5 Things You Didn't Know About Insect Wings

[@DrawCuriosity]

Which was your favourite insect wing fact? 🐝🐝

[@ragnkja]

Draw Curiosity How am I supposed to choose just one? There’s a reason they’re all in the video!

[@colinp2238]

I never knew that earwigs had wings. I only recently found out that insect wings work different to bird wings whilst watching a video about proposed Mar's flying exploration vehicles so this video supported that very well.

[@Ericklxvi]

I did not know about wing folding :O

[@FirkinFilms]

The Distal Hamuli impressed me the most, learned a lot here though, now to remember it...

[@peccantis]

I really expected to see thrips and their special approach to flight as number 2 or 1 :/ as things are, I very much enjoyed learning about the pterostigmata.

[@TierZoo]

I didn't even know earwigs had wings omg this is such a cool video

[@markchinguz4401]

They are dermaptera, skinwings

[@EggBastion]

You look okay, get in!

[@waspanimations7037]

Neither did i

[@joshuawalker7054]

Congratulations on being able to select "Dr" in drop down menus!

[@daddyleon]

So now it's: "Dr. Aw Curiosity"?

[@2300Kenzie]

Very well said!

[@kauemoura]

This is fascinating, especially the wing folding part.

[@nikolaishriver7922]

Kauê Moura that Earwig wing is incredible

[@MIKIVELES369]

All was superb. I love that you included those folding slo-mo and detail videos.

[@martiddy]

Tom Scott bring me here!

[@DrawCuriosity]

Welcome aboard!!

[@johnuferbach9166]

same here^^

[@Phrenotopia]

Your enthusiasm alone puts me in a good mood! :-) And now I've learned a bunch of fun new facts too!

[@drawbyyourselve]

I was wondering about fairy flys and earwigs making an appearance here, great video.

[@trolki]

Congratulations on the doctorate! Great to see you back!

[@zentouro]

ah, so great to see a video from you! this is only mildly related but, the other day i learned that caterpillars have their future butterfly wings inside of their little bodies the whole time and my mind was blown!

[@all204]

That was super interesting! Thanks for the video. :)

[@BlobVanDam]

Hopefully that quality clickbait title and thumbnail bring in more people in to watch this fascinating video. Your excitement for this topic shows! :D

[@haikovanderleeuw9945]

I could listen to you talk science all day. Great video!

[@athenassigil5820]

I love this ladies voice, so calming and I learn so much! Kudos! Your explanations are excellent.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

More please! Seriously, I'm very interested in insect flight. Particularly dragonflies.

[@b4ph0m3tdk9]

Thank you for the knowledge and the many pictures to illustrate the points.

[@2300Kenzie]

As a biologist, I very much enjoy this topic and as a pilot it was even more interesting. I'm very happy for you, Inés. I think you'll make this a better world.

[@muralisaripalli164]

I was taking interest in insect flights quite recently. Consider me a noob. You and your channel are God given gift

[@alexv3357]

I would never have imagined that not only do earwigs have wings but _wing origami_ on top of that

[@lornaaah1]

what a fantastic video! We're learning about flight in nature at the moment. this was so interesting. Thank you.

[@DustyKorpse]

Saw you killing Toby on Tom's garage game. So i thought I'd pop over and check out your channel. 👍

[@DrawCuriosity]

Welcome aboard!! I also promise to resurrect Toby

[@Ericklxvi]

Awesome and interesting video, Ines! PS: Nice hair :)

[@mowburnt]

Fascinating stuff! Great video.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Thank you Dr. Inés! I went into this as something of an an Arthropod Fan, expecting to know two or three of these... but I knew pretty much none of them! Insects continue to astound me time after time; they really will fill every niche I couldn't think of.

[@DrawCuriosity]

I'm very glad this video was novel even to the greatest of arthropods fans! 😊 Thank you for watching!

