The only Costa Rican vinegaroon

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Searching for the Costa Rican Vinegaroon, Valeriophonus nara, an night in the mountains of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
Watch a vinegaroon spray my thumb here (beginning of the video):
• 'Fearful Appearance'
Corrections / additional comments:
04:38 - This appears to be an extreme case of a transition between the first and second phase of foraging for these termites wherein soldiers have led workers to a selected log to be newly colonized. This means I was incorrect in assuming that they were already living inside.
Chapters:
00:00 - Longhorn Beetles (Orthomegas marechali)
01:13 - Granulated Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga granulifera)
02:09 - Mayan Lichen Mantis (Liturgusa maya)
03:15 - juv. Costa Rican Vinegaroon (Valeriophonus nara)
04:38 - Conehead Termites (Nasutitermes sp.)
05:34 - Pug-Nosed Anole (Anolis capito)
06:26 - Red Earth Centipede Snake (Tantilla schistosa)
07:50 - Stick Insect pair (Rhynchacris sp.)
09:01 - ad. Costa Rican Vinegaroon (Valeriophonus nara)
10:15 - Katydid (Pristonotus sp.)
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8 июл 2024

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@anthonydavies6021 3 месяца назад

It is a true joy to have a new video from you. I so admire your attitude towards the natural world and all living things. Apart from when you allow things to bite or sting you, we don't know what unintended assaults you may incur in your work? Your in-depth knowledge is really impressive, and makes me wish I had been true to my childhood dream of being a zoologist. The film quality is excellent. Altogether a real pleasure to watch.

@GeneralApathy 3 месяца назад

Thank you. The rate at which you see animals in these videos defend themselves is roughly representative of what happens off-screen as well.

@bugsmetropolis 3 месяца назад

@@GeneralApathy Brilliant video dude! I’ve commented on some of your older vids and I’m so glad you’re back!

@happyshooter01happyshooter44 3 месяца назад

It's awesome seeing someone who just loves their passion, and doesn't have to perform to make it interesting for people who don't share it

@frankdughtank8327 3 месяца назад

Very Cool to see all the conehead termites gathering together to colonize another piece of wood!

@AfroRyan 3 месяца назад

Vinegaroons are such cool arachnids. I had one as a pet for some time and really enjoyed my time with her before she passed. I loved watching her dig, and she was very fun to feed. She was very scared of me at first but I made a point to always let her "smell" me before feedings, and it really didn't take long before she stopped displaying defensive signs and instead would come out in the open since she understood (in her way) that she was about to be fed.

@wyrmeleon2002 3 месяца назад

I'm so glad to see youve posted again! As someone who loves entomology and herpetology, you've quickly become my favorite "animal finding" channel. I love your calm attitude, your knowledge, and how respectful you are towards the organisms you find!

@oliverhyde4316 3 месяца назад

long shot but do you know any similar channels that look at ornithology? love this channel and want to find other similar ones

@wyrmeleon2002 3 месяца назад

@@oliverhyde4316 man, I wish. I haven't really found any birding channel that scratches that itch for me. The closest I know of is Stefano Ianiro. He primarily makes wildlife photography/homestead and habitat management videos, but I especially like his birding content.

@hivehelepolis6591 3 месяца назад

your back!! lol I rewatched a bunch of your old videos not even a week ago so this is an awesome suprise

@jontancool9181 3 месяца назад

The quality of you videos is the creme de la creme of youtube

@phuriaxounetbfh1649 3 месяца назад

Are you french? Or does the expression "creme de la creme" is also in the english vocabulary?

@jontancool9181 3 месяца назад

@@phuriaxounetbfh1649Its used that way in english too, its a saying. "The best of the best"

@phuriaxounetbfh1649 3 месяца назад

@@jontancool9181 Thx 😀

@iep_fnf 3 месяца назад

I have ADHD and i don't usually watch full videos. But your videos are maybe the only ones i watch till the end.

