Small correction on my part: the queens of some hymenoptera species, like ants and wasps, actually tear off their own wings as they settle in to start a colony, resigning themselves to never fly again. It's still true that no insects can fly as an immature/nymph/larva and then cannot upon entering adulthood, but nonetheless it is an interesting case of an insect losing the ability to fly. Overall though, the main point is that insects only get wings once, and it's at the end of their development, after they've already finished growing.
Your plethora of points have not only made me think of insects and the like in a different way, but also imaging flying versions of every enemy in Hollow Knight. And one final thought, why can't the Hive Knight fly?
One reason people label cornifer and iselda mosquitoes is because she’s a warrior and he’s not, reflecting how male mosquitoes do not bite. Also, I would call quirrel and the generic bugs pillbugs instead because of the overlapping plates
Tbh, females being larger/more aggressive is generally more common not just in bugs, but in most non land vertibrates Anglersish males are 20 times smaller Blanket octopus males ate the size of walnuts while females are 2 m long Black widows and mantis females often eat their mates Ant, bee and termite queen's are usually much larger than the kings, not to mention all the drones, including the aggressive soldiers in those colonies are female
Minor correction: Cordyceps don’t actually take over the minds of their hosts. That would be somewhat merciful in comparison to the reality. It actually puppets the muscles of insects directly, leaving the brain largely intact and even cognizant of its current state. Hosts basically become prisoners in bodies they can no longer control.
@@ziwuri The same way YOU know how to move your body by contracting individual muscles: instincts that have been finely tuned over the course of millions of years.
I’m so glad I have this video. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what the bees in the Hive were based on, but this finally opened my eyes. Thank you, Mossbag.
I've always had the headcanon that Bretta belongs to one of the beetle species who can fly. That would explain why and how you initially find her in a cave you can't climb up to without the Mantis Claw. It's also funny because large beetles are famous for being clumsy fliers that constantly crash into stuff, and that fits Bretta very well.
In the Gruz Mother section, you forgot one thing. Its called a blowfly. When blowfly's die, their abdomen splits open and maggots come out, though not fully grown flies.
yeah, everytime I walk by a tree I can see bugs worshipping a moth-like divine entity, that uses its divine infection powers to stop another divine entity from creating an interconnected kingdom, while they all have to fight against a void substance that corrupts everything
I'm pretty sure entomologists aren't really bugged (lol) by the artistic liberties taken by the team, but rather take issue with being called "bug scientists"
@@emmad4308 actually insect scientist is more accurate, although it did indeed annoy me for about a milisecond before I realized I have virtually nothing to be upset about beside people not calling us by our official name. but anyway, as mossbag mentioned in their cornifer section, bugs is actually a very misused term and only refers to a few insects. specifically insects of the order hemiptera. and while a lot of entomologist is kind of a pretty broad term, as they can study insects along with other arthropods, generally entomology is considered the study of insects while those who specialize in the study of other arthropods are given another name, such as arachnologists. also, on hollow knights portrayal of real life arthropods, I don't really mind it! I think it would lose its appeal to many players, and lose the appeal of its fantastical elements. also, I'm also an artist, I really enjoy the creative liberties taken. sorry this got long, I'm very passionate about these creatures lmao
@@thefluffyaj4119 i appreciate your input as an entomologists but a bug scientist your are. If you want to bargain.. best I can do is bug and beetles scientist.. or maybe creepy-crawlist
Something about the Pale King, actually. A Wyrm isn't a type of worm, but instead a large, limbless dragon or sea serpent, so the Pale King's Wyrm form could either be a dragon, or a snake, the latter being most likely. (I got the snake part from sea serpent, which a serpent is a kind of large snake, which would perfectly fit the size of the Pale Wyrm compared to the rest of the bugs of Hallownest.)
The hole you enter the cast-off shell through is most likely the Wyrm's mouth, which a giant hole with teeth doesn't really sound like a reptilian skull. Also, wyrms were probably named that by Team Cherry because it sounds like the creature they would be based on (worms) and also to sound cool, not because they wanted their wyrms to be based on traditional reptilian fiction wyrms.
One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that many of the bugs in Hallownest wear masks - For the denizens of the city of tears especially, wearing masks was a sign that they were "better" than any outsiders, especially the mantises, who don't wear them. The spiders in Deepnest also wear masks, but for them they function more like armor than a sign of social status.
I’m studying entomology in college right now, and your video is very well researched! As for the young mantises, they could be based on mantidflies. They’re in the same order as lacewings and antlions, and many also mimic wasps and bees, which could be where the idea for the stinger comes from.
bugs weren't just picked because they're easy to draw, I imagine they were also picked because you can pick a random species of bug and still get a really interesting character design out of it
Some insect corrections/observations, from a wannabe entomologist. -ALL arthropods shed their exoskeleton as they grow. All of them. Not just a few species. -16:09 those are mealworms, a type pf grub. Not maggots -Damselflies fulfill the same role as dragonflies as predators, but their prey is smaller. -The tiktik is probably more likely based on a scale bug -I don't think blood worms become anything other than blood worms. They are not arthropods. Anyways, FANTASTIC video. Honestly I really enjoyed the amount of love and effort put into this. It brings me joy to see other people taking interest in bugs!!
