How long can I keep my hand in mealworms?

[@felico32_45]

I never had that question, but now I have the answer. 😂😅

[@PhotoOwl]

You got the answer to the question you never had. Best type of answers, if you ask me :D

[@ArDeeMee]

The scientific approach. 👍

[@felico32_45]

@@ArDeeMee yeah

[@felico32_45]

@@PhotoOwl i agree it is indeed

[@IlVice9]

​@@ArDeeMee well to demonstrate the cause of ulcer a doctor drinked some bacteria causing himself to got ulcer, so yes, scientific approach

[@humanratteler9760]

Dear skin, Thank you for being a fortress.

[@greg77389]

Tell that to bee and hornet stings, buddy.

[@Wubbeyman]

@@greg77389well hey look at it this way, our skin is strong enough that it makes a bee sting a suicide attack from them. Even hornets and wasps can get stuck in our sticky skin.

[@TALONZ420]

​@@greg77389 tell that to an m1 Abrahams APFSDS shell traveling 6000 feet per second.

[@kevylovesyou]

they just have armor piercing rounds ​@@greg77389

[@ExtremelyGullibleMeme]

truly an unstoppable team

[@user-ex6xc5ox3k]

Next video: Human Body Timelapse 4K

[@PhotoOwl]

Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile! First my hand, now you want me to give them my whole body!😂

[@MrAdomus]

​@PhotoOwl who said it had to be yours? 😒

[@OMG_ITS_NG]

​@@MrAdomus 👈🏻 This guy understood the assignment. 😂

[@ssh2791]

​@@PhotoOwlheard your neighbour is an insufferable twt

[@carnyzack]

@@MrAdomus Feed me, Seymour!

[@silverxstar01]

I was NOT expecting that many of them to be stuck to your hand when you picked it up

[@PhotoOwl]

Me neither.... :S

[@Zoeluvs_you]

I tell you, once I saw that I immediately started itching- and it felt like smith was crawling on me- I have a thing with holes on ppls bodies and stuff and that low key triggered it ✋🏾😭

[@thesteakerrr]

@@Zoeluvs_youtrypophobia ?

[@Zoeluvs_you]

@@thesteakerrr yeah 😭

[@roseheart18]

@@Zoeluvs_youI hate trypophobia I also have it!

[@Phaseisnotalive]

"Do not try this at home" *like i have 10000 mealworms lying around* 💀

[@PhotoOwl]

But I don't know that 😂

[@Kptrek]

you dont?

[@Ivyiyy]

I have at least 50000 in my walls

[@awaitingthetrumpetcall4529]

😆This should've been the pinned comment!

[@Phaseisnotalive]

@@awaitingthetrumpetcall4529 @PhotoOwl

[@howaboutnomate]

Either he ran out of ideas or he let his intrusive thoughts win *Both options are somewhat concerning*

[@PhotoOwl]

Nope :D I still have so many ideas, and they are on the way! But this question was asked so many times in the comments, I just had to film it to put people's mind at ease :D

[@ylandry0783]

@@PhotoOwl Put people's minds at ease? They still tried to eat you! How's that going to reassure anyone unless they're trying to get rid of a body?

[@howaboutnomate]

@@PhotoOwl So you have a pubic that wants to see blood *That's even more concerning.... Nice*

[@howaboutnomate]

@@PhotoOwl So it's that you have an audience that craves blood. *That's even more concerning..... Nice*

[@ArDeeMee]

Having an answer to a question does in fact put your mind at ease. It’s like scratching an itch. I liked it. You yourself just never had this particular question, and that’s ok. Turns out that omnivores are OMNIvores. I just wasn’t sure they‘d eat something with an actual PULSE.

[@Kingnome]

Seeing them stuck to your hand is PURE nightmare fuel for me 😵‍💫🫨🫠😳

[@liviayoung7578]

I literally cringed and curled my toes in 😅

[@kylaxial]

why does my computer not have the 🫨 emoji? it shows the square thing

[@Jam_Axo]

@@kylaxial windows 10? its a newer emoji i think

[@Alteori]

Tasty

[@Alteori]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@katrinarose2210]

Now they've had a taste of human blood, they'll be out to get you now!

[@heyoooooooooo]

~ *dun dun dun* ~ *THE MEALWORMS* ; a horror movie

[@lhoffmann6537]

Reminds me of an old horror film from the 70s called Squirm.

