This Snake Will Be Killed by Underwater Bug

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[@justcallmeandrew942]

The more I learn about bugs, the more starship troopers begins to make sense

[@chopperchuck]

I know right

[@justcallmeandrew942]

@@chopperchuck there's no doubt in my mind there is a planet out there dominated by giant alien bugs

[@petermcdougall1152]

Do you want to learn more? ( That was their propoganda in the movie 😁)

[@JDA2185]

The more I learn about them the more I understand why I always hated them :))

[@kevinmack8411]

They're just waiting for us to drop the bomb.. then, they move in and take over

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Amazing.. they breathe through the thing that most politicians talk out of.

[@doriangray2020]

Says the socialist.

[@shadowprince4482]

They definitely go for your feet. I was working in a shallow pond doing wildlife work and these little bastards were constantly trying to bite us. They'd just follow us around trying to bite us the whole time we were working.

[@lawrencecarr4973]

Did they bit you how painful was it

[@daisymaddie8503]

Too bad bug repellant won’t work under water 🧐

[@tibbar1000]

I got bit by a smaller related species and it sucked. If I remember right it was about as painful as a bee but lasted longer.

[@shadowprince4482]

@@tibbar1000 I just couldn't believe how aggressive these ones were in this particular spot. There was 4 of us and we were all having to keep an eye on the little buggers. It was in Lassen National Park BTW. Don't remember the name of the pond though.

[@sotastatesoulja]

They werent trying to just bite you, they were trying to eat you.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

bruh...finally i know what this thing is. i remember as a very young child, i was catching frogs in a tiny murky little pond in southern italy. you couldnt see under the water and i pulled out one of these things (thinking it was a frog). till this day 35 years later i will never forget it. it was enormous and terrifying. i threw it right back in and never told anybody...over the years the memory became more and more hazy and i started to consider the fact that maybe i just imagined it...but i didnt! it was this thing!

[@panostsak]

These things also fly....when I was a kid in Greece, there were things flying under the street lights in summer and one of those (it was huge) landed next to me as I was looking at the other bugs that were gathered. Scary little bastards!

[@TheBlindSwordsman]

That's Crazy

[@twotrunkz]

I to have been bitten by one. It definitely is something we will never forget. Never again.

[@ManoliisPaul]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kunknown2340]

@@twotrunkz 1-10 how painful?

[@Flies2FLL]

In 1978 me and my parents moved from Grosse Ile to Temperance, Michigan. I had a fish tank and one of the occupants was a crayfish that I had caught on the island. One day in Temperance, I managed to scoop a large water bug out of a puddle near my parent's house, and I put it in my fish tank as a curiosity. A few hours later I returned to my room to find the waterbug at the top of the tank with my 4 year old crayfish dead and in the midst of being eaten. Bastard! I scooped it out and took it out into the driveway and STOMPED it!

[@daisymaddie8503]

I would be mad too! It got a taste of your driveway 😂

[@adnamallerom4137]

@Alister Black this person was just a kid at the time. It’s just a bug- relax 🙄

[@xinxan958]

@@adnamallerom4137 Alister is just mad he didn't get to eat the bug before they squished it

[@JDA2185]

LOL :))))))) Just one question. If you put it there with your fish, why were you mad at it?

[@Flies2FLL]

@@JDA2185 No, they just ignored it.

[@richardsandoval2899]

That’s just amazing. This creature can swim and hunt under water, come out and not only walk out of water but also fly!!?? It’s unstoppable and can go anywhere

[@harrybarry2291]

The "Giant Water Beetle" is brutal. I had one for a pet years ago. I would drop a grasshopper on the water and he would grab it. Their bite is excruciating. They inject an enzyme which is hell and a lump forms on the bite site. I believe they can fly also.

[@draygoes]

A lump? Yikes!

[@sigerlion8608]

@@draygoes Well the lump is basically your dead cells and inflammation from the venom. Just be glad it can only kill a small part of your body.