[@BioBush]

Wing folding was really interesting! I was taught that earwigs have atrophied wings, but they're just hiding! Congratulations Dr. Dawson!

[@Neontronique]

Good to see you back, loved the part about pterostigma.

[@wolframstahl1263]

Came here from Tom Scott, and after this fascinating video I'm here to stay. ;)

[@vladimirleon2487]

That was awesome. Super interested in the wind folding mechanism, especially for autonomous robotics!

[@Genesis817]

Just found your channel. Subbed. Your thorough content is so refreshing. thank you.

[@carlosyamashita562]

Very good job! Congratulations on how you explain to the public!

[@willemvandebeek]

At 1:38 does Cu in "Cu2 vein" stand for the element copper?

[@carlostrujillom]

Congrats on a great channel! You have a fan!

[@lorenzotosiart]

Awesome video, superinteresting!!!

[@dg-hughes]

Now that I know about it I can't unsee the pterostigma on wings. I suppose it means "wing mark".

[@maksimghyvoronsky5641]

Why do I want to marry this girl? Goodness she is absolutely the cutest thing I've ever seen, love her voice especially😍

[@Stormy2142]

I loved every single second of this video. I love these subjects.

[@danielpohl3306]

Truly fascinating video. Thank you.

[@zeteflo]

Stunning. Thanx. You won a delighted subscriber Doctor :)

[@jmikronis7376]

Thank you for this very informative video on insect wings!

[@Corporis]

The title was correct. I knew none of those things. Also, the wobbly airplane wings freaked me out.

[@maxximumb]

You really wont like this then. Next time you fly, look where the wings are in relation to the aircraft' body. Look at their angle and shape. Then once in the air, check again. They will have curved significantly upwards. A fully loaded passenger jet's wing typically bends around two meters or more.

[@oliveriodelgado7155]

Muchas gracias por tan bonito video. Directo a mi clase de entomología!, Saludos desde Mx.

[@connormaloney6969]

Holy shit this was a lot of work for so little views. Awesome video, keep making these

[@SeanRhoadesChristopher]

I just did a search hoping for an explanation of some strange wing behavior. A small fly/wasp landed on my coffee maker, and as it walked about it spread its wings out as if it where stretching them, they would fold back in then back straight out going in a circular movement. It did the same as it stood still. The coffee maker is outside in my outdoor shop, so all kinds of insects visit me there. What could it be doing? I’m in North Florida.

[@tonya.vahle80]

Where is the follow up video on Wolbachia pls? I cant find it and you had said in the video with Suzanne Eaton that it was coming?

[@sandrapoison]

Wow great video I learn so much... insects are amazing...

[@KhAnubis]

I can‘t even begin to tell you how much wing flutter has been a problem for me in Kerbal Space Program 🙄

[@DrawCuriosity]

I can imagine - especially as presumably the rockets must travel at really high speeds!

[@leewoodrough242]

This makes me dream of a backpack with folded dragonfly wings. I think I might start on this.

[@sarrabelhaj6373]

i'm surely using this for an architectural project , thank you

[@loksewaprepararion1117]

I like the 18 times folding of the wings, it was interesting , nice

[@jmsx14]

Do you believe at all, that the scarab beetles can be using the wings static and the shells to fly rather than all the flapping of a wing ?, Iv just stumbled upon this, and if you put the shells over a nylon that uses static the wings are very active ?, like I say I’m just new to this so just asking the questions as ridiculous as it may seem to you haha

[@JansthcirlU]

I wanna see a collab between you and Tibees to see whose hair is longer!

[@SciencyOptimist]

Excellent and fun video DC. I have a weakness for wasps and their mind control powers. Wasps with brushy wings are waaay high on my list!

[@samsonian]

Sciency Optimist I find fig wasps to be extraordinarily interesting. Both the beneficial type and the parasitic that use their proboscis to burrow into the fruit.

