4:01 “I hope there are no snakes”… 5:42 of course there was a poisonous one 😅 And you were in flip-flops, FLIP-FLOPS!! 😂 At least no bears! Beautiful adventure though, and wonderful video! Can’t wait to watch the sequel 😃
Very nice vid. Funny to see you have no shoes in this place ! I wonder what sort of bacteria live on horse flies. Maybe you can study that as you seem to be very attractive to them ;) Tx for the shots of butterfly, toad, snake and of course horse fly. Always happy when you post a video.
3:38 I'm pretty sure those aren't Horseflies. Look like a Hana-Abu, which is a Hoverfly. Even though "Abu" means "horse fly" it's not actually and isn't known to bite humans unless provoked. Unless the Horseflies you're talking about are some other fly you didn't film and were just mentioning them aside from showing the Hoverflies.
I can't believe you kept going on with those horseflies! They literally slice tiny pieces of your skin and don't even inject an anaesthetic to make it as unpleasant as possible. I remember when I got bit by a horsefly, the pain was more than getting stung by a bee. I can't even imagine getting bit 20-30 times by those relentless monsters.
The video is pretty cool. I would recommend weighing the bottle to get a bit deeper in the springs. I'd check out that limestone under the scope, too. Bacteria and organisms would be dead in the limestone.
Fun fact: If you put a large quantity of calcium- or magnesium-holding stuff, e.g. gypsum or cement, into a bucket of water, you can also see the "floating stone" skin forming on the top.
The stone on top of the water is likely just excess salt. I've seen similar formations on stagnant pools with a very high salinity. Edit: Since you're planning on returning, you could bring a multi-meter to take some field measurements on the water quality and temperature. You can take samples in different layers of stratification and you might see some major differences.
Why didn't you use some kind of repellent for the horseflies?? And why sandals walking up and down hills? I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
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The horseflies were clearly big fans.
4:01 “I hope there are no snakes”… 5:42 of course there was a poisonous one 😅 And you were in flip-flops, FLIP-FLOPS!! 😂 At least no bears! Beautiful adventure though, and wonderful video! Can’t wait to watch the sequel 😃
What an adventure! Looking forward to the next segment.
Very nice vid. Funny to see you have no shoes in this place ! I wonder what sort of bacteria live on horse flies. Maybe you can study that as you seem to be very attractive to them ;)
Tx for the shots of butterfly, toad, snake and of course horse fly. Always happy when you post a video.
3:38 I'm pretty sure those aren't Horseflies. Look like a Hana-Abu, which is a Hoverfly. Even though "Abu" means "horse fly" it's not actually and isn't known to bite humans unless provoked. Unless the Horseflies you're talking about are some other fly you didn't film and were just mentioning them aside from showing the Hoverflies.
Amazing find, life in the harshest environments
I can't believe you kept going on with those horseflies! They literally slice tiny pieces of your skin and don't even inject an anaesthetic to make it as unpleasant as possible. I remember when I got bit by a horsefly, the pain was more than getting stung by a bee. I can't even imagine getting bit 20-30 times by those relentless monsters.
Does the CO2 attract mosquitoes as well? It seems as if it would seeing how they're drawn to it, at least with animals.
The video is pretty cool. I would recommend weighing the bottle to get a bit deeper in the springs. I'd check out that limestone under the scope, too. Bacteria and organisms would be dead in the limestone.
Fun fact: If you put a large quantity of calcium- or magnesium-holding stuff, e.g. gypsum or cement, into a bucket of water, you can also see the "floating stone" skin forming on the top.
The stone on top of the water is likely just excess salt. I've seen similar formations on stagnant pools with a very high salinity.
Edit: Since you're planning on returning, you could bring a multi-meter to take some field measurements on the water quality and temperature. You can take samples in different layers of stratification and you might see some major differences.
Why didn't you use some kind of repellent for the horseflies?? And why sandals walking up and down hills?
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
It looks like a volcano.
I hope you collect those flies that turned into stones.
An exciting video. You don‘t know what will happen next. 🙂
An inverted one would be perfect for such a sample. are those flagella @ 10:29?
I wish I hadn't lost the water samples that I took from the death valley lake and hot creek geological area.