The Insect Tier List 

The amount of frogs failing in the clips made me laugh a lot

Can't belive I just got stick bugged by Tierzoo. what an honor.

I like how most of the early parts of this video is lower-tier insects progressively succeeding more and more against the praying mantis' vibe checks until eventually getting to the point where the mantis starts getting bodied

Timestamps of frogs failing miserably: 2:36 17:23 17:56 19:19 Honorable mention: 13:05

The walking stick giving itself away while trying to look like a swaying branch might be the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen

This feels more like a frog humiliation video than a bugs tier list

I fostered a wild green Mantis for about 6 months in my screened in porch. I kept it fed well and hand fed it water. One day it caught a wasp and ate the whole thing which ended up poisoning it. I thought my mantis was going to die but I mixed vitamin E into some water and fed it to it while it was sick from the wasp. It took about two weeks of nursing but she recovered. Eventually a male found its way into my port and they mated. She did not eat him but he did die after mating. I released her after they mated and now my back yard is filled with mantises. During summer it is impossible to walk a foot without seeing at least 10 mantises either jump and fly or flee to the under brush. I only cut my backyard 3 times a year and only when I know most insects and other animals will be dormant or visibly out of sight. This is in Annapolis MD

26:28 🐜“Hey you feeling alright James” Holds up dead guy* 🐜🕷️”Yes I am sufficient comrade, what is the level 9 access code?”

The fact that every time a bug's defense stat was brought up it was being attacked by a mantis truly shows how much of a badass those guys are

You should've mentioned the Cockroach build's secondary effect during flight. It subjects the opponent, usually the human build, to an instant "terrify" status.

The wasp and hornet also has a very high intimidation factor, allowing them to put intense fear into even some human mains such as myself

My editing software exploded just watching this

Still can't believe the devs allow silverfish in the game, I never see anyone choose that class

I get why Orthopteras may be mid-tier individually, but if you’re ever lucky enough to spawn during a population boom, you get to reclassify as a “Locust” for the entirety of the event, and you can do some real damage when you and your buddies swarm! Really cramped a couple of Human metas in particular! Don’t get me wrong, you’re all but guaranteed a game-over at the end of the event, but while it lasts, it’s the most fun you can possibly have playing *any* insect build!

As an fire ant main, i can say you give us much credit, which I appreciate. As a construction worker, I have been responsible for many incredible ant bases. You are amazing with your knowledge of the game.

Might be a bit of a weird request, but I'd love to see something like a Fungi tier list

Flies are great builds for casual players. Their campaign is rather short but it's a lot fun and they possess some very cool abilities that you can unlock very quickly.

I absolutely love when the video moves to the s tier and the dung defender soundtrack from hollow knight kicks in as the camera shows a giant beatle in his shining black armor and when the hornet's theme sounds at the absolutely highest place, it is perfect.

i love how ants and bees were in S tier to the surprise of absolutely nobody

I can't even imagine how long this took to make, S tier content for sure

This is the first video I've seen from this channel, and I just have to say, I love the concept of what you are doing here. It's a whole new brand of teaching that can reach the minds of an enormous demographic, who may not have otherwise understood these principles when explained in the conventional way. I have a huge amount of respect for the genuine educators in this world.

I've grinded enough coins and mastery in the ant faction to become a queen, and omg its INSANELY op. You can easily destroy ANY try hard solo colony if you can start up a super colony with multiple queens. Rn me and 7 other queens are in a turf war with the BIGGEST fire ant colony we've ever seen. Rn were currently winning.

I once bisected a grasshopper with the antenna on my car. Completely accidental, but the "no idea where they're going to land" seems really applicable.

When the beetle came in and the Dung Defender theme kicks in... Magnificent!

i really appreciate how they added stick bugs as a reference to the meme

one of the coolest things ive ever done for the sake of curiosity was i grabbed a shovel full of a "army ant" colony took it to a black ant colony (cause i assumed they were the weakest) and dumped it on the side of their mound to see what happened... and it was crazy. so the black ants sent out scouts to see what the ruckus was, spotted the "invaders" and scrambled back inside at top speed, the army ants spotted the black ants as well and i shit you not, started fortifying then the waves started. all in all it was a afternoon well spent in my case because holy crap, the fight was legendary.

