
Glad you are back & hope things are going well. And as always, thank you.
Those probably weren't fruit flies, but fungus gnats. Fungus gnats feed on mold, mildew, and other types of fungi. I have had quite a few of them feed on mildew from decaying soil or leaves from houseplants. Fruit flies need something sugary to eat, like fruit or soda.
@@Hope_IsNotMyName Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, these were probably fruit flies. I started looking into what fruit flies eat, other than stinky carbs. And different sources mentioned fruit flies like mold. - It still sounded suspicious, so I trapped some & took them to a friend who is an Entomologist. He said they were definitely fruit flies, & yep, they like mold.
Now I wonder if your flies & my flies are the same species, but different subspecies. - All I know is I ended up learning more about fruit flies than I ever wanted to know. (And how difficult it is to completely get rid of mold!)
Thanks, again. - M.A.D.
@@barkingmad50 oh okay, I didn't realize that, thanks for the information.
What a wonderful surprise this morning to be able to enjoy a new Jars video.
Thank you for investing your time to create these.
❤
Great to see you back and with such an interesting ecosystem. Shame the fruit flies didn't last longer but all those other inhabitants are cool
Life always gets better when you get a notification of a new "Life in Jars" video! 🤩
Great to see you back! Take care of yourself and stay well, there are 1000's of us thinking of you and praying.
For the closed ecosystems you could use some rare earth magnets and a piece of rubber or felt to make a scrubber that can be used magnetically to clear the viewing surface with out opening the jar.
Answering (or at least adding to) your springtail caffeine question: Sprintails in my experience seem to thrive off of caffeine. I put some coffee grounds on my bio tank (i keep roaches and sprintails, at some point will add isopods and earthworms, and i use them for composting plant scraps) and they not only swarmed them but seemed to blow up in numbers soon after.
Wow that's really interesting
Great to see you back. Hope you are well and hope you are able to get back to the videos. You are an amazing young man and I wish you the very best.
Always come back to this channel randomly to binge. Love the content. You're doing 5 year old me's dream as a youtube channel lol. I used to put a bunch of bugs and grass and stuff in tins and see if they eat it, but they usually just died. Great stuff, man
That's so awesome! I have a nearly 4 year old sealed terrarium jar that I'm going to do an update on in September. Life in jars is super cool and inspiring :D
So glad that two plants at the start stayed alive, they seemed like they were dying in the middle of the video💪🌱
Thank you for this video! I bought a jar made for Terrariums and I put a layer of rocks at the bottom, then dirt, and then I put 2 baby mushrooms and moss and watered it. It looked amazing and It was all inspired by you!
I loved how you said "those spring tailed babies" around 9:32 xD
Thank you for producing your content, it’s always full of surprises and great information! I’ve started a pond and a river ecosphere after watching you and a few other similar channels. I’m excited to see how they change over time.
Hi!!! I've missed you! Even though these videos are super interesting, your sense of humor is what makes your channel excellent! ☺️
You should source enough dirt or water, for 5 or 6 closed ecospheres. Set the ecospheres up and then run an experiment comparing any potential differences. I think that could make a good series for this channel
maybe adding a magnetic window cleaner, like in fish tanks, to the jars will help create a small window for filming for each update recording session! This will allow for better viewing but keeps the jar contained!
ps Glad you’re back and I hope you’re feeling happier man :) Thanks for putting in the effort for us.
was thinking about this same exact thing before i scrolled down to see the comments.
I believe it would become covered in algae or slime by the time you would need to use it on the glass's walls, and probably just spread more haze around than clean anything.
It might not and work fine though.
So glad to see a video pop up. I hope your obstacles in life are becoming fewer and farther between. May the wind always be at your back.
I just saw a video of yours on my recommended and decided after watching it I’d check out a couple others, I gotta say I like it! I’ve always thought of how I could do something like this myself and you’ve shown what it’s like, it looks really interesting!
Thanks for the video.
Life is so complex and the transfer of energy is so amazing that a tiny leaf can continuously power the life's of many advance micro organisms! How beautiful life is!
so happy to see you back! hope you are feeling a lot better and it is so lovely to see your jars back in action!
I am really happy that you are back and good in spirit! I wish you all the best! I expect an update on your aquatic succession project.
thanks for the update!!!! i love watching those little rotifers wiggle around. your videos are always so relaxing and so informative, thanks for doing what you do 🥰
This video gives me hope for my own ecosphere that I started a couple of months ago and no longer seems to contain any animal life. :)
Thanks for uploading, I was inspired by your projects and have 2 closed terraria myself
About a year and half ago, during lockdown, ive decided to make a plant terrarium. Ive used moss, lichens, soil, little branches and rocks from our garden, an ivy branch and some plant leaf cuts my mom gave me. Also planted in an old rusty key nobody needed anymore for decoration. Later I've noticed some fruit flies inside and they were dying off slowly. The ivy branch died as well and some leaves of the unknown plant from my mom died off as well. However, i was too lazy to empty this dying terrarium qnd left it on my table to this day.
After watching this video, I was reminded if its existence and my god, the unknown plant has new, healthy green leaves and even tho, i dont see any animal life in there, there clearly must be some in the soil!
I have notifications on for your channel because you may not upload often, but it's always interesting :)
onze held is weer terug hoor !!! altijd fascinerend om te zien hoe ecosystemen tot ontwikkeling kunnen komen in een afgesloten ruimte.
Lovely films, i enjoy the style, the dedication to your work, and the overall mood of these films. Thank you :)
These are neat. You should look into making a squeegee to wipe off the condensation and debris from the inside of the jar for clearer shots of the center. You could use a magnet to manipulate it from the outside.
We had drosophila to study at school.
I loved mine then and still do.
House flies? I have my resident spiders to deal with those [and filter some dust from the air], but fruit flies have a special place in my heart.
"But they're all dead" he said nonchalantly, haha.
Thanks for this video!
have you considered starting a jar with one of those small magnet cleaners used in fish tanks, to clean the inside of the glass?
Glad to see you back and I hope life is treating you well. Your videos are always a joy to watch. Thanks for everything!
These surprises like the rotifers are my main motivation for watching these videos
Oh yay! So glad to see you back on YT😃
Dude I love this channel so much, please never stop doing what you do
Man, these videos are always really fascinating to watch! Always happy to see you upload :D
i think its so cool that the plant that was doing kinda bad before the other is the one thats going absolutely bananas a year later. i also love when springtails seemingly just appear out of nowhere in closed ecosystems lol great vid!!
I like your dedication
Keep it up man u deserve million of views
This is such a cool video man your knowledge is incredibly impressive, glad your doing better :)
Glad to see a new upload! Your content is one of the most unique on CZcams and your passion for these ecosystems are clear to see.
wow this is so fascinating that so much life can just be hidden in things. I worked in a museum and if there were to be any plants or flowers the soil and potting materials had to be sterlized. now i undertand why. of course soil is a living thing, but there are also so many lieelte animals and all sorts of things just hanging out in there. this is like an agar plate where all those things might be able to come alive. and all that water on the bottom now wow!
Flies have a series of heart-chambers in their abdomen that are reliant on flight to deliver blood, otherwise they have to contract their butts in order to keep their own hearts beating (that's why when they land their butt wiggles, same goes for bees/wasps). The lack of flight space may have exhausted them to death. Awesome experiment
Hooray you're back! \o/
Thank you so much for letting us see and learn from your Jars!
I think this is my favorite simply for how different it looks than the rest. Great idea ❤
its so cool how the algae turned the gross brown sludge water into a much clearer, lush looking fluid!
its kind of amazing to see how nature can clean itself up, if allowed the time to do so uninterrupted
Great to your posting again man. Hope your doing better! We all love the hell out of you and wish you all the best. Cheers mate
Your voice is so soothing! This was informative, interesting and relaxing, a really nice change of pace from some yt videos I get recommended. Thanks algorithm for sending me here! 🙂
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing all the stages of development. You taught me a lot!
Thank you! Please keep doing this, it's absolutely fascinating. Life always finds a way ☺️
I've really missed your videos. I find this sort of stuff so fascinating and you're really easy to listen to
Welcome back! Hope all is going well with you.
Ahhh one of my favorite channels still lives!!!!
the gnawed coffee plant leaf closeup shots are nice. would make a very nice macro photo
When he acknowledges the kindness of his community, I really can’t tell if it’s sarcasm or not…
Definitely not!
Awesome to see a new video from you. Glad you could do it! You got this!
I actually have 5 fruit flies in my terrarium and i often find them drinking the moist in my terrarrium and some of the plants and maybe soon in the future theyll lay eggs in some of the tiny gaps between the stones
I found your channel a day or so ago and now there’s new video, yay! Thank you for everything you do, these videos are amazing to watch and so informative!
Welcome back!
I hope everything is well for you!
Thank you for the video :D
So glad to see you are back uploading your amazing content as always. Your videos never seem to not put a smile on my face. Keep up the amazing work I hope you are doing well too
Update on aquatic succession BTW happy that you returned
your videos are so cool to me. I’ve made my own small ecosphere and it’s filled with tiny shrimps. It’s so awesome learning about these organisms
WELCOME BACK!!! :D
We're so happy to see you again. Hope you are well
im glad you are back! both your videos and descreptions are amazing! hope to keep getting more of your videos soon.
Fruit Flies: The colony is collapsing from the heat...there is no future for our family in this accusred glass prison...
Rotifers and Springtails: THE J A R PROVIDES
Your videos always make me so happy! Glad to have you back!
My kids are 3yo and 4yo and they love making ecospheres because of your videos. We have two over one year old. Way easier than having a dog haha
Dryly says, ” I couldn’t contain myself” very funny.
"they all died of old age."
*shows brutal scene that looks like a fly battleground, with flies squashed against the glass, dismembered, exploded, split up and crushed every which way*
Hey!! Your idea fascinanted me so i made my first jar aquarium, i took some water from fountains that arent very clean, some floor dirt and sand from the fountains...
Guess what i found today! (I started It yesterday) It seems there are some worms, or aquatic worms floating and moving around the surface of the water,but before the worms i saw interesting things;
I stared my jar for some minutes, and Guess what i Saw too! Like very very small White dots swimming around the water and theyre quite fast, i doubt they are cilliates but maybe, anyone wants to Tell me some tips or what animals are they if u want (also i just Saw that the White dots do like a Wiggle movement to swim, moderate speed tho
So happy to see your new video! Glad you’re doing well
fascinating how life takes advantage of every opportunity to thrive! The burst of new life after the fruit flies died is not what I was expecting