I’ve had dengue fever in my early twenties and now disabled from Lyme disease and coinfections. I have had several doctors marvel that I am still alive. I definitely think ticks are far far more dangerous than murder hornets or Africanized bees!!!
Fire ants definitely. Mosquitoes,of course. I thought females were smaller. What kind of bug is what southerners call mosquito hawks? They look like a big mosquito.
to be fair they can migrate or be shipped across the world with produce. ex: the murder hornet while primarily located in east asian countries and as mentioned in the video to be located in the northwest have been found in many differing locations like the east coast, canada, and mexico. there is less of a chance running into them in these different locations but its not impossible so its good to have the knowledge no matter where you are.
For a man fast approaching octogenarian age and having spent most of my life, indeed, my career outdoors working with large animals in various environments in the USA. I have encountered several of these critters, and I want to thank you for all of your effort in posting this. I learned a great deal.
If an invertebrate is “AFRICANIZED” doesn’t this imply that it came from Canada? Or was brought in by a musical culture trying to become popular and “do-gooders?” Great documentary…
I think he’s done this video already, or something very similar, have a look. But fyi, Forrest isn’t big on cryptids unless they’re the ones that were real and went extinct like the Giant Ground Sloth or the Thylacine
Fun story. When a teenager me and my step brother found an absolutely unbelievably large fire ant mound. It was summer so what did we do? You bet your ass we shoved firecrackers in there and ran off waiting for the detonation. We did not run far enough and very pissed off ants rained down on us.
Red ants are like the angriest and most wicked face head for a insect,put one under a microscope........you'll never look at ant again like you used to..........
I watched a documentary about fire ants on RUclips and it creeped me out...tha resilience of them little bastards is incredible. After watching that I was felling itchy😂🔥⚡🥳
Great content, Forrest. This is the way. High production youtube is the future for animal documentaries and educational media. Keep it up, it’ll grow the channel and help y’all make enough money to do some really cool expeditions.
In some videos they allegedly show the wrong species, but I for one prefer he spends his money on amazing adventures rather than a better editor. @grant9814
Fire Ants are no joke. I've been attacked several times in South Texas by them. Accidently step on a nest and you'll know it quickly. Each bite is like a red hot needle being dug and left into your skin. In my worst encounter, the skin on my leg was so inflamed it became rock-hard for 24 hours. The worst part is the itching though.... my god the itching after the attack. You'd run a cheese grater across your skin without thinking twice.
Yes, fire ants suck! I used to live in Florida and even though I was an ant-icidal maniac when I saw their mounds, some of the little bastards would get me when I would have to dig in my wife's flower bed. And you're totally right, the itching is maddening!
Story time.... I was working on a farm, drinking a martinelli apple juice, and went to take a drink, next thing i know i felt something in my drink. I thought it was a leaf, but turns out it was an Asiatic hornet, all black with an orange butt, it stung me in the back of the throat... Problem was I was alone and an hr from the nearest hospital... Luckily I made it, thank the creator...
A few times I'm thinking "I can't place where I'm America his accent is from" Then he said centimeters instead of inches" Guessing he moved a long time ago
@@LazyLizzy706 Yeah Elon Musk is from South Africa, and it’s just not generally something I think when I see a white guy, even though I am fully aware that many African nations such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, etc have substantial Caucasian populations.
I would love to see a video of a list of the most painful stinging insects in the world?? Hopefully you can make one about that in the future. 🤔 Great video! I like watching the videos you upload to your RUclips channel.
