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- From ripping your own appendages off to cockroach mind control, wasps go to great lengths to ensure the survival of their species.
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That last wasp sounds like something straight of of an Alien movie!
It was in fact one of the inspirations for Dan O'Bannon the scriptwriter of the original 1979 movie
Huy Phan all of them look like one
It's called a meth wasp. The sting keeps the roach high so it doesn't want to do anything.
dennis nguyen shouldn't that be called an opium wasp then? 😂
There are parasitic wasps that lay eggs in still living prey that are far more akin to Xenomorphs than these.
Today I am thankful for two things:
1. That jewel wasps are as small as they are
2. That I am not a cockroach
Seriously. They are something out of nightmares.
Not entirely unlike the Xenomorphs from Aliens, just much much smaller, I wonder if the birth of the new wasp is as messy
60 Second Success Off topic, but neat channel you have there!
But... What do drugged cockroaches imagine crawling all over them?
Don't know, maybe they imagine they are a human being?
🐝 This is why there is a bee emoji and not a wasp one
Teemo4Life :(
Why Complex Why isn't there a rock emoji?
Because wasps don't get cancer?
I will miss that style of emojis. RIP.
+Gaspoo Why do you miss it? Is it going away?
The mind-controlling insect is nightmare fuel
*shivers*
CIean. Potential plot for a horror movie.
Not the only case of insect mind control, I'm afraid.
I am so thrilled they discussed them! Ampulex compressa is my favorite insect ever! It's so cool how they disable the roach. The burrow isn't even to keep the roach in. It is pretty much in a stupor for good. The purpose of blocking the entrance is to keep other things from disturbing the roach and larva. Speaking of the larva, once it hatches, it eats the roach alive. Targeting the less vital areas first, to keep the roach alive and fresh as long as possible. Then it becomes a pupa in the roach remains, before continuing the cycle. Freaking fascinating.
Frog buddy
How about the mind controlling fungi? Some will spore in an insect then make it perform certain actions to help it reproduce. One species makes an ant drown itself to continue its life cycle in water. Another will make an ant go out mid-day climb the tallest grass blade, clamp jaws, and stay there until accidentally eaten by a grazer to continue its life cycle in that animal's gut.
damn nature u scary
Grygas if seen this exact same comnent on another video
Grygas Mother Nature gives ZERO shits!
That thing come by my house, I’ll kill it
Says the chick
Yep and the big one like stars won't care because it's too powerful for insect to even go near it
Every time I learn something new about the insect world, I increasingly hate them.
Johnny Appleseed And I'm the opposite :p
Johnny Appleseed don't we all
I have to opposite reaction. That does not mean I will not try to kill a wasp (or even a bee) that is buzzing around me even if it means getting stung. I haven't been stung by a wasp or bee in about 40 years though.
SlyPearTree Don't kill bees, you barbarian.
Bob Poop
For the record I think I've only killed bees while they were stinging me. Still, killing one bee is like scratching, you kill some cells but the organism does not notice.
Why do we feel good when we stretch?
Probably because it's probably good for us.
they should totally do a video about it
watch the video he already made
Likely what you are doing is not stretching, but pandiculation. The muscles aren't stretching, but rather contracting tightly and releasing, sending strong sensory feedback to the brain and allowing it to gain better control over the muscles.
il stick to the huntsman spider in the corner of my room
it doesnt bite me and it gets rid of any insects that find their way into my house
so i leave it alone and it gets a nice climate controlled space to live in
You gotta charge it rent now
@@Asterion437 Its rent is pest control.
And the he gets into your bed
You will probably scwash it at some point
Same
okay I have always hated wasps but if they kill roaches I love them!
Funnelwebspider lol but as a spider wouldn't ur enemy be wasps? I mean wasps eat spiders.. but hey if u hate roaches as well then yes we can be friends... ironically enough this comment thread actually addresses my three most hated bugs.. (spiders, wasps, and roaches) spiders freak me out, but I won't kill them unless they are huge or in my house.. roaches must die no questions asked, and I just run from wasps.. lol
+Hokahey i love spiders. Mostly the big ones because the small ones are too fast. I love wolf spiders! And tarantulas. I don't like wasps because they're over aggressive assholes and some (like the tarantula hawk are really beautiful) kill spiders which is bad.