[@ericjohnson8001]

Yeah I've found em in asphalt parking lots cause it looks like water from the air and they try to land on it

[@soldyrkare5790]

Ah yes the SECOND worse thing about them.. they can fucking fly..

[@wsn111]

Yikes! Roach on steroids. I wondered why I always saw them all over the parking lot after work.

[@maria_zoe_soca4333]

People do not see the importance and impact of Insects in the world.But I like that they are at least getting to know 1 Insect by 1 Insect, the most important multicellular Creatures in the world .

[@Michaelkaydee]

Most people actually do know the importance of insects

[@idigchickflicks8730]

I step on these little devils when I see them at work.

[@LClark-ry9to]

I know this . Me way out in Texas!🇺🇸😉

[@idigchickflicks8730]

@@LClark-ry9to lol same here.

[@DrAnderson1]

@@Michaelkaydee - My younger niece was stung by a bee when we were swimming in the pool, so she started freaking out every time she saw one & demanded someone kill it. So we looked up facts about them, and I taught them (I have 2 nieces, the little one is 4, and her sister is 8) how important they are. Bees are responsible for every 4th bite of food we eat, so the girls & I started counting when we take bites of food…when we get to 4, out loud we say “THANK YOU BEES!” It has taught them to be deeply appreciative of bees, they no longer want them dead, they want them rescued & released, and it has opened up their little imaginations about other insects & arachnids that they’re fearful of. Every time they think of something that scares them, they ask me to Google the good things it does, and we learn about how the bugs that scare them are keeping them safe. It’s been SO much fun & even I get to learn things I didn’t know. They also don’t bitch as much about eating their food, lol! Now that they’re excited to thank the bees every 4th bite, they can’t wait to eat as much as they can. We’ve found so many amazing resources, and if anything, I’m surprised by how many people DO appreciate inspects, and do understand the incredibly important role they play in balancing our ecosystem. I agree with you…most people do know how important insects are and there are more people than I’ve ever realized fighting to protect their habitats, their species, and their resources. If anything, people are less inclined to see how delicate the planet really is, and how deeply we’ve contributed to life’s inevitable unsustainably on it. People seem to think there’s an endless supply of everything that every species on the planet needs in order to thrive. IMO, the problem isn’t that people don’t know how important insects are, it’s that we think we’re far more important than any other living thing on the planet, & we’re unwilling to change our practices, even if by doing so we’re able to repair some of the damage we’ve caused…giving every species, including our own, the opportunity to restore its population & replenish natural resources.

[@soldyrkare5790]

I've never had a genuine phobia or major discomfort with insects, but THIS thing actually makes me shudder and cover my feet up at night. Its also the reason i don't go swimming in ponds anymore.

[@David-wk6md]

Me too. I don't mess with anything that has a butt snorkel.

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

I mean, to be honest, you really shouldn't swim in ponds, anyway. 😕 Lots of nasty stuff going on in those.

[@soldyrkare5790]

@@thesupershinymegagengar2034 Agreed, and i dont but not everyone can afford a pool or go to the beach.

[@frowner_and_co]

​@@soldyrkare5790i wouldn't go to a beach either, considering how the water is full of even worse stuff, such as flesh eating isopods.

[@mrgiggles7840]

I read years ago about an insect expert who was attempting to collect one of these giant water bugs - he was stung - he said that it felt like bolt s of electricity were pulsating thru his body - causing him to faint

[@albireotheredguard1599]

The Water Scorpion looks like an Assassin Bug adapted for the water.

[@TRak598]

Water Bugs and Water Escorpions are closely related to stinkbugs and assassin bugs.

[@kevinjenkins2108]

@@TRak598I think you’re 100% spot on.

[@skye.325]

Does anybody else feel itchy after watching this?