[@WhiteCranK]

😂😂

[@BlueMerle65]

I'm not afraid to admit that I've farmed and eaten mealworms before, but farming and being eaten by mealworms? That's something I never expected to see!

[@PhotoOwl]

I've never eaten mealworms, maybe I will try one day. But now we know they would eat me without issues lol

[@ArDeeMee]

It’s the ciiircle of liiife!

[@47rapflex]

@@PhotoOwl I dont think its harmful to eat one. My favorite streamer ate one alive.

[@interrupted_reverie]

You ate them ? Can you explain why you did thay and how many per day

[@BlueMerle65]

@@interrupted_reverie I used to own a gecko, and I decided to farm my own mealworms instead of constantly buying them. I ended up with way more mealworms than my gecko could ever eat, so I decided to try frying some of them! It definitely wasn't a daily thing; I did it a couple times over a span of several months

[@OneeyedJake744]

Best ad for skin I've ever seen, I need to get some

[@genericname2747]

I know right!

[@IsaacFoster..]

Jokes aside, I'm glad to see you've gained an audience who'd get worried for you.

[@PhotoOwl]

Yeah, it's good to see. But I'm careful, so they needn't worry :)

[@Samenamena]

It's not about if people love him or no, but seeing a human's hand being eaten alive by worms is terrifying whether you like that person or not

[@heyoooooooooo]

@@Samenamena I do!! :D

[@Glazeflee]

The title sounds so emotional

[@PhotoOwl]

Well, the emotional pain was more than the physical one. I cared for these mealworms, I fed them well, this is how they repay me... (just kidding :D)

[@Glazeflee]

​​@@PhotoOwlYou are going to make me cry today. lol

[@jettswither]

@@PhotoOwl😂😂🤣😅🥲🙂🥲😢😣😢😖😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@dgfdsffdsd2960]

​@@PhotoOwlif human ate them it's ok but if they even hurt you they are bad what an irony

[@Probably_Behind_You_Now]

​@@dgfdsffdsd2960If a human ate them I would be concerned for their mental health

[@Modnar-666]

Q: will mealworms eat human A: they will try, but human is too impatient, so they fail

[@podoke]

what a strange feeling of existential dread i felt while watching this like the horror of seeing the mealworms slowly beginning to bite you and then the time ticking away as i became more and more concerned about you not removing your hand and then the shot of you lifting your hand with them just dangling o-o fascinating and terrifying im so glad you put the disclaimers at the start because even with them i was still worried for your hand

[@pootube45]

this feels like a natural conclusion of sorts for this channel, not like it's over now but just like it was inevitable it would go here someday. intriguing concept and executed well, with the climax being lifting up you hand to reveal hundreds of them latched on. fun vid.

[@saudshg]

Just imagine someone being tortured by their body being put into a pit of mealworms and the only part of the body exposed outside is their head. 💀💀💀💀

[@Dramn_]

we don't entirely have to imagine because this was real and somewhat common, sometimes known as Scaphism edit: sorry I should correct myself, it is thought* to be quite common (more than someone would hope it would be).

[@NobodyUndefined]

My outlook is that as there are 8 billion people on this planet, the chances are that if you think it and it's in the realm of possibility, it's likely happened before.

[@2v02]

Oh, dang, that's a great idea, I'll write that down

[@SwagHyde]

sounds fun

[@dark6.6E-34]

That was my first thought. Absolutely terrifying.

[@jacobfrederick3614]

Have you tried? 1000 mealworms versus 1000 maggots.

[@SecureBirch410]

Maggots are a lot softer, so mealworms probably have a big advantage it might depend on the species since some maggots are probably bigger than others, but at least from what I've seen mealworms tend to be a bit bigger. Seems a bit pointless and cruel though when a 1v1 would give you the same result.

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@SecureBirch410no

[@SecureBirch410]

@@YunxiaoChu no to what? You think the maggots would win?

[@mattquellobello]

​@@YunxiaoChu nice argument

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@SecureBirch410 a one v one is not the same

[@kimbyunnoona7139]

I was so anxious watching this and NGL, I let out a little scream when you picked your hand up and showed us just how attached they were becoming. 😵‍💫

[@heyoooooooooo]

yeah!!

