The Real Life Bugs of Hollow Knight

Have you heard of this thing called "real life"? It's pretty crazy! And apparently it's where a lot of the characters from Hollow Knight drew inspiration. So in this video, I run through a few of these insect critters and see how accurately they are represented in Hollow Knight. And who knows, maybe you'll actually learn something.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Spoiler Warning
00:08 Introduction
03:27 Beetles
08:03 Cornifer
09:32 Other True Bugs
12:34 Butterflies and Moths
14:24 Caterpillars
15:34 Flies and Maggots
17:10 Mantises (with a special guest!)
19:03 Termites
20:32 Bees
21:25 Ants and Cockroaches
22:14 Grasshoppers
22:53 Lacewings
23:28 Dragonflies
24:24 Non-insects
27:37 Non-arthropods
28:47 Outro

[@TierZoo]

Small correction on my part: the queens of some hymenoptera species, like ants and wasps, actually tear off their own wings as they settle in to start a colony, resigning themselves to never fly again. It's still true that no insects can fly as an immature/nymph/larva and then cannot upon entering adulthood, but nonetheless it is an interesting case of an insect losing the ability to fly. Overall though, the main point is that insects only get wings once, and it's at the end of their development, after they've already finished growing.

[@drowsypigeon8114]

the more you know

[@BigCoomer1928]

Noice

[@brodygray744]

Your plethora of points have not only made me think of insects and the like in a different way, but also imaging flying versions of every enemy in Hollow Knight. And one final thought, why can't the Hive Knight fly?

[@kryptos4812]

I was not expecting to see you here

[@CornyFries]

Does this mean there will be some form of insect tier list

[@samurai3718]

Team Cherry please, we’re talking about literal Bugs now

[@pegtor700]

@@TimothyMark7 im sure it exist on rule34

[@metemete9859]

We are talking about true bugs that had mettle to link the fire. We are not fit enough to lick their boots.

[@pinkfacepalm8951]

Hi mossbag!

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@@pegtor700 This is actually why PK died, he killed himself after what he seen

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Every time people ask for Silksong news they add another second to the clock. So far we're gonna be waiting about 200 million years.

[@Agata-S]

I really wanna watch this, but I haven't finished real life yet and I don't wanna spoil it

[@totallyahuman5055]

Don't worry they are all early game spolilers

[@Agata-S]

@@totallyahuman5055 ah, thanks

[@-ZH]

@Totally a Human Actually, it depends on what you spec into. I heard that it’s possible to complete the game while avoiding all of it.

[@Agata-S]

@@-ZHthat's good, after watching the video I think i'll try to avoid these things, the're scary

[@DarthSion94]

There are some major spoilers about some endings, if certain choices are taken, like living in Australia, for example.

[@professorgrimm4602]

Team Cherry made a little mistake with the bees. I live near a few bee hives and I've never seen a bee turn into a F*CKING DRILL.

[@H-H777]

wdym in my city they do that all the time some people even started capturing and using them isnt it same everywhere else?

[@heyoyo10gaming4]

Also, never seen a beetle charge at me and explode before

[@patmurph7769]

YOU HAVEN'T?!?!

[@420Toth]

@@heyoyo10gaming4 You've never come across a bombardier beetle then

[@sophia7715]

based on beedrill pokemon??

[@TimeturnerJ]

I always figured characters like Quirrel and the generic husk were inspired by pillbugs. They've got those segmented bodies, after all.

[@rats9996]

yeah, i thought it was canon that theyre isopods

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

I don’t think that,they are probably just beetles and quirrel a water beetle because he is like 2000 days on blue lake

[@xxmension04xx47]

Quirrel is a Woodlouse

[@bitmelody2616]

​@@xxmension04xx47 pillbug is another name for woodlouse

[@isaacdanoob2434]

same! I just commented about this

[@deadaccount5742]

Hollow Knight was so popular that they made it a real thing?!!

[@yuxintian7500]

I'm waiting for an r/wooosh opprotunity.

[@freshpotaters8437]

@@user-sl1wt1dv4y r/woooosh

[@connor3016]

no way

[@ramen128]

POV Me looking for the kid in the reply section to mention r/wooosh

[@Apotheosister]

No, no, it was actually based off a historically true story!

[@Rivalloni]

I have quite a large collection of Hollow Knight merch in my backyard, actually.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Hell, I've got such a collection in my house.

[@emilyashba9333]

I’ve got some in the support boards on the top of my gargae

[@anonymouscausethatshowirol828]

One reason people label cornifer and iselda mosquitoes is because she’s a warrior and he’s not, reflecting how male mosquitoes do not bite. Also, I would call quirrel and the generic bugs pillbugs instead because of the overlapping plates

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

Tbh, females being larger/more aggressive is generally more common not just in bugs, but in most non land vertibrates Anglersish males are 20 times smaller Blanket octopus males ate the size of walnuts while females are 2 m long Black widows and mantis females often eat their mates Ant, bee and termite queen's are usually much larger than the kings, not to mention all the drones, including the aggressive soldiers in those colonies are female

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

A few exceptions, where the males are bigger/more aggressive, I can think of that aren't mammals or birds are beetles and vidler crabs

[@Top1tippy]

@@aleksabanjevic8316 humans its the same just without the larger part... definitely more agressive

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

@@Top1tippy what?

