Oak tree and wasp eggs - Life in the Undergrowth - BBC Attenborough

[Abdulmalik773]

god bless david Attenborough and Morgan freeman

[utopia100100]

the only things hate nature is??ALIEN DIP HEAD

[Hodgy]

00:01

[Hodgy]

00.01

[maplefreak13]

Dam nature u .... AWSOME!!!

[tiapon]

HOLY SHIT that was AMAZING!

[brbballin]

I wish David Attenborough narrated my life

[sandysakhsi]

@brbballin well said



[Shadowblood66]

GARY... MOTHERFUCKING...OAK

[oogp]

wow

[xrnts]

i thought humans were nasty now i think nature is a total killing machine :'(

ignorance is bliss.

[CatastrophiCassidy]

I still don't know why I feel compelled to watch these... I began by watching ants eat a crab and somehow, without any awareness, my hand seems to click the next video. It's questionably brilliant!

[Mattyprebib]

4:30 - shagging an acorn :L

[SuperKartik28]

cool :)

[plokko1]

wasp are a freking dna-exploitation machine!

creating gores from acorns and controlling the brain of caterpillars(vMG-LWyNcAs):

that's fucing scary!!!

[tapolna]

@plokko1 ,,, it's "galls" not gores... See wikipedia and gall wasps. 

[oceanic109]

DAMN NATURE YOU BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[GoldenVampireBlood]

You know, we humans are very lucky to have as big a lifespan as we do, we should be extremleu greatful.

[GoldenVampireBlood]

You know we humans are very lucky to have as big a lifespan as we do, we should be extremleu greatful.

[TheTeddybearmonster]

thats a little wierd

[hawky133]

Wow. The one at the end looks scary with the long piercer!

[xxkutnoobxx]

4:30 lol 

[adermaster]

the thing i find wierd with nature is that insects only reproduce and die they dont go forward very fast in there evolotion were as humans live do some thing for the world and die we have already helped the human ace forward a bit in our life but these was some how dont and thats what i found wierd.

[crankdatbatman23]

fuck a dislike button

[jilz01]

The wasp's having sex with the gore at 4:40 LOL

[GiniPig95]

Damn nature you scary

[1861CSA]

This is evolution at it's finest. Thumbs up. Charles Darwin missed these lil fellas.

[halneufmille]

The parasited parasite.

[carebearnmbr46]

CharleySunshine, love your comment. Extremely well put!

[carebearnmbr46]

I am awed by how they are able to film in such a thing as ting as a gall's center. I've cut galls open (only one or two kinds) and you could fit half s sesame seed in the middle, if that. Technology is miraculous.

[weaktech]

WHO GAVE THIS THUMBS DOWN?!?!?

[Gallzatron]

who's tho 1 asshole who dislikes nature???

[Bullsh1tOxide]

@Gallzatron 4 assholes

[ItsPwned]

69 4:38

[thekkl]

2:18-2:51

There was not a breath in that land of death.

[urcho]

We (humans) may claim to be the smartest organisms on the planet, but we're wrong. So very wrong. These wasps are geniuses compared to us.

We must remember: insects and other organisms have been here for a lot longer than us.

We've only scratched the surface, and barely so.

[nicsandee123]

What I would like to know is why? Why did things evolve this way. Brilliant!

[Ashman316]

im in awe of nature lol

[maplefur4ever]

watch:lps pop princess it's sooooo fun! <3

[PRINCESSicecubeDEMON]

Wow.. It hatches as an adult.. And the other insect has a drill? Insects are fascinating.

[theanimallover246]

i love his voice! lmao

[zhadlife]

9 month as larvae and few weeks as adult, rly wonderful life as wasp

[TheRandomBunnys]

why do i ALWAYS feel itchy after wtaching his programs?

[MickiMarple]

old people!:D

[PWNtheHILL]

Uhh... It could be possible to mistake one of those galls for an apple.. ughhhh

[mypotty290]

DAYUM NATURE!!! YOU SCARY!!!

[l1mao7]

lol wut?

[jw2327]

Metallic Zinc!? Frick! That's incredible!

[CharleySunshine]

Once again Attenborough and the BBC SEES what we only look at !!! Marvelous !!

[jmr1068204]

That's kind of odd to spend 9 months developing and then only live a few weeks after...

