Why Butterflies are NOT your Friend (but some sharks are) 

"Why Butterflies are NOT your Friend" Sounds like something a Moth would say

For those who didn’t know, the bird he said guidelines won’t allow him to say the name of is called a Blue Footed Boobie

In Mexica mythology, butterflies are associated with fallen warriors because they both "live breif lives of glory and beauty before an untimely death."There is also a goddess called itzpapalotl (obsidian butterfly) a goddess of war associated with the first warrior to die in battle.And finally in mexico there is a butterfly that supposedly announces one's death called mictlanpapalotl (butterfly of the land of the dead), although it is commonly known as the black witch moth.

If you, like me, were very disturbed by the Pacarana footage--just know that a researcher said that it does not appear, based on its movements, to be in pain--it's just aware of the fact that it's covered in something it cannot easily remove, and Pacarana hate to be dirty. Their lipid layer--the stuff that's not supposed to be removed with soap--is what helps them stay clean because it helps keep dirt from sticking to their fur and makes them water resistant kind of like duck feathers. Duck feathers have a protective layers, which is why a duck can go swimming without looking like a bag of limp squawking wet feathers afterwards, but a chicken, not so much. To recap: The rat was not in pain, but please, if you ever catch a wild animal--even for benevolent reasons--DO NOT attempt to put human (or even animal safe) chemicals on it without consulting a veterinarian or other qualified animal expert who has identified the creature in question and is able to help you move it to a safe facility / back into the wild. This creature is not a pet, and needed proper care or to be immediately released back into the wild.

Fun fact: I used to be afraid of butterflies when I was 8 because I always thought they could suck your blood. Now knowing that they can, looks my fear has become justified.

As an Australian, you should NEVER let your guard down when coming here.

While butterflies have been almost universally appreciated for their beauty, it's only since the 18th century that they've been connected in folklore to more "cute" beliefs. In "the rape of the locke" the sylphs, very sweet air sprites, have butterfly wings. This design became very popular over the the next two centuries for any sprite and was eventually the go-to appearance for the most edulcorated faeries. But in old european folklore (and in that of other continents also) butterflies were seen as either ghosts or witches, because of how they frequented corpses and blood. Since some butterflies also try drinking milk and liquid dairy products if they find them, some languages like English saw them as "butter-thieves"

“There’s a species of butterfly in Spain that is literally attracted to the smell of fresh corpses” **chugs that information like alcohol in a writer-specific way**

As a native Albertan, yeah I’ve never actually seen a rat there, I finally saw my first rat in British Columbia. The province right next door

SpongeBob and Patrick were right to be afraid of the butterfly then

6:01 As a Vietnamese, I feel so proud of Dúi to make it. He is indeed a pure one, and thank you for mentioning him!

You're by far the best channel for wildlife. You're just so original & you're the king with a tiny microphone

Having been subscribed for over half a year now, I feel like "and that's honestly not even the worst part" is just a line to be expected at this point.

I love how many endless stories of sharks being basically giant sea puppies to divers keep popping up all over the world. As long as you don’t confuse them by introducing food to the equation while you are present, loads of sharks are just big curious babies that love pets and snuggles

That story about the guy in the shark it's literally the cutest.

@2:30 "They're super clean and will spend hours washing themselves every single day. Which is... Way better than some people" 🥳🎉👏

There's a reason butterflies are used as imagery in Japanese horror media so often. The butterfly in Japan is often connected to depictions of death and mysticism. I'm not to well studied up on why this is a thing but my guess is they were often spotted doing this messed up shit on all the corpses left behind after huge battles.

Funny thing is my parents were upset with me for freaking out in a butterfly exhibit at a museum when I was younger. Time to tell them my fears were legit. Edit: First of all, holy crap I’ve never gotten this many likes. Thanks guys. But also, I was in pre school and I had never seen a butterfly before, so I still feel like my reaction was justified. Now I just find them creepy not scary.

My pre-k classes laughed at me when I wouldn’t go in the butterfly zone at the botanical gardens. This cements the fact that I was right, and I knew better without knowing why I knew better lol.

I remember having my picture taken at preschool when I was three, and screaming in terror when a butterfly landed on my shoulder. All the grown-ups laughed and thought it was adorable. Knowing the twisted stuff butterflies do makes my past toddler self feel _vindicated._

My man told me the back story of the rat looking thing showering. It apparently has a skin condition and is getting medicated baths. Its probably learned to relate the baths with relief and is now actively smearing the soap around itself to get it in the right spots

That shark sorry is actually really heartwarming, cool hearing about it

I grew up terrified of butterflies, especially after that one SpongeBob episode. I just never liked them, always keep my distance, but this takes it for me! I could never again with them

I never understood the obsession people have with butterflies. Anyone who has seen them under microscope understands how horrifyingly scary they truly are

This man is putting out insanely high-quality, mini-documentaries by using not much more than TikTok editor. You're kinda nutty man, please keep it up.

I raise butterflies and I have some lepidopteran facts to add to this 1. when butterflies form a pupa, it is their body. they aren’t inside of a pupa, they are the pupa. it’s their final stage of shedding, and they shed their entire head in the process and grow a new one in the pupa. moths make chrysalises, which are protective coverings made out of leaves and often silk formed around the moth’s pupa. “chrysalis” and “pupa” are not interchangeable words 2. there is a type of caterpillar known as the puss moth that looks like a tuft of hair and has a sting so bad it has been compared to the feeling of breaking a bone 3. moths have been around since before flowers existed 4. butterfly “pee” (i’m not sure if this is technically what the secretion is) is red because they don’t process red dye in flowers 5. giant silk moths don’t have digestive systems and dying of natural causes for them just means starving. they live for about a week as moths (usually) with their sole mission being to reproduce 6. studies show butterflies remember being caterpillars since they are able to retain instincts and behaviors they would have learned as caterpillars 7. it has been proven that moths and butterflies have the ability to be trained by methods of pavlovian conditioning, a conditioning method popularized with dogs, meaning moths and butterflies have a capacity to learn in the same way that a dog does 8. the largest lepidopteran on earth is NOT the atlas moth and it can get up to 14 inches in wingspan, which is about the size of a large bat. I was wrong about this one! someone in the replies has informed me that the largest moths are actually the white witch moth (in terms of wingspan) and the hercules moth (in terms of diameter). I recommend googling these guys if you aren’t afraid of moths. they’re very pretty 9. to reference the video, butterflies mud puddle because bodily fluids are very heavy in nutrients and when your lifespan is like a week you gotta do what you gotta do. this is most often recorded in male butterflies and it aids in their reproductive efficiency, which is pretty much the point of a butterfly’s adult life

As a Kirby fan, I’ve known to be afraid of butterflies for 5ish years already

Sharks can even get a bit too friendly and try to Netflix and chill with you

Love how he actually cares about animals and their health even though he just talks about them and really doesn't have to. Shows true character.

I go to the beach in NC, and the tiger sharks use the Outer Banks as nurseries for their pups. We usually go after the pups are born, so I'm just swimming in shark-infested water. They usually stay clear of humans, but I did have a 3ft long shark brush against me once. Absolutely wonderful swimming with the sharks for free. Still be careful around sharks, kids. You're in their domain.

i love how sharks are basically the puppy dogs of the sea yet i still fear most of them

I was always afraid of butterflies, but i never knew why. Now it makes a lot of sense. I never trusted those things.

As an Albertan, it’s great to hear that people actually know about our war on rats

As an Albertan, when I first travelled to Boston with my classmates(all of us never travelled outside of Alberta before)we all had a collective spook when we saw the rats near the docks. Imagine a bunch of highschoolers looking in awe and excitedly pointing out rats because we never seen them before.

Is he a zoologist or just really interested in zoology? The information he's giving are well presented and interesting ♡

On the brush tail possum, we’ve had them in our walls for over a decade now (we got used to them after a while) and a month or so ago it actually broke through the wall, and we could see it’s fur through the hole (thankfully the hole wasn’t big enough for it to get out of, we covered it so our dog doesn’t make it worse, and we’ve got someone in to get the possum out)

Fun fact: the bird with the blue feet that he didn’t want to say is called the “Blue footed Booby” Yes, that’s actually the name and as you can see, the vampire fidge was drinking the blood from one.

I can't tell you how much I love your channel. I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s watching the discovery channel with absolutely brutal documentaries, and it has fueled my love for animals and nature lasting to now, my late 30s. Your coverage of animal facts isn't just accurate, it's HILARIOUS, and honest, and so incredibly fun. I love everything I have ever seen you make. Please never stop. You deserve your own actual show. I hope money starts rolling in for this. I don't have a lot to spare right now but as soon as I do, I am signing up on your patreon.

I have learned so much! I love how you narrate everything. You got yourself a sub sir! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😘

Butterfly absorbing sweat from turtle: what ya gonna go huh, what ya gonna do

I'm not surprised about the shark. There's a similar story except the shark is a freaking Tiger Shark called Emily. She fell in love with a guy off the coast of South Africa and he's helped her get 3 fish hooks out of her mouth in all the years he's known her. She also brings her freinds over when they need help with hooks too. She recognises the guys boat and though they couldn't see each other during the pandemic, as soon as he was able to he hopped back in the water to see his girl who was very happy to see him again.

Caterpillars do some pretty crazy things too. There are some that live in ant colonies and feed on ant brood, avoiding being killed by adult ants either by thick leathery skin that makes them impervious to bites or (even more messed up) by mimicking the scent of the ants to escape detection entirely. And then there's the wax moth, a pest of honeybees that sneaks into hives to lay her eggs. If the hatchling caterpillars aren't detected right away, they'll spin a silk cover to keep the bees off them and munch away at the honeycomb underneath.

Yo being Hmong myself, I never knew these Hmong dogs existed. Won’t get one but learned something new today! Thanks for the educational vid as always!

Makes me love butterflies even more

This video just validated my 30yrs of “crazy talk” & “irrational” dislike/fear of butterflies 😩🙌🏾. When I was about 7, I went to a sand pool on a super hot day and was followed by a butterfly trying to suck on me. I’m talking about this thing was hovering over the water and following me to the point I had to jump out the water, wrap in a towel & hide in the bathroom. I’ve stood strong in my stance since day one & still run from butterflies to this day 🙃😂😂

As someone from Vietnam, I can very much confirm that the dog "Dúi" in the vid is really a big fluff that everyone should try to cuddle with at least one, their fur is fluffy, soft and thick so ppl here usually hug 'em all the time

"Even tho they look like the product of a really questionnable one night stand" MNDIAYE - 2022

Those damn frogs and toads scare me out of my mind bro.

Fun fact, The Pokemon Beautifly has pokedex entries that also say it drinks blood of enemies. I learned a lot about real life animals through Pokemon.

Knowing the reason butterflies kept flying towards me was because they were trying drink my sweat makes my skepticism much more justified

A pacaran(?) diligently scrubbing it's little armpits like a human was definitely the purest thing I saw today.

Every time I go to a butterfly garden, all the butterflies land on my head and in my hair. For some reason, they really seem to enjoy how my hair tastes.

I am actually Hmong myself and I was not expecting to see the Hmong dog but I very glad to see one in your vids tho. I had always wanted one myself as a kid.

There was a rat 'infestation' (less than 100 rats) in the city of Medicine Hat AB in 2014 and they basically locked down the city for a few weeks while they killed them. Every vehicle that came in or left the city got searched, they also search every load of trash going to the landfill since that's where they were found initially. Good times.

Its like people are inventing new animals! Love this channel!

I like how he said " and remember this was 7 years ago" is if sharks were less tolerant of people back then

I’ve been telling people that there is little difference between mosquitoes and butterflies, but people keep getting fooled by the pretty colors Lawyers dress nice too,but they are still blood suckers smh

Well now I find butterflies even cooler

I have just become obsessed with your channel I love it lol

“ the unseasoned opossums look fresh out the poké ball”. 😂😂😂😂

I volunteer at a zoo's butterfly room and I always love explaining to guests that the reason a butterfly landed on their sweaty palm is the same reason they like lays potato chips: delicious salt.

I just love that it cleans itself, eats and can be dressed like a little person

"They'll do a weird butt thing" ... Thanks for the work you do, you are highly appreciated my friend!

Butterflies are fboys with wings. You earned a sub for that one.

Blue-footed booby birds are the “unexplainable” birds mentioned in this video. They got the name “booby” because they look stupid(and apparently booby had a slightly different meaning when it was first discovered) Also a flock of the birds are called boobies😏

I watched hunterxhunter, and on the first season, there were these butterflies that would either be around a dead person, or follow someone who was injured, turns out butterflies like that are real

Thank you so much for all your hard work 🙃

As an Albertan, yep, it is on sight. There’s signs along some backroads between provinces about Rat control. The first time I saw a rat was in BC, I was in pure awe of it

the pacarana cleaning itself is both uncanny in how it moves and cute at the same time.

