I live there. those orchids are incredibly gorgeous and delicate and the insects pollinate them. Our native bees are solitary and live in the ground, so we need insects. We will have to fight hard in the future to save these.
The pollinia on orchids is normally found under the anther cap on the end of the column. The stigmatic surface is just forward of this. The beetle will pick up the pollinia backing out of the flower. Next flower slams him up where the pollinia are picked up by the sticky stigmatic area. He will then pick up the pollinia from this flower on his way out. This method gives the plant a better chance of cross pollination.
I’m in a plant taxonomy class right now and my teacher specializes in orchids. I’m going to share this video with her, because she’ll appreciate you’re mutual fascination in their wacky reproduction. Also, this is just a hoot to watch.
I was just thinking about you!! Yay new video...keep me entertained and educated while I'm slaving away in the concrete jungle. Thank you for living free!
Thank you for another informative bright spot in my day...beetle footage made me laugh out loud and orchids are a passion of mine so I am always willing to learn something new about them. It's always a joy to listen to someone passionate about their subject. I am hooked and slowly going back through your up loads until I have seen them all. Thanks again for reminding me to look down at the beautiful things at my feet. D.
One of the showiest orchids where I live, Calypso bulbosa, plays a dirty trick on bees. It's showy and fragrant, so they think there's a BIG nectar reward inside. But there's none. Bees eventually learn to ignore them, but they bloom in the spring, so there's always plenty of newly-hatched naive bees for them to fool.
Dude you are my spirit animal, I could listen to you for hours man hahah. Come to brisbane dude! They've got gorgeous biomes up here, I'm from NSW and down there is just beautiful lush green. Any Aussie coast is a great one dude, beautiful diversity
Ikr!! They're one of my favorite things to look out for when I'm tromping through the woods, I could look at em for hours! Insane how beautiful they are, and I can travel two hours away n they're doing entirely different shit there it's fucking amazing! There's so many kinds lol blows my mind
fantastic episode! Do be careful driving down there, don't drive when you're tired. Muscle memory can be hazardous to your health. (right side, left side)
Not familiar with Austrailian orchids, but if they're like most others those 2 yellow bulges aren't the pollina. The pollina should be hidden under a hood at the tip of the column . The beetle get stuck because the pollinia attached to his back touched the spot that accepts them, which is usually sticky to them.
Dammit beetle we were all rooting for you!! Wonder if he ever made it. That Caladenia Brunonis is almost luminescent, hell all those terrestrial orchids are showing up their epiphytic counterparts. It’s incredible that poor soils can give way to such diversity. It would be so nice to just take a seat on the ground and just observe these beauties for awhile.
So exited seeing u in my backyard, thànkyou . Very grateful for the ramblings of an outdoorsman. Why not stay? We need more like u to spread the knowledge and point out the beauty of our barren? Land.
Fantastic. I play my favorite botanist Joey videos on background sometimes....all day long! My companion thinks I’m obsessed. Yes. With botany! And Joey....
I have an addictive nature... I got sober..but love the Cannabis still. Your vids are addictive..and in the best of ways..I'm ok with this. Your knowledge on these plants and the way you discuss them.. even the street lingo and humor you throw in the lesson are perfect. I don't envy folks as a rule..but seeing the places your able to visit esp. The old mountains ..I hate to admitt..a pang of jell. I'm a jack of many intrests..music art..literature.nature.. shamanism.. history.. I paint ..write...but I've mastered none as well as you know these amazing plants. As a wise assed environmentalist I tip my many hats in yer general direction sir. 🗣Go fck yerselfs..the best sign off ever. Gad bless that shit. I admit being to broke to patreon. But I pray yer channel multiplies in paying subscribers.. we need more like you. Enjoy your your travels my friend.🌎🌾🌴⚘🌺🌼🐜🐀🦘🌿☘🍀Stay well.👣🎐🕴✌
oddly, these videos make me want to get into photography again. if i cant make peopl care about plants and the environment thru words maybe i should let the natural beauty speak for itself
I first learned about the hammer orchid watching the documentary "Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind". They have some good footage. Then the footage from inside a bucket orchid as a bee gets lured in and tries to escape... Anyone who likes plants should watch it, IMO. Thanks for doing what you do. edit: Also good for people who don't like plants and will be amazed.
