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Randy's Natural World
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2008
Do These Assassin Bugs Carry and Spread Disease?
In this video, I will attempt to quash some misinformation concerning these fascinating creatures. Check it out if interested and remember to like and subscribe. Thank you!
Video about Chagas disease and kissing bugs: th-cam.com/video/PiB907l2EeU/w-d-xo.html
Triatoma infestans photo link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma_infestans
Video about Chagas disease and kissing bugs: th-cam.com/video/PiB907l2EeU/w-d-xo.html
Triatoma infestans photo link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma_infestans
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Feeding Wild Birds
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In this video, I talk about feeding wild birds what seed is best, how to feed them, etc. This concerns feeding birds in a basic way, so it is good for beginners. Check it out if interested and remember to subscribe!
The Potter Wasp
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For this video, I am featuring the Potter Wasp, the species Eumenes fraternus in particular, which is fairly common but is somewhat inconspicuous. Check it out if interested, and remember to subscribe!
The magnificent Phidippus mystaceus
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Check out this video featuring one of the most beautiful jumping spiders in North America. Also known as the High Eyelashed Jumping Spider, this species is a spectacular combination of silver and gold. Be sure to like and subscribe. Thanks!
Paper Wasps
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For this video, I'm featuring paper wasps. Like them or hate them, they are a part of our lives. The information in this video concerns paper wasps in general, but I will have a little information on several common species as well. Check it out, if interested. Thanks!
The Rusty Spider Wasp: Killer of Big Bad Wolves
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In this video, I feature the Rusty Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus ferrugineus), which may be pound for pound the strongest spider wasp. They weigh next to nothing but can overpower huge wolf spiders. Check it out if interested and remember to like and subscribe. Thank you! Links to related videos ... th-cam.com/video/sHNyTvqG2Bg/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/aifprLdIsmA/w-d-xo.html
Cicadas, Wasps and Spiders, Oh My!
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I recently witnessed several interesting events concerning cicadas, wasps and spiders. Check it out and remember to subscribe! Bold Jumping Spider video: th-cam.com/video/VwSFm_qbI20/w-d-xo.html
Mud Dauber: A Spider's Worst Nightmare
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This video concerns the mud dauber wasp. Many people have seen mud daubers during the course of their lives, but not everyone may be familiar with how these creatures live what they eat, etc. Check it out and remember to subscribe!
Eastern Phoebe Family!
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In this video, I feature an Eastern Phoebe couple that recently raised a family at/near my house. However, it wasn't without peril, and they were in race against time. Check it out if interested and remember to subscribe!
The Spiders are Everywhere in Your Home: Steatoda
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For this video, I am featuring a small spider commonly found in homes the Triangulate Cobweb Spider (Steatoda triangulosa). The Steatoda genus is found nearly all over the world, and there are more than 100 species, but each species is similar in size and shape. The colors and patterns differ, however. Check it out if interested and remember to subscribe!
My New Spiders in 2024 ... Plus a Few Others
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For this video, I feature several spider species that were new to me this year and a few others that I encountered. Most are jumping spiders. Although I haven't had much time to search for spiders, it was a pretty good year, spider wise. Check it out and subscribe if interested. Thank you! Spitting Spider video Scytodes atlacoya Species ... Rubens Orbweaver Hypsosinga rubens Hart's Jumping Spid...
An American Kestrel Family: The first Day Out of the Nest!
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Check out this video for everything you need to know about this, the smallest of North American falcons. An American Kestrel family recently spent its first day out of the nest and I was fortunate to capture some of it on video.
The Snowy Egret: Everything You Need to Know
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How is the Snowy Egret connected to Tabasco Sauce? Check out this video for everything you need to know about this fascinating species. History Guy Video: th-cam.com/video/xhd-tMKlMM0/w-d-xo.html Edward Avery McIlhenny photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Avery_McIlhenny Plume Hunting photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plume_hunting Range map courtesy of the National Audubon Society: www.audubon.org/f...
The Cliff Swallow: The Bird Made Famous Through Legend and Song
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This video features the Cliff Swallow, along with all the information you need about this fascinating species. It was made famous through legend and song over the past century. This bird can be found over much of North America. Range map courtesy of the National Audubon Society: www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/cliff-swallow Song: The Ink Spots - When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano th-cam...
The Summer Tanager: Everything You Need to Know
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In this video, I feature one of my favorite summer birds, the Summer Tanager. Check it out and remember to subscribe. Thank you!