[@Dexuz]

It would be funny if the generic Hallownest bug was a pillbug, so not a bug at all.

[@purplehaze2358]

Minor correction: Cordyceps don’t actually take over the minds of their hosts. That would be somewhat merciful in comparison to the reality. It actually puppets the muscles of insects directly, leaving the brain largely intact and even cognizant of its current state. Hosts basically become prisoners in bodies they can no longer control.

[@Dylwap]

Thats torture

[@ziwuri]

How the hell does the fungal infection know how to guide insects by contracting individual muscles?

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

@@ziwuri The same way YOU know how to move your body by contracting individual muscles: instincts that have been finely tuned over the course of millions of years.

[@HornetofHallownest]

That’s fun!

[@wildfire9280]

@@Dylwap it’s a good thing insects have insect brains

[@someguystudios9174]

Hollow Knight is actually a true life story about what happens when an Australian leaves his house

[@OliverKehm]

*before an Australian even gets out the door

[@Cishsun]

@@OliverKehm *before an Australian even gets out of bed

[@porguinturtle3854]

@@Cishsun *before an Australian is even born

[@neuro3834]

@@porguinturtle3854 Before the first australian was born*

[@aaronnichols4120]

@@neuro3834 *before Australia was Australia

[@phrax6767]

I once had a pale king in my backyard, next to the wild mushrooms I use for cooking.

[@hornetisvoider]

Nice

[@Zinaius]

@@hornetisvoider Hornet is not void.

[@ipadair7345]

@@hornetisvoider Hornet is Un. #Change my mind #HornetUnConfirnmed.

[@crcker3841]

@@ipadair7345 what is un

[@Marceiii]

@@ipadair7345 Unn is Mister Mushroom

[@jacksmyth3899]

In the Gruz Mother section, you forgot one thing. Its called a blowfly. When blowfly's die, their abdomen splits open and maggots come out, though not fully grown flies.

[@blunderbuss1395]

i had blowfly maggots on my window for weeks as a hunting trophy and they crawled around and starved and turned into dry boogers

[@nouhorni3229]

@@blunderbuss1395 the hell?

[@paradoxicaloutcome1007]

I've always had the headcanon that Bretta belongs to one of the beetle species who can fly. That would explain why and how you initially find her in a cave you can't climb up to without the Mantis Claw. It's also funny because large beetles are famous for being clumsy fliers that constantly crash into stuff, and that fits Bretta very well.

[@Hadgerz]

These real-life developers sure have put in a lot of effort to make their bugs as close to Hollow Knight as possible. Props where they're due.

[@Alexpg19]

Idk about you, but I want nosk as far away from reality as posible

[@thisisaterribleargument_but]

Isn’t this “real-life” a bootleg of Outside, the free-to-play MMORPG with 7 billion+ active players

[@rosefairy4447]

@@Alexpg19 boi i got news for you

[@zzedixx]

real life is a hollow knight clone

[@randomchannel2373]

@@zzedixx agree it should be taken down due too copyright.

[@ilan5821]

Ari Gibson (Co-creator) William Pellen (Voice of Salubra) Honestly your best joke probably holy shit

[@kemalatakankrca5608]

Laughed so hard to that. Well done Moss Bag

[@sloth3066]

I would love to see their reaction on this

[@shelltor2398]

^This right here

[@nanovolt3668]

We've peaked with that, we must have

[@turtle4283]

@@kemalatakankrca5608 mossbag

[@anonymous_yeti7279]

9:28 "Iselda is the same species as well, they just cranked her sex appeal DOWN a few notches" Gotta love these subtle jokes in the videos

[@DrFyder]

I love those

[@Turtle69517]

I was hoping someone noticed that lmao 😂

[@thegrandwizard1700]

I just got that notch joke now that you mentioned it. I’m so stupid sometimes.

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

mossbags monotone deadpan voice makes it 100 times funnier

[@galanstarcluster1478]

I Think she’s supposed to be a mosquito

[@throneisbed7833]

I personally love the theory that Bardoon is the Radiance in larval form. I know it's not canon, but it's a fun thought.

[@sapphis_lazuli]

What if the radiance is Bardoon's mother? What then, I say?!