For the Caladenia orchids: I believe the pollinae are actually at the very tip of the column directly in front of the stigma. The yellow coloration at the base of the column is likely just there to entice insects further down into the flower to position them better for a successful pollination. Not sure if it's a coloration thing, or a nectar gland, but that's my guess as to what that is.
The play by play of the beetle vs orchid was better than most 49er games! I’m glad I lived to see this video. Btw I plan on living many more years and watch many more of your videos. Grazie!
Tell ya what, a bee is much quicker than a drunk beetle. Thanks for visiting my area (Perth). An eye opener right there. We've got a lot of imported "weeds" here. Paterson's Curse (dunno the real name) is a bastard. Purple flower. Brought in for flower arrangements or some such
This channel always feels like I went off trail to burn one and then some wise acre strolls by spouting knowledge and goodness. Keep up the good stuff.
Hey where abouts did you find the Calla Lilys? I think I live pretty close to where you were and our local scout troops are always happy to rip them out
The beetle is in the Scarabaeidae, looks like Diphucephala sp. There’s about 70 described species in Australia and I haven’t a clue how to tell them apart. Cool video nonetheless. Cheers!
If you get a chance, try some of the bush foods provided by Myrtaceae (Corymbia terminalis), Capparaceae (capparis spinosa) Fabaceae (acacia kempeana). So many more. The desert here is a supermarket of flora and fauna.
Thank you for showing us life from a plants(or beetle) perspective. Sometime you describe their behavior in ways where I'm starting to relate to a plants struggle for space. You're entertaining in a way that stays with you after I walk away from You Tube.
Have you seen what the wood of sheoaks looks like? It has incredible bright red and tan striped grain, some of the most amazing wood out there. Not easy to sustainably source unfortunately. Thanks for the entertaining and informative video, as always.
I used to work for NYRP (N.Y. Restoration Project) through Americorps, fixing up the parks in Washington Heights and the lower Bronx, basically huge parks abandoned by the NYC parks department... anyway, we spent 80% of our time weeding invasives that basically take over any abandoned patch....fields and fields of mugwort, asian honey suckle, "Atlantis" trees, on and on... Only 45% of the plants in the North East are still native...all the plants growing on the side of the highways and train tracks...invasives!
Just FYI those tonsils on the back of the lip of the Caladenia are just part of the lip, the pollinia are beneath that pinkishgreenish cap right at the end of the column, and the green shield shaped thing pointing towards the back is the style. That's why the pollinia didn't stick when the beetle was flipped back, it hit the pollinia cap not the stigma.
My kid introduced me to this channel. I appreciate your crass, lewd take on botany. Plus, the Italian cussing takes me back to my grandmother's kitchen
28:30 right after, "Looks like something gnawed this guy off," I think the culprit is seen crawling along a stick in the background, possibly. What a large ant!
It's a Bull Ant, they're carnivorous though. Their bite releases venom and feels a little worse than a wasp it can cause anaphylactic shock in some people.
@@NobodyWhatsoever not a problem, you get pretty good at spotting Bull Ants if you do any gardening in Oz. I'd swap furry ants for hyper aggressive venomous ants any day ;p
@@0101-f4d Cow ants may be solitary and passive, but their bite is known to cause extreme pain! But yes: Don't bother one, and it likely won't bother you.
@@NobodyWhatsoever What you call a "cow ant" is commonly known in the USA as a cow killer ant or velvet ant. They are not ants though, but solitary wasps of the family Mutilidae. The females have no wings, and can give a painful sting if you are silly enough to grab them despite their warning colors.
