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Sharpshooter Insects are Real Wizzes at Whizzing  Deep Look

Sharpshooter Insects are Real Wizzes at Whizzing Deep Look

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Sharpshooters survive by guzzling a lot of plant sap. But drinking all of that liquid nutrition presents a problem for these tiny insects: How do they move it all out Easy. They've perfected a super-propulsive urination technique using a special catapult in their butt. The sharpshooter gets all its nutrition from the thin, watery liquid inside a plant, called xylem sap, which it sucks out with this tube-shaped stylet. That sap has so little nutrition that sharpshooters need to guzzle nonstop. Taking all that liquid in presents a problem how to move it out. The sharpshooter has evolved the perfect tool for the job: an anal stylus -- or butt flicker. Here's something incredible: Each drop of pee actually travels faster than the speed at which the butt flicker launched it. Learn about this incredible creature's super-propulsive pee in this video! Honestly as soon as I see Deep Look posted I drop everything and watch it doesn't matter if I'm in the middle of one of my classes or if people are talking to me it gets pushed in a little box and it can wait till the episode is over then life can continue lol
Date: 2024-02-27

Comments and reviews: 6


It’s so amazing how animals evolve. This reminds me of Koalas, they starting eating their food cause there wasn’t much competition for something so non-nutritious and poisonous, so it ate it and developed ways to deal with its food. Easier for some animals to evolve around an objectively bad food than fight for a better one.
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I remembered I experienced this exact raining but no rains from sky, it was passing by a willow tree, there were a lot of these insects on the tree. now I know it was them urinating, thanks again for the beautiful video! you got me at butt flicker and capaw!
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Why wouldn't they just evolve to consume something more nutritional Seems like so much time and energy wasted on consuming materials that provide such little benefit.
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YES YES YES! A new deeplook video featuring some of my favorite insects!
Thank you for making this video. These lil’ insects are a wonder to watch and learn from.

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Surface tension is no joke at that scale! Thanks Deep Look team for inspiring us to learn more about the miniscule miracles all around us!
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Its easy to forget that Nature and evolution spend the same amount of effort in improving the tiny creatures s they do the giant ones
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