Life of Insects | Attenborough: Life in the Undergrowth | BBC Earth 

Dark note is us, humans honey

Life is harsh and revolves around death, sadly. Still beautiful tho.

Not a honey bee. @@whoknowswho7494

Mrjmaxted0291 Still sad.

just like every day life...

A lot of the time they harvest the insects ahead of time and create the shot in a controlled environment. Sometimes they can find it happening out in nature.

The bees are all actors.

I have studied movies and in nature programs they "cheat" a lot. But they do not cheat by filming it inside a zoo or something like that .. In this and many other clips, they are likely to film several different bees and larvae in nature within a week or two and then they cluster them into a single story. The female who has sex with the invaded male is probably not the same female they filmed in the nest. The larvae born in the beginning are not the same larvae who eats nectar in the end. Everything is just cut together. When it comes to the equipment, they use mini cameras that you place on narrow tubes or metal threads that you can bend and insert.

Brilliant! ..... and it pains me to see great humor get ignored. Well done.

Inside job. One of the insects is paid by the bbc to secretly film

Even the stick part lines up I can say a lanky fella.

TotallyMature 😖🤣🤣

the messiah

Both together

Hahah noob

@@ingore9021 wut

David Attenborough, for sure. The camera footage is excelt! But we have been enjoying Sir David's voice since long before cameras were this good. 😊

Natasha Duckett That’s Sir David Attenborough, CBE, to you, young lady.

Natasha Duckett you are very beautiful 😊😘😝

Natasha Duckett shut up bitch damn

@@Floppa-G, ahh, another incel.

Samuel Alicea really dude

Zachary Krawczyk lol.....

Ahh sexually transmitted disease? What you talking Willis? Now I get it - you talking about the beetle larvae toward the end... me understand ze joke now

Hide your kids, hide your wife

EvilWeAre he's climbing in your windows he's snatching yall people up so you better

I was looking for this comment! I couldn't bear to say it!!

These STIs are 1/20th maybe 1/30th your body size... Those are some massive parasites, or just simply unfriendly hitch-hikers!

It's like getting crabs the size of literal crabs.

'the literal size of crabs' doesn't even make sense considering they come in such a variety of sizes.

They're absolutely tiny though, aren't they? Not anywhere close to 1/20th for a single individual larvae.

they're never the good ones kill,, destroy them with fireeeeee!1

You are saying correct

@@netweed09 Humans does the same to this godforsaken rock...we are a plague to this planet! More of like a virus

@@neighborhoodtroll That in a way very true: contrary to all this 'evolution' fairytales, we are becoming overall more degenerate and senseless to emotional values just like God stated, and actually much like insects. Despite our ever-increasing technonoligcal fidelity. It's a bit scary

netweed09 *At this point I think we might just create our very own rapture.*

Programmes… ( British people be like )

@@blockbusterstudios3891 don’t be a damned racist

@ilovegurusahib Not even close to every species but yeah

When done he's lighter inside and out

Looks like no one else 😂🤣

@@pippipster6767 They are, they just won't confess! :D

Me lol

No such thing. Because a nature doc wouldn't exist without the Sir =)

Often nature is downright awful. Did you know there could be as many as 500,000 (!) species of parasitic wasps? Nature is gnarly.

All the animals have different reality rules to us.

That's why it's called an ecosystem because it is a whole complex system of life.

No one makes a big deal of the invention/discovery of The Camera. 📸. And Film. It was amazing to say the least, and still is. And all the stuff that were "discovered" or "realized" as a result. And especially Image. The only unbiased image that can be captured was a reflection, either on water, or shiny reflective metal. But that Image could not be saved. Seeing is believing. Or believing is seeing. You have to see to believe. Or you have to believe to "see", or "realize".

Crazy, right?

I believe most bees are solitary. Being eusocial is much harder than being independent from a reproductive perspective, even if most individual insects on Earth are part of eusocial colonies

Angel Samael Gonorrhea can make a woman barren.

steven gilbert Trying to find a downside...

Um they sort of can…they increase the rate of miscarriages and can cause congenital deformities with severe heart and neurologic sequelae. Also chlamydia can cause ectopic pregnancies which not only kill the baby but also kill the mother.

@Karina Peters How? The baby's still dead in the end

@Karina Peters The way the bacteria and viruses work is that they literally do eat part of the person. They usually cause dysfunction to cell structures including DNA in their nutrition uptake/life processes then wallah you get symptoms.

Omair Sheikh Camera In the hole, coming out as the 🐝 is

@Bradley7 Johnson woAH there chill, man this isn't a documentary about ISIS or something

what do you mean no one? i literally saw a lot of it. we get it you're a special snowflake

There's a shitton of people talking about the cameraman.

Taylor Jeanne forced perspective :)

Ants this size of cats!

David Attenborough is only 5cm tall.

Perspective is not the problem, what the hell kind of lens do you need to get both the ant and the background in focus at the same time is what I would like to know. And no it's not a composite, they actually took the shot, somehow.

@@aleksandersuur9475 I believe its not a single frame, but superimposition. As we can do nowadays with multiple cameras to get a 3D perspective, I think this was done with two cameras and then superimposing the slide. Don't ask me the mechanism of it, but it seems plausible.

it just happens to people naturally

As I saw this comment I got itchy

Forcedminer It happens every time to me. But I keep watching

Evolution? Seriously thats what you got from that awesome display of how perfectly God created that system? Dont sell yourself short. Open your eyes.....you actually think the perfectly camouflaged stick insect dropping its egg into an ant hole and having another helpless species raise its baby thinking its a seed all developed by random freak mutations naturally selected over millions of years? Dont oppress yourself with those beliefs!

