My Giant Bug Collection

Here are my giant bugs: giant cicada, giant wasp, giant cricket, giant longhorn beetle, giant bee, and giant wasp.
Ok, these aren't bugs. They are insects.
Odd Animal Specimens

[@OddAnimalSpecimens]

To choose the next surprise animal, post a comment like this: " Department # - # - # " - Departments: Birds, Mammals, Insects - #s: 1-20 - Example: “Insects 3-1-13”

[@Bradmanmate]

Mammals 666

[@Bradmanmate]

Please

[@AnimeTiddFan]

Insect 8 - 18 - 2

[@kodydoesanything5204]

Birds 3, 12, 5?

[@Tear86]

Mammals 8-4-39

[@bnsz8704]

IVE SEEN A TARANTULA HAWK IN PERSON!!! When I was like 6 or 7 I was in the car with my family near the Grand Canyon and saw one buzz along between some cars just ahead of me. I thought I was hallucinating or that it was one of those giant mosquitoes from the the original Jamanji movie. I was frozen in fear. I think that’s where my phobia of bees, wasps, and all fast flying or stinging insects came from

[@bingchilingnice]

Bro got some nerves🤣

[@emeraldzack910]

Don't worry it was me. Sorry for flying along

[@Capybara69420]

Man I ain't going to the grand canyon, next thing you know I will be 💀

[@suntimeguygamer2519]

I haven’t but when I lived on a farm a while ago and there was a baboon spider that live just outside my room. And this was a beefy bich!!! And I loved her but then a a month pasts bye sins I saw her then one day I went to see her as usual but was met bye the biggest wasp I have seen in a while and. Oh the terror. It was dragging my precios baboon spider to her nest And that day was when the war started Rip baboon

[@bconroy328]

The cazador! Yall feelin woozy yet?

[@SuperAlphaKirby]

I can only describe the tarantula hawk as the beautiful embodiment of scary pain. It's so graceful and yet looks so scary.

[@verymediocreperson6554]

Its ugly as fuck, its like hell shat on a plate, gave it legs and wings and, just for the sake of it, made it so big that it has to be called a tarantula hawk

[@SuperAlphaKirby]

@@verymediocreperson6554 the 29 Chad's who liked my comment would disagree.

[@verymediocreperson6554]

@@SuperAlphaKirby a lot of people disagree which is fine, i get why you think its beautiful but im scared af for almost all things with more than 4 legs

[@thejestor9378]

@@SuperAlphaKirby I am scared of insects with stingers, but I can agree with that. Most derpy idiots would be male Cicada killers, have gone to a garden up north of where I live where cicada killers commonly frequent every year. The males being brutally territorial but not being able to harm you so they just dive bomb your legs with a flying headbutt is just hilariously dumb.

[@slider42]

That's why I love it and hate it (YOURE MY DISCORD PFP!!!!)

[@crimson_nord2028]

You forgot to mention the nightmarish nature of the tarantula hawks name. These bugs actively HUNT tarantulas, bait them out of their dens for a DEATHMATCH where they sting the underbelly of the spider. This paralyses the large spider within 1-2 seconds, as it’s dragged back into the spider’s OWN BURROW, where the hawk lays eggs INSIDE its back and it’s young eat the tarantula while it’s STILL ALIVE and incapable of moving.

[@cogitoergosum9069]

😨😰

[@ElephantmanGaming]

People who Played Fallout New Vegas are probably having nightmares from the Tarantula Hawk.

[@pmrd]

Watching this video almost made me wish for a nuclear winter.

[@phoebe5]

I mean the fact that all they did to design cazadores is just make the tarantula hawk bigger I think tells you how terrifying it is. Hell u think making it bigger makes it LESS scary because at least then you can shoot it

[@i_am_ergo]

An interesting fact about the cazadores that not a lot of people know is that they weren't originally supposed to move as erratically as they do in the game. It was a bug. But when Josh Sawyer saw it, he was like: "Oh yeah, that's better than what I had in mind. Keep it this way."

[@samuelbousfield4342]

I have considered going to the grand canyon in the past. After witnessing the most terrifying unit of a wasp ever I believe I will now find somewhere else to visit.