Scaevola, is that name in any way related to Gaius Mucius Scaevola, they Roman guy who burned his right hand in the fire as an act of bravery and was thereafter called “Scaevola” ie “left handed”?
Try Lisse Essentials Deet Free insect repellant. It has really worked well for me on my back country trips to Assateague Island, (east coast) but you need to reapply about ever 2 hours or so.
In the case of the Drakea Glyptodon, that labellum looks more like a little crow- than a wasp! Maybe it's trying to evolve to get crows to pollinate it, in about 10 million years! (No bong hits, here- but I am really tired. I can't wait till tomorrow to get my CPBBD fix!) Keep 'em comin'!
That beetle's journey was pretty entertaining. The orchid is really cool looking too.
You could say dats nice.
Yeh but the beetles were never the same once they got girlfriends.
I live there. those orchids are incredibly gorgeous and delicate and the insects pollinate them. Our native bees are solitary and live in the ground, so we need insects. We will have to fight hard in the future to save these.
Metal gear excelsus orchitd
Calla lillies also plague the Mornington Peninsula. They blend in about as well as an abandoned mattress.
Made me think of this which I just learned about, lol! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_breath_(ammunition)
The yelling beetle whisperer
Nearly ten minutes of beetle pollination motivation... Time very well spent.
He went into intervention for alcoholism the next day.
Never apologize for who you are, never change
Damm straight.
The Jerky Botanist
Thats a paradox, Mr Dear. :D
I wanted to give a thumbs up, but keeping it at 69 seems right for watching a bug get cat fished by an orchid!!
I like hearing what you have to say; your genuine love for botany is obvious and makes it fun for me.
Wish he could make a video dedicated to tone woods or even just Brazilian rosewood
imma get “wouldn’t be the woods without human garbage” tattooed on my forehead
@paul beenis - so, an average IQ then?
Gotta love when you're immersed in nature's beauty and you see an empty box of coors light. Nothing more gorgeous
My favourite line - I don't want to disturb him while he's fulfilling his duties as a pollinator.
come for the botany, stay for the random social commentary tangents that get peppered in. 🌺🙃👍🏻
I've never been so invested in a beetle's happiness before
The orchids footage was awesome.
Closing in on 100K subscribers. Way to go CPBBD!!
The pollinia on orchids is normally found under the anther cap on the end of the column. The stigmatic surface is just forward of this. The beetle will pick up the pollinia backing out of the flower. Next flower slams him up where the pollinia are picked up by the sticky stigmatic area. He will then pick up the pollinia from this flower on his way out. This method gives the plant a better chance of cross pollination.
🌿 Always a great time when I get to see you yammering on about the natural world! Thanks for what you do!
"Wouldn't you love to see what kind of Proteaceae lived in the late Cretaceous?"
If one more person asks me that today....
It makes my day when I see one of your videos posted
'A holly leafed basterd'. Eloquence Sir David Attenborough would be proud of 😆👍
I’m in a plant taxonomy class right now and my teacher specializes in orchids. I’m going to share this video with her, because she’ll appreciate you’re mutual fascination in their wacky reproduction. Also, this is just a hoot to watch.
Now my day's a little better
I was just thinking about you!! Yay new video...keep me entertained and educated while I'm slaving away in the concrete jungle. Thank you for living free!
Thank you for another informative bright spot in my day...beetle footage made me laugh out loud and orchids are a passion of mine so I am always willing to learn something new about them. It's always a joy to listen to someone passionate about their subject. I am hooked and slowly going back through your up loads until I have seen them all. Thanks again for reminding me to look down at the beautiful things at my feet. D.
One of the showiest orchids where I live, Calypso bulbosa, plays a dirty trick on bees. It's showy and fragrant, so they think there's a BIG nectar reward inside. But there's none. Bees eventually learn to ignore them, but they bloom in the spring, so there's always plenty of newly-hatched naive bees for them to fool.
