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Want a Cozy, Free Home Ask This Caterpillar How - Deep Look

Want a Cozy, Free Home Ask This Caterpillar How - Deep Look

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As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home by weaving silk, which the caterpillar uses to fold shut a blade of grass. After growing up inside this grass taco, it emerges as a fuzzy butterfly that woos a mate with flirty courtship dances. SIGN UP for Deep Look’s newsletter, Nature Unseen: JOIN our community on Patreon: SUBSCRIBE: DEEP LOOK is an ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED in San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. --- Find a transcript on KQED Science: --- More great Deep Look episodes: Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry These Silk-Swinging Caterpillars Will Ruin Your Picnic Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump --- Shoutout! Congratulations to our three fans who posted a correct answer to our GIF challenge! Caterpillars of grass skipper butterflies excrete silk from their spinneret. They spread silk on a blade of grass to create a silk pad that will prevent them from slipping. dare2dash806 Adushkou Idkwhattoputhete12324 --- Thank you to our top Patreon supporters ($10 per month! Darby Sullivan Rachel Fenichel Edgar Betancourt Susan Fuhs Hank Poppe Walter Tschinkel Marco Narajos H. M. Andrew Joan Klivans Stephanie Dole Kevin Sholar J Schumacher Lily, Vinny, Izzy Altschuler Eric Marsh Jamie Edwards Elia Gourguechon-Buot Kristy Folsom Laurel Przybylski Kevin William Walker Oliver Wakeling Jessica Hiraoka Laurel Przybylski Jeremiah Sullivan Mehdi Salarkia Mark Jobes Carrie Mukaida Cristen Rasmussen Wade Tregaskis Burt Humburg Noreen Herrington Roberta K Wright Brigitte Xia Louis O'Neill Jellyman Titania Juang El Samuels Laurel Przybylski Companion Cube Chris B Emrick Kristine Wee Karen Reynolds Sue Ellen McCann David Deshpande Daisuke Goto Elizabeth Ann Ditz Levi Cai --- Follow Deep Look and KQED Science on social: TikTok: Patreon: Instagram: Twitter/X: --- About KQED KQED, an NPR and PBS member station in San Francisco, serves Northern California and beyond with a public-supported alternative to commercial TV, radio and web media. Funding for Deep Look is provided in part by PBS Digital Studios and the members of KQED. #skipperbutterfly #deeplook
Date: 2025-01-11

Comments and reviews: 20


I love these guys, never connected the dots between them and the caterpillars though! Skippers are some of the cutest butterflies in my opinion, only beat out by genus Sarota.
I have my own funny video of a skipper courtship display not going how the male would have liked. He kept nudging the female, but she wasn't receptive to his advances. Eventually, the male seemed to get frustrated, and he started flying in these really wide circles around her(and me standing there recording with my phone) before giving up and flying elsewhere.

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3: 56 Deep Look spotted reproductive isolation, prezygotic one! To male courtship, a female didn't respond! Hybridization failed. An interesting mating ritual they dedicate. Perhaps, it's a biased view that males following pheromone to mate a female congregate in many insects, but here in the video one-to-one. Is pheromone used differently Do they tend to be monogamous I need a sequel, I'm afraid.
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Life starts with eating! Towards the end, Laura said they lose mouth. In adult, no more munching, but sap through a straw of an exquisite micro- structure. Do you mean nutrition for reproduction Amazing & stunning if so. I might misinterpret otherwise. A simple, or not, question. Unlike spiders, their silk comes out of the mouth. Whereabouts of its factory inside the body Inspiring is Deep Look!
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I would love to see a video on Catawba worms, and how they spit green juice on you when you try to collect them for fish bait. I remember my dad climbing the Catawba tree in our backyard and he would toss the worms down at me and I had to collect them while getting green juice all over me. Now you can just buy them at a bait shop for a few bucks, without risking your life on a ladder in a tree
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A few years ago I was introduced to skippers when one decided to lay her eggs on my pole beans. I looked up the caterpillars on bugguide and found out they're relatively harmless so I let them be. They didn't really cause too much damage in the garden and I was rewarded with very cute little butterflies.
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I remember seeing those skipjacks as a kid. Never knew their names or lifestyles! Their wings always did look interesting, and now I know why. So cool!
Hehe, I wonder if I could have used their life cycle as an excuse not to mow the lawn, bqck then

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There were a lot of banana skippers around my home back then bc a lot of land were empty and people grow bananas there for their leaves. Now almost all of the lands sold and people made settlements there. Such is a price for advancement
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This video made me realise that i prounce them, Cat-uh-piller instead of Cater-piller.
Edit: apparently no one knows! 3 different pronunciation videos and 3 different dictionaries dont agree. So its both! Cat-er or Cat-ur.

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Awesome! I LOVE fiery skippers so much. The cutest little butterflies ever! Their big eyes and fuzzy faces with their little proboscis tucked in, adorable They often get overlooked, amazing to see such close up footage of them!
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Here y'all go again. now ima be outside looking for a skipper. Nothing wrong with learning new things thank you. Everyone please stay safe and blessed much love from San Antonio. Its cold here i don't appreciate it
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Something that's always confused me: baby caterpillars can eat but adult moths/butterflies can not. so how come I've seen many butterflies and moths feeding on nectar from various flowers What's that all about
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I always find it mind boggling that a caterpillar is just a rearranged leaf since most caterpillars only eat a specific type of leaf until they become a butterfly. Absolutely crazy what manages to happen in nature.
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We have similar caterpillars that weave their houses on banana leaves. They even designed the cut cleverly to make their waste separate from their living area then glides out smoothly as it accumulates
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I've seen ants do this. they climb trees when it floods stitch leaves together to make a temporary evacuation center for the ant colony. I never knew they have webs like spiders to stitch leaves together.
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1: 36 poo/pee shooter insects are here & there (see other episodes! Why are they so meticulously aware of hygiene To show off their nice gadgets equipped with at the bottom of the body Curious & fun!
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I'm not a biology student or neither agriculture but love your video because it's relaxing and stay connected to nature also show here's many things in nature which is abnormal in humans pov
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Checking both sides of the street once, twice, three times just isn't in my DNA. I have to do it 29811one456-949rzero891! i! 189w45 times just to make sure.
-This Caterpillar

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Thank you for this wonderful post.
All I can see is about the beloved God who is amazing and beautiful. with amazing passion and love to create such a beautiful life. PTL.

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1: 28 The long pause between the previous dialogue and the deadpan delivery of Yummmmm houuuuse really sent me Thanks Laura, your narration keeps me coming back to Deep Look
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I used to work with a species of skipper. One of the duskywings, who act a bit different from typical skippers, but the caterpillars still make cute little houses like this!
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