[@flora_7719]

Dude, i literally have lived here in their habitat for 16 years and I've only encountered 3, you'll be fine

[@craftydegrasse3679]

Been to the Grand Canyon never seen one!💜🥰

[@somethingithink3731]

@@craftydegrasse3679 lucky

[@catchinsomezzzs]

​@@flora_7719That's too many times

[@moppupaws]

@@flora_7719 thats too many.

[@agoblintrippingonhorrordus145]

Cicadas are already so loud, imagine hearing the Empress Cicada from the other side of the hemisphere

[@Lancerandduck7]

You should invest in a macro lens, especially for the insects! It would be so cool to see these guys up close!

[@loker6031]

im in your walls

[@tiyaku]

@@loker6031 oh !

[@thouxanmiles6441]

@@loker6031 You are in my walls I am in your Mother's sheets, we are not the same.

[@thedstroyer0075]

@@loker6031 I’m in your locker

[@qwer31asd26]

no

[@TheHamsterMaster]

I've always been freaked out by cicadas with the loud noises they make as well as their big beady eyes. I had no idea there was a giant version of them.

[@spugintrntl]

Cicadas were my favorite thing as a kid. They're big clumsy pushovers.

[@Serom_974]

God: think of any insects that exist in the world. Now, believe me if I say there is a giant version of them somewhere.

[@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World.]

I was creeped out by them because of their big size.

[@BoyKhongklai]

I wonder how loud the giants will be

[@TheHamsterMaster]

@@BoyKhongklai right?

[@edgarangelo4304]

OMG! I LOVE SPOTTED SKUNKS and this became my favorite segment EVER!

[@OddAnimalSpecimens]

They’re one of my favorites now!

[@thatguy.mp7950]

"The flamethrower was not made for war, nay, it was made to protect us from wasps." "If a wasp normally stings you to be a dick, a tarantula hawk stings you to watch you suffer to satisfy its own pleasure."

[@nezaniatoimya]

I swear these things should've stayed in fallout why the fuck are they real

[@phoebe5]

Thing is a lot of your parasitic wasps like these and cicada killers are generally not as aggressive as eusocial wasps like hornets and yellow jackets

[@teunhartveldt2940]

i was honestly suprised he didn't pull out a hercules beetle for the beetle segment, because those things get absolutely MASSIVE

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

Or the Goliath Beetle

[@beelzemobabbity]

Maybe he was just wanting to show the giant features

[@personagenerator]

I was stung by a tarantula hawk when I was 8 or 9. I remember the pain fading a lot quicker than I thought it would. It wasn't that bad despite being a hot, throbbing pain that I could feel on one whole half of my upper back where it stung me. There are 2 species that I know of in California, Pepsis Thisbe and Pepsis Mildei. I don't know much about Thisbe's sting, but I've read that a Mildei sting apparently only lasts 5 minutes and I assume that means it's what stung me as a kid. It's either the species I was stung by had a weaker sting than others, or the sting is overhyped by the Schmidt Sting Index. Edit: Just learned that the 5 minute sting pain duration is for the Pepsis genus as a whole. I'd like to see sting characteristics of different species studied more, but I assume no one is willing to get stung for science. I'd do it if it paid well. I would write detailed reports of every aspect of each sting because current records are extremely lacking in my opinion and I think the Schmidt index is kind of shit anyway.

[@kuroishinblackheart]

you're love to hear about brave wilderness and his sting index

[@Random_Nobody_Official]

The shit index is kind of schmidt anyway.

[@isolated_illustrations]

Well that's hurtful. Especially since iirc Schmidt passed away...

[@personagenerator]

@@isolated_illustrations My condolences to whoever was close, but that doesn't change my opinions on the sting index. Credit where credit is due, he did this all on his own. But one man's personal experience is not nearly in depth enough to rival a more organized and detailed study. This just happens to be a subject not many who have the resources necessary are willing to study due to the nature of the work involved.

