All I can think of watching this is that this observation had to have a beginning. There once had to be a guy who had nothing better to do than to watch ants and noted that they carry living caterpillars to their anthills and started to be curious. The eureka moment of finding the solution to this had to be orgasmic glorious.
David Attenborough is the bees knees. I immediately associate his voice with everything that's wonderfully bizarre and extraordinary about the microcosmic universe that exists beneath us.
Expertly trained insects with tiny cameras. It's amazing how many recruits they go through. The last class, five survived while the rest were accidentally stepped on.
It's kind of sad that it's a pretty literal metaphor for how our society works. They can't live without one another, individuals don't do well or last long without help from other individuals. They all have a duty and carry it out whether they want to or not, like a job or paying taxes. Laws are, like you mentioned, the scents that tell them what to do. Always changing, and changing their behavior with it. One moment alcohol or weed is considered a cardinal sin, then the next it's accepted, the acceptance spreading like wildfire throughout society. Morals back in the day are completely different than the ones we have today, and they will continue to change throughout the future of our existence.
Mr. Meeseeks You are confusing the ever changing laws with morals which are the relationship between persons and are stable and don't agree with laws all the times. It is the law that should be based on fundamental morals. To give you an example- killing jews was not only acceptable, lawful but also beneficial to one's career in the WW2 Germany. However, one of the reasons they had to invent a more efficient tool of mass destruction- gas, was because the soldiers who were perfoming those tasks were going crazy, mad and addicted to drugs to help them cope with the psychological damage even though they were patted on the shoulder and given medals. We, as persons morally perceive good and bad regardless of the law. That being said however you are right about us almost instinctively following orders, laws, seeking average jobs and trying to survive in the society. However there is a difference. Ants live, work and die for the nest. We work to survive and by doing so we contribute to the big mechanism Speaking about alcohol or weed they will always be a drug regardless of what the laws say. Even if they released a law forcing you to consume n amount of weed a day it doesnt make it any better than a drug that has thinking impairing properties
@@rhunter42dragon hippies love ant larvae. They eat in their chicken egg omelets. I've actually tasted it, its not that bad, adds an odd creaminess to the omelet.
Excellent footage and documentary! It's surprising that so many members of the family Lyceanidae have symbiotic-ish relationships with ants. I'm surprised there wasn't something related to "honeydew" excretion. Anyway - great show! :D
Somebody needs to use the "instant homicidal airborne pheromone" weapon in sci-fi. Like an alien is about to be overwhelmed but then it releases a gas which makes all the humans kill each other.
Merope Angel Aliens will follow these rules why? Also, NO ONE follows these rules . These rules are just an excuse for big Alliances to claim it's OK to invade small alliances.
Kind of but it's a chemical signal instead of a wave and it's not that they're angry because then they'd attack the alien but it just makes them attack each other.
The butterfly isn't a parasite. Parasites live inside the host, and eat their bodies/body contents. The butterfly isn't doing any of that. It's living with the ants, and eating the ant food. It's more like a pest. Kinda like a mouse. The mouse sneaks into your house, and eats a little bit of your food to survive _(but never tries to enter your body to drink your blood or eat your entire body)._ The only difference is that the mouse doesn't release chemicals to make you think it's your dog.
An astute observation. I admire that you took the time to read this comment and thankful that you responded. You have sharpened my understanding, and for that I wish I can repay you. So here, have a like!
Not Pulverman It is considered parasitism but more specifically brood parasitism, it does harm the survival of the ant colony as it demands more food but it doesnt eats your inside out like those horrifying parasites we know.
These insects are quite complex. Although their life is simply a cycle of producing babies and growing into adulthood, their unique way of doing so is quite amazing. These insects are quite bizarre and very amusing. It is quite beautiful how nature makes these adaptations.
For a sec I thought the wasp would suddenly hatch from the butterfly lol, but I guess that one wasn’t infected it the larva died. But then another hatches into a wasp.
When the caterpillars form their cocoons, you can tell which is a wasp and which is a butterfly as the butterfly's are lighter than the wasps. Also I saw another video which depicts the caterpillars as carnivorous and they eat the ant larvae.
Stop hating on these wasps. It’s nature. If they don’t do this they’ll all die since they rely on caterpillars to survive and reproduce. And they also control the populations. At least some butterflies get to live. And I don’t think it hurt too much, since the caterpillars seem to be fine.
