Predatory Plants: Lure of the Cobra Lily
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- Discover one of the most unique hunters of the plant kingdom, and witness how the cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher traps.
Learn more at KQED Science: goo.gl/X1UR8l
Carnivorous plant to insects.
"You bite me, I eat you."
I laughed at this too much
Nari S. Lin wrong neighbourhood nigga
Bug: You taste good, chomp!
Plant: So do you, yoink!
Every bug is gangster until a plant decides to eat it for a meal. 😂😂
Nari S. Lin how have humans not developed this strategy
And they say we’re the most advanced species
"imagine sitting down and eating a salad-"
lost me
It’s so sad to see the dragonflies stuck in those paddle plants... they are beautiful bugs that eat mosquitos.
Abc xyz Those are actually damselflies, a relative of the dragonfly. Dragonflies have much thicker, stockier bodies.
Same with spiders but people smash them all the time
Berh Baer I see plenty of them around the pond in the housing development I live in, they don't seem to be under any threat.
@@xmicrowavedhotpocketsx3624 Spiders suck though, some bite. Dragonflies don't.
@@metamorphosisx6641 Dragonflies do bite, actually. If they feel in danger, they'll bite anything nearby.
Yeah, I remember the last time I was eaten by a salad.
Kenneth Kustren Sedgehun?
it’s a shame the global warming hoaxers have ruined fact-based science with ‘consensus’ based assessments.
😂
Are you a buddhist?
Lmao
They should’ve named it “ come on in I got some candy”
Pretty much any carnivorous plant
@LaumiRez lol
@LaumiRez Or you can name it in actual Latin:
Intra habeo dulcia
*Okay but how did they get these angles*
That's what I wanna know now
probably a similar probe to the kind used by doctors when the need to see into the intestines.
Ikr I was wondering the same thing!!!!!!!
Spyfly
You know how Dedelus glued a string to an ant to thread a conch shell? Yeah that
I loved the music. It was so chill and perfectly paired to help me listen to what was being said as well.
From 3:20 to the end was pure bliss!
Vegans: *confused screaming*
Those vegans can't explain this
*Predatory Plant: Lure of the Cobra Lily*
One of the most unique hunters of the plant kingdom is the cobra lily, or _Darlingtonia californica_. Witness how it uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher traps in our latest KQED Science video.
See photos and learn more from producer Josh Cassidy at KQED Science: goo.gl/lMtmQg
Nice
KQED
Go back to making content like this, please. Honestly, this video was excellent in every way. Your brand new stuff? Not even watchable. constructive brutal honesty in criticism is a commodity these days stranger, take it where you can.
Man, nature for sure is scary, even more when you are so little
I'M TIRED OF DRINKING, I WANNA CHEW!
Lmaooooo
Haha how did Calebcity get here?
Barry Rice is the best professor, i took every class he offered and had no idea he had these videos and books
they should have called it cobra pitcher plant then
Its flower does strongly resemble conventional lily flowers though. It's quite beautiful.
Cobra Lily sounds better
humans are romantic like that.
I actually like that name better.
*Darling Cobra*
So how do the midge larvas slime mites etc find their way into the plants?
5:05 Yeah I'm pretty sure we've all seen Little Shop of Horrors
Send it to a Vegetarian or Vegan, and tell them that even plants eat meat.
Hahahahah nice idea😂😂😂😂
@@HighFlyinAFGuy and I was joking try to have some sense of humor.
@@holypain8152 nice try champ. think about what you have to say before you say it next time, now go put your nose in the corner.
People can eat what they want, their money, their lifestyle
Oh shoot, u were joking, ma bad
Are they still thriving with alot of the drought that's being in the west coast?
Aaaand the plants survived the drought. Climate Hoax not coincide with stubborn plants not dying as predicted.
+llymphs What makes you think the droughts were a hoax?
llymphs droughts in a specific area did not kill an entire species which also exists in Oregon as per the video. Make no mistake though, lots of plants did die, and climate change is killing coral reefs, making droughts worse in places like India and more extreme storms like the hurricanes hitting the US are becoming more and more frequent n
I thiink the reasoon coral reafs are dieng off is because there is a massive gold mining operation in africa and south america and they use murcury and acid to seperate the gold tthen they just dump the waist in the river then it goes out to the ocean. It is killing everything and everyone. We will soon feal the effects and if nothing is done this world will be doomed, mark my words!