I will never get tired of hearing yoshi sounds when a lizard eats something. Makes me giggle every time

R.I.P to all those frog mains in this video who just could not catch the insects in this video. Wonderful video as always, this tierlist was one I was looking forward to so much.

Damn man, I just found ur channel and am freaking loving it! All your choices of effect-sounds and music makes me soooo happy und pumped. And damn! the Hornet Theme für the total Top-Tier, Ants, Bees and Wasps? I'm crying! Considere your channel as advertised from me :)

Me: Has a Chess tournament today and needs to prepare Also me: *INSECT TIER LIST*

I love how most of the time you want to show the agility of the insect we see them dodge a frog attack and watching the frogs fall is somehow really funny

“Dragonflies can’t walk” is my favorite bug fact of all time now.

First time in this channel and I loooove the concept ! Do a tier list of real life animals and call them "combattants" like it's a video game, I dont know if it was already made but I never seen that before, Gg dude 👍

Your content is such a creative way to teach people about animals. With so many different types of Hymenoptera I think it would be cool to see a tier list with them only!

As a silver fish main, I am greatly offended. Sure we suck at pvp but we can survive years longer than most insects. On top of eating wood and paper, we can also eat our own shed skin, and with this can survive in a jar for years with limited resources. I've always been able to pass on my genes and complete the main story multiple times before dying off. Were definitely more of an rp kinda play style, just coz we can't build or pvp like the best I really think we're being overlooked ❤️🤗

it was definetly a better choice to spend more time on making videos and having higher quality videos than spending less time on them. This is absolutely amazing and editing is top tier

Loved to see Hemipterans getting some respect, they are easily one of the most underrated arthropod classes of the game! The model of wings some of them have, with membranous hindwings and forewings that are hardened at the base and membranous at the tip, also allow them to have greater defense stats without sacrificing too much of their flight maneurability stats (although I do agree beetles absolutely are S tiers).

That eyewitness theme is pure nostalgia to me. i remember watching those tapes at my grandma's house.

They may be some F tier insects, but in matchup against human mains they sometimes have so much intimidation that they win a battle, resulting in human mains run away

12:54 Fun fact, there is a type of assassin bug that coats itself in the dead corpses of ants which works as a really good disguise letting him not get attacked by any of the ants around him, it can also spray the ants so that the other ants of that colony attack the ant

I love your style of video making them a gaming style but still being able to explain the anatomy of the animal. Love your videos

20:24 Perfect timing on Dung Defender’s theme LOL, great job TZ

Honestly I really want to see an “F Tier Tier List”. Just a tier list of all major build in F tier with the builds in this F tier being genuinely the worst builds in the game right now with this S tier being build that are just barely not in normal F tier. This would also be cool for builds in normal S tier as well.

I think it is important to note the impact non-social Hymenoptera have. Parasitoid wasps are one of the most important balancing forces on other high tier insects. Many insects that cause problems when they get ported other servers have populations on their native server mainly controlled by a species or two of parasitoid wasps.

21:39 Only a few beetles have exceptionally high mobility, many of them are the slow, lumbering builds you'd expect. 23:57 Also, I think the acid horn perk is unique to only one or two species of termite. The rest all rely on mandibles.

So brilliant of you to make this youtibe channel. You literally can't run out of content, there are so many different species of these bugs that can get their own video

"Technically termites are a variant of the cockroach build" made my inner entomologist very happy

The nano blade intro was hilarious 😂

I’d love to see sub tier lists for insects, like because there’s so many different kinds of ants, bees, beetles, spiders, and flies it would be super interesting.