Birding Big Year Update: Inland Fallout?!
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Birding Big Year Update: Inland Fallout?!
2024 Birding Big Year Update: African Birds at Walmart?
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2024 Birding Big Year Update: African Birds at Walmart?
The Eastern Phoebe: Everything You Need to Know
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The Eastern Phoebe: Everything You Need to Know
A Magical Trip to 'Sherwood Forest' - 2024 Big Year Update
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A Magical Trip to 'Sherwood Forest' - 2024 Big Year Update
The 2024 Great American Eclipse is Almost Here!
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The 2024 Great American Eclipse is Almost Here!
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Everything You Need to Know
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The Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Everything You Need to Know
The Carolina Wren: Everything You Need to Know!
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The Carolina Wren: Everything You Need to Know!
The American Avocet: Everything You Want to Know
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The American Avocet: Everything You Want to Know
Dragonflies Are Mosquito Eating Machines!
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Dragonflies Are Mosquito Eating Machines!
2024 Birding Big Year Update: 7 Swans a-Swimming!
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2024 Birding Big Year Update: 7 Swans a-Swimming!
Birding Big Year Update: Winter Wren-demption!
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Birding Big Year Update: Winter Wren-demption!
I’m a birds lover & buying big bags from Costco but from now on feel like to go to a birds food store to feed more authentic food for winged friends, Thanks!
Thank you! This is my first year feeding the birds and I’m in heaven. At the moment my feeder is super tall and has a baffle to keep the squirrels off, but I love the cage type feeder you showed. Could my very well fed (read: so chonky) cardinals and eastern bluebirds fit in there? I’d lower my feeder if I knew the squirrels couldn’t reach the food.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I can help. With the feeder I have, I think bluebirds could fit, but I'm not sure about cardinals. And to be honest, I have never had luck with attracting bluebirds. Additionally, while I do have quite a few cardinals each day, I've never seen one enter the cage. But I do believe there are specialized feeders for bluebirds. Sorry I can't help more! And with squirrels, I'm not sure I can help with them either. 🤣 I tried so many things to keep them off my feeders, but only having the caged tube feeder seemed to work. At one point, I even set up feeders just for the squirrels, but they still tore into the unprotected bird feeders. They are so frustrating! 🤣
I use window feeders because I can easily fill and clean them from inside my kitchen.
Tell them Randy, some people are just dumb and some are even dumber. Randy knows what he is talking about, He can't slam a basketball but he know what he's talking about. Great video Randy thanks keep them coming.
🤣🤣🤣 Thank you!
I love wheel bugs! Thank you for clarifying that Chagas is a species-specific issue; I'm glad that wheelbugs don't fall in that category.
I must have Milo, the bird, raccoon and possum aren’t eating it
Thanks for the info on milo--I looked at the sack of seed I have which is Best Choice brand from Homeland and it lists these unspecified grains--certainly I have a lot of red seeds left behind on the ground. To be fair this brand does have a lot of other seed, including the white millet, but may do some shopping around. Just for some info on milo which caught my eye, when I was working on my graduate degrees in history, which was the history of agricultural modernization in the early 1900s, I came across the early extension services and university agriculturalists introducing milo and other grains from Africa that were more drought tolerant to this part of the country. Milo was called by them "milo maize" but it is actually a sorghum that is grown in southern Africa--the name is derived from the Sesotho language. In Africa, this and other grains are used by people for food, but also cattle feed, the original reason for bringing it to this country. But there were attempts to sell it to the consumer via newspaper articles, recipes for using milo maize and other grains that were brought from Africa. This never caught on, but it is just to show that during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a lot of communication between agricultural scientists in the US and Mexico (my focus) and colonial Africa on things such as dry farming techniques and crops that would grow better in areas prone to drought. Milo is one remnant, I don't know how much it is grown here now. Why birds don't like it I don't know, but they don't.
That's interesting! I plan to eventually create a video all about milo. It's funny, while I don't like it at bird feeders, sorghum crops are something I sometimes seek out when birding, especially out west. Often when traveling, I'll see an ag field full of sorghum that someone has planted as a rotational crop. Many years ago, I saw thousands of blackbirds visiting a sorghum crop, so I stopped to observe them. I was amazed at the number of species that were feeding on the seed, including Brewer's Blackbirds, a species I don't see all that often. I've read, too, that pheasants (within their range), wild turkeys and many species of doves will visit those fields as well.