11:13 I swear to god when that happened. I was on 2 hearts from the mantises and if i died I wouldn’t get my shade back and i had about 4000 geo and when i heard cloths clicking sound, I had a heart attack I thought, I dont know the mantis berserker would burst out and start a boss fight and I was so glad when i found the one that came out was friendly. Edit: for anyone who’s here and hasn’t played the mantis village yet, the mantis berserker does not exist, thats just a random boss i made up just now.
I tried to swing at her when she first popped out of the ground because I was so startled, I'm just glad you usually can't damage npcs because I would have been crushed if I hurt her.
He even learn Chess from GotahmChess in a video. TierZoo is taking over TH-cam one genre at a time. Wonder what him and his friends are doing with Nebula.
Nosk as an Ant Mimic Spider makes a lot of sense. Especially since ant mimics are Jumping Spiders that hunt by ambushing their prey from above. They don't use the mimicry to fool prey, though- it's actually to deter predators, since you don't mess with an ant unless you're prepared to mess with the entire anthill.
14:52 That fact shocked me because i am thinking all that time that these two black circles are eyes. If it's not eyes than eyes it's that two small white "teeth"?
@@riley_-zm8vr I had an idea for an ocean cliffs area with a dragonfly boss east of crystal peak and a desert area with an antlion boss west of the howling cliffs, but the idea is too complex for me to write here
I had an OC named Gripper, who was planned to be a grasshopper, cursed with a dark and terrifying blade. But after seeing the Mask Maker's close counterpart, I think Imma go back to my other storytelling stuff
my headcannon for Dr. Chagax is that the fact that his career as a doctor is unsatisfactory is a nod to real life dr Evandro Chagas, who after discovering the chagas disease went on to make a medical foundation who is widely known nowadays for being very bad at its job
I've always thought of Leg Eater and Divine as being part termite and part mantis. The termite part from general body structure and the implications given by Leggy that he wants to become a king and also that his eyesight is poor, and the mantis part from the shape of their forelimbs and the fact that Divine eats Leggy supposedly after they mate, which is a characteristic of mantises.
@@-jaxthelostman-3160 in one of the beta trailers we see a young elderbug, "elder" is a title given to someone who has come of an old age this implies that elderbug's birth name is "Bug"
im pretty sure he never got a name, just called stag, he named himself because of his old age and memory and his belief that he's the last remaining stag, after going into stag nest and exploring the area, we find a broken egg which made the stag believe that he isn't the last stag, thus renaming him the "Old Stag"
"Bardoon appears to be a silk worm that eventually turns into the silk moth." Could you imagine a hollow knight game being about exploring a bug world being guided bardoon as he is getting ready to enter his pupa and then fighting him as the radiance reincarnated.
Bardoon could be a wandering demigod, visiting the corpses and domains of other gods (like the Cast-Off Shell and Hallownest itself), while he waits for his pupation into something grander... Though I don't think he'd be a malevolent god like The Radiance. TR only got that way after she stopped being worshipped and was forgotten by her previous followers; Bardoon would be a brand new god without any reason to take revenge.
There are actually a couple pink butterfly species, none that look particularly like the one in hollow knight though. Look up the paradise phantom though, its a cool pink butterfly.
@@Sasha-zx5et I don't really know much about him, but Steven Seagal is an old action movie star turned nutcase. I recommend watching Jon Tron's video about him.
@@Sasha-zx5et as the other person said, he's an old actor, but recently, in addition to allegations of sexual assault, he's apparently started supporting Vladimir Putin. the joke would be that Putin is a shit person/leader, so he's defending dung
I've always thought that it's called Wyrm not only because it sounds like worm, but also to show those creatures could be the bug equivalent of a mythological creature as dragons
"You are a male Mantis with a child and their head still attached, are you a proud father?" Traitor Lord: lol she died anyways this orange jello is amazing
2:46: I think william pellen did a brilliant job with the voice of Salubra. I mean, he did program the game and wrote a lot of the lines, but Salubra’s voice is just perfect and better than all of that. Truly incredible.
Next bug I want is the creatonotos gangis moth. Just search up "creatonotos gangis moth tentacles," it's the perfect fit of something that crawled straight out of the deepest part of hell.
I thought you might like to know that I've taken to using this video to try and help myself get over my arachnophobia. So far I managed to make it all the way to the ant mimic spiders without scrolling down into the comments, and that honestly surprises me! Maybe someday I'll be able to watch the whole spider part without scrolling, either way thanks for (unintentionally) making something that might help with that :D (seriously I need to get over this, I nearly fell backwards from a set of stairs because of a spood a few days ago)
Precept Forty-Five: 'One Thing Is Not Another' This one should be obvious, but I've had others try to argue that one thing, which is clearly what it is and not something else, is actually some other thing, which it isn't. Stay on your guard!
Playing Hollow Knight and watch this kind of videos help me a lot with my fobia of seeing or touch any kind of bugs, but well i'm not still being able to touch bugs cause their still scare me a lot lmao
I'm an amateur entomologist and I love that this game has a lot of insect representation and is as popular as it is. Insects are incredibly interesting and often beautiful creatures.
28:39 That picture shows gnat larvae, which are also commonly called bloodworms, but they're insects, unlike the copper chloride toothed bloodworms which are a type of bristleworm.
