Have you seen our new video about giant water bugs aka 'toe biters🦶'? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfcEj4GhVQ)
What are your favorite facts about these unusual creatures? Have you ever been bitten by one? Let us know in the poll and comments below.
Giant water bugs -- aka "toe-biters" -- pack one of the most painful bites of any insect. But they make the best dads ever. Rather than leaving the survival of his eggs to chance, dad will haul them around piggy-back style for weeks, until they hatch right off his back.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, June 28 from YouTube. Thanks!
2022-06-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s officially summer🌞 and those hiking trails are alive with blood-sucking 🩸TICKS🕷️🕷️! What’s your favorite tick anatomy fact? Let us know below.
Also, check out our video “How Ticks Dig In With a Mouth Full of Hooks” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IoOJu2_FKE) to get an up-close view of their gnarly mouth parts, and to find out the proper way to pull one out of your skin.
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Hey Deep Look fans! We've won a Northern California Emmy for our episode: Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? 🐛
🎉Congratulations to our producer Mike Seely and also Kevin Collins (https://www.youtube.com/user/kevincollinsfilm), the filmmaker Mike worked with to capture the x-ray footage inside the beans.
(👀 If you need a refresher on our 2022 Deep Look Emmy Nominees, here is o...
2022-06-17 23:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat’s YOUR favorite Deep Look ocean animal? If you don’t see one you like, let us know who’s your favorite in the comments below.
Also, you can watch all of our ocean videos from this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdKlciEDdCQBzZKf3pvKMeH4RcicfuiS-
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The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, June 7 from YouTube. Tha...
2022-06-03 21:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep Look is teaming up with NPR's @SciFri (Science Friday) to celebrate everyone's favorite “brainy” marine invertebrates. 🐙🦑
Join us Friday, June 10 at 7pm PST virtually or in-person at @KQED Live in San Francisco for some fantastic films about cunning cuttlefis...
2022-06-02 23:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi Deep Look fans! It's #WorldOtterDay! What's YOUR favorite fascinating fact about sea otters?
But “sea-riously” let us know your otter questions in the comments below.
(And if you haven't seen our Sea Otters video from our archives, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqg_um1TXI )
2022-05-26 00:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Let’s #shellabrate! Watch crazy cute baby turtles take their lake back in this video from our Deep Look archives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYFdpNpkMY.
A baby Western pond turtle swims in a tank. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
Did you know turtles grow up without parents? It might sound lonely, but for thr...
2022-05-23 23:06:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Have you seen Deep Look's NEW video, Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgavTIBQ_Z0) If you have, you know that a silkworm’s cocoon is made of a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long! Read on to find out how we got some of our silkworms spinning silk footage. 🎥
Mike Seely, the producer of Deep Look's silkworm episode, partnered up with ...
2022-05-22 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Deep Look Fans! What's your favorite Deep Look bee episode? Learn about these bees and more with this special pollinators playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdKlciEDdCQCfoI8E24mbuk259unmiwG9
Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillars of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that can no longer survive in the wild.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other nature fans on Tuesday, May 17 from YouTube....
2022-05-16 20:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey Deep Peeps! 3️ of our episodes have been nominated for the 2022 Northern California Emmy Awards! The winners will be announced on Saturday, June 11. Wish us luck! 🐞🍀
What would your vote be?
A Mexican jumping bean moth larva inside surface of the “bean” –which is actually the seed capsule of a desert shrub. (Kevin Collins/KQED)
2022-05-13 20:30:59 +0000 UTC
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Who is the BEST Deep Look insect 🦗🐝🦟 mom?
If you don’t see one of your favorites, let us know who’s *your* favorite in the comments.
We also created this special Mother’s Day Playlist (https://bit.ly/DeepLookMothersDay) featuring the insects above.
We hope you enjoy watching, and again, Happy Mother’s Day!
2022-05-06 21:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Look Fans! Have you seen our 🎉150th episode🎉 about the surprisingly vigorous love lives of barnacles? They might just look like crusty little rocks but barnacles are actually crustaceans related to shrimp and crab.
To film 🎥 this milestone episode, Josh Cassidy, Deep Look’s lead cinematographer and producer headed out to Tiburon, California to San Francisco State University...
2022-05-04 20:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life. These crusty little animals — related to crabs and shrimp — have the longest penis of any animal relative to their body size. It’s up to eight times the length of the barnacle itself!
