Weirdest Creepy Crawly Moments | Top 5 | BBC Earth

the nymphs of the periodical cicada have been biding their time now they march like zombies towards the nearest tree and start the time at first there are merely thousands but soon more than a billion swarm all over the forest the biggest insect emergence on the planet is underway [Music] [Music] they invade the upper branches where they climb out of their external skeletons and assume their adult wing [Music] at first they're white and soft but they have until dawn to complete their transformation [Music] after an absence of 17 years the forest is now overrun by cicadas [Music] a per wellif antis now it can grow to the size of a man's fist so rare they can only be filmed in captivity where their extraordinary behavior is a field it's still a mystery as to exactly how they track down their food but one thing is for sure this snail has unusual taste and revolting table manners [Music] [Music] [Music] it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world [Music] it sucked down like spaghetti [Music] for anything bigger it's got 6,000 teeth ready to shred the next meal in the supersaturated environment this specialized smell is the ultimate predator mantids will eat anything that moves including other mantids [Music] time to leave this tiny insect is now open to attack from predators lurking in the undergrowth whether an individual mantis survives or not is partly a matter of chance whether it's spotted by a predator [Music] whether it turns right or left [Music] so far it's luck is held but this hungry jumping spider is still in pursuit a mantis is born with exceptional eyesight but the spiders is even better although this young mantis can't yet fly its long forelegs evolved to catch prey give it reach there seems to be no escape [Music] but this mantis has a surprising line in self-defense kungfu praying mantis style [Music] of course it's all Bluff trying to look bigger and confuse its enemy but it's got away with it [Music] [Music] the colony concerts the entire jungle and flush out its wildlife [Music] each day it sends out a silent probe into the forest in quest of food [Music] it doesn't use Scouts like other ants instead a vast search party pushes into virgin territory seeking out the signs of anything alive they spread out along the 10-meter front sweeping across the forest floor to find prey the ants must first touch it the irony is that this the most successful hide-and-seek player in the forest is almost completely blind it distinguishes the living only by their movement as long as an animal remains still it is safe but the slightest twitch will give it away [Music] within seconds the prey is pinned down [Music] within minutes it's torn apart at its joints the more the preys struggles the more the ants engage [Music] right across the raid front pray of all sizes are driven from their hiding places [Music] even wasps must abandon their homes when the ants [Music] everything alive in the path of the Raiders overwhelmed by sheer numbers [Music] [Music] frozen solid a mountain stone wetter it has the most extraordinary survival technique of all the ability to come back from the dead [Music] only in a specialized filming chamber can we capture its extraordinary talent the waiter has developed special proteins which prevent ice crystals from forming inside its cells a remarkable trick for a creature whose ancestors once lived in prehistoric warm wet forests but when New Zealand's mountains grew up beneath them around five million years ago they were forced to come up with this incredible ability to survive near lethal temperatures defrosting uses up a lot of energy so mountain snow berries are a welcome sight [Music] the waiter needs to stock up while it can the next Antarctic storm could be the return of winter [Music] it can tolerate over 80% of its body freezing solid and can do so day in and day out for weeks at a time [Music] now where else in New Zealand does life go to such extremes to survive [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 409,576

Rating: 4.9036894 out of 5

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, creepiest insect moments, top 5 creepiest insect moments, creepy insects, insect compilation, cave weta, new zealand, giant snail, jumping spider, praying mantis, mantids, giant snail eating worm, army ants, 17 year periodical cicadas, cicadas, scary insects, gross bugs, scary bugs compilation, weta resurrection, insect (quotation subject), giant weta, scariest bugs

Id: psqZyJEp0LU

Length: 13min 49sec (829 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019

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That was hard to watch but I couldn’t stop watching.