@@АлексейГоршков-щ4ч I thought it would maybe look a little bit like the Knight... I looked it up and the first image immediately was almost identical. The resemblance is insane, even if it's potentially a coincidence
I always thought the watcher knights are probably Atlas Beetles based on their colours and looks, and the fact they're in the watcher tower, and the word Atlas is usually connected to things like that I think?
I believe Nosk is based off of Mimi, a villain in Super Paper Mario character. She changes to a spider in kind of the same way, twisting her head upside down while slowly turning to a spider. She can also shapeshift too. Also, small detail, Mimi climbs onto the ceiling, dropping rubees, just like how Nosk drops infection stuff when he jumps onto the ceiling. Just thought I would share that.
I like that they’re not restricted to being accurate to real life bugs. They’re unique bug like fantasy creatures and I think bug features provide an awesome design aesthetic for the game
I've now decided that the clearest picture of the insect world created by games is Bug Fables lore with Hollow Knight tone and Dwarf Fortress gameplay.
What this video mainly taught me: 1. Those weird noises in the Fungal Wastes aren’t just acid cracklings and it’s actually Cloth (who is a cicada) 2: Mossbag acknowledges the existence of Bug Fables
I always thought the Pale King's wyrm form was more like a bobbit worm, a type of bristle worm. Barboon talks about how large wyrms are and the largest recorded bobbit worm is nearly 10 ft long, which within a kingdom of normal-sized bugs, would be MASSIVE.
Yeah but Bobbit worm fangs aren't arranged in nearly the same pattern as the wyrm husk. Cause they have the two large mandibles but I like the idea and the size definitely fits with the game.
My personal theory is that Grimm doesn't quite look like a bug because he was created by a higher being (The Nightmare Heart), just like the Knight, THK, and even Hornet are descendants of a higher being (Pale King).
I don't know if I'm right, but one of the enemies in Royal Waterways, the Pilflip, resembles the extinct genus Hallucigenia from the Cambrian period (it's not an insect, though). I thought it was amazing that scientists were actually confused about the animal's back spikes, thinking they were legs. The game illustrated this confusion well, making the Pilflip able to walk on both sides. Ingenious detail only Paleontology enthusiasts noticed =)
Small correction on my part: the queens of some hymenoptera species, like ants and wasps, actually tear off their own wings as they settle in to start a colony, resigning themselves to never fly again. It's still true that no insects can fly as an immature/nymph/larva and then cannot upon entering adulthood, but nonetheless it is an interesting case of an insect losing the ability to fly.
Overall though, the main point is that insects only get wings once, and it's at the end of their development, after they've already finished growing.
the more you know
Noice
Your plethora of points have not only made me think of insects and the like in a different way, but also imaging flying versions of every enemy in Hollow Knight. And one final thought, why can't the Hive Knight fly?
I was not expecting to see you here
Does this mean there will be some form of insect tier list
Team Cherry please, we’re talking about literal Bugs now
@@TimothyMark7 im sure it exist on rule34
We are talking about true bugs that had mettle to link the fire. We are not fit enough to lick their boots.
Hi mossbag!
@@pegtor700 This is actually why PK died, he killed himself after what he seen
Every time people ask for Silksong news they add another second to the clock. So far we're gonna be waiting about 200 million years.
I really wanna watch this, but I haven't finished real life yet and I don't wanna spoil it
Don't worry they are all early game spolilers
@@totallyahuman5055 ah, thanks
@Totally a Human
Actually, it depends on what you spec into. I heard that it’s possible to complete the game while avoiding all of it.
@@-ZHthat's good, after watching the video I think i'll try to avoid these things, the're scary
There are some major spoilers about some endings, if certain choices are taken, like living in Australia, for example.
Team Cherry made a little mistake with the bees. I live near a few bee hives and I've never seen a bee turn into a F*CKING DRILL.
wdym in my city they do that all the time
some people even started capturing and using them
isnt it same everywhere else?
Also, never seen a beetle charge at me and explode before
YOU HAVEN'T?!?!
@@heyoyo10gaming4 You've never come across a bombardier beetle then
based on beedrill pokemon??
I have quite a large collection of Hollow Knight merch in my backyard, actually.
Hell, I've got such a collection in my house.
I’ve got some in the support boards on the top of my gargae
These real-life developers sure have put in a lot of effort to make their bugs as close to Hollow Knight as possible. Props where they're due.
Idk about you, but I want nosk as far away from reality as posible
Isn’t this “real-life” a bootleg of Outside, the free-to-play MMORPG with 7 billion+ active players
@@Alexpg19 boi i got news for you
real life is a hollow knight clone
@@zzedixx agree it should be taken down due too copyright.
I always figured characters like Quirrel and the generic husk were inspired by pillbugs.
They've got those segmented bodies, after all.
yeah, i thought it was canon that theyre isopods
I don’t think that,they are probably just beetles and quirrel a water beetle because he is like 2000 days on blue lake
Quirrel is a Woodlouse
@@xxmension04xx47 pillbug is another name for woodlouse
same! I just commented about this
Ari Gibson (Co-creator)
William Pellen (Voice of Salubra)
Honestly your best joke probably holy shit
Laughed so hard to that. Well done Moss Bag
I would love to see their reaction on this
^This right here
We've peaked with that, we must have
@@SadeceAtakan mossbag
Hollow Knight was so popular that they made it a real thing?!!
