Metallic Blue Cuckoo Wasp - NOT Sweat Bee! - Pure Awesome
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- At first, I though this was a sweat bee, but it is a Cuckoo Wasp! This metallic blue wasp is a pure work of art. What a jewel!!
I found a dead one and set out to find a living one. I can't believe I actually found one on the screen two days later in another town. Thank you for the corection ShandelleC!
Omg can't believe this is real 😂😂😂😂😂
Amazing, aren't they?
Chris Egnoto - The Naturalist's Path they are really really beautiful
Oh yeah yeah
The green one is beautiful, too. Just uploaded itbon YT.✌
@@chrisegnoto as I write this I'm on the toilet (sorry if that's TMI) and a blue hornet just fell onto me from my ceiling!!!
When I say my business was done hella fast I still think my arse is saying "wtf just happened?!"
I'm still staring at the blue corpse in awe ...
Btw I'm in Ontario Canada so I have no idea how it got here or where it came from but I've got pics and vids (minus me on the shitter) for anyone who'd like to see
Found one last summer in my house around the windowsill. I let it crawl on my hand to keep it out of the way as I opened the window, and it did not hesitate to walk on it and start licking off my sweat. I held my hand out of the window for it to leave and it took nearly a minute. They are bold little things, but quite gentle.
Thanks for sharing, that is really cool. I rarely see them at all. What a work of art, they are.
I found them in my windowsill also of course I panic and I tried to kill them but they were so hard I couldn't I thought they were flying anyways they were hard like always when I try to kill them but they were pretty why would they my windowsill in my kitchen
I saw one on my bed and I wonder how it got in my room tbh. Can someone explain?
Texan here. Never seen one before thought it was a fly. Almost picked it up. Glad I researched it first.
we were filming a documentary for TV yesterday and one of the actors got stung on the lip. It was actually pretty funny....at least I thought so - lol
Had one in my shoe this morning, they do sting it just doesn’t hurt very much. First time I’ve ever seen one here in Texas.
Hahaha you are telling me I'm from Tucson Arizona right now I found one passing by the quickness and Agility it had and plus being chrome blue was like out of this world type of thing like alien
I looked up videos to see if they are poisonous or what's up with them......
@@dana8567 danm had one in my room had I known I would've shooed him out the window 😑
The color you see is the due to the spectrum of the reflected light. It works that way with everything, not just insects.
Thank you for interesting story. Usually coccoo bees are extremely fast and escape very quickly. Best entomology greetings.😮😮😊😊❤
Not a stinger. Her stinger has been modified as her egg laying device called an ovipositor.
Do they sting?
Other way around id assume? Stingers came from ovipositors not the other way around, unless they evolved back for whatever reason 👍
I saw my first one of these in my whole life today. 07-22-22, in Frankfort KY.
I was watching this creature on my deck 2 minutes ago. I live in BC. I have never seen one before. The rapid motion of the antennae caught my eye. I am certain this is "structural" color made by refraction.
Every color you see everywhere is the color wave that an object doesnt absorb and reflects back at us…
They're beautiful up close
Here in Grand Junction, CO, we've got lots of those. Spectacular beauty! Never seen one at all aggressive.
I saw that thing outside my window. I literally thought I was hallucinating; I didn’t know they existed.
Yeah, I always have a double take when I see one. So beautiful and before you have a chance to really take it in, they are off again.
Just found one of these in my apartment! She seemed really gentle and landed on me a few times before we released her outside.
Nice. They are pretty friendly. Beautiful, aren't they?
How can they get in my room?
that's a really cool looking bee, and that's a pretty big stinger! great video! : )
I agree!
Thanks I’ve just found a lot of these in my compost bin, I left the lid open for an hr. about a month or two ago when I came back I saw a few of the wasps in there, guided them out of the bin and today….. “it’s hatching day”🥳 And after a little research (wanted to make sure I wasn’t putting myself in danger by releasing them) they have been released.
Florida - I just saw one yesterday and I thought I was imagining it at first - I finally looked it up so see what their official name is
We live in western NY. We have a wooden retaining wall behind our home. It’s been in disrepair over the past two years due to the constant rain (making the soil behind the wall to constantly stay moist; rotting the wood from the inside out).
We often see piles of sawdust from the wall on the concrete below the wall - leading right to the pool. It’s a bit disconcerting as we also see large black carpenter ants. Yesterday I saw the ants frantically carrying both small and large larvae (as I must have disrupted a nest).
Then I saw a bunch of these green cuckoo wasps - like 20-30 flying around - and even more flying right out of the wood as I started to try to take some beams off of the wall. Do the carpenter ants and the cuckoo wasp have some sort of predatory or symbiotic relationship? Just very strange to see two types of insects in the same area. It’s treated lumber and we cannot burn it.
How would you suggest that we dispose of the wood without just moving our problem to a different area? (If you have any...) We rescue traumatized ex-laboratory beagles and do not want them in any harm (or to us).
