Such gorgeous footage, and its so lovely to see someone sharing the joy of wasps to others by displaying just how gorgeous they all are! That third wasp tilting her head before taking off was just too cute!
Incredible footage. The way the bald faced wasp stares directly at the camera is amazing. They are crazy intelligent, based on other videos I've seen about them
Parasitoids* There's a bit of a difference. More horrifying for their prey, probably, but better for humans. Most wasps don't sting people (even if they technically can). Icneumon wasps can't sting at all.
In my native language Suomi the word that dictionaries translate to English as "wasp" is "ampiainen", and it is only used for Vespidae animals like yellowjackets, hornets, paper wasps.
It's a failure point I think, but they don't experience much before they're dead. As in, they wouldn't survive any better with a bulkier body, probably just worse in all aspects! Always reminds me of those old corsaits or however you spell it. To make your waist small. I don't mind people wearing them if they want to, but it can be potentially harmful. You can start to faint etc if you keep it too tight
"Most wasps aren't like this" Oh good, I get to learn about wasps and come to a more informed, compassionate opinion "Most wasps parasitize other arthropods" Oh okay cool they actually get worse. Perfect.
Yeah, believe it or not, most of the wasps people think of are the nice ones. At least they have social skills, and the grace not to lay eggs inside your body
I have himdreds of outdoor units in the summer to upkeep, i see tons of wasp nests. From experience i will say these guys are the gentlest most "thoughtful" out there in my neck of the woods. they really don't want any trouble and arent crazy about territory. Not even very vigilant tbh.
It’s cool to see how their wings move in slow motion. It’s silly, but sometimes I imagine how tricky it’d be to fly if I suddenly became a bird or flying insect. Like, how they’re able to learn how to fly, move in the air, and land basically as soon as they’re able to lift off. I guess there’s some instinct with it and the fact that they’ll die if they don’t learn asap…
@LibertyBella21 I mean, someones got to love them. Otherwise, we lose a valued variety of species and miss out on incredible interactions. Wasps can seem mean, but they're honestly quite sweeet if you remove a fear response from the equation. I used to be fairly unfriendly towards them and really didn't like them in my vicinity. Then, sometime in my late 20s, I decided to give them a chance. Never looked back. They quickly became my favorite insect, with Hymenopterans (bees, wasps, ants, horntails ect) being my favorite order in general.
nice videos! looking forward to the woodwasp footage. Woodwasps ARE wasps, and are related to but are not sawflies, btw (they are sometimes called horntails).
So weird that their ovipositor can be stingers in other species. I wonder what the relationship between eggs and stingers are considering bee stingers are ovipositors too right?
Wasps are the best! They help us a ton, probably more than any other bug at a global scale. So many nastys are in check because a humble wasp is all "not today bud"
@@IdioticSandwich Bees pollinate, yes, but they don't pollinate every single herb in the whole world. Wasps pollinate too but not as good as bees but they fulfil other functions. Some plants are pollinated by wasps only, and some species of bees pollinate a single species of herbs, so on and so forth. If you think removing wasps as a whole from the planet will make things better for everyone - and by "everyone" I mean humans and bees because that's the only thing people care about when it comes this topic. On the grand scheme of things, its whole insect kingdom that does a lot of good, not *just* bees. You want to know which animal is the worst hands down? It's not hard to find. Just look at the mirror.
@@mushroom_goblinkaok4377 That is great! Nice that you have appreciation for them today like me, but of course everyone can have own opinions on animals. I just dislike the fact that many people do not understand how important wasps and other related hymenopterans can be in the nature. Like example of this being, keeping population of other insects getting too large. Of course beekepers do not like on those wasp species that attack bees, but most of them do many other things as well.
Yup. Every insect (besides flies) should have 4 wings, with maybe a few rare exceptions. Flies have 2, and for beetles, 2 of them are their hard wing covers (the elytra), though in beetles they still count them as wings.
Everyone should check out the blue wasp. It eats crickets (usa) or the larger eats grasshoppers (asia). It's vibrant metallic blue in color. It's beautiful. Edit: Chlorion aerarium
finally i think ive found out what insect it was that flew into my house as a kid a wood wasp, my neighbor killed it we didnt have a clue what it was but it looked scary.
There's a type of saw fly where I live that I absolutely despise. Not because it's larvae decimate entire trees and shrubs in my yard. But because the larvae give me the absolute creeps.
I studied the biodiversity of parasitic wasps, specifically parasitode wasps of saw flies on the east coat of the usa. If youd ever like to talk about my research or that of my professor's (the individual who proved hymenoptera was the most biodiverse order of insects) id love to chat!
Sawflies (Symphyta) are paraphyletic. So they are not really a natural group. Orussoidea is sister group of "narrow waisted" hymenopterans of Apocrita (ant/wasp/bee).
Ants and wasps are both hymenopterans, which is the order that includes sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Some people might say that ants (or bees) are another type of wasp, but it's kind of a subjective thing. Most people would generally consider ants as their own separate thing though.
The answer depends on how does one define the English language word "wasp". How the meaning of this word is seen in the language, is it someting relating to actual taxonomic relation of animals, or is it just a word that is used for non-scientific categarization.
@@turkoositerapsidi I'd say it's a generally a non-scientific term colloquially used to basically mean "Hymenopterans excluding sawflies, bees, and ants". Just a good example of the way we colloquially use words not matching up to science very cleanly.
@@psyspoop4289 Yeah, but words like these you do need to keep in mind when translating to other languages, it may not work tho, as I explained in the other comment. In my native language Suomi for example the word "ampiainen" that dictionaries translate to English "wasp", does only refer to Vespidae animals.
i think that when people think about the "number" of a type of animal, they arent thinking of species count. they are thinking of biomass. and eusocial wasps by far outclass the solitary wasps by biomass.
@@neuropath6465 while people may not specifically think of the word, "biomass," they are intuitively thinking about the number of those specific animals that they see on a day-to-day basis. in the same way, the majority of people on earth don't have a strong scientific understanding of what exactly a photon is, but they still understand how light works on an intuitive basis. biomass literally means "amount of living things by weight." people can have a basic understanding of "there are far more of these eusocial wasps than there are solitary wasps by weight" even if they dob't specifically use the term "biomass."
From what I've researched it seems nobody is really certain yet, though it's likely through physical contact - feeling the vibrations of the chewing grub inside the tree.
