Beans And Bees Gave Us Butterflies
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Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and beans.
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Just imagining that first moth that stayed up past dawn and found a new food source.
Food, glorious food
We're anxious try it
Three banquets a day
Our favorite diet
Borrowed from the first "Ice Age" movie
@@Styphon That's actually from the second "Ice Age" movie.
@@shadowbeast9671 I thought I remembered the dodo song and dance routine over a melon, with the animals looking to feed the human baby. The movies blend together after a while.
I imagine their first reaction was their wings lighting up 🦋
Bröther i found the biggest lämp
I like to think that at least once, back in the Cretaceous, a young T-Rex could be seen running around, eagerly trying to catch a butterfly.
The Land Before Time?
@@petsgamesandrobots438 LITTLEFOOT 😭
ngl those treestars always looked like they'd be quite tasty 😆🌿
Yep! Yep! Yep! 🦆☺️
@@Reece-Mincher3601 IKR?? I've always wanted to eat the tree stars, and then I found out they were oak leaves (possibly? those look similar enough to child me XD) and that oak leaves aren't actually tasty at all, and I was devastated as I spat out the leaf... childhood ruined, I wish treestars were edible and tasty to humans too, not just dinosaurs (T.T)
The visual I just had 😭😭😂😂😂
Cutest
Fun fact: the French word for "moth" translates to "night butterfly".
beautiful!
When talking about ancient butterflies, I can't help but mention the Kalligrammatids!
An extinct order of lacewings that convergently evolved into butterfly-like shapes during the Jurassic, long before true butterflies were a thing. Scaly wings, eyespots and all.
They were likely specialised in pollinating Bennettitales, though people aren't quite sure. Went extinct during the K-T, as usual.
They've made a video about those previously!
Biting butterflies
Lots of Mesozoic gymnospermous species were insect pollinated. Today only a few remaining species of gymnosperms are. I don’t know if specifically those lacewings pollinated gymnospermous plant species.
Interesting that true butterflies survived the K-T. Isn’t is K-Pg now?
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing.
I didn't know that both beans and butterflies are so abundant.
Never had Rice and Butterflies... think ill stick to beans 🤔
Most of the definitively edible caterpillars I know of are actually moths: silkworms (have tried, not recommended; feed to chickens and ear the chickens) and mopane worms (haven't tried). Rice, beans, and mopane worms. WEF approves.
Fabaceae (legumes) is one of the most diverse and abundant family of plants today. I would also say that they are still very often pollinated by butterflies (in my own yet unpublished research, I am certain that legumes will comprise of almost half of the studied plants that were visited by butterflies). They are also important for their relationship with bacteria (like Rhizobium) that fix nitrogen from the atmosphere -> and eventually it is added to the soil where it becomes available for other plants.
@@vaclavkodousek804 They are supposedly also the first human vegetable crop...
We are, after all, human beans.
I'm for calling them "day moths" instead of "butterflies" from now on.
Well in French we call moths "night butterfly" so this conplements it
in japanese we just call moths ga and butterflies chou
There are diurnal moths. The Bella moth which eats Crotalaria is one, as are several of the wasp mimics.
There is also the family Hedylidae. These are nocturnal, and don't look like butterflies, but phylogenomic studies have shown that they are butterflies. On the other hand there is the family Castniidae. These are diurnal, and look very butterfly-like, being quite bright-coloured, and even having clubbed antennae. They used to be suggested to be the non-butterfly lepidopteran family closest to butterflies, and some even classified them as butterflies. However studies have shown that they are not closely related to butterflies, their similarity being due to "convergent" evolution. There are also several other groups of moths which contain species which are diurnal and brightly coloured, such as the Zygaenidae (Burnet moths), and the sub-family Arctiinae (Tiger moths, family Erebidae). I remember as a small boy seeing numbers of Cinnabar moths, and thinking they were butterflies, before a book informed me that they weren't.
moths are sometimes called the same in Danish@@Galaxia7
Literally writing a paper on butterfly evolution for a class taught by one of the researchers involved in the 2023 study cited in this video.
Great topic choice for your paper. Happy writing!
How interesting ! How’d the paper go?:)
Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the less you chemically defend yourself, the more you get butterflies
Yahhhh…..no.
