Hoverflies: A Gardeners Best Friend. 

Would it be ok with you if this comment was pinned to the top? It's just I want more people to see it.

@@TeamCandiru for sure. Maybe others might add some nature-friendly tips.

i dont know if you know this, but theres are several insectisida that kill spesific insect. in my city most used by farmer is the anti caterpillar one

@@astroboy4124 is that the bacteria bacilius thuringeus? I spelt that wrong im sure. Good one for large areas of crops. Only targets caterpillars too which is great.

I hate insects. Burn them all.

Yea, I guess what they say is true. Don't judge a book by its cover

Such a pristine sky in the video, must be rare in the UK to get such whether to do such filming.

Well being a fly, the larva is technically a 'maggot' so generally speaking, it's a legless tube with fangs that is designed to engorge on protein and pupate fast. But rather than feed of corpses, they're adapted to take their meat fresh and go get it themselves (given that insects are much more protein dense and the aphids also throw in a heap of sugars, it's a very advantageous switch as well).

Well I learn that I must always cary my flyswatter

Learned!

@@sharonballantyne1735 Ahh... the joys of sharing a common language... I presume you're either American or Canadian, where I think you would indeed use 'learned', but us Brits use 'learnt' in circumstances such as this. Hope you had a fantastic Christmas and wishing you a Happy New Year!

There are many things you don't know and you never will just keep learning regardless

Meanwhile a human baby doesn't know anything and constantly have to check that they don't kill themselves

@@mizulightblue 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@mizulightblue complexity

I remember this happening to me as a kid, where these "strange wasps" would harmlessly land on my hand. I think it was their large eyes and because they hover like tiny drones that I knew they weren't actually wasps. I wonder if they evolved to look like wasps to survive from potential predators, or if they're related to wasps, but either way it was nice to learn that they're a gardeners best friend

Yeah us too.

We wanted to include some halters footage with some information just like what you've said here. But sadly we couldn't get the footage. Thanks for posting and watching!

How could this fly evolve its hind wings to preform such a specific task? This would take millions of years to evolve from random genetic mutations, and how could random genetic mutations produce such a perfectly designed mechanism for flight? It’s preposterous to suggest that every organism evolved into its present species from random genetic mutations to a single celled organism over hundreds of millions of years!

@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg one can speculate many pathways by which one pair of wings could evolve into a new form, we have direct evidence for several different paths of wings evolving first for flight then for other non-flying functions. Besides the ones i cited in my original post there are the true bugs where the front wings have evolved into hard protective covers. Even without the ample fossil evidence of various intermediate forms and without the DNA evidence showing how different species are related we can still use observation and logic to conclude that the processes of evolution by natural selection must be true (after all, Darwin synthesized the theory with scant fossil evidence and no knowledge of DNA). One of your fundamental errors is believing that organisms are “perfectly designed” for anything (in this case, perfectly designed for flight). No organism is even remotely perfect in its design! Most barely function. Take Diptera flies for example, the whole mechanism I was discussing is a kludge that barely provides enough feedback information to allow for flight. Yes, it’s beautiful and elegant but it barely works, and that’s the point, evolved organisms will always be just “good enough” for their current environment, never more than that. Here’s a question for you if you think each organism living today was explicitly designed by a creator: what will happen in 100 generations, 10,000 generations, 1,000,000 generations into the future as genetic mutations occur? What mechanism could possibly exist that would *prevent* mutations in DNA from accumulating over those generations? If organisms were *designed* to reproduce (as opposed to having evolved via reproduction) there would need to be very robust mechanisms in place to keep the organisms from changing over time, but those mechanisms do not exist (and organisms *do* change.) In the past 150 years entirely new genera (not just species but new genera) have appeared in the wild due to DNA copying errors in the process of reproduction. You are astonished at the prospect of meaningful change in “only” 100 million years but your own personal astonishment is no gauge of the truth. The sound bite is “facts don’t care about your feelings” and that applies here. Humans often judge the accuracy or veracity of a statement by how they feel with regard to the statement, if it makes them feel good it must be true, if it makes them feel bad it must be false (often we call this a “gut feeling”) but feelings are notoriously unreliable, especially regarding facts (the entire legal industry exists to try to keep feelings out of discussion of legal facts).

@@jpe1 I really hope you’ve helped to open this fool’s eyes, but I fear you may have wasted your time. Information rarely changes fanatic’s minds.

@@incanusolorin2607 indeed I have little expectation of changing *his* mind (though that would be nice) but my hope is that others who read what I write will think about it, and perhaps think differently. I have personally met two people who were raised as Young Earth Creationists (YEC) who, over time and with repeated exposure, came to understand that the YEC interpretation of the Bible doesn’t explain the world around us, and they learned about science and evolution and changed their thinking and beliefs.

Well, at least unlike some moth larvae they don't feed on what is basically live hand-grenades.

@@matteste explain ?

@peppa edits Hoverfly: My name's DAVE! Jim is my cousin! At least get my name right, ya damn aphid! >:( Wait til' I catch you!

​@@mattestewhat species of moth larvae eats "live hand grenades "

@@johnnyortiz1750 The netted Carped Moth larvae. They eat the seed pods of the Touch-Me-Not. Seed pods that just so happen to explode.

Lol I love the usage of "sugar poop" or as zefrank would say, "honeydeewwwwrr"

@@PlayMoGame that time i hear him pronounce bird as bewrd

I wonder what ants farmers would reaction about their cow aphids been killed. 🐜🐜🐜

Yes, the aphid itself is the desert

..as they eat more and more aphids.

Well they tend to bunch up into a horde of defenseless creatures, so yeah...

Don't worry, they reproduce alot to compensate.

@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 And they sometimes have Ant bodyguards.

Don't worry, only the Natural Selection Losers who approach anything with no worries

That's very kind of you to say! Thanks for watching!

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Aphids eat trees and plants and are horrible vectors for plant-life in general. 400 less of the buggers to worry about if you ask me.

Nice, I hate those pesky aphids. It's so satisfying for me to see larvae from ladybugs and now hoverflies too eating them. Oh, also, I've seen some young jumping spiders hunt them as well. So cute!

Sad aphids

Yeah, as long as there is no highspeed photography they will be in 4k. It's just that we don't have any cameras that will shoot in 4k at 180fps. The diving bell spiders were in 4k. As were the caterpillars. Thanks for watching!

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@@TeamCandiru Thank you.

Some species of hover flies do.

Thanks for watching!

Yes! Hoover flies and Ladybugs are both amazing at killing aphids! Ladybugs are actually really good predators and unleashing them somewhere they shouldn't be can wreak the insect population

yes they are extremely wide spread