[@FuryMcpurey]

​@@sapphis_lazuli That's a valid concept actually

[@giventeves5979]

8:13 "it's not his nose, it's his mouth" damn! no wonder he got that trophy wife of his

[@treeguardien]

If she were to play basketball she would dunk almost anyone that is not giant

[@snailfen]

it took me a fucking second to understand this comment and i choked when i did

[@treeguardien]

@@snailfen congrats

[@brazilianknuckles7900]

@@snailfen I still can't

[@unoriginal2552]

AA, take my like and leave

[@JRexRegis]

One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that many of the bugs in Hallownest wear masks - For the denizens of the city of tears especially, wearing masks was a sign that they were "better" than any outsiders, especially the mantises, who don't wear them. The spiders in Deepnest also wear masks, but for them they function more like armor than a sign of social status.

[@veyron4013]

14:52 That fact shocked me because i am thinking all that time that these two black circles are eyes. If it's not eyes than eyes it's that two small white "teeth"?

[@swampcooler8332]

"they just cranked her sex appeal *down* a few notches" You sir are scaring me

[@alcole-holic8779]

Nah man, Cornifer is a sex icon and his wife is kinda basic. I think it’s *you* who needs to rethink your values. /s

[@swampcooler8332]

@@alcole-holic8779 Your right corny is by far the sexiest bug in hallownest. With the corpse creepers in close second

[@alcole-holic8779]

@@swampcooler8332 Ah, I see you have been enlightened.

[@ceratoraptorthedestroyer]

@@swampcooler8332 I think flukemarm sits near the top somewhere but its dubious whether flukemarm is actually a bug.

[@albaneedge]

I mean, taking into account the fact that they are bugs, perhaps it is cranked down from a bug's perspective...... maybe?....

[@lol-curas908]

Everybody gangsta until orange bubbles appears in your backyard

[@sm0llqueen289]

Not the infected balloons

[@tnboom7179]

@@sm0llqueen289 just get defenders crest

[@Bacony_Cakes]

**orange christmas music**

[@sm0llqueen289]

@@tnboom7179 ik

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

*Munching on orange bubbles* Wait, these aren't Mandarin Oranges?

[@thatguyyoumightfindatthest9807]

I had an OC named Gripper, who was planned to be a grasshopper, cursed with a dark and terrifying blade. But after seeing the Mask Maker's close counterpart, I think Imma go back to my other storytelling stuff

[@hazyisdead]

Something about the Pale King, actually. A Wyrm isn't a type of worm, but instead a large, limbless dragon or sea serpent, so the Pale King's Wyrm form could either be a dragon, or a snake, the latter being most likely. (I got the snake part from sea serpent, which a serpent is a kind of large snake, which would perfectly fit the size of the Pale Wyrm compared to the rest of the bugs of Hallownest.)

[@richhhhh123]

The hole you enter the cast-off shell through is most likely the Wyrm's mouth, which a giant hole with teeth doesn't really sound like a reptilian skull. Also, wyrms were probably named that by Team Cherry because it sounds like the creature they would be based on (worms) and also to sound cool, not because they wanted their wyrms to be based on traditional reptilian fiction wyrms.

[@Osodepeluche03]

Aqui agregare algo: Wyrm me recuerda a los trepatumbas de Terraria que pueden que esten basados en los gusanos de Dune

[@luckyscharms23]

Thanks for confirming that the cicadas in my backyard are actually void.

[@vaniel7834]

Sorry mossbag, i am not aware of this whole "real life" thing. i for one spend my time at dinner parties explaining why hornet canonically isnt void

[@olacasadadasilva6300]

You are doing God's work man

[@ihaveaplan9884]

Wait how

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Is not void but is not waifu

[@robert.7230]

Keep up the good work. Even if you weren't invited, these people need to know the truth. Hornet is not void!

[@robert.7230]

@Ya Mum hornet is screen transitions

[@nailsageyoda6007]

11:13 I swear to god when that happened. I was on 2 hearts from the mantises and if i died I wouldn’t get my shade back and i had about 4000 geo and when i heard cloths clicking sound, I had a heart attack I thought, I dont know the mantis berserker would burst out and start a boss fight and I was so glad when i found the one that came out was friendly. Edit: for anyone who’s here and hasn’t played the mantis village yet, the mantis berserker does not exist, thats just a random boss i made up just now.

[@Antoronyx_]

Yeah, I thought cloth was an enemy and I did not have the health, so I first met her in ancient basin

[@abyssalnightmare551]

I tried to swing at her when she first popped out of the ground because I was so startled, I'm just glad you usually can't damage npcs because I would have been crushed if I hurt her.

[@sorrel_leaf_vespers]

I've always thought of Leg Eater and Divine as being part termite and part mantis. The termite part from general body structure and the implications given by Leggy that he wants to become a king and also that his eyesight is poor, and the mantis part from the shape of their forelimbs and the fact that Divine eats Leggy supposedly after they mate, which is a characteristic of mantises.