[@SciencyOptimist]

@@samsonian I don't know anything about fig wasps though I am a fan of several parasitic ones, like the emerald cockroach wasp. The precision and ingenuity of parasites thrilling.

[@BarronBros1822]

To the good doctor, In pondering insect flight it appears to me the insects are creating electrical charge by air friction or some unknown mechanism. Cricket mating calls are also quite intriguing from an electrical view point, are these resonate field frequencies documented anywhere? Are insect wings electrically conductive? My supposition is a mechanism very much unexplained by science is the prime mover in insect flight. Loved the video. From a builders perspective, seeing the ultimate designer(gods) work in exhibition is so great. Also the heavy portion of the wing you mentioned, i believe, serves to carry just the tip of the wing about 12 or 13 degrees past flat on the downstroke, if you catch my drift. The wing actually bends backward(very ergonomically) right behind what appears to be that heavy place you explained in the video. Its clear to me this creates a vortex of energy. Sort of how a prop plane creates a vortex with the prop to give the wings incredible lift. But also not like that at all, something much for natural and in tune with universal law to be sure.

[@junkjouster]

Well this is just lovely!

[@strati5phere]

wing folding, I hope we can someday mimic earwig type wing designs in our vehicles :D

[@paulfoss5385]

It would be cool to see insects arranged using t-sne based on their wing morphology.

[@DrawCuriosity]

What is t-sne?

[@paulfoss5385]

Some sort of dimensionality reduction, which attempts to make a lower dimensional space having roughly the same clustering and distributions as the original data set. It's not perfect from what I've read, and can produce fictious clustering, but it can make incomprehensible high dimensional spaces viewable and the set of insect wings would reside in a high dimensional space with hundreds of axes for the proportions of all the different structures, shapes, connectivity, mass distribution, colors, as many dimensions as things that can be measured, taken humans will always have to limit their scope because of finite time and resources. Evolution is able to act on that high dimensional space effortlessly, with insects each having there own point in the space and new points (offspring) appear in some sense near the previous points and there are gradients of probability of reproduction/death that cause the overall distribution to shift about and settle about regions of local optima like water flowing down hill and forming puddles. Taken the space isn't exactly smooth since DNA is discrete. And the probability gradients are always changing. But essentially my thoughts were to put it into a massive data set and hand it to a computer and run t-sne. Which would take many hours of work going through hundreds of photos of insects, measuring the features, dealing with anomalies, which is probably why so much of t-SNE's use is in machine learning. Anyway I don't know how any of that actually works, what I do know I am bad at explaining, it would be expensive and difficult, but I still stand by my belief that the result of such a project would be cool to look at.

[@ANWELLIJAAMAA]

good video thank you

[@miguichopemigui6736]

really really cool

[@zephaniahwmarion7311]

From my understanding bees wouldn't be able to fly if they didn't have hairs under the wings that oscillation creating a levitation effect. (scarab beetle wings also have the vibrating hairs much like the cones in the eyes and if you tap the wings together the wings will levitate on their own from the osculation..try it)

[@Alberto-mi9hj]

Hola Ines, le vas a poner M subtitulos a este video o vas a hacer una versión parecida en tu otro canal?

[@DrawCuriosity]

Le voy a poner subtítulos mañana por la mañana 😊 tengo los ingleses hechos y mañana los traduciré. Aunque también tengo pensado hacer uno similar para Inestable en un futuro

[@ashmckinlay1402]

Congrats on beconing a doctor, Great video on our little arthropods cousins, and great channel. All tha is talk on insect wings has got me wondering about their evolutionary origin, as the other clades in the arthropods don't seem to have them.

[@marcelijahparale994]

Very informative, I subscribed :D

[@EM-vu6dn]

hey my name is Tegan, and for a school presentation I have decided to research the evolution of the insect wing, one thing I was wondering about is the genetic mechanics of the wing and how it evolved through natural selection. thank you if you respond or if any one in the comments can :)

[@Sucellusification]

¡Gracias por el vídeo! Muy interesante, los insectos son increíbles. Mi dato favorito, el de la manera de plegar las alas, siempre me fijé en las mariquitas y me llamó la atención, pero no sabía que las tijeretas volaban, nunca tuve la suerte de ver una volar. ¡Y felicidades por el doctorado!