[@Eddiebanned]

Blud What You Doin😭🙏✝️💀

[@PhotoOwl]

Uhmmm... testing :D

[@Lunaticdoesdumstuff]

@@PhotoOwl Bro is a testpilled timelapsemaxxer 🙏💯😭💀

[@a_very_burnt_steak]

Any longer and his hand might be gone

[@Cjjk3]

@@Lunaticdoesdumstuff wow

[@bobqogg]

blud did allat for 37k views 💀

[@patchoulijulie7769]

I like how gentle you were with the mealworms

[@cocksucker_suckscock]

I wonder if that's how ancient humans felt about god. Like, an unfathomably huge being comes down and gives you a little bit of its flesh?

[@kahvipaputyyppi]

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you"

[@blinded6502]

Will you bite the hand that feeds you or will you stay down on your knees?

[@xXCosmicDeityXx]

They be like, "Ooh lunch! A delicious corpse." You: *Proceeds to move.* Them: Oh shoot he still alive, dang there goes our lunch.

[@natham1]

it's very refreshing to see a youtuber so dedicated to their content. You're even willing to sacrifice your hand lol! I hope you never stop posting!

[@Taegreth]

Interesting experiment, thanks for enduring that! It reminds me of a similar instance with those beige house spiders that are fairly small (Very common in Ontario, Canada at least) and my dad said they're harmless and won't bite. Well, I saw one on the wall right next to me where I sit on my PC, and decided to place my hand on the wall and see what happens. Only after 10-20 seconds, the spider made its way to my hand and tried to bite one of my fingers, and it actually hurt, but didn't break the skin. Idk where I'm going with this, I guess the point is; a lot of things will try to eat you, if they have the chance.

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

How I began using mealworms as an exfoliater

[@alexmcd378]

Now I have to write a murder novel set in a bait shop. This is your fault 😂

[@Kyu_97]

Oh my god 💀💀💀 they already opened a little wound on your skin in only 5 min!!!! This is crazy, I admire that you were able to stand that long, very interesting video, I love your always curious mind!!

[@N0zer0]

Photo Owl: Will 10000 mealworms... Worms: Yess!

[@chrs-wltrs]

This was so cool! Especially when the worms had enough bite strength to support their own weight, plus checking out the texture of your hand after the fact. I've never seen anything like that, where it left such crazy irregular marks. We appreciate your sacrifice!

[@naomis.9286]

Wow! Brave experiment! So many little mouths trying to eat you! 🫣 always wondered what they’d do with a living hand after watching them devour everything else. Thanks again so another great video.

[@stevensnyder6966]

"They'd definitely eat anyone if given the chance" New fear unlocked...

[@christinashelby6083]

Ungrateful little sods! XD Did you raise these yourself?

[@PhotoOwl]

No, I bought them. But still... I cared for them lol :D

[@Donnies-number1fan]

“Honey i dropped the baby in the mealworm pit!!!”

[@cocksucker_suckscock]

This sounds like a Family Guy bit.

[@empireOfLove2]

*CIA furiously takes notes for future interrogations*

[@crazydog1750]

Thanks, Imma send this to my squeamish aunt.

[@PhotoOwl]

That's a great idea!

[@CubeUU]

For me, the answer is zero. Not in seconds, not in minutes, not in hours... just nothing. The moment my hand comes in contact with a mealworm, I will be fully exiled from existence.

[@pikachugirlkawaii9933]

Friend: Yo dude what happened to your palm? Me: Oh, I offered my palm to a *1000 mealworms.*

[@tombsofak]

*slightly gags* I respect the dedication to the art and to the science. But I definitely couldn't have done it.

[@PhotoOwl]

Thank you! I was contemplating about this project for a long time, but so many viewers asked for it during the years, that it convinced me to do it.

[@ShotShankRedeemer]

Why was I expecting a 100 day Timelapse of this guy’s hand deteriorating into rotten flesh

[@leighwatson1861]

Best keep your bedroom door locked now they got a taste of you

[@PhotoOwl]

You are scaring me xd

[@rainbowthedragoncat6768]

They could probably just slip through the cracks

[@EndertheDragon0922]

Imagining what it would be like to be trapped in a pit of them… a horrifying death. They’d start with soft, vulnerable spots first, like your eyes and lips…

[@BlueFirefromastove]

Thanks for giving me nightmares!

[@andybuscus383]

That's interesting. Didn't know they'd try to eat you.

[@PhotoOwl]

They try to eat everything. I think that's how they figure out if the thing is edible for them or not. You could put in a lego piece, a steel nail, cloth, whatever, they would try to eat it.