WOW. How in the...?? Learning how insects evolved these kinds of capabilities would be so incredibly fascinating. I cant waut until we have a better grasp on how these things come to be. All of these developments in nature are just astonishing! Unbelievable.
Adrian D they didn’t evolve these capabilities, they were created with them! How could the wasp come into existence, since it needs the fig tree to reproduce the fig tree had to be here first. That doesn’t work though, because the wasp is what pollinates the fig tree! The survival of both species is dependent on the other! How can mutual dependency evolve between a plant & an insect? They would both have to evolve at the exact same time, & at the exact same location for both to continue reproducing!!
@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg I'm not trying to be rude, but your understanding of evolution and grasp on how it works is tenuous at best. Go watch some detailed videos or read more about evolution! It's spectacular! I recommend Richard Dawkins "The Greatest Show on Earth", an absolutely spectacular book. Cheers! Happy learning! :)
Yes, thats exactly how co-evolution works. The fig tree and the fig wasp evolved at the same time, in the same place and became dependent on each other for their reproductive processes. A bit high-risk mind; if one of them goes extinct, so does the other one. But thats how evolution is. It doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough to produce the next generation.
This documentary is sooooooo unkown >.< Actually it is one of the best I have ever seen. The cameras they used are just purely awesome, the way the stories are told is great, the information given is huge and of course a great voice and experience of david attenborough. Even though im fom germany still NEEDED to watch this in english :P If you liked this part you should buy the whole DVD. Its worth its price!
Ants: STAHP RIGHT THERE! HOLD YER HANDS IN THE AIR! Wasp: You know I don’t have hands, dummy. Ants: DONT MAKE US FIGHT YOU! Wasp: No U! *releases pheromone* Ants: Ewww fart- OI YOU WIF TEH BIG JAWS, YES YOU, COME AT ME! *ants bite each other* Wasp: *default dances it’s way to the caterpillars and jabs em*
that is incredible. It implants its eggs into a caterpiller and the egg takes over and is born as a wasp. Imagine a wasp did that to a pregnant woman and she gives births to a wasp. This is the exact same thing just on a much smaller scale. Truly amazing!
I know I'm a little late on this but when my teacher was showing us this video, and when the part where the wasp puts the babies on the caterpillar my whole class (including me) said RIGHT aloud. RATED R!!!! RATED R!!!!
Please ask Sir David Attenborough to get in touch to save our school butterfly meadow. This school butterfly meadow is the reason we have coloured butterflies in the Bont today. Six years of nothing then last year it all changed thanks to the school. There is a Facebook page called Help Save Pontarddulais Primary School Field. Butterflies are the symbol of appreciation. Lets save them!
@x3IceJubei They either set build the nest them self with cameras and than add an ant colony in there or they used tiny cameras and pushed them into the nest for clear view. However they did definitely put the larvae in front of the ant colony to pick it up and also released a wasp nearby to invade the nest
How beautiful is the universe, no amount of words can describe the magic nature. How sad it is that one day we die and depart from this adventure we have the luck of belonging to.
@onkive If I had to guess, once the caterpillar turns into a chrysalis the wasp egg begins to grow. It then feeds on the nutrients rich innards of the caterpillar chrysalis; once it fully develops the wasp hatches and leaves its host.
Well Dustox isn’t a parasitic wasp, it’s a moth and Wurmple chooses (based on personality) whether to become a butterfly (Beautifly) or moth (Dustox). Then it becomes either Silcoon or Cascoon, respectively.
Parasites are fascinating, they need to take just enough to live, but not so much as to destroy the species that feeds them. Trial and error I suppose, those that took too little never survived and those that took too much took the species they fed off with them. What I find most fascinating about this was second degree parasitization shown by the wasp! It is a parasite relying on a parasite to breed!
The butterfly deserves to be eaten from inside out. They are bigger, and as such are fed more than regular larva, taking up more resources. Their chemicals they produce even make some ants prefer them to their actual larva, feeding them more often and even in the case of food shortages, has been known to eat actual ant larva. However as it turns out, both the Butterfly and the Wasp are considered endangered. Deception only works so many times.
can you imagine the story behind all this,baby caterpillars are confused as a larva by ants and is taken to the nest, treated royally , then a wasp comes in and confuses the ants to attack each other, leaving it the opportunity for sabotage, and plants eggs inside two, so once the butterflies evolve the egg inside evolves also, and knowing that wasps are superior to butterflies, it kills them , the last of the three, the one that didn't have an egg inside it, was probably the luckiest
Wow, I seriously thought I'd seen most bizarre insect behavior. I mean it's like deception on top of deception. What's really intriguing is thinking how these relationships developed and what evolutionary process led them to behave this way.
