Fantastical adaptations, indeed! The "fairy" part of their name is well justified. Microscopic multicellular animals and macroscopic unicellular organisms are both fascinating to me- it seems like it should be impossible, yet multiple examples exist. Nature and evolution never cease to amaze!
Bro, you do realize nature is nasty and brutal, right? That’s why you live in society and civilization, typing comfortably behind your electronic device. Go try living in a state of nature and dying a miserable death from a parasite that eats your insides in your early 20s. How’s that for “amazing”?
@@crypastesomemore8348 I think you are overlooking the natural fact that every organism has a goal to pass on its lineage. How each does this is unique and "amazing" even if it involves destruction of other life. You yourself are alive and are a host of life that destroys other life so you can live. It's not brutal or nasty to be alive and perform the functions needed to remain so.
I have such a soft spot for these insects, and I'm not sure why. There's just something endearing about a bug that is so tiny, _their wings are the equivalent of a single feather._
Statements such as "smaller than a single-cellular organism" lost all meaning to me after I learned that xenophyophores exist. Once you have single cells larger than some mice, the scale starts to fall apart.
@@4piecespicy589 yes, since we ourselves are made up of millions of what we scientifically classify as "cells". However, it's totally scientifically valid to theorize that because of all the interactions and dependencies between different organisms and ecosystems, all life on earth could be seen as one big meta-organism or lifeform which we are only a tiny part of, the equivalent to a cell in our human body.
@@4piecespicy589 a "single celled" organism? yeah it's impossible, by the conventional definition of "cell", because each of us is made up of at least one cell.
Me too! I'm 38 and having to start my life all over again. It's tough, but I'm excited. I've gone into zoology in the hopes of broadening my career options.
@@isaacfoster1377 Heh heh, I like just about every living thing to be honest! I really wish we'd acknowledge the beauty of life more as a society.... Except the mosquito and the brain eating amoeba. They can burn in the pits of hell.
@@invaderxim9893 I'm fine with the amoeba it wouldn't effect 90% of the population. I agree not enough attention to the sub-cosmos right below are feet its both beautiful and fascinating 👍🏻🤡👍🏻 best of luck with your endeavors and stay happy and wiggle on. 🐛
Wait, WHAT?? A _tenth‽‽_ of a millimeter?? Not just less than a millimeter, one species is so short that nearly TEN of them fit into a millimeter‽‽ Hang on while I pick my jaw up off the freaking ground! This is ASTOUNDING!!
What an extreme of miniaturisation!. What an amazing suite of adaptations. I knew there are very small insects, but these are just amazing and bizarre! Thanks for a very informative presentation. Ultimate male minimalism: sex and death before hatching. And I thought anglerfish males were the extreme!
Great video, thank you so much. Just one little nitpick. The insect pictured @4:35 -3:50 is not a fairy fly but a member of the order Pscocptera, known as booklice, barklice or barkflies. I love bugs!
From time to time, I do see these teeny tiny guys appearing in my home. I always wondered about their peculiar feather like wings. Now I know more - thanks a lot!
I'd expect to see wings like that on the back of a thrips more than the back of a cute little wasp. Neat! Makes me wonder about how the similarities in their structures came about.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy I’m 100% positive at this point. I honestly thought it was an ant at the time but it would make sense ants are descendents of wasps so they would look a lot alike. The sting was unmistakable it almost feels like an electrocution freeze and a burn all at once.
Insects are so fascinating to have on our planet, what would happen if we did not have any Insects on our planet? I love being entomologist so much to learn. Great job Henry keep it up.
*A GREAT content, as always* but the presentation needs some work: if you can, please: 1) talk a little slower 2) make more distinct pauses 3) better accentuate within sentences
It's kind of wild that the size of insects can very between microscopic to over a foot long. They really are one of the most adaptable kinds of animal.
Hey! It is not the size of the fly that matters! It's the biz in the buzz that matters. Some may actually enjoy a small fly. Big sloppy, clumsy, ugly, bloated, flies do not make up for technique. Respect the fairyfly!