[@DrawCuriosity]

Muchas gracias!

[@MesakLalrindika]

How can beatles fly they seem so heavy and their wings so small

[@nikolaishriver7922]

I’m seeking an answer to a question, I came across this video looking to find that answer, unfortunately I didn’t’. I love the video by the way, thank you for sharing your work. If I may take a moment of your time lol; I am trying to find out of the Nanopillars themselves on a dragonfly’s wings are hollow?

[@geegee952]

That was really inspiring

[@jmikronis7376]

Good to know, at some low level and speed, air is considered viscus, thus controlled by tiny hairs.

[@violettracey]

Thanks!

[@thebeginnerukuleleplayer4285]

Wow. Mindblown.

[@mirjanbouma]

I learned so much today about insects and their wings! Btw I got here from Tom Scott's game garage!

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

If the silent Oceanic Field Crickets are too successful in intercepting females, the population of the noisy variety will drop. That will be a problem for the silent ones, whise population will drop. Are the two varieties in a static or dynamic equilibrium?

[@noahmccann4438]

Steve the Cat Couch I was just thinking the same thing. It would seem like these varieties would oscillate as you pointed out. This oscillation would be further amplified by the parasites inability to find its prey, and thus its population would decline (assuming it has no other hosts), which would relieve the evolutionary pressure that reduced the viability of the noisy variety. Or at least that is what I think would happen.

[@alexkennedy4990]

Great video :) Do we know anything about how insect wings evolved? Are they modified legs? I always wondered about the in-between stages. Did they evolve from a structure that served a purpose other than walking? Are the strange hairbrush wings of the parasitic wasps in the video perhaps similar to the primitive wing structure, or are they something (relatively) new? If we don't have any firm answers due to lack of fossils, do you have any speculations?

[@DrawCuriosity]

Thanks! I know there are several hypotheses out there that speculate how insects came to have wings - it's not my area of expertise so I have no strong opinions on any, but I've often thought it would make a good future video. However, the wings aren't modified legs, but outgrowths of the thorax (which part specifically is still up for debate - some think they evolved from their gills from when ancestral insects were primarily aquatic (and a lot of basal groups have aquatic nymphal stages)). As for the parasitic wasps, I imagine the miniaturisation to have happened later in evolution (especially being parasites, they needed to adapt first to a larger host organism), and their wing shape to be a case of convergent evolution. The way the air behaves at that size (Re

[@alexkennedy4990]

@@DrawCuriosity Very interesting, thank you! I wish we had more fossils so we could get solid answers. I hope they're out there waiting to be discovered. More videos about what we do know about how some structures and behaviours evolved would be awesome, but ones like this are great too. There a lot of science videos that share relatively common facts, more specialized knowledge like this is really cool.

[@muhammadasgharhassan2621]

Great video about insect wings

[@vn8161]

does anyone know where she went?:(

[@DrawCuriosity]

I'm coming back soon! :) Life got a bit busy

[@bingbang6095]

This is awesome, what do you think of Victor Grebenicoffs work on Beatles? Is there any truth in his claims of anti gravity properties.