MRCOLOURfilld lol bugs are cool, like little aliens. but if they want to live in my house and do not pay rent ( which they never offer to do anyways.... rude...) then I kill them.. it's a mutual understanding we have..
+Hokahey well wolf spiders are the ultimate roommate to be honest. They eat flies, roaches, ect AND they kill black widows and brown recluse.
MRCOLOURfilld lol idk if I could do it... they are so creepy.... but if it makes u feel any better not many bugs make it into my house.
imagine if a wasp evolved well enough to inject her poison into a human
That's not really evolving "well", but alright.
What benefit would a jewel wasp have for attacking us, anyway? We're too different for its venom to act in the same way, we don't have the same body chemistry as cockroaches and thus cannot feed them as well, and we are much too big for them to easily subdue.
I saw a giant Asian hornet whilst in Taiwan. It was absolutely massive! Luckily it wasn’t agressive - it just seemed to sit on the floor doing nothing. We didn’t get close enough to find out if it would be agressive though.
Was it a relatively cold day out that might have lowered its metabolism?
Geeze man wasps are frightening. Living a bug's life would be hell on earth. That's not even the only wasp that does this sort of thing, there's one that actually hunts tarantulas, paralyzes them and lays its eggs inside it. Inside a freaking TARANTULA dude.
The thought of being unable to move as something grows in and eventually eats your insides is just... **shiver**
ther nature is so loving.
Thanx, now I'll never eat figs again.
@Mwalsher You're mistaken...Watch the video again..the reason why figs can be eaten without worrying about eating the remnants of a dead wasp and eggs is that we don't eat the male figs. We eat the female figs, that are blissfully free of wasp eggs. :)
Cirkustanz Unless a poor wasp gets into a female one by mistake
+Jose Andres Montoya Cabrera Both are actually safe, because the female figs and the male figs both digest the shells, so the female fig was digested by the fig and turned into protein which allowed it to grow, so don't worry, it's digested
Adam Gawlowski and we digest *both* the fig and the shell (digestion inception)
Yep, I agree.
You should make an entire episode dedicated to the mantis shrimp!
I promise you won't regret it.
Love how he talks, kind of dramatic haha. It’s not monotonous and he emphasizes well 👍
Love how this channel always lets you know how much you dont know about the things you think you know.
i'd never thought i'd ever say this about a sci show video. but. i could've lived my whole life without know any of this and it would have been a better life.
Hello, SciShow! I have a humble request for a video on the topic of cerebral aneurysms! I experienced a rupture when I 19 and the suddenness and severity of them would make for a good informative video for the public! Thank you!
No. STFU already.
Aneurisms in general would be interesting for a video.
All new on "Sci Show : The Horror, The Horror"
I'm not exactly happy about learning these things, but I'm happy to learn these things because the more you know.
You've put me right off my fig rolls.
Hank walks into the office.
"Hey guys. How about we do one of these videos that will definitely give people panic attacks and keep them from going outside ever again?"
when humans inevitably self destroy, wasps will take over the planet. I, for one, welcome our future overlord the jewel wasp
Camila Stefanie You've been stung, haven't you?
Lucky-Ebola-Chan all shall kneel before them
Camila Stefanie ummmm, I think cockroaches are going to be the last creature alive ........they can survive almost anything.
idk, WASP's (white anglo saxon protestants) are also damn near unstoppable. They wiped out entire races and took over half the globe. I say we make a bunch of wasps fight a bunch of WASP's and see who survives the battle royal
Nah, octopuses
I've heard the mind control wasp story before but I really enjoyed the in depth look at its habits
Ah good ole SciShow to remind me AGAIN how terrifying a concept life is.
You should have covered Tarantula Hawks! That's my favorite wasp! They're similar to that jewel wasp in that they lay their eggs in a tarantula and the newly hatched wasps eat the tarantula from the inside out. Also super painful stings.
how amazing is this
i just love how everyone in the comment section is so chill about eating dead wasps in figs. not one "omg! eww!"
That thing about the jeweled wasp would make a great horror movie
"Gasteruption jaculator" looks like a scientist had a pretty good time the night before they named this thing.