What I find fascinating is that in this situation it's win win win. The butterfly survives, the wasp survives, and the ant colony survives (albeit somewhat depleted in numbers). This is a rare outcome in the natural world.
Its hardly win win. The caterpillar are the reason why the ant nest got raided by the wasp and many ants probably killed each other because of the wasps pheramone. Several caterpillers get killed by the wasps growing on them. Only the wasp wins.
All I can think of watching this is that this observation had to have a beginning. There once had to be a guy who had nothing better to do than to watch ants and noted that they carry living caterpillars to their anthills and started to be curious. The eureka moment of finding the solution to this had to be orgasmic glorious.
David Attenborough is the bees knees. I immediately associate his voice with everything that's wonderfully bizarre and extraordinary about the microcosmic universe that exists beneath us.
Andres Molina I know this is three years old and all, but you should’ve said buzzare. Sorry.
As do I! Cheers!
Expertly trained insects with tiny cameras. It's amazing how many recruits they go through. The last class, five survived while the rest were accidentally stepped on.
Wow, ants basically just do whatever the current scent in the air tells them to do. Biggest followers in history.
It's kind of sad that it's a pretty literal metaphor for how our society works. They can't live without one another, individuals don't do well or last long without help from other individuals. They all have a duty and carry it out whether they want to or not, like a job or paying taxes. Laws are, like you mentioned, the scents that tell them what to do. Always changing, and changing their behavior with it. One moment alcohol or weed is considered a cardinal sin, then the next it's accepted, the acceptance spreading like wildfire throughout society. Morals back in the day are completely different than the ones we have today, and they will continue to change throughout the future of our existence.
Mr. Meeseeks You are confusing the ever changing laws with morals which are the relationship between persons and are stable and don't agree with laws all the times. It is the law that should be based on fundamental morals. To give you an example- killing jews was not only acceptable, lawful but also beneficial to one's career in the WW2 Germany. However, one of the reasons they had to invent a more efficient tool of mass destruction- gas, was because the soldiers who were perfoming those tasks were going crazy, mad and addicted to drugs to help them cope with the psychological damage even though they were patted on the shoulder and given medals. We, as persons morally perceive good and bad regardless of the law.
That being said however you are right about us almost instinctively following orders, laws, seeking average jobs and trying to survive in the society. However there is a difference. Ants live, work and die for the nest. We work to survive and by doing so we contribute to the big mechanism
Speaking about alcohol or weed they will always be a drug regardless of what the laws say. Even if they released a law forcing you to consume n amount of weed a day it doesnt make it any better than a drug that has thinking impairing properties
Just like trump followers
They are basically just biological robots
Haha! Totally!
Wasp: "Hey baby."
Caterpillar: "I NEED AN ADULT!!"
Wasp: I am an adult ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Out of all the videos RUclips has to offer, this is the last one I would expect to find a DBZA reference
"I AM AN ADULT!"
nst as need or not
Tfs reference
Real life aliens.
At the start, could anyone else picture the ants finding the larvae thinking "How the hell do these guys keep getting out?"
the butterfly is basically a hippie squatter, but the wasp... The wasp is like a SciFi villain with its chemical warfare and its injecting eggs.
The caterpillar actually eats the ant larvae. So not exactly a hippie.
@@rhunter42dragon hippies love ant larvae. They eat in their chicken egg omelets. I've actually tasted it, its not that bad, adds an odd creaminess to the omelet.
@@JessHull ummm... sure.
(Slowly backs away)
@@JessHull Have you ever had Casu Martzu?
Excellent footage and documentary! It's surprising that so many members of the family Lyceanidae have symbiotic-ish relationships with ants. I'm surprised there wasn't something related to "honeydew" excretion. Anyway - great show! :D
Somebody needs to use the "instant homicidal airborne pheromone" weapon in sci-fi.
Like an alien is about to be overwhelmed but then it releases a gas which makes all the humans kill each other.
You're describing every 7th episode of the original Star Trek series.
Merope Angel Aliens will follow these rules why?
Also, NO ONE follows these rules .
These rules are just an excuse for big Alliances to claim it's OK to invade small alliances.
Angel Samael Isn't that the plot as the first Kingsmen movie except EXTREMELY mosified?
