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4 of the Deadliest Tiny Hunters We've Ever Filmed - Deep Look

4 of the Deadliest Tiny Hunters We've Ever Filmed - Deep Look

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Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey. 00: 17 Turret spiders 04: 28 Wormlions 08: 09 Assassin bugs 11: 39 Dragonfly and damselfly nymphs 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: These 5 Bees Are Waaay More Than Honey and Stingers The Bizarre Biology of 5 Bloodsucking Creatures The Snail-Smashing, Fish-Spearing, Eye-Popping Mantis Shrimp --- Shoutout! Congratulations to the following fans on our Deep Look Community Tab for correctly answering our GIF challenge! The assassin bug keeps its pointy mouth part neatly folded below its head like a switchblade, and its accomplice is a plant called a tarweed. thetriedntruemotleycrew olivathang-tong7301 umeshsati139 MorningDriftwood --- 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. #assassinbugs #dragonflies #deeplook
Date: 2025-01-30

Comments and reviews: 19


The little Turret Spider towers look very similar to the fairy chimneys made by 'lawn prawns' (Burrowing Crayfish species) down in Tassie where I grew up. They dig little holes into soil near rivers and valley floors where water can pool at the bottom and keep them moist through the day, and that removed soil is towered up like that Turret Spider's little house. There are numerous species with often extremely small ranges which makes them vulnerable to extinction as an entire species might live in just one rainforest valley.
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This torret guy is ingenious & meticulous when it comes to construct his house & a hunting lodge! Personally, I prefer a spider hiding behind a flap door (don't know what's it called) with the same tactics, sensing vibration, catch a prey in lightning speed. Never forget closing the door.
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Weird I've never seen or even heard of a worm lion, can't even see how it eats its prey, here in Australia we grew up with ant lions and they have big spiky jaws which you can often see just sticking out of their pit and out side of the pit it looks like a big jawed tick or something.
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Can you do a special that looks at the hunting habits of one of the lowest predator on the foodchain, then whatever hunts that, and so on until you get to some apex predator. Spider eats the beetle, what eats the spider, and what eats that which eats the spider, etc.
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I don’t think people appreciate enough the effort that goes into making these incredibly addictive documentaries. The unique voice-over, the stunning background scoreeverything is so brilliantly crafted! Huge thumbs up to the team at Deep Look. Amazing work guys!
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Transformation of buccal structure (for prey catching) in dragonfly nimph looks mysterious, but actually, in an insect world it might not be so surprising. For instance, an adult butterfly can't munch leaves, to name a few.
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Tarweed is basically your average bootleg product equivalent of Sundew, lol. Also, I've heard about a Liana species from Africa which also uses these similar sticky traps to feed on bugs. It's called Triphyophyllum.
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I appreciate the fact you're not using terrarium. Yes it takes a LONG time to get the shots and lots of luck and patience but the end result is 100% authentic. The terrarium feels forced and cheated on the animals.
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one of my cats is curled up on my lap very attentively watching this video with me. ears perked up, head following the action, and purring vigorously. thank you for helping to educate my little orange dummy lol
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I once got bit in the finger by an assassin bug as a kid, picked it up thinking it was just a funny beetle, probably the most painful thing I've ever felt, like an extreme burning sensation, lesson learned
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Not sure of insects and bugs abilities to sense fear and pain, but i still gotta feel bad for the ones losing their lives being eaten alive. Pretty terrifying the way these hunters get them
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Once again, absolutely stunning footage from the Deep Look camera crew (who should probably wave at the camera together in the outro so they can get some well-earned gratitude from us!
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Oooooh what distant jungle do those huge spiders live in-
That's a /California/ turret spider
You take that back. I need to be on a different continent from them. Glad I'm not a beetle!

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Every time i see spiders i get flash backs to when some friends and me went into this war bunker and the walls were covered in spiders, so many big ones crawling down the walls and ceiling
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Lol. I was just thinking to my self, who needs Alien vs predictor, when you can watch Deep Look. A minute later, you show a clip from Alien. That was sweet.
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Thank you for bringing so much information in the form of entertainment. You guys are the best.
I love zoology, I follow everything with you.

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Nice compilation. I especially appreciate you give the correct scientific names for each creature--something lacking in many nature documentaries.
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2: 53 that's the best take of this clip, as failures are usually ignored, thus not on screen. No one is perfect! Deep Look captures nature's drama.
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This would be much better without the dramatic narrative, murder, killers, creepy, evil don't belong in a story about insects.
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