The Ocean Bug That Can't Get Wet

There are at least 900,000 species of insects and the ocean is the largest biome on the planet, so you would think there would be tons of insects riding the waves. But it turns out the sea skaters are the only ones weird enough to make it work.
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[@ScionStorm1]

_He was a skater bug, she said 'see you later, bug' he wasn't good enough for her_

[@origaminosferatu3357]

Comments you can hear. ^^

[@sofastealeroffensive]

Sad bugs life

[@AuliaAF]

Sorry, bug, you're missing out :D

[@zach11241]

I love your comment, but one suggestion: “she said SEA you later!” 😊

[@simohayha6031]

Avril Lavigne

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

“The ocean is just bigger water” Hmmm. Yes.

[@bonsaitree4965]

Yes, very wise.

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

@Filipineboi mountain are just bigger rock 😳

[@infinitestuds]

The earth is just a wet bolder with air

[@midloran]

With more interesting stuff

[@e.d.i2668]

And trees are just bigger grass

[@ThatJaymsWisdom]

"Because the ocean is just bigger water right" is my favourite thing I have heard in months. And you aren't wrong 😂

[@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038]

Well, yes, but...

[@76rjackson]

"...from the standpoint of water.. " TFG

[@alphatrion100]

An island....surrounded by water... big water....OCEAN water

[@camilaribeiras6311]

When?

[@alphatrion100]

@@76rjackson bigly

[@fastinradfordable]

“Does he get wet Or does the water get him instead”

[@Music.cigars.2024]

This one is so underrated

[@LordZanba]

Nobody knows.

[@LatteWiiU]

The water gets him

[@adamgreenspan4988]

Q: What’s he like? A: It’s not important.

[@a.j.kimball1240]

There actually are more oceanic insects! Well, more like semi aquatic marine insects. Seal lice live on pinnipeds like walruses, seals, fur seals, and sea lions and can hold their breaths for extended periods of time and withstand over 5,000 feet of pressure.

[@wxlurker]

I had no idea there was lice for marine animals too! Interesting to know.

[@lezlie2k2]

Sea lice are not insects. They are crustaceans

[@a.j.kimball1240]

@@lezlie2k2 yes, you are correct, there are animals called sea lice, and those are crustaceas. Im talking about *seal* lice. These are true lice that live on seals, sea lions, fur seas, walruses, and otters. They are indeed true insects. Its very neat

[@combive8744]

Thank you for this new knowledge

[@cheesenipspartymix]

Theres tons of aquatic parasites that exist. I wouldn't really count those as bugs though, because they live entirely underwater and die without a host.

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

catching one of these things labeled you as a higher being, they were so skiddish and quick, like a mosquito on the water. taking small bursts of speed and ripping across the surface of the water, just to vanish behind a rock or something.

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

Jellyfish baby

[@PrincessColumbidae]

I am very jealous of that bat shirt.

[@zolacnomiko]

This was the only thing I wanted to comment about. Come for the beasties, stay for the fashion. What an amazing shirt!!

[@badendhappy2903]

Sea Skaters: Hey, let's try to evolve to survive in a perpetual salty avalanche.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

Humans: irresponsibly polluting the ocean Sea skaters: It's free real estate!

[@michaelhowell2326]

Wow, this video has successfully made me feel stupid. I'm 33 and I have never thought about the fact the oceans aren't crawling with insects. I am defeated.

[@sonorasgirl]

Maybe it’s a 33 year old thing, cause I never thought about it either. (Also 33)I think I just assumed crustaceans had that niche so bugs couldn’t take it

[@midloran]

Dude how?

[@midloran]

Dude how?

[@midloran]

Like you can expect everything from ocean

[@rayaya6580]

I almost forgot the word biome actually applies to real life and not just minecraft

[@jack.8735]

pls me too

[@felipegx4495]

kkkkk me too

[@ThizzlainyaTwizzla]

Y'all Minecraft weirdos got it twisted lol

[@unfunnyhere4990]

Dang you guys need to touch grass

[@julianadams3710]

“This may surprise you, but insects are land animals.” The Waterbug: *Suprised Pikachu face*

[@zray2937]

This channel is gold.

[@CMZneu]

YES! at last some decent info on marine insects. Isn't there something wrong with the comparison of G forces experienced by small organisms and us, this is like the whole "ants can lift 100 times their weight so...", while it is true it's still deceptively impressive, at smaller scales organisms don't work or experience stuff like we do. For example is perfectly normal for insects to lift many times their weight... what i'm saying is that at those scale few things are proportional.