hi, im in school pursuing a degree in entomology!! a couple things i wanted to note: -leps are totally d tier (unfortunate, because moths are some of my favorites lol.) however i think it's important to note that leps, specifically caterpillars, are most of the basis for our entire food web!! they're the main consumers of plants, which directly take energy from the sun and convert it into usable food energy. caterpillars then are the majority of things that eat plants, therefore transferring that energy to most everything else in the food web. basically, almost everything eats insects or eats things that eat insects. so in terms of viability they are mostly low tier, but in terms of ecosystem importance, they're up there with pollinators. (also there's some cool crypsis in moths, plus some cool defense mechanisms like arctiidae moths which can confuse bat sonar by making high frequency vibrations). -orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids). under normal circumstances i agree with c tier. however. if there's a lot of these guys in tight quarters, they'll enter a gregarious form that literally changes how they look and how they act. these are locusts, and this is how we get locust swarms. i think orthopterans when they swarm like that deserve a or b tier honestly because the amount of deleafing they can do is crazy. -i love you neuropterans, trichopterans, plecopterans, and all other bugs that spend 99% of their life as OP larvae before growing into a shitty adult form that lives for a week to fuck and die -dragonflies (+ mayflies, also in odonata) have more primitive wings! they literally have different musculature structures to other winged insects. the tradeoff is thay they can't fold their wings like, say, beetles can, so their wings always have to be sticking up like that. i love them. they are so cool. -thank you for acknowledging the power of the termite. termites do agriculture. termites have architecture. termites strong forever. i love these guys. why did wood roaches have to ruin them having their own order (lighthearted, i love roaches too. but i think termites deserve their own order. to represent their power.) termites also have funny guys in their stomachs (i want to say protozoans?) that are what allow them to digest wood!! so they have tummy pals :) -funny thing about the beetle species vs ant numbers thing. hymenoptera is actually the order with the most species. research has come out literally in the last like, two or three years proving that. so ants win doubly!! i've been a long time fan of this channel (longer than i've been in school for insects, haha)!! i love this type of stuff and insects in particular are, of course, a special interest of mine. looking forward to more arthropod content in general!!!

I appreciate you taking a breaking from the endless arthropods to give us that clip of the ducklings napping on a log (with cameo by dragonfly) as a palate cleanser.

You forgot to bring up the rare grasshopper "Swarm" event where grasshopper mains gain access to the locust build which allows them to farm xp so efficiently along with other locusts that they can completely strip regions of plant based xp.

I love having this guy's videos on in the background while I'm doing work

I love the Eyewitness theme song in the background. Pure nostalgia ❤

16:21 That footage was hilarious. The mantis player's reaction was absolutely comedic gold. Swinging their pincer frantically to try and dispell the stink debuff faster, then looking at the stink bug player in sheer confusion before cleaning the same pincer indignantly. I love mantis players, they always have such a comedic, charming look and personality to them.

You know he's good when he puts the Hornet battle theme from Hollow Knight on the hymenoptera faction man. You finally did an insect tier list. Shoutout to all the Arthropod mains!

Love the game related commentary. 10/10 video

"Ultimates Survivirs" - Show a Cockroach just casually walking out a Venus Fly Trap. U made that point abundandly clear sir.

I love how Silverfish have essentially one point in life: Run.

Butterflies and moths are squishy and often just food outside of being pollinators. But I can't believe you didn't mention the coolest most niche defence they have. If they get trapped in a spider web they're able to shed their very loose scales, making them be able to just tumble off to survive another day. That has to give them at least some bonus points.

Black ops music, RuneScape font, such nostalgia ❤ S tier content for sure 👌🏻

this is literally one of the best youtube videos ive ever seen and ive been watching youtube since 2008

Came for the entomology, stayed for the frog pratfalls

A note on cockroaches: they have a chance to cause a passive debuff on Human players, sometimes procing to an Intimidate or Terrorize debuff. This effect gets a boost when in flight. Some cockroaches end up terrifying stronger Human players because of this. It's not enough to bump them up from C-tier, but it is a very useful perk

Spring is here rn and there's a bunch of little grasshoppers all around and it's so funny watching them fumble their landings with their long awkward legs 🤣

This is a great way to tell a science story! Good job!

Whoever came up with this idea of describing insects like video game characters deserves a Nobel Prize! Great stuff!

Awesome. I’ve actually made friends with at least one mantis. Having a drink after work with my coworkers and they started freaking out because a tiny (like 1.5 cm) Mantis had landed on my shoulder. Not wanting to have my ear ripped into by scaring it, I provide it the old finger tip and it climbed from there to the edge of the patio furniture. Little weirdo just hung out for at least five minutes just looking at me, tilting its head back and forth like my pug. Never felt so much personality from a bug, definitely felt like “someone”

You think i wouldn’t notice the dung defender theme in the beetle part? Lol nice reference, also the hornet theme at the ant part. My hollow knight senses are tingling!