A big thank you from Australia for your interesting post. You ask if we have run across any of these insects. Living here in Australia, I have been stung by hoards of mosquitos, mainly in the 1950s when we didn't have the same eradication processes we have now. I have also been bitten/stung by the honey bee three times, horse flies by the hundreds and twice by ticks. I won't mention the number of bloodsucking leeches that attached themselves to my skin when walking through wet forested areas. The worst would have been the wasp that stung me three times in a part of a second, giving me an extreme burning sensation where it attacked me. Oh, I nearly forgot the bull ant that bit me on the big toe when I was ten. However, we also have some other beauties here. Although spiders are not insects but arachnids, I have included them in this list. The most feared one is probably the Sydney Funnelweb Spider. 1. Sydney Funnel-Web Spider: Known for its highly toxic venom and aggressive nature. 2. Redback Spider: Recognizable by the red stripe on its back, its bite can be excruciating and potentially fatal. 3. White-Tailed Spider: Its bite can cause severe pain and, in some cases, necrotic ulcers. 4. Giant Centipede: These can deliver a painful bite that can cause swelling and fever. 5. Paralysis Tick: Known for causing paralysis in pets and allergic reactions in humans. 6. European Wasp: Aggressive and capable of multiple stings, which can be very painful. 7. Honeybee: While generally not aggressive, their stings can cause severe allergic reactions in some people. 8. Bull Ant: Known for their aggressive behaviour and painful sting. 9. Mosquito: Carriers of dengue fever and Ross River virus. 10. Horse Fly: Their bites are painful and can cause allergic reactions. But that is not all the dangers we have here in Australia. Here are some real horrors. 1. Box Jellyfish: The silent assassin is thought to be the deadliest jellyfish to humans. 2. Saltwater Crocodile: The prehistoric predator from about 95 million years ago. 3. Blue-Ringed Octopus: One of the world's most venomous marine animals. 4. Eastern Brown Snake: The second most dangerous snake in the world. 5. Inland Taipan: One bite can kill at least 100 grown humans with its venom. 6. Stonefish: A hidden killer that is the most venomous fish in the world. 7. Common Death Adder: Can cause paralysis or even death in humans. 8. Cassowary: Endangered species considered the most dangerous bird in the world. 9. Tiger Snake: Venom is potentially deadly to humans. 10. Cone Snail: Beautiful shell but lethal to pick up. I will mention one more, even though it is not dangerous. The first time I saw them, I could not believe my eyes. I thought they were snakes from a distance. We have the biggest earthworm in the world. It is Australia’s Giant Gippsland Earthworm that exists in Gippsland, Victoria, as well as in the Tamborine Mountains southwest of Brisbane, Queensland. The giant earthworm can grow up to six and a half feet long and is the biggest worm in the world. This slithering behemoth can burrow up to five feet deep - without any limbs. What truly distinguishes the Megascolides australis species is that one can hear it through the soil - as it produces a loud and disturbing gurgling noise that sounds like water draining from a bathtub. A traditional worm, despite its size, the species lives underground and only surfaces when heavy rainfall threatens to drown it. This is how I saw it many years ago in the Tamborine Mountains during torrential rain that lasted several days. Sorry to have taken up so much of your space. 🙂
I got stung by like 100 fire ants when I was a kid. I was playing hide and seek with some friends outside in the dark. I decided to lay down at the base of a tree. My arm felt like it was on fire so I got up and ran to look at it in the light. I was covered in fire ants, I have a below average pain tolerance, but the sting wasn’t that bad. Getting stung by one bee or wasp is worse than getting stung by 100 fire ants pain wise. Edit: also I’d like to hear more about Forrest getting D.I.C in South America
Being Canadian, I didn't encounter most of these things until I went to Portugal. Lots of invasive Asian giant hornets there; I walked into a bush with tens of them once by mistake. They didn't sting me though; were actually super chill. I got bitten by a brown recluse spider in a pile of wood too, but the bite wasn't bad enough to cause a serious reaction; just bled a little and left a scar that was visible for about a year.
Fire ants are terrible here in south eastern NC. I'm a farmer and we have to treat our fields every year with pesticides just to try to keep them under control
When you getting you’re an show on Netflix or somewhere….dudes like a cross between Steve Irwin and David Attenborough, super knowledgeable and not scared to grab a deadly snake or two with his bare hands!
I've been bitten & stung by many different insects in my lifetime & I'm surprised you didn't mention carpenter ants & harvester ants!!! They also pack a mean bite as do horseflies,black flies,deer flies,stable flies & sand flies!!! They all draw blood!!!
While there's nothing wrong with the facts it bugs me (pun intended) that there is some footage of European hornets when you're talking about the Asian Giant Hornets. Same goes for the fire ants, some of the clips are of a completely different species. Something to consider for future videos, but otherwise great stuff!
Love your video's. I was wondering if you heard anything about the Zanzibar leopard. A video idea for you: most dangerous mammals in North America. I don't think alot of people would expect the moose on this list
Forrest you’re one of the best guests ever on the Joe Rogan podcast which is where I first learned of you. Had this video come across my feed and quickly subscribed. Best to you in all your endeavors good sir.
Florida fire ants are particularly painful. Have family in North Florida, and I remembered being about five years old playing in the sprinkler in the yard and I got bit on the leg several times. I cried.
I was in the military and in the early 90s, I was stationed in Florida. Now I'm from Connecticut and you can go for a hike in the woods, Have a picnic, sit in the grass. Well, no one said anything and I had to learn the hard way of all the bugs and snakes that lived in Florida. I mean, if you just sit in the grass before you know it you're covered with ants, it's crazy. We were playing volleyball one day, and my friend went to dive for the ball, and he went out of bounds and landed head first in a red ant hill. He lived down South, so he knew he had to take immediate action. He just jumped in the pool and started scrubbing them off. Despite his quick actions, he still got bit up pretty good.