[@m.i.c.h.o]

@@personageneratorwell said. Although I have no experience with getting stung (save for yellow jackets and some ants) I agree with you. One mans experience cannot replace a study on many

[@Askeletontrappedinamanbody]

*Cazadore senses tingling*

[@peanutbutter6720]

As soon as he pulled it out I got flashbacks

[@__Gaz__]

Off to nipton I guess

[@laurachapple6795]

I was not guessing a grasshopper, I was thinking a beetle! These are beautiful bugs.

[@officialgrindr]

I was thinking beetle too, maybe Hercules. But the grasshopper surprised me too!

[@legofishjpeg]

WE LOVE SPOTTED SKUNKS! this became my favorite segment ever. :] 8:53

[@Mussoi7000]

hey i know that the main focus of this channel is education and talking about the individual specimens and all that, but do you think you could a video on how to prepare specimens? be it wet specimens, drying, dyeing or pointing insects i still think it would be really cool and educational content also while i'm here, birds 5-3-19

[@JustN1Shott]

No

[@pearbear3281]

yeah same ive been wanting to do that stuff

[@Get_Splooshed]

“I just wanna take some photos” type vibes

[@skyisbored103]

@@Get_Splooshed animal preservation interesting as hell I tried to do it with a mouse that died of starvation in my garage, but the bones were too thin during the fleshing stage

[@trippymlgjunkrat5749]

@@skyisbored103 Jesus christ

[@HammboneBob]

I had some ravens I had made friends with, and they gave me a live cicada. Thanks for bringing back good memories dude.

[@Manwhoassociateshimselfwithbat]

*Heads North from Goodsprings* “Why do I hear combat music”? *dies*

[@whothefuckisroses7829]

Is this taken from a livestream? I would love to watch your livestream if its like this bcs its chill, fun, and relaxing Edit: stop with the amogus guys😭😭

[@jaydiscord7591]

Amogus

[@ballsgaming7595]

Amogus

[@elfhat8452]

Amogus

[@JaydenLitchfield]

Amogus

[@arsonsnail]

Amogus

[@djingiskhan4581]

The skunk is white with black stripes. If you look closely you can see that there is a part right above it's hind legs on it's back where there is a two white "pockets" of white fur, the leftmost in the first shot of it is weakly connected with some of the other white, but the right one is like a spot and not a stripe. Also if you want to see the stripes they go as follows, 1: starts at it's head and goes down the middle to the base of it's tail, 2 and 3: connect by the head and go down their respective sides of it's back and then towards it's stumache, and 4: Is a stripe on it's tail. that's my take on it at least. Love your videos btw, thank you for showing us all of these amazing animals! :D

[@victors_art3002]

I actually have a tarantula hawk outside my house. They are very big and terrifying non the less. I casually see them here and there dragging tarantulas they paralyzed along the bushes. I don’t like tarantulas crawling in my house so I just t let the little demon do it’s thing. I’ve also heard they are not aggressive towards humans they only attack if they feel endangered. It’s been five years now and I’ve only seen it like about six times. I’m just hoping I don’t get stung by one.

[@Smilewearewatching]

There’s something so funny about someone describing the pain in a informative, blunt, professional tone

[@breyerobsessionist16]

This guy is such a cool biologist/zoologist/entomologist. Let’s be best friends.

[@personman2346]

Biology is cool

[@apocalypticlovergirl]

a tarantula hawk got me once and lets just say nature was kind enough to knock me out💀💀

[@entertheabyss9785]

I absolutely love carpenter bees and the attention they're getting lately. I had one make a burrow in a tree in front of my apartment. It was so cute watching it work and fly around. It looked almost like it trusted me.

[@jazzfeline5970]

One time, my girlfriend and her roommates built a tiny wooden house for some carpenter bees on their porch. They ended up accosting anybody on the porch and would sting anyone that got too close to the house. They also destroyed my wooden swing set when I was a kid, and harassed me every time I tried to get on the swing.

