Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

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If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there’s no doubt that humans would lose. There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects on earth, outnumbering humans by more than a billion to one. So what’s their secret to success? Murry Gans details the reasons behind insect abundance.
Lesson by Murry Gans, animation by Echo Bridge Pictures.

[@TEDEd]

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[@ericsimbolon3972]

TED-Ed does butterfly remember that they were catterpillar?

[@MrAlRats]

Why do you use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius?

[@cutedogs6200]

TED-Ed do does animals fart?

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Good Video, but you left out the time when Insects were the dominant land animal. Back when there was significantly more O2 in the planets atmosphere, insects were much bigger, until an asteroid impact reduced the size of the atmosphere, thus forcing the insects to miniaturize because they breath through their skin...

[@ramyabinamandal1397]

TED-Ed

[@elenaalex4588]

1 billion per person and here I am thinking I am alone in the room....

[@johnarbuckle2619]

LOL

[@Michael-xm4ux]

and the nobel price of literature goes to you

[@Jrock420blam]

+Bender Rover The one for spelling goes to you! :D

[@Michael-xm4ux]

Jrock420blam ...

[@azix2915]

+Elena Alex good ol' buddy mosquitoes, cockroaches and spiders are always there to give you LOVE

[@adampotts6245]

We have bug spray do they have human spray

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

Adam Potts agent orange saves the day

[@adampotts6245]

Archrave nineteenseventeen rip plants 😂😭

[@Mr-Ad-196]

Let just nuke our self.....

[@caleblilly8804]

They have yellow fever and malaria

[@abz4852]

@@Mr-Ad-196 yeah cause roaches can survive nukes

[@GGSLM]

I want my life to be narrated by this guy.

[@faze4968]

Lol

[@UpuYang]

haha

[@lisa5hot]

i'd fall asleep if that was the case for me lol

[@makerlinux]

just be sure to ask him to use metric.

[@stoprighttherenow3816]

no offense but no one would dare to listen to ur life because damn his voice is boring.

[@godoffunny3068]

Put taxes on the insects and we'll be rich

[@ayyub9855]

Theyll Form a Union

[@rosejog2766]

Ayyub a, maybe they’ll do an insect revolution.

[@godoffunny3068]

We could just tax them a few cents or the most 1 dollar cause their population is enormous

[@katec3963]

Ok trudeau

[@Vertutame]

@@ayyub9855 and they will overwhelming human in a vote instantly.

[@dastanroy3784]

Some of these insects live in my house without paying rent

[@waitforeduard2984]

this is one of the best comments I saw in a while, I swear

[@raphuscucullatus7845]

Evict those bastards

[@nepinemi8885]

Tell them to rent you can get rich

[@Fayrayz]

Frickin freeloaders

[@boatymcboatface4120]

You would get your rent if you fix this damn door!

[@MrClickity]

For the Metric users out there: -40F = -40C, 150F = ~68C, 18000ft = ~5500m.

[@haneenalfkhrani312]

THANK YOU !

[@nepinemi8885]

Imperial succs

[@MrClickity]

@@nepinemi8885No argument here, though it is what I grew up learning so I'm used to it. The only part of Imperial I actually like is Fahrenheit. See, 0-100 in Fahrenheit is the range that most humans can comfortably live in with proper clothing. Anything outside that range is what most people would consider dangerously cold or dangerously hot. As a friend of mine from Alaska once said: "Once it gets below zero, you don't even really feel it, you just die quicker." Compare that to Celsius: 0 is a mild winter day while 100 is certain death.

[@danielpopovici107]

-40F = -40C Perfectly balanced

[@riddlewrecked6154]

you mean normal users

[@C4dile]

As I’m watching the video A bug is just sitting next to me watching with me as well

[@maverickkanav]

A billion insects you mean to say

[@humannaturedj]

tell it i said wassup

[@libidum]

Kill it

[@sheagoff6009]

Ha it’s just as curious as you are!!!

[@oweneiffel3149]

kill it!!! its a spy for their kind!!!

[@avebb_]

"There are 19 quintillion insects in the world." Uhh no. That's just my house

[@salmonsaladsandwich8161]

You must have a very big house

[@courtneyguidry204]

Hentai Senpai lol

[@Derethl2]

He is a so-called "citizen of the world".

