That ant wasn't letting go for nothing.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Girl Eating Insect
She hesitates at first but eventually crushes a praying mantis in her gaping maw. Circle of life, bro. The video was originally uploaded in 2007.
My Chinese Mantis (Fearful) finally dies...R.l.P
He calls his dead mantis "Scherrie" and has another one named "Matilda." In the video, the dude basically plays with a dead insect.
Springtails and Baby Banana Roach's - Macro Clip
The insects all look so... juicy. The "courgette" referenced in the video's description is the French word for zucchini.
From the video's description: Springtails, Baby Banana Roach's and some Mites all living on a piece of Courgette. There is also an adult Banana Roach that passes by briefly. Springtails are so tiny it is hard to see what really look like. To the naked eye they appear as tiny specs that run and jump.
From the video's description: Springtails, Baby Banana Roach's and some Mites all living on a piece of Courgette. There is also an adult Banana Roach that passes by briefly. Springtails are so tiny it is hard to see what really look like. To the naked eye they appear as tiny specs that run and jump.
Pe'Pe The Spider
If you close your eyes and only listen to the music, you'd think Speed Racer was beating Evel Kenieval during a Halloween race. Amirite?
Bee Keeping Jamaican Stylee- Hive Maintenance Pt. 1
"Jamaica has potential; very, very big potential in beekeeping, because honey is in short supply both locally and internationally," -- First Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Commercial Apiculturists (JFCA), Elton Cawley.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Edith's checkerspot butterfly laying her eggs while paying no attention to gravity
From the video's description: Some butterflies of this species lay eggs near the top of the plant and some lay near the base. This is the first of a pair of clips to illustrate the difference. The butterfly is gently led onto the plant (a Collinsia) by hand. She then behaves as though she had naturally alighted on the plant. The first part of the clip is in slow-motion so that you can see the butterfly tasting the plant with her atrophied forelegs (that are not used in walking). If the taste is acceptable (as it is in this case) she curls her abdomen and the brown ovipositor (the tube through whcgh eggs are laid) appears. The insect feels the underside of a leaf, and then, if the leaf is acceptable to touch, eggs are laid. At this point the clip shifts out of slow-motion an then to faster than normal. The NEXT video shows a different butterfly of the same species treating a plant very differently.
Marijuana plant died for no reason!
My guess is the dumbass saturated it with nutrients. The plant doesn't use up all of the nutes every time you water so dilute it.
How To Hydroponics - S02E01 Identifying Problems In Leaves
I do some hydroponics too but I've never had problems with leaves or insects since... the setup is indoors.
Edith's checkerspot butterfly paying attention to gravity?
From the video's description: This clip shows a butterfly led gently onto a Collinsia plant and tasting the plant, finding the taste acceptable, curling her abdomen & extruding her ovipositor, just as in the first clip. But, having done this, instead of just feeling the underside of a leaf and laying her eggs there, she tumbles down the plant, apparently loses it for a few moments, then refinds it, tastes the base and searches for the lowest part of the plant under which she can lay her eggs. the clip then fasts-forward till the insect naturally completes her egg clutch, then a human appears to show you the eggs.
U.S. National Arboretum 2 - Strange hummingbird-like insect?
That's a Macroglossum stellatarum or Hummingbird Hawk-moth, foo!
Appreciating Nature - Australian Native Bees
Whenever a bee buzzes near me, I don't freak out. I see other people freak out because of ignorance. The bee's more scared of your big-ass than
you should be of its tiny little stinger.
you should be of its tiny little stinger.
Giant Insects Infest The Gulf Coast Exploreum In Downtown Mobile
It's not only the insects that are robotic, the announcer's delivery is robotic too.
Praying Mantis and Stick Insect - Cold Blooded Creepers
Video of two similar-looking but very different insects.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Brown Baker Cicada
When the guy taking the video grabs the wounded cicada, it shrieks as if death was coming. In most cases however, the cicada would be food for a predator.
Two cabbage white butterflies filmed with high-speed camera
The butterflies look like toys but clumsy-ass man couldn't design anything this elegant.
Newly Hatched Geometers
The geometers shown in the following video will eventually become Geometrid moths that flutter and break free from the bounds of the ground.
Life Inside a Grass Hut, Vihara Foundation, India
From the video's description: For the poverty stricken in Bihar/Uttar Pradesh, life in a grass hut is a test of human endurance. These are footage of what the poor must face for the common right to survive. While the images are graphic, it tells the true tale of life inside a grass hut, as nightfall brings nightmares, coldness, crawling and biting insects, snakes, and other threats.