*modified
Kind of but it's a chemical signal instead of a wave and it's not that they're angry because then they'd attack the alien but it just makes them attack each other.
...and i impress my self when i make it to work 5 min. early..this is ICONIC!
I really should be sleeping, but here I am, watching nature videos with Sir David's calming voice.
So there's a parasite on another parasite and the ants don't know either is a parasite.
This is terrifying!!
The butterfly isn't a parasite.
Parasites live inside the host, and eat their bodies/body contents.
The butterfly isn't doing any of that. It's living with the ants, and eating the ant food.
It's more like a pest.
Kinda like a mouse. The mouse sneaks into your house, and eats a little bit of your food to survive _(but never tries to enter your body to drink your blood or eat your entire body)._
The only difference is that the mouse doesn't release chemicals to make you think it's your dog.
An astute observation.
I admire that you took the time to read this comment and thankful that you responded. You have sharpened my understanding, and for that I wish I can repay you.
So here, have a like!
It's like having a dog. The dog makes you want to take care of it.
And then the dog gets infested by a facehugger.
Not Pulverman It is considered parasitism but more specifically brood parasitism, it does harm the survival of the ant colony as it demands more food but it doesnt eats your inside out like those horrifying parasites we know.
Exactlyyy
These insects are quite complex. Although their life is simply a cycle of producing babies and growing into adulthood, their unique way of doing so is quite amazing. These insects are quite bizarre and very amusing. It is quite beautiful how nature makes these adaptations.
It's cute! When the butterfly hatch the ants just look on it,I thought the butterfly is going to be eaten!!
For a sec I thought the wasp would suddenly hatch from the butterfly lol, but I guess that one wasn’t infected it the larva died. But then another hatches into a wasp.
when the wasp hatches hes just like "surprise bitches! Im a wasp!!" and bounces haha!
I normally don't watch 144p videos
Except when there is David Attenborough in it
What extraordinary life forms. Insects never cease to amaze me with their cunning.
When the caterpillars form their cocoons, you can tell which is a wasp and which is a butterfly as the butterfly's are lighter than the wasps. Also I saw another video which depicts the caterpillars as carnivorous and they eat the ant larvae.
Can you give us a link
@@alabamaperson7225 ruclips.net/video/BM8TczDI0g0/видео.html
love this guys voice. he can take the creepiest, coolest, or blandest things and make them fascinating.
Nature never ceases to amaze me. Fantastic video!
I did not really have a deathly fear of wasp before I watched this but now I am going to be thinking about this all day
david attenborough's voice is literally better than sex
Amen to that brotha.
Hoboharry
I fanboyed a lil seeing your profile pic.
And yeah, amazing voice
YES
OK.
@@Giniro_No_Suisei boring
That's so creepy. I was expecting a second butterfly.. but no. It was a wasp :/
one of the most interesting stories any species has to offer.
Infiltration, Mind control, Kidnapping, and Escapism
That is pretty damn awesome
How in the world does BBC get such amazing footage?!
No one in the world can rival the BBC in making documentaries and camera wizardry.
it is amazing how specialized the insects are and all based on the ant if it disappears the butterfly and the wasp will probably go as well...
If anything this video shows you how completely random,chaotic the universe is. That's why it's so fucking beautiful.
Good ants they save caterpillars
the cycle of life is truely outstanding and beautiful. the wasp relys on the caterpillar and the caterpillar relys on the ants.
amazing, especially how the caterpillar mimic the sounds!
So the butterfly took advantage of the ants and then the wasp took advantage of the ants again. Damn ants are dumb as hell
slateflash
But the ants took advantage of the aphids before that.
...Or did the aphids take advantage of the ants?
Well they’re smarter than you, which isn’t saying much lol.
Soundwave The Christian no they’re not
@@johnfraire6931 the ants and aphids have a mutualistic relationship. The butterfly and wasp are parasites.
@@rhunter42dragon That's a good point, mutualists don't necessarily have a "host", huh?
I wanna take that wasp and squish it!! When he layed an egg in those two caterpillar, that must of hurt man! :P
Stop hating on these wasps. It’s nature. If they don’t do this they’ll all die since they rely on caterpillars to survive and reproduce. And they also control the populations. At least some butterflies get to live. And I don’t think it hurt too much, since the caterpillars seem to be fine.