[@estherlutgens3011]

Hentai Senpai

[@salmonsaladsandwich8161]

If there were actually 19 quintillion insects in your house, the pressure from so much mass being crammed into such a small space would crush you and all the insects into a ball of burning hot brownish goo

[@manhleminh8353]

Okay but let’s take a moment to appreciate the artstyle ? It’s so well made 💖

[@mohammadbayazid5064]

What about another moment to appreciate God how created them in the first place

[@mriduljoshi]

@@mohammadbayazid5064 Or the phenomenon of evolution to be more accurate.

[@ssebaweba]

@@mohammadbayazid5064 why do people need to feel the need to bring religion everywherw

[@pratikdhimmar6643]

​@@ssebawebabecause we don't follow religion but religion is inside our heart ❤️😊 And we have proud of that😃😇

[@taataathe3rd341]

Insect: we are many Underwater Animals: *Hold my Water.. oh wait you can't*

[@TianlangLao]

Mr Fantastic there are some bugs capable of breathing underwater

[@alexwang982]

Surface tension

[@rbinthehouse1127]

SAY THE ANIMALS WITHOUT HANDS. (Or atleast most)

[@mask_vids9834]

Taa Taa The 3rd they can.

[@ranaarimbi9034]

LMAO

[@ParvaChauhan]

Insects be like "This isn't even my final form"

[@JhonataPactio]

Drizz 😂

[@donkeykong4983]

Drizz lmaooooo!

[@MrBobor1]

Please give the degrees in Celsius as well.

[@karmazynowy_7]

+Kevin96AT LOL

[@mohammadfahrurrozy8082]

1:58 Ant : This is fine.

[@raziurrahman99]

Ask the Fire Ant!

[@Bananappleboy]

*_keep your cool_*

[@adityabagdi1178]

I got that reference

[@nish8320]

Well if they attacked humans We know who gave them that idea... *TRAITOR*

[@humannaturedj]

Wasps are already homicidal

[@nathanchoe5445]

Well the bugs suffocates because they can't diffuse enough oxygen for a big body

[@abderrazakbouasker4885]

Requiem

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

@@nathanchoe5445 yes

[@tatir7081]

We already have some species of wasps and Hornets that can be able to kill us, but it really depends.

[@johnnyk.2911]

A mosquito and fly are sitting in a bar...

[@jl-fy3zj]

Budum tshhh

[@cosminblk8359]

And the bar is your food...

[@1Diulio]

And they both order a "bloody" martini

[@jl-fy3zj]

@@1Diulio is that anything like a bloody Mary?

[@lemyamagzoub329]

wAcK

[@ShuriBear]

The amount of insects in this world bugs me.

[@paradox...]

+ShuriBear I would tell you to get out but that was too clever ;)

[@eyozin]

+Diego Gutierrez Flew right over my head.

[@raphuscucullatus7845]

You could say that again, literally

[@makerlinux]

Why use the imperial system? You are trying to reach the entire world, right? So that part with -40°F, 155°F and 18 thousand feet makes everyone miss the point but the inhabitants of the US and some lesser countries.

[@10Alan17]

cry about it

[@M1keA1]

The US is the only relevant country

[@lucaslayton3974]

Bless your delusional little heart. Wake up and smell reality, the world hates america and you will selfdestruct in due time.

[@lucaslayton3974]

Truett Berlgund Lol typical american, living in denial. And the a lame attempt to shift the blame onto your criticiser, how pathetic. Wake up little one, you are hated. And since you're only 'pretty sure', I'm here to give you the reality: you are hated. Very much. And of that I am 100% sure. Bye bitch.

[@christopherwinne5434]

Lucas Layton Fool. I was saying that I don't care about the fact that we are hated by anyone. I didn't say that I don't care about replying to you. I deeply care about responding to people who hate my country. But it seems like you hate me more than my country, as you have done nothing so far to convince me that we are "Very much" hated by anyone. (other than Russia, China, North Korea, etc.)

[@aithi2694]

They will outlive humans just the way cockroaches outlived Dinosaurs 😢

[@rbinthehouse1127]

They probably wont. Technology will get a long way in millions of years. Maybe humans will make their own exoskeletons to survive. Or they could go to caves and survive like dinosaurs

[@patrikszilins7845]

@CringeyCrud oh we will, believe me, we will

[@lonestarr1490]

@dianna k There like hundreds of things that could virtually wipe us out. Radiation or gamma-ray bursts would just be the most time efficient. Our astoundingly uniform genom tells us, that there was a time in our history when our population was down to approx. 2 to 300 individuals. And as far as we know, that wasn't due to "space".