[@BizarreBeasts]

Indeed! The physics gets pretty complicated and counterintuitive. We touch on it for half a second, but the article we pull from also has a good section about energy density for very small insects. "The energy density in the ocean dissipates rapidly towards scales approaching the Kolmogorov length such that the maximum size of turbulent eddies is of the order of 5 cm and contains only 1% of the maximum energy." Really wild stuff! www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64563-7

[@iitzfizz]

Right on, the more mass you have have the more you affected by gravity

[@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038]

@@BizarreBeasts Hi, someone asked me in an above comment if I caught any fish in the Sargasso sea, I posted a link to a pic on my Instagram, but my comment got deleted. I then just told them to search for me there to see the pic, and that comment got deleted too. Wtf?

[@AnkhAnanku]

What is the stress experienced at 40 Gs for a fraction of a second vs 3 Gs over the course of minutes? Is that really enough time for the little bugger’s hemolymph to pile up in their feet and make them pass out?

[@xxportalxx.]

@@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 a lot of yt channels use what are essentially bots to go through the comments and remove spam and posts from other bots, a lot of times something they're getting rid of is soliciting (usually in the form of 'click my link and watch/buy my stuff pls pls pls!') So these bots being quite simple generally just scan for urls or partial urls and delete them. Really annoying and fairly common on well produced channels. Like I had an experience where I was trying to post a link to a page on the video creators own website and it deleted it lmfao

[@BloodoperaBlackvomit]

The most soothing voice in biology is back. I love watching/listening to her. Greetings from The Netherlands.

[@herbertkeithmiller]

I'm curious about one thing that wasn't mentioned salt. Where do they get freshwater or do they drink salt water and then eliminate salt? Other ocean-going land animals have to make that adaptation. And the hardest thing for fish to do is keep a ionic balance in their bodies.

[@cleverusernamenexttime2779]

The ocean has a thin layer of fresh water from rain. It doesn't mix in. It was talked about in a sea snake video I watched. Pretty sure it was Sci-show.

[@herbertkeithmiller]

@@cleverusernamenexttime2779 Ah yes now that you mentioned it I remember that. 😃

[@Hayatehiroyuki25]

As I learned from one of the Land Before Time sequels, The ocean is some "Big, Big, Big BIG WATER~"

[@paceyombex]

So I'm not tripping. I saw one of these little fella when I fish yesterday. I thought it was a water strider

[@briansquibb999]

Love Bizarre Beasts! Thank you for a very good presentation!

[@thanhavictus]

The insect's would-be niche is already filled by their cousins the crustaceans anyway.

[@deadspaceissacman]

When other bugs see the sea skater, they yell “do a kick flip”

[@MRptwrench]

Can't unsee the sea skater jumping out of the way of that (relatively) giant drop of water that some "scientist" very intentionally aimed and released at the poor thing! Mahadik, Hernandez-Sanchez, and Arunahalal I'm pointing my finger at you! And don't act all innocent over there Et AL, if that is even your name! Peta has been CC'd on this.

[@duckzncatz]

"Do you see 'em? I don't see 'em. Damn these No-see-ums." lol

[@kaichisaki5267]

-grabs a bucket of water-, - finds water stridder- , - dumps bucket of water on stridder- And this is how you make wet stridder

[@onlinecroc4873]

I didn't know there's a bug in the open ocean surface. Thanks Bizarre Beast for the amazing content.

[@nathanaelmcmahan872]

I've never bought anything off of KZbin CC's. For the first time, when I go to support and buy, the pin club is full! 😭😭😭

[@fern5505]

It’s open again now!

[@laurachapple6795]

'... that we know of.' Wow, that was ominous.

[@theredcorner1776]

0:25 Damn. Those are nice.

[@cleverusernamenexttime2779]

I approve of this message

[@midloran]

I often see these guys in the pool swimming fast and cleaning the pool from drown insects :D

[@culwin]

Great Pacific Garbage Patch: hated by everybody sea skaters: It's free real estate

[@jenovapooh]

That haunting music sounds so familiar, it's driving me nuts. I feel like I've heard it in a video game

[@ggibson262]

I love the trio jumping from the water surface....too groovy.....bugs rock!

