Showing Off A Spunky Male Dobsonfly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2020
- after searching for this insect for 12 years i've finally caught one💜 i last had seen one when i was 13 so i was excited to add him to my entomology collection!
also my boyfriend in the background cracked me up😂
I found a dobsonfly near a river on my fishing rod one time and i almost screamed
"the kill jar" lmao
also i thought it was my cats that were alerting me
Love the cat meowing in the background.
Sadly he is no longer with us, my sweet blossom was 17 when he passed last year, i still miss him😭💜
@@SRCReptiles was it the Dobson fly?
@@duketogo2020 Yes AKA the toe biter
Found one and preserved it in resin. Idk why but I genuinely hated handling it even though it was dead. Somthing about the face and strang body that made my skin crawl.
I flinched.
I jumped like if it was about to bite me
Same lol
These used to be all over in a store(an ocean state job lot) I worked in. I'd be sweeping the floor every morning and they'd be in their larvae like stage before they grow their wings and crawling out onto the floor with their pinchers , legs and all. I used to sweep em into my dust pan and chuck em to the birds outside.
I'm sure the birds enjoyed the treat lol
@@SRCReptiles oh they did lol
You rubbed it the wrong way
GOD I JUMPED SO HIGH WHEN IT FLINCHED
WHY ARE YOU TOUCHING IT 😭😭😭
Also old video lmao
I've been catching bugs since my mom says i was 8 or 9 years old, so naturally i wanna know what stuff feels like when i pet it🤣 but it all honesty my curiosity of what it'd do was the main reason😅 i also recall flinching or something like that when it sprung its head back🤣
Imagine you are fishing casually and you feel a pinch on your neck you check and see this satanic creature
I mean, fish bait?😁🤣
A male dobson fly would have large mandibles and females have smaller ones but are twice more aggressive than males, one of its nicknames is go-devil for how its mandibles look like devil horns
Lol I'd be so freaked out if i found that in my house
Luckly they hang out near bodies of water^.^
There is nothing cool about this. Someone hand me my flamethrower……😩😩😩🔥🔥🔥
So cute :0
my bad, didn't realize you had reptiles to feed 😅
i have a crested gecko that's 4 & 1/2 months and she is 13 grams. she doesn't have any fat rolls and her body fits her head. she eats a rotation of pangea watermelon, fig and insects and growth and breeding.( i feed her daily ) i also feed 6 crickets a week.( tues and fri ) i don't know if i should put her on a diet. because like i said, she dosn't look fat at ALL.
Normally after 3 months of age you should start feeding every other day vrs every day( so for example, sunday, tuesday, thursday, ex) each gecko grows at different rates and it may be older than you think, normally they dont reach the 10 gram range till about 7 or so months, did you buy the gecko or raise this gecko since hatching to know its age?
@@SRCReptiles i got her from a breeder who was was pretty confident in her age, but i don't know for sure
@@treythings7292 at that size its very unlikely she is only almost 5 months, i would suggest the feeding every other day though no matter what to help with the weight, but i feel like she is deffinately more around the 6 to 7 month range at that weight🤔
@@SRCReptiles k
@@SRCReptiles do u know of any weighs tell when they where born
May we see the kill jar?
I've been thinking of making more vids again with pinning bugs and stuff, keep an eye out😊
where im from we call that a grampus, tip: they are great to fish with
Yes especially their larvea😊
If I saw that, moving to the country furthest away from mine. No way that things finding my address, changing identities too just for safety measures. Idk if that thing is like a wasp or not
So a dobsonfly is in the same family as ant lions, lacewings, owlflies, and mantisflies, all of which hunt other insects like aphids, ants, and so on😊
@@SRCReptiles That’s really cool, and I appreciate it a lot! Just saying that if I saw that, I’m not too late for a gun license
@@DrippyDude hahaha yeah i dont blame you
aww kill jar :/
What is the Australian accent?
love her attitude n also the kill jar
I saw that you had baby hissing cockroach a long time ago and was wondering if you had Instagram or something I could mesages you questions about that because mine recently had babies that I was not really expecting and I have not done that before if so what is your account name
If you go to the community tab on my channel i have info for contacting me👍
Put the poor thing outside ;0:
He is preserved in my insect collection, and when i have volunteered at my local nature center, its fun getting to educate kids and adults when they ask about it😊
But did you outright kill him? And if so is why that kinda gets me.
@avery2041 so these guys live roughly 10 days(if they dont get eaten lol) so keeping it as a pet would be a very short lived thing, also do you not consider it mean to let something starve to death? Not being mean, just genuinely curious. Cause if you were to google what the adults eat, it will tell you their sole purpose is to mate, as an adult they do not eat, so if i were have waited til he naturally died, he would have just sat around starving over the rest of his few days. Entomologists use whats called ethyl acetate, which is a poison that normally takes less than 5 minutes to make the insect pass out or fall asleep, so to be honest, realitively peaceful vrs being eaten by a bird or another insect. Be mad if you wish, i've been being called god aweful names for years from people on youtube, entomology has existed since the 13th century when it was discovered in china, so i'm sorry if this makes you mad
No, it was just the background voice that made me think you might've killed it due to fear/because he wanted it dead. I don't mind if it was say humanely euthanized as I know they have a short life span. I just didn't want to think it was killed due to those circumstances. I myself would maybe like to study entomology if I can qualify for further education
@avery2041 oh yeah, i dont normally kill stuff unless i'm collecting it for my collection, i also dont like having doubles of stuff so normally if i already have it i wont kill it(and to my boyfriends dismay, we have 3 or 4 spiders who live in our current house that i told him he cant kill cause they catch any knats or mosquitoes that get in, and if they come down from their webs, he now catches them and takes them outside to my garden💜 i have trained him well lol)
Why would you kill it?
Its in my entomology collection, which i use for education at a local wildlife center when i volunteer😊