@mokeyallaucope8987 3 месяца назад

you have tiktok brain*

@Gonxp12 3 месяца назад

Have you been diagnosed formally by a doctor?

@iep_fnf 3 месяца назад

@@Gonxp12 yeah

@forral1614 3 месяца назад

because mentaI iIInessess weren't invented untiI tiktok was?? You might be deveIopmentendIy stunted ngI@@mokeyallaucope8987

@rakbladsvalsen218 3 месяца назад

first line was unnecessary

@kieranfranklin-baker6776 3 месяца назад

Good to have these videos back!

@sunny_muffins 3 месяца назад

5:40 gentle *YOINK* Thanks for the additional info in the description about the termites. Now I can sleep peacefully. 😊 3:58 Those Taylor Swift scorpions are very cool!

@victorlemus482 3 месяца назад

Thank you for showing all of these amazing creatures. It is great to see your uploads.

@frankdughtank8327 3 месяца назад

Good to see you posting!

@Norre644 3 месяца назад

Finally. Been waiting dude, glad to see u back!

@onicma8151 3 месяца назад

I love your videos General Apathy!

@BlackIronCollector 3 месяца назад

look who's back from the dead

@hcildwold1751 19 дней назад

I've been looking for this type of channel for a while, subbed.

@cactusthestupid7222 3 месяца назад

I am still a little afraid of huge bugs, but I think this video has made me slightly less so. The fact that you handled them without injury is comforting.

@Mortuus87 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your videos. Travel safe, will be looking forward to the future treasures you have to show.

@oliverhyde4316 3 месяца назад

these videos should get so many more views. it’s the best nature channel on youtube in my opinion. both relaxing and informational, i always learn something new

@bugsmetropolis 3 месяца назад

You’re back!!

@marsfeathers 3 месяца назад

Absolutely gorgeous specimens and fantastic camera work and handling!!! I love how you cover these animals

@TheBlargMarg Месяц назад

I love how Vinegaroons are the most nightmarish looking, but chillest and friendliest critters ever. You couldn't even purposely get it to spray you which is funny.

@silentandcliche Месяц назад

I could be wrong but, from what I've seen, the majority of tarantulas fall in this category as well. Scary as hell but, actually really chill and have no real interest in biting humans. Still scare the hell out of me if I randomly happened upon one tho. Can't fight nature, I guess 🤷

@pablodona5912 3 месяца назад

OMG I was checking every day for a new video !!! So happy when I saw it !! Once again, thank you so much for such a perfect video !!!! Professional, informative and fascinating! It’s truly a real pleasure to watch and learn from the best !!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!🙏

@JadisVoid 3 месяца назад

I just discovered this channel and I'm so happy that I did❤❤

@16weblia 3 месяца назад

Great footage and insight as always

@triggerofdead 3 месяца назад

Damn they look beautiful.

@SithMami 3 месяца назад

So glad to see that you posted again, my friend! Those beetles in the beginning of the video are insane!!!!

@Ty-bz7zx 3 месяца назад

Great video... Relevant and concise info..joy to watch. tyvm.

@Dustnuts 3 месяца назад

This video was a really cool one! Great job again!

@justpassingby-iz9ku 3 месяца назад

hope you had a great trip! thanks for the upload!

@faithful_to_the_bay5487 3 месяца назад

Love these vids !

@alanmolox2095 Месяц назад

When I lived in El Paso TX, I was very fortunate to have been given a fairly large vinegaroon, which was very frightening to me but because I loved insects (and arachnids) I accepted him as my pet, I named him "Vinney". The reason I post this comment is because I noted that as you tried to put your specimen back down it was hesitant, and I can, from experience explain why: It is because they, like reptiles, love warm surfaces, mine loved to sit in the cruck of my arm, completely content to stay there while I typed letters home (I was in the Army at the time, posted at Fort Bliss). Vinegaroons are amazing little critters, quite unafraid of people, and docile.

@realfnneato3111 3 месяца назад

Always a great day when GA uploads a video

@MemoGGG16 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the video! Great info!