[@Anonymousgamer1994]

you're stalking me

[@TRak598]

The reason they are called "Electric Light Bugs" is because they are unlikely to get attracted by conventional home lightning. Either bug lights or strong post lights are all they go for, so you may live near water bodies your entire life and never notice them until you decide to take a walk at the night after a rainy day. Also, while they can fly, it's definitely not something they do for hunting or defense. Anyways, beware of large insects buzzing. Once they latch onto something soft, they bite viciously and only let go if they receive a sharp blow. I'd not be surprised if they suck some ml's worth of your skin tissue if left unatended (unlikely since their bite hurts like hell).

[@lukebrindax7465]

I grew up in NY swimming in streams and lakes and never heard of these until this video... How common are they? Apparently they exist in NY, and NYC has an issue of htem, but I've never seen or heard of these before.... Crawfish however...

[@skye.325]

When I was little I got bit by a diving Beetle once. I didn't know what it was at first but I saw at the whip like tail propelling it through the water in the pool which hadn't been clean for a while. It felt like a large bee sting and I was a bit freaked out

[@Dynamo001]

Lying mf.

[@The_Tiffster]

"Butt snorkel" - I'm dying😂

[@johnishikawa2200]

Hilarious! Sounds almost like a Trump witticism, doesn't it!!!

[@johnhmielewski1230]

Man am I happy I came into this world at the top of the food chain! The smallest here creatures pretty much live in HELL.

[@oogletbooglet6909]

echoing your thoughts😄😏😔

[@abstract5249]

Me too. Sometimes I think to myself what a cruel world we live in, that water bugs exist. Then I remember: as scary as they are, I'm far more terrifying. I could crush these buggers on a whim, smash their organs bare for all to see. A water bug can't say the same about me.

[@peace-to-the-world]

@@abstract5249 but they bite sometimes(

[@abstract5249]

@@peace-to-the-world What's a bite compared to total mutilation? My toe will heal, but a water bug can't recover its own guts smeared on the ground.

[@peace-to-the-world]

@@abstract5249 Evolution of cocroaches: challenge accepted and implemented))

[@derrickhageman1969]

They are strong enough to catch small turtles and the diving beetle jaws are powerful enough to crunch snails

[@seantyler7401]

My father, when I was a child, always taught me to leave spiders and insects in the home. He said they protected the home in the order.

[@markmiranda9461]

Yea so cockroaches are cool too? They are just picking up your unused food..

[@westerlywinds5684]

@@markmiranda9461 They never clean up after themselves. Leaving a sticky residue behind, and smell like rotting cherries.

[@erikgilson1687]

"Butt Snorkel" sounds like an insult the jocks would use in Revenge of the Nerds

[@KrisPSouls9258]

The biggest one I caught was at night when I was trying to catch shrimp for my aquarium. I ended up keeping him to. And yeah I'm glad it never bit me or anything like that.

[@johncaccamo]

Im more grossed out by the narrator repeating “butt snorkel” than I am by any of the insects.

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

I was bitten on the foot, not toe though, by a Giant Water Beetle when I was a kid. Hurt like heck! After that, whenever I found any swarming around a light source, I’d step on one in revenge. Don’t do that anymore though. Grew up!

[@mymomismad95]

Good on you!

[@bosslady2458]

Ok

[@JMan377]

"Butt snorkel" 🤣🤣

[@a.v.emusic6518]

How'd we go from Giant Water Bug to Great Diving Beetle? I'm genuinely confused 🙄😩🥴

[@MrLeiduowen]

Me too! I am still in great pain from processing this great narrative jump, unable to walk or talk...

[@bobjacobson858]

This video is more about drama than taxonomic accuracy.

[@lukebrindax7465]

This is the first time I've heard about these things and I grew up playing in Lakes and Streams/Rivers in NY... Apparently they are a big issue in NYC, and can be found in NY.... I'm surprised I never encountered one of these before... Now Crawfish is another matter. Those things were everywhere.

