Entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the world of insects. Are cockroaches so resilient that they’d survive a nuclear war? Why do praying mantis behead their partners after mating? Why do crickets chirp? Are tarantulas dangerous? Answers to these questions and many more await on Insect Support.
0:00 Insect Support
0:20 Why do praying mantis behead their partners?
1:15 What’s it look like inside a bug?
1:46 Would cockroaches survive a nuclear war?
3:01 A Bug’s Life is a documentary
3:56 Mosquitos
4:55 Butterfly in the skyyy I can go twice as high
6:07 Those man-eating scarab beetles from The Mummy
6:21 ELI5: How do dragonflies and flies coordinate flight while mating?
7:32 More mosquito concerns
8:21 Ocean Roach: $14/lb
8:52 Tarantulas: Good Guys
9:58 breet breet
10:25 Bug repellent spray
10:58 What are you lookin at?
12:05 Insect consciousness
13:07 Are scorpions insects?
14:07 “She got me pretty good.”
14:19 Leaf bugs, etc.
15:13 Antennae
16:35 Windshields
17:20 🐜 “Who’s the new guy?”
17:47 Which ants have the most effective armies?
18:30 God save the queen
19:34 We stan a long-living termite king or queen
20:58 Why do dragonflies have indicators/black marks on their wings?
21:54 Prehistoric dragonfly nightmare fuel
23:17 buzz off, bro
24:02 Look to the stars, dung beetle
24:46 Insect protein
25:22 Pollination
26:59 Fruit files, right on cue
27:48 Fossilized without bones
28:45 Lantern flies
29:22 Cicadas
29:53 Chagas disease
31:00 You would not believe your eyes
31:37 Why does evolution cause bees to die when stinging?
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The footage of bees at 10:40 is part of the following article by Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Cwyn Solvi, Amelia Kowalewska, Kaarle Makela, HaDi MaBouDi, Lars Chittk: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366
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Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Dr. Jessica Ware
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Constantine Economides
Sound Mixer: Austin Ramsey
Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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I’m surprised someone who devotes their life to studying insects would promote killing and eating them.
Define “it benefits him” 😂
I did not need to know the fruitfly thing…
This is gonna sound bad, but smart women are so hot 🥵
i am a little scared of spiders and any insects that go fast but i am locked in for this diva
I have stick bugs as pets, SO NOW I FINALLY HAVE A PLACE TO GET MY QUESTIONS AWNSERED! my stick bugs sway sometimes, is that fear? out of stress, will they eat eachother? can they sense that you are in fear? are they overwelmed by the smell of perfume? oh and just cause i want to say it, i m training my stick bugs to be held and not freak out or run away, ive had stick bugs since i was like 11 years old, 19 now
She’s awesome! I love her energy. 👍🏼
1:18 “Mostly just goo.”😂
oh to have the steady calm of an entomologist. the minute that whip bug scuttled i woulda hurled that hunk of wood at the cameramen, sorry boys here ya go that’s for you
CAVE ROACH???!!!! NO NO NO
Never going into another cave!
😅
i could listen and watch her and her little companions for hours :3
even her glasses are shaped like butterflies
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
This is her white side
Glad i clicked in this random video
I beg to differ about the mosquitoes preferring some blood thing. Anecdotally, I am *very* sensitive to mosquito bites. When I get bitten, it gets big and red and doesn’t go away for at least a week, often longer. So it’s hard to miss if I get a bite. If I walk around outside on a muggy day alone, I easily get bitten. BUT, any time my husband is with me, I am completely unscathed regardless of whether or not I use bug spray, whereas he gets bitten a lot. So it would only make sense that there is something about his blood that is more attractive to them than mine. I call him my personal mosquito repellent haha because it always works without fail.
Tarantulas need to just stay outside and hidden
Look at life. Im in the insects’ way!
Insects are fascinating and DrJessica was a great choice for this. People, please don’t kill bugs, unless you really have to (ok, maybe mosquitos and house flies).
Why did i end here while listening to autism