Beetles in Flight with Joe Pera

[@tylociraptor8131]

I can't believe you got Joe Pera for this. He absolutely is the perfect narrator for insect documentaries- he's so soothing, calming and pleasant. Just like a kindly friend is telling you about beetles.

[@happyschwartz530]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ couldn’t agree more literally fallow and just found out about this channel 🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@domitype]

Nah, Ze Frank is the master! ;-)

[@tracybowling1156]

I get drawn in and find myself fascinated when watching slowed down insects. I don't know Joe Pera, but his voice is so soothing and calming. Perfect choice. I like your voice, too.

[@pony3284]

He has a whole channel/TV series called Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep where he talks about random things in this soothing way

[@lynnpehrson8826]

That's his thing, he can also be very funny.

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

realllll

[@commandershepard7728]

"Joe Pera BUGS you to sleep" I LOVE THIS!

[@palatina6626]

Thank you for adding the swimming water beetle. Brilliant.

[@not_hien]

This collab makes me SO happy. More, please!!

[@Drumrsean101]

This collaboration brings such joy to my heart. This is how I know I'm following the right KZbin channels.

[@lammybowers4800]

The crossover we didn't know we needed

[@dj-kq4fz]

Made my day, honestly!

[@7thangelad586]

The evasive maneuver of the tumbling beetle is just about the coolest thing I’ve seen today!

[@alveolate]

it's amazing to see that thorax-abdomen separation too... i heard that beetles have a slightly unexpected/unusual thorax-abdomen location but this totally blew me away!

[@GrouchyGander]

Doesn't help I was already tired but man, Pera's calming narration almost made me fall asleep. Could listen to him for... well, at least a few minutes before I'm drifting off.

[@meetthecassiani]

Joe Perra. Singing millions to sleep simply by talking. A true gift.

[@jim37569]

As much as I've learned about insects from this channel, the biggest takeaway for me is that I should really be trying to involve my favorite comedians in my day-to-day projects. Sometimes they say yes, apparently.

[@therearenohobos]

The tiger beetles jumpstart moved me to tears. It's so beautiful, joyous, graceful in it's trust to itself . Like a leap of faith straight into the heavens

[@EfraArt_Mix]

Haha yes, and besides it is a very prodigious flight. Tiger beetles are not only the fastest running insects, but among the beetles they are the ones that start flying the fastest 😁! Those little ones are like lightning

[@ohthatdemoness6]

OMG my eyes actually lit up the moment i heard Joe Pera's voice, this is actually amazing, i love his show so much and it broke my heart when they canceled it, thank you for allowing him to work with you on these amazing videos!

[@meetthecassiani]

Ant lab and Joe Perra?!! And I thought today would be a waste. Bravo, and thank you very much; a perfect combo.

[@francorodriguez3499]

I absolutely love the underwater movement of the beetle, thank you for recording underwater!! I was expecting it, love your work keep it up!

[@AntLab]

Thanks, filming more aquatic insects is on my list of things to do!

[@ritahorvath8207]

​@@AntLab You are a wonderful narrator, too ! 🦋

[@MyuNeptune]

I never get bored of watching beetles, or moths...those are my fave types of insects. Btw love the surprising change of voice haha!

[@kestrelerickson3387]

This is so beautiful. They have so much unique detail

[@afhdfh]

I absolutely LOVE what they do with their legs during flight.

[@alveolate]

i love that they sometimes slap their legs with their wings because they're not perfectly coordinated xD except that tiger beetle tho, dude is special ops trained

[@DefThrone]

My fondness of Joe Pera continues to grow.

[@lucasmendoza7576]

Last night, me, my eldest brother, and our father went for an evening walk with our dog. It has been raining a lot recently, so as a result, the giant palo verde beetles have been emerging and flying about at night and they are a sight to behold. You could almost mistake them for a small bird they're so big and I even heard one buzz by my ear. To fly as an insect seems it would feel like a completely different experience than to fly as a bird.

[@grijzekijker]

To me the flight of these beetles looks clumsy and fragile like the first manmade flying machines, whereas birds fly more agile and controlled like today's private jets, Cessna's and Gulfstreams.

[@silverfox9004]

how a beetle takes flight: 🐢🏋‍♂️🧚‍♂️

[@WasabiWitch]

She was a fairy 🧚‍♂️

[@kregkaminski9640]

Thank you Joe

[@AppalachianRocks]

I could watch this for hours.

[@kokroucz]

my comfort zone channel. I must say that there no many channels like this and with Journey to the microcosmos you make an ideal couple to watch on a lazy sunday

[@vomm]

Extremely fascinating and beautiful. Man, your videos are real jewels, so unique, .. thanks so much for sharing your recordings and insights this way

[@grawlixTV]

havine Joe Pera do stuff like this is genius, absolutely beautiful

[@BizarreBeasts]

This is so wonderful!!!!

