The Stealth Fighter Of The Insect World

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Luna moths are known for their elegant tails, but what's the purpose of these tails?
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@thetattooedguy1413 3 жыл бұрын

I woke up this morning to the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, such a beautiful Luna Moth! I’ve never seen one in my life and actually feel blessed to have seen one. He hung around for about 12 hours ( all through the day he stayed in our gazebo ) when it got dark he took off. Such a cool thing to see

@rosiann3210 4 жыл бұрын

Today I saw a luna moth and I was so shocked bc my freind found it on the web AND ITS not rare but it's rare to SEE

@airsickspace9272 3 жыл бұрын

I actually got to see one in the US, it was majestic af! And it was really big.

@JehRoniMo11 3 жыл бұрын

One visited me today!! 🙌🙌🦋🐛🌪

@missunderstood6862 3 жыл бұрын

Saw my first, in 44 years last night...after looking up the symbolism, it made me happy, after some recent turmoil in my life..

@rosiann3210 3 жыл бұрын

@@missunderstood6862 wow so cool!

@rosiann3210 3 жыл бұрын

@@JehRoniMo11 ☺

@MatthewAHaas 9 жыл бұрын

So, that evolutionary trait lets the moths get more tail?

@Mojo__ 9 жыл бұрын

ayyyy

@salmonsaladsandwich8161 8 жыл бұрын

Well, technically that's the ultimate purpose of all evolutionary traits.

@TrelliessRose 3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

@Jake-ei7qu 6 жыл бұрын

Luna moths are beautiful I love them

@rosiann3210 4 жыл бұрын

I know I saw one today

@LunaTheStars 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@jasonw1569 9 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a party @ 1:40 "taking a group of Luna moths and snipping the tails of half of them... ...then in a room full of Bats... tying them to the ceiling with fishing line so they just spun around and around..." in order to see how long they'll last

@paulineraabe7731 4 жыл бұрын

That's a very cruel science experiment Who thinks of these things? Tie bats by fishing string and cut the tails off of beautiful lunar moth???? Some mad scientist that's who 🦇🦋😒

@DiamondsRexpensive 3 жыл бұрын

Poetic

@norredc 9 жыл бұрын

That's why they were an ingredient to invisibility potions in skyrim

@merten0083 9 жыл бұрын

Luna moths can't escape my grasp for making potions!

@androidmaui 9 жыл бұрын

No this is Patrick

@omarthedeadaziz6756 6 жыл бұрын

Skyrim have Luna Moths?

@KolKay 5 жыл бұрын

yo what!

@ShaunDreclin 9 жыл бұрын

Why ask us to tell you anything in the comments when you don't read or reply to them?

@BigMilkshake23 9 жыл бұрын

More comments = more $$$

@aserillll 9 жыл бұрын

Get over it

@niskwix1832 9 жыл бұрын

Actually, the amount of ads viewed on a video gain them money. The comments, likes, dislikes, or respreads don't affect the profit in any way.

@BishopS 9 жыл бұрын

They Read them... and sometimes reply. I've seen Trace reply to people in videos from his own account and also I've seen DNews reply to people. They probably just have a limited time to spend in the comments before they move on to whatever their next video is or whatever they do in their personal time.

@MrMrMaran 9 жыл бұрын

XThePanda Well spreading the video leads to more views so...

@river_rosy5477 5 жыл бұрын

Despite being 3 years later, thanks for making this - I'm doing a presentation on the luna moth and was looking for something to explain this fact about them

@djskinni101 5 жыл бұрын

I just took a photo of one of these here in Georgia, this insect is huge & Beautiful!!!

@sk8ergurl327 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@LunaTheStars 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@JehRoniMo11 3 жыл бұрын

Yes yess one just visited me today!

@JehRoniMo11 2 жыл бұрын

@@LunaTheStars hi cool flight bug 👋🤠

@marckid93 3 жыл бұрын

They honestly look like some sort of mythical creature.

@masterspartanchief33 5 жыл бұрын

When I was 16, I had a luna moth land on my arm while letting the dog out before bed. It didn't flutter away when I touched it, so I took it inside. Long story short, I had a beautiful pet moth for 2 months. After watching this video and hearing they only really live for a week as adults makes me feel special that I somehow got to have a 5 inch long parrot for that long!