[@andybuscus383]

@@PhotoOwl I've handled them before, and they've never tried to bite me, so I wasn't expecting that. lol

[@zebracherub]

How do they not eat each other ? This was way more interesting than I expected. Thanks for putting your safety on the line to make great videos 😅

[@thexwhats2989]

Top weird reasons why calluses were good

[@Quartzite]

⭐⭐ Food wasn't cooked properly, I couldn't chew through.

[@PhotoOwl]

I'm kinda relieved I wasn't cooked properly xd

[@feinhinatrashcan]

1:33 Stuff of nightmare right there

[@panktimodi1023]

The lengths that you'd go for your audience is truly impressive. Hope your hand is fine.

[@PhotoOwl]

Thanks:) yeah, it's fine

[@kolarz2128]

Yeah cause that's not for him at all, only for audience 😂😂

[@kefs]

The thumbnail led me to believe this was 10000 Mealworms vs iPhone. Now I'm curious....

[@glitcher9453]

For those who are worried if he got hurt: He's fine, they only bit the top layer of the skin, the epidermis. The epidermis does not contain any nerve endings or veins, therefore, he was okay.

[@papryk99]

Be careful, they could freeing from terrarium, and eat you during sleeping.

[@Seth-Fire]

Being stuck in a giant vat of meal worms sounds like it might just be the worst death ever

[@MNNski]

Well, I think dying by being slowly eaten by mealworms has been added to my list of ways I'd not want to die.

[@missy1806]

Interesting to see how much progress 5 minutes on a hand does. I ❤your warning considering these would eat through bone if allowed

[@leonardoanacadios995]

Mealworms be like: Food is food.

[@nothydropump845]

'dont bite the hand that feeds you' is a paradox in this context

[@WinneWars]

Mach mal 24h. Danke für das Video!

[@PhotoOwl]

Keine Chance hahaha Danke!!

[@lulugaj5859]

tis looks like the death villain who uses mealworms to kill his victims, and dies by falling into a pit full of them at the end of the final battle

[@acgacg4505]

Ferb I know what we’re gonna do today

[@cocksucker_suckscock]

This is something Doofenschmirtz would do, with hundreds of little mind control helmets on the mealworms, and they'd eat a statue of the mayor or something.

[@elissashuman7232]

You've got nice hands though, you should do mealworm product pictures

[@miroslavzima8856]

Imagine they would start to burrow under the skin. But I admit, this made me uneasy. Well played, sir, well played!

[@Badderpillar]

I can't contain my horror at the thought of what might happen if the worms broke through your skin! You have a freaky brand of bravery.

[@sonsofisstvan1675]

Thank you for asking the question I always wondered….

[@PhotoOwl]

Glad to be of service!

[@tanishqverma3414]

Really appreciate the efforts you made in making this videos!!!❤you gained a new subscriber today!!

[@acebeariously9856]

Muscle man: Oh no bro!

[@potassiumfeldspar]

The things we do for science... thank you for the disclaimer, I feel like not knowing it was done very carefully would have made me so nervous

[@Blothars]

Give them the callus from the foot xD

[@heyoooooooooo]

HA!!!!!

[@Heynow2125]

Ain't nothing getting through that 😅

[@monsesh1316]

1:30 EWWWW!! I was not ready for that!

[@Falconhunter276]

Next How long does it take for mealworms to eat a body.

[@eenayeah]

I love the video idea and the title 😂 The ungrateful little buggers!

[@PhotoOwl]

Right! 😂 Thanks!

[@Willio20000]

Whens the 1 million year human corpse decomposing video

[@PhotoOwl]

omg.... I put my hand in worms, and now you want another human time lapse hahaha

[@Willio20000]

(/j)

[@kingdomcome2334]

First time in years where an image has made my skin itch.

[@qbert4325]

With time they can eat anything i guess

[@bklynkat23]

I figured that not moving your hand would have to be the most difficult part. Appreciate you greatly for this experiment in the name of science

[@ari638]

Ooo I have isopods and I let them run around on my hand from time to time for photos or enrichment. They're usually only eat other dead bugs for their protein source, but sometimes you'll get one that has a taste for the living. I thought her attempt was kinda cute so I let her have at me for a while, but after about a minute it started hurting so I pulled her off and she'd nibbled a full hole into my palm, down to the flesh! These guys pack QUITE the bite I guess! I still have a mark from where she ate me.