Happy Earth Day🌎Deep Look Patrons! We hope you enjoy this first look at our new video! It's also our 150th episode! You can start sharing it with other nature fans 2022-04-22 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us live for a bilingual* YouTube livestream event about axolotls and hummingbirds with Deep Look producer Gabriela Quirós and scientists.
You'll meet Víctor M. Ortega-Jiménez, a biophysicist at Georgia Institute of Technology who studies the acrobatic flight of hummingbirds. You’ll also meet Luis Zambrano González of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who studies the endangered axolotls and the restoration of their habitat.
We hope you can join us! This...
2022-04-12 23:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Look fans! Have you seen our honeypot ants🍯🐜🐜 video? If you have, you know that some honeypot ants are selected to swell up into golden orbs full of sweet elixir to feed their colony.
Scientists call the ants that turn into living storage tanks REPLETES. But that name is kinda boring. PLEASE help us think of a better name for these ants. Wrong answers are *totally OK.*
The fan who comes up with a name that gets the most likes will be sent a Deep Loo...
2022-04-06 23:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their largest sisters’ mouths. When food is scarce in the desert, the colony will feed from these living storage tanks, known as repletes.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other nature fans on Tuesday,...
2022-04-01 23:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
📢Calling all oceans fans! Deep Look has been selected for The International Ocean Film Festival April 7-10 in our hometown San Francisco, California.
Our episode “Ever Seen A Starfish Gallop?” screens Saturday, April 9 at 10am at the Fort Mason Center. Josh Cassidy, the film’s producer and lead cinematographer, will be at thi...
2022-04-01 03:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps - As a part of celebrating “Women’s History Month” we thought you’d like to know more about Jillian Cowles, the scientist that helped us with our video, 🦂 The Vinegaroon Spray’s Acid to Foil Its Foes.🦂
Jillian is a clinical microbiologist and naturalist who lives in Arizona. She is also an accomplished nature photographer who studies arachnids and has published a boo...
2022-03-29 20:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Look fans, have you seen our NEW video, “The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes”? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxh_M2risw)
In case you haven’t seen the video yet, vinegaroons look like a cross between mutant land lobsters🦞 and scorpions.🦂 And that blast of acid from their rear end reeks of vinegar, but this stuff is 16x stronger than the vinegar in your salad! 🥗...
2022-03-17 23:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The vinegaroon – also known as a whip scorpion – looks like a Frankenstein creation of monster body parts. But unlike true scorpions, it doesn’t use venom to defend itself from predators. Instead, it aims its tail at their face and sprays a blast of acid that reeks of – you guessed it – vinegar. Only this weaponized vinegar is 16 times stronger than what’s in your salad.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it...
2022-03-11 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate we are resharing Q&As from our archives with some of the women that make Deep Look possible. First, let's meet Deep Look's coordinating producer Gabriela Quirós. Gabriela’s health reporting led her to become interested in animals that suck our b...
2022-03-09 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Look fans Happy @World Wildlife Day 🐦🦈🐆
To celebrate we are doing an in-person event this Friday night!
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, come out and join us at @Chabot Space & Science Center for their First Friday's event, "Into the Redwood...
2022-03-04 03:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Deep Look fans! Have you seen our NEW delightfully disgusting video: This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death all about the cage fungus?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd6RESaCxc4
Wondering how we found these unusual mushrooms and got all that gooey action filmed?🎥 Read on to find out.
For this episode of Deep Look, producer/cinematographe...
2022-02-26 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🎺🎺Hi Deep Look Fans - We're excited to share some great news! The team has won an award 🏆from the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Northern California chapter. We received top honors at their awards ceremony this week in their Science, Environment & Health Reporting (TV/video) category.
The SPJ recognized Deep Look for our ongoing video series, including episodes on:
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The cage fungus looks and smells like decaying meat — on purpose. Its goopy lattice gives off a rotten odor that attracts flies, which help spread its spores far and wide. It’s like a bee to a flower, but way more macabre and putrid.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other nature fans on Tuesday, February 22 from YouTube. Thanks!
2022-02-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps! Happy Valentine's Day! We put together a little "wild love" playlist for you with videos from our archives that highlight the wild and wonderful rituals of courtship and mating in nature. We hope you enjoy watching! https://bit.ly/DeepLookValentines
2022-02-14 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After the first big rain, western subterranean termites swarm by the thousands. Hungry ants, spiders and birds pick them off as they emerge from the soil. The survivors fly off to find mates, and quickly drop their delicate wings to start new underground colonies. If you’re really unlucky, they’ll build tubes of mud and saliva from their nest to yours.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, Febru...
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