@zissou4978 3 месяца назад

Wonderful video, I was able to discover new animals through you. The anole was especially cute and the Mayan Lichen Mantis was beautiful. Your knowledge, love and gentleness is admirable and I'm so grateful for your channel. Thank you for this uplaod!

@GeneralApathy 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much. :D

@zissou4978 3 месяца назад

@@GeneralApathy you're welcome!!!

@patrickduralia-il2xo 3 месяца назад

You have no idea how long i ve been waiting for this video

@kkonaice 3 месяца назад

Your back yessss!!!!!

@user-hv5ni5mq6j 3 месяца назад

Very beautiful footage, I enjoyed alot

@beauxjames1419 2 месяца назад

Been going to Costa Rica since I was 4 months old. From quepos to the osa. Turning 48 this year and I saw a couple things I’ve never seen in this video.

@jozefhudak822 2 месяца назад

You did amazing job. Thanks a lot.

@MAGGOT_VOMIT 2 месяца назад

I'm finding more and more Worm Snakes here in North Carolina. I'm 56yrs old and always lived in the "sticks" and never saw my first one till I was in my early 30's.

@GlassDolphin465 3 месяца назад

I was just watching one of your older videos an hour ago funny. Glad you uploaded a new one a few hours ago I was watching the one were you look for tarantulas in Panama.

@GlassDolphin465 3 месяца назад

Sorry not an hour ago a few hours ago.

@spencerthompson1049 3 месяца назад

Wonderful video thank you for letting us tag along. The red coloration of the juvenile Valeriophonus nara is interesting, I wonder why they have it.

@GeneralApathy 3 месяца назад

It is likely not known in this case, but many species change in appearance with age because their niche also transitions.

@Verminangel 3 месяца назад

YAAAAAY WOOOW YIPPEE IM SO HAPPY THAT YOU UPLOADED YOU JUST MADE A GOOD DAY EVEN BETTER!!!!

@GeneralApathy 3 месяца назад

@TeslaTales59 3 месяца назад

Good to have you back! Those are big bugs!

@Blues40 Месяц назад

Awesome video ! Thanks for sharing

@ilzambongo1401 2 месяца назад

It's so incredible how rich the biodiversity in that small peninsula. Despite our size, the Osa Peninsula is full of all kinds of insects and animals. Hope you had a great time in Costa Rica. Pura vida!

@AFMR0420 3 месяца назад

What a great video!

@LukeMcGuireoides 3 месяца назад

Brilliant content. A++ Loooove it

@andyward8430 Месяц назад

I lived in the high desert in California for a while and came across a couple of vinegaroons. They looked like something out of a sci fi movie, like some mutated scorpion. As a kid they had an infamy to them because we knew they existed but you never really saw them.

@NYInsectFinders 3 месяца назад

cool stuff as usual

@FreerunningGamer 2 месяца назад

Wow that's so interesting about the Termites!

@villain6208 3 месяца назад

i love these videos wish i could explore somewhere like that

@cratecruncher4974 3 месяца назад

Great collecting site. I love costa Rica. I occasionally spot stick insects up to 8" in length in my yard in Austin. Their northern range is incredible for such a huge insect.

@UmUs 3 месяца назад

That was some interesting termite behaviour, I had never seen termites exposed like that, I'm glad you clarified thr reason for their behaviour.

@webstertarrell9760 Месяц назад

insects and arachnids are by far the most awesome animals 😍

@jonathanpeterson1984 Месяц назад

Omg I’m so glad I stayed in the water on my trips to Costa😂 I did go to the hot springs in the rain forest but NOT AT NIGHT! But we did witness and record an army ant parade where they like made a highway with ants standing up side by side with the colony traveling inside the road they had created. I will NEVER forget seeing that.

@imthebestmayne122 3 месяца назад

0:49 no idea if it was intentional, but that was a cool transition

@theendoftheworld9921 3 месяца назад

6:45 cutest snake i ever seen

@cosmicpsyops4529 3 месяца назад

A new study said bugs fly around lights essentially because they are constantly trying to reorient themselves toward the sun/sky.