Sneaky orchid
Dude you are my spirit animal, I could listen to you for hours man hahah. Come to brisbane dude! They've got gorgeous biomes up here, I'm from NSW and down there is just beautiful lush green. Any Aussie coast is a great one dude, beautiful diversity
Yeah excited to hear he's in Australia. I wish he could do some kind of meet and greet lol. Me and my friends love him
i always get so pumped when you show lichen, i love that stuff!!!!!!!!! it’s so beautiful and diverse
Ikr!! They're one of my favorite things to look out for when I'm tromping through the woods, I could look at em for hours! Insane how beautiful they are, and I can travel two hours away n they're doing entirely different shit there it's fucking amazing! There's so many kinds lol blows my mind
fantastic episode! Do be careful driving down there, don't drive when you're tired. Muscle memory can be hazardous to your health. (right side, left side)
You are wrong; we LOVE it when you talk. How you remember all the botanical knowledge is amazing!
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature" - Frank Lloyd Wright
So educational, botany, scientific names AND Italian slang!
Not familiar with Austrailian orchids, but if they're like most others those 2 yellow bulges aren't the pollina. The pollina should be hidden under a hood at the tip of the column . The beetle get stuck because the pollinia attached to his back touched the spot that accepts them, which is usually sticky to them.
Your talking adds years to my life
Dammit beetle we were all rooting for you!! Wonder if he ever made it.
That Caladenia Brunonis is almost luminescent, hell all those terrestrial orchids are showing up their epiphytic counterparts. It’s incredible that poor soils can give way to such diversity. It would be so nice to just take a seat on the ground and just observe these beauties for awhile.
That blue orchid blew my mind! Sooo beautiful
So exited seeing u in my backyard, thànkyou . Very grateful for the ramblings of an outdoorsman. Why not stay? We need more like u to spread the knowledge and point out the beauty of our barren? Land.
I was feeling kind of down today, and this made me feel better. Orchids are incredible. Thanks Joney
Fantastic. I play my favorite botanist Joey videos on background sometimes....all day long! My companion thinks I’m obsessed. Yes. With botany! And Joey....
I have an addictive nature... I got sober..but love the Cannabis still.
Your vids are addictive..and in the best of ways..I'm ok with this.
Your knowledge on these plants and the way you discuss them.. even the street lingo and humor you throw in the lesson are perfect. I don't envy folks as a rule..but seeing the places your able to visit esp. The old mountains ..I hate to admitt..a pang of jell.
I'm a jack of many intrests..music art..literature.nature..
shamanism.. history.. I paint ..write...but I've mastered none as well as you know these amazing plants. As a wise assed environmentalist I tip my many hats in yer general direction sir. 🗣Go fck yerselfs..the best sign off ever. Gad bless that shit. I admit being to broke to patreon. But I pray yer channel multiplies in paying subscribers.. we need more like you. Enjoy your your travels my friend.🌎🌾🌴⚘🌺🌼🐜🐀🦘🌿☘🍀Stay well.👣🎐🕴✌
21:43 Absolutely Gorgeous Flower I really cant get enough of that Orchid :)
oddly, these videos make me want to get into photography again. if i cant make peopl care about plants and the environment thru words maybe i should let the natural beauty speak for itself
Lol my mom loves her calla Lilies they have a whole corner of her yard, the flowers are nice but they do look like an office plant.
This channel is consistently my favorite thing on TH-cam
I first learned about the hammer orchid watching the documentary "Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind". They have some good footage. Then the footage from inside a bucket orchid as a bee gets lured in and tries to escape... Anyone who likes plants should watch it, IMO.
Thanks for doing what you do.
edit: Also good for people who don't like plants and will be amazed.
Amazing Orchid, Keep doin what your doin .
I may have a magenta thumb, but this is one of my favorite channel on TH-cam. To learn from, and just in general.
'This is not family botany'. I love your work. It is very therapeutic!
How do you remember all those names. Impressive.
Thanks for this! This is as good as a trip to Australia for an amateur botanist like me.