@@Memorize-Quran-With-Me "you actually think the perfectly camouflaged stick insect dropping its egg into an ant hole and having another helpless species raise its baby thinking its a seed all developed by random freak mutations naturally selected over millions of years? " Pretty much, yeah. That's how evolution works, you're only seeing the results of natural selection after it does the clean up to get rid of those who weren't "perfectly camouflaged" enough. That explanation certainly beats "magic man poofed stuff into existence" BS. You know? Since evolution and biology have this stuff called "evidence"? Something your belief can only dream of lol.

@@GoldSrc_ yes "evidence" where are all these "not fit enough" species? The world should be filled with their clutter. Yet we see perfect order. Bring the sun a little bit closer or further away from earth....see how we would burn/freeze. There is order created by God. Evidence in front of your eyes pointing to the One who made you and your world. Darwin got shivers just looking at things like a peacock's feather because his heart knew it was evidence of Creation and not possible by chance.

@@Memorize-Quran-With-Me Those species who couldn't fit, went extinct. I don't think you even understand what natural selection even is. The Earth gets 5 million km closer to the Sun over the course of a year, in January we are 5 million km closer to the Sun than on July. Plus, the Earth could get as far as Mars and we would be fine; no "freezing". As close as Venus things would get hot, but not close to "burning", as Venus sits in the red area of the habitable zone. You literally have nothing to defend your superstitious belief, nothing. You don't even have a layman understanding of science.

@@GoldSrc_ Enough with the snarky attitude. Listen....there is no life on mars or venus. I rest my case about earth's distance from the sun being perfect for life. God created it that way for you to truly accept that we are not by chance but by design and with purpose. Natural selection cannot be your God, because it only hypothetically ELIMINATES bad genes/species, but does not give rise/create anything new. Hence later adherents to the religion of atheism added "mutations" but no mutation makes God's creation better....only worse. There are no examples of positive mutations, all mutations are disadvantageous. Case in point chernobyl. Furthermore, just look at the fossil records, species are the way they are since millenia. No intermediate forms found. Proof is in the pudding. Consider Irreducible Complexity: in a verse of Quran God says He created everything in "pairs" Look at the symbiotic relationship of bees and flowers. Without 1 the other ceases to exist. How can something that is irreducible be the result of natural selection via adaptations? Look at the sophisticated mechanisms within the body of the bombardier beetle. Without the COMPLETE system God placed in its body to defend itself against predators, it would cease to exist and nothing could give rise to it. My advice to you pick up a quran and read it with an open heart. Don't sell yourself short, don't waste your life in this world and the next. Islam is the fastest growing religion on Earth for a reason. Why? Most new converts are women and the highly educated. Why? Michael Hart ranked the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the #1 most influential personality in History. Why? Most likely you know someone who is muslim. Have a chat with them and maybe you will come to understand why and perhaps you too might see that there is no evidence for atheism, only the one true Creator. And to Him we will all return.

@Karina Peters oh yes... The cockroaches. I don't know if I'll ever be able to like these little monsters 😊

clearly you didnt see the whole video

The cut through shots are made using ant farms :), a few of them are made by using endoscopic camera's on wild colonies

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Series was released back in 2005. Before then not many documentaries featured insects because the camera technology wasn't good enough to film them, you need cameras with tiny lenses to film on this scale.

Karen smith is Hugh

Scott Lang is the cameraman

Hello world 2020

@@pronoob249 Our eyesight is good, we can tell right away it is not a female bee. A Digger Bee's eyesight must be pretty bad even for among bees, some of which can distinguish shades of ultravioet!

Paulina De Luca funny it’s called a Fixed Action Pattern, as a newborn you had one or two as well! Smiling at faces is one.

insects can't learn so they have to stick with what their brain has given them at birth, so you're right, it's in their DNA

@Muhsin OKCU yeah god makes babies eat babies. That's so fun to watch

This is not what david Attenborough's about duuuude .

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Its California and desert wrens

That’s because God created them

@@trueapexking2995 So God designed the stick insects to hitch a ride on the mother bee to steal her nectar and also eat her bee babies? Watch the clip before commenting. Some sick twisted god of yours. I think this god if it exists would be some highly advanced intelligent aliens.

fumomo fumosarum 👏🏾👏🏾Ha! Respect is due unto you! I couldn’t stop larfin’ at that gag for ages!

the bee isn't sexually transmitted though, so shouldn't that be STBeetle?

Those things didn't mate though; they sabotaged the females mating/work

why

Do you mean evolution? Are you asking how this process is not irreducibly complex? The first beetle larvae could have started out as accidental passengers and evolved to being more active seekers of rides. Or perhaps when the environment was more wet, the larvae actively hunted the bee burrows on their own without tricking them into rides. From there the pheromones might have evolved as a way of inhibiting defense response.

Zabidi the larvae that accidentally hitched a ride on a bee were far more likely to reach adulthood and reproduce. Larvae that clustered up on sticks and/ or smelled like female bees were more likely to attract a bee. So these functions were passed on to a much larger amount of offspring that then repeated the process.

What, Sexually transmitted insects that eat your babies? Well it's either a messed up creator or a lazy creator.

Your creator gave AIDS to babies, GJ!

Allah is the creator

Nurdini Mndeme Allah simply doesn't exist. And never did.

Yet you have a Christian name,, silly bouy =D