Collecting Insects in Rotting Logs
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2017
- In this episode of the Insect Hunter, Jason Thomas goes out to the field to look for insects in rotting logs. He shares his tips and expertise about tools and insect hunting techniques. On his quest for cool insects he stumbles across a variety of insects and other animals including something rare!
Special Thanks to Texas A&M University AgriLife Research for funding this video and the John A Jackman Scholarship endowment fund.
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"I have pretty big thumbs, my wife will testify to that."
Bro, I am dying. Say that again, but slowly.....
Lmao i got it the first time while i was watching the video, scrolled down to see if someone commented it HAHAHHAHA.
Lewd.
I like bugs like Praying Mantis, spiders, butterflies and moths...
I feed my large aquarium fish moths from the out door light....
I rip off one wing so they cannot fly AWAY or out of the aquarium tank before they r eatten by a parrot fish, Angel fish or my pet jet black Oscar with beep red accents....
the larva is probably an eastern hercules beetle, they are one of the largest scarabs in the U.S
Thanks Gabe! Yeah it was quite large. :) Do you raise them yourself?
I once had two but they are kind of difficult to breed and do not live long as adults
Yeah mine passed away due to some humidity issues after a few months. Insects can be very sensitive to humidity and temperature especially bigger ones like these.
My male died from eating too much somehow, his head was buried in the food.
Rather looks like a Strategus sp. larva
RUclips _never_ recommends Science videos to me, even though I am a Science channel. YouTurd hates Science channels as far as I can tell. So I am shocked they actually suggested an actual Science channel with actual insects on it (mine is about 20% ants eating candy I put out for the purpose of recording them eating it) after two years of having my channel!
yes it seems like science is not highly favored. I think this one finally got recommended to people because of the kaiju like element and something changed in the algorithms. In one week this video has jumped from 5k views, what it had over one year, to 67k views. Something changed and I am still not sure what haha! But glad to have you following!
I even subscribed to YouTurd's self-generated Science-Topic channel (which I found by accident) with the bell rung, and they still don't recommend any Science channels. Only trashy channels like makeup application tutorials, life hacks, boring family gossip vlogs, tv shows, and Spanish country music from 40 years ago! 😝 They couldn't be recommending things more wrong if they tried! And this is after telling them I am not interested in those things for two years now. 😔
*Youturd*
looking for insects is hardly considered science...
I didn’t know that...no wonder why I found a site selling it for $45 😂🤷🏻♀️
So much passion and knowledge is put into this video that is contagious man, i love your content!
2:52 left of the screen a termite had a seizure
A few termites may or may not have been hit by my hammer breaking into the log. Ha ha pretty funny to watch what you pointed out. Good eye!
He/She looked like a bee dancing.
Found 3 bess beetles today... beautiful animals. Shovel + stump = profit! Love your content!
Awesome! Yeah Bess beetles are great for pets too! I still have one in the lab that I am taking car of!
im glad i watched till the end. i want to see what that larva will become!!!! "my thumbs r pretty large, my wife can attest to that" loooooooool
Sometimes I don't know why I say some of the weird things I say haha! Thanks for watching! Unfortunately the larvae died, but it would have become some sort of Goliath beetle. Look that up on an image search to see what it would have become. They are awesome insects. Thanks for watching!
Wait, gmod is so famous that they made the crowbar into a real thing 😮
sure haha!
Found a cool Dragon fly (I think) today at work and was looking into preserving it and now that i know you're in texas too im definitely getting into this as a pass time!
This was me when I was 5
This was me when I was 25 haha and still at it.
And then you died inside and now post comments on youtube instead of exploring and adventuring...
Wow, I always look in rotting logs as well and I even carry a hammer with me as a multi-tool. You're like the older and better version of me!
Trenton Zelley i guess we can call ourselves the hammer bros!
make update videos on the big larva!