For the Caladenia orchids: I believe the pollinae are actually at the very tip of the column directly in front of the stigma. The yellow coloration at the base of the column is likely just there to entice insects further down into the flower to position them better for a successful pollination. Not sure if it's a coloration thing, or a nectar gland, but that's my guess as to what that is.
"wanna look at this turd now? i hope yer eatin'" as I'm opening the food i got delivered, ya got your wish pal
That bush size Scavola is gorgeous, commentary apreciated.
The lily breakdown was pure gold. Just awesome. No apologies necessary. Someone had to say it.
That beetle pollination was one of the most intense things I've seen on TH-cam.
The play by play of the beetle vs orchid was better than most 49er games! I’m glad I lived to see this video. Btw I plan on living many more years and watch many more of your videos. Grazie!
Micro-managing that beetle was one of the best things I've ever seen. Nice work, boss.
AMAZING .. thank you!
Please don’t ever change!!! Not for no one I come for the botany but stay for the crassness
By far my favorite TH-cam channel. Please just keep doing this.
I really need to get to Australia
Tell ya what, a bee is much quicker than a drunk beetle. Thanks for visiting my area (Perth). An eye opener right there. We've got a lot of imported "weeds" here. Paterson's Curse (dunno the real name) is a bastard. Purple flower. Brought in for flower arrangements or some such
Echium vulgare I think
Love this video, awesome orchids and splendid Ausie scape! That old car was bomb, haha! And I gotta say, the say you narrate is mighty entertaining!
Had to watch this one with my mum. Was hilarious
Well actually I forced her to watch it with me and she thought it was great
Joey: I should stop-Nah.
Lol, no space of breath between "remorse" and premeditation of the next "offense" nice
This channel always feels like I went off trail to burn one and then some wise acre strolls by spouting knowledge and goodness. Keep up the good stuff.
17:00 That straight up looks like a mantis. Beautiful!
Hey where abouts did you find the Calla Lilys? I think I live pretty close to where you were and our local scout troops are always happy to rip them out
Anywhere that gets boggy/creeklines. They're all over the place. Watsonia also need a good ripping out, they colonise creeklines.
Great video! Thanks so much! I’ve seen plants i never know excisted! Greatings from the Netherlands
Best Channel thanks
Yes! I like that! Keep dishing.
Love the geometry on that lomandra! Never seen it flower. We have a species over here we use to stabilise banks in our revegetation projects.
The beetle is in the Scarabaeidae, looks like Diphucephala sp. There’s about 70 described species in Australia and I haven’t a clue how to tell them apart. Cool video nonetheless. Cheers!
If you get a chance, try some of the bush foods provided by Myrtaceae (Corymbia terminalis), Capparaceae (capparis spinosa) Fabaceae (acacia kempeana). So many more. The desert here is a supermarket of flora and fauna.
That beetle was shitfaced on nectar. Expecting it to perform was asking a lot.
@11:55 starts the greatest rant ive heard in a while. I agree 100%
absolutely brilliant how you caught orchid pollination in action. That Caladenia labellum is pretty sick.
I missed the dogs on this series
Thank you for showing us life from a plants(or beetle) perspective. Sometime you describe their behavior in ways where I'm starting to relate to a plants struggle for space. You're entertaining in a way that stays with you after I walk away from You Tube.
Truly excellent video....!
I personally enjoy that you are crass, and lewd, and obnoxious! :D
Crass, no.... obnoxious, no.... lewd, yes.
None of the above. Just entertaining and informative.
Have you seen what the wood of sheoaks looks like? It has incredible bright red and tan striped grain, some of the most amazing wood out there. Not easy to sustainably source unfortunately.
Thanks for the entertaining and informative video, as always.
Did you follow up on that whole throwing fruit at your friends thing? Thoughts on whether or not itl make the fruit grow better?