@vrabiealexandru2755 5 жыл бұрын

@bungholio1586 Жыл бұрын

@@vrabiealexandru2755 yes

@dontreadthisplease2416 10 ай бұрын

Normally I wouldn't support taking an animal like a luna moth or any moth really from the wild as a pet, but the fact that it didn't run away from you makes me wonder if it had something wrong with it in the first place. Anyway, if it managed to live longer in captivity with you and instead lived a week, I guess it's no harm no foul, although you definitely may have interfered with its reproduction.

@AceandDuce 9 жыл бұрын

I saw one of these hurt in my back deck so I protected it until it flw away

@levistokes3960 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite animal. Many people don’t have an insect as a favorite animal. They’re such beautiful animals. I thought about raising them.

@DanandDonna1 6 жыл бұрын

Had this moth at my gas station a couple of months ago. Very pretty. Now I know what it was. Thank you.

@blountman747 4 жыл бұрын

I just saw one of these for the first time and it was beautiful poor thing was stuck by the side of the door because I guess it thought maybe it can go through the window I picked it up and climbed on my finger and I took it to the nearest branch of a tree nearby

@lillettesam 9 жыл бұрын

I seen my first luna month last summer. Beautiful

@magnumxlpi 7 жыл бұрын

Why are his eyes so far apart? I like to here some scientific explanation quoting studies

@richertless8436 9 жыл бұрын

I like the coevolution of the blue crab and the clam. Stronger claws=stronger shell=stronger claws=stronger shell=you get the point.

@tammyosborne9048 2 жыл бұрын

I'm in Vermont and this lil creature stopped by on my trailer to show me its beauty 🙂

@Treemotan 6 жыл бұрын

I love these babies. Had to rescue one from a coworker that freaked and wanted to smash the big bug

@likemycommentifyouarenotga7337 9 жыл бұрын

I become a stealth fighter especially when women resist me.

@ArshMellow 9 жыл бұрын

Wtf....

@IWANAROCKYEEEAAAA 9 жыл бұрын

Arshy Chan he is a troll look at his name nice joke tough

@BunnyH-pq5jt 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder why they resist you, who wouldn't date someone named sex offender?

@Grimdopple 9 жыл бұрын

I sexually identify as a slice of pizza.

@richardtaylor3331 9 жыл бұрын

nullins XD

@chineseman5266 9 жыл бұрын

Still a better stealth fighter than F-22 and F-35.

@Logan_93 9 ай бұрын

What do you mean? Both those planes are phenomenal.

@Iseenoobpeoples 11 ай бұрын

I saw a large specimen here in Quebec Canada, I though it was a bird when it flew pass me, I got closer and took pictures it was over 15cm/6in, impressive to see.

@lindahandley5267 2 жыл бұрын

I frequently get Luna moths at my back door. They're beautiful and mysterious. Last night one stayed on the ceiling of the eave of the back door. Today it was just sitting on the deck, fluttering its wings. I didn't know if it was dying or what, so I touched its wing and it quickly fluttered about 2 ft. away. I hope it wasn't dying.

@crazydave9735 3 жыл бұрын

bats: Who the hell needs eyes when they can just have these giant ears lmfao

@stephaniesanders5330 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information. One has been at my entrance door for about 18 hours. 😍✨❤️

@lilyr6755 2 жыл бұрын

Wow cool butterfly. Whoah those bats too.

@TheJman669 4 жыл бұрын

I love in the Northeast and had one of these scare me as I exited the house this evening.

@Nico-bd4cg 9 жыл бұрын

Video is 3 minutes 59 seconds long 3+5=8 8+9=15 15/5=3 a triangle has 3 sides... Illuminati confirmed

@monarchatto6095 4 жыл бұрын

Grey Alien 8+9=17, bruh

@invisiblejaguar1 9 жыл бұрын

More inspiration from nature, fascinating.

@justinruim5262 9 жыл бұрын

the rough skinned newt and the garter snake. the snake has proteins that protect it from the newt's tetrodotoxin, and the newt keeps becoming more toxic.

