Hi everyone! Welcome to the Insect Spotlight Project, a channel dedicated to shining a light on insects, spiders, and any other creepy crawlies that get left out of the ecologic spotlight. I am currently on a mission to make a 5-10 minute informational video for every order of insects. I hope to also publish videos on particular topics, or other groups of animals that don't get as much attention as they deserve. Subscribe to join me on this journey!
Maybe I'll even get to do some family level videos in the future 👀
B.S. in Insect Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, and Agriculture and Natural Resources M.S. in Entomology
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I love earwigs! I've added them to some vivariums before, and I've been lucky enough to get to observe their parenting. Like most insects, they're very unfairly reviled.
Can you tell us about diving beetles, such as Water Tigers aka Great Diving Beetles? I live in Finland and in this year's summer I found frog crushed by car and... out of morbid interest, I threw remans to nearby ditch. After waiting for a while small diving beetles emeged from algae-covered underwater vegetation and started to eat but that nothing compared to *HUGE* green one that appeared. Almost as big as a matchbox, it began to feast and eventually it *dragged* the frog's remains with itself and swam out of my sight!
Haha the life of an aquatic scavenger! They do live multiple years which helps them attain such a large size. Can find them in stagnant water as they dont need heavily oxygenated water since they respirate through surface oxygen (collected by a layer of dense hairs on their exoskeleton to form a layer of air under the water called a plastron). Would love to do a video on these guys in the future - sounds like a great find!
@@insectspotlightproject Don't let these rediculous claims fool you, watch his videos. You'll find out snakes are lizards, cuttlefish are squids, and possibly someday crabs and lobsters are shrimp, and how our kind is the hagfish of reptiles.
I just discovered your channel and i am absolutely in LOVE! PLEEEEASE do a video on pseudoscorpions !!! they are fascinating little arachnids that have changed very little over millions of years, which proves how successful they are ! they also are harmless, do not destroy stuff or nest in any gross or irritating way that could make them a pest, in fact they actually are quite the opposite! They regularly feed on the insects and arachnids that we view as pests!
Thank you for uploading this video! Recently,I’m interested in mantophasmadea. By the way,these insects are called “kakatoaruki” in japanese ,and it means they walk on heels!
LOVE your channel! I was recommended this video while watching a Clint’s reptiles video and I’m delighted to have found you. I’m definitely subscribing! I spent the majority of my life not too bothered to even look into insects and arachnids, but my life time love of moths sorta branched off into an all over interest a few years ago. Always excited to find new ways to learn more!
Ive had Tungiasis for 3 years and have been misdiagnosed because no Doctor will admit or even believe that it could exist in the USA. The fleas sometimes fully develop into adults in my skin or the pupa is completely embedded through all of my skin layers down to the nerve endings. I have had many different kinds over the years, would u try to identify them
If you can collect some specimens definitely bring them to a local entomologist! Look up entomology extension offices and programs near you. They take specimens from concerned citizens and provide identification and guidance. Local research institutions or USDA centers are a great spot to look. At the very least they'll be able to connect you with the right people.
Thank you so much! And thank you for the support! 🙌
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Really cool seeing some info on these oddballs, i've found them all over in the mountains in puerto rico and i thought it was just a funny looking cricket. Next time i will keep a few of them to photograph. If i ever remember this vid will post back.
The current range for Mantophasmatodea is limited to Africa so it may have been a look-alike! Puerto Rico has some weird Orthoptera though so now I'm curious as to what you found 😂
@@insectspotlightproject I was just talking with a friend about these insects and I wanted to give a look on RU-vid if some new video about them popped up (there are not many as you can imagine) and luckily I found your channel.
@@Fede_99 Haha so glad its hitting the right audience. Yea we're def getting into the more obscure orders so hopefully Ill hear some more stories like that on these next few too 😂
I'm shocked these videos dont have more views, this is some of the best new RU-vid content I've seen in a while. Not at all clickbait-y and the perfect length for me to actually pay attention the whole time 😅
Haha Im trying! My vision for the channel is easy navigation of topics so trying to keep titles and thumbnails somewhat consistent! Im glad you were able to come across the channel 😄
Oh yeah another GOATED video, thank you so much I love these guys. Cornell University doesn’t even have one in their collection that’s how rare they are
It's amazing how few books out there even mention these critters. I definitely learned a lot more from this video than I ever knew about these before, and I've been a bug nerd since elementary school 😂
I know! Theyre too new on the scene so the books havent caught up with the scientific literature I suppose. There was like one children "Extreme animals" book I remember that mentioned them but that was about it.
Relict insect taxon are so fascinating. I don't recall if this was part of that video, but Snakeflies are another great example. What's even more thought-provoking, however, is at what point they became relict. The baltic amber was determined to be from the Eocene epoch (45 million years ago), but when exactly it went extinct in areas now outside of its extant range remains a mystery. Could it be possible that they still inhabited the Americas by the time humans arrived?
Resilin assists the jumping mechanisms of most jumping insects, such as grasshoppers and leafhoppers. Resilin itself is a very diverse protein, and can even be found to be used in non-jumping locomotion - such as running or even wing movements. Super diverse function - thought this video was just a good time to introduce it
Hi, I have a question, Is Ice Crawlers in the order Notoptera or Grylloblattodea? when I researched about them, the research article varied in order names.
Depends on who you ask! Some people group the "ice crawlers" (Grylloblattidae) and "Gladiators" (Mantophasmatidae) as one Order. This Order is called Notoptera. Others will split the two groups into their own orders, the Grylloblattodea and the Mantophasmatodea respectively.
Yea the 200k fine is after knocking down a bunch of charges apparently 😬 if it was like a bug or two thats already rough but HUNDREDS? dude knew better