I thought I heard of them before they seemed so familiar! Never knew what they were called tho, this was super interesting thanks for making this video :)
Us girls just love you and your videos Henry dear!!! This was really interesting!( but then again, aren’t they all!) Thank you once more for more info to learn!!!!♥️🤗😉🥰‼️☮️🕉🧚🏻♀️🐞😘
Hello! Great video Please can you pronunce the names of some of these creatures you talk about, more slowly and clearly Thank you 😊... oh and slow down a bit, if WiFi is limited, I do and indeed will understand Thanks again...great video
They remind me of when I try to make the smallest creature I can in spore. Anyways I bet when life was first evolving from single celled organisms they started out looking something like fairy flies, but I assume way less complex.
This makes me think that we are the size of fairy flies to a much much larger being. A being or beings we are incapable of even noticing. Yet, they probably noticed us.
Yup! It's so small it can fly using teeny tiny hairs rather than full paddle shaped wings like more "normal" sized insects. (Exciting to see a Tenno in the wild, by the way!)
@Henry the PaleoGuy Serious, Important Question: Do any of these faerie flies parasitise the Asian tiger mosquito? Nevermind that this latter species has essentially replaced Native, endemic mosqito species in much of North America; the introduced species better spreads diseases, such as West Nile virus, among others, and have made being outside at all hours an absolute horror show. I use _Bacillus thuringensis_ in my one, small garden "pond" (cement, bathtub size), but I can't use those discs to treat every dew drop in my yard. I know, introducing one foreign species to control another can be a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't want to introduce a species of faerie fly that would impinge on various other species of Native insects. But ffs, we need help dealing with these tiny, swarming bastards, which have also made many people in the Eastern U.S. allergic to all mosquito bites. On me, their bites become abscessed, creating pit scars. When trying to do yard work, I get on average 25 bites per limb per hour. That's a lot of itchy, scarring, potentially diseased bites, and I'm just one person (living with artificial hips, and undetectable HIV for almost half my life). Can anyone, please, help me, and the environs of the U.S.?
The loss of wings is fairly common among Hymenoptera but some of the illustrations appear to show two-winged individuals as opposed to four wings common for this group. Is this true?
Oh I get the science, it's a bit like counting all the stars and planets in a galaxy! The 'How'ing and 'Do'ing I've found are quite often very different creatures; especially under microscopes! :D Only ever done palaeo-fauna, ancient pollen and seeds; though far easier and larger (in comp.) it's harder on the eyes looking directly rather than by screen!
I don’t understand your accent. Usually there are closed captioning options but not in this vid. Future reference please allow English auto generated CC
How do you kill them. These little bastards always get into my apartment and drive me crazy. They love to go in your eyes/ears/nose/face, but are almost impossible to see when in flight. They drive me crazy and make me want to burn my house down just to get a few
Fantastical adaptations, indeed! The "fairy" part of their name is well justified. Microscopic multicellular animals and macroscopic unicellular organisms are both fascinating to me- it seems like it should be impossible, yet multiple examples exist. Nature and evolution never cease to amaze!
Bro, you do realize nature is nasty and brutal, right? That’s why you live in society and civilization, typing comfortably behind your electronic device. Go try living in a state of nature and dying a miserable death from a parasite that eats your insides in your early 20s. How’s that for “amazing”?
@@crypastesomemore8348 I think you are overlooking the natural fact that every organism has a goal to pass on its lineage. How each does this is unique and "amazing" even if it involves destruction of other life. You yourself are alive and are a host of life that destroys other life so you can live. It's not brutal or nasty to be alive and perform the functions needed to remain so.
@@crypastesomemore8348 Your reply is oddly confrontational for someone saying that they find nature cool and interesting
@@crypastesomemore8348 you live by consuming other organisms too, and those organisms die so you can live. Is that also nasty and brutal?
@@crypastesomemore8348 you're a smoothbrain.
I have such a soft spot for these insects, and I'm not sure why. There's just something endearing about a bug that is so tiny, _their wings are the equivalent of a single feather._
Feathers do vary in size I think sooo not the best comparison
@@G59forlife. I think you're looking at the comparison the wrong way lmao
@@insignificantduck313 maybe but I dont feel like using my last 2 brain cells to find where I messed up
@@G59forlife.I don’t understand either. These people just suck!