I'm waiting for an r/wooosh opprotunity.
@@user-sl1wt1dv4y r/woooosh
no way
POV
Me looking for the kid in the reply section to mention r/wooosh
No, no, it was actually based off a historically true story!
One reason people label cornifer and iselda mosquitoes is because she’s a warrior and he’s not, reflecting how male mosquitoes do not bite. Also, I would call quirrel and the generic bugs pillbugs instead because of the overlapping plates
Tbh, females being larger/more aggressive is generally more common not just in bugs, but in most non land vertibrates
Anglersish males are 20 times smaller
Blanket octopus males ate the size of walnuts while females are 2 m long
Black widows and mantis females often eat their mates
Ant, bee and termite queen's are usually much larger than the kings, not to mention all the drones, including the aggressive soldiers in those colonies are female
A few exceptions, where the males are bigger/more aggressive, I can think of that aren't mammals or birds are beetles and vidler crabs
@@aleksabanjevic8316 humans its the same just without the larger part... definitely more agressive
@@Top1tippy what?
It would be funny if the generic Hallownest bug was a pillbug, so not a bug at all.
I once had a pale king in my backyard, next to the wild mushrooms I use for cooking.
Nice
@@hornetisvoider Hornet is not void.
@@hornetisvoider Hornet is Un.
#Change my mind #HornetUnConfirnmed.
@@ipadair7345 what is un
@@ipadair7345 Unn is Mister Mushroom
Hollow Knight is actually a true life story about what happens when an Australian leaves his house
*before an Australian even gets out the door
@@OliverKehm *before an Australian even gets out of bed
@@Cishsun *before an Australian is even born
@@porguinturtle3854 Before the first australian was born*
@@neuro3834 *before Australia was Australia
Minor correction: Cordyceps don’t actually take over the minds of their hosts. That would be somewhat merciful in comparison to the reality.
It actually puppets the muscles of insects directly, leaving the brain largely intact and even cognizant of its current state. Hosts basically become prisoners in bodies they can no longer control.
Thats torture
How the hell does the fungal infection know how to guide insects by contracting individual muscles?
@@ziwuri The same way YOU know how to move your body by contracting individual muscles: instincts that have been finely tuned over the course of millions of years.
That’s fun!
@@Dylwap it’s a good thing insects have insect brains
You didn't even mention how Hornet is actually a spider despite her name, and looks nothing like those two.
She is half-wyrm also. So biology here is weird with interspecies breeding, and this probably explains a lot.
@@SMT-ks8yp It's always so fun to tell my friends that I can't wait for the new game about an anthropomorphic spider-worm-god named hornet.
@@beary-boo3223 and she was raised by bees!
@Nathaneal Freligh No, I mean worm, as in big long noodle critter.
She kinda looks like the Long Horned Orb Weaver, aka the Macracantha. They both have similar colors and have similar shaped horns.
I’m so glad I have this video. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what the bees in the Hive were based on, but this finally opened my eyes. Thank you, Mossbag.
Help. I watched the whole video and I’m still confused. Could someone explain???
That is the greatest bit of sarcasm I have ever seen. Well done!
How does that confuse you? Their obviously based off of African Rhino Beetles.
@dalphabanana Wait, so they're not based on the emperor scorpion?
@@nininhosam they’re clearly based on Lancelots
I've always had the headcanon that Bretta belongs to one of the beetle species who can fly. That would explain why and how you initially find her in a cave you can't climb up to without the Mantis Claw. It's also funny because large beetles are famous for being clumsy fliers that constantly crash into stuff, and that fits Bretta very well.
"they just cranked her sex appeal *down* a few notches"
You sir are scaring me
Nah man, Cornifer is a sex icon and his wife is kinda basic. I think it’s *you* who needs to rethink your values. /s
@@alcole-holic8779 Your right corny is by far the sexiest bug in hallownest.
With the corpse creepers in close second
@@swampcooler8332 Ah, I see you have been enlightened.
@@swampcooler8332 I think flukemarm sits near the top somewhere but its dubious whether flukemarm is actually a bug.
I mean, taking into account the fact that they are bugs, perhaps it is cranked down from a bug's perspective...... maybe?....
In the Gruz Mother section, you forgot one thing. Its called a blowfly. When blowfly's die, their abdomen splits open and maggots come out, though not fully grown flies.
i had blowfly maggots on my window for weeks as a hunting trophy and they crawled around and starved and turned into dry boogers
@@blunderbuss1395 the hell?
"What was weird" @@blunderbuss1395
Under every rock, every patch of grass and every tree branch the entire Hollow Knight story could be taking place. Truly magical and awe-inspiring
I’ve actually never thought of that. Cool point!
yeah, everytime I walk by a tree I can see bugs worshipping a moth-like divine entity, that uses its divine infection powers to stop another divine entity from creating an interconnected kingdom, while they all have to fight against a void substance that corrupts everything
@@franckzz4409 Damn, you too bro?
if I ever see a magic soul wielding bug under a rock I'm getting the heck out of there
I just like to think this happens in a random persons backyard .
