The Great Diving Beetle is an Impressive Underwater Hunter 💧 Macro Worlds | Smithsonian Channel
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- The great diving beetle is a fast underwater swimmer and a voracious hunter. It can stay submerged for periods of up to 30 minutes a time - thanks to a makeshift oxygen tank in its wing case.
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It is criminal that this thing wasnt called a "scu-bug"
Scu-bug diver. Sucha missed opurtunity
That is straight up a Pokémon name I swear
I used to catch these beetles in small ponds back in Trinidad 🇹🇹
that would of been cool.
we knew about diving beetles long before scuba was invented.
Hats off to the camera man. Give him an award
My eye, my eye!
Most of the scenes are probably set in aquariums but still you need to be a good cameraman and naturist to set them so nice. I love this video
I enjoyed it as well!
Yea like someone said, I doubt this was filmed in lake. Most documentaries with small animals or insects are actually set in studio.
That thought crossed me as well 😂
"It traps the air under it's wing case which it uses like a SCUBA tank" - very cool adaptation for a bug! Amazing. Even the larvae are coo.
Ester?
Unless...u r a frog...or small fish...
Adaptation ?!! more like..God creation 🙏
@@hamzasat yeah, through evolution...
It hurts baby frogs, it sucks in my opinion
When I was a small lad of around seven, I saw some movement in a local pond. Thinking it was a fish, I grabbed for it, unfortunately it turned out to be a the larval form of a great diving beetle. Which promptly bit me. Impressive insect, but I don't recommend handling them.
Had to catch diving beetle larval forms in my school years too. Agree about avoiding touching them with fingers. But small nets was just fine for them.
-3 points for not saying 'wee lad'
@@ikigai47 oí!
I agree, the bite from these guys is not pleasant
Ew the larvae looks marginally scarier than the grown ups
A bugs life did not prepare me for this.
You mean explaining to children the outcome of milions of years,,,, actually scratch that. It would be interesting to make a serious 1.5 hour movie about how creatures like this could evolve in an animated yet serious and fact checked way. I mean heavy sgi lion king quality video and Pulp Fiction voiceover with heroes and their adventure's Beetlejuice - Battle for Survival. Imagine how many episodes that could be for every creature that walked on earth
@@AlexSBTM k
@@boa7648 yup
About 2 weeks ago while I was swimming at night in our pool something kept on stinging me. I thought it was a mosquito until I saw this beetle and the worst part is it kept on chasing me. It's the 1st time I saw it in our pool
what a nightmare
Probably pretty hungry in there lolz
Beetles don't sting
@5000jboxa oh really? thanks for the info! i don’t think OP knew that
It's amazing you don't realize how fragile the ecosystem is until you start looking into detail! Great video!
They really are. Our chemicals actually make life for aquatic insects harder. Since they rely on surface tension to breathe and move, since that's what creates bubbles since for insects water is very adhesive. And so they use the oxygen help themselves safe along with hydrophobic oils. However chemicals such as soap and hand sanitizer disturbs surface tension which causes them to drown. This is a serious issue in areas of pollution.
It’s sad that we tend to look deeper once there is a problem, but many times we notice the problem too late.
When I was a kid I woke up one time and saw this creature in my aquarium tank and my fishes are gone but I really had no Idea that it eats fish. I realized that it also swims fast so I keep it lol. I was like Ooooo a beetle submarine "lol
Ahha ok XD
Yes! One of my favorite insects!
Yeah, am.fascinated with them since my childhood.
I think you mean *Pokémon 👀
At home : fish eat beetles
In nature : beetles eat fish
ooooohhh how the tables have turned😏
There is a full documentry on these guys floating around on YT. Amazing insects.
I didn't even know beetles can dive☠️
Can't wait for the "Australian land fish" rolling its own poop around video...😬
Right
Wait till u see spider who had its own scuba gear...
I first learned about this creature from an anime called Terraformars. Not for the MC having the ability that came from Bagworm moth, the main heroine would have already drowned. Though it was not the best and was beaten outside the water, it was one of the creature that stuck to me in how cool its ability was.
they can't. Only this one can
@@chestnutrice9855 no, there are more species of diving beetles
They’re literally the swimming pool colonizers
Your Dictator that's how I got my first one! My second I caught in the pond by my house.