5:25 The change in music made this scene even sadder 😢😢😢
I'd have to wipe a tear from my eye if that wasp wasn't so damn brilliant.
WOW. How in the...?? Learning how insects evolved these kinds of capabilities would be so incredibly fascinating. I cant waut until we have a better grasp on how these things come to be. All of these developments in nature are just astonishing! Unbelievable.
Adrian D they didn’t evolve these capabilities, they were created with them! How could the wasp come into existence, since it needs the fig tree to reproduce the fig tree had to be here first. That doesn’t work though, because the wasp is what pollinates the fig tree! The survival of both species is dependent on the other! How can mutual dependency evolve between a plant & an insect? They would both have to evolve at the exact same time, & at the exact same location for both to continue reproducing!!
@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg I'm not trying to be rude, but your understanding of evolution and grasp on how it works is tenuous at best. Go watch some detailed videos or read more about evolution! It's spectacular! I recommend Richard Dawkins "The Greatest Show on Earth", an absolutely spectacular book. Cheers! Happy learning! :)
Yes, thats exactly how co-evolution works.
The fig tree and the fig wasp evolved at the same time, in the same place and became dependent on each other for their reproductive processes. A bit high-risk mind; if one of them goes extinct, so does the other one. But thats how evolution is. It doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough to produce the next generation.
This documentary is sooooooo unkown >.<
Actually it is one of the best I have ever seen. The cameras they used are just purely awesome, the way the stories are told is great, the information given is huge and of course a great voice and experience of david attenborough.
Even though im fom germany still NEEDED to watch this in english :P
If you liked this part you should buy the whole DVD. Its worth its price!
Damn !! So 2 completely different Species come out of the same Cocoon ! Wow
No. A butterfly from a non-injected larva. A wasp from an injected larva.
+Bruce Grebeldinger They said "came out the same cocoon"
What exactly happens to the caterpillar larvae injected with a wasp egg? Is it consumed by the unborn wasp?
+Hanan Awan that seems to be only explanation.
When does it say that a wasp and butterfly hatch from the same cocoon?
That's amazing! The way the wasp makes the ants fight ea other. Why didn't The Most Extreme ever find this one...#1 material.
Ants: STAHP RIGHT THERE! HOLD YER HANDS IN THE AIR!
Wasp: You know I don’t have hands, dummy.
Ants: DONT MAKE US FIGHT YOU!
Wasp: No U! *releases pheromone*
Ants: Ewww fart- OI YOU WIF TEH BIG JAWS, YES YOU, COME AT ME! *ants bite each other*
Wasp: *default dances it’s way to the caterpillars and jabs em*
I wish I could live a few thousand years in the future just to find out the mysteries of this crazy ass world.
that is incredible. It implants its eggs into a caterpiller and the egg takes over and is born as a wasp. Imagine a wasp did that to a pregnant woman and she gives births to a wasp. This is the exact same thing just on a much smaller scale. Truly amazing!
I know I'm a little late on this but when my teacher was showing us this video, and when the part where the wasp puts the babies on the caterpillar my whole class (including me) said RIGHT aloud. RATED R!!!! RATED R!!!!
I am always amazed at how they film this.
Please ask Sir David Attenborough to get in touch to save our school butterfly meadow. This school butterfly meadow is the reason we have coloured butterflies in the Bont today. Six years of nothing then last year it all changed thanks to the school. There is a Facebook page called Help Save Pontarddulais Primary School Field. Butterflies are the symbol of appreciation. Lets save them!
@x3IceJubei They either set build the nest them self with cameras and than add an ant colony in there or they used tiny cameras and pushed them into the nest for clear view. However they did definitely put the larvae in front of the ant colony to pick it up and also released a wasp nearby to invade the nest
How beautiful is the universe, no amount of words can describe the magic nature. How sad it is that one day we die and depart from this adventure we have the luck of belonging to.
Those ants have nothing but good intent and they're getting played like a Damn fiddle!
4:43, MOTHRA!!!!!!!!! now go fight a lizard and call it godzilla!
frenzy spell : Creatures up to level 25 will attack anyone nearby for 60 seconds , If you get that you are a geek
slapchannel lol Skyrim 😂😂
I watched this while I was high and I literally died of laughter when the ants started attacking each other. LOL
this is awesome just love this info. thank you so much for the info.My Family and I watched this morning.AWESOME.
@onkive If I had to guess, once the caterpillar turns into a chrysalis the wasp egg begins to grow. It then feeds on the nutrients rich innards of the caterpillar chrysalis; once it fully develops the wasp hatches and leaves its host.
Probably
Is it just me or can one not change the quality of the video?
thanks, how interesting this caterpillar is.
But the wasp is scary..
Damn nature! You strategic!
Wonder if this is where the idea for the Pokemon Silcoon and Cascoon came from?
i'd have thought so IMO
Well Dustox isn’t a parasitic wasp, it’s a moth and Wurmple chooses (based on personality) whether to become a butterfly (Beautifly) or moth (Dustox). Then it becomes either Silcoon or Cascoon, respectively.
Sort of since Dustox is half poison type but since both are based on Lepidoptera I highly doubt it.
This is the strangest thing I have seen in a long time. Filled with all kinds of fun biology.
Nature is amazing.
although its intruding but its beautiful for the bluebutterfly,like a family unlike the wasp being so extra
Nature comes. It's so great.
LOL I love the sound the larvae do when they beg for food! "Yo! Gimme food bitch! I'm hungry!"
Wonderful camera skills.
baby caterpillar is so pink when they born :o
1:17 tells you why. The pheromones and sounds the caterpillars make.
Wow 144p, finding a video with this quality is actually more valuable to me than a high quality one due to its rarity 😂💯
Parasites are fascinating, they need to take just enough to live, but not so much as to destroy the species that feeds them. Trial and error I suppose, those that took too little never survived and those that took too much took the species they fed off with them.
What I find most fascinating about this was second degree parasitization shown by the wasp! It is a parasite relying on a parasite to breed!
This scenario is amazing.
12 years an ant? LOL fuffufu
David Attenborough, u are the best!
That part with the wasp creeping up and touching the caterpillar all over with its antennae is friggin creepy!
Poetic Justice when the parasite gets a parasite
I love bbc so much they make new worlds I wanna work for them
Attenborough is a legend!!
the grubs are so cute, look at its little feet at 3:33
Fantastic insights into the insects' world. How can caterpillars make sounds? Is there a special Organ responsible for it?
Love you man.Kamal Khan from Denmark
I think so. This is the first I've heard of larvae using pheromone instead of food to put the ants to work! Tricky little bugs :-)
That is TRUELY AMAZING!!!
It was called as Common Blue Butterfly
The butterfly deserves to be eaten from inside out. They are bigger, and as such are fed more than regular larva, taking up more resources. Their chemicals they produce even make some ants prefer them to their actual larva, feeding them more often and even in the case of food shortages, has been known to eat actual ant larva.
However as it turns out, both the Butterfly and the Wasp are considered endangered. Deception only works so many times.
can you imagine the story behind all this,baby caterpillars are confused as a larva by ants and is taken to the nest, treated royally , then a wasp comes in and confuses the ants to attack each other, leaving it the opportunity for sabotage, and plants eggs inside two, so once the butterflies evolve the egg inside evolves also, and knowing that wasps are superior to butterflies, it kills them , the last of the three, the one that didn't have an egg inside it, was probably the luckiest
Wow, I seriously thought I'd seen most bizarre insect behavior. I mean it's like deception on top of deception. What's really intriguing is thinking how these relationships developed and what evolutionary process led them to behave this way.
So that's butterfly have a rough childhood
Evilishly sneaky jaw droppingly amaizing
Zergs are amazing!
*Meadow Bell* Is An Old Soul, She Is Awesome^^
It’s so nice that the ants take care of those caterpillars.
It's less nice that the caterpillar eats their own larvae when they aren't looking.
What I find fascinating is that in this situation it's win win win. The butterfly survives, the wasp survives, and the ant colony survives (albeit somewhat depleted in numbers). This is a rare outcome in the natural world.
Its hardly win win. The caterpillar are the reason why the ant nest got raided by the wasp and many ants probably killed each other because of the wasps pheramone. Several caterpillers get killed by the wasps growing on them. Only the wasp wins.
The ant nest with butterflies would have the pheromones on the entrance
nature is so amazing!!
The wasp's feelers freak me out!
Fascinating
Awesome documentary
How do they film these things and Sir David Attenborough is one bad ass brit
That's amazing!
are those ant sounds?
yes
Those are some crafty animals.
Was... was I the only one that thought the new blue butterflies were suddenly going to burst open like in Alien?
The Changeling.
The most sophisticated world is the insects one😮 Horrors and criminals go together. And lots are to investigate .
Wow.....just wow.........