Love that you have been to australia! I just found you on YouTub last week and I’m a huge fan. Been on a huge binge atm keep sharing the knowledge
Amazing to see the wrecks without bullet holes, in the US you'd be wadding through spent cartridges and looking at metal with thousands of holes.
I used to work for NYRP (N.Y. Restoration Project) through Americorps, fixing up the parks in Washington Heights and the lower Bronx, basically huge parks abandoned by the NYC parks department... anyway, we spent 80% of our time weeding invasives that basically take over any abandoned patch....fields and fields of mugwort, asian honey suckle, "Atlantis" trees, on and on... Only 45% of the plants in the North East are still native...all the plants growing on the side of the highways and train tracks...invasives!
Just FYI those tonsils on the back of the lip of the Caladenia are just part of the lip, the pollinia are beneath that pinkishgreenish cap right at the end of the column, and the green shield shaped thing pointing towards the back is the style. That's why the pollinia didn't stick when the beetle was flipped back, it hit the pollinia cap not the stigma.
My kid introduced me to this channel. I appreciate your crass, lewd take on botany. Plus, the Italian cussing takes me back to my grandmother's kitchen
Love 5he vids. have fun in australia!
28:30 right after, "Looks like something gnawed this guy off," I think the culprit is seen crawling along a stick in the background, possibly. What a large ant!
It's a Bull Ant, they're carnivorous though. Their bite releases venom and feels a little worse than a wasp it can cause anaphylactic shock in some people.
@@0101-f4d Thanks for the info! Here in the US we have an ant called a cow ant. They're black and red, and furry, also very large.
@@NobodyWhatsoever not a problem, you get pretty good at spotting Bull Ants if you do any gardening in Oz. I'd swap furry ants for hyper aggressive venomous ants any day ;p
@@0101-f4d Cow ants may be solitary and passive, but their bite is known to cause extreme pain! But yes: Don't bother one, and it likely won't bother you.
@@NobodyWhatsoever What you call a "cow ant" is commonly known in the USA as a cow killer ant or velvet ant. They are not ants though, but solitary wasps of the family Mutilidae. The females have no wings, and can give a painful sting if you are silly enough to grab them despite their warning colors.
i CRANE my neck to see up inside those orchids.
wnderful and full of orchid contents episode. Dat enviro it´s a miracle of evolution
I'm surprised you're not using bug dope on your clothes. In real bad areas, a netted hat can go a long way 😁 Have fun in Oz mate!
I thoroughly enjoy your shows, please don't change anything. And are you perhaps a philosopher too. Keep up the great work!
Oh wow welcome to my country Oz :-)
Scaevola, is that name in any way related to Gaius Mucius Scaevola, they Roman guy who burned his right hand in the fire as an act of bravery and was thereafter called “Scaevola” ie “left handed”?
22:06 - That's such a pretty color!
Ya gonna keester stash some of those seeds to get them through customs?
“Anything to declare, sir?”
“Nope 😏”
You're referring to what Morty did. Ouch, I know Joey wouldn't put some up his kiester. He's a plant lover, but, not that way.
Its got to go WAY up in your butt!
Quick Australia adventure Lrchid23! In and out 20 minutes!
MEGA Seeds are very important for his work!
Try Lisse Essentials Deet Free insect repellant. It has really worked well for me on my back country trips to Assateague Island, (east coast) but you need to reapply about ever 2 hours or so.
In the case of the Drakea Glyptodon, that labellum looks more like a little crow- than a wasp! Maybe it's trying to evolve to get crows to pollinate it, in about 10 million years! (No bong hits, here- but I am really tired. I can't wait till tomorrow to get my CPBBD fix!) Keep 'em comin'!
Holy shit that hammer orchid blew my mind. Thanks for that
Jesus Christ, this is the most interesting botany lesson I've ever seen. What the actual fuck is TH-cam recommending to me?
That blue orchid is sooooo beautiful.
If someone who doesn’t believe in evolution were to study the Orchidacae, that person would have to conclude that god is a big fan of acid trips
Man that is so beautiful. Great work dude.