[@majesticnative9693]

Nobody would think this could be an alien.

[@newinformation1942]

Humbling, and simply beautiful... Mother Nature, is the best!

[@ericjohnson8001]

I've found rhese a dozen times in parking lots miles from water- they migrate from small creeks or ponds at night flying hundreds of feet in the Air and the fluorescent lights in parking lots looks like moonlight on water from 200 feet up- found em teicein tennis courts too.

[@thanh0274]

in vietnam ,this bug just food:))

[@tuananhjay1985]

Ếch zác ly

[@bofasofa9399]

?? In the developed world, we kill bugs instead of eating them. Enjoy, it's all yours.

[@user-lw8dr6xx8i]

🤮

[@FAnd-bn8wv]

My cellar has to be cleaned. Would you like an invitation for dinner?? 😝😝😝😝😝

[@neutralino1905]

I love the Kong: Skull Island clip of the Mother Longlegs.

[@explosion7045]

Actually toe biter bugs can fly! They just decide not to usually because they stay underwater

[@Febreeze_Odor_Eliminator]

All these mechanisms to breath and slurp is fascinating. The only downside to it is I happen to have a phobia for bugs especially anything that has an ability of flight.

[@spastardaify]

Could you please mention the units in metric too? would be very helpful thanks

[@chrisszuch9482]

If we have to learn both systems so do you my not so imperial friend

[@spastardaify]

@@chrisszuch9482 no you hillbilly, the majority is using the superior metric system makes more sense in any way. Besides, most Europeans know 2 languages so the learning part is already done, degenerate

[@jonathanward4815]

Do the math

[@CharlestonGreen]

Get smart

[@castleanthrax1833]

Why is the US always so far behind the rotw? ✌️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@GG1man]

My first encounter with the giant waterbed was when I was doing a tour in Vietnam. I was a Seabee. We built everything from loading docks, laundries, churches, bridges, lookout tower, etc. One day, in our shop, someone had one of these bugs mounted to a post with a sixteen penny nail. The blasted thing must have been about four inches long. If I was lucky.....LOL.....enough to have a night watch at the entry to our part of Camp Barnes, these waterbeds would fly around by the dozens. Hitting the tin roof of the little shack i would be in, they sounded like someone was throwing stones on the roof. When they slid off the roof they would land at my feet. Not many escaped the butt of my rifle.

[@cryptosporidium01]

I have some giant waterbugs as pets, they're pretty cool. One would need to be very careless to be bitten during handling though, since they have not enough articulation in their body to do anything when grabed by the sides of the shield. Also they're quite skittish and will swim to the opposite direction of someone's hand.

[@hellsing611]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@tibbar1000]

I am going to start calling people I don’t like butt snorkels.

[@rastafari3972]

Butt snorkeling 😂😂

[@jimmycline4778]

The snakes the size of a earth worm though 😮‍💨

[@Mustang1984]

Almost 40 years old and I'm laughing at "butt snorkel" lol.

[@davidfoster9041]

I can't help but chuckle every time butt snorkel is said.... immature I know

[@celtc7875]

Bro just had to steal a MORTEIN ad

[@jaychaudhary333]

I love wildlife videos so much 💓💓

[@runeshadow]

Live at the Ritz, it's Butt Snorkel!!!!

[@matthewpitre8159]

Back at the beginning of time nearly Some of the biggest Predators to exist were giant water scorpions like man sized water scorpions They were the top predators at the time

[@Sukuna1-_-7]

Bugs be like: "Yo what are you doing?" "Ey bro i am reacting fast" "Heheee, that's a good o- Bro where did you go?"

[@SZfiftyfour]

6:56 Sound byte of the decade

[@highwayhero6930]

Me: gets off toilet immediately ……

[@JS-xp7ci]

This bug is nowhere near as terrifying as this guys voice.