[@ncnel9027]

"Crafting lore videos using real life ecology is a bad idea" and "I will find you" sounds like a threat to matpat

[@lunarmagpie619]

As it should be

[@TheVampireviolet]

That’s exactly what I was thinking

[@matthewalvarojr.2634]

It probably is

[@laundrybasketgamers]

What do you mean

[@randomchannel2373]

The many worlds theory he likes to shove in

[@Pine2142]

Under every rock, every patch of grass and every tree branch the entire Hollow Knight story could be taking place. Truly magical and awe-inspiring

[@shellbackcomicpressing9725]

I’ve actually never thought of that. Cool point!

[@franckzz4409]

yeah, everytime I walk by a tree I can see bugs worshipping a moth-like divine entity, that uses its divine infection powers to stop another divine entity from creating an interconnected kingdom, while they all have to fight against a void substance that corrupts everything

[@kunchong5640]

@@franckzz4409 Damn, you too bro?

[@onebrickatatime9097]

if I ever see a magic soul wielding bug under a rock I'm getting the heck out of there

[@cadenround9675]

I just like to think this happens in a random persons backyard .

[@specific3600]

There are actually a couple pink butterfly species, none that look particularly like the one in hollow knight though. Look up the paradise phantom though, its a cool pink butterfly.

[@stellanovaluna]

The words “fan favorite” and “aspid” do NOT go together lol

[@eclecticspaghetti]

I’m so glad I have this video. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what the bees in the Hive were based on, but this finally opened my eyes. Thank you, Mossbag.

[@amrealhuman4718]

Help. I watched the whole video and I’m still confused. Could someone explain???

[@SuperNovaArtz]

That is the greatest bit of sarcasm I have ever seen. Well done!

[@skwittles778]

How does that confuse you? Their obviously based off of African Rhino Beetles.

[@nininhosam]

@dalphabanana Wait, so they're not based on the emperor scorpion?

[@LegiamasC-OnTwitta]

@@nininhosam they’re clearly based on Lancelots

[@lavacorpseman6836]

You didn't even mention how Hornet is actually a spider despite her name, and looks nothing like those two.

[@SMT-ks8yp]

She is half-wyrm also. So biology here is weird with interspecies breeding, and this probably explains a lot.

[@beary-boo3223]

@@SMT-ks8yp It's always so fun to tell my friends that I can't wait for the new game about an anthropomorphic spider-worm-god named hornet.

[@LegiamasC-OnTwitta]

@@beary-boo3223 and she was raised by bees!

[@beary-boo3223]

@Nathaneal Freligh No, I mean worm, as in big long noodle critter.

[@lilsavage9946]

She kinda looks like the Long Horned Orb Weaver, aka the Macracantha. They both have similar colors and have similar shaped horns.

[@koolkatt3308]

19:39 perhaps this is why when using the defenders crest charm you get the dialogue of smelling disgustingly great and are offered a discount?

[@ocean2170]

I'm an amateur entomologist and I love that this game has a lot of insect representation and is as popular as it is. Insects are incredibly interesting and often beautiful creatures.

[@rinastar1952]

Do you mean entomologist?

[@ocean2170]

@@rinastar1952 yes, LOL

[@TangleSlime2]

Ikr? Insects are so cool

[@HiroTeaShi]

I'm pretty sure entomologists aren't really bugged (lol) by the artistic liberties taken by the team, but rather take issue with being called "bug scientists"

[@emmad4308]

Yep they would be like INSECT AND BUG SCIENTISTS THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[@thefluffyaj4119]

@@emmad4308 actually insect scientist is more accurate, although it did indeed annoy me for about a milisecond before I realized I have virtually nothing to be upset about beside people not calling us by our official name. but anyway, as mossbag mentioned in their cornifer section, bugs is actually a very misused term and only refers to a few insects. specifically insects of the order hemiptera. and while a lot of entomologist is kind of a pretty broad term, as they can study insects along with other arthropods, generally entomology is considered the study of insects while those who specialize in the study of other arthropods are given another name, such as arachnologists. also, on hollow knights portrayal of real life arthropods, I don't really mind it! I think it would lose its appeal to many players, and lose the appeal of its fantastical elements. also, I'm also an artist, I really enjoy the creative liberties taken. sorry this got long, I'm very passionate about these creatures lmao

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

@@thefluffyaj4119 I love the passion and thank you for introducing me to the word arachnologist

[@PhoenixHavok]

I feel Etymologists would have more issue with semantics like that :P

[@1TieDye1]

@@thefluffyaj4119 i appreciate your input as an entomologists but a bug scientist your are. If you want to bargain.. best I can do is bug and beetles scientist.. or maybe creepy-crawlist

[@EluTran]

Amazing video! Honestly, Hollow Knight and Bug Fables are like definitive proof that indies with bugs as character design are based.

[@kabkabkab]

just you wait until skatebird gets its full release

[@iransgamesrommel8985]

tomorrow for sure... Oh wait, wrong channel. XD

[@EluTran]

@@iransgamesrommel8985 For sure…

[@165hy9]

Bug fables 🤝hollow knight Amazing games abut bugs

[@darkwolf4891]

What’s up checkmark

[@dave3934]

2:46: I think william pellen did a brilliant job with the voice of Salubra. I mean, he did program the game and wrote a lot of the lines, but Salubra’s voice is just perfect and better than all of that. Truly incredible.