@randyadventure I don't know if is the same as regular sorghum, it is just in that family. It just reminded me of my research to hear it called that, I have seen it called red millet also
The way the camera shook when you put the seed on the table 🤣
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Great video! I love winter birds!
Thank you! And me too!
Your photography was excellent. I had never seen the bright colors at base of the bill so well in the wild.
Thank you!
I love that tail-pumping.
They are killer machince for spiders
Aha, i saw them "turning off" their red throats in a video so i wanted to find out why hehe
Amazing the larvae saves the vital organs for last. the fact that evolution does that is incredible.
Omg. Your intro is awesome! “Please subscribe anyway.” Super creative. I love it. Also, Great video! Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Awesome footage. Thanks!
Thank you!
Another great video Randy thanks.
Thank you!
What an awesome video ♥️
Thank you!
lol the ending got me. Okay okay it was just pushy enough to not be annoying but also hit that line where it was funny. Dammit man I’ll sub
🤣 Thank you!
This guy apparently doesn't know they cause Chagas disease in humans. Untreated in its early stages can lead to chronic issues and death later on.
"This guy" knows a lot about Chagas disease and this species doesn't have anything to do with it. Your statement shows you are ignorant of the disease and just what species carry it. It is spread by "kissing bugs," of which the Pale Green Assassin Bug is not. Perhaps you should watch my video about kissing bugs and Chagas and educate yourself before attempting to insult someone who is quite knowledgeable on the subject. I will, however, use your comment in a future video as an example of the ignorance people have when it comes to assassin bugs. These bugs feed on insects and insects alone. And sometimes spiders, but that's it. Click on this link to learn about Chagas and kissing bugs. Thank you. th-cam.com/video/PiB907l2EeU/w-d-xo.html
So kewl
Dude you had fun with this, been trying to study the designs of paper wasps for a bit to convey into art and ngl, this helped. Appreciate you and the video dude, thank you.
love your videos
Thank you!
I've seen them do that to snag a f!y
parasteatoda tepidariorum are almost the same size as a widow spider
So funny that you describe the exact same behaviour I observed with my spider in the bathroom. I keep wondering how it survives there as I have very little (none?) insects in my bathroom. But everytime I take a shower the spider gets active and crawls up and down the humid tiles or hangs in the air apprently absorbing moisture from the air around it. How interesting that you saw that too! Does it help the spider to survive longer without food, what do u reckon?...
Thank you! And how they survive when insects aren't as prevalent is beyond me. I hope to someday speak to an arachnologist about that subject. However, I imagine that they use up less energy and probably have a metabolism that slows during those times, such as winter. Additionally, I do know that these spiders will also consume a lot of tiny insects that might fly into the home, insects that we can barely see. And I think the availability of that moisture does help them survive longer without food. If I communicate with an arachnologist about these questions, I will let you know ASAP!
@@randyadventure My spider in the bathroom has disappeared. :( I hope it has only wanterd off. How long does such a small spider live?
Awesome & informative video! I have a ton in my house but I actually don’t mind them since they keep the bug count down! I love handling them especially the tiny babies. They are so cute and harmless. Sweet 8 legged friends!
Thank you! And I agree!
0:25 taking down an assassination bug twice it's size it amazing
I just saw my very first Eastern Phoebe. He/She perched herself on my deck singing as loud as she could. But I chuckled as you said you’ve never seen one eat a worm. As I was observing her, I watched her pop off the deck onto the ground and come back up with a worm in her beak! 😂❤
I know a scary girl sung the itsy bitsy spider
Why do mud daubers get eaten by birds
In the other photo was a huntsman spider
The rusty spider wasp hunts wolf spiders and related fishing spiders that was your mistake
Poor spiders
We're gearing up for our first Big Year and I appreciate your emphasis on keeping it simple and fun. Need to define our region and our goals, but I'm mainly looking forward to seeing lots of birds!
Thank you for the up-close view of such lovely spiders. I'm enjoying watching your channel grow!
Thank you!
How lovely that she gets to start the video by directing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #4. She's definitely a beauty.
I have a corn spider that has been hanging out on my front porch ceiling. It’s starting to get cold at night and the early in the morning. I live in Ohio I’ve noticed that when it is colder out, the spider gets closer to the porch ceiling and seems to make itself almost look shrunken. Then when it warms up during the day, it gets back to doing its thing. I am wondering if I could make a habitat for it to live in during our winter and how I could provide food? It is a beautiful spider and I enjoy the zig zag part of its web.