@Pokemon60660 9 жыл бұрын

Was going to say Tom and Jerry but my other favorite is Sylvester and Tweety.

@hackman669 9 жыл бұрын

always on the side of Sylvestor.

@S550STANG 2 жыл бұрын

I've only ever seen one in my lifetime

@Maria-er9gi 8 жыл бұрын

this was very interesting

@CommanderS7 9 жыл бұрын

Evolution is a cruel and unusual mistress. Why bother to evolve these complicated countermeasures, yet not evolve to have a basic food processing system?

@wati1992 9 жыл бұрын

gg intelligent design

@Kryptic712 9 жыл бұрын

tbh, the argument for and against evolution are so good now that you just have to pick a side and stay. I could suggest that they needed the tails in order to survive, but then I could argue that evolution through natural selection and adaptation would not be adherent at this point due to the fact that the phenotype and genotypes would need to process the information to the next of kin; but this would entail the moth to be captured but freed to progress such a response. on the intelligent design side. god did it. no one can know the 'why', only the how, and possibly when. that's like me figuring out how the first amount of life started, or what made the first thing, how did it all start with the universe or life etc. I can find out 'how' (maybe) and if not, I can try, but I can never find out why. if I love someone, why would I help them? ...well it's love, but without it, there is no reason to do it, not much reason to do anything.

@SensibleMinded 9 жыл бұрын

Honestly there was no benefit to having a usable mouth. If they don't get eaten their first instinct to to mate. Once that's done there is no need to continue on since they have carried the species to the next generation. The special shape of their wings makes it more likely they will live long enough to breed. Having a usable mouth will not make they any more likely to breed. So they don't have a useable mouth because... They don't need it. Having said that it does seem like an awful existence. Spend your whole life trying not to be eaten. Hibernate and emerge only to have sex with the first member of the opposite species you find then starve to death...

@jizburg 9 жыл бұрын

question. if they have no digestion tract.. how do they eat? i mean the species must take in energy somehow.

@daxxonjabiru428 9 жыл бұрын

"The beast with four wings?" Seriously?! Thanks for the spit take all over my keyboard, DNews!

@blueasblueis 9 жыл бұрын

Von Helton thought of this first.

@nightjarflying 9 жыл бұрын

Yup. F*ckin guvmint stole his genius & his teeth too seems like.

@AsDeadAsDillinger 9 жыл бұрын

nightjarflying Of course, a true maverick visionary genius like Von was probably forced to pull all of his own teeth out. _I bet that sneaky ol' Govt had filled all his teeth with bugs in some nefarious attempt to steal his brilliant ideas !_

@nightjarflying 9 жыл бұрын

AsDeadAsDillinger Them guvmint molar mouth moles.

@AsDeadAsDillinger 9 жыл бұрын

nightjarflying I wouldn't be surprised if I found out that the crazy guy in the film '12 monkeys' was based on Von. You remember, the paranoid guy who talks to Bruce Willis through the vent in his cell, the same guy who pulled all his own teeth out in an attempt to escape ? I can see 'Von' all over that role !

@nightjarflying 9 жыл бұрын

AsDeadAsDillinger Yes I can see that. Good comparison. This is what inspired that film - haven't watched it yet: vimeo.com/46620661

@Ukraine2011 Жыл бұрын

The first time I saw one I thought it was a leaf. Had assumed it was to make it less noticeable by prey

@staceyakins6211 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Luna moths don't have mouths . So they literally starve to death after like 2 weeks

@christianmelendez6252 9 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@bntsloma5946 Жыл бұрын

Lmao really appreciate the Porygon reference

@MercyS26 9 жыл бұрын

Anybody else disturbed by the fact that the scientists basically set up the moths to be eaten by bats lol

@frozeneternity93 9 жыл бұрын

"What is your favourite cat and mouse example of two species locked in eternal struggle to out wit each other?" mongoose vs cobras... or is that mongeese, mongooses... o_O?

@syntheticvocalist-p472 2 жыл бұрын

I just realized this moth looks exactly like Rosine.

@captainredbeard2811 9 жыл бұрын

My favorite eternal struggle is humans vs other humans.

@gloria7159 9 жