The truly social animals. Eusocial arthropods. First an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLwAA5fHHc. Termites are not only eusocial, but they are incredible environmental engineers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaT0B__2DM A link to the only eusocial mammal, the naked mole rat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DcOEzW1wA. One of our local eusocial animals, the western thatching ant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMYPpphzQo.
Okay. Everybody wants to see it. Here it is. Barnacle sex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnB4dm3KyM And barnacle sex on the beach! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1SW-pl2gYs
How do you grow with an exoskeleton? You molt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffo37DlH5DM
Monarch butterfly’s complete metamorphosis. Check it out! monarch butterfly metamorphosis time lapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk
Praying Mantises have incomplete metamorphosis. And they are so alien looking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urk-_Uh2vbg
The teenagers of the insect world – the 17-year instar cicada. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U&p=6ECA9A080A95E62F
Insect vs crustacean. And the winner is…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOe5Lmyyxiw&feature=relmfu
Do NOT watch this if you are squeemish. It’s of a human infected by two bot flies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqV1MCDLcMM&feature=related
An awfully long time to be a teenager! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U
Incredible builders those termites. Tropical housing with air conditioning that uses no fossil fuels. Cool! 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaT0B__2DM
Aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhh! Plagues of locusts! The end is nigh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNy2R3hg2Q
And the smallest of all the arthropods at a mere 0.1 mm, Demodex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0wIueoi3Sg
When dragonflies were kings! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kzorrSbaUA