I remember as child back in the 50's , we had a Tulip Tree, ( Fairfield Iowa / S.E. Iowa ) the base of the tree, there was nesting of Asian Giant Hornets, we referred to them as Cicada Killers. Now I know why here in Oklahoma , when we feed we break up the hay and look and see if we have any extra surprises in the hay we feed to the dairy cows. Griggsvill IL Over the years, Griggsville built more than 5,000 birdhouses, which led to the town's nickname, "The Purple Martin Capital of the Nation." The Purple Martin Highrise of Griggsville, Illinois.. Griggsvill is located in W.Central IL. right on the Mississippi River. On Our farm we put up Purple Martin houses , we are on the shores of Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma, we also put up bat roost boxes, as they eat misquitos.
Cicada killers and Asian hornets are a different species but they’re both huge. Cicada killers are solitary and live in holes in the dirt alone whereas the Asian hornets live in colonies.
There has been a nest underground right outside my house here in Phoenix for about 2 years now. They are aggressive despite what experts say. It can be a mission to get from my front door to my car sometimes especially if they are pissed off
Scariest looking for sure (well there's also the warrior wasp, but I digress) - but not scariest sting. Schmidt and Coyote Peterson don't know what they're talking about. Its not that bad (to me at least) I'm more scared of the sting from a red paper wasp
@@awyoung706 I hate all wasps, and those Giant Asian Hornets look like nightmare fuel. I think it's the way the Tarantula Hawk Wasp paralyses the spider and then eats it alive that's what makes them really creepy, as well as the way they look.
Asian Giant Hornet is no joke. Although, bees have learned to work together and cover the Hornet with their bodies and kill it by overheating the Hornet
might be, but many of the clips in this video show NO Vespa mandarina but Vespa crabro. I got stung on the head last september, an it hurt for a few hours, but was basically over the next day...
He will never be claimed as one. If that was the case african americans born in america are americans correct? Then why aree we called african americans. Theres no white americans option on apps and etc.... so hes born there, but not claimed as one.
You can un-Africanize killer bees. If you can capture the queen and remove her from the hive, replacing her with a docile European queen, the entire hive will change.
@@alba..8479 Yes, it is true. Of course, going through an Africanized beehive to find the queen isn't a walk in the park. They will kill foreign bees or drones, but not a queen, especially when theirs has been killed.
I recently saw a clip regarding the jumping height of fleas, and that height can be "messed with" in a way that's very self-reflective. The video showed that fleas can be trained to jump no higher than a desired height by simply putting them in a jar with a lid. They jump around a bit, and quickly learn the ceiling height in the jar. It's only after seeing the fleas jumping around inside a lidless jar, not even attempting to escape, or try to jump higher than, what they think is the "ceiling," but there's no ceiling, that you realize it may actually work! Not attesting to its validity, but in any case it's definitely inviting us to think about a few very important things.
I work at as a mosquito technician spraying for them and I love animals and insects I don’t even kill the spiders in my house. I struggle sometimes with my job wondering how right it is but when I hear stuff like this I guess I can justify just a little.. at least someone that cares and doing it responsibly is better then someone who don’t. Loved your stuff though!
When I was 12. I moved from California to Georgia I was playing basketball outside. Started off wearing a hat. Took it off and tossed it off to the side of the court. Got done, grabbed my hat, put it on....and dumped fire ants over me. Yaaaayyyy. Lol
Ive never heard you with an accent until you said "yuurs" instead of "years" for the locust swarms lol😂. Absolutely love you and all of your content. Some of my favourite content to deep dive that doesnt make me feel like my brain is melting and im just Absolutely wasting my time. Thank you for all the awesome knowledge!!
Wow not just entertainment but educational to, very good and interesting mr 😀🙂😎 let's gooo, don't forget sir keep calm stay safe and always be cool ✌ 👍💪
Forrest, I love everything you do, I would like to point out that I hear the word Decimate misused constantly, it sounds like a cool word when describing absolute and extreme devastation but the word has only one definition , the word Decimation means to reduce by one tenth (1/10) as it is derived from the decimal measuring system.
Did you know that the mosquitoes in the Newyork subway are separate species for each subway station there is! Some are only a few km apart and are totally different species !
Mosquitoes are also known to carry west Nile virus as well in some cases Ticks however are the worst, my dad got Rocky mountain yellow spotted fever from just one, that sickness is like arthritis on steroids where every joint is aching, they also carry Lyme disease as well which in animals including dogs means extra care Most painful stings I know of are actually the bullet ant and the "executioner" wasp, largest paper wasp in the world with mandibles that can decapitate caterpillars to feed its young Bloodworms are also a venomous creature even if just a worm, armed with four teeth made of the element copper it's bite causes tingling and painful stings to people but paralyzes what prey it hunts before just like a spider it sucks up the insides. The giant water bug commonly found in Florida is a very nasty brute armed with a piercing rostrum beak underneath it's head with a painful saliva it is so painful if it bites you, not just a terror in the water but it can fly too. The velvet ant which is actually a flightless ground wasp, also called "the cow killer" has the longest stinger of any wasp, it's sting reaching almost 3 inches out. Giant desert centipedes are worst of all their maxiliped pincers deliver a powerful bite that needs urgent medical treatment on the spot, most insects you never want to screw with because they will get you back if you don't watch out.