Thank you for this video! After seeing this, I now know what it is and that it has a large stinger. Yikes!! 🙈
Hmm. They have been busy this time of year. Hopefully the carpenter ants just stay outdoors :)
Saw this thing flying around my house and I killed it with a fly squatter thinking it was just some fly or something. Come to find out it was this, kinda feel bad now 😕
Found one of these Blue Wasps in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
That’s how all color works, every single color you see is the only one not being taken in by an object
I know, I should have gone deeper into that segment
Cool! ☺✌
It’s 2021 and I TH-camd this because I was in East Los Angles Southern California and saw one today
Hi Chris! I see Blue Bees (not Mason) in Oregon, always on California Poppy’s. Too fast to photograph, I’ll try letting them land on me 💙
Hi Gaia, I agree. Non of them stay put long enough to photo. I have never been west of Baton Rouge
Love it.. Bee cool.
Thanks Andrew! You, too
I knew i saw one of these before. I told my mom and sister and they thought i was crazy lol
Had one land on my knee during a rugby game at a Celtic festival, i just ignored it and it flew away
They look pretty amazing, don't they?
I live in Philadelphia towards the county area and I just found one of these on my windowsill. I killed it because I wasn't sure if it was a fly, then I thought it looked like a bee but metallic blue. I feel bad but my daughter just found out she has anaphylaxis to bees yesterday. I wonder if they're normally found in Pennsylvania?
pretty bee
They itch.They look bigger sbd different then Tennessee. The ones in Tennessee are very small and are yellow with black strips.
I see something like this in Canada QC this summer
That is why I saved one from the salt water hot tub.
Such a beautiful animal
Isn't it?
Igris u mean insect
Beautiful! Is it okay if we use a short section of this clip in our upcoming video? You will be credited accordingly. Thanks!
If you can, contact me through my email or facebook :)
Are there metallic red ones? And also, are these guys found in northern California, bay area??
I am not sure, but there are metallic red Long legged flies that might look similar
It's beautiful.
've got a green one.
Just shared it on my YT.
Nice! The green species are beautiful, too
Coco wasp.
We have metallic green ones in Angola
The stinger on the one I had was very long . ABout idk half of half an inch . But it was decent
Half of half is a quarter
I got stung by one of those. It really hurt. I didn't know what it was. I had to look it up. Are they an invasive species to the northeast US? I had never seen one before.
i think me and my sister found one, it was greener and smaller tho, does that mean its a baby?
Do all of them
Look like this or is it just the queeen?
This wasp is very sweet looking
I so agree. They are my favorite!! So amazingly beautiful.
A metallic green and black one just bit tf outta me twice I’m trying to recover from COVID and I’ve been sweating but damn that hurt it I think I killed it I smashed it a couple times then it just disappeared smh now idk if it’s coming back am I pregnant or these 2 bites Gonna turn me into Spider-Man or wasp man
Crazy. Maybe, with luck, you will gain something cool. Sorry about the COVID, hope you have a successful recovery
One was in my aquarium swimming, I thought the saltwater would kill it but it was doing great. I ended up flushing it down the sink but.... will there be more are they dangerous?? And I thought it was weird too I thought to myself at first dam a nasty green fly landed on my aquarium but no it was this exact specimen
They aren't dangerous. Not very common either. Next time just put it outside. I thought it was a fly at first, too. I love their color!
One was under my leg and it scared me
I saw this just an hour ago!! I was looking to take a macro shot of insects, I just saw this I wanted to capture but it was very windy😭😭😭😭
I have 3 at my house
I saw it today in egypt
Bee or wasp?
Saw one in Utah I’m pretty sure and I got scared as fuck
I got stung by one
💯
Thank you
Yeah it’s called gene splicing.
I just killed one built was dying slowly and the stinger was was coming out and I got a nest living in my swing set
I have a nest living in my hallway outside in the smoke detector
Wow, are you serious? That is so cool. I rarely ever see these insects.
just seen one up close in Alabama!!! heard they were almost extinct
Yeah, they are pretty rare. And beautiful!
Seriously??? Wtf there are these creatures in my room... I should start to friend em
Big question is, how painful is their sting?
No idea. Doesn't sound too bad from what I hear
لقد رأيتهم اليوم أنا من مصر
I just killed one! Its green when its photographed!
ummm thats how color and sight work. you see what is reflected at you. that is its color...
i saw this before
They are neat, aren't they?
Yeet Cuckoo bee don’t bite do they ???
Actually, I think they can sting
Are they aggressive?
Not at all.
They look cool but that stinger.
It does look kind of long lol
@@elevatordailies not a stinger, that's her ovipositor for laying eggs.
Thought it was a fly and was bout to kill it
I mistake them for flies, sometimes. Not used to bright blue things that AREN'T flies, lol
I’m trying to kill it… it’s scary
i killed ten of this today
hmm. k.