Statements such as "smaller than a single-cellular organism" lost all meaning to me after I learned that xenophyophores exist. Once you have single cells larger than some mice, the scale starts to fall apart.
Then just specify an appropriately small eukaryote such as a paramecium
Is it to far off to assume we are part of a single celled organism?
@@4piecespicy589 yes, since we ourselves are made up of millions of what we scientifically classify as "cells". However, it's totally scientifically valid to theorize that because of all the interactions and dependencies between different organisms and ecosystems, all life on earth could be seen as one big meta-organism or lifeform which we are only a tiny part of, the equivalent to a cell in our human body.
@@4piecespicy589 a "single celled" organism? yeah it's impossible, by the conventional definition of "cell", because each of us is made up of at least one cell.
Ostrich eggs are single cells too arent they?
Sometimes nature just goes, "this seems to work, let's do it HARDER."
Nature min maxes hard
No it doesn’t
They are truly beautiful creatures, it’s so amazing that insects can evolve to be this small!
Also weirder stuff is epic music 👌
Most definitely! And yes, I always try to find the best music I can for these videos. :)
@@HenrythePaleoGuy you need 1 million subscribers
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Is this Brian Eno & Harold Budd, by any chance?
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Henry the music is great there is nothing wrong the it.
Everything about these wasps is extreme. Never seen any of these traits in another insect outside of parasitization of eggs.
Self-destructing nuclei, now that's something I never expected to see in a multicellular organism. What fantastic adaptations for tiny size!
Your name is perfect
Mind blowing!!!! Absolutely the most flipping craziest thing I've heard of in nature all year!!! She really is magnificent!!!
I just started my journey in becoming a biologist, and I'm considering studying these guys! I never even knew they existed before!
Me too! I'm 38 and having to start my life all over again. It's tough, but I'm excited. I've gone into zoology in the hopes of broadening my career options.
You like insects... dont you... XIMENA DONT YOU
Good luck hope you find your path.
@@isaacfoster1377 Heh heh, I like just about every living thing to be honest!
I really wish we'd acknowledge the beauty of life more as a society....
Except the mosquito and the brain eating amoeba. They can burn in the pits of hell.
@@invaderxim9893 I'm fine with the amoeba it wouldn't effect 90% of the population. I agree not enough attention to the sub-cosmos right below are feet its both beautiful and fascinating
👍🏻🤡👍🏻 best of luck with your endeavors and stay happy and wiggle on. 🐛
I never knew... thanks for this beautifully crafted video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A _millimeter_ long? _Long?_ Holy freaking Toledo!
This is fascinating! I knew they were small, but not _that_ small! Wow!
Wait, WHAT?? A _tenth‽‽_ of a millimeter?? Not just less than a millimeter, one species is so short that nearly TEN of them fit into a millimeter‽‽ Hang on while I pick my jaw up off the freaking ground! This is ASTOUNDING!!
So glad you did fairyflies!!!!! They are so fascinating!!!!! And love the Brian Eno in the background!!!! :)
This kinda blew my mind omg thanks for sharing 😭♥️
You're welcome! :)
More to come!
Amazing.
This is one of your best videos.
A smooth presentation.
Appreciate the work that went into the making .
What an extreme of miniaturisation!. What an amazing suite of adaptations. I knew there are very small insects, but these are just amazing and bizarre! Thanks for a very informative presentation.
Ultimate male minimalism: sex and death before hatching. And I thought anglerfish males were the extreme!
Insects as a while are just an amazing diverse group of animals!
One of those creatures that'd you never know about if it weren't for videos like this one! Good job!
Great video. For info, the image used at 4:35 is a barkfly (Psocoptera) rather than a fairy wasp.
Great video, thank you so much.
Just one little nitpick. The insect pictured @4:35 -3:50 is not a fairy fly but a member of the order Pscocptera, known as booklice, barklice or barkflies.
I love bugs!
Evolution just pushed this animal to extreme level
The most extreme to be sure!
i’m afraid of bugs. watching this video is a dare.
They could be anywhere at any time! ;)
Amazing video, Henry!
One of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen. Please keep making them.