The sick thing is I already knew about the butterfly thing. For two reasons really, the second one being less innocent than the other. The first one was when I saw a bunch of butterflies feeding on a rotting fish washed up on a riverbank at summer camp. The second being from a trashy borderline torture-porn of an anime movie with terrible CGI and the plot of a trashy horror movie (I think it was called Island of Giant Insects; it references butterflies feasting on human fluids, wasp larvae devouring captured people with a venom that numbs the pain to the point of ecstasy which looks even more gory in the manga apparently from what I heard, ticks so big they can overwhelm people, and a parasitic worm that drives the host to madness, pops out of the host eyes, and makes them act as bait for a giant flying predatory insect; these are all apparently based on real insects); it was bad, the CGI was bad, I'm not denying any of that, but I kind of want to see where it goes because apparently there's a plot and it ends on a cliffhanger.

I can hear that little guy bathing in the stream whistling or humming a tune while he washes up 😂

Comedy, information, entertaining, wholesome, and where to not bring a rat. Good job 👏

My housemate found an injured rainbow lorikeet (native to Australia) on the ground and multiple birds were drinking its blood when she found it. Luckily she rescued it and is nursing it back to health.

I respect butterflies, but I HELLA respect sharks because of all the flack they get. Same with snakes! ❤️❤️

Got to dive at Bawley point NSW and my dive group got a chance to hangout with some bull/stingrays and Port Jacksons and they’re incredibly chill animals when left to do their own thing. There’s also a shark & Ray rehabilitation centre about 1 hour north of Sydney (I can’t remember the name of the place) where you can go sit in pools with and feed juvenile Port Jackos and rays before they’re sent out into the wild

Bro I didn't know butterfly's were this fed up damn- 💀

"...drink the _tears_ of other animals..." That's disconcertingly schadenfreude & goth af for such dainty little flutterbutts...

The butterfly fact didnt really bother me. They need their energy from something after all. There are more disturbing things other bugs do anyway.

For Tigers it isn't really how strong their legs are. It's how there legs are put together. Basically they have a special cartilage connection on their leg joints that allows their legs to basically lock in place. This lack of hinging means they can stand even after death, the main use for it is to be perfectly still for hours sometimes stalking prey.

That one guy releasing rats is an absolute menace

Hes like a free tutor and his content is hella amazing

The rat deal in Alberta is real, they literally eradicated rats…they have a massive farming culture and rats would flourish there. You can drive for hours in the province and see nothing but farm fields. If you go north though, northwest, you’ll find the mountains and forests. Far south you’ll get the badlands.

We go from a cute dog to tadpoles scream in fear of being eaten

The butterflies _are_ terrifying but the closeup of the one on the left on the thumbnail was so cute 😭

I've been an exterminator in Alberta (Edmonton) for 8 years, I've never seen a rat in all that time. A few exterminators that I talk to have seen rats, but that's it. If you see signs of rats here, you have to report it to a government hotline immediately. It's honestly impressive that we've managed to keep this province rat free so successfully

I grew up in Alberta but moved to BC a few years ago. The first time I saw a rat scurry behind a dumpster, I froze and it occured to me that I had never actually seen a physical rat in person before. I was shook 😂

With a woof & a purr love this

I met this butterfly once at a place called “The butterfly farm” in around newcastle, this butterfly flew on my hand when I put nectar on it, I set him on a branch and went to the other area and when I came back, he was waiting for me! I felt terrible leaving, I still miss him.

I always love hearing how cuddly sharks are

Its hard for me to still think Butterflies are all that bad, even if they are basically pretty insect vultures that occasionally like to speed-up the process... but with no killing. It is hilarious to think that they'll irritate you to get your tears like "Cry Bitch! I just need a sample!!"

Love this guy. I learn so much

We should have known about butterflies via Arthur TV show with Binky Barnes' face splotching up like a Splatoon Match...

Who else randomly found this channel one day and now can't stop watching his videos!

as someone who grew up in Alberta I was surprised to know that we seem to be the only with with no rats, I already knew about the rat war but I thought that there may have been at least one other place that did it as well.

I am a mosquito magnet, always have been. Like everyone else has or or two bites but I’m covered. And a couple years ago, my mom planted some flowers that specifically attract butterflies. Guess who follows to the point of trying to get in the car with me 😂

*Yall butterflies was attracted to me as a kid and i been running since i was little, kids got that sense.*

He shows more emotions in the comments than he does in real life

So they really are kinda like scary monsters....Why does Spongebob KEEP GETTING IT RIGHT?!

That pup had the paw stripes like a heeler. Or cowboy corgis, which sounds like a fun nickname

Ayyy, a shout out from Vietnam 😂. Yeah, I remember the time 'cậu Dúi' took our internet by storm. Never quite catch it, so thank you for the clear up dude.