Imagine the first moth to feel the sun's warmth!
that sounds beautiful
Paleo art butterflies is something I desperately need in my life
Every single episode seriously slaps. I really appreciate the information that you all publish, especially in the fantastically casual way your videos lay out many complicated ideas. Eons is easily one of the most consistently fantastic channels on the platform!
Fr no cap
Agreed!
If the evidence exists, I'd love to see a video on the evolution of butterfly-style metamorphosis. It's always been hard for me to wrap my head around what set of evolutionary mechanisms could create that beyond the broad end-goal benefit of food availability during different life stages.
Or any kind of metamorphosis animal really. Frogs, bees, moths, you name it.
This metamorphosis is very very very old within the insects not just them
@@personzorz
I know it's not just them. I don't know the technical name for that type, but I do know that the type I'm trying to describe includes them.
@@JohnSmith-sk7cg the name for that kind of metamorphosis is called holometabolism. Wasps, ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, and flies all share a common ancestor that first evolved complete metamorphosis, although I can't find much about how it first evolved.
@@parks310 Thanks! Sounds like it could use an episode haha.
Remember; Mothra is an evolved butterfly
Thank you. Now I have that song stuck in my head.
@@JustClaude13Mahara Mosura
More like an evolved moth, and even that's up to debate and depends on the version
4:10 little tiny footsteps... too cute 🥰 bees, butterflies, and moths, such cute little guys
Fun fact....there's a moth or butterfly in Alaska that has the ability to stay in worm form and hibernate until it manages during the short warm months to consume enough food to transform into the moth or butterfly 😊
That's so cool! They are such fascinating creatures. I love getting to find out more about them all the time. Thanks for sharing.
Yep, longest living caterpillar on Earth. I think it's a couple of years.
Me and my butterflies up at 3pm looking for BEANS
Fun fact: There’s a subfamily of legumes called Faboidae or Papilionoideae (from faber - bean or papilion - butterfly) that are also named butterfly flower/bean family in other languages though presumably from their flower shapes that are reminiscent of butterfly wings. Still a funny thought that some of the plants that aided butterfly evolution evolved into looking like butterflies themselves
I just want to say as an indigenous person, the small acknowledgments at the end of the videos really make me happy to see. Like obviously PBS Eons is not going to be the ones to solve the lack of recognition in how colonialism has permeated every aspect of modern life including science, but it’s a nice thing to see.
As a Diné (Navajo), thank you for the Land Acknowledgement and referring to the Nemme sosoni'ihnee'e & Nuche people by their chosen names, and not just the ones attributed through colonization.
Moths first diverged to form Butterflies around Chicago. Got'cha.
Mothman confirmed.
Yakoke chito ( a big thank you) to whomever had the idea to put in a land acknowledgement for the fossils cited! That was a nice surprise to see.
ive been reading this books, Otherlands, and the writer explains this genius idea of knowing how long and where butterflies and moths have existed based on fossilised leaf prints with chew prints from caterpillars! Crazy stuff.
It's always a pleasure seeing a new PBS Eons video.
Fascinating topic! Thank you!
Yep, the history geek in me would "watch the hell out of that", too! 😁
I need to know how they survived the asteroid impact. I can't imagine that happening and moths just trucking along, going about their business.
*asteroid kills over 75% of life*
Moths: "yall felt that soft breeze?"
Just sounds so funny to me
Today I learned that butterflies are an offshoot of moths.
This was a really fascinating video. How butterflies evolved never crossed my mind but and you guys made the subject very interesting.
This was the most interesting episode ever for this forever butterfly lover.
Beans. Bees. Battlestar Galactica.
Can’t get enough of Blake. He’s my favorite announcer
Blake, I have to say, reaching back to my 80's school slang, is the studliest presenter on CZcams.
I agree!
@@elmarko9051He is looking particularly studly in this vid, it must be said. Lol
Same !
Hes getting hotter
All the eons flops were already on my watched list 😂💚 but I’ll always put it on in the background again!
That's so interesting! Butterflies are fascinating. Our crew got on-camera caterpillars, and the crazy fact is that to become a butterfly, they digest themselves.
Right? That's incredible!