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Have you run into any of these insects?
I’ve had dengue fever in my early twenties and now disabled from Lyme disease and coinfections. I have had several doctors marvel that I am still alive. I definitely think ticks are far far more dangerous than murder hornets or Africanized bees!!!
I live in South Africa and so have been exposed to a ton of mosquitos in fact as I am writing this comment I have 3 mozzie bites.
I live in belize and I've been stung by one murder hornet and three killer bee's. And the mosquitoes like every two days
Fire ants definitely. Mosquitoes,of course. I thought females were smaller. What kind of bug is what southerners call mosquito hawks? They look like a big mosquito.
I live in Denmark. So, only mosquitos that I know of.
A map of where these creatures are located would have made this video just that much better. Great video, thanks.
I agree I was looking up every single one to see if they live near me so I’m not so scared💀
@@FeralFennecFox the most common and most dangerous insect lives all over the world, so you can be scared xd
to be fair they can migrate or be shipped across the world with produce. ex: the murder hornet while primarily located in east asian countries and as mentioned in the video to be located in the northwest have been found in many differing locations like the east coast, canada, and mexico. there is less of a chance running into them in these different locations but its not impossible so its good to have the knowledge no matter where you are.
Or just watch Brave Wilderness - The Sting Zone.
Right. Now I need to spray a barrier around my bed with bug spray because I'm nervous 😂
"Yures" 😂
I always forget he's from South Africa until I hear his pronunciation of some words. It's charming!!
That cracked me up too 🤣
@@sreace723 He is not from South Africa
Lmao
Yeah tf
For a man fast approaching octogenarian age and having spent most of my life, indeed, my career outdoors working with large animals in various environments in the USA. I have encountered several of these critters, and I want to thank you for all of your effort in posting this. I learned a great deal.
If an invertebrate is “AFRICANIZED” doesn’t this imply that it came from Canada? Or was brought in by a musical culture trying to become popular and “do-gooders?” Great documentary…
I've had a blister beetles crawl across my thighs in southern AZ and I still remember the pain over 20 years later
I live in AZ and I wish you wouldnt have told me that.
Did it just walk across and do it without you even trying to hit it off you?
Forest, can you do a top 10 about which cryptids you most likely think exist? Great stuff Forest!
Thatd be cool!
I doubt he believes 10 of them exist lol
I think he’s done this video already, or something very similar, have a look.
But fyi, Forrest isn’t big on cryptids unless they’re the ones that were real and went extinct like the Giant Ground Sloth or the Thylacine
He talked about it on joe rogan, there’s a clip.
Fun story. When a teenager me and my step brother found an absolutely unbelievably large fire ant mound. It was summer so what did we do? You bet your ass we shoved firecrackers in there and ran off waiting for the detonation. We did not run far enough and very pissed off ants rained down on us.
I wouldn't be proud of that. Sounds like you were one stupid kid
Sounds like you guys had a great time 😂
Hell yeah man... Give um hell 🎉 I'm 47 and that sounds like a damn good time 😅🎉
Red ants are like the angriest and most wicked face head for a insect,put one under a microscope........you'll never look at ant again like you used to..........
I watched a documentary about fire ants on RUclips and it creeped me out...tha resilience of them little bastards is incredible. After watching that I was felling itchy😂🔥⚡🥳
Great content, Forrest. This is the way. High production youtube is the future for animal documentaries and educational media.
Keep it up, it’ll grow the channel and help y’all make enough money to do some really cool expeditions.
Piggy backing off of this. It’s nice to see videos like this. It’s what the discovery channel used to be back when they cared about wildlife.
"great content" ... is that the new term for BS? he can´t even be asked to show the species he´s talking about.
@@gshaindrich start your own channel then
@@gshaindrichdid we watch the same video? He literally shows the bugs bro what are you saying
In some videos they allegedly show the wrong species, but I for one prefer he spends his money on amazing adventures rather than a better editor. @grant9814
Fire Ants are no joke. I've been attacked several times in South Texas by them. Accidently step on a nest and you'll know it quickly. Each bite is like a red hot needle being dug and left into your skin. In my worst encounter, the skin on my leg was so inflamed it became rock-hard for 24 hours. The worst part is the itching though.... my god the itching after the attack. You'd run a cheese grater across your skin without thinking twice.
Been there,done that, found another fricking allergy....
Fire ants are an easy fix, in south Texas if you don't watch for them you're a moron...They're literally everywhere here, in every yard...
I’m allergic to fire ants, super fun.
It's a sting, not a bite.
