Looking for Reptiles, Bugs, and Amphibians in France ( Part I ) 

The baguettes part was hilarious. Your videos are so educational. I look forward to every one of them. Thanks for posting!

I love the "This species is actually the only venomous snake in the region" while holding it like a wet towel lmao, its just like crawling up and nown yoru arm and hissing and youre just holding it like its been naughty lol

6:08 That cricket chewing on your skin reminds me of another European species of bush-cricket, Decticus verrucivorus. They do that too and in the past they were used to remove people’s warts (hence their scientific name) Thank you for another great video!

I’ve never seen wild baguettes before. Thanks for sharing the adventure!

When people ask what I’m going to school for and find it’s bugs, they always go “ohhh… that’s… interesting..”

As a French person, i'm shocked that's you're still alive after you found the top tier dangerous creature : The baguette !

The caterpillar is almost certainly Agrius convolvuli, one of the largest Sphingids that we've got here in France. Very cool. The adults are usually nocturnal or vespertinal, which is too bad, but a very good looking Sphingid, my favorite, in fact.

You know, I have never learned anything about France's wildlife! Thanks for tackling the niche!!

4:14 me every time I watch General Apathy videos

The slow motion parts were so cool, and the close-up of the beetle at 13:40 was really cute! I found your channel on Christmas Eve when I looked up harvestmen, and all the videos I've watched so far have been awesome! This has become my favorite channel :)

For anyone wondering about the difference between the Rod of Asclepius and Hermes' Caduceus: ... tl;dr The Rod of Asclepius, with one snake, is the correct medical symbol. It might be a snake just because his father's symbol was a snake ... Typical Zeus stepping out, slept with Leto (not me 😳), who would then give birth to Artemis and Apollo. Hera sent the Titan Python, a serpent/dragon, to kill Leto. Baby boy Apollo instead kills Python with some arrows. Apollo is then known as a dragon slayer, and a snake becomes one of his symbols. Hermes (the god of travel, commerce, communication, fertility, and others) invented a turtle shell lyre, which he then gave to Apollo (his half-brother). In return, Apollo gave him the Caduceus, a staff with wings and two snakes intertwined. Apollo was originally a healing god but his son Asclepius became the major symbol of medicine. His symbol became the Rod of Asclepius, a staff with one snake wrapped around it. As Asclepius is the god of medicine, this is the correct medical symbol. In his honor, non-venemous snakes were often kept in healing temples associated with him. The exact origin and meaning of the snake and the staff is unclear. It could just be a combination of his symbols of power, it could have some reference to snakes shedding their skin for longevity, or that medicine can be both a cure and a poison. Or perhaps the snake represents the disease itself being conquered. One interesting theory is that the ancient method for dealing with a parasitic worm was to wind it around a stick and twist the stick until the worm is wrapped around it and pulled loose. It probably would have looked like a tiny Rod of Asclepius 🤢 Most medical facilities appear to use the Caduceus. I took Latin in school and was even erroneously taught that Hermes was the god of healing. The reason for the mixup is some fool in the US army medical corps in 1902 got the two confused, used the wrong one for their flag or whatever, and then the Caduceus spread into modern usage. Interestingly, you can sometimes tell the type of hospital by what symbol it uses. Hermes was the god of commerce, not healing, and the majority of _commercial_ healthcare companies will use the Caduceus, because they care more about having a recognizable logo than an accurate one. Meanwhile the majority of professional healthcare organizations use the Rod of Asclepius, perhaps symbolizing that they care more about medicine than money, as opposed to their corporate counterparts.

“Oh cool, I baby grizzly bear. Let me just pick him up really quick so you guys can get a good look.“ -this guy probably

Thank you so much for this

Love those harvestmen. It's definitely a "grass is always greener" thing, but I think I like the little guys with short legs better than the daddy long legs variety. I can go in my own backyard and find multiple varieties of the long legged variety, but I rarely find any short legged harvestmen.

CONGRATULATIONS ON 800 subs , your growing really fast 👍

Absolutely love this series

One of the best epesodes yet

9:20 picked homie up while he was using the bathroom

Like ur content dude , keep it up

The 2 toads are Bufo spinosus, and the tree frog is actually native - Hyla meridionalis, the Stripeless tree frog

Because creatures have names and those names are pronounced a certain way and also have language origins with specific meanings and these things we enjoy to know. Nice work here, fun too.

Your vids are great man remember me when you get famous or popular

i love these video's

the larva could be Agrius convuli

i don't know anything about reptiles, bugs, arthropods, or amphibians, but i like your channel anyways

in denmark we call the slow worms, steel worms :-) you shuld come visit and explore denmark some day

Ulala beatiful species

This the first video, I saw someone catching a venomous snake with their hands

Btw what app do you use to edit? And are you using your phone to record? Because it’s quite impressive how you can flip heavy rock with one arm , and it’s quite easy to lose focus with a phone ,

damn I didn't know odiellus spinosus could get to that size

2:30 Ah, yes, wild baguettes. Only in France.

There's a place in France 🎶 😁

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By the way, which part of france is this?

Hey, it'd be cool if you created a Discord Server, plz do that? :D "You may find baguetes, sitting around... *KICKS THE BAGUETE*"

First haha 😂