[@chromypone]

It's important to know that a wyrm is actually a mythological legless dragonlike creature.

[@zoetv2170]

I've always thought that it's called Wyrm not only because it sounds like worm, but also to show those creatures could be the bug equivalent of a mythological creature as dragons

[@suprevadak]

bugs weren't just picked because they're easy to draw, I imagine they were also picked because you can pick a random species of bug and still get a really interesting character design out of it

[@alinarichert3448]

Unlike mammals which are mostly similar and overrated.

[@skyt_yt7810]

@@alinarichert3448 just like people

[@bakunnn2239]

@@skyt_yt7810 people are mammals 🙄

[@ravioleetv3833]

@@bakunnn2239 one of those annoying and overrated “people” I see

[@bakunnn2239]

@@ravioleetv3833 cant be overrated if no one loves you 😎

[@BCJacobe]

I’m studying entomology in college right now, and your video is very well researched! As for the young mantises, they could be based on mantidflies. They’re in the same order as lacewings and antlions, and many also mimic wasps and bees, which could be where the idea for the stinger comes from.

[@mossbag69]

Thank you! The research phase was daunting, but glad you think I did a good job with it!

[@markeye2043]

8:40 “Cornifers nose tends to just flop around, not unlike a wet hotdog” *NOOOOOOOOOOO! NOW I CAN’T UNSEE ITTTT!!!!*

[@rebeccalogue5366]

15:15 Actually, the dad is sacrificing himself as a cacoon.

[@simtheweirdone1646]

"When in doubt, just call it a beetle" -mossbag 2021

[@imanobody6029]

True

[@patricklewis9787]

I even apply that to real life lol, I’ve heard that there is hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, not the number of how many there are but just the species number alone

[@thewolf2213]

@@patricklewis9787 360000 species. The highest number

[@bengoodwin2141]

I wish there was a dragonfly boss in hollow knight. They'd probably be like a literal dragon.

[@bengoodwin2141]

@@riley_-zm8vr I had an idea for an ocean cliffs area with a dragonfly boss east of crystal peak and a desert area with an antlion boss west of the howling cliffs, but the idea is too complex for me to write here

[@solaris4022]

You can play that its called dark Souls-

[@thunder_heads]

Silksong

[@nkyfong]

The Hunter did mention something breathing fire when commenting about the Shardmite.

[@darker_mindsjoker8790]

If there was dragonfly boss, then the real life version would be a dragonfly

[@lemur577]

I love that when talking about cornifer, he took like 30 seconds of listing bugs before he got to the conifer seed bug

[@PuppyLuver256]

I thought you might like to know that I've taken to using this video to try and help myself get over my arachnophobia. So far I managed to make it all the way to the ant mimic spiders without scrolling down into the comments, and that honestly surprises me! Maybe someday I'll be able to watch the whole spider part without scrolling, either way thanks for (unintentionally) making something that might help with that :D (seriously I need to get over this, I nearly fell backwards from a set of stairs because of a spood a few days ago)

[@PuppyLuver256]

Update: made it to the whip spider this time!

[@PuppyLuver256]

Made it to the tarantulaaaaa

[@blipboigilgamesh7865]

my headcannon for Dr. Chagax is that the fact that his career as a doctor is unsatisfactory is a nod to real life dr Evandro Chagas, who after discovering the chagas disease went on to make a medical foundation who is widely known nowadays for being very bad at its job

[@lmsesh]

br por aqui?

[@weslleym.3594]

@@lmsesh r/Suddenlycaralho

[@BinBoggled]

what chagas???

[@gengibre_vulgo_henrique]

Oloko que dó :(

[@gustavoalves4621]

The one who discovered Chagas disease was his father, Carlos Chagas

[@Gilphon]

Nosk as an Ant Mimic Spider makes a lot of sense. Especially since ant mimics are Jumping Spiders that hunt by ambushing their prey from above. They don't use the mimicry to fool prey, though- it's actually to deter predators, since you don't mess with an ant unless you're prepared to mess with the entire anthill.

[@matiknight3275]

So... WTF is the Hunter?

[@Clair_De_Luna2]

Let's see... Humanoid looking Human bones Black thing probably skin (skinny af) ... Human! You can't change my mind.

[@Shrimpickle]

I always thought the watcher knights are probably Atlas Beetles based on their colours and looks, and the fact they're in the watcher tower, and the word Atlas is usually connected to things like that I think?

[@austinreed5805]

And then there’s Grimm, who is the Oddball of the entire game. The closest insect that Grimm might be is a Calyptra, or the Vampire Moth.

[@collinalexalexanderhalimha7953]

? WOW

[@wyattmurphy7153]

Or the living mushrooms..

