Arthropod Videos

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

 

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