[@unrealist_]

I love this channel and Joe Pera's stuff, never would have thought they would work together for a video, but it really is a perfect fit.

[@johannesStraub732]

Love that channel. If all youtube would be like that, the world would be whole again. From titel to content to education. Its like patient beautifulism

[@gabrielmagalhaes4096]

Great video. You know what would be nice? A video explaining about the making of those insect clips, teaching how you do it. I am crazy about doing this with our Brazilian insects (more specifically, our ants).

[@Richardbutticus]

I also told myself “no way that’s THE Joe Pera”. Wonderful surprise. Joe delivers as always.

[@blackvx]

Thank you for sharing

[@TweeklyLOVER]

Wow. The soothing voice in concert with the amazing footage and harmonic background music really made my day. Thank you Adrian and Joe

[@CheeseBon]

Outstanding. I feel supremely privileged to be able to see this view of the natural world. Thank you so much!

[@mattsonplummer6117]

What a wonderful surprise! Joe Pera and ant lab together!

[@dinalab]

Amazing work you all!!

[@rickyspanish492]

No way! What an awesome collaboration! Thanks guys!

[@christopheralbin-brooks4183]

Great idea to have Joe Pera narrate this video!

[@ingriddurden3929]

this is so beautiful you almost forget that these are the beasts that eat your garden ! thank you so much

[@ForestSchweitzer022097]

Absolutely fantastic work both of you! This brought me such joy

[@adalinesimonian]

what cute lil babies :)

[@williamsurname4669]

Both the beetles and Joe Pera were incredible.

[@Ryuusei924]

the amount of joy and peace this video brings me is immeasurable

[@johnmurdoch8534]

Grapevine beetles are increadible, i've been lucky to see them three times over the last few years and they are enormous and eye catching. They are welcome in my garden any day!

[@seesaw1969]

thanks for the fantastic video... absolutely brilliant.

[@akanawild]

this is wonderful

[@SnackHeadCowboy]

This collaboration makes so much sense. Love love love it

[@elytron6758]

Amazing shots! I notice that all of these beetles fly with their elytra outstretched…don’t some species fly with their elytra folded back over their backs? Like some flower chafers? IDK maybe I am misremembering. I love the subject of insect wing folding-both the deployment and the re-folding after landing. So much is going on to deploy the wings including the elasticity of resilin helping spring open the wings and prevent wear and tear. Plus insect hemolymph “blood” pressure helps like hydraulics to further unfurl their wings. All that in addition to the obvious inertial components from the first few flaps are happening simultaneously to deploy their wings. Then there is the refolding afterwords. There is a bit of memory involved in the origami crease pattern and many beetles use abdominal stridulations against closed elytra to tuck their wings back into the sub-elytral space. Some cool papers on this process where they cut off beetle elytron and attach a transparent artificial one to watch the folding process. Would love a slow motion video where you do something similar. And we haven’t even touched on the different origami-like folding patterns themselves! Rove beetles in the staphylinidae family have shortened elytra and more maneuverable abdomens so they use their abdomens to fold their wings while they are overlapped for a unique and extra compact asymmetrical folding pattern. Would love a slow-motion video on that! I really wish I could find grad schools studying this sort of thing. Cheers!

[@chompers11]

That was so good. Mr pera crushed it

[@pony3284]

I've been dealing with a lot lately, and slow motion beetle flight videos narrated by Joe Pera are 110% what I needed 😅

[@derekwalker87]

This was an awesome idea. Joe Pera is one of the best talents going right now. Lovely synergy.

[@ardellolnes5663]

I love joe!!!

[@reggietheporpoise]

Well this is the creative union I didn’t know I needed. And your footage is beautiful as always, Adrian.

[@KnowAll-u6l]

This is gold! Your videos are like a treasure chest of fascinating knowledge. I learn something new every time I watch. Thanks for sharing your passion!

[@TheWildReportOfficial]

This is epic, probably the best crossover of 2024. It's crazy how rapidly the tiger beetle goes from completely stationary to airborne, it makes them even more terrifying predators!

[@enziarro]

just as unexpected & beautiful as the Townsends collaborations

[@BobberWCC]

Joe Pera narration is perfect

[@brianmcquain3384]

yes thank you so much for bringing this into the world!

[@stewsc9]

Can't belive you guys got Joe to narrate one of these! Perfection!

[@stephenbarlow2493]

Super video as usual. I just had to watch after seeing a Tiger Beetle taking off in the title frames. I often try to photograph another species of Tiger beetle, with little success, because of the way they can instantly take off as soon as you get too close. Meaning my whole crawl along the ground, was to no avail at all.