Those bugs are crawling over folks' faces and basically feasting.
Those bugs are crawling over folks' faces and basically feasting.
Flying Termites
From the video's description: Termites hatched from the ground then flying to the nearest light. Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. This is a common event in the wet season in the tropics.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Eating Insects and Bugs - Wild Food School / FORAGING Times
Mixing insects in a salad is probably the wave of the future. Probably.
Amazon jungle - parasol ants, termites, etc
The background sound of the Amazon jungle is a constant wall of noise.
Backswimmer - Notonectidae
From the video's description: The Backswimmer is a true bug that can be seen swimming on its back in ponds and still water. It is a predator on other pond life and any insects that fall in the water. It has a paralyzing bite that can incapacitate their prey. They can cause a painful bite to people if handled. They swim about using two paddle-shaped legs for locomotion and using their forelegs to grasp prey.
Wildlife Tower and Log Pile
Wild Life Tower and Log Pile for insects at Chessington World of Adventures. This innocent looking construction of wood is home to thousands of insects and beetles.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Huge Dung Beetle
The dung beetle's almost as big as an adult red-eared turtle. Insects tend to grow huge in Kenya.
Stick insect race
These kids today... making stick insects race against each other for their entertainment.
Caddisfly Larvae: Hard Knox Farm Biology
The caddisfly larvae is encased in detritus from the pond where it was found which is uses to protect itself. Sort of like how a hermit crab uses a shekl for protection.
Dead Calf in Bharatpur
From the video's description: Dead Calf in Bharatpur. Insects and birds eating the dead calf in Keoladeo National Park. Keoladeo Ghana National Park, is located in Rajasthan and is easily accessible from Agra & Jaipur.This National Park is 175 km from Jaipur and 185 km from Delhi. Bharatpur National Park is famous for its wide variety of birds in all over the world. Total area of the sanctuary is 29 sq km.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Cockaroach Massacre
Jackass who lives in a roach-infested hovel curses up a storm and kills roaches.
Funk insect
This caterpillar is as big and thick as a sausage. Throw some peppers on it and you might have a meal.
Amazing Insects Vol.16, No.2: Beehive 001
A cone-shaped beehive which was found in Soi Dao National Park in northern Thailand.
Termites in your Zoo
If you operate a zoo, this video tells you why it's a good idea to add termites to your attractions.
Stick Insect Eggs
A jerky video in which a girl attempts to show viewers what stick insect eggs look like. They're oval-shaped and black.
Acontista multicolor - Mantis eating fly
The mantis isn't that much bigger than the fly in terms of mass but it grasps and eats the fly without any logistical issues.
Playing with naughty Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
From the video's description: Playing with our cousin's Marmosets in São Paulo. I'm sorry if the image is too fast but these little buggers move extremely quickly!
These bad boys come from Brazil and they eat insects, spiders and small vertebrates. They also like fruit and well, nearly anything that's edible.
They are male and female and they are 1.5 years old. The female is not ready to have any offspring as they don't mature until the 2nd year.
These bad boys come from Brazil and they eat insects, spiders and small vertebrates. They also like fruit and well, nearly anything that's edible.
They are male and female and they are 1.5 years old. The female is not ready to have any offspring as they don't mature until the 2nd year.
Philippine insects part 4
The music adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the insect footage from the Philippines.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Bugs - BBC
This video was uploaded earlier today even though I'm pretty sure it's BBC archival footage. That's one hell of a tongue.
Betta Fish Feeding
A red betta eats freeze-dried bloodworms in a violent manner. That fish bowl needs aeration because the water looks stagnant.
A HARYANVI FOLK ON LADY BEETLES
From the video's description: American boll worm is neither a major nor a minor pest of American cotton since 2002 in Jind district of Haryana, India. Fortunately or unfortunately, all the notified & recommended varieties of American cotton have been replaced by BT hybrids. Now a new insect called mealybug (Phenococcus solenopsis) having its origin in USA is becoming a potential threat to cotton cultivation. In such a critical situation, 14 types of coccinellid lady beetles along with 6 types of predatory bugs, 2 types of chrysoperla spp., so many types of preying mantids, predatory flies and wasps, 3 types of parasitoids,parasites and 3 types of pathogens are active and helping the cotton growing farmers of district Jind (Haryana) in particular and society as a whole.
Hummingbird Moth aka Hawk Moth Fastest Flying Insect
The moth flits from flower to flower like a hummingbird too.
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