[@MrChazz10]

I don't know how or why bugs living on top of water even evolved, even humans who don't really live on water get eaten by big fish that live in there!

[@teddycustumz3267]

It’s ironic that people would eat sea big as and gag at the thought of land insects. Think about what those lobster and shrimps eat. If a dead body falls into the ocean guess who partakes in cleaning up and y’all eat them

[@MyFavouriteVDO]

Q: What does a sea skater Do when it's finds its mate? A: it dances with it!

[@RandomTask678]

0:22 Oh hey it's the Bug Museum near Colorado Springs with its giant beetle! What a neat little place to check out for being in the middle of nowhere.

[@emilysmith2965]

Me: why aren’t bug types weak to Water Game Freak: *sweats nervously*

[@TheeOne4.44]

I bet Silverfish/ Earwigs are related to Sea Skaters... I encountered Earwigs living in a home by the River. They are attracted to moisture & dark places. They swarmed into my home every time it rained and are VERY ABRASIVE like Ants once they smell water. They have claws like a Crab and lifts their back stingers up when they feel in danger.. They live in the walls, cracks, any space of a place like Roaches, and the same goes for any soil around a home/building etc. .. They are at your front step! Those bastards are crafty too! A bunch of Earwigs got into my Pet's food & water bowls that has lids on😖 I moved since then...

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

"The ocean is bigger water" Yes, the floor is made of floor.

[@fly1714]

It's the things in my bathroom that pop once in a while and flow it down the drain

[@ShadowDrakken]

can you really call the ocean a single biome though? it has different weather patterns in different places, the chemistry can be different place to place... it really seems like it's a collection of biomes

[@Engifarting456]

it looks the same everywhere except coral reefs

[@ShadowDrakken]

@@Engifarting456 that's not what describes a biome. The plants and animals living in a place are what define a biome.

[@Engifarting456]

@@ShadowDrakken corals are animals 😉

[@ShadowDrakken]

@@Engifarting456 "looking the same" is not what define a biome. Quit being intentionally daft.

[@phoxgames5800]

Austronauts experience up to 9gs and certain arial manuavers allow fighter pilots to reach up to 12gs

[@ReicHHere]

Just when I thought the ocean couldn't be more terrifying now I have to worry about the waters surface too

[@liltitan9435]

This should be on PBS!

[@kakerake6018]

A human can also withstand 40g at the durations a seabug can possibly generate during acceleration.

[@darkerdaemon7794]

I grew up in NC about an hour from the eastern coast. I used to go to the OBX beaches for years and those sea skater things were everywhere, we used to get them in our backyard pool. The worst however has to be dock spiders which are exactly what they sound like. Spiders that love docks. Big gnarly bastards that look like jumping spiders on steroids and crack that can literally jump 3+ feet in a single bound over water surfaces and traveled in herds. Where you see one dock spider expect a hundred more of them hidden nearby. Pretty sure sea skaters were one of the dock spiders favorite snacks, aside from fish of course. Yeah, dock spiders hunt fish.

[@clausluger4570]

(flexing with mooscles) "Are sure about that?"

[@aithi2694]

When do these Sea Striders sleep ?! If the ocean is always filled with predators and currents don't stop ?!

[@ieatavocadoseeds5381]

The thumbnail look like Patrick Star if he got transformed into a freaky bug.

[@nope_]

It's like 2 am and I need to remember to watch the rest of these videos when I wake up

[@JonLasaga]

I have seen these water skater type bugs in freshwater alot around my home usually in the canals but I had no idea they were capable of living in the ocean.

[@xxtherealshaggy6929]

Called these "Water Skippers" as a kid lol

[@1TakoyakiStore]

I was hoping that this was gonna be about Remipedia. Not exactly insects but they're the closest relative that actively lives in the ocean.

[@mumzly1]

She sounds exactly like Caitlin from Ask a Mortician. Neat!

[@mark6302]

oh i scooped up a bay nettle this weekend and it had tiny little isopods in it too :0

[@afjer]

Rather than washing out and then adapting, it's probably more likely that the skaters got washed out to sea all the time and the ones that survived were the ones with mutations that allowed them to survive.

[@ILikeToBeAlive]

You’re an underrated channel

[@bittechslow]

Tony Hawk bugs go open ocean.

[@mrdudeman29]

Wooo! Always happy to see a new update!

[@bunkusdundongo6675]

That colored bug thumbnail done got Patrick Star's pants and skin.