Seeing the poster of all those different species of butterflies made me realize that if humanity ever spreads out into the universe, that will happen to us.
There’s a book with a lot of illustrations called “all tomorrows” that explores this idea, I’d check it out if you’re interested, there’s some interesting CZcams videos about it too
Scientists keep making so many new discoveries about the evolution of seemingly every type of organism with new genetic techniques, do we just keep making brand new even better techniques every couple of years or is it just that it takes so long to do these genetic studies that we're still getting to all the species and different specimens of them?
Wrapping up a rainy Tuesday with a video about 🦋 🦋🦋.. Perfect timing
it is 6am where I am, where the heck do you live lol
@@StitchTheFox Southeast Asia
Timezones are fun
Butterflies are yet another group of animals whose evolutionary history I would have no clue about were it not for PBS Eons. Interesting that so many of the earliest butterfly fossils have been found in Denmark, as I live there and for the most part we don't have that many important fossils from so far back.
"New food oportunities: which is my favorite tipe of oportunity". Loved it.
I love this one and saw it and liked it when it first came out. There are some great photos (especially that magnified blue bee), great information and even many funny jokes. Thanks!
I watched the hell out of this episode. Love it
The guy is awesome at telling stories… jokes do make you chuckle, but feel close to death
Thank you so much for the acknowledgment card at the end. Respect is everything in a civilized world ❤
Incredible man awesome video thanks
Have you considered doing a version of your videos in other languages? I am German and I find your content so informative and valuable, I would love for other people from my country to be able to watch your videos. But even with school English skills, scientific terms and subjects can be challenging to understand when it’s your second language. You guys would simply have to translate your existing videos with a new narrator and you could reach an entirely new audience of 130 Million German speaking people for example. It would be especially cool for kids, who can’t speak English yet. I would love to watch Eons with my kid someday!
It would likely be far more reasonable to have transcripts or subtitles in other languages, imo.
most germans cant even speak german.
It’s probably possible with Ai to translate and voice over in new languages tbh
Je mehr du schaust
desto mehr wirst du verstehen.
Ich habe grund englisch in der schule gelernt aber das "echte" englisch durch filme cartoons serien etc.
I can say as someone who has done translation work, it's not an easy task to do properly, so 'simply' is really downplaying it.
6:45 damn, that is a handsome bat
"little tiny footsteps" 😊
A Shame PBS didn't do the " _Is this a bird?_ " meme :D
Butterflies & Moths
having followed this Channel from the beginning, I'm really happy that this video starts in Denmark - and with butterflies 🦋 very happy now, lots of love from Denmark
Blake you’re awesome, I love your sense of humor 😄
Ah, this was incredible. The exact sort of video I subscribed to Eons for in the first place!
When moth encountered its new friend bee and gained its own niche
Day Moth! (uuaaah ag) Fighter of the Night Moth! (uuaaah ah)
The nightmoth cometh
Blake, your hair is heckin FABULOUS!!
One of my favourite things about butterflies are the names they have in different languages, they can be 'butter-flies' or 'mari(a)-posa' or 'papillon' which is like little pavilion, etc.
Thanks for sharing and informing us.
I’ve said this on instagram and I’ll say it here: we need this man to be a Butterfly Indiana Jones. Nets not whips
I mean, what a title. I’m gonna watch every Eons episode ANYWAY, but SHEESH
Ohh eons. You guys are just the best!
One thing that would be interesting to know more is how the butterfly colors evolved. I mean, it seems it's related to the colors of flowers but it's not clear how. Maybe some kind of camouflage?
This is what I came here to say.
I think it’s a bit more complex than just copying the colours of flowers for camouflage though because I think there are butterflies that have a pattern that resembles a big eye - presumably to intimidate potential predators.
The sheer variety of the colours and patterns is fascinating though (as well as aesthetically pleasing obviously)
Moth could actually be a offshoot from the butterfly to escape daytime predators Like birds and bats then evolved to hunt moths. Until more focal proof comes up we will never know if butterfly evolved from moths or moths evolved from butterflies.
🦋Little tiny footsteps🦋. Haha.