Pool in france that had to be cleaned up after 2 months, ~500 of these things swimming about. Especially funny when we used a pump to let out excess water as they just kept spouting out the hoze.
Thats funny cus i found one in my kids swimming pool last summer
i love nature and all its wonders!
Well its going extinct so...
@@tsurek unfortunately youre right.
Aww, I kinda wanted the male Smithsonian narrator. He makes everything so overdramatic. 😁But this lady is nice too. Very pleasant and soothing voice. 🙂
This is how you’re suppose to record fights
Things like this are why I stock our pond with fathead and stickleback minnows.
k adaptation how it evolved feathers
to aid in a dive. Oceanic birds have
the same concept. But even more
remarkable is converting air-bubble
from a liquid. that's impressive.
Confused🤔
It dosn,t convert it,he backs up to the surface and traps air under the tail end of his wings..
" Who knows how long they will 'SURRIVE' " 😂😂😂🤣
These things are comon in uk
I just saw a larva of one of these at a local pond/lake in BE. Tried to pick it up with a fine twig, he snapped it in half and made an audible screeching sound of some sort. About 10 cm long. Crawled towards the depth. Hope he has a nice life.
I'm fascinated by some bugs.
These creatures?
No way.
Als je ze in België hebt, zullen ze in Nederland ook wel zitten denk ik? Ik had vorige week zo'n larve in de vijver, een hele middag geGoogled en geen idee waar ik naar keek😂😂
@@mariskaajoy3899hiii
As a kid I released some fish into the pond and a day later spotted one of those things in larval form eating one of them, now I know what it was.
I love catching this on a spring near our house.
The larva form looks like a tiny version of a Xenomorph
I can’t get a fish on my hook for my life
Jimmy Houston, a World Famous Angler says that there's a lure called the Beatle Spin. He has 2 yt channels.
1 called Catch of the Day, a daily devotional and fishing tip.
1 is his fishing channel.
I sub to both channels on YT.
I saw one giant water beetle when I was a child, in fact, me and my brother took it an it bite my brother xD. I am from rural northwestern Spain, and i havent seen one in the last 20 years
I've never seen one ever again for over 10 years. I missed those beetles.
Ill sleep after this
Did you sleep?
Cameraman must be tiny surprised it didn't eat him
Cameraman always survives.
Amazing video 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Beautifully captured
Beautiful information
This was fascinating
This is probably taken inside of an aquarium.
Probably
Well, yea. Lol. How else would they get these shots? You can tell easily tell by looking at the vegetation in the background. It's not moving at all.
But it's still cool to see the action nonetheless
@Peri OListo well I'm not paying to see the video, so no complain from me. To each their own ofc
most definitely
1:22 oh how the tides have changed.... Seeing its eye move after it was split in half is sad :(
This guy deserves a combat diver badge.
I want to come back as a GREAT DIVING BEETLE!
Awesome footage
I learned about this bug’s existence because of Animal Crossing 😐
me coyote peterson
he calls it the toe biter nasty
Yeah I started thinking that after the dude said they are from Europe.
That's cool.
I've known of them for a long time because of how many books I've read. Only a few years ago did I accidentally catch my first one while trying to catch frogs.
Moving to Mars would actually be pretty cool. I could sleep well knowing that these things aren’t on the same planet as I am
Really love water beetle
We have these in the UK where they eat tadpoles and small fish!
Know who else is an impressive at underwater hunting?
Fish people.
I saw a lot of those in the river water near the banks
Surprised so many people were not aware they existed😁
Love this vid
I found one these in my backyard pool one time, it lived in there for a few weeks
Amazing underwater video. I wonder what sort of equipment did they use...
Fun fact. These things can fly. I remember seeing one fly onto my tranpoline outside once. It didn't do much after that tho
Very interesting creatures that are under water
1:24 fish looks at its body being ate
Very fierce for a beetle
Had one of these appear inexplicably in my 50 G Cichlid tank some years back.
My girlfriend named it "BubbleButt".
Lots in my pond that clear out all tadpoles and introduced fish under 4..5 inches . Even if a fish escapes if it was pierced they seem to die soon after or become inactive enough to get eaten mostly alive . Newts get it as well .!
My brain keeps saying it is not right that an insect lives underwater and eats creatures that are not other insects.