[@mrstarfish]

Imagine you pull your hand up and see one quickly burrow into your palm

[@TurboKnight865]

I was waiting for the skeleton hand but nope

[@nicecakes4857]

new saw trap dropped

[@BlueFirefromastove]

I was just watching it lol

[@Goldi-Luc]

great vid! crazy they got into you so fast!

[@simhotpepper9761]

What a philosophical question

[@AdmanMVR]

That was surprising! It looked like a very uncomfortable experience 🫤

[@PhotoOwl]

At minute 3-4-5 it was

[@ArDeeMee]

I‘ve pricked myself with a sowing needle before. I guess this would feel like a hundred pricks at the same time…

[@tejakarri7574]

Now, mealworms is top of the foodchain

[@MikaelaTufts]

WAIT, THAT’S TRUE-🤯😵‍💫😂

[@timeslice]

Aren't all decomposers at the top Either that or the notion that the food chain is more of a food cycle

[@dark6.6E-34]

They are preyed on by birds

[@ArDeeMee]

Trigger Warning: Mild bodyhorror, but no actual blood. If you’re squeamish about touching maggots, avoid this one (obviously).

[@weniard]

Too late for me , I have a severe worms phobia and lets just say.. when they were clinging on his hang I was twitching hard

[@ArDeeMee]

@@weniard To be fair, the thumbnail is RIGHT THERE. ^^; But I do get the aspect of daring yourself to see how far you can go. That’s why I emphasized that no blood is drawn - because that’s the first thing that came into my mind: We all know they’re omnivores, so how long is he going to tolerate them?

[@weniard]

@@ArDeeMee I wasn’t complaining, I knew what I was coming for..

[@justduv808]

@@weniardsevere lol

[@xChimkin]

they left tiny nicks in the very first layer of skin

[@FlameXD3216]

"last to keep hand off of 10000 mealorms keeps it"

[@thomaselvidge]

So if you ever find yourself submerged in a vat of mealworms be sure to squish them all quickly before they munch you.

[@ferret77]

this looks like some freak method of skin care that some weirdo came up with

[@Wilderswanson1]

You deserve a sub lil bro you earned it

[@fabius_bile]

Imagine being knocked unconscious there, or sleep drunk, how would you be 10 hours later?

[@meysamghahremaninejad6809]

Now "Worm" for an insult makes much more sense! they do bite The Hands that Feed Them!

[@amybeck9161]

Gives a gruesome visual to the song I heard as a child , The worms crawl in the worms crawled out , the worms played pinochle in my snout . 😮😂

[@multicatkid]

The heres song by rusty cage. I love that one

[@circa134]

you should do this with a large colony of dairy cow isopods who missed their last feeding (they are used for taxidermy sometimes but you have to make sure you take out the stuff once its done since they eat and drag away bones lol)

[@AnOwlfie]

His next video: "Sleeping on a bed of mealworms"

[@FineappleRyan]

Back when I was a kid I had a bearded dragon that loved these things. One day I stuck my hand in the little bucket that they came in to see if they'd bite me and started freaking out when I felt the dozens of tiny nibbles. The absolute self discipline it took to keep your hand still during all that was astonishing

[@cocksucker_suckscock]

I took care of a friend's Beardie for a couple weeks, she fed him superworms (basically mealworms on steroids) and they do, in fact, hunger for human flesh. Had to pick them up with chopsticks

[@BZAKether]

Call the Saw movies producers to see if they wanna play a little game.

[@JoeyGBean]

“Don’t worry the mealworms we’re from a reputable source” Where the heck do you buy mealworms and what’s an unreputable source💀

[@rainbowthedragoncat6768]

Mealworms are fairly commonly sold as food for reptiles, amphibians, ants, etc

[@Wojtek_Ch]

My question is: if they would eat anyone and there's so many of them there why don't they eat one another?

[@rainbowthedragoncat6768]

Mealworms have pretty tough exoskeletons, and they typically eat dead plant matter and other detritus, they're not built to be predatory

[@Herculesbiggercousin]

No matter how insignificant insects may seem they are endlessly interesting to observe in this context.

[@aresinamorta.staring-atthe-sun]

Saw the title and thumbnail and said "Ah HAAYLL NAW" Then still clicked it and watched the whole thing 😂

[@JamieVatarga]

Mealworms, okay… superworms though…

[@youseemerage9711]

1:30 nope, dont like that

[@Param11930]

Forbidden fried rice