Why Viruses are Good for Wasps
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Visit brilliant.org/s... to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.
Contracting a virus is generally a bad thing, but among certain parasitic wasps, passing a virus to their offspring is actually key to their survival.
Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk
SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at / scishow
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: / scishow
----------
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
SciShow Tangents Podcast: scishow-tangen...
Facebook: / scishow
Twitter: / scishow
Instagram: / thescishow
#SciShow
----------
Sources:
www.pnas.org/d...
newswire.caes....
www.ncbi.nlm.n...
www.cdc.gov/po...
www.mdpi.com/2...
journals.asm.o...
Images:
www.gettyimage...
commons.wikime...
academic.oup.c...
commons.wikime...
www.mdpi.com/2...
www.researchga...
www.biotaxa.or...
www.researchga...
commons.wikime...
commons.wikime...
Visit brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.
imagine the pox virus mutating into a human infection
You have the sweetest way of taking the Parasitoid Alien's Side in all of this.
XD
I like that our solution to a fruit fly problem is to unleash the fruit fly version of xenomorphs on their babies.
On paper allowing predators to repopulate would be the ideal solution. But that requires that we live with nature, not against it. FYI- a marsh is a gift, not an obstacle to farming.
I can't wait for world war 3.
@@nathanandsugar5252 could you tell me how a Marsh is beneficial for farming? I actually have no idea
Y'know... I have never thought of wasps like this. But very accurate...
Yep ain't nature wonderful.
I'm glad you mentioned that this is an evolved, unconscious behaviour
A babysitter for WASPS is called an au pair.
And if it werent for a type of wasp, we wouldn't have Figs, cos the wasp goes in with pollen on it, gets stuck, and the fig basically eats the wasps as it grows around them, cos ain't nature just amazing... :P
I think you're confusing "amazing" with "disgusting" but the two are often synonymous. Like how any baby of any species is born.
Ah yes, they make the figs taste of incest coz they breed in it too.
@@heathercalun4919 ya figs are gross, I just eat the wasps raw, much crunchier
@@ILoveTinfoilHats ha.
Thank god, I will eat more figs out of hatred for wasps
Wasps are quite lovely in a lot of ways. We wouldn't have bees without wasps as bees evolved from wasps.
Wasps are also carnivores which eat a lot of other insects we don't particularly like or want around.
Bees are wasps really. As are ants, although they're less popular.
@@BooBaddyBig Aye, I'm aware.
Bees and ants evolved from wasps. But so long ago they're completely separated from their wasp ancestors.
But that's why bees and ants have "wasp waists"
@@angelitabecerra Wasp waists, but even more dramatically, many types of ants can still fly (during the breeding season).
@@BooBaddyBig Aye. I've studied mostly bees, wasps, and hornets. But I know a bit about ants
@First Last Yellow jackets give wasps a really bad name. ;)
Nature is amazing!
1K%
This is so interesting, I never knew about this!
I'd take the infinity course, but I'm worried it'll take too long
iI seems to me this could equally well be described as not about the wasp, but about the virus. I think the title could equally well be "How this virus uses a wasp to transport it between fruit fly larvae".
Symbiosis is a two-way street.
It could even be titled "This fruit fly tweaks its immune system by allowing a wasp to infect its larvae with immunity challenges".
Wasps and viruses working together?! HANS!!!
'HANS'?
Yez
@@yangree4213 I agree. I think
@@bradj977 pleb
Load the 88!
The amount of things we learned from insects - incroyable!
Thanks for knowledgeable video .
A wasp with a viral boarding party…freaking metal.
I bloodly love parasitoid wasps!
Hank, you look so different since last I’ve watched the channel! Regardless, great video as always!
lol
Evolutionary biological warfare, unpleasant, unsettling and interesting :P
Or symbiosis, you know these 2 organisms found it easier to exist with each other than without
@@samsoncooper1 maybe those two are a symbiotic parasitic duo, but there's a third bug, the larvae being eaten and infected :P I don't mind the prevention of flies, it's the parasitic aspect that Bugs me
@@BenCDawson Technically, parasitism is also a type of symbiosis. It just isn't "mutualism" like everyone pictures when they hear the word.