Amazing video! Honestly, Hollow Knight and Bug Fables are like definitive proof that indies with bugs as character design are based.
just you wait until skatebird gets its full release
tomorrow for sure... Oh wait, wrong channel. XD
@@iransgamesrommel8985 For sure…
Bug fables 🤝hollow knight
Amazing games abut bugs
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9:28
"Iselda is the same species as well, they just cranked her sex appeal DOWN a few notches"
Gotta love these subtle jokes in the videos
I love those
I was hoping someone noticed that lmao 😂
I just got that notch joke now that you mentioned it. I’m so stupid sometimes.
mossbags monotone deadpan voice makes it 100 times funnier
I Think she’s supposed to be a mosquito
Thanks for confirming that the cicadas in my backyard are actually void.
I'm pretty sure entomologists aren't really bugged (lol) by the artistic liberties taken by the team, but rather take issue with being called "bug scientists"
Yep they would be like INSECT AND BUG SCIENTISTS THANK YOU VERY MUCH
@@emmad4308 actually insect scientist is more accurate, although it did indeed annoy me for about a milisecond before I realized I have virtually nothing to be upset about beside people not calling us by our official name. but anyway, as mossbag mentioned in their cornifer section, bugs is actually a very misused term and only refers to a few insects. specifically insects of the order hemiptera. and while a lot of entomologist is kind of a pretty broad term, as they can study insects along with other arthropods, generally entomology is considered the study of insects while those who specialize in the study of other arthropods are given another name, such as arachnologists. also, on hollow knights portrayal of real life arthropods, I don't really mind it! I think it would lose its appeal to many players, and lose the appeal of its fantastical elements. also, I'm also an artist, I really enjoy the creative liberties taken. sorry this got long, I'm very passionate about these creatures lmao
@@thefluffyaj4119 I love the passion and thank you for introducing me to the word arachnologist
I feel Etymologists would have more issue with semantics like that :P
@@thefluffyaj4119 i appreciate your input as an entomologists but a bug scientist your are. If you want to bargain.. best I can do is bug and beetles scientist.. or maybe creepy-crawlist
Something about the Pale King, actually. A Wyrm isn't a type of worm, but instead a large, limbless dragon or sea serpent, so the Pale King's Wyrm form could either be a dragon, or a snake, the latter being most likely. (I got the snake part from sea serpent, which a serpent is a kind of large snake, which would perfectly fit the size of the Pale Wyrm compared to the rest of the bugs of Hallownest.)
The hole you enter the cast-off shell through is most likely the Wyrm's mouth, which a giant hole with teeth doesn't really sound like a reptilian skull. Also, wyrms were probably named that by Team Cherry because it sounds like the creature they would be based on (worms) and also to sound cool, not because they wanted their wyrms to be based on traditional reptilian fiction wyrms.
Aqui agregare algo: Wyrm me recuerda a los trepatumbas de Terraria que pueden que esten basados en los gusanos de Dune
Everybody gangsta until orange bubbles appears in your backyard
Not the infected balloons
@@sm0llqueen289 just get defenders crest
**orange christmas music**
@@tnboom7179 ik
*Munching on orange bubbles*
Wait, these aren't Mandarin Oranges?
"Crafting lore videos using real life ecology is a bad idea" and "I will find you" sounds like a threat to matpat
As it should be
That’s exactly what I was thinking
It probably is
What do you mean
The many worlds theory he likes to shove in
One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that many of the bugs in Hallownest wear masks - For the denizens of the city of tears especially, wearing masks was a sign that they were "better" than any outsiders, especially the mantises, who don't wear them. The spiders in Deepnest also wear masks, but for them they function more like armor than a sign of social status.
Sorry mossbag, i am not aware of this whole "real life" thing. i for one spend my time at dinner parties explaining why hornet canonically isnt void
You are doing God's work man
Wait how
Is not void but is not waifu
Keep up the good work. Even if you weren't invited, these people need to know the truth. Hornet is not void!
@Ya Mum hornet is screen transitions
I’m studying entomology in college right now, and your video is very well researched! As for the young mantises, they could be based on mantidflies. They’re in the same order as lacewings and antlions, and many also mimic wasps and bees, which could be where the idea for the stinger comes from.
Thank you! The research phase was daunting, but glad you think I did a good job with it!
I personally love the theory that Bardoon is the Radiance in larval form. I know it's not canon, but it's a fun thought.
What if the radiance is Bardoon's mother? What then, I say?!
@@sapphis_lazuli That's a valid concept actually
bugs weren't just picked because they're easy to draw, I imagine they were also picked because you can pick a random species of bug and still get a really interesting character design out of it
Unlike mammals which are mostly similar and overrated.
@@alinarichert3448 just like people
@@skyt_yt7810 people are mammals 🙄
@@bakunnn2239 one of those annoying and overrated “people” I see
@@ravioleetv3833 cant be overrated if no one loves you 😎
Some insect corrections/observations, from a wannabe entomologist.
-ALL arthropods shed their exoskeleton as they grow. All of them. Not just a few species.
-16:09 those are mealworms, a type pf grub. Not maggots
-Damselflies fulfill the same role as dragonflies as predators, but their prey is smaller.
-The tiktik is probably more likely based on a scale bug
-I don't think blood worms become anything other than blood worms. They are not arthropods.