Sorry it passed away unfortunately. Raising beetle larvae can be a challenge. Trying to get humidity and temperature just right is not easy. I wish I could have kept it alive for longer!
The best part about going through rotting logs or looking under rocks is finding ant colonies, seeing the ants work in their nest is so cool!
Aww, give more love to our isopod friends. They may not be insects but they're awesome little critters.
Some of the best!
Very helpful video for a future entomologist!
What a fantastic informative vid! I live in the UK right next to a moorland of ecological significance and have really been wanting to get more into amateur entomology. I can't wait to try this out myself and start collecting specimens! Time to binge-watch all your videos haha! :D Subbed!
Glad you are enjoying the videos! Good luck with the binge watch! :)
Ok the scarab larva you found is for the Ox Beetle and its pretty common around North East Texas and anywhere their is rotting wood moist wood. Its awesome I raised 2 to adults
Good observations! Good luck. I will do the same in our forest!
Thanks for watching!
“I have pretty big thumbs , my wife will testify to that ...😂😂”
Love the spice and wolf esque music choice
Brings back fond memories of when I was kid.
I've been teaching my little bug lover not to damage the habitat. Cracking rotten logs left messy environment for insects and other insects lovers.
I'm new to Entymology and have started catching bugs with homemade equipment just as a hobby to pin and display, and it's been really fun and interesting! These videos will help me out a lot- thanks! New sub!
Thanks Lila! Glad you enjoy it as well. It can be quite an adventure! Thanks for subscribing.
I subscribed to your channel, and love your videos, please keep enjoying yourself, and entertaining and teaching us .
Thank you! I am glad you found it!
great video :) is there a way to protect the log again after. I love doing this but feel bad im destroying too many homes.
Such a interesting and well put together channel
Great educational video. Just found your channel and I'm hooked.
slice n' dice awesome! I am glad you finally found it.
I love your channel keep it up
Very cool video. I love your channel!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I used to find scarab beetle larvae under the junk in my yard as a kid. They're really cool but the chompers on them are scary.
8:10 those are called rhinoceros beetle larve, they mostly digest on rotting wood.
Destiny Myers / sun flower Super myers family team yeah they are super cool scarab beetles!
"I have pretty big thumbs. My wife will testify to that."
I can say some pretty weird things some times. Lol try to keep things interesting with some spontaneity.
I find these all the time found one today
For prodding/urging insects and other small crawlies, use a fine, soft paintbrush :) it’s like a stick but you don’t have to worry about roughing them up
Great video!
Thanks
the beetle larva is definitely Dynastes. Either Granti or Tityus, both occur in texas I think.
Awesome Salmon! Thanks for the comment! Do you raise these beetles, collect them or just enjoy learning about them?
" i have some pretty big thums, just ask my wife".......wtf ahaha
Dalton abernathy6661 Abernathy I sometimes say some weird things as you will see on some of my videos on the channel.
you could collect some Springtails. You need it for your dirt and plants. They’re useful
With my friends I always use strong sticks and what I find (I live in uk)is woodlice,giant green slugs,beetle grubs,maggots,centipede and other weird thing like woodlice spiders
can you do an episode on trapping and collecting flying insects?
Kurtis K I will see what I can do. It’s not the easiest thing to make.
Heh! I remember how me, and my friends used to collect scorpions, and spiders in the woods back when I was just a kid.
You might want to consider a "rock pick", which would be be able to more readily pierce the would and give you some more leverage, without being enormous. Incidentally, they are also useful for peeling up big rocks that might have insects under them.
I found a beetle larva easily twice as long as the one in this video, but he was in Staten Island New York. I did try to take him home (the area we found him in was being excavated), but I wasn't able to maintain him.
Thanks for the reccomendation! I will check it out! :)
I love ur channel
Hey, i am having trouble view this video. I can see your other videos but i cant seem to see this video and i really want to watch it. What should I do?