[@maksimghyvoronsky5641]

Where have you gone? I miss your videos😔

[@nuclearnyanboi]

You made me fall in love with insects although I didn't take Biology in my A levels

[@nazarostrovsky_]

Earwig is my favourite bug, and one of the reasons are their wings

[@briannamckinney2112]

What I would like to know is, how insects can have several legs and wings at the same time, whereas birds and bats only use their arm-like bones for flight

[@DrawCuriosity]

Insects are arthropods which have lots of modular segments - it is easier for Hox/homeobox genes in each segment to specialise and form structures such as antennae, legs, etc. I believe insects had 20 of them (grouped into their three larger segments), making the formation of wings on one segment possible without affecting the structure or function of adjacent modular segments. Vertebrates don't really have this body plan, and instead wings are adapted forearms, which have evolved convergently to act as airfoils 😊

[@GRA00071]

Well, this taught me that earwigs have wings, which I did not know and am now absolutely terrified of 😨

[@GRosa]

They're harmless. Maybe we should call them earwings now. 😂

[@shaneschuller2513]

Very interesting 👌 And You're lovely

[@BeatMaster2000]

Bro tokyo drifted into clapping😂😂😂 1:03

[@arcitejack]

The highly educated Oxford kind. Thanks for the fascinating science.

[@Your-TV-TPM]

Very good information on insect wings but I like your PONYTAIL very much. its an example of sex dimorphism.

[@punkkap]

Very cool. When you use new words (to the public), I'd like them to be on screen for some time, makes it easier to associate it with the facts. Also, as I think the words themselves are crucial to learning, brushing over their etymology even if it's origins are in latin, like Vsauce does it is super helpful for memorization. Again, cool video!

[@DrawCuriosity]

Noted! I've tried to do this in past videos, and will be sure to do this more in the future 😊

[@REVERSE_BIAS]

Errrr what??? I'm 38 years old and only just found out that Ear-wigs can fly!!!!! Mind-blown 🤯!!! Seriously, how did I not know this?!?!?!

[@DrawCuriosity]

One is never too old to learn!

[@catlee8064]

Dr Ines....please do some ASMR... :-)

[@KORTOKtheSTRONG]

crazy stuff

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Lady bugs are so cool. 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

[@iamPROTOTYPE]

cavernous structures effect - viktor grebennikov

[@Mikey1hunnid]

Cool !

[@jspiragauta26]

Y los subtitulos? : (

[@DrawCuriosity]

Estoy escribiéndolos ahora!

[@samuelmiensinompe4902]

Evolution is amazing. It is about the biological meaning of one action slowly becoming a biological meaning of a different action. Every animal on this planet has eventually conquered the meaning of flight, reptiles, mammals, insects and even fish are starting to fly now. I wonder, if insect that fly first evolved a type of organ to make noise so that other insects that were opposite in sex would know where they were. And this organ also started to develop wing type of flaps, not to fly, but to help release a pheromone so that it could be better found. Such flaps later began to evolve larger and larger since it helped the insect climb the trees faster in order to release such pheromone. And from there those who had it bigger could even jump the tree and land on the grown only to climb the tree again and get a larger area of pheromone. Eventually this behavior made them fly around the tree, and also have a better view of females that could be coming closer. I think the rest can be added easily of how they continued to developed flight. Of course, it could have been the female rather than the male with this type of organ. But later it passed on to the male. So many insects that exist on this planet. Probably there was much more than one scenario of evolution responsible for the wing evolution.

[@_sacredseven_]

Hymenoptera are my favorite🤓🤓🤓

[@golgarisoul]

Hair wings? I would have never guessed that insects had hair.

[@Sucellusification]

Of course they have, they use hair to feel things beyond their hard cold skeleton. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to feel anything.

[@tttITA10]

Ow, so THAT'S what an elytra is. Minecraft got me seriously misguided on that one...

[@siffoine]

Missed wingman joke opportunity!

[@DrawCuriosity]

Sigh, that's what happens when I wing it

[@siffoine]

@@DrawCuriosity :) Btw. Congrats on you Dr. progress!

[@sonnymoon6465]

9:40 note, do not try sending to African countries. I have tried and lose the item every time. Very fishy business going on between the USPS and whoever the items then go to from New York... they just disappear never reaching Africa is my hunch though it is said that it is Africa that loses it. Tracking packages sent to Africa seems to end in New York.