Yes, fire ants suck! I used to live in Florida and even though I was an ant-icidal maniac when I saw their mounds, some of the little bastards would get me when I would have to dig in my wife's flower bed. And you're totally right, the itching is maddening!
The whole story behind your bites/stings and the treatment you received. Great video
More content like this would be awesome! Love your content man, been watching for a while now. You’re living the dream!
Nope someday he does the red panda/giant panda. Like if that’s the name what is an original panda? Bit like gorilla gorilla
Edit: hope not nope
3:41 “YERS THATS RIGHT YERS!” 😂
Don't make front of him
Is that supposed to be funny? people do say some pointless things in these comments.
Knew there would be serveral of these comments 😂😂
HA! And people hate on AI narration.
what does that mean ? dumb
This should have so much more views! I love that your growing and spreading your influence and knowledge forrest! Love from Canada! Alberta! ♥️
Being a scientist the show doesn't need my input keep it up young man much love
Story time.... I was working on a farm, drinking a martinelli apple juice, and went to take a drink, next thing i know i felt something in my drink. I thought it was a leaf, but turns out it was an Asiatic hornet, all black with an orange butt, it stung me in the back of the throat... Problem was I was alone and an hr from the nearest hospital... Luckily I made it, thank the creator...
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This guy being from Zimbabwe was one of the biggest plot twists I've been hit with in a while.
There lives a lot of white people in South africa and Zimbabwe and botswana
@@kennethmortensen8159 Yeah I know, I just only see them very sparingly, so whenever I do it usually comes as a surprise.
A few times I'm thinking "I can't place where I'm America his accent is from"
Then he said centimeters instead of inches"
Guessing he moved a long time ago
Why? Elon Musk is from Nigeria or something like that
@@LazyLizzy706 Yeah Elon Musk is from South Africa, and it’s just not generally something I think when I see a white guy, even though I am fully aware that many African nations such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, etc have substantial Caucasian populations.
I too dislike the "like and subscribe".. but I didn't realize I wasn't subscribed! Thanks for the video!!
Damn I thought I was already as well!
north american honeybee: sweet little bolt action bee.
african killer bee: fully automatic assault bees
I just love comments like this.
Honey bees kill 100x more people a year than killer bees.....
Funny name too
Asian hornet: armored bee destroyer
one of the best channels on youtube hands down... thanks for all you do Forrest!!
I would love to see a video of a list of the most painful stinging insects in the world??
Hopefully you can make one about that in the future. 🤔 Great video! I like watching the videos you upload to your RUclips channel.
Its out there on youtube with things like the sting index there's also Coyote Peterson traveling around getting stung
According to Coyote Peterson
1: Executioner Wasp
2: Asian Hornet
3: Bullet Ant
4: Tarantula Hawk
5: Warrior Wasp
The fact that it's called the kissing bug despite its grotesque mode of attack is so unhinged 😂😂😂
"That's right, yurs." ❤
A big thank you from Australia for your interesting post. You ask if we have run across any of these insects. Living here in Australia, I have been stung by hoards of mosquitos, mainly in the 1950s when we didn't have the same eradication processes we have now. I have also been bitten/stung by the honey bee three times, horse flies by the hundreds and twice by ticks. I won't mention the number of bloodsucking leeches that attached themselves to my skin when walking through wet forested areas. The worst would have been the wasp that stung me three times in a part of a second, giving me an extreme burning sensation where it attacked me. Oh, I nearly forgot the bull ant that bit me on the big toe when I was ten.
However, we also have some other beauties here. Although spiders are not insects but arachnids, I have included them in this list.
The most feared one is probably the Sydney Funnelweb Spider.
1. Sydney Funnel-Web Spider: Known for its highly toxic venom and aggressive nature.
2. Redback Spider: Recognizable by the red stripe on its back, its bite can be excruciating and potentially fatal.
3. White-Tailed Spider: Its bite can cause severe pain and, in some cases, necrotic ulcers.
4. Giant Centipede: These can deliver a painful bite that can cause swelling and fever.
5. Paralysis Tick: Known for causing paralysis in pets and allergic reactions in humans.
6. European Wasp: Aggressive and capable of multiple stings, which can be very painful.
7. Honeybee: While generally not aggressive, their stings can cause severe allergic reactions in some people.
8. Bull Ant: Known for their aggressive behaviour and painful sting.
9. Mosquito: Carriers of dengue fever and Ross River virus.
10. Horse Fly: Their bites are painful and can cause allergic reactions.
But that is not all the dangers we have here in Australia. Here are some real horrors.