Anyways, FANTASTIC video. Honestly I really enjoyed the amount of love and effort put into this. It brings me joy to see other people taking interest in bugs!!
Thanks for the corrections, glad you liked it!
no problem!! thanks for taking the time to read this!! ^^
Also, cloth could be a cicada larvae before it molts into the more iconic cicada form we’re used to.
I'm no bug scientist but I always thought Wyatt was a lantern bug.
I mean I think Tiktiks are actually just based on Zoomers from Metroid
11:13 I swear to god when that happened. I was on 2 hearts from the mantises and if i died I wouldn’t get my shade back and i had about 4000 geo and when i heard cloths clicking sound, I had a heart attack I thought, I dont know the mantis berserker would burst out and start a boss fight and I was so glad when i found the one that came out was friendly.
Edit: for anyone who’s here and hasn’t played the mantis village yet, the mantis berserker does not exist, thats just a random boss i made up just now.
Yeah, I thought cloth was an enemy and I did not have the health, so I first met her in ancient basin
I tried to swing at her when she first popped out of the ground because I was so startled, I'm just glad you usually can't damage npcs because I would have been crushed if I hurt her.
Man, Tier Zoo collabs with everyone. He's probably the most collabable youtuber out there.
@Robert Thompson Nope it was a spongebob thing that they both did
He even learn Chess from GotahmChess in a video. TierZoo is taking over TH-cam one genre at a time. Wonder what him and his friends are doing with Nebula.
it's how I feel productive without actually making videos
Tom Scott disagrees
@@TierZoo the man himself even replies to comment!
Nosk as an Ant Mimic Spider makes a lot of sense. Especially since ant mimics are Jumping Spiders that hunt by ambushing their prey from above. They don't use the mimicry to fool prey, though- it's actually to deter predators, since you don't mess with an ant unless you're prepared to mess with the entire anthill.
14:52 That fact shocked me because i am thinking all that time that these two black circles are eyes. If it's not eyes than eyes it's that two small white "teeth"?
I wish there was a dragonfly boss in hollow knight. They'd probably be like a literal dragon.
@@riley_-zm8vr I had an idea for an ocean cliffs area with a dragonfly boss east of crystal peak and a desert area with an antlion boss west of the howling cliffs, but the idea is too complex for me to write here
You can play that its called dark Souls-
Silksong
The Hunter did mention something breathing fire when commenting about the Shardmite.
If there was dragonfly boss, then the real life version would be a dragonfly
I'm still waiting for my full lore video about me and no one else.
your lore is: *mapper by trade*
me too kid
Soon my friend, soon.
@@purevessel4801 friend?
@@cornifer5261 did I stutter
I had an OC named Gripper, who was planned to be a grasshopper, cursed with a dark and terrifying blade. But after seeing the Mask Maker's close counterpart, I think Imma go back to my other storytelling stuff
And then there’s Grimm, who is the Oddball of the entire game. The closest insect that Grimm might be is a Calyptra, or the Vampire Moth.
? WOW
Or the living mushrooms..
Also just a bat
I always thought Grimm was supposed to be a tick,cause bloosucking bug and his pufferfish form always reminded me of a bloated tick
Spotted lanternfly
my headcannon for Dr. Chagax is that the fact that his career as a doctor is unsatisfactory is a nod to real life dr Evandro Chagas, who after discovering the chagas disease went on to make a medical foundation who is widely known nowadays for being very bad at its job
br por aqui?
@@lmsesh r/Suddenlycaralho
what chagas???
Oloko que dó :(
The one who discovered Chagas disease was his father, Carlos Chagas
I've always thought of Leg Eater and Divine as being part termite and part mantis. The termite part from general body structure and the implications given by Leggy that he wants to become a king and also that his eyesight is poor, and the mantis part from the shape of their forelimbs and the fact that Divine eats Leggy supposedly after they mate, which is a characteristic of mantises.
What did his parents expect when they named their kid “The Last Stag?”
To be fair you don't just name your kid Elderbug
@@-jaxthelostman-3160 in one of the beta trailers we see a young elderbug,
"elder" is a title given to someone who has come of an old age
this implies that elderbug's birth name is "Bug"
@@camoking3609 Thats worse than I could have imagined
@@camoking3609 but he never saw the stagways open so he is very young, even younger than hornet
im pretty sure he never got a name, just called stag, he named himself because of his old age and memory and his belief that he's the last remaining stag, after going into stag nest and exploring the area, we find a broken egg which made the stag believe that he isn't the last stag, thus renaming him the "Old Stag"
"Dragonflies are apex predators"
"Loo isn´t a apex predator because he is DEAD"
I died to that
just like Loo
He still looks cool as fuck
@@themustardman219 Welp, I cant deny that
Noo*
I love that when talking about cornifer, he took like 30 seconds of listing bugs before he got to the conifer seed bug
I'm proud of myself for getting through that spider section
i’m proud of myself for getting through this video at all smh
@@somehippies hah yeah that's life
Fucking deepnest and weavers den
Spider whaa?
Me too man arachnophobia sucks
"Bardoon appears to be a silk worm that eventually turns into the silk moth."