[@inzane101room]

I have some living in the trees in front of my apartment!!! Silly creatures :D

[@vortexventamy]

The way this video is organized and set up is absolutely phenomenal, cannot wait to watch more from this channel in the future

[@rebekahhickman9438]

I'm intrigued to hear your thoughts on 'if insects feel pain', I had a lecture on the topic this week relating to pain and nociception, investing what a fly does when being eaten as it continues the same behaviour even after the cerebral ganglion has been removed indicating they can't feel pain' however it's a difficult one as it almost seems like a stress or flight response to begin with which could be pain. I just wondered if you had any thoughts on that since you're around the animals so much

[@LionKing1130]

Once he pulled out the tarantula hawk I could feel my soul leave this earth after saying hell to the nah

[@Prototype5328]

15:01 YOU KNOW I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF THE POSSIBILITY OF Having nightmares🛌 about the insect's🦗🐝 that i just saw in this video and the fact that you even brought it up was little bit funny

[@ut3115]

you make the looking and leanrning about dead things so much fun! it's like watching deadpool doing the same with his weapon collection. I love it! So much energy, so much fun !

[@homosapien1744]

Imagine getting stung by a tarantula hawk and screaming and attracting more to come sting you-

[@teoborges3949]

At least they arent the same size as a child

[@kindahungry8505]

We got like a lot of these in Texas though I can't tell if that one is huge or he is small.

[@zorotypical6314]

i have to say unfortunately living in Arizona ive seen 1 tarantula hawk in my life, and it flew into my grandmas house. Im already deathly afraid of wasps/bees in general so i ran and like the brave woman she is, beat it with a broom till it was nothing but a gross looking spot on the floor.

[@anomalocaris_man]

bees are very good for the environment, they CAN sting, but they only sting in self defense, wasps are a bit more aggressive but as long as you steer clear from them, you're fine, leave them bee.

[@ploopydiper]

@@anomalocaris_man keep that same energy when one is buzzing around your house lmao

[@KnownAsLyant]

@@anomalocaris_man it came in their house why would they js leave it alone??😭

[@tatelabianca666]

@@anomalocaris_man yea, leave them wasps bee! I like that.

[@andrewshaver5800]

I just saw a tarantula hawk about two weeks ago outside of my office in Chandler, AZ. It was the most massive flying insect I've ever seen. It was like a small bird. It was almost unbelievable it was so large.

[@adamFIVE88]

I feel like I'm watching one of those jewelry commercials my grandma used to watch due to your set up hahhaha I love it.

[@CCootauco]

This is the most educational informercial ever.

[@Weeklongwind647]

Question: Did you win the Guinness book of world Records for having the most amount of animals in your collection?

[@spartanv4335]

The collection belongs to the University of Michigan. He’s alumni there, and gets access to it.

[@blowfish8203]

@@spartanv4335 Those aren't his?

[@spartanv4335]

@@blowfish8203 No

[@hereisaname8567]

@@blowfish8203 who tf just keeps hundreds of thousands of well preserved specimens from hundreds of years ago in a private collection lmao

[@VardinTar]

@@hereisaname8567 Research through evolution through thousands of years to compare and contrast (Just a guess)

[@tridactasaurus]

*brings out the tropical carpenter bee* Wallace’s Giant Bee: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@sibit1]

man seeing those things gives me ptsd from my time in the mojave, i was jumped by 6 of them things while i was leaving goodsprings heading down to the strip

[@Prootgen]

Those things where even scarier than those lizards down by that mining town down the highway

[@CartierBK]

just found this channel...gotta say random asf but interesting as hell LMFAOO

[@Nord_Kitten]

16:30 is when he brings out the cazador for anyone who clicked for fallout reasons

[@Dogmaguy74]

Triggered my *Ptsd* .

[@noahr.7144]

When he pulled out the wasp I just up and accepted that all my conceptions about bees were wrong for a hot second lmfao

[@Griffy445]

Just thought of how interesting it would be if this place experienced a night at the museum situation 😂

[@jamesbowthorpe8376]

If I had a collection like that, I wouldn’t be able to sleep 😂

[@jonathanbeen6309]

I agree

[@giornogiovanna9612]

oh man I love insects sooooooooooooo much.i recently found out your yt channel and im OBSESSED with your videos,you know there arent many yt channels that talk about insects and i was soo happy when i discovered your channel, so if i had to choose the next animal id choose Insects 17-07-08 btw your content is amazing but do you stream or something?

[@zakkcharette1911]

Man this channel is AMAZING!!! Found you on instagram and haven’t been able to stop watching! I love these longer videos. So much information!