[@thedepressedweebking9845]

Also just a bat

[@honeykrisp16]

I always thought Grimm was supposed to be a tick,cause bloosucking bug and his pufferfish form always reminded me of a bloated tick

[@EpicWayWay]

Spotted lanternfly

[@WanderTheNomad]

Man, Tier Zoo collabs with everyone. He's probably the most collabable youtuber out there.

[@manxcatcoot]

@Robert Thompson Nope it was a spongebob thing that they both did

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

He even learn Chess from GotahmChess in a video. TierZoo is taking over KZbin one genre at a time. Wonder what him and his friends are doing with Nebula.

[@TierZoo]

it's how I feel productive without actually making videos

[@yiggles4136]

Tom Scott disagrees

[@cookie123.]

@@TierZoo the man himself even replies to comment!

[@useredname2495]

15:32 TAKE THAT BACK YOU MONSTER

[@useredname2495]

28:06 Ok that is true

[@captnbassbeard3222]

Cool bug fact: with team cherry being based in Australia, bugs are all they knew.

[@gamemasterpzm1597]

Considering it's australias wild life perhaps some of these designs aren't even that far of a stretch

[@logicalwren8061]

@@gamemasterpzm1597 Wouldn't be surprised if Wyrms are real there

[@shelltor2398]

So the bugs are actually that big in australia, that would explain why lumaflies are smaller

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

Next bug I want is the creatonotos gangis moth. Just search up "creatonotos gangis moth tentacles," it's the perfect fit of something that crawled straight out of the deepest part of hell.

[@blamberton7893]

@@spookyscarylamppost3431 Jesus man, I just looked it up and that thing looks like a pre-evolution of a face hugger

[@cornifer5261]

I'm still waiting for my full lore video about me and no one else.

[@jessiestrenke6041]

your lore is: *mapper by trade*

[@bee-sk3il]

me too kid

[@purevessel4801]

Soon my friend, soon.

[@cornifer5261]

@@purevessel4801 friend?

[@purevessel4801]

@@cornifer5261 did I stutter

[@asneakylawngnome5792]

This guy loves Hollow Knight so much he became an Entomologist

[@connordarvall8482]

I've now decided that the clearest picture of the insect world created by games is Bug Fables lore with Hollow Knight tone and Dwarf Fortress gameplay.

[@observer8937]

The Pale King is walking around the castle, a bug comes up to him and says: - Your Majesty ... Your back is white.

[@hellfirebiker3713]

In buzzsaws you go!

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

A giant blue bird came down and starts screeching at said bug, calling them a racist.

[@pepi7404]

\*adjusts monocle* Hohoho, Twitter indeed bad. \*sips wine*

[@hectorsantiago5580]

"Dragonflies are apex predators" "Loo isn´t a apex predator because he is DEAD" I died to that

[@jogos4ever801]

just like Loo

[@themustardman219]

He still looks cool as fuck

[@hectorsantiago5580]

@@themustardman219 Welp, I cant deny that

[@Feningor]

Noo*

[@TheEepyMagi]

"Elegant, mysterious, and terrifying" that applies to bugs too. Some are pretty, some are terrifying

[@burythevoid]

My personal theory is that Grimm doesn't quite look like a bug because he was created by a higher being (The Nightmare Heart), just like the Knight, THK, and even Hornet are descendants of a higher being (Pale King).

[@zote_themighty]

Precept Forty-Five: 'One Thing Is Not Another' This one should be obvious, but I've had others try to argue that one thing, which is clearly what it is and not something else, is actually some other thing, which it isn't. Stay on your guard!

[@petersanten3294]

Once again, the great teacher's precepts hold true. We are in awe of your wisdom great one!

[@jimbopkiller3844]

I'm proud of myself for getting through that spider section

[@somehippies]

i’m proud of myself for getting through this video at all smh

[@jimbopkiller3844]

@@somehippies hah yeah that's life

[@sloanreeder90]

Fucking deepnest and weavers den

[@kdogclips359]

Spider whaa?

[@edwardcastro9435]

Me too man arachnophobia sucks

[@notsandwich2322]

Can't believe mother nature looked at team cherry and thought "I'm gonna do that and take full credit for it."

[@around441pipissharingaytac4]

4:34 My favorite insect, Steven Seugal

[@tomhiggins4651]

Soooo... did we accidentally intrude on the dung defender and isma’s love nest then?

[@kryptos4812]

"The Dung Defender took inspiration from Steven Segal." I'm dying right now

[@Sasha-zx5et]

Can you explain the joke pls? Don’t really know who the guy is :/

[@kiddf4ygo821]

@@Sasha-zx5et I don't really know much about him, but Steven Seagal is an old action movie star turned nutcase. I recommend watching Jon Tron's video about him.

