Looking for Velvet Worms in Panama 

Finding wild velvet worms has got to be the most rewarding thing ever.

As someone who is made incredibly squeamish by bugs I'm both surprised and glad that the RU-vid algorithm brought me here. Can't get enough of this footage and commentary.

I love your style, straight to the interesting stuff, no bullshitting around. Wonderful presentation too, excited to see more!

I love the click beetles. The ones we have around here are small-maybe half a centimeter. But very fascinating and entertaining.

Velvet worms are pretty cool looking animals to me. I totally forgot about how they could shoot the sticky substance at their prey and as a defense. Over all I think velvet worms are beautiful because of the colors most species can have.

I studied leafcutter ants in Costa Rica for a while (typically Atta Cephalotes or various Acromyrmex) and they taught us a lot about excavating and keeping colonies if you ever wanted to. To excavate the younger colonies you go about it roughly the same way as with your trapdoor spiders from your previous videos. You can dig a trench around a foot or so away from the opening of the colony and progressively dig down and towards it until hitting the main chamber. Then you can just scoop as much fungus (and hopefully the queen) as you can into a tupperware bin. It dosent matter how much you damage the structure, its actually amazing how they can just rearrange the fungus and build new structures. You can then place this smaller tupperware bin inside a much larger tupperware bin and uncover the lid loosely. To feed the colony simply place leaves on the loose lid inside the larger container, and give them test tubes with water. This only works for smaller colonies, but its still cool to do.

I'm usually incredibly squeamish when it comes to seeing insects and arachnids, particularly stuff like those whip spiders, but your complete calmness and matter-of-fact attitude when handling and seeing them helps put me at ease too! Your videos with Centipedes took me from being pretty much nauseated at the sight of large, fast ones to relatively okay with them!

It is comical to see how many velvet worms you have found, when I've always been told they were hella rare 😂 thank you for the video, amazing!

I really enjoyed this longer video. I like seeing how you find them and your longer explanations.

This is amazing! When I was doing the invertebrates class some years ago in my current biology degree our teacher tolds us that these guys were extremely hard to find, and then you go and show us a bunch of them so easily, this makes me wanna look for them myself, always found them extremely interesting but tought they were impossible to find. Great video

awesome video. i love bugs but had never heard of velvet worms before this. i now think they’re so cute.

General public: "Velvet worms are hard to find!" General Apathy: "Hold my beer..."

Wow, almost every source I found always said these were rare and illusive, and was really excited when bugs in cyberspace got a colony. Seeing as they are this common, and the decently high demand for them for captivity, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet. Are they hard to breed in captivity?

Great video! It was interesting how you mentioned that the whip scorpion doesn’t mind the velvet worm even though the mucus could dissolve it’s chitin. I thought they would be somewhat immune because of their acetic acid defense mechanism

Your videos are so cool! Super soothing and you run great commentary about the animals. Its obvious you're passionate about these creatures- super inspiring stuff, keep up the great work

Loving your channel!

Hey there! Just stumbled across your channel via the youtube shorts (I hate tiktok), and after watching this video found out that you're actually kind of a small channel. I'm kind of blown away because your presentation is informative, capturing, and really well put together. Keep it up! Loving this kind of content, the little kid in me who loved bugs is coming out all over again!

My aunt runs a horse ranch in Costa Rica that borders a nature preserve and she finds these on her property all the time!!

Velvet Worm, rare living treasure.

London England. I never knew these worms existed. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for showing and sharing.

Wow, that’s a whole lot of velvet worms, I forget how awesome they were! Great video!

That is amazing Ive never really see videos of these little guys they’re so beautiful. in captivity these aren’t too commonly kept few people have success but more people are discovering ways to properly keep them so maybe we’ll have an increase in the hobby in the future.

found your channel through shorts, but i enjoy your longer videos! really enjoyable for someone like me who is curious about insects but afraid to handle one

What an amazing channel, lol, I'm stoked for every video. I've never been near this part of the world, and it looks as beautiful as alien sometimes with how big and dazzling the bugs are.

That's definitely the first animal with over a dozen legs that I think is adorable.

Love your videos

so happy I found your channel. so many cool buggies!

I just discovered your channel this video was so fun and interesting to watch. Id never seen velvet worms before.

i like how the big velvet worm just casually crawls under the whip spider like "hey bro you mind if i come through here" and the spider's like "nah bro you're cool fam

I remember seeing the bright blue velvet worms in my physiology lab and being a big fan of them since. Such a cool animal, too bad I didn't learn of then earlier, I'm sure I would have loved their very spiderman-esque papillae slime as a kid.

Great examples, excellent subject matter, wonderful video. 10/10

Wow your channel exploded fast. Congrats!

Pretty cute little things.