I appreciate you used the dung defender theme from hollowknight for the beetles

A 30 minute tier zoo video! That’s a blessing from the lord! Love it

20:23 love how you matched the Dung Defender theme to the beetle

Microscopic wasps: I am so tiny that S tier isn't enough for me

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Both very entertaining and sharp observations about the insects abilities. Happy to see my main Dragonfly in A-tier. With the cool factor of being able to also do loops; and their 95% hunting success rate it could be argued he could be S-tier. I feel like it was a coin toss to bump him down to A.

As a former Toad Main, all those missed attacks felt like a personal attack 💀

26:36 I think this guy's insanely smooth transitions into the sponsor ads does not get enough credit. He gets me every. single. time.

It is also worth mentioning that insects faction is more suited for hardcore players who want to experience the most horrific parts but on the other hand have some broken abilities.

I love to play as the Silverfish, whenever I want to have that extra challenge. Your only objective is to eat paper and survive, basically turning the game into a giant Hide & Seek Horde Survival game

I've been big into biology and ecology all my life but I find the "gamified" approach adopted on this channel to covering the material extremely compelling and regularly brings a smile to my face even though I'm watching them talk about things I already know. I just hadn't thought about how "broken" an ability was given the current patch level. Well done.

One interesting thing about the Bee players is how they managed to make an alliance alongsize Human players. Some bee players make special guilds that give Humans some of their resources in return for their protection. This might seem like a bad deal at first, but the more you look into it, the more your realize just how powerful this can be. I mean, when you have a hyper intelligent titan as your protector, that's a pretty good deal!

I love this list, i think i would have put prey mantis at the top of A tier not the bottom. Just because in a head to head match up the mantis would the other two. Again love your work!!!

Love how Hollow Knight soundtrack plays when beetles introduce themselves 😂

Surprised that the Grasshoppers group Locust events weren't even mentioned. I know the events aren't common but the buffs it temporarily gives the Grasshopper are insane

While playing stick bug you might get the “meme” perk. It does nothing to your actual play style or build, but it makes you funny to human mains

I never had any nintendo systems. Im glad tierzoo made me finally find gmthe mario song I've heard once that was kinda similar to kh1 clock tower song. Sad and happy song. The one that plays when they're talking about butterflies. Thank you

Great work great effort great production quality!!

I grew up in an urban environment and insects are what introduced me to outside gameplay.

The spider masquerading as an ant at 26:30 literally did the thing in TV shows where somebody is dead or knocked out but the protagonist has to use them as a disguise or pretend that they are alive. I hope that somebody else saw it

Its a fantastic video, but the BlackOps 2 Multiplayer music was and will forever be a nostalgic banger!

Was really suprised mantis wasn’t higher up. Nice video!

The fact that chsnnels like yours about animals and prehistoric animals still use the "Walking With " clips for footage warms my heart. The whole series is definitely one of the best prehistoric series we ever got. Also phenomenal video as always.

it's incredible how underrated this class is and how everyone says they're useless, and yet an enormous portion of the players in this game play it.

Perfect choice of Background music ❤

I can’t believe you didn’t mention one of the bee team’s most intimidating group attacks, piling on their opponents and cooking them alive through the team’s collective body heat.

26:15 I would love to see a tier list of mimic/impostor builds!

Just started playing Overwatch 2 the last month and the intro had me in stitches. The chat part is a fucking chef’s kiss!

As a Zoo Keeper who specifically works with Insects and other invertebrates, I want to say thank you. This is genuinely one of the best and most fun overviews of a frankly vast subject area. Very very well researched, beautifully edited and lovely footage. I also don't think I disagree with a single ranking. You should be very proud this is awesome. Can't wait to see some order specific tier lists!

The gamer perspective is amazing definitely getting a sub 💪🏾

I'm surprised by how I could see the entirety of this video without feeling fear or disgust. The clips selected were perfect to stimulate my curiosity while keeping my insect fear ar a surprising minimum!

As a biology student, a 28 minute TeirZoo video gets my heart going. Thanky Teirzoo!