Aww, they are kinda cute. X3
3:30
Oh, they are parasitoid wasps. Time to pull out the flamethrower. ;I
You need 1 million subscriber and wetas occasionally pop up around the house
ahh man youre lucky I think those things are suuuper cool, I'd find it super hard not to keep one as a pet
I hope to get their are some point, although it'll take a while!
And that sounds cool as well!
From time to time, I do see these teeny tiny guys appearing in my home. I always wondered about their peculiar feather like wings. Now I know more - thanks a lot!
I'd expect to see wings like that on the back of a thrips more than the back of a cute little wasp. Neat! Makes me wonder about how the similarities in their structures came about.
Henry the PaleoGuy, great video. The image shown at 4:40 I think is Psocoptera as opposed to Mymaridae.
I got stung under my shirt once by a tiny tiny bug I was trying to tell everyone it felt like a wasp sting but everyone kept saying I was wrong.
May very well have been one.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy I’m 100% positive at this point. I honestly thought it was an ant at the time but it would make sense ants are descendents of wasps so they would look a lot alike. The sting was unmistakable it almost feels like an electrocution freeze and a burn all at once.
Insects are so fascinating to have on our planet, what would happen if we did not have any Insects on our planet? I love being entomologist so much to learn. Great job Henry keep it up.
*A GREAT content, as always* but the presentation needs some work: if you can, please:
1) talk a little slower
2) make more distinct pauses
3) better accentuate within sentences
Dont try so hard to sound clear
It's kind of wild that the size of insects can very between microscopic to over a foot long. They really are one of the most adaptable kinds of animal.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Anyone else paranoid of bugs this size crawling inside your ears or nose while you sleep to lay eggs 💀
I LOVE FAIRY FLIES NOW
Sci show did a video on this and decided to release it on April fools. Until now I was certain they were ficticious and a really convincing joke
_"Insects, as a whole..."_ indeed. 👍😁
Henry... Thank you for playing music for airport's. Now I'm basically a mess 😭😭😭 lol but it fit beautifully ✌️👌✌️
Thank you for the in-depth video
Hey! It is not the size of the fly that matters! It's the biz in the buzz that matters. Some may actually enjoy a small fly. Big sloppy, clumsy, ugly, bloated, flies do not make up for technique. Respect the fairyfly!
I thought I heard of them before they seemed so familiar! Never knew what they were called tho, this was super interesting thanks for making this video :)
Glad you enjoyed!
I think I've might have seen one by chance, very interesting insect.
the hardest thing to squish
Us girls just love you and your videos Henry dear!!! This was really interesting!( but then again, aren’t they all!) Thank you once more for more info to learn!!!!♥️🤗😉🥰‼️☮️🕉🧚🏻♀️🐞😘
haha awesome comment, he is quite the looker though no? =)
you both are bing a little creepy. please try not to flirt with a stranger on the internet who has shown 0 interest in flirting?
Didn't even know these funky guys existed till now :0
I'm glad you now do. :)
Choice Bro
so small that air feels like liquid
Fairyflies sure are down lovely insects,that so happen to be very small,also this was awesome video
Hello! Great video
Please can you pronunce the names of some of these creatures you talk about, more slowly and clearly
Thank you 😊... oh and slow down a bit, if WiFi is limited, I do and indeed will understand
Thanks again...great video
Fascinating!
You've encountered a wild Cutiefly!
"Wasps" is such a funny word if you say it multuple times. Try it
They remind me of when I try to make the smallest creature I can in spore. Anyways I bet when life was first evolving from single celled organisms they started out looking something like fairy flies, but I assume way less complex.
What do you mean by "like?" The first animals were comb jellies and sponges. Dunno if that's what you were looking for.
@@blizzard2508-k7n I was not aware of that. Thank you for the information.
Their wings are indeed beautiful and remind of fairies!
This makes me think that we are the size of fairy flies to a much much larger being. A being or beings we are incapable of even noticing. Yet, they probably noticed us.
Incredible creatures. They seem to straddle the line between animal and microbe
It seems a big deal that we have no idea about the prevalence or extinction status of this genus.
1:06 to put it in perspective... what you are looking at....
this bug is so fucking small that those lines arent wing veins... those are micro hairs.