I've gotta say hank's outfit is on point in this video.
What about tarantula hawk wasps? Those things are friggin' metal!
Bees: Pollinate Flowers, Keep Our environment alive, make sweet honey
Wasp: Unforgiving, painful little shits that everyone hates
"cockroach mind control"
Me:
PICKLE RIIIIIIIIICK!!
Last year we had to deal with the fact that some wasps chewed a hole in an exterior wall of our house and started building a hive in my sister’s bedroom wall. She got stung a time or two and kept wondering how she’d wake up to a couple of wasps in her room. By the time we figured it out and called people in to take care of it, the dry wall where the hive was had been eaten to be paper thin and the buzzing by the hive sounded like electricity. Needless to say, once they were taken care of, we had some fixing to do.
Wasps and such are neat, so long as there’s space in the togetherness.
Oh wow! Wasps are dope! 😱
These blew my mind to Jupiter and back. You literally cannot make this stuff up.
Very interesting video, but I almost didn't watch because of the name. SciShow, you're better then clickbait titles
"You know those nature shows where a wasp paralyzes a caterpillar, then injects it full of larvae? It stays alive for weeks, completely aware, feeling every little bite as the larvae devour it from the inside. I sat in a cubicle every day envying that caterpillar, cause at least he got to be on TV. I hated that job." - Hal, Malcolm in the MIddle
0:23 hank green golden moment
1:40 This just opens up a whole new can of worms.
I've never been more disturbed by an episode of SciShow...
Thanks foe sharing. Stinging insects like bees and hornets send more than 500,000 people to the emergency room each year. These pests are especially active during the second half of summer and early fall when the colonies forage for food that will sustain their queens during the winter.
How many poor wasps, bees and hornets do we send to the emergency room? #SaveTheWasps
Brilliant, thank you!
Those three wasps still live today, they are currently in a vicious raid-boss style fight with the grim reaper.
Great video! A lot of curious knowleage.
That last one sounds like some sort of folklore. Scary.
These are types of sources where a lot of horror movie ideas come from.
Great episode!
I saw the asian giant hornet in Korea when I was there from 1983-1984 with the 2nd Infantry Division. Scary looking SOB.
if the wasp just lays it own eggs in the fig, wouldnt that cause some serious inbreeding?
Patrick Roelant - while i am sure inbreeding is common, I think more than one female entering the fig is common enough as well.
insects inbreed a ton. They must have basically selected out most genetic diseases via their vast spawning rates. Only the lines tolerant to duplication survive.
inbreeding is only really an issue for animals that dont have a lot of internal genetic diversity, like humans and pure bred breeds of animals.. we get ours from having hit the critical population point of 10000 individuals, hitting this point also hampers our ability to evolve genetically
Patrick Roelant Inbreeding wouldn't be much of a problem since they'd die quickly anyway.
My favorite wasp is the aphidius wasp, which gets rid of a thorny problem on my leafy greens. When I find one of the wasp's aphid mummies on my bitter greens I pick it up and put it back in the garden. Eventually the aphidius wasp larva will chew a hole in the aphid its been slowly eating alive, crawl into the dirt and overwinter there where it will emerge as aphidius wasp, a pollinator that lays its eggs in aphids and uses them like something out of the alien movies :)
That was...unsettling.
I allways feel bad if I leave the video when they start talking about the patreon thing =( I will support you guys some day when I can afford it :D
I once watched a giant wasp capture a dragonfly in the air, take it to the ground, saw open its thorax while I squatted over the two watching, and then fly away with a chunk of meat (or something) from inside the dragonfly's thorax. I kid you not. That wasp had to know I was there too, because I skated up and watched them from like a couple feet above the struggle. It was an amazing battle. The wasp seemed angry.
Every time I learn something about insects, I become more happy that I am not an insect.
Welcome to Science Show!
_30 seconds later_
*COCKROACH MIND CONTROL*
Be careful with that one, love, he will do what it takes to survive
Fig wasps are quite nice actually. They don't chase you the second they see you.
Wasps are so METAL
love sci show I watch it and always learn
this blew my mind man
I happened upon a Cicada Killer Wasp, killing a Cicada, while hiking the Appalachian Trail. Have pics. One of the coolest, freakiest things I've ever seen.