And then the humans get their hands on this technology, claim they're just going to use it against fruit flies, but decide to experiment on political prisoners, and then the Wasps take us over and eat all of us alive.
Yeah I saw this movie in 1979.
Sorry, most people who watch RUclips are too young to understand this reference
@@Direblade11 yet some will get it and smile.
For those who don't understand, it's Alien.
@@stanb1455 Stan how could you!?!?
@1:25 Are you saying that this wasp has the same type of gland we see on others in its family, or is the gland you mention a wholly unique organ to this one species?
It boggles the mind how tiny the organisms are that they are working with. I mean a fruit fly is not exactly a giant and it's larva must be miniscule, but they are looking at baby wasps that grow in the larva so they must start out unbelievable tiny. Whomever decided to study these wasps must be psychologically attuned to very small things.
surprise stung me when i saw this video
Wasps cannot have a babysitter methinks.
When you think of the most annoying things it's wasps and viruses
Nah, stop and go traffic and waiting in line at grocery stores
Mosquitoes
Politicians...
Flys and mosquitoes too!
Cant believe noah let those mfs on the ark
Wasps are metal
That statement is more true than I think you even meant it to be.
The lizard people are a red herring. Our puppetmasters are silver androids shaped like 9-ft tall wasps, with magnetic fields where their joints should be. Who else do you think was behind the Alito decision? The xenomorphs, of course! Like the pox, they needed to change the laws to ensure we are vulnerable when they invade.
You probably think I'm joking. I used to think I was joking too. But my outrageous claims kept getting proven right, so you fuckin watch.
How did they work this out? How has evolution done this? Damn nature, you scary!
Amazing!
Woot woot UGA!
A pox? How delightful, a pox
I like these wasp.
Oh neato
waspy wasp
This is twist plot
Neat
Trying to use a virus against fruit flies. How could this go wrong? XD
The pox could mutate back to humans? wasps start laying eggs in us? I made a wish upon a star, you see, and now we're all going to hell.
Wait, so offspring coming from inside an animal is weird? I mean, most mammals come from inside their mothers
But not from having the babies in the bodies of another species, that they eat from the inside. Though I think that just appears weird to people because most aren't familiar with parasitoids.
Babysitters for wasps!
I mean fruitflies are small, so a number of wasp larva developing to maturity inside of a fruitfly larva.
Are insects just a russian doll?
Wow, wasps protect their babies better than humans. Incredible.
Like your profile pic "Mr Typical"
@@vizuren lmao what?
@@PapaProne lol 😂😂
@@vizuren At least it's better than 2 red dots :O
@@PapaProne 😐 oh ok
Now the bugs are using bio weapons
Great
Pokerus- Wasp did it first!
20% of the video is intra-video advertizement. Please, survive. Love the content - Its the same money, floating around in advertising beyond our immediate influence. We actually would have more control in direction and development of content if we subsidized media more. Still cost the same. You pay for advertisement funded media through purchase mark up. Part of what you pay to buy stuff directly funds advertizement. Your money, coming from you. You cant choose not to buy things. Advertising money; built into the purchase price outside of your influence. It's a tax. Lots of money circulating around in advertisement. And almost the exclusive source of funding for multiple platforms of media. There is no competetion to this funding. Most people cannot fund much, if any content through direct subscription due to economic realities of income to cost of living ratio. Please, nothing against SciShow, Brilliant, or the very real need to fund onself with advertisment to provide content within our current economic system.
😅👍👌
Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here ❤️
ayyyy
4 minutes for me
yes me me me!
*claims*
Here
get ratio'd fruit flies
I hate wasps. Why the hell do red wasps seemingly seek me out whenever I'm outside? 🥺
Either one wins, we lose.
No we win too. Parasitic wasps ensure we are not over run with insects, they are very pretty and come in a multitude of colours and don't have stingers.
@@samsoncooper1 Aight then, we win. But the ones who paralyse poor little tarantulas...
Oh God where's the male narrator?
no need to punctuate EVERY syllable with your hands. its distracting and silly and unnatural and too much.
thank you