Sorry you are having trouble viewing the video Gemma. Try RUclips support: support.google.com/youtube#topic=4355266
What!! 2,000 subs this channel looks like it has 1,000,000 subs! You deserve more subs! (:
ha ha thanks Kevin! Maybe one day. You can help by sharing the video, subscribing, commenting and liking! Appreciate your kind words!
Ok sure!
I been playing with bess beetles for yrs... Y
How do you keep an adult as a pet?
Sounds like great fun for the classroom
You keep them in moist dirt with rotting logs and they do pretty well. Don't let them get too hot though.
we find prionus larvae about that size in eastern washington. the ten-lined june bug larvae get pretty big too and are all over the place in the soil.
Yeah thanks for sharing the info.
The ironclad shown is *Zopherus nodulosus*, subspecies *haldemani*, or Haldeman's Ironclad Beetle. I live in VA so I never see Zopherus (they aren't here) but a target species for next year is *Phellopsis obcordata*, or the Eastern Ironclad.
Iron clad beetles are pretty awesome! Have some here in my office I am rearing.
What kind of insects can I generally fin in the forests of Ontario? I live in Waterdown in Hamilton :)
I don't know, but I would love to find out. Maybe try some pitfall traps while you are at it.
Insect hunter reminds me of the PBS kids show the wild krafts back in like mid 2016-2017
The lizard you found was a 5 Line Skink, commonly known as a Blue Tail Skink as when of a juvenile stage their tails are an extremely beautiful fervent blue in color.
I thought it was some kind of Skink! Thanks guy!
I did the same thing on my channel and I was looking for isopods for Habitat or whatever and I flipped over a log and there was a black racer snake
a few question (if you don't mind )
1. are june bugs actually edible
2. where are june bugs most found
The environment where you kept the larvae simply wasn't correct. I'm no expert or anything but you need a deeper container and (I believe) shoud've been much more moist. The larvae should always stay buried (hence why the deeper container) and when they lie on the surface like shown on the video is usually because there's an issue, could've been the temperature, the moisture, the size of the container... Or maybe something else.
There aren't many RUclips channels about insects so I'm happy to have found yours! Keep your great work
Thanks yeah I honestly don’t know much about how to raise scarab larvae. It was my first try and hopefully not my last. In other news the long horned beetle larvae I have had for almost a year is still alive surprisingly. I don’t know if I still living off of fat reserves or what. You can find the video about this larva here: ruclips.net/video/cIXRPJyefPU/видео.html
6:08 I found one of these and it was under the ground and it had those antenna thingy on the back of it
Bess beetle babies are intriguing! A little odd looking but cool.
Insect Hunter and it was fast
Insect Hunter i think it’s a albino earwig
@@lightningstudios113 try a google search for bess beetle larvae. It should turn up.
If I were to try and flip small logs in Ontario in the woods, which I'm doing shortly so I guess I'll find out anyways lol, will I be attacked by hornets? Had a bad experience as a kid, and now I'm terrified to try this again.. kicked over a rotting tree stump tho.. will I be fine if it's closer to the ground, and more of a log?
It could happen so be extra cautious and maybe go on a cool morning when wasps are more docile. The warmer the temp the more likely the wasps will act aggressively. When they are cold they are usually more docile.
Good video!
Abelino Buccho Thanks!
Do you keep live bugs, and if you do what do you actually keep them in?
I keep some in terrariums here in my office.
Is this a Netflix original, this anime is very entertaining.
Joke aside it's really good Content to see here.
I love doing this too. edit: I found about eight large Bess Beatles at one time years ago. :- )
What type of spiders are in rotting logs
About the giant larva
I live in San Antonio and used to find larva that I swear were bigger then that one even they would be in potted plants when we would go to re pot them I had a dog that hunted them like truffles so I saw tons of them over the years and the large beetles they turned into which were also impressive
Oh awesome megan! Yeah they are definitely in Texas so it is possible to find them in the San Antonio area if in the right place. Thanks for sharing your experience with some nature's most awesome organisms :) I will have to check my potted plants more often to see if I find some there.