Mad respect for acknowledging the indigenous tribes there, native prode baby✊🏽🧡❤️💛🖤🤍
I just love butterflies, thanks for this 🦋🦋
I like this guy, keeps it real
I was confused by the mention of Denmark with fossils, because most of it was sea until very recently. But then of course: Seafloor, the sediment layers from Fur and Faxe. I tend to forget that we have those.
Wow that was superb ! I'd love to know more about the exact time & place that angiosperms evolved also. Fascinating video !!
My heart sunk at 5:18............ That is a LOT OF WORK.
I could listen to Blake lecture all day
It makes more sense that species diversify based on food sources than pressure from predation.
A county's Boy observation FYI, for those that may not know, the observable difference between Moths and Butterflies is Butterflies can fold their wings, Moths can not.
These are great show's keep them coming.
More like moths are just night butterflies. In my language it is literally how it is - taureņi (butterflies), nakts taureņi (night butterflies).
Same in finnish, butterfly is perhonen and moth is yöperhonen, nightbutterfly.
@@pilvilinnassa Baltic and finic people have different languages, but are very similar culture wise.
Thanks for another amazingly educational video
Eons never misses 💯💯💯💯
A beautiful creature and a beautiful host
All this work… and the montage got overlooked 😂
if that figure from the Kawahara 2023 paper at 5:40 was available as a poster, I'd buy it. That is an absolutely beautiful example of a well-done scientific figure that manages to be both data-dense and aesthetically pleasing.
At the very least I'm going to download the high-resolution figure from the paper and add it to my PC wallpaper collection.
Can you do a video on the first mammal/animal that gave birth to a live young? I legit can’t wrap my head around that type of macro evolution. Always impossible to say “the first” of something in evolution terms but that feels like something that would have deff had a first.
Beans and butterfly’s! 2 of my favorite things! Amazing!
"Nature abhors a lunch going uneaten."
I wonder if some legume plants started opening in pre-dawn hours (or maybe left the flowers open all night) attracting the moths to extend their foraging hours?
Very interesting topic. Greetings from Denmark.
My partner is a bean scientist and approves of this message.
55MY Ago: Butterflies have no concern for such things. Now I'm gonna go find myself some butterfly poon.
_- Dies and tumbles in mud_
so interesting, and so entertaining, great combo.
Stepping into daylight as other life found opportunity crawling out of water... and back again.
Day Moth! Fighter of the Night Moth! Champion if the Sun! You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone!
Thank you
You're a master of karate and friendship. ❤️
One in ten! That is one of many amazing nuggets.
Petition for butterfly’s to be renamed to “beanterflys” or maybe “butterbees”? Hmmmmmm
👇
I like butterbees
Flutter-bys.
So excited for the calendar, ordered immediately!
Also, how fascinating. It makes total sense that food source is the initial point of evolutionary change. From Darwin's finches to the friendship between legumes and proto butterflies.
No one suspects the butterfly. Muahahahahaaaa
As butterflies originally evolved in the Illinois/Michigan region, I propose that all animated butterflies have the most heavy Midwestern accent possible. (Don'cha know)
As a Dane and fossil hunter i know the formation were the insect fossils Come from.
But i usally find more "humble" fossils in forms of sea urchins, corals and squid.
I world really like to see a episode about ancient sea urchins and how they survived and stayed wierd
Love from Denmark
Love learning about insect evolution!
I was walking my dog in a park that hadn't been open to the public yet, and saw a huge swath of bright yellow butterflies up ahead on the gravel path that had just been laid recently. I had thought they were dead until I got closer then saw how they were almost dancing on the gravel. This video had a similar part that looked like the butterflies were doing the same. Another park worker was out that far in the back section and knew that they need certain minerals from particular items, especially if they have water close by. The park had 3 sections, wetlands with natural reservoir and the waterfowl, prairie, and meadow with most of the birds, flora and fauna. That last part had a river and a lot of acres of woods.
I, too, would watch the heck out of a butterfly-themed Indiana Jones movie lol
At 5:40 we learn that biologists proved butterflies come from Chicago. 😆
Blake, you’re my favorite host, I adore you - PLEASE let them light you properly!
Evolution is fascinating!
Looks like butterflies are from Chicago!
Float like a lepidopteran, sting like a hymenopteran