I am uncertain of how long the spider would live if taken indoors before its death from the cold. However, if I was going to do it, I would give it a sizable living space -- such as a 10-gallon aquarium, at least -- and provide it with daily food, such as crickets from a pet store. If it works, and she created an additional egg sac, the sac would need to be kept outside so that the babies don't hatch early, and you have a thousand babies invade your home. Good luck!
Found a frog at ikea in NYC!!! So I’m trying to give him a good life
I found your videos through the article you wrote when I searched to find out about my little bathroom spider. 😂 I found her a few months ago and named her Little Mama. She just spun her 3rd brood the other day! It took me forever to figure out what she was lol I'm letter her be to do her own thing but is there any advice on how I could make sure she has her best life?
I don't really have any advice except to make sure she doesn't get disturbed. If I see one that has set up shop in a bad place, lol, I will gently relocate her, usually using a piece of tissue paper. Interestingly enough, there is another spider that has made her home in the same corner of the bathroom. She is most likely the daughter of the one I featured in the video. The other day, when there was steam rising, she, too, came out and gathered moisture from her web, lol. However, and I'm not sure how you'd feel about this, but last winter I did feed a few of these spiders during the winter when the pickings were slim. I fed them small mealworms which I purchased at a pet supply store.
@randyadventure thanks for the advice! I will have to get her some snacks for the winter!
how come you guys are seeing bold jumping spiders everywhere but i cant even find one ):
I think it's just that way sometimes. This year, I didn't see any in the front of my house, but I discovered a couple at the back of the house, in the flower garden. Some years I see a lot, then some years, maybe one or two.
One just bit me 😢
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Wow I really like this video thank you so much I love you and the spiders (I don’t love the old ball and chain though 😅😅😅) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😅😅😅
😆 Thank you!
Excellent video!!! I have quite a few nests around my house, I never kill them or remove the nests. Less of other annoying bugs around. Between wasps and spiders, pretty much bug free around my house haha.
You remember the triangle shaped smoking windows that trucks you to have in front of the regular side window? Have a red wasp come through that B---H and hit you in the neck stinger first at about 75-80mph... I bet you hate em then!
I'm here for it because you aren't AI! Great stuff man!
Thank you. I love paper wasps, they're the most friendly of the social wasps here in Maine. Just Saturday, our fall cold spell broke and I was on my friend's south facing porch- and they were everywhere (next year's moms?) I tried to get one to land on my finger, but she landed/crashed on my nose instead. I did nothing, and she flew off after a moment. This is my rule:I don't swat at any stinging insect that lands on me without aggression (like, you already swatted it/killed another, or messed with an active nest- might indicate aggression). Each spring I rescue any wasps I find indoors, mostly coaxing young baldfaced 'queens' onto my hand so I can escort them outdoors. Often, they don't want to leave my hand. It's precious, they look me in the eyes. It's regular yellow jackets I have a difficult relationship with, but I know how important they are for controlling plant pests. I wish I knew what species of paper wasp live in my area, they're dark in color, and the maps don't suggest either of the two darker species being common here.
You're welcome, thank you! And that's awesome! Also, and I wish I could show a photo here, but try searching Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus) to see if that's your species?
@@randyadventure I think that's it, thanks! I'm mostly a plant guy, but love the Hymenoptera. So much to learn.
I wouldn't call them "harmless to humans". I was bitten by one and it hurt like hell. 😀
Yeah, entomologists often say that, when they really mean not dangerous, or not medically significant. I will elaborate on that in future videos. 😆
Google says it can cause chagas disease. In the first 8 weeks it is treatable but after that it can be deadly. This guy doesn't seem to know much.
Awesome video man great comedy also.
Thanks, Kevin!
this begs the same question in my head: can we "pseudo-domesticate" wasps by deterring them from human dwellings and directing them towards preferred locations? do we know what type of surfaces they really like and can we re-create such attractions for nesting queens further away from our homes? or perhaps they're attracted to certain hormones/chemicals/scents? in my mind, it's not so much of "is this possible" but simply more of "we need to learn more about their behaviour and patterns". i still believe we can find methods to "control" insects/vermin we don't like without having to resort to killing them or destroying their nests etc. and the best outcome is a mutually beneficial one where they do what they do for the ecosystem while we enjoy the fruits of their work without getting in their way.