Insects (well, arthropods really) were in the water looooong before fish came on the scene. Animals like trilobites and euryptids (sea scorpions) prowled the oceans for millions of years, and some of them were truly gigantic monsters more than 2 metres long.
when i saw that bubble pops out of the beetle at 1:06 .... somehow the sonic panic sound effect just started playing in my mind...
They are freaking eating everything , and host is talking about their survival😳
I like this woman's voice!
Interesting and discussing
We have those in our pool water every summer!
How big are they?
About 2 inches long
😂😂😂
It's been more than 10 years since the last time I saw the diving beetle inside the pond in the campus area near my grandparents' house. I've never seen any again afterwards...
I see hundreds every year. If you so much as keep a bucket if water they'll show up.
Those are pretty cute
Found in in my pool yesterday
Salute to the Cameraman
1:26 did that head blink or am bugging out?
I saw it did the first time but now it doesn’t move, im bugging it too
Nice 👌
In 5th grade we went to our school pond to catch tadpoles and observe the growth of frogs. (Considering their was only a week or 2 left we didn’t see much) but we got some larvae of those beetles and we would watch them hunt the tadpoles but eventually removed them and I mean the kids watched and the teacher saw what was happening and removed them
1:35 whoa it’s Astel
the fish's eyes moved after its head was off of its body
O_o
I had two of these,they are so fun and I would hand feed them bugs and frogs.
I legit misread “great diving beetle” to “great divine beetle”
Praise the bug
Scarabs be like:
This is the bug that attacked me in my pool one time, traumatized me and I didn't go back in the pool for a few weeks after that haha
I know fish eats bugs, but never think there will be a bug that eats fish. LOL
Not really a fan of them beetles but what we can do for them not to extinct?
Get a pool with waterplants in your garden. This will attract water insects and amphibians who can be eaten by the beetle larvae. Dont have fish in the pond as they eat amphibian eggs. In ponds with fish there are very few amphibians so no tadpoles to eat for the beetle. The beetle can eat fish though but its mostly the larvae that needs help.
Respect the cameraman for diving
Imagine swimming then feeling something on your leg u check it and it’s one of these big beetles crawling up your leg
I had that happen when I was 12. It was the beetle not the larvae but needless to say, I didn’t go swimming again that Summer.
Jimmy Houston, a World Famous Angler says that there's a lure called the Beatle Spin. He has 2 yt channels.
1 called Catch of the Day, a daily devotional book that he wrote, and a short fishing tip.
1 is his fishing channel.
I sub to both channels on YT.
Wouldn't miss it for the World.
They’re evolving
Nature is so cool, respect it or die
Really big hunting
I want em in my Fishtank !! - Chief
Found one of those guys in one of my videos!
I was just swimming with one of these
Found one yesterday 💀 pool kids freaked out
These things actually bite really hard for how small it’s jaws are, I know personally
Beatles are so metal.
Interesting
Interesting animal-like a sea scorpion
Wow ilike this video
I once found one in our rain barrell and in the first moment I thought someone has thrown a little turtle in there ...
I have a driving beetle as a pet
Thats an impressive looking NOPE.
@Trey Stephens Non
Optional
Phear
Exists..
The larvae, adults are kind of cute
They sell around 2000 bells in ACNH
1:24 Anybody else see that fish's eye move? That would be brutal if it was cause it was still alive.
Nerve syste; still fired up
I thought this was gonna be about a huge beetle from millions of years ago
We are not the only ones who love fish as supper, Beatles apparently do too 🥺🤓🪲
N dragonfly larvae...
@@eleethtahgra7182 lol 😂
Diving beetle is my high school nickname.
I've been looking all over for these guys. I'd love to have an aquarium just for them, they're do much fun to watch
look no further, they inhabit literally every still water on every continent
Considering they are already struggling you really shouldn't remove any from the wild, that would only hurt their population even more.
0:56 sounds like something out of A Bug's Life 😂😂😂
Makes me wonder if the conventional house cockroach can swim in water.
The natural world must be saved. Without we won’t survive.
Anyone notice there’s less bugs/frogs/butterflies?
That animal was today in my pool...
I had one of these in a puddle out back. I was watching him scuttle about when suddenly he took off flying O_O
I didnt know such an insect existed at the time. It was terrifying haha
It delicious in my country😋😋 កន្ទនទូក
Anyone who is concerned for their survival is welcome to come “rescue” them from my pond. I personally prefer my fish.