@@chillville5571.....
I never thought I would experience being vored by a plant
The villain Poison Ivy.
Yes officer, this post.
"Imagine sitting down ready to eat a salad, and then the salad eats you"
Next up - The Killer Salad from Mars!
If someone thinks plants are boring they they should check out so many types of carnivorous plants. They are so interesting and fascinating!
Pretty much any living thing is interesting if you study it in enough complexity
Guys, Darlingtonia is one of the most extraordinary carnivorous plants! Beautiful and fascinating. Brilliant! Beautiful video!
sadly really really hard to grow outside it's natural environment though :(
The Legend of Lily Cobra
There was once a lazy cobra. Rather went out to find food, he just relax on the lily pad. The fairy got mad. And boom! The fairy turned him to a Lily Cobra.
Geez... Had to make that salad comment huh...
*Adds to list of why I can't eat a salad today... might eat me* 🤣🤣
I need the soundtrack to this! But I absolutely love this video. Thanks to caring botanists like this for spreading consciousness and knowledge.
Fabiola Godinez my thoughts exactly!
Song that starts at *3:19* is Blind Divine Untitled I
I grow these plants as well as sundews. My sundews like chocolate the best but if I give them too big a piece it will rot the delicate pads.
The writhing fluid at the bottom was actually like... Nightmare fuel XD
I love how I went..
"What's ur fav flower?"
"Lily-"
"Awh that's swee-"
"Cobra lily.. 🙂 you can search it up"
This makes me never want to take my shoes off.
Close to once the video ended, it just hit me, the background music gives some straight up minecraft vibes. Good and interesting choice for such an interesting video.
I'm still mind blown that the lily evolved to have transparent spots to confuse the insects
There needs to be an updated version of this video with propwr information. Darlingotnia californica has been founs to secret 1 digest enzyme type, that was unknown before. The fangs it produces is actually produced for added chlorophyl, the fangs have the highest chlorophyll density out of the entire plant, and a study was done to see if it plays any role in the amount of bugs or the diversity of bugs it preys upon and in fact it does not at all. With fangs and without fangs (cut off) the plant still preys on the same amount of food and the same type of food. This suggests that the fangs have nothing to do with cathcing prey and all to do with storing energy from the sun.
Never thought I’d be freaked by a plant😂
It’s interesting how with most ecosystems plants are at the bottom of the food chain usually referred to as the produce, yet here we have an ecosystem where the plant is predating and so the top carnivore
About the only time I've ever felt sorry for a fly
Timmsy Yeah, me too. You know they are scared, desperate to get free. Makes me sad.
Please try to make a lengthy and informative documentary on plants really amazing. 👍
*Imagine sitting down having a salad and letting that salad eat you*
insert "in soviert russia..." comment here.
Sounds like Rand McNelly where hamburgers eat people.
another episode of *When Plants Attack*
The insects descend to the deep depth of the abyss
A plant being at the top of the food chain is unheard of.
This is so cool! ✨ beautiful footage 🤓
The plants are gorgeous!!! 💚
Cobra Lily: The Sarlacc Pit for insects.
A fascinating topic.
That fly's name was Seymour.
" imagine sitting in front of a salad and that salad eats you." 😂 I'm dead.
The ammount of plants has gone down alot recently, although im not sure why. i moved to Quincy CA in 2009 and the whole valley used to be covered in them now its oly the northwest corner of butterfly valley that has alot of them. I always thought it was crazy how they survived such snowy winters.
Probably that crap they’ve been spraying in the air for years.. toxic, unnatural stuff
Shuddup past Devon
From beginning i can't see the plant. Your camera too close to the plant.
Is it related to other pitcher plants or did it evolve independently?
@Positron Decay sarracenia evolved independently from other pitcher plants like heliamphora or nepenthes.
@1:45, me in any Walmart packing lot, trying to find my car after I’m done shopping.
They're stunning
I'm in love with the place...
I don't really like insects and it makes me kinda happy to watch my plants killing them. There's even carnivorous plants that eat frogs and mice.
fuck you bugs own
Bugs are useful
@@gussferretti9665 yeah, they're food for my plants
@@notAlphax in one way or another if it wasn't for bugs we all die. China got rid of all of them and now it's harder for them to grow crops.