Yup! It's so small it can fly using teeny tiny hairs rather than full paddle shaped wings like more "normal" sized insects.
(Exciting to see a Tenno in the wild, by the way!)
Whoa how fascinating 😍
At 4:40 that image is a Psocid not a "Fairyfly"
Nature is fucking metal...
Four males of the smallest variety lined up side by side, would barely cover the width of the period at the end of this sentence.
@Henry the PaleoGuy
Serious, Important Question: Do any of these faerie flies parasitise the Asian tiger mosquito? Nevermind that this latter species has essentially replaced Native, endemic mosqito species in much of North America; the introduced species better spreads diseases, such as West Nile virus, among others, and have made being outside at all hours an absolute horror show. I use _Bacillus thuringensis_ in my one, small garden "pond" (cement, bathtub size), but I can't use those discs to treat every dew drop in my yard. I know, introducing one foreign species to control another can be a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't want to introduce a species of faerie fly that would impinge on various other species of Native insects. But ffs, we need help dealing with these tiny, swarming bastards, which have also made many people in the Eastern U.S. allergic to all mosquito bites. On me, their bites become abscessed, creating pit scars. When trying to do yard work, I get on average 25 bites per limb per hour. That's a lot of itchy, scarring, potentially diseased bites, and I'm just one person (living with artificial hips, and undetectable HIV for almost half my life). Can anyone, please, help me, and the environs of the U.S.?
The loss of wings is fairly common among Hymenoptera but some of the illustrations appear to show two-winged individuals as opposed to four wings common for this group. Is this true?
They still have four wings, it's just that they don't look like wings so much as tiny little bristle brushes.
0:10 "One carroteristic..." XD!!!
Source list?
Subscribed
Imagine the sources were timestamped
*faints*
Smallest Bois
Indeed!
5:04 the colour of the fiy and the narrator's lines...
2:32 So cute!
Closed captions would be appreciated
They breed like Pierson's Puppeteers
insane topic. love the video
Awesome vid
How can I get read of them???
Very cool!
imagine the smallest insect a few hundred million years ago 💀 guys gonna be a foot long
Imagine finding that fucking fossil
Fairyfly what is actually a tiny wasp!
Tardigrades think these flies are huge.
Actually, they're about the same size, although some fairy flies are much smaller than tardigrades.
@@WobblesandBean just the opposite
amazing!
How!?! How do you count Fairyfly neurons!?
Powerful microscopes. :)
Oh I get the science, it's a bit like counting all the stars and planets in a galaxy!
The 'How'ing and 'Do'ing I've found are quite often very different creatures; especially under microscopes! :D Only ever done palaeo-fauna, ancient pollen and seeds; though far easier and larger (in comp.) it's harder on the eyes looking directly rather than by screen!
are they are real wasps or just a name
Wow! THANK YOU!
1 miillliiiooon types of insects
I don’t understand your accent. Usually there are closed captioning options but not in this vid. Future reference please allow English auto generated CC
How fast are they?
Can likely go 30 kmph+
Henry probably smells clean like old spice and intelligence. Mmmmmmmm.
How do you kill them. These little bastards always get into my apartment and drive me crazy. They love to go in your eyes/ears/nose/face, but are almost impossible to see when in flight. They drive me crazy and make me want to burn my house down just to get a few
Wild
Ant - The Smallest Insect
Oh man. Thx !
Thanks for the comment, Rick! Really encourages me to keep on going. :)
Henry the PaleoGuy awesome. Make sure to pace yourself. We all want u around a long time. :-)
I had trouble hearing your words, so I turned on auto-captions...
It's so bad that TH-cam thinks you're speaking German xd
The only close captions available (today) are limited to auto generated German.
@@regular-joe bruh, why? xd
@@blizzard2508-k7n Wish I knew, friend!
you mean no see ems, thos little shits whos only purpose is to blind you for a few seconds and fly ONLY in front of your eyes
woah!!!
can they fart
.
The size of a fairy fly
I dunno, my ex girlfriend is a pretty smart insect!
Narration too fast, "sing-song" and technical...in an inarticulate "quasi-English"!