[@zozidedodo780]

@@patrikszilins7845 There is a billion ways humans can go extict like a meteor hitting earth, a wave burst from the sun , extreme lack of clean water , extreme earth quicks we are the coolest most advanced species but quiet vulnerable compared to others

[@daniels5780]

@@zozidedodo780 Given a million years, humans can evolve into something not entirely human. It just takes a little genetic manipulation, which some people are willing to do (GMOs).

[@badatlosingvideogames1130]

Me: casually watches teded video about insects My body: Starts itching Me: the war has begun...

[@joshaushessen2270]

i love your videos but could you please write the lengths you use in meters as well? Just for the 99% of the world :) thx

[@ShyanTheLegend]

+Jo Ba and use degrees celsius instead of fahrenheit. americans are illogical and refuse to keep up with the times

[@chandlercampbell3356]

+ShyanTheLegend right? I am American and I fully support the metric system, but if I bring it up to any other American they use the same dumb comebacks like "DID THE METRIC SYSTEM GET EUROPE TO THE MOON? NO! MERICA!" It hurts man.

[@ShyanTheLegend]

Chandler Campbell holy shit man, people say that?

[@chandlercampbell3356]

ShyanTheLegend yeah or variations of it or other lame ass excuses. The truth is America is afraid of change.

[@ShyanTheLegend]

Chandler Campbell the world came together to create IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) to make scientific research universally exchangeable regardless of what country youre from. The universal language of chemistry. America enforces the dollar as the world reserve currency, no problem right? But America also needs to adopt the metric system to make life easier for themselves and for non americans

[@guilhermefrainer2865]

getting an entire group of animals and comparing them to only one species seems a bit unfair

[@zezluy]

Agreed.

[@crono3015]

+Guilherme Frainer No, not really. You didn't even explain how it's unfair.

[@guillermogutierrez3845]

+Guilherme Frainer Even if you compared them to all other living things (excluding bacteria), they would win tremendously

[@IAMN00l3]

+Crono Errr group of species(as in all insect) to only one specie(As in only Human)?

[@zekky1000]

+Guilherme Frainer You can see it that way, but that comparison is best understood towards the end of the video, as you might know we humans tend to believe we are the strongest and most fitting animal in the world (which btw is like stating a new anthropocentrism after the theories' fall between the 18th and 19th century), that might be true, it is after all only one race of humans to live everywhere around the world and possibly soon even somewhere on other planets or moons (we are already colonizing space after all) where instead it is different types of insects to live around the world, but that only means they had a better body adaptation than we did, the video is (at least i believe so) trying to state the differences through which us and them both colonized the entire globe successfully and sensitizing us to different kinds of life and how amazing and smart they are in their own way. After all science is, just like philosophy, love for knowledge and dedication to research :)

[@yanzi2960]

Insects as the masters of this planet, still dies to a cheap spray

[@StaticDedenne]

xD "Conquerors of the world"

[@esegeta]

+yan zi that cheap spray kills also humans :|

[@-_-who314]

***** locust swarms . nuf said . although there aren't any now

[@yanzi2960]

Dats true tho

[@theguythatcoment]

Humans as the masters of this planet, still dies to cheap bleach.

[@user-zi8lg5qu1h]

Give me flamethrower, very big hammer, sonic's shoes and let them come

[@xdgaming70]

Veljko and you need my shoes why?

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

Shoes

[@yourtypicalneighborhoodkar9605]

Are you sure you don't need a flamethrower that use napalm as fuel

[@medexamtoolscom]

And then you fight them for 3 days on end and kill 100 million of them, and then realize, that's only 1/10 of the number of insects equivalent to your contribution to the world since they outnumber humans a billion to 1.

[@JunWhappiness]

BUT DID INSECTS CHANGE EARTH`S ATMOSPHERE AND ALTER GLOBAL TEMPRETURES? I THINK NOT HUMANS: 1 INSECTS:0

[@joshualontoc4465]

Troll or sarcasm?

[@23PowerL]

+Lil Poro No, that was plants.

[@BreatheManually]

Can insects watch youtube? I think not.

[@NerdProdigy]

+23PowerL he's talking about global warming

[@artistangelo]

Lmao. Humans: 100 Insects: 0

[@DaniG._.German]

Do butterflies remember that they were caterpillars?

[@jellolova]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGLOaXV_g8l3mbM

[@Boogers32150]

NicoMajor101 - butterflies (as many insects) do not have memories because they do not have the ability to see into the past.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Dola How do you know?

[@dirtthrower1998]

So they can see into the future?

[@leonux978]

Mind = blown

[@emanjeff3505]

Three years ago: why is there so MANY insects Three years later: where did all the insects go?

[@Otokage007]

There are a couple of "mistakes" in the video. For example mosquitos do not exactly feed on blood, they feed on nectar like butterflies, but in some species females, although still feeding on nectar, collect blood in order to produce offspring (most of the species don't even need to do this, for example they might need blood only to increase egg production, or if they want to reproduce a second time in their lifes). The other thing is that butterflies and caterpillars do not share the same ecological niche (as you have said, they develop different feeding strategies and this is precisely so they don't have to share a niche). Nice video!

[@Dantick09]

There is only one way to resolve this..... dodgeball vertebrates vs invertebrates

[@DynamicSphinx]

+Dantick09 Both humans and insects are vetebrates

[@mad_max21]

+DynamicSphinxxx Insects are invertebrates. They have no backbones.

[@vigneshkr7072]

Dantick09 resolve what ?

[@dansiegel2811]

It literally says the opposite in this video at 0:47 seconds

[@brandonwithnell612]

insects have exoskeletons so they are invertebrates you need at least an endoskeleton to be a vertabrate a backbone to be exact

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Many advanced alien civilizations throughout the universe may have evolved from insect-like organisms, especially from social insects such as ants and bees.

[@pramitbanerjee]

+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky this comment feels so appropriate strangely even though we don't know any any alien civilizations

[@marlonyo]

+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky not possible you need endoskeleton to get big to have a big brain to have civilizations

[@MetroidJr1220]

+marlonyo Aaaand how do you know this?

[@VictorBR45]

+Pocket Monster Hunter Biology is fake uh. This is what you said. By your statement we can indirectly see what you are thinking or kidding.

[@MetroidJr1220]

VictorXP -/-/- I'm trying to figure out what you just said.

[@Ijiko]

And when make humanoid insects, you get one of the best animes ever

[@xX_swagger_Xx]

Anyone else who hates insects?

[@VictorBR45]

+McEgge Insects are cool. Just accept! They are better them us and probaly they will live more than us.

[@princessshanear2991]

+VictorXP -/-/- how do you live more 🤔

[@aidanhelvey7691]

+Shanear Slays they live like Larry

[@oldcowbb]

+VictorXP -/-/- they are cool, but i still hate them

[@alanchung6571]

i hate them but i respect them :3 but when they appear all of a sudden then its another story

[@Cemix10]

Okay insects are really cool... but this video made me feel real uncomfortable thinking of how many insects are around me right now, living in my apartment.

[@Edarric]

+KleptooN Think of how many of them you kill just wandering and stepping on the floorboards, or when you trip and your knee impacts the earth etc We are relentless titans from their perspective.

[@omegasrevenge]

Attack on Titan: Real Life Edition

[@sirmant1651]

Its amazing that at the end of every video there is an outro that completely fits in.

[@meijimarts111]

That's why we need to build a wall!

[@ProYagu]

+Meiji Marts Humans have the best walls... and the insects are going to pay for them.

[@oldcowbb]

you know, i know, we all know we have the most tremendous walls

[@bluefinmanta5373]

Ha! No wall could ever hold back the insects. They could easily squeeze through, burrow under, climb up, or fly over and reach the other side. Resistance is futile.

[@samysaid1989]

who was scratching while watching?

[@cecilemkda1615]

Yes i was XD

[@riyuji2697]

+samy said suddenly felt itchy

[@rs-dn4ez]

+samy said i actually wasnt even thinking about it

[@ayushsharma9270]

Me

[@Sausagehandlebars]

Thanos did nothing wrong

[@donkeykong4983]

Till Wowler lol

[@troythemighty3683]

I never thought of that. Was the Thanos snap meant to affect all organisms? Because if so, the percentage of humans that died would most likely be a lot lower, if half of all life disappeared

[@josiahsilva3832]

Near the end there were birds and butterflies, which weren’t there before hand, so it did kill bugs too.

[@iconic410]

It was probably all sentient/intelligent forms of life

[@Rodi1o1]

Why are there so few insects in the ocean?

[@TeosAntagonian]

F = Celsius * 9/5 + 32 feet = 30.48cm 1:50 The barkbeetles can suvive at -40deg Celsius. 1:54 Sahara desert ants can venture out when surface temperature exceeds 68.33deg Celsius. 2:00 some bumblebees can survive 5486.4 meters above sealevel. Yourewelcome

[@F22onblockland]

I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

[@muhammadmahad2864]

How's Master Ren?

[@hellozup]

Beautifully written, narrated, and illustrated :) even though I tend to avoid insects (like mosquites or flies) but I appreciate their role in our environment

[@AA-on7vx]

oh you appreciate there role do you? just come to my house and i can change that...

[@AA-on7vx]

there is meant to be their sry my fat fingers don't know what to do usually

[@sique1508]

Good overview of the insect builds

[@딴따라-k3f]

2:06 : Insect exoskeletons also work like body armor Body armor: *SQUEEZE

[@nameisrango]

That's what makes them crisp under my shoes😂

[@altansirin5830]

Insects are the conquerers? I ve never seen them building a fucking nuke ive seen some resistant to its effects though :P

[@altansirin5830]

read it again carefully

[@slateflash]

Only in terms of outnumbering us and living under extremely inhospitable conditions. Not in terms of mental capacity. Do you really expect them to know about building nukes...

[@brunocontreras2891]

that's a common myth, cockroaches can't survive a nuclear explosion, no living creature can survive because of the huge temperatures, however, they can survive the radiation that lasts after the explosion. That's why people misunderstand this

[@willingsas]

No, roaches can't survive nukes; they would survive because there's too many of them.

[@andrewpereira888]

Bruno Contreras yes, actually they can. Cockroaches have been around for three hundred million years which means they survived through the volcano or asteroid or whatever that killed the dinosaurs and everything else between then and now. Also during the Cold War, studies were done to see the amount of radiation an organism can take and a cockroach scored 6400 rads. Also parasitoid wasps can withstand 100,000 rads and some forms of bacteria would be able to take 1,000,000 rads

[@almightyhat2787]

lets move to the moon or mars whos with me

[@Treestump11]

there are bugs on mars

[@almightyhat2787]

Htaed Drol well lets move to pluto

[@Treestump11]

:(

[@almightyhat2787]

someday we will have to explore space and inhabited new planets

[@diamondkane5101]

Dude watch Terra formats its about bugs that invade mars

[@onlyonedeedee]

well, dayum... that's going to BUG me for the rest of this PESTering day. (jk)

[@58847436]

Kokichi Ouma well someone had to bROACH the subject.

[@ElegantMovement]

I cANT believe you’ve don’t this.

[@piglette_a1]

I want to BEE awake! I wanna FLY away!

[@lila7067]

I'm suddenly itching all over

[@LePezzy66]

What's that on your shoulder?!

[@Crick1952]

Its all the mites on your skin eating the outer layers (everyone has them)

[@smhdpt12]

And the next time an insect splits an atom, I'll agree they 'rule the world'.

[@rashedalamny]

Hypothetically if insects joined forces and attack us, we human will win because we have the power of nuke? so we should nuke the whole world to destroy the Quintilian insects?

[@MetalJigRebirth]

+life and destroy the entire human race as well

[@manar20001115]

+life There are insects that can survive nuclear attacks. The only losers would be us.

[@GraveUypo]

+life nope. a bunch of flame throwers will sufice. we also have shelters and can wear protective suits. we'd win a war against every other animal on earth, easy. but then we'd die soon after for numerous reasons. the only kinda living thing that can ruin us in an active war are viruses and bacteria. microorganisms in general. those have us in their hands.

[@chas-mf9xr]

You never split the atom. Stop taking credit for what the anomalies of humanity have accomplished.

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

I have no idea why people are complaining so much about the lack of the metric system, the point get's across fine, and this is clearly an American production

[@1ranjeeves21]

It's amazing the variety of life on earth. Also fascinating to think that we've only documented 1% of the deep ocean. Think about how much more undiscovered life is in our planet.

[@thedigitalnation8233]

5% I guess

[@zacharywebb6806]

This video made me very itchy.

[@sigmashorts3234]

Your animator really needs a pay raise

[@randombraincell4444]

I was gonna sing “I will survive” but first i was afraid then i was petrified

[@wintertornado]

TED-Ed, making you hate Earth since 3/1/2016.

[@TheOswald42]

Terraformars !!

[@seymourbrown4540]

Oswald Rayleigh stop

[@DUNGVU-zk7ce]

One of my favorite anime as well manga :))

[@Blackandfan]

Because everyone kills the spiders

[@alb9022]

If they didn't plaster their webs across footpaths and tress, have 8 legs and didn't employ venom, we'd probably kill a lot less.

[@marsnagi5734]

imagine if they suddenly developing pair of wings or something like that.........

[@enzodagostino586]

Technically, spiders are not insects.

[@legopachycephalosaurus6825]

Well not everyone I mean here in Melbourne some spiders are pretty chill and helpful like they kill all of those pesky flys and annoying bugs

[@clarky6945]

Fritzi Lang well I have a lot of bad luck... 😂

[@Mayolober]

You're not alone Thanks.

[@_donjose]

but can insects watch youtube and subscribe and like videos, thats what i thought

[@davidndiulor8428]

I am an insect

[@symbioticcoherence8435]

+David Ndiulor prove it! How many species of centipedes are there and how can they all be identified?

[@davidndiulor8428]

+Symbiotic Coherence buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@ahva2280]

+Symbiotic Coherence How could an insect know that?

[@symbioticcoherence8435]

David Ndiulor seems legit. you are a insect. ähvä It couldn't. buzzz was what I expected. or something similar

[@adityabagdi1178]

These insects might be the true conquer of Earth but these are the same living beings which, when knocked upside down ,cannot get back up

[@methmemelab8819]

Just waiting for insects to get conscious and rage a war against hoomans.

[@superresistant0]

What about bacteria and archaea ? aren't they en more dominant ?

[@EveryoneHarmonyPeace]

I thought bacteria are the true conqueror of our planet.

[@chewy3141]

When it comes to sheer number of living beings, yes. But they aren't animals. They may be a part of animals in the sense that they inhabit them, but they aren't the animals themselves.

[@fandcpresnell]

Chewy HD By definition, they are animals (bacteria are made of animal cells), but you are correct, they are not considered animals. You might want to also consider bacteria's size, we barley ever notice them. Then you also have to consider the fact that most bacteria are harmless.

[@PetrosBeeley]

Bacteria are not made of animal cells.

[@alanchung6571]

actually they are close to animal cells, also falls in the definitions we classify something as animals

[@mr.piggly5884]

No they are bacteria not members of animalia

[@389jn]

The design is beautiful and simple. I love this style ❤

[@mulppi8797]

We may be outnumbered by insects, but our secret weapon is technology.

[@sayantanibhattacharjee.772]

🤯 technology is our destruction.... Now don't question why I am using this because there is no other option left..now this is how the world is living...if I have to survive one day here I can not deny technology practically even if I want... (That is whole another discussion ) They are successful as they do not have these technological brain..they do not affect the world even with this much population.

[@jepokacor]

This reminds me of the Chimera Ants from Hunter X Hunter. If insects grew up as giant monsters and declare the war to us, we would certainly lose.

[@worldof8701]

Good.short but a lot of knowledge.good quality.

[@NPow94]

The butterfly/ caterpillar competition analysis blew my mind

[@BruceAlmighty1]

All hail our insect overlords.

[@schtinky1151]

All we would need would be enough flamethrowers and we'd win.

[@VictorFursov]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@normalperson2462]

Spiders and bug spray be like hold meh beer

[@mrphangoldwing]

Anyone Watched Terra Formars? In that show, they proved Coachroaches were gods. Would be funny in reality.

[@ozonefreak2]

I read the manga and LOVED it

[@Souffrantte]

Hunter x Hunter 2011 also proved what insects are probably capable of with its Chimera ant arc- extremely terrifying.

[@elfboi523]

If God personally created every single species on Earth, as creationists claim, then he must be obsessed with beetles. There are far more species of beetles than almost anything else.

[@stiltzkinvanserine5164]

After watching this video, I kinda want to be an insect.

[@michaeltv1603]

You really dont.

[@slateflash]

So you'd like to be at the bottom of the food chain eating the guts/shit of other species?? Ok noted

[@shreeyashpatankar4989]

Would have loved to see the video explain about the vast number of species of insects.

[@jsama7364]

Anyone just wondering how did they count all of those insects? Even speculating the number seems hard

[@philippdustin8120]

Metric System guys, please use the metric system

[@Zatiels]

Paranoia, ready?, GO!