[@SongbirdOfficial]

@@kiddf4ygo821 ironic mentioning JonTron when talking about someone who turned out to be a nutcase

[@SongbirdOfficial]

@@Sasha-zx5et as the other person said, he's an old actor, but recently, in addition to allegations of sexual assault, he's apparently started supporting Vladimir Putin. the joke would be that Putin is a shit person/leader, so he's defending dung

[@kryptos4812]

@@Sasha-zx5et watch jontrons vid on him

[@lunalumafly]

12:31 come on the conception joke was right there

[@QjoWilwolf]

I don't know if I'm right, but one of the enemies in Royal Waterways, the Pilflip, resembles the extinct genus Hallucigenia from the Cambrian period (it's not an insect, though). I thought it was amazing that scientists were actually confused about the animal's back spikes, thinking they were legs. The game illustrated this confusion well, making the Pilflip able to walk on both sides. Ingenious detail only Paleontology enthusiasts noticed =)

[@JohnSpamuel]

"Bardoon appears to be a silk worm that eventually turns into the silk moth." Could you imagine a hollow knight game being about exploring a bug world being guided bardoon as he is getting ready to enter his pupa and then fighting him as the radiance reincarnated.

[@somedude6708]

silk worm, silk moth, silk *song*

[@FedEx867]

@@somedude6708 Holy

[@SongbirdOfficial]

Bardoon could be a wandering demigod, visiting the corpses and domains of other gods (like the Cast-Off Shell and Hallownest itself), while he waits for his pupation into something grander... Though I don't think he'd be a malevolent god like The Radiance. TR only got that way after she stopped being worshipped and was forgotten by her previous followers; Bardoon would be a brand new god without any reason to take revenge.

[@edgybubblegum6404]

their having to recreate silksong to make this game, this is the third time

[@lonelylemons1652]

Holy-

[@conormeehan.]

What did his parents expect when they named their kid “The Last Stag?”

[@-jaxthelostman-3160]

To be fair you don't just name your kid Elderbug

[@camoking3609]

@@-jaxthelostman-3160 in one of the beta trailers we see a young elderbug, "elder" is a title given to someone who has come of an old age this implies that elderbug's birth name is "Bug"

[@-jaxthelostman-3160]

@@camoking3609 Thats worse than I could have imagined

[@somerandomguy6419]

@@camoking3609 but he never saw the stagways open so he is very young, even younger than hornet

[@hornetisspider]

im pretty sure he never got a name, just called stag, he named himself because of his old age and memory and his belief that he's the last remaining stag, after going into stag nest and exploring the area, we find a broken egg which made the stag believe that he isn't the last stag, thus renaming him the "Old Stag"

[@12twelves144]

This video was surprisingly informative! Good work

[@Neo2266.]

5:00 I almost got used to the bug images, but.... Eww, that’s too many bugs, it makes me all itchy, aaah!

[@mrs.brightside4909]

I have 300 hours on this game and only just now noticed how thick Cornifer is

[@TheAveragePalico]

Extra *T h i c c*

[@GayBrain]

Sometimes, we don't notice the grander things in life until we pause along the way.

[@spritebug3666]

Some insect corrections/observations, from a wannabe entomologist. -ALL arthropods shed their exoskeleton as they grow. All of them. Not just a few species. -16:09 those are mealworms, a type pf grub. Not maggots -Damselflies fulfill the same role as dragonflies as predators, but their prey is smaller. -The tiktik is probably more likely based on a scale bug -I don't think blood worms become anything other than blood worms. They are not arthropods. Anyways, FANTASTIC video. Honestly I really enjoyed the amount of love and effort put into this. It brings me joy to see other people taking interest in bugs!!

[@mossbag69]

Thanks for the corrections, glad you liked it!

[@spritebug3666]

no problem!! thanks for taking the time to read this!! ^^

[@Adrian-wh3mk]

Also, cloth could be a cicada larvae before it molts into the more iconic cicada form we’re used to.

[@testicularcancer6940]

I'm no bug scientist but I always thought Wyatt was a lantern bug.

[@danielle5160]

I mean I think Tiktiks are actually just based on Zoomers from Metroid

[@adrianroger6973]

Awesomeeee I love that types of videos where you can learn something interesting and fun about something do you like!

[@khloeg1649]

i have no idea how actually accurate this would be as I know next to nothing abt entomology, but I saw someone say quirrel was a pillbug based on the banded sorta structure of his body I think, and I've accepted that as true ever since bc pillbugs are super cute to me. they can roll up in a lil ball plus pillbugs can apparently breathe underwater so that would make me feel a lot better abt a certain in-game event related to quirrel

[@khloeg1649]

it's also been suggested that if he's a pillbug, he's also trans bc of the different plate shape/structure between male and females

[@mossbag69]

A lot of people say he's a pillbug, I don't think I've heard the trans comparison before. Interesting!