1. Box Jellyfish: The silent assassin is thought to be the deadliest jellyfish to humans.
2. Saltwater Crocodile: The prehistoric predator from about 95 million years ago.
3. Blue-Ringed Octopus: One of the world's most venomous marine animals.
4. Eastern Brown Snake: The second most dangerous snake in the world.
5. Inland Taipan: One bite can kill at least 100 grown humans with its venom.
6. Stonefish: A hidden killer that is the most venomous fish in the world.
7. Common Death Adder: Can cause paralysis or even death in humans.
8. Cassowary: Endangered species considered the most dangerous bird in the world.
9. Tiger Snake: Venom is potentially deadly to humans.
10. Cone Snail: Beautiful shell but lethal to pick up.
I will mention one more, even though it is not dangerous. The first time I saw them, I could not believe my eyes. I thought they were snakes from a distance.
We have the biggest earthworm in the world. It is Australia’s Giant Gippsland Earthworm that exists in Gippsland, Victoria, as well as in the Tamborine Mountains southwest of Brisbane, Queensland.
The giant earthworm can grow up to six and a half feet long and is the biggest worm in the world.
This slithering behemoth can burrow up to five feet deep - without any limbs. What truly distinguishes the Megascolides australis species is that one can hear it through the soil - as it produces a loud and disturbing gurgling noise that sounds like water draining from a bathtub.
A traditional worm, despite its size, the species lives underground and only surfaces when heavy rainfall threatens to drown it. This is how I saw it many years ago in the Tamborine Mountains during torrential rain that lasted several days.
Sorry to have taken up so much of your space. 🙂
I got stung by like 100 fire ants when I was a kid. I was playing hide and seek with some friends outside in the dark. I decided to lay down at the base of a tree. My arm felt like it was on fire so I got up and ran to look at it in the light.
I was covered in fire ants, I have a below average pain tolerance, but the sting wasn’t that bad. Getting stung by one bee or wasp is worse than getting stung by 100 fire ants pain wise.
Edit: also I’d like to hear more about Forrest getting D.I.C in South America
I know it was about 100 because I counted all the welts on both my arms the next day and kept losing count, both arms completely covered in welts.
"Excruciating levels of pain and death..."
*shows a tick*
I laughed heartily
Ha ha nice one !!! ❤ Good job brother I was watching your channel and I realized I was in school with you 👏
Being Canadian, I didn't encounter most of these things until I went to Portugal. Lots of invasive Asian giant hornets there; I walked into a bush with tens of them once by mistake. They didn't sting me though; were actually super chill. I got bitten by a brown recluse spider in a pile of wood too, but the bite wasn't bad enough to cause a serious reaction; just bled a little and left a scar that was visible for about a year.
Love the podcast and your channel helps me learn a lot!
Excellent show!!! Which country has the most deadliest insects in the world?
Australia. I googled it for you. Googling is hard. You're welcome.
Fire ants are terrible here in south eastern NC. I'm a farmer and we have to treat our fields every year with pesticides just to try to keep them under control
Camp LeJune is overrun with them.
You can really tell when Forest is reading a script vs passionately talking about something
When you getting you’re an show on Netflix or somewhere….dudes like a cross between Steve Irwin and David Attenborough, super knowledgeable and not scared to grab a deadly snake or two with his bare hands!
Pretty sure he was on animal planet. He also did an episode on naked and afraid, dude is awesome.
I was waiting for a video like that for "Yures"!!
Easily in my top ten favorite youtubers Love you Forrest.
Fascinating channel and well narrated. Glad I subbed Forrest!
I think the murder hornets are a big reason for the honey bee decline.
I've been bitten & stung by many different insects in my lifetime & I'm surprised you didn't mention carpenter ants & harvester ants!!! They also pack a mean bite as do horseflies,black flies,deer flies,stable flies & sand flies!!! They all draw blood!!!
Like the bike in the window!!//Lars
Forrest is def an OG!! Been throught 100 lifetimes of stuff we can barely imagine.
While there's nothing wrong with the facts it bugs me (pun intended) that there is some footage of European hornets when you're talking about the Asian Giant Hornets. Same goes for the fire ants, some of the clips are of a completely different species. Something to consider for future videos, but otherwise great stuff!
This was really interesting. Glad I located your page. Your delivery of information is well done. I am now following you with a white bell.
love your channel dude!
“Yers, that’s right, yers” 🤣💙
Love your video's. I was wondering if you heard anything about the Zanzibar leopard. A video idea for you: most dangerous mammals in North America. I don't think alot of people would expect the moose on this list
I like that idea!
Deer too, they kill about 200 people a year. That's more than black bears and cougars have killed in recorded history in North America
Forrest you’re one of the best guests ever on the Joe Rogan podcast which is where I first learned of you. Had this video come across my feed and quickly subscribed. Best to you in all your endeavors good sir.
Great work! Love what you do. Thank you for all you do!
Always love your videos.🎉
Florida fire ants are particularly painful.
Have family in North Florida, and I remembered being about five years old playing in the sprinkler in the yard and I got bit on the leg several times. I cried.
I did not know you are Rhodesian.
Ah, South Africa..ok. I was wondering where you are from to pronounce years that way.
I'm glad you have your own channel, Forrest 😃😃😃
Who is itching just watching this?
nothing like the good old creepy crawls
#HeebieJeebies 😂
I was in the military and in the early 90s, I was stationed in Florida. Now I'm from Connecticut and you can go for a hike in the woods, Have a picnic, sit in the grass. Well, no one said anything and I had to learn the hard way of all the bugs and snakes that lived in Florida. I mean, if you just sit in the grass before you know it you're covered with ants, it's crazy. We were playing volleyball one day, and my friend went to dive for the ball, and he went out of bounds and landed head first in a red ant hill. He lived down South, so he knew he had to take immediate action. He just jumped in the pool and started scrubbing them off. Despite his quick actions, he still got bit up pretty good.
YURS of famine
I remember as child back in the 50's , we had a Tulip Tree, ( Fairfield Iowa / S.E. Iowa ) the base of the tree, there was nesting of Asian Giant Hornets, we referred to them as Cicada Killers. Now I know why here in Oklahoma , when we feed we break up the hay and look and see if we have any extra surprises in the hay we feed to the dairy cows. Griggsvill IL Over the years, Griggsville built more than 5,000 birdhouses, which led to the town's nickname, "The Purple Martin Capital of the Nation." The Purple Martin Highrise of Griggsville, Illinois.. Griggsvill is located in W.Central IL. right on the Mississippi River. On Our farm we put up Purple Martin houses , we are on the shores of Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma, we also put up bat roost boxes, as they eat misquitos.
Cicada killers and Asian hornets are a different species but they’re both huge. Cicada killers are solitary and live in holes in the dirt alone whereas the Asian hornets live in colonies.
I'm a bit shocked.. you never included my ex wife on this list.. However thanks for sharing 👍
😂😂😂which bug?!😂😂😂
Lmao
That comment killed me😂
@@hippopiggo scorpion...I think 👍...
Nor mine. Same species maybe lol
Well done vid man, great for a Saturday morning knowledge session!
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What an amazing video! Thanks Forest!
3:37
I wondwr if it can really last for “yee-urrs”…?!?!
😂😊🤪🙃
fascinating stuff my man.I loved watching this 👍
I touched a hairy caterpillar as a kid and my arm and neck swole up like Michelin man
I nearly touched one a year ago, and found out not long ago that would have been a very painful mistake
Damn, that sucks dude.
It’s actually crazy, you’re exact fire ant scenario happened to me as a a toddler when my family lived in São Paulo. I was covered head to toe!
The scariest insect is definitely the tarantula hawk wasp 😬
There has been a nest underground right outside my house here in Phoenix for about 2 years now. They are aggressive despite what experts say. It can be a mission to get from my front door to my car sometimes especially if they are pissed off
@@bigpapaplantman5126 fuck that, I hate wasps, any wasp.
Scariest looking for sure (well there's also the warrior wasp, but I digress) - but not scariest sting. Schmidt and Coyote Peterson don't know what they're talking about. Its not that bad (to me at least) I'm more scared of the sting from a red paper wasp
@@awyoung706 I hate all wasps, and those Giant Asian Hornets look like nightmare fuel. I think it's the way the Tarantula Hawk Wasp paralyses the spider and then eats it alive that's what makes them really creepy, as well as the way they look.
Nicely presented.
Asian Giant Hornet is no joke. Although, bees have learned to work together and cover the Hornet with their bodies and kill it by overheating the Hornet
might be, but many of the clips in this video show NO Vespa mandarina but Vespa crabro. I got stung on the head last september, an it hurt for a few hours, but was basically over the next day...
Cool video forrest, would love top ten biggest animal of every class.
I remember the TLC song… don’t go licking blister beetles.
♫ Don't go making phony calls ♫
♫ Only dial the seven digital number you're used to ♫
Weird Al remix 😃
This is a great video. Are you also on brave wilderness?
“Yurrrrs that’s right yurrrs of locust plague” I think you meant years. 😂
i was once wrestled to the ground by a 3 meter 28 legged lesser spotted fire breathing dung beetle. He had balls
Forrest Galante is everyone’s favorite African American. He’s from Zimbabwe, get over how he says certain words.
Who the hell are you?
He will never be claimed as one.
If that was the case african americans born in america are americans correct?
Then why aree we called african americans. Theres no white americans option on apps and etc.... so hes born there, but not claimed as one.
@@willmercuryhe’s the people’s champ
Elon musk
Things white supremacists say
This video could potentially save lives. Thanks!
Fun fact of the day!!!nobody is coming to save you. go to the gym, work hard, and learn something about yourself.
Jesus came and already saved you. Jesus loves you.
I'm gonna still wait for someone to save me.
Shut up
What do I need saving from? Also, how's this a fact?
@@BlueGwapes if you don't understand the message isn't for you
Great video 👍👍
You can un-Africanize killer bees. If you can capture the queen and remove her from the hive, replacing her with a docile European queen, the entire hive will change.
Is that true , I thought they would just kill a foreign bee,, its true , everyday is a school day
@@alba..8479 Yes, it is true. Of course, going through an Africanized beehive to find the queen isn't a walk in the park.
They will kill foreign bees or drones, but not a queen, especially when theirs has been killed.
@JayLandon64 thanks for that, always good to learn
😱🤯 Really?! Huh.
Great video. Scary some of these insect can travel on cargo vessel and be in other countries around the world. Cause havoc and mayhem.
Forrest touch my like button 🎉
Awesome video!
"It will burn, bubble, and boil your skin" and he grins. This is why we love you, Forrest. Because youll always be a 12 year old boy. 😂
I recently saw a clip regarding the jumping height of fleas, and that height can be "messed with" in a way that's very self-reflective. The video showed that fleas can be trained to jump no higher than a desired height by simply putting them in a jar with a lid. They jump around a bit, and quickly learn the ceiling height in the jar. It's only after seeing the fleas jumping around inside a lidless jar, not even attempting to escape, or try to jump higher than, what they think is the "ceiling," but there's no ceiling, that you realize it may actually work! Not attesting to its validity, but in any case it's definitely inviting us to think about a few very important things.
Excellent video educational and enjoyable spider's are my thing but I have learnt a lot thanks for that keep it up mate love your content
Commenting for the algorithm, my man deserves more views
Thank you for the informative video.
I work at as a mosquito technician spraying for them and I love animals and insects I don’t even kill the spiders in my house. I struggle sometimes with my job wondering how right it is but when I hear stuff like this I guess I can justify just a little.. at least someone that cares and doing it responsibly is better then someone who don’t. Loved your stuff though!
your channel is underrated
3:40 glad he said Yurs instead of years, got worried there for a second. Don't know how long a Yur is but must be less then a year.
When I was 12. I moved from California to Georgia
I was playing basketball outside. Started off wearing a hat. Took it off and tossed it off to the side of the court. Got done, grabbed my hat, put it on....and dumped fire ants over me. Yaaaayyyy. Lol
LOL I love your style. You talk like a regular Joe, not some stuck up bug genius. I'm going to have to check out a few more of your videos ! 👍🤣
I'm new to your channel and I like it a lot already
you could do a top ten of anything and I will watch it!
you rule! keep kicking butt!💟
im a huge fan of your work appreciate your vids
Ive never heard you with an accent until you said "yuurs" instead of "years" for the locust swarms lol😂. Absolutely love you and all of your content. Some of my favourite content to deep dive that doesnt make me feel like my brain is melting and im just Absolutely wasting my time. Thank you for all the awesome knowledge!!
Right. He did mention he is Zimbabwean, so I'm not too surprised he says some words their way
@@everettduncan7543 Yep he grew up there until he was 14 and Mugabes thugs took over his families land. Sad story.
Wow not just entertainment but educational to, very good and interesting mr 😀🙂😎 let's gooo, don't forget sir keep calm stay safe and always be cool ✌ 👍💪
Would love to see a range map on this kind of video.
Forrest, I love everything you do, I would like to point out that I hear the word Decimate misused constantly, it sounds like a cool word when describing absolute and extreme devastation but the word has only one definition , the word Decimation means to reduce by one tenth (1/10) as it is derived from the decimal measuring system.
Thank you
Great Video, keep up the good work.
Did you know that the mosquitoes in the Newyork subway are separate species for each subway station there is! Some are only a few km apart and are totally different species !
I used to be frightened by African Killer Bees when I was a kid!
I needed more rational fears. Thanks!
Mosquitoes are also known to carry west Nile virus as well in some cases
Ticks however are the worst, my dad got Rocky mountain yellow spotted fever from just one, that sickness is like arthritis on steroids where every joint is aching, they also carry Lyme disease as well which in animals including dogs means extra care
Most painful stings I know of are actually the bullet ant and the "executioner" wasp, largest paper wasp in the world with mandibles that can decapitate caterpillars to feed its young
Bloodworms are also a venomous creature even if just a worm, armed with four teeth made of the element copper it's bite causes tingling and painful stings to people but paralyzes what prey it hunts before just like a spider it sucks up the insides.
The giant water bug commonly found in Florida is a very nasty brute armed with a piercing rostrum beak underneath it's head with a painful saliva it is so painful if it bites you, not just a terror in the water but it can fly too.
The velvet ant which is actually a flightless ground wasp, also called "the cow killer" has the longest stinger of any wasp, it's sting reaching almost 3 inches out.
Giant desert centipedes are worst of all their maxiliped pincers deliver a powerful bite that needs urgent medical treatment on the spot, most insects you never want to screw with because they will get you back if you don't watch out.