[@-Safijiiva-]

So basically insects are the Russia of animal world

[@whatshouldido.3027]

Mosquito, one of the most annoying creatures that I would love to get rid of but ironically also a great source of food that quite a number of animals LOVE to feed on :(

[@mannacharya4088]

Thanks for explaining Arthropoda

[@CoconutNucifera]

"Insects are true conquerors of this planet." Penguins in Antarctica: Yare yare daze, you guys even live here?

[@purplespark8]

He did say some insect lived in the cold

[@CoconutNucifera]

MA-MASAKA! (Im-Impossible!)

[@Hellooutthewindow]

Cringe

[@tatir7081]

Bugs that resist the cold: hold my frozen water.

[@chr0min0id]

Metimorphisis also works with dragon flies. The dragon fly nymph eats fish and tadpoles. But adult dragon flies eat small bugs and flies.

[@kingkinivan2264]

TED: 10 Quintillion, 1 billion for each person. Mortein: Am I a joke to you?

[@JamUrHyp3]

Estimate how many insects were killed when either of the nuclear bombs hit Japan

[@proton8689]

+JamUrHyp3 non

[@roidroid]

+JamUrHyp3 do your own homework

[@MrAniketShedge]

+JamUrHyp3 The scary thing would be to imagine what mutations did the surviving insects undergo

[@roidroid]

+MrAniketShedge Yes, just like in Marvel comics, that's exactly how it works. Yes. Yes this is how it is. 100% science, yes good

[@wilsonong2898]

+JamUrHyp3 Not even 0.1% of the total insect population

[@malihatabassum820]

It's insects, not us, that are the true conquerors of the planet .. 👌👌

[@naimanura]

The fact that i am never alone is mind buggling. Like anywhere u go there some creature wondering around u.

[@Yoyomeyo]

OH was that 155 degrees in fahrenheit? well that's a lot less impressive.

[@MochYee]

+Harreh Pottah LOL, yeah. But that's still 68 degrees celsius/centigrade, which is just 3 degrees away from the hottest natural surface temperature on Earth. 155 F/68 C also beats the hottest atmospheric temp. on Earth too, which is only a mere 136 F/58 C.

[@pedrodarosamello64]

Not that impressive, a few days ago the temperature here where I live was 43º

[@kurtilein3]

How can this be educational when it uses obscure non-scientific units like fahrenheit?

[@pramitbanerjee]

+kurtilein3 www.rapidtables.com/convert/temperature/how-celsius-to-fahrenheit.htm

[@kurtilein3]

pramitbanerjee Let this sink in, grey areas on this map still use bullshit units: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Metric_system_adoption_map.svg/940px-Metric_system_adoption_map.svg.png Its time for the green areas to revolt against the grey areas.

[@Minecraftster148790]

I live in the UK and I would say 60mph per Fahrenheit is stupid

[@pramitbanerjee]

kurtilein3 oh sure, revolt all you want in youtube. I live in the green area btw.

[@kurtilein3]

pramitbanerjee i dont care when old people and uneducated people use such units. TED is supposed to be global, they should know better. I live in a city in a green are that hosts TEDx events. Most TEDx events are in green areas. Its a shame when the US leadership decides to practise US exceptionalism on a channel where the majority of viewers lives in the green area.

[@biswajitmahanta500]

This time I didnt have to covert Fahrenheit to Celsius as -40°f=-40°c

[@villa7230]

k

[@yingzh2948]

great article to learn English

[@CaptainGiratina]

Man... being a human never felt so lame...

[@BC21beats]

were going to need a giant can of raid

[@adirbarak5256]

just a few more reasons to hate insects

[@imneight7916]

We have flamethrowers...

[@smh9902]

+Nathaniel Lucero Chemical warfare.

[@zephyr2833]

Br!an Delta V thermo nuclear weapons

[@creditsunknown7974]

They have bombarder beetle

[@gaspucci8093]

What are we talking about when you said as one being one big swarm or one actual full being because either way I think we can win

[@trent800]

we would have no chance against just Mosquitoes

[@marcomartins3563]

Currently living in a cabin in the middle of the atlantic forest in Brazil. Every single day I see a different insect species I didn't already see.

[@pacinpm2]

Congratulations, you just gave me insectophobia.

[@jasonhatt4295]

To quote a Guard from TimeSplitters 3 "Why are there bugs everywhere?"

[@muhammadroshan7315]

Insect: we are many, you are but one. Man: mortal kombat ermac?