[@lynnpehrson8826]

Best unexpected collab

[@HaileyEira]

This is so beautiful! The designs are amazing.

[@TH3C4NN4BL3C0W]

Oh yes, that's a perfect combo. Excellent collab

[@alungiggs]

Beautifully filmed and narrated 👍🇳🇱

[@chiko4536]

I'm a grad student who studies the tumbling flower beetles and it's so good to see them included in this given how obscure they seem to be. I think this might be the first video on YT showing their tumbling behavior, very cool!

[@AntLab]

Yeah, I couldn't find much footage here or in the literature of it! What aspects of TFBs are you studying?

[@chiko4536]

@@AntLab I do systematics! I'm trying to learn to ID all of the North American species, so I'm usually seeing dead specimens that are already mounted. Seeing them spread out and moving is interesting -- I didn't actually know the thorax and abdomen are barely connected like that.

[@LOCKEYJ]

Thanks Joe Pera.

[@IRNoahBody]

joe should do more stuff like this. him and zefrank combined would be amazing

[@BiaryBleatnik]

I like to See those Green June Beetle flying!

[@stefif3118]

Great video! Too bad he didnt record any flower chafers (Cetoniinae) wich most of fly with their elytra closed, that would have been pretty interesting to see in slow motion!

[@tarmon768]

So beautiful thank you so much

[@elizabethhrycyna8291]

Was looking for interesting beetle facts, found an educational calm and beautiful video. Lovely

[@NewMessage]

Joe's so excited in this. Had me jumpin' outta my seat. Whatta treat!

[@or251j]

What a perfect Sunday combo

[@markhudson5825]

Great video, great narrator. Thank you.

[@dj-kq4fz]

I had to reread the title 3 times before I clicked on it. Needless to say this was amazing! (Forgot to say: Thanks Adrian!)

[@karlmuster263]

That underwater footage of the Water Scavenger Beetle was so clean! It's cool how you can see that its underbelly is hydrophobic, making a thin layer of air. I wonder if that helps with buoyancy.

[@aLime404]

This is an unbelievable crossover. Love Joe’s comedy, love Dr. Smith’s bug stuff. A1 content

[@rebeccadowling4904]

Bugs in slow motion is a wonder to see! Thank you!!

[@karonmalingo5798]

Thank you!

[@quint3ssent1a]

There is a common joke about beetles that according to laws of aerodynamic beetles should be unable to fly. Beetles, unaware of those laws, fly nonetheless.

[@KrazyKaiser]

GOD I LOVE JOE PERA SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!

[@thomasgilbert5771]

Joe is infiltrating my KZbin channels, and I absolutely love it. ❤

[@TheBrianBonelli]

My gosh - the perfect combination.

[@CrowSkeleton]

It's so cool to see the mechanics of these tiny bodies in general, they're so alien to a mammal way of moving and thinking.

[@wundyboy]

Great work... nicely done!

[@patrickhickey6416]

Well, that was fun. I'll be friendly to all beetles from now on. They can eat as much of my garden vegetables as they want.

[@CanalTremocos]

Oh, I misread. I thought i was going to watch stag beetles yeeting each other into the void. Here's an idea for a future shoot 😝 Can't complain though I gots chonky boys and a 5-star narrator.

[@irismuddyhehe]

incredible!! thank you :)

[@JoeMWoodward]

I was terrified of insects/spiders/terrestrial arthropods in general all throughout my young adult life until I got in to taxonomy and general sciences in my 30s. I watch videos like these to help me normalize them to myself; I was able to hold a tarantula for the first time last year. Seeing the beetles all hold their arms out while they fly is just so adorable to me lol. Thanks for your videos, man

[@bobbybobertson9308]

Love you Joe Pera

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

The jewel beetle in flight kind of reminds me of lightning bugs in flight

[@Handhandme]

Blessed video. I love cute little bugs 🥰

[@PondLab]

This is excellent - Ive filmed some Chafers taking off after being caught in a moth trap and Diving beetle from a pond, but Im limited to 240fps, this footage is amazing!

[@Gravadel]

Beautiful. Recently started collecting Bandai's Diversity of Life series, and needed some references for how the elytra looked in flight. It seemed awkward when i first looked up pics, but yeah they really do raise up high in flight.

[@BlackReaper0]

Wondeful!

[@markantaya1]

Joe Pera can narrate anything, but beetles seem extra fitting

[@laurel9629]

Please do cicadas!

[@d.k.1394]

Very lovely

[@Erujayy]

Amazing things to witness. It would be interesting if you one day had the chance to film a giant flower beetle in flight- their elytra is structured differently and opens very different compared to the typical beetle.

[@whattheheckisthisthing]

This is such a great collab

[@Discipline8193]

almost dropped my breakfast when i heard the GOAT. holy hell!