@@gussferretti9665 they deserve it as in there falt but i feel bad people suffering even though they deserve it this is causing conflict in my head
TIL Cobra Lily's were my friends all along.
I've seen birds get trapped inside convenience stores for hours because they couldn't comprehend using the same open door for escape. It's like winged creatures associate strictly and only verticality with safety.
Absolutely fascinating creatures
Theres some growing in michigan 2. It's a pitcher plant that grows in the spring after the ground thaws
Glad I don't have to worry about my Cobb trying to take a bite out of me while im sleeping.
Can you make one of Dionaea Muscipula?
What beautiful scenery
Im from California and I had no clue we had plants like these!!
yup you have some awesome ones! Even venus flytraps are native to & unique to America (US)
And _this_ nightmare fuel is why horror game environments aren't unrealistic.
Which one is the plant that eats Asian Tiger Mosquitos? Point that one out to me please!
So, Dragon Lilly's are the real estate/ car sales-person of the plant world?
Victry bell is that you?
Victry bell?
Thank you
Cobra lily looks like a man seeing you and both leaves like hands
Oregon got the short stick once again huh 😂😂 can't even get an evil plant
@ the name. I dare you not to use Google and thinking of products/methods/ideas named after Oregon 😂 Good luck mate
PNW is by far the most crucial forest in our country
This is BEYOND INTERESTING👏😱
This is what true genjutsu is
wonderful video!
Great video. Absolutely loved it.
I'm thinking of some carnivorous plants for around my house. In the kitchen and the bedroom in particular; lots of flies and mosquitoes
Excellent!
So how is the Cobra Lily a carnivorous plant, when the living carnivorous slime mites only choose to live inside the plant?
Starting a boycott against these plants.
*Bug murder is INHUMANE!* 🐛
Most pitcher plants just have a vat of acid to kill the bug and digest it. This one has a collection of tiny bugs that eat the prey and that's terrifying.
WOW that’s so amazing.
Okay the "salad eats YOU" analogy is incomplete.. it's more like if you went to Olive Garden, saw a table with the unlimited salad out, smelled some breadsticks and figured you would help yourself... and only when you realized that Olive Garden was actually a fernbush you noticed the floor was slowly sinking into a basement of worms who were going to eat you
.. and then the restaurant was going to consume their excrement.
the so called 'cobra lily' i saw before were different species of arisaemas.
When you eat pineapple it releases an enzyme that starts to digest the inner cell wall of your mouth. Pineapples are in fact also carnivorous plants.
What is the music used towards the end?!?
This is exactly like the Thug version of the backrooms
Except the bug gets eaten at the end
Very strange looking plant indeed
First time watching and it's really amazing. The camera footage is really cool. I've been watching bug wars and the footage on there is amazing also. Really well done.
2:26
Disturbing.
The plant has a 😐 face at 3:52
please tell me that this place is still alive and blossoming i really hope it hasnt dried up yet
It's not really thriving like it used to be.
eating a salad after watching this. na na na naaaaaah may i rethink that
wcz no it won’t hurt to take a bite .. 😂😂😉
Esistono 2 specie di insetti che sono in grado di uscire da questa pianta:il lepidottero Xantophera Semicrocea e il dittero Sarcophaga Sarraceniae. Per ragioni del tutto sconosciute questi insetti vivono dallo stadio larvale sul fondo degli ascidi di questi vegetali nutrendosi delle spoglie delle loro vittime. Una volta raggiunto lo stadio adulto queste creature abbandonano queste singolari culle,grazie a speciali apparecchiature delle loro zampe,che consentono loro di risalire
New drinking game. Take a shot every time a nature channel says climate change.
One shot; he mentioned the future results of climate change once.
Nature is Amazing!!
So cool!! Very interesting!
Just beautiful.
Wouldn't that be "Mutualistic" since both the midge and bacteria get food and the cobra pitcher plant gets nutrients?
I like the music at 3:21
Who noticed the letters "A B P" on right side of middle hood at 5:06??
I am creeped the hell out..
The last line was "D U M B"
How are the plants today? 2019
The plants arent doing as well as they were 10 years ago. Im not sure when this video was made. But when i moved to Quincy CA there were tons of them in butterfly valley. But now they are mostly in the north west corner.