Velvet worms are one of the most unique animal I've seen

Thank you Professor Oak

Velvet worms are such fancy lil things. I first learned about them from a game called Empires of the Undergrowth where you can end up fighting them as a Leaf cutter colony while trying to gather leaves, and when I saw them I was just like "soft, soft worm thing" and started to love em even tho I generally dont like worms lol.

Wow. I've looked for them in Costa Rica, New Zealand and Tasmania. No luck. You sure make it look easy.

It's like a snail and centipede had a baby.

just watching you casually holding these types of animals make my fear getting bitten by them go away

i did my biology final on velvet worms in college last semester. theyre my favorite animal

Very cool to see some in the wild. Gives me se.good ideas for how to upgrade my enclosure for them.

wow your channel is awesome

Casually finding a species that everyone else says is "rare" and "incredibly hard to find". Ya know, just normal stuff. Interesting content. you've got my sub.

I feel like I'm going to class when your videos appear and always learn a great deal. Thanks for this lesson when's the next session ?

Woah last time I was here you had like 1 k subs now you almost have 30k

What a curious creature!

As an aspiring mycologist in nortern europe im quite jealous of the many specimens of leafcutter ant farms ur coming across here... God damn id dance in joy if I ever got to find one someday.

In my opinion, one of the most interesting animals out there!

Omg you have a lot of beautiful videos! I love them so much! I'll recommend you to my friends that know English lmao xD Greetings from Mexico!

This is great! Definitely showing this to my kids! Also - You are now qualified to open your Velvet Weaver shop in Shariz! 😉

So cool

this is so nice

they have to be the cutest most amazing little things on this planet.

New sub, found ur shorts and came to check ur channel. Fascinating content. Thanks!

woooow, they're so cuute

i like how he says bullshit calmly

I love it so much and I'm crying with discomfort simultaneously.

I love poking in stumps and trees and just exploring, but I couldn't do what you do and just pick them all up. Fun video, new sub from me! 🤙🏻

cute worms! never seen those creatures before)

Best arthropod. They're so cool looking.

very cool vid, can't wait to go back to central america

Velvet worms looks cool, like Slurms McKenzie in Futurama 😎

The fact of how rare those things are, you found multiple.

Please show more interesting creatures! :)

yesss the worm sprayed you that’s awesome

Hidden gem of yutube

The bugs there are huge!

They're kind of cute, which is something I never thought I'd say about a creature with so many legs

It looks kinda cute

Those clicking beetles were pretty fun - but they are WAY too small (Czech republic). But I would be affraid this one would break my finger xD As kid, I took everything in my hand (well, at least everything I KNEW something about). My grandma wasn´t very pleased when her garden was filled by small lizards and snakes (can´t remember what´s it called in english, but the "snake" is actually legless lizard due to evolution). Fun times!

I have lots of them in my backyard

Omg it's like an invertebrate goldmine there! 😍 So jealous!

Such weird and cute little fellas

I love click beetles

I love velvet worms! They are like a toy centipede but with better weapons

8:11 Looks like its doing a little dance of some sort.

i found these also in Europa in the woods

Peak wilderness channel

velvet worms are awesome. cool to learn they live in like family groups ha. BTW a suggestion, you move the camera very quickly and shakily, it would be easier to watch if it was steadier

At first, I thought you were searching for velvet _ants,_ and I was *_VERY_* concerned.

This makes me want to play a game like path of titans but with insects, spiders and worms and such...

They look delicious!

If centipedes had to look family friendly

Very interesting video! What about neo-tropical giant centipedes?

I dont even know why I clicked this.. but this is the thing of nightmares. I can't even believe there are people going out in the wildy alone in the dark to look for creepy crawlies O.O So like and comment just because this was left field, but interesting and well made.

They walk like little astronauts!!

I love velvet worms

love your channel, is there any way i can purchase one of these from you?

Velvet worms are so soft and delicate aaah!

They're so cute and look so soft, easy to see where they got their name from. Love the creature that was sharing a rock home with that one worm; was it some kind of spider? And I didn't know clicker beetles grew that big! All the ones I've seen have been tiny, but maybe Ireland only has small species.

I've never heard of these creatures. I wish you included a description of them, and why you are looking for them.

I was here at 26 k subs

you keep the insects you catch at home?

I just came from Panama. I was setting up my mom in a new place but in the City, quite far from where you were. Do you study these insects? How do you know whatever insect you find is not poisonous?

Do they make good pets I've heard mixed reviews would like to add them to my Collection

I'm not sure if im misthinking this or thinking of the hammerhead worm But is it dangerous to hold or touch these possibly because of parasites or produced chemicals or am I misthinking this? They look soft to the touch though

Dude apologized for picking at a rotten stump in Panama!!!🤣 I am literally rofl!!! It’s ok lol

5:40 whaaat. that's so cool

Coyote Peterson made me think these things were absurdly ridiculously rare and hard to find....

Are they worms like annalids are worms?