[@gregboi183]

Really clean longhorn section, very impressive run. Shame about the new Zealand timeloss, if you look at the SOB there's still a lot of time left to save

[@trackinggod8087]

I've seen 2 of the insects you showed in the wild. Saw Acrocinus longimanus years ago in Mexico. Awesome beetle. Saw huge cicadas in Borneo on short term mission trips. One longhorned beetle that you could have shown is Titaneus giganteus. At least as impressive as the 2 biggies you showed.

[@balojia-8762]

this is such an awesome channel! can you please do bird 15-2-2 !!

[@ghosthuntrox]

Hi! New Zealander here, almost got offended when you said the weta (pronounced wet-tuh) was from Australia 😂 (because Australia gets credited for eeeeverything!) Awesome video!

[@StrangeEnjoyer1986]

lovely video! I like how you're really passionate about all of them. Here in Argentina we have Tarantula Hawks, we call them Matacaballos who translates literally to "horse killer"

[@Tubewatcherdude]

I like how this looks like one of those shopping channels you’d see in the late 90’s

[@shiningjoot6369]

I never knew cicadas could get that big and that Wallace's Longhorn Beetle had massive antennas

[@walkerspectre]

The biggest bee is even bigger than that one, its called Wallace's bee, it was thought extinct but a specimen was found

[@HHLucifer666]

Me, who watched till the end: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

[@iltifaat-yousuf]

buy a good macro lens please ,i wanna see them closer & also love your channel.

[@yudhakusumanegara8882]

I love your honesty and dynamics of the video is damn good

[@TimelessWorldOfGaming]

I remember the last periodic cicadas. I wasn't very old, still in my single digits I think and I'm 34 now so we're over-due for it again. But they were EVERYWHERE. There were literally clouds of them in air and everywhere you looked there were either cicada skins or cicadas themselves. The moment you opened the door and walked outside at least 5 landed on you.

[@garrettturner9763]

They’re not only in the Grand Canyon, They’re all over Arizona. Born and raised in AZ and Out of all the the creatures that want to sting or bite you, ive always been scared of these guys…

[@cyndylindahl3386]

Did you appear on a video about Redwoods vs Giant Sequoias? I used to show it to my 7th graders and it was so well done. Do any of your videos introduce where you work/where these specimen collections reside?

[@Mike_Wazowski_z]

big PTI fan huh? lol also this video made my skin crawl

[@Weeklongwind647]

Dude the Hercules Beetle is like a super heavy beetle that is considered the biggest insect or beetle. I was guessing that before you revealed the fat cricket 💀 Edit: can you do a review of hawk moths cus they are super scary. I hate moths but I would like to see you review moths.

[@alioramusman5650]

What did moths ever do to you?

[@OxyToxyNT000]

when he pulled out the grasshopper i thought it was the hedge grasshopper

[@mauroc1896]

As a hawkmoth enjoyer i am deeply offended but still agree on your idea Like dude, they're just moths that copied hummingbirds homework

[@CATFISHARECOOLFR]

Fr hawk moths are scary

[@Weeklongwind647]

@@alioramusman5650 look scary. They have wings that scare predators and me!

[@SmilingEgg]

I want to see his preserved blue whale, giraffe, and elephant

[@nathanielmandrake1500]

Not sure about a giraffe and elephant, but currently no preserved entire blue whales exist sadly. The most famous example of anything preserved of a blue whale is a massive 440 pound blue whale heart. It broke the news with how hard it was to preserve it. He might have a piece of preserved blue whale skin, but not at all a full blue whale as nobody has managed to preserve such a massive carcass before. I highly doubt fully preserved carcasses of elephants and giraffes have been managed either.

[@cabriskus4700]

@@nathanielmandrake1500 ever heard of a joke?

[@nathanielmandrake1500]

@@cabriskus4700 ...What’s the joke here? What’s the punchline? You can call anything you want a joke but if it doesn’t even sound like a joke it’s not one. + it’s incredibly hard to read tone through text. It’s weird to come at someone so aggressively considering you can’t really know for sure when people say things on the internet.