[Luthanor]

@jmr1068204 Because they don't have too eat while they develop. They don't need too be out in the world doing anything

[papavalium]

Wow funny it spends 9 months inside it's mama before coming out. 

9 months for Humans, 9 months for Wasps, kind of cool. Good ole God playing jokes on us.

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@papavalium Do you also believe that god created the parasitic wasp and the tape worm? How about Aids, and the Ebola virus? or the brain eating amoeba?

Its funny how the bible doesn't mention that there exists on earth creatures that we can't see yet have been given dominion over us, rather than the other way around. Then again the bible doesn't mention marsupials or the Americas either... I wonder why...

[papavalium]

@GaiusIuliusTaberna Hmm, I believe God created everything. Then let it flow, I think why we call it Human Nature. :)

If you believe in God, don't you think people believe in Evil? I think that will answer your question about Aids and Ebola. Also when someone dies, it is because the Lord needs them now. Given Domination over us?lol...I think you see it all wrong, what people actually think. The bible to me is stories to explain the teachings of Christ...if you take it literal your gone.

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@papavalium I take the bible literally as the stated opinion of people who lived and died in an age where we didn't know anything about science. It no longer has any purpose in life, we don't need god to explain anything, and nothing is explained by believing in god.

My opinion of evil is restricted to destructive acts committed by humans, for the sake of destruction. Its worth noting that religion plays a role in most examples of that.

[vulkein]

that bug has a metal stinger made of zink!!!!???? holy shit! that's amazing its like wolverine! I wonder if it can deflect bullets.

[vulkein]

Jesus wasp! watch him turn acorns into cribs! 

[AndyAtsaphanthong]

...gross...

[Flyborg]

I just watched a female wasp fuck the larva of another species with a metal spike. (or something like that)

"Damn nature, you scary" indeed.

[icriosphinx]

Alien...

[Bleenderhead]

So... that last bug was laying a parasite in a parasite's tumor. Boggling, that.

[Gateau]

this is a beauitful video - can you imagine all the tricks that they had to do to make it this way?

"Okay lets shake the hell out of the branch until these goals fall - okay now lets move the camera down closer to the ground and drop the goals to make them look like they're falling.. ... Okay good, now we wait until spring."

[chase1146]

damb nature, you scary

[SuperMushyPea]

do they sting?

[AttaKru]

i love the sped up scenes !

[whimyfob1]

thats so amazing that just a tiny egg alters the form of an acorn ^^

[bacardiconlimon]

wasps are amazing creatures.

[Pacober1]

wait, they have zinc tipped drills, im confused...

[sfurner]

Wow... just Wow

[BITARTEN2]

Nice video. I love the oak trees

[sliver321123]

So the gall wasp is essentially a parasite, and that other gall wasp is a parasite that infects another parasite.

If only there was another type of gall wasp that could find the hole left by the second gall wasp to lay its eggs into we could have something going here.

[InnerSmile72]

wasps are crazy. Check out "david attenborough Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relation" for another cool wasp video...

[Luchkow]

amazing!

[monteaventuracom]

Simplemente: ¡¡Maravilloso!!

[hashbrownsandeggs]

i discovered these videos on youtube and i've been watching them non-stop since then....is there a dvd series for this that i can get?

[shoeme123]

i wonder if the bugs fell the awesome pleasure of "doing it"

[anwarior]

@shoeme123

i wonder if YOU do

[SamuelJosephIrwin]

this is amazing...

[hu0007ng]

Does it do any good for the Oak Tree? The Oak Tree is so good..

[manjo214]

Mother Nature is awesome!!! When I watched the videos it makes me feel good, somehow, God is good!!!

[Snoopy7868]

David Attenborough makes you feel for life when you watch his wildlife programs.

[xyrich13]

@Snoopy7868 you forgot he is a Sir

[Snoopy7868]

@xyrich13 my apologies...

[Zarodako]

Wow nature is really awesome.

[Calpico852]

it sure is!

[jwka2001]

fuck man suburban life is stressful

[BoX098]

9months for a 2weeks life..

[jatejate77]

My goodness I had never seen something like this. so many species and so many ways to reproduce and develop, and some totally remarkable ones too. David Attenborough will never dissapoint us,...indeed.