[@jarniwoop]

I saw a lot of the Water Bug (Benacus Griseus) in central Florida. They were attracted out of the lakes to the street lights at night sometimes, I was never bitten by one, but was always careful handling them.

[@davidrhoads3023]

Not Lethocerus americanus?

[@onzkicg]

Awesome camera capture!

[@vitrythemc]

Python: that things look like what im eating..

[@spiegel3269]

Apparently have one of the most painful bites or stings in the entire insect kingdom according to Coyote Peterson who let himself get stung or bit by dozens of insects. There's actually a brief bit of his reaction at 2:54 of this video.

[@CJ-137]

Butt snorkel gets me everytime.

[@lovingmontasoccer]

I collected those Beatles when i Was a kid! I always wondered why their bites were so painfull! I did like to look for them but never dared again to go barefooted in water where i knew who they are commonly in the water!

[@shardinalwind7696]

You…collected those?

[@lovingmontasoccer]

@@shardinalwind7696 yup

[@Myblaxitis]

@1:16 butt snorkel 🤣

[@susanfarley1332]

The bad thing about these water beetles is they fly at night, probably looking for new puddles with prey in them. You dont want to be riding your bike and have one hit you unexpectedly.

[@jaedenlyons]

I have horrible fear of those toe biters!!

[@jerrydonquixote5927]

I better cancel that order to Amazon to order the scuba gear for sleeping underwater to avoid spiders!

[@anthonyducoutumany6585]

In most of SE Asia this bug is considered a delicacy, and the secretion of its tail is very odoriferous and hence very expensive

[@mare-aura]

You are exactly right. I'm Thai. BTW, I would say that not only its odor, but the fried female with eggs is also amazingly delicious. The taste is quite similar to horseshoe crab eggs but the bug's egg is better in my opinion. ... Nowadays, a lot of young generation have never tried this menu because it looks gross and it's rare to find. If my parents didn't give me this menu to try when I was very young, I would not try it either.

[@anthonyducoutumany6585]

@@mare-aura curiously it's the male that carries rhe eggs on his back

[@mare-aura]

@@anthonyducoutumany6585 you can search on youtube with "แมงดาไข่ทอด". I guess it's from the stage before the male carries the eggs.

[@gregkosinski2303]

@@mare-auradisgusting

[@BegoDan]

The way that spider was flicking around creeped me out lol

[@walterwhitaker1395]

This could be the next "ALIEN CREATURE" in sci fi .

[@golddee2040]

Funny. When he said the bite isn't that bad, I swear there was a cut to Coyote Peterson writhing on the ground, hamming it up for the camera hahahaha.

[@phantomblindsight907]

rattlesnakes hypnotize their foes, to lull them into a false sense of security, then they strike.

[@oldogre5999]

We have Toe Biters, Giant Water Beetles, fishing spiders (Ours are a little different as they live in the trees and brush that overhang ponds and lakes and actually drop into the water to grab their prey. These things are huge, I've seen them 4" across and have heard people claim they've seen them 6"!! The freakiest ones I've ever seen were a pair on a wild grape vine overhanging a pond, one was this midnight black and the other was the color of Orange sherbet! We were in a Canoe and just quietly turned towards the center of the pond and kept quietly gliding by! I was bitten by a large Ankle Biter when I was a young kid and still have a one inch long scar to prove it. The thing grabbed me right where that ball of bone sticks out on the outside of your ankle, drove that proboscis in me and evidentially hit bone and it glanced off an laid me wide open! Was one of the most painful things I'd felt at the time!

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Cool underwater creatures The Diving Beatle was my favourite

[@leventebacsa9483]

“...and so, while none of these bugs are a threat to humans, it’s just a reminder that everything in nature is absolutely horrifying.” How can you say something like that? That’s so sad.

[@TheLionKiller101]

Sad? Don’t take it so seriously

[@MrXACR]

Cause they fucking suck, just like humans. I’m sure the fish agree with me.