Wasps? You mean those v-shaped papers I'd shoot with a rubber band?
I love bees and wasps! All of them are so cool ^^
When I was a kid I once watched a tarantula hawk wasp drag a tarantula to a fate similar to the cockroach. It was horrifying especially because the tarantula doesn't get to go out on a high just paralyzed
ahaha also your currently my favorite scishow narrator
I used to live in the middle of nowhere and there were wasps almost two inches long. It was absurd, seeing as they were everywhere.
Before video: "What is this almost clickbait title, SciShow"
After video: "Oh my god, whatttttt"
down south my grandpa use to take this flame thrower he made out of steel pipe, a can of propane and a small hand torch as the pilot light, there was a massive hive so my grandpa threw a paper cup full of gas at it and lit it up with the flame thrower, you could see the wasps that got to close to the flame just burst into flame and dissapeer
Jewel wasp.
Effectively a Xenomorph...
Got it...
Remind me to kill every bug I see. Ever.
somehow this video keeps poping up on my list to watch even though ive seen it before at least twice oh well its entertaining
This hasn't done wasps any favors in my books.
how horrifying... great video!
Saw a wasp once dragging off a huntsman spider to lay eggs in it (got a video on my channel), quite a sight to see it pulling it along the ground back to its nest :0
Cool guy is back
The cockroaches get off easy having a mind-controlling cocktail keep them drugged up while a chestburster incubates inside them. They COULD be fully lucid and just be paralyzed, like another wasp does to them.
Somehow,that made me pity the cockroaches.But they aren't the only one.A fungi called Cordyceps also mind-controls ants and in the end,kills them.
basically a mind-controlling xenomorph
I sort of have a phobia for wasps (ever since the attacked me that fateful day back when I was 7), so this was VERY unsettling... except for the Cuckoo Wasp, had no idea they could look NOT ugly!
I was stung when I was around 8 but it was my own fault for getting too close to a nest. For the most part wasps will leave you alone so long as you respect them so there is nothing to fear.
Also most varieties of wasp cannot sting and there are a lot of beautiful wasps in lots of different colours and designs that you can observe safely.
Interesting.
I was hoping there was one that would make honey if it couldn't find anything else to eat. Oh well, there might be something delicious that wasps do make, and I want that.
ANYYYYYYTHING?
*grin widens *
This was interesting but everyone talks about the same wasps species when there are so many others that do weird, interesting, terrible things
Even the most dirty cockroach cleans itself to ... birth
The last one is basicly the alien movie
Larva growing inside it - all I thought of was alien vs predator
That made my skin crawl
I absolutely despise wasps, but any wasp that kills a cockroach is a friend of mine.
The printmaking studio I work in has wasp hives in the ceiling, that the university the studio is a part of refuses to take care of.
Even tiny little cells aren't safe from wasp
That's FIGin' Awesome!! Although that reminds me of the Aliens movies.
a wasp as small as an amoeba...incredible
Damn, wasps are metal af
A wasp the size of an amoeba, I believe it. I saw a scary insect like monster while looking at amoeba from a Death Valley spring fed puddle (they called it a pond). Luckily my high school lab partner also saw it... Man if only cell phones existed at that time... Well, if only cell phones smaller than a large brick and with a camera rather.
Asian giant hornets seem small when you say 5cm but they are huge. HUGE.
I can tell you they can't survive me with a tennis racquet
just for clarification....@1:15 the male siblings impregnate the female wasps? or do other males come along?
If it's the siblings how do the get any genetic diversity?
Woah... Wait..... If a fig wasp is caught in a female fig plant.... is it processed into other food... like fig newtons?
Probably, most foods have a have a minimum amount of bugs per 100 grams allowance. so most plant based foods that you eat definitely have bug parts mixed in. It's best to just not think about it...
Pat Chanandez yeah, what do you think the crunchy parts are
That's a myth;. There's no bugs. All the bugs are digested
Pat Chanandez Fruits are cleaned unless you bought it like 2 seconds since it was put in the store
Pat Chanandez Figs digest leftover wasps.
i literally just got stung by some kind of yellow fuzzy bee and this is the first video i see on my feed.... simulation?.... collective consciousness? ... the world may never know