[@cabriskus4700]

@@nathanielmandrake1500 the joke is that he wants to see those animals listed, we all know he doesn’t, get over yourself holy shit

[@cabriskus4700]

@@nathanielmandrake1500 out here taking your like some fucking professor but has a anime profile picture

[@smile--]

The Tarantula Hawk scares me more than any Tarantula ever will.

[@cumunist2120]

I was a bit surprised when you pulled out one my local insects I expected some big ass behemoth from South America or something I’ve never heard of. glad to know we’re the ones that get the massive wasps

[@petersze7127]

I dont know how you came by this amazing natural history collection.. But you are incredibly lucky bro.. Most people will never get to enjoy Seeing a tiny fraction of the creatures you have..ill bet a large percentage of your specimens are Very rare or extcinct(sp?)..i spent years exploring museum collections as a kid while my dad worked on his entomologu phd..Thank you for making these great videos bro- they are becoming my favorite on youtube!

[@sferrin2]

I' saw a couple of the giant cicadas, maybe not that exact specie, in Texas years ago. Most they had were bright green but the big ones were dark brown/black and red and much more rare.

[@CherylMotherofSeven]

Insects #3 #7 #17 Thank you. I love your channel & content!

[@knightbane3752]

New Zealander here, good to see the Giant Weta on here, they are still endangered but numbers are on the rise

[@johnsonfilms2318]

I love this channel so much

[@Dinosaur_Davis]

I'm 13 and I've always wanted to be an entomologist. Its so cool to see these specimens. I'm also glad it makes 2 of us that we know that arachnids are not insects! I have a question too? Do you have Goliath Beetles or Tailless Whip Scorpions? I know that they get HUGE too!

[@AllHailKingRose]

He says he has them all so I think he does have them. It would be great to see those specimens too.

[@OxyToxyNT000]

" I'm also glad it makes 2 of us that we know that arachnids are not insects!" literally everyone knows that

[@ioneoval7668]

Wow! You're a genius! You know that arachnids aren't insects! Almost everyone knows that, don't get arrogant about having knowledge about basic biology.

[@todosauce]

​@@ioneoval7668why are you shitting on a literal child

[@Charles36.]

Remember seeing a giant water bug when I was a kid. Scared me but he or she never moved from its spot and I watch it for a good while. Lol

[@EdgarPoe_Raven]

Good to find you here, charlie. It's perfect you uploaded a video with giant insects, it's a favorite, so thank you.

[@dipdhar1088]

I live in India and have long horn beetle in my childhood.....it has some powerful hooks on its legs. If it land on you and u suddenly try to remove it, it will tear up ur flesh. May be that's where I got my beetle phobia from☠️

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Australia is the hard mode biome of real life according to the insects.

[@STORMSC0UT]

Absolutely disgusting, but straight up fascinating. Watched the whole thing.

[@karlmark9967]

I am so happy I discovered this Channel, I've always th ought the heaviest insects would be either a beetle or a stick insect.

[@hoihoiafwasmiddl]

Why is J-Roc doing Animal specimens now?

[@rolferikbaklkk6613]

The giant weta is almost extinct today but if you take a look at old pictures of them you really see how big they could get. The one you had there was a tiny one.

[@elliottcoleman8225]

I live in the southwest where Tarantula Hawks live and they're one of my favorite insects! They use their venom to incapacitate tarantulas to lay their eggs, so they don't feel keen on stinging humans, unlike wasps who defend nests. They fly a bit chaotic like carpenter bees but yeah, pretty awesome insects!

[@DizzyFoShizzy]

Ok what? You have every animal? Holy shit, that's pretty insane. There are a lot of animals man. Damn.