Could you imagine a hollow knight game being about exploring a bug world being guided bardoon as he is getting ready to enter his pupa and then fighting him as the radiance reincarnated.
silk worm, silk moth, silk *song*
@@somedude6708
Holy
Bardoon could be a wandering demigod, visiting the corpses and domains of other gods (like the Cast-Off Shell and Hallownest itself), while he waits for his pupation into something grander...
Though I don't think he'd be a malevolent god like The Radiance. TR only got that way after she stopped being worshipped and was forgotten by her previous followers; Bardoon would be a brand new god without any reason to take revenge.
their having to recreate silksong to make this game, this is the third time
Holy-
There are actually a couple pink butterfly species, none that look particularly like the one in hollow knight though. Look up the paradise phantom though, its a cool pink butterfly.
"The Dung Defender took inspiration from Steven Segal." I'm dying right now
Can you explain the joke pls? Don’t really know who the guy is :/
@@Sasha-zx5et I don't really know much about him, but Steven Seagal is an old action movie star turned nutcase. I recommend watching Jon Tron's video about him.
@@kiddf4ygo821 ironic mentioning JonTron when talking about someone who turned out to be a nutcase
@@Sasha-zx5et as the other person said, he's an old actor, but recently, in addition to allegations of sexual assault, he's apparently started supporting Vladimir Putin. the joke would be that Putin is a shit person/leader, so he's defending dung
@@Sasha-zx5et watch jontrons vid on him
Soooo... did we accidentally intrude on the dung defender and isma’s love nest then?
It's important to know that a wyrm is actually a mythological legless dragonlike creature.
I've always thought that it's called Wyrm not only because it sounds like worm, but also to show those creatures could be the bug equivalent of a mythological creature as dragons
I have 300 hours on this game and only just now noticed how thick Cornifer is
Extra
*T h i c c*
Sometimes, we don't notice the grander things in life until we pause along the way.
"You are a male Mantis with a child and their head still attached, are you a proud father?"
Traitor Lord: lol she died anyways this orange jello is amazing
Maybe he was saved by that orange jello
2:46: I think william pellen did a brilliant job with the voice of Salubra. I mean, he did program the game and wrote a lot of the lines, but Salubra’s voice is just perfect and better than all of that. Truly incredible.
The Pale King is walking around the castle, a bug comes up to him and says:
- Your Majesty ... Your back is white.
In buzzsaws you go!
A giant blue bird came down and starts screeching at said bug, calling them a racist.
\*adjusts monocle*
Hohoho, Twitter indeed bad.
\*sips wine*
Cool bug fact: with team cherry being based in Australia, bugs are all they knew.
Considering it's australias wild life perhaps some of these designs aren't even that far of a stretch
@@gamemasterpzm Wouldn't be surprised if Wyrms are real there
So the bugs are actually that big in australia, that would explain why lumaflies are smaller
Next bug I want is the creatonotos gangis moth. Just search up "creatonotos gangis moth tentacles," it's the perfect fit of something that crawled straight out of the deepest part of hell.
@@spookyscarylamppost3431 Jesus man, I just looked it up and that thing looks like a pre-evolution of a face hugger
I thought you might like to know that I've taken to using this video to try and help myself get over my arachnophobia. So far I managed to make it all the way to the ant mimic spiders without scrolling down into the comments, and that honestly surprises me! Maybe someday I'll be able to watch the whole spider part without scrolling, either way thanks for (unintentionally) making something that might help with that :D (seriously I need to get over this, I nearly fell backwards from a set of stairs because of a spood a few days ago)
Update: made it to the whip spider this time!
Made it to the tarantulaaaaa
William Pellen solely credited as the voice of Salubra really cracked me up.
cheese from the fridge in hand, let's go
19:39 perhaps this is why when using the defenders crest charm you get the dialogue of smelling disgustingly great and are offered a discount?
Precept Forty-Five: 'One Thing Is Not Another'
This one should be obvious, but I've had others try to argue that one thing, which is clearly what it is and not something else, is actually some other thing, which it isn't. Stay on your guard!
Once again, the great teacher's precepts hold true. We are in awe of your wisdom great one!
Didn't I defeat you?
Before Hollow Knight I would never have been able to look at close-ups of bugs for 30 minutes, but now it feels weirdly normal
ikr 🐜
Same, HK and Bugfables helped me tolerate them a little bit more
Same, except spiders, i still cant tolerate them
Playing Hollow Knight and watch this kind of videos help me a lot with my fobia of seeing or touch any kind of bugs, but well i'm not still being able to touch bugs cause their still scare me a lot lmao
15:32 TAKE THAT BACK YOU MONSTER
28:06 Ok that is true
'They're native to Madagascar so keep an eye out next time you're passing through' - this is the kind of casual humour I love from mossbag
I had like 10 different urges to check myself for ticks or bugs or whatever while watching this
Stop, now I'm doing that
or a 2 foot long spider resting on your foot poised to attack withs it sharp, piercing fangs that will make the insides of your flesh burn
@@unlimited8410 I hate you.
Same
Food
I'm an amateur entomologist and I love that this game has a lot of insect representation and is as popular as it is.
Insects are incredibly interesting and often beautiful creatures.
Do you mean entomologist?
@@rinastar1952 yes, LOL
Ikr? Insects are so cool
The moment when Steven Seagal has more to do with HK than Hollywood.
