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I remember seeing firebrats in the museum basement, they’re always scuttling around

I just recently subscribed to you and then you talk about silverfish which is perfect because my house is infested with them. I saw 4 silverfish in my hallway the other day. We had some plumbing issues a while back and had some water damage to our house and that’s when these guys showed up. It’s nice to know that these little guys actually eat the mold and stuff at least.

Great video! Love how you give credits to all the photos featured in the video.

Despicable creatures, all of them but hey it happens and is needed in nature.

I love silverfish. Sometimes they fall from the ceiling and I'm like ❤friend

I usually see them on boulders around where I live. And they all jump at the same time when I slap the rock. I've always wondered why they do that. Has anyone else seen this behavior before?

So cool!

The rats of insects. Not a dis.

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. I hope you have some cool things brewing for the future.

Subsctibed! Interesting vid!

I recently learning about whale lice, Dolphin lice & bat flies and it blew my mind. I had no idea those kinds of lice existed. I didn't think lice could be able to exist underwater as well as dealing with a fast swimming and deep diving creature such as dolphins & whales are capable of. Then Bat flies are pure nightmare fuel. Bat flies might be a different species tho I'm not sure

this was remarkably well written for a 3000 subscriber channel you definitely got me hooked, time to go binge the rest of the orders

the bio-nerd pokémon fan combo strikes again!

Ive been fascinated by silverfish my whole life so this was an awesome video for me! I actually built a small terrarium for the ones I would save from my coworkers at my job last year; they’re super chill little dudes! I’m about to wrap up on a 75 gallon “native ecosystem tank” and I think they’ll be the 1st species I (intentionally) add once the plants get established 😎

Silverfish scales are actually a really neat feature of an otherwise discreet order. To my knowledge, only Zygentoma, Archaeognatha, and Lepidoptera possess scales that grow on top of their chitin. Even more fascinatingly, both use body scales in different manners: one uses the added surface area to improve stability and save energy on flight, while the other uses the scales to prevent them from drying out.

Minecraft mentioned

I knew the moment i saw those bug pokemon plushes that my recommended feed was finally working

I imagine they can be a pretty big nuisance in more humid areas, but here in arid central california they're known for pretty much not doing anything lol. I used to see them more as a kid, it was always cool to just randomly find one scurrying around

Your new edits are getting funnier, boss!

I remember first seeing this crawling around inside a book in my family's old library when I was a child. It was an encyclopedia so I found out what the weird little things were immediately!

I am from Brazil and I thought they didn't exist here, but I have seen two (or maybe the same individual in two different occasions) in my old job that had a lot of old paper archives.

I was think these look like bugs I find in old books, I think I found one of these in my laundry today actually but it was multi colored unlike the ivory ones I see in old books.

Slightly squint your left eye every 3 seconds. Does it have a secret meaning? Do you want to tell us something?

Man, how could you not mention the most goated silverfish of all time, Maindronia! It lives in the atacama deserts of Chile, and it is indeed probably the most isolated animal of all time. Maindronia populations are actually negatively correlated with plant cover and insect abundance, meaning they prefer desolate wastelands. Maindronia live in areas with no other animals. No insects, no vertebrates, not even nematodes. They likely subsist on organic crud blown in by the wind.

Yay you’re back! Did you get a haircut? :)

A sneaky lil earwig once pinched my lip after hiding out in a water bottle straw. I don't think it quite counts, but it will probably be as close as I'll come to kissing an insect (because I don't want to hurt them not because they don't deserve love).

silverfish are one of my favorite little critters to see scurrying around <3 ive loved them since i was a kid, i thought they had such a cool name and loved how unique they looked compared to most insects i'd regularly see. My college dorm was full of them for whatever reason, and they could get pretty large. I rescued many from terrified floormates lol. happy to see a video on them, great work as always :]

omg YAY ive been waiting for this one <3

How did metamorphosis evolve? What came first the caterpillar or the butterfly?

Oh, hell yeah, I was just reading about these guys yesterday in Michael Engel's Innumerable Insects!

I’ve only met a silverfish once, it was on a wall in the bathroom of a Denny’s, which also happened to have a significant rat problem

Some call them primitive, when they are just keeping it simle really... Also one of the only animals that can digest cellulose without the help of microbial symbionts! I used to search silverfish (in the strict sense, meaning Lepisma saccharinum) as a child, because I was fascinated with them. I rarely met them. But today in my area there is the paper silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum) becoming more and more common. It is like the silverfish but way less needy in terms of humidity, making in more dangerous for libraries and archives (whereas the silverfsh is more of an indicator of too much moisture).

I think every kids introduction to these is through minecraft.

Nice video!

Hate seeing these damn things on my bathroom walls. Great vid.

You mentioned them eating plants, detritus, carnivory, but you didn't mention fungus-eating beetles. Pleasing fungus beetles are in fact pleasing to look at [at least the ones I've seen]. The ones I saw were blue. So nice!

I finally found your channel again!

Did you ever watch that movie by Guillermo del Toro called Mimic? Hehe . . .

Congrats, sir, on completing that Master's degree.

can't believe i never knew that skippers were their own thing...super informative video! looking forward to watching your other vids too! :)

An especially funny video

Moths are the best insects! :)

I know its been a while since i commented but im still here!!!!! This makes me HYPE for the pseudoscorpion video one day :D