[@potatomaster5570]

Watching all of your videos while eating spaghetti... *Slurp* interesting *slurp* *slurp* My sister walks in... "Aight we need to talk about this"

[@WilliamWallace42]

I absolutely love your set up here bro with the camera angles and stuff you deserve more views

[@thedyslexicorangutan8049]

There’s nothing like the thrill of seeing a tarantula hawk crawling out of a hole and buzzing around while you’re taking a stroll through the wilderness without having even heard or seen one before. I got tf out of there in a snap. Turned around and ran in the direction opposite of this fucking wasp, got in my car and drove past the speed limit all the way home. I watched Coyote Pete’s video that night where he stung himself with one of these and didn’t have a good night’s sleep. I was not settled to say the least

[@afrotreebear6841]

Man when you said the tarantula hawk and said locals, my thoughts were no way it could survive our heat, then proceeded to say my state. Very cool •_•

[@synivy4576]

Actually the largest bee species is the Wallace's Giant Bee but they’re extremely rare, actually recently rediscovered which is cool so you probably wouldn’t have a specimen to show…

[@MalBeats]

That cricket is THICC! Call it a thiccket from now on

[@ultimateninjaboi]

Dude just casually bringing out the cazadors like its nothing. XP

[@theletterm8865]

Now, as alone in my opinions as I may be ... I think wasps are wonderful! They're scary sometimes if they fly by your head or if you did something to upset them (aka. they start getting defensive), but otherwise they're just nice little buzzy guys and gals. Even the yellowjackets near me can be very sweet - it's just that they're quick and assertive, so they seem intimidating. But that behavior means they're outgoing enough to fly right up to me and eat honey off my bare fingertips! Paper wasps are also lovely, but much more reserved and shy (usually). Reluctant to sting in my experience, so long as they aren't being threatened heavily. It took me a while to gain trust with the hives near me, but once I did, they're similar - crawl right onto my hand, lap up honey from my fingers. One of my girls had so much honey she got tired, and decided to take a little nap on my finger! I took a video of it that I love. Really though, if you ever consider observing wasps more closely to try and lose your fear of them (which I recommend you do, unless you have a severe allergy!), the common denominator is a love for food. Sweet foods for adults such as honey and nectar (they also appreciate water), and animal protein like caterpillars or raw meats for the larvae. They are honestly such beautiful, intelligent and interesting animals; they're just misunderstood and maligned a lot. And they will remember you for better or for worse, so get on their good side and you have a new colony of friends!

[@tinsticker9884]

what about the hercules or elephant beetle? arent they much heavier? nice video tho :)

[@sofa_king_kool]

As soon as I saw those amber wings I had flashbacks to north of Goodsprings, clinging to the walls with my varmint plinker praying they wouldn't figure out pathing...

[@picklejho69]

Weta can be terrifying. I once got home from school, let out a sigh of exhaustion, and noticed a scratching sound from my right shoulder. Looked to the right, and there was a Weta on the strap of my bag. I just calmly put my hand between it and my face, and bitch slapped that sucker into the wall, where he exploded. Poor bastard. Another one was hiding on the inside of the curtain on my door, and when I reached over to open the door, it reached out with a forelimb and scratches my arm, making me bleed. Those claws are no joke. Sharp as razor blades.

[@martijnovergaauw8896]

I love your program man, but I have to correct you on the heaviest insect; Megasoma acteon weighs a lot more than the biggest New Zealand Weta ;)

[@leiladekwatro3147]

Why does this look like a 3 am shop tv show trying to sell me the randomest things for $9.99

[@tamu7243]

2:00 people living in South East Asia watching this: "i guess I live in vacation now"

[@karimkerachni3939]

My thoughts exactly!

[@el_eddy4307]

I’d absolutely love to have a friend like you!

[@carryoncarrion4525]

Love your videos! - also, AZ native, 24yo, I've been seeing alot of tarantula hawk- looking insects, but on a much smaller scale, does anyone know of any other black (purplish wings) predatory wasps in the Central valley AZ locale?

[@tdoyr2119]

I’ve got a relatively small tarantula hawk in a little display box and all I can say is they are very pretty wasps, but I don’t want to encounter one. Being that I live in the valley region of Arizona, it’s not unlikely I do, but I personally do not enjoy experiencing crippling pain

[@scottyboy9906]

Gotba very deep laugh at the spotted skunk segment thank you very much for that. Great Video❤❤❤

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

People who have played Fallout: New Vegas: "What do you mean 'Giant'?!? That piddly-ass Cazadore isn't even a *juvenile* yet!"

[@bugpooki]

i’ve lived my entire life and traveled ti the grand canyon several times blissfully unaware that i was in the very state home to the tarantula hawk. terrific.