[@scottschroeder4920]

Uh huh huh, huh huh, you said butt-snorkel…. That bug breathes through its butt Bevis, huh huh

[@chaturonga8495]

In Thailand we eat this water bug and it actually taste good😁

[@chaturonga8495]

We call them “mang-da”

[@MrSAMISSERIOUS2]

Ok my day has hit a new low when I have added (butt snorkel) to it 🤦‍♂️ thanks😂

[@blackmasculine1]

I thought I was watching an educational clip until this guy said it breathes out his "butt snorkel". Lol 🤣😆.

[@princecarlsilva718]

It's totally horrifying when you're a part of their meal.

[@robertnewman4072]

One HELL of a bite.I quit swimming in ponds after i got hit by one.

[@forgotmyself9205]

I remember that 1 vid with the bug just vibin, then mounting a marker then go for "Female is enough"

[@Realtalk4626]

Pinsir beats arbok everytime 😂😂😂

[@MrTwenty20video]

Thank you. 😊

[@MrROTD]

I got bit a few times by these giant water bugs. theres lots of them in Northern Ontario, theyre so creepy and agressive.

[@stephansteohanlarsen7457]

Did it hurt? Have only seen one central California 💦

[@MichaelRGibson]

thumbs up for using a word like "butt-snorkel"

[@AlmostEthical]

It's not rational but I always feel like its a waste of sentience when simple animals kill more complex ones - like insects and spiders killing reptiles and birds, marine worms and cnidarians killing fish, fish killing birds, and reptiles killing mammals.

[@leopardtiger1022]

These dangerous looking water bugs are in Kerala state in India. Often in monsoon season in the late evening they come flying and sit on the curtain in the veranda, at once the big red ants pin them down holding its legs and drag it to the ants nest to feast on the big bug those red ants are aggressive work in perfect army style in large numbers, the bug has no chance to liberate from the grip of the many ants.

[@Pygmygerbil88]

7:23 underwater sociopaths 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@simplyfamilyent4346]

Butt snorkel. Hahaahaa

[@fadwasalih9921]

I love animals too much 💞💞💕💕

[@chucknitty2937]

Underwater assassin bugs 😳

[@melrexmelrex]

Thats what I was thinking. Assassin bug are awesome

[@Mr.ReanuKeeves]

Soo nobody's gonna talk about that guy on 2:45? 😂😂😂😂 I mean.. damn.

[@ravenbonanza1522]

As the song goes "Its a jungle out there"

[@neneizzy9277]

That first bater wug with fwog legs and breathes thru a butt snorkel probably hails no doubt from the big "A" Australia 👀🤯

[@genehunsinger3981]

the theme is "you will get pumped full of GOO",,then yer guts will disolve,,,,mu hu hahahaha

[@heathergarner6285]

Their also called whip scorpions

[@user-vb3ys1se4r]

لاتحتقرن صغيرا في مخاصمة فإن البعوضة تدمي مقلة الاسد even if he is small he is strong and dangerous...

[@elaynebrant6842]

As a kid in TX we used to net them and make fishing lures.

[@randylittlefield2962]

I think most humans would be scared too if some random giant picked them up and examined them.

[@chesterdagoc5915]

Its like half praying mantis half assassin bug half diving beetle

[@indridcold8433]

I knew it! 4.5 inches is considered giant!

[@r46189]

After getting bitten by one years ago I keep the old red Ryder out on the boatdock to keep them in chek wen possible !

[@0to100_RealQuick]

I wish I had a butt snorkel.

[@keysersoze503]

For those of you complaining about the narrator using inches and not metric for the size, LOOK AT THE PICTURES! Duh!

[@derekec]

Oh well, back to salt water and less scary jellies and sharks for me.

[@braindeadobserver1340]

looks like an assassin bug

[@oldrabidus2230]

You forgot dragonfly larva!

[@empireoflizards]

A giant horsefly larva can also wreck your day, from what In have seen.