Phylogeny of Insects - The Most Successful Animals EVER!

Thus spake zoraptera.

wait up, arent insects not animals but arthropods? Or am I just dumb

can't believe he forgot to mention the insulindian phasmid, a very real bug that's not at all just from a video game

As somebody with a vague fondness for insects, I loved this video. I learnt so much, thanks Clint.

They use and have gills in their aquatic phase and once terrestial they use the trachea? Since they dont have gills in adult form? I must have missunderstood you cause it looks easy peasy to me :D

By the way, a question for you. Since nymphal dragonflies have internal gills, they move 24/7? Must be annoying to sleep

Always nice to see some THEM! representation

I've actually seen insects from the last 4 orders. When I was in Gifted and Talents class in Highschool we went to a thing that I don't remember the name of and they had an entire building dedicated to talking about various insects. I don't remember a lot about the experience due to ADHD meds but I was still able to remember seeing those cool insects and one of my classmates stealing my $10.

PLEASE DO A ROACH VIDEO PLEASE!!!!

Obscure Little Big Adventure reference at 17.46?

On an unrelated note going to start called my chickens dino-flies

can you please make a video about ants, bees and wasps? 😁

You have to say "instars" in an evil British accent 😂

Everybody gangster til the roach starts flying

loev these videos so much! i would love to see if you could maybe talk about leech someday :)? if youre focusing on arthropods right now, i would LOVE to see videos about centipedes <3! thank you so much for these wonderful videos, they are awesomely educating and it brightens my day so much whenever i see one of these!

Cockroach and Shrimp/Prawn are related cousin (one for land and one for sea)
Count in dust mite too also related to them...
And body allergic with these above

Did you consult an entomologist for this video ? There is a lot of small errors

"1 box unit"
People from the US will use anything but the metric system. 😆Just kidding. Great video!

Insects can actually have a whole bunch of senses not located in their antennae! It's true that they do have a lot of senses up there, but there's so many interesting ones that aren't. Like various insects having taste receptors on their feet (because, of course, what does an insect do if it wants to eat something? Often, land on it!). Or like the Fire Chaser Beetles' incredibly acute infrared sensing organ on their thoraxes. Or the sensory array on the stinger / ovipositor of parasitic wasps, which help them feel their way to stinging the exact right locations in their victims.

I always thought the plural for mantis was mantids, so when you started saying mantises, I couldn't resist to google it. However, I came across conflicting results; some saying mantises refers specifically to the genus mantis, and mantids referring to entire 2400+ species in the order mantodea; others said exactly the opposite. Care to elaborate?

Love your video, hate roaches.

The more beetles then plants at 20 seconds in fact is crazy

I feel like "human gets menaced by insect larger than them" is more scientifically plausible if you shrink the human, rather than blowing up the insect. The smallest vertebrates, after all, are plenty small enough to get menaced by many insects.

We need a video like this going over arthropoda. SPIDERS!!!

Your videos make me genuinely consider a career in zoology

Imagine my disgust to find out that my favorite insect I used to study and collect as a kid in the Caribbean, is now branded a cockroach.

Lol i like the han solo edit

uuhuuu Insects!!! my favorit Insect is Gryllotalpa Gryllotalpa, which occurs everywhere here in Switzerland. we call it Wärä or Half devil XD they have everything. i would love to see them in a video ^^

...fontanellar gun xD, because is small? was bigger animal would it have fontaneer cannon?

Get the antenna!

Of COURSE we are ALL entertained, Clint! I could listen to you going on and on forever about animals, from "best pet?" to the complex organization of animals! Your passion is contagious!

Don't leave us hanging!

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to have a shield bug land on me. I showed to to my friend's children of 3 to 5 years old but none of them wanted to have it on their finger. It was tasting me [the mouth probiscis was far too small to penetrate my skin] and I told the kids it was licking me. Another time I had a very large bumblebee land on my t-shirt. People told me it was there but I already knew because it was so large I felt it land and they were surprised I wasn't scared. After about 20 min it flew off and I watched it go about 20 m / 22 yd away where it turned around and landed on the bridge of my nose! It stayed there for a couple of minutes then flew off, I feel that I was really lucky to have a bee treat me as a landing pad.

Please keep up with the films, I learn so much about a field that I have a pasing interest in with each one you do and I can't wait for the 2024 Dinosaur December.

Oh, and if you can do a trilobite film that would make my day.

I’d love to have a video on the structures of eusocial insects! Also, do you know about the one species of roach that goes to light instead of hiding from it! Why does it do that. Ps. I would additionally always watch and video on the diabolical ironclad beetle…

The cockroaches in my log cabin are a powerful community. We battle.

Hey Clint can you tell us what “bugs” are vs “insects”?

I always got the impression that ancient dragonflies and centipedes were absolutely massive

How does an exotherm survive in such wintry conditions?

Although insect hemolymph doesn’t typically carry oxygen throughout the body like vertebrate blood, some aquatic insects have developed gills that work to bring oxygen directly into their tissues. Here’s a breakdown of the process:

Oxygen Absorption Through Gills: In aquatic insects with gills, the gills are specialized, thin-walled structures with a large surface area that allow for efficient gas exchange. Oxygen from the water diffuses directly into the cells and hemolymph in these gill structures because of the concentration gradient (high oxygen in water, low in hemolymph).

Direct Delivery to Tissues: Once the oxygen enters the gills, it doesn’t travel far. Unlike vertebrates, insects don’t have a closed circulatory system for widespread oxygen transport. Instead, oxygen diffuses from the gills directly into the surrounding tissues that need it. Hemolymph circulates around the gill structures and nearby tissues, providing a medium for gas exchange at a very local level.

Tracheal System Complement: Some aquatic insects have a tracheal system similar to that of terrestrial insects, which transports oxygen deeper into the body. In species where the tracheal system connects to external gills, these gills act as external “extensions” of the tracheae, allowing the larvae to absorb oxygen from water into the tracheal system.

Hemoglobin Exception in Some Species: Some aquatic insect larvae (like certain midge larvae) have hemoglobin-like molecules in their hemolymph. These molecules can bind to oxygen, especially in low-oxygen environments, allowing for some transport of oxygen within the hemolymph.

That's probably great way to start a major war...

I’ve seen ice crawlers and web spinners in Vermont!

from the articles i've read it seems that dissolved oxygen defuses through the cuticle of the gills directly into the tracheal system of gilled insects. however my sources seem sketchy at best and i couldn't find any in-depth articles about this specific process.

Please dig into termites if you have not already!! !

The Insects of the Pterygota clade, not to be confused with the family Pterygotidae which are Eurypterids.
Then the Dermapteran Insects, not to be confused with the Dermopteran "Flying Lemurs" or Culogos

There's a stone fly for every species of mammal? What do they DO to us???

Having seen many of the species he says he would be impressed if we had seen makes my entomological heart happy

this guy is a school teacher isn't he? I hope so :D