[handsomedan187]

i like doing sex

[zomgbbqwth]

at least this is a better way of laying eggs~ not like in a catapiller body~ fuck these lil bastards~

[PenguinHairBalls]

i hope someone follows david in the things he does...

[saker110]

neither yoy chimp.

[Gesmehod]

Now all we need is a third, even smaller wasp, to infect the wasp larvae after that one has devoured the original wasp larvae, in order to devour it as well. :)

[tiedupsmurf]

LOST FOR WORDS HERE

[Opullal]

That's amazing.

[meesasquall]

the world is just awesome

-discovery channel

[itzrudetostare]

i just love how he says:

"to do this, we have to go back to last spring"

and time just magically reverses itself because he's so awesome :D

[MrsLittleE]

I never knew this world can be so beautiful :)

[Grey80002]

No way... haha, amazing.

[ALGON80]

Ok...I got goosebumps all over. It's amazing and super creepy at the same time. WOW

[Zotarium]

Wow. I love God's good Earth. There is always something new to learn about it and this is awesome.

[MarcAzzopardi]

Yes it really looks ALIEN.... If I didn't know better and if it weren't taking place on an ordinary oak tree it would be the perfect basis for a Horror Film plot... :-)...

Nature is amazing... but sometimes, I thank God I'm not aware of EVERYTHING that goes on around me... It would scare the ghost out of me!

[youthoghtiwasdead]

Lol, right you are

haha you have a ghost inside you:P

[mypotty290]

really cool how insects are designed perfectly for this

[Serostern]

1:29 reminds me of the ALIEN movies xD

[AmSpoiled]

naughty insect lmao

[BillyBobsEel]

i wana find some of those gauls and put them in a jar or something (and then wait)

[nealvu]

lmfao that sounds creepy

[PiggyPhoo]

Wow...! It boggles the mind. Insects are so unbelievably complex and fascinating, and yet at the same time they're quite simple: just survive and reproduce whichever way you can. But the WAY they go about it is truly amazing.

[ajko000]

@PiggyPhoo completely agreed

[papavalium]

@PiggyPhoo Yup and we just came from a mess of single cells. LOL This video shows how life is so much more complicated then scientists can explain. Hence the Big Bang.

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@papavalium You mean the origin of the universe? I'm pretty sure science has described exactly what that must have looked like, and the laws under which it lead to what we currently have. Of course no god is required for the universe as we understand it, and if one did exist that would raise many questions and answer non.

[papavalium]

Yes, that is the Big Bang. Yes the Entire universe as we know it, was as small as one sub atomic particle or smaller...lol. Now as you know, Matter does not create itself...so we all know the Gravity at the center of the World would of had to be more energy then our brains can imagine. Now considering all this, as a Scientist I have concluded this amount of energy and matter had to be created.

Now, to create something, you have to work on it...you have to get it from somewhere? Right?

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@papavalium Then where did god come from? I think it was Aristotle who stipulated that the logic of this would require something like 13 creators, how he came to that number I can't say.

We know at the Quantum level that energy and mater is created then destroyed, its not a stretch to assume our entire existence may be one such fluctuation in a much larger reality beyond our perception. Science of course is the only way for us to know any of this.

[papavalium]

@GaiusIuliusTaberna

So we are on the Creating part of physics/chemistry etc in the World. If you had to create all the matter in the World for the Big Bang...then that means TIME did not start when the Big Bang did.

Another theory I have is that forces had to be creating a Gravitational pull into the center of the known World. It was so powerful, that it pulled it to one single atom and then boom the Big Bang....so a recycling World basically.

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@papavalium That seems discredited by redshift, its been established that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate of speed, rather than slowing down. One assumes that existence will blow itself apart, of fizzle out like a cosmic fireworks explosion.

[papavalium]

@GaiusIuliusTaberna I was just making a theory...kind of like a rubber band. For some reason the past Gravity became very strong at the center of the known world, then it all was sucked in, Big Bang happened, then expanded to what we see today.

I agree with you on the Red shift that's why I believe the Big Bang theory...The universe is getting colder too as it expands. And yes like you say, I think it will die out.

[papavalium]

@PiggyPhoo Yup, next time when you get near an insect too, treat them like a person...it's kind of funny. I'm alergic to bees and super scared..lol But when I relax and say "nice bee, I'm your friend bee," and just chill, he lands on me or walks off.

It's always when you panic do they say, "Dumb human i'm stinging your ass" LOLL I bet they know english by now. lol Over this many years of hearing us...lol

[plainlake]

@PiggyPhoo

Survive and reproduce, unlike humans?

[DarkenCheChanChani]

@plainlake I'm pretty sure they mean that that's not the only thing that humans do...

[plainlake]

@DarkenCheChanChani

can you mention one thing that most humans do that is not in order to survive or reproduce in some way?

[DarkenCheChanChani]

@plainlake :enter anything recreational here:

[plainlake]

@DarkenCheChanChani

Recreation in itself gives Health benefits Wikiquote:"The term recreation implies participation to be healthy refreshing for mind and body" but may also include: sex.. or the search of a partner. increasing your social status and/or sexual attractiveness. Creating family ties. improving social skills etc.

[renaud68]

@PiggyPhoo

Evolution I tell ya, GOD DAMN!

[hehepker]

seems like wasps have a pointless life?

[fiendin281]

lol, some super intelligent alien is probably looking at you and thinking the same thing.

[hehepker]

ye i know lol, but seriously all they do is mate when they grow up?

[rev087]

and why do you think we work, play football and buy cool shoes for? :)

[DeadEyeMorgan]

To make rich people more money?

[EVILGOKUGUANACO]

Exactly Goverments and religions wants us as their slaves.

So they can live happily with all the luxuries posibble in this world while regular people like us have to struggle to have a decent meal every fucking day.

And when I say decent meal I'm not talking about those plastic burguers from Mc you know what.

[HobbyistX]

It's amazing to me that that last wasp had "a cutting edge of metallic zinc" It's like that Alien film!

[DeadEyeMorgan]

We're full of zinc and iron and calcium... makes AI look like evolution or metals look like lifeforms... but crystals are rocks that grow - so who knows...

Sorry I think I just thought-dumped...

[TheGriffin1988]

Did you know that a wasp is closer to the ant family than the bee... quite amazing really...

[Kruszakus]

Insects will never cease to amaze me!

[tunenas]

So what's edible once the wasps have infested the plants.

[Energyium]

he is awesome

[fcc1121]

You are anthropomorphizing. There's nothing to hate, it's nature.

[fiendin281]

i hate wasps, they're always doing shit like this

[SoCyurious]

i no rite lol

everything they do seems sinisterr.

[EddieTheFishReturns]

I hate how aggressive and pissy they get in the winter, it's like: "DUDE! GO HAVE YOUR PERIOD AWAY FROM MY HOUSE!!"

[Plaawks]

I meant 4:34

[Plaawks]

Shes doing it at 3:34

[ShlouDiraki]

Bitchin!

[ashlah]

That's amasing. I'm turely astonished

[Irratzo]

Thanks for the vid! Gall wasps surely belong to the most intriguing examples of specialisation within the animal kingdom.

And as I understand it, the induction for the gall growth are still unkown - the possibilities range from chemical to mechanical!

Why the bad image quality though?

[fatmanontherun]

It's youtube's fault for the crappy quality!

[Deepwoundjenna]

youtube = not as good quality >

[staffr]

oMg make "Watch in high quality" as an option!!

[Thepiratejoe]

imagine that wasp sticking that "drill" into your eyeball? Hehehe.

[sproasp]

wow,it's nature at it's best. amazing footage from bbc once again.

[WITCHDOG]

That was some amazing footage!

[radlations]

Wow thats so cool.

That was has a type of Zinc at the end of her drill!

I wonder if she uses that to sting?

[Irratzo]

At least as a defense mechanism it would be very tedious - first get it out of the sheath and then try to attack with a drill larger than it's own body all the while trying not to damage a vital part for producing the next generation.

But a sharp zinc edge. That's so amazing.

[Irratzo]

(reply 2 to radiations)

Sorry, I just wanted to add something: Im from South Germany and we heat our house with wood. Sometimes in the year (spring?), there are dozens of gall wasps on the wood stack, with drills as large as 5 cm. But they are pretty friendly, except to the woodworms :D.

[fwenship4ever]

oi my god.