[@little__moth]

i'm always so excited for bug episodes!

[@sydneyconcerts902]

100% they are needed and crustations are kinda tiny oceans filters

[@crow2989]

Nature really does just find a way. I’m curious as to how long this species has been around

[@ilikecatsandstuff1]

Misread the channel name as Bizarre Breasts but it was still pretty cool

[@chrisdelatorre2810]

I can’t be the only one that thought it was a cursed version of Patrick

[@fernandoolivera1986]

The bug on the thumbnail is cosplaying as Patrick Star

[@PeacepiperF20]

Are they larger than water striders?

[@Pratchettgaiman]

He was a sea sk8ter boy, she said sea you later boy…

[@oddcurtis3090]

The ocean really is just big water now I think about it

[@kinnikuzero]

The narrator has such a nice calming voice

[@midloran]

SiMp

[@kinnikuzero]

@@midloran 🤷

[@solidman8360]

what's the jellyfish she shows near the start?

[@thephantommasquerade8241]

I already knew about Sea skaters thanks to the Octonauts.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

Wait, what about the other 4 species?

[@n5sdm]

In California......Bees are now fish.

[@Ese1Pac]

Dammit. Now I can’t eat shrimp or lobster anymore.

[@jemmapellemma8185]

I wanted to learn about the sea skater but I didn't expect its life history.

[@zJoriz]

OK, silly question maybe... but aren't G forces a direct consequence of how much mass an object has? A paperclip falling to the floor will be able to withstand more Gs than me falling to the floor, even if I and it were made from the same material. Likewise, I'd think a lighter bug should be able to take off with more Gs than a heavier one... so is that actually a weird thing?

[@emiwoo9355]

Her voice and narration is pretty great

[@Upierdliwiec4L]

Weird thing that lives in ocean is bobbit worm

[@melody3418]

"Surskit in HD mode"

[@COVbadman79]

U get pond skaters too

[@Dylan-le9zi]

There are insects in space, they may be dead but still that means no matter where we go we will still be pestered by earth insects.

[@musicgurl5297]

Here on the east coast, we call them there water skeeters. (Wah-tur skeet-er) 🤣🤣🤣🤣 anyone else????🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@somecuntxxx]

"so now we're at sea... How are we going to get back?" One bug: "I have an idea..."

[@saggyballz1912]

I only clicked on this because the thumbnail looks like a grotesque Patrick

[@90klh]

So i have a rat that my neighbor caught in a rat trap - i freed the little guy, and nursed him back to health, but i CANNOT GET HIM to not attack other rats- please tell me how to fix this. I never intended to have a lone rat but this guys gonna die alone if he doesnt stop attacking my other rats - theyre in the same room, in cages next to each other- wtf else can i do?

[@Phoenixash-delfuego]

Water striders?.....oh pond skaters.

[@opoaotoroiocoko]

Ay I've been to that dung beetle!! 115 just south of Colorado Springs?

[@BizarreBeasts]

Yes!! I got to go to the May Museum a few years ago and it was so much fun!!! - Sarah

[@opoaotoroiocoko]

@BizarreBeasts it's great to know others have a great time there as well! Thanks for doing what you do Sarah et all lol hope all is well with yall.

[@zlodevil426]

@@BizarreBeastsUnrelated but I wanted to tell you that matching the colors of your jacket and your hair, like you did before the train millipedes video, is probably the most creative style choice I’ve ever seen, no exaggeration. I’m writing this here because it’s probably the only place you’ll hear me

[@thebillhook5838]

Thought that was a jacked up Patrick bug in the thumbnail

[@Shaden0040]

being tha t tiny means they aren't much of a meal.

[@Catnipfumar]

Why hasn't this superpower from this creepy looking bug been made into a marvel movie yet? 😹

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@short600]

So how long do they live. Kept saying long lived in the video but how long exactly

[@ユリの花-d2k]

0:52 what is name of that insect?

So they are living „on“ the ocean and not „in“ the ocean, am I right? „In“ sounds off to me, in this context or is it really correct?

[@humha7613]

I wonder will it be fixed by the next update

[@seastarcrunchies]

That shirt is so awesome!

[@yeasstt]

Coral Skaters also exist!!!

[@lacybookworm5039]

O.o Life is strange. Ocean 🌊 infects smaller then my pinky nail. 😮

[@moneyd304]

0:15 no no *wet bugs*