28:39 That picture shows gnat larvae, which are also commonly called bloodworms, but they're insects, unlike the copper chloride toothed bloodworms which are a type of bristleworm.
Thanks for the correction!
@Jonatan Vilks Rydell E
@@mossbag69
Hi
Have you ever seen a caterpillar called Herona marathus?
I find it remarkably similar to the hollow knight
@@АлексейГоршков-щ4ч I thought it would maybe look a little bit like the Knight... I looked it up and the first image immediately was almost identical. The resemblance is insane, even if it's potentially a coincidence
Gyatt larvae
8:40
“Cornifers nose tends to just flop around, not unlike a wet hotdog”
*NOOOOOOOOOOO! NOW I CAN’T UNSEE ITTTT!!!!*
28:02 "humongous fungus" I laughed way to hard at this lol
Amogus
When real life is sus
Amogus
Hugh mungus chungus
amongu
this man seriously just tricked me into spending 30 minutes learning about bugs
15:15 Actually, the dad is sacrificing himself as a cacoon.
I always thought The Old Stag looked like a flea for some reason. Probably due to his uncanny ability to not die
8:13 "it's not his nose, it's his mouth" damn! no wonder he got that trophy wife of his
If she were to play basketball she would dunk almost anyone that is not giant
it took me a fucking second to understand this comment and i choked when i did
@@snailfen congrats
@@snailfen I still can't
AA, take my like and leave
This guy loves Hollow Knight so much he became an Entomologist
"God has an inordinate fondness for beetles" - J.B.S. Haldane
"If you want to survive in this world, cover yourself in armour and roll shit around." - Tupac
I always thought the watcher knights are probably Atlas Beetles based on their colours and looks, and the fact they're in the watcher tower, and the word Atlas is usually connected to things like that I think?
Tell me, how tf did you get through 25 minutes of Antz???
The things we do while waiting for Silksong...
lol
I believe Nosk is based off of Mimi, a villain in Super Paper Mario character. She changes to a spider in kind of the same way, twisting her head upside down while slowly turning to a spider. She can also shapeshift too. Also, small detail, Mimi climbs onto the ceiling, dropping rubees, just like how Nosk drops infection stuff when he jumps onto the ceiling. Just thought I would share that.
mossbag: silksong will be out by the end of the week
Me 10 years later: dead inside
I like that they’re not restricted to being accurate to real life bugs. They’re unique bug like fantasy creatures and I think bug features provide an awesome design aesthetic for the game
Can't believe mother nature looked at team cherry and thought "I'm gonna do that and take full credit for it."
Damn, salubra voice actor should have more recognition from the fanbase
@@AxolBedwars 2:45
GigiCatAnimates yes it is a joke
@@AxolBedwars It's pretty easy to see that this is a joke...
@@AxolBedwars it's a joke
@@AxolBedwars
It's a joke. x4
They made hornets who try to kill you for no reason in real life too, gamers are crazyy
I've now decided that the clearest picture of the insect world created by games is Bug Fables lore with Hollow Knight tone and Dwarf Fortress gameplay.
What this video mainly taught me:
1. Those weird noises in the Fungal Wastes aren’t just acid cracklings and it’s actually Cloth (who is a cicada)
2: Mossbag acknowledges the existence of Bug Fables
4:00 I always thought the "generic husk" was way more pill bug-like than beetle-y.
Creators: "Hey guys bugs are neat and we made a game with them :)"
HK Fandom: "NO THESE BUGS ARE WRONG but we love them anyway :)"
I always thought the Pale King's wyrm form was more like a bobbit worm, a type of bristle worm. Barboon talks about how large wyrms are and the largest recorded bobbit worm is nearly 10 ft long, which within a kingdom of normal-sized bugs, would be MASSIVE.
Yeah but Bobbit worm fangs aren't arranged in nearly the same pattern as the wyrm husk. Cause they have the two large mandibles but I like the idea and the size definitely fits with the game.
"I've hit my upload quota for this half of the year"
Please TeamCherry, release Silksong news so that mossbag does not desert us once more.
My personal theory is that Grimm doesn't quite look like a bug because he was created by a higher being (The Nightmare Heart), just like the Knight, THK, and even Hornet are descendants of a higher being (Pale King).
I will never look at Hollow Knight the same way again...
I'll never look at real life the same way again
23 seconds ago, the Mossbag returned
mossbag*
It’s no longer 23 seconds false dislike report
The return of the Moss.
Can’t believe Hollow Knight was so popular they made it in real life, truly revolutionary
As someone who is studying to be an entomologist, specifically in beetles, I fucking loved this video
Two mossbag uploads in less than a month? I must be dreaming
you spelled mossbag wrong
I don't know if I'm right, but one of the enemies in Royal Waterways, the Pilflip, resembles the extinct genus Hallucigenia from the Cambrian period (it's not an insect, though).
I thought it was amazing that scientists were actually confused about the animal's back spikes, thinking they were legs. The game illustrated this confusion well, making the Pilflip able to walk on both sides. Ingenious detail only Paleontology enthusiasts noticed =)
So what I'm getting is that, like us, the bugs of Hollow Knight live in a society
I feel like the "see you in august" thing wasn't a joke