@M63Tod 3 месяца назад

I had no idea I was so interested in insects until watching this video.

@X-Gen-001 2 месяца назад

I'm in Australia. I remember walking down the street one night with a friend and he picked up this huge Longhorn that was on the footpath, it cut right through the tip of his finger which then bled. He obviously mishandled it. Those mandibles are amazingly strong. Imagine having a bolt cutter for a face.😂

@nicholasratapu8500 Месяц назад

I know misty aint gonna like going this route, but ash made a promise to professor oak to fill up that pokedex

@howaboutataste 3 месяца назад

Well, if Jurassic Park movies weren't enough to make me never want to move to Costa Rica, this clinches it.

@adamheeley285 2 месяца назад

Its funny how calm these animals when handled

@blazelo1301 3 месяца назад

He’s back lfg

@alexthompson9876 28 дней назад

i thought i was tough untill i watched this.

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Месяц назад

Lizards in your videos: is it the humans with the glass rectangles in our faces again?

@josephmedina6403 Месяц назад

The only time we see Vinegaroons in AZ is during monsoon rains

@avazquez01 3 месяца назад

"Unfortunately i am going to wake it up" Anole: NOOO LET ME SLEEP

@kermitoz7734 3 месяца назад

Coooolll

@zackcanary7843 3 месяца назад

Bro finally back on his account

@highdesertsunset3011 2 месяца назад

they get HUGE in South New Mexico

@remo6743 2 месяца назад

"Hey guys, wanna go fishin" lookin ahhhhh lizard lmao

@samueljohnson4738 3 месяца назад

There are soo many monsters in the jungle.

@espanadorada7962 3 месяца назад

Hell yeah

@chriskolb3105 3 месяца назад

MORE CONTENT MAN!

@MrJesseFisher 3 месяца назад

Hey man I love you channel. I am sure you know but I’ve seen a lot of people reupload your content to shorts on RU-vid as well as Facebook. Idk if there is much you can do but maybe try to find them and comment your channel info on them as well as obviously reporting them

@raphlvlogs271 3 месяца назад

people often mistake termites as a type of ants but they don't even look alike as individuals

@fernandoflores3161 3 месяца назад

Nice! I have never seen those in my country! Can you look for Centruroides bicolor too? That is my favorite scorpion from Costa Rica!

@squidikka 3 месяца назад

3:47 I had to listen to that twice. I thought you said "Taylor Swift scorpion."

@onicma8151 3 месяца назад

I can't unhear that now.

@zissou4978 3 месяца назад

same, but I still couldn't comprehend what he said

@squidikka 3 месяца назад

@@zissou4978 He says "The tailless whip scorpions"

@zissou4978 3 месяца назад

@@squidikka ooh, thanks for the clarification!

@leg414 3 месяца назад

These look nasty! Where can I get one or two? Peace

@drivenmad7676 Месяц назад

I had a job opportunity in Costa Rica. I m glad i didn't go.

@coltonthorpe7812 2 месяца назад

You ever wonder what these bugs and animals are thinking when they get grabbed, held in place, looked at for ten minutes, then just...put back right where they were? It's really got to mess with their hunter/hunted mindset.

@parmesanzero7678 Месяц назад

Insects are pretty much stimulus-response. Their behaviors are pretty deterministic. I don’t know if its experience is altered at all once it is no longer in the situation of being picked up and out down when it is unharmed.

@drop830 Месяц назад

Yeah thats all fine and good, but what do they taste like?

@skankhunt9078 Месяц назад

It look like a bang ended scoot

@keefsmiff 2 месяца назад

Holy crap ..we have mice smaller than those bugs

@RapidReptiles2011 3 месяца назад

BROOOO remember me? Im the kid that asked you if feather millipedes lived in Tennessee!!! I was your 3 000 sub too!!! I love your channel and i made my own. Im heading to florida tomorow in search of scorpions and reptiles. If you could check me out that would be AWESOME