[@khloeg1649]

@@mossbag69 yeah!! to say it simply, the plate thingies on the male pillbugs are a lot more pointy and angular, and the ones on the females of the species are more rounded and more like simpler bands across the abdomen. quirrel looks more similar to the female pillbugs, which I think is neat. trans rights

[@angjer8382]

"You are a male Mantis with a child and their head still attached, are you a proud father?" Traitor Lord: lol she died anyways this orange jello is amazing

[@robert.7230]

Maybe he was saved by that orange jello

[@epsilon9669]

cheese from the fridge in hand, let's go

[@ARGssszzz]

Yessss when I heard the music I though "That's the music tier zoo uses..." was already hyped for a collab and you guys did it !!

[@hexi-jb2tt]

mossbag: speaking of arachnids me: goodbye, dear friend 😔😔

[@Pixxsoul]

Before Hollow Knight I would never have been able to look at close-ups of bugs for 30 minutes, but now it feels weirdly normal

[@moss5356]

ikr 🐜

[@adrianrandom3448]

Same, HK and Bugfables helped me tolerate them a little bit more

[@muriloxavier5776]

Same, except spiders, i still cant tolerate them

[@orangebaded249]

Playing Hollow Knight and watch this kind of videos help me a lot with my fobia of seeing or touch any kind of bugs, but well i'm not still being able to touch bugs cause their still scare me a lot lmao

[@brajanekkarlik7460]

The moment when Steven Seagal has more to do with HK than Hollywood.

[@TheCoolRaboot]

13:06 Since the Radiance appears to be a silk moth, I find it interesting because silk moth Caterpillars are killed for their silk and the raidence is y'know, *a God.*

[@TelefonSquid]

William Pellen solely credited as the voice of Salubra really cracked me up.

[@judethst]

'They're native to Madagascar so keep an eye out next time you're passing through' - this is the kind of casual humour I love from mossbag

[@a.kitcat.b]

🐛Nice to see a cameo from Tier Zoo!! But nice video overall, I have been waiting for something like this!🐜

[@MillyBobbyBrown-jy3oi]

2:36 I love how he puts "Ari Gibson, Co-Founder" for Ari and puts "William Pellen, voice of Salubra" for William

[@thatoneguywiththevoice328]

Honestly termites are a lot more wholesome then I expected Since kings and queens actually mate for life are very sweet

[@trainerlsw2444]

Other insects: either the male dies or gets cannibalized. Termites: wholesome bug marriage yaaayyyy!

[@thatoneguywiththevoice328]

@@trainerlsw2444 you think they have like a whole ass wedding? At the end they throw straw instead of rice

[@trainerlsw2444]

@@thatoneguywiththevoice328 bruh it’s a joke!

[@thatoneguywiththevoice328]

@@trainerlsw2444 no I am agreeing with you, and offering a hypothetical adorable situation. Do you think they have an adorable termite wedding with the whole hive ready to cheer them on

[@trainerlsw2444]

@@thatoneguywiththevoice328 well... usually a termite engagement does start a hive.

[@Hugh.Manatee]

28:39 That picture shows gnat larvae, which are also commonly called bloodworms, but they're insects, unlike the copper chloride toothed bloodworms which are a type of bristleworm.

[@mossbag69]

Thanks for the correction!

[@cancerwoman7669]

@Jonatan Vilks Rydell E

[@user-cn3nt8gm3k]

​@@mossbag69 Hi Have you ever seen a caterpillar called Herona marathus? I find it remarkably similar to the hollow knight

[@bitmelody2616]

​@@user-cn3nt8gm3k I thought it would maybe look a little bit like the Knight... I looked it up and the first image immediately was almost identical. The resemblance is insane, even if it's potentially a coincidence

[@apenasumabatata4741]

Gyatt larvae

[@ziwuri]

I really appreciate that you did a lot of research for this.

[@Noncredible]

Dude that mimicing spider at 25:51 is literally looks like it has an evil smile.

[@ianrags]

this man seriously just tricked me into spending 30 minutes learning about bugs

[@CornPopWasABadDude]

I always thought The Old Stag looked like a flea for some reason. Probably due to his uncanny ability to not die

[@wakkawakka2demo]

This video popped up in my recommendations out of nowhere. I expected a normal educational video, instead I got Nathan fielder explaining bug lore for half an hour 😆 great video!

[@cop3491]

Omfg the last thing I expected to see was tier zoo,what a neat surprise!

[@frickinfrick8488]

I like that they’re not restricted to being accurate to real life bugs. They’re unique bug like fantasy creatures and I think bug features provide an awesome design aesthetic for the game

[@BlindingDragon]

I had like 10 different urges to check myself for ticks or bugs or whatever while watching this

[@thatguyintherain3168]

Stop, now I'm doing that

[@unlimited8410]

or a 2 foot long spider resting on your foot poised to attack withs it sharp, piercing fangs that will make the insides of your flesh burn

[@nills2099]

@@unlimited8410 I hate you.

[@nills2099]

Same

[@thehuman2cs715]

Food