I found beetle larva in my father garden soil.I think it will be rhino beetle so I keep them.Soon they evolved to pupa and what I got....
Small beetle 😢😣
That’s a interesting larva
What do you do when ou accidently dig into a wasp nest?
Ha ha run! I have not had that experience yet so I don't know what the best thing to do is, but most of the wasps I have found in rotting logs have been more solitary species that don't live in large groups.
those guys have more food for them than food for humans lol good work
I suppose maybe it is because I feed them once or twice a week on a few small pieces of carrot and cucumber. The carrot I remove once it has turned black and the cucumber just dissapears once the nematodes have finished with it
Wut, YOU LIVE IN TX!!?? IDO TOOOOO 😃😃😃😃😃
IM A FELLOW INSECT ENTHUSIAST!! WOW :D
I'd love to try this but here in Ireland there aren't many interesting or big things to catch.
Just because some insects are small doesn't mean they aren't interesting. Some of the coolest bugs are small. You may not have seen the interesting insects yet because you haven't given it a shot. I used to live in a dessert where insects were rare and I still ran in to interesting and cool insects. I am sure in Ireland there are a lot more cool bugs than you think.
Yea I'll give it a shot! thanks!
8:10 when i was in kindergarten some kid dig under the playground and found one of those!
where should i look for to find stag beetles in southeast asia?its largely urban in here.
Stag beetle larvae will live in rotting logs. I am not familiar with the Southeast Asian landscape. If it were me I would try to contact a local professor of Entomology at the nearest university and he might be able to tell you more about where you might find one or who you would need to talk to in order to find some. I hope that helps. You will definitely need to get out of the more urban area to find them. If you do go to a park make sure you have permission to collect there so no one gets mad at you since some parks don't want you collecting in them.
Insect Hunter thank you so much i appreciate your help!
You are welcome! I wish I could do more, but its a start. Thanks!
If you have any tips for making insect videos please let me know because I would like to do this on RUclips as well. I really enjoy your content and I have subscribed to your channel.
1:29 i bet the insects thought the rapture was cominh
Day 14 of the Coronantine: I have become fascinated with bugs...
could you make a video on the posses of identifying random bug you know nothing about.
so a common person stumbles apon ........ says whats this - working from no knowledge
That is a great question. I will have to think about how I could do this. Perhaps I will also do a video about the common names of insects that could help people in finding a good ID.
dead logs can save your life if you ever get lost in a forest as so many hikers have but not get rescued in time.
That's a day's or two worth of energy there. And of course the one thing that is plentiful in arrests are dead trees. You might not have tools, but there are stones and wood you can use as tools.
I wish I lived in more wild areas like the place you live, anyone has some advice to where to find rare insects in more city-like neighborhoods?
Yes there are some insects only found in cities/ urban places. I would try pitfall traps.
Insect Hunter thanks a lot! I’ll try them
@@diegovera1353 here is a link to the video ruclips.net/video/4k7I4cdKnMI/видео.html
Coolest thing I found in a log is vinegaroon.
Look spooky 👀
What months do beetles generally come out?
I really wish there was an easy answer to this question. There are many diverse types of beetles and it depends on where you live. Typically out here in Texas adult beetles show up more when temperatures start warming up in the spring and then overwinter a few months in the winter.
Insect Hunter thanks!
In Australia we have grubs very similar to these called whichetty grubs and they taste pretty good aboriginal people eat them as apart of our culture and they are massive grubs that actually turn into a moth not beetles but they are pretty cool bugs
Whats the spider?
nice vid, man
Thanks Cody!
Hi I'm from Ontario Canada and want to get some Springtails for my Bio home for my Mantis .Could I go into my Forest and get some damp Earth and keep it in a container with a lid ? Will there be Springtails in the Earth?
There should be springtails. Have you had any luck? There are some good videos on collecting springtime.
@@hamhawk4027 I have some however I lost my Mantis on her shed .She was an L3
@@hamhawk4027 And trying to get a new one here in Ontario Canada is next to impossible .
@@elisewest6524 That's a bummer I'm sorry to hear you lost it. It's been a few years since I've seen a Mantis in the wild. It's the right season though. Hopefully with all this pandemic lock down you can find one in a quiet park.
Yes, absolutely. Springtails are quite common. Just look for most decaying materials or make your own by putting out some old logs and moisten for a number of months.
Music sounds like hearthstone
5:25 I believe that is a grub of some sort, although they are easily confused with caterpillars.
NatureNook I am not 100% sure, but it looks like a scoleocampa larva to me. bugguide.net/node/view/10291 What type of grub were you thinking? Always happy to learn!
It's a caterpillar. I don't know much about caterpillars, but I do know a lot about grubs of Insects, especially beetle grubs, and that is not one.
Insect Hunter and Jammer6hyyt
Looking back at it, I guess it is scoleocampa. The only grubs I have ever seen were white with large, dark compound eyes on their head. So I guess I was just going off of my own personal experience rather than researching properly what species it was. Thanks!
I found a larvae like that at the end of the video in a park literally near a trash vin eating a piece of bread or Something like this
Gives the beetle a tap with the hammer, "isn't that tough"
paul stewart Sorry its been a long time since I made this video. Did I say that at one point? Which part of the video were you referring to. Thanks for watching!
Longhorn beetles are a fun beetle to find plus fungus beetles but the real iron clad beetle is more of a grey color and yes it has the strongest armor of any insect but the one shown here is part of that family but not as strong
Wow, isn't the hammer just damaging everything? I use a long flat screw driver.
It does damage to some degree, but makes the work easier. So its a tradeoff.
8:03 i think it many be a Dynasties Grantti keep on raising him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any bug suggestions for Australia?
Oh man! I wish I could go to Australia and collect bugs. Enjoy the stick insects out there. We have none out here in the wild for the most part. I bet you can find some cool stuff. I am not familiar with Australian insects for the most part, but I am sure there are a lot of cool ones out there to find.
Australia is notorious for the incredible insects, arachnids, and myriapods found there. My suggestion would be to look for stag or rhino beetles that live there.
Great.. I love insect video and i make it too.
yeah insects are awesome!
Isn’t the lizard at 7:53 actually a skink?
Probably I don't know that much about reptiles.
That larvae is the larva of a rhinoceros beetle
7:30 him: “these guys are pretty cute”
Me: *pulls out 22 revolver* “I’m sorry little one”
(I hate mice)
Never seen a roach or termite my entire life
Who would've known that bug catcher Bryan had a RUclips channel
Ha ha is that a Pokemon reference?
Omg the mice family 💕😩
This is my first video, you mentioned going school, then mentioned having a wife. Are you going to college? If so are you studying entomology?
Wesley Smith Yes I graduated from Texas A&M university with a Masters in Entomology. Glad you found the channel! There is also an engagement video here on my channel.
Insect Hunter that’s awesome! I hope to go to University of West Georgia, get my undergrad in animal biology and then get a degree in Herpetology. I love all animals though, I’ve kept big ant farms (like the ones seen on the AntsCanada RUclips channel), centipedes, millipedes, snails, and Dermestid beetles, and I hope to get into a LOT more. Channels like yours always keep inspiring me to get deeper and deeper into the hobby and (hopefully) career.
I wish you luck. A wise mentor once told me a joke filled with truth. "What do you call a Zoologist with a job? An entomologist." The truth is there are a lot more entomologists than scientists that study other groups of animals. I aways wanted to do zoology, but fell in love with entomology because that seems to be where the money is. Not saying you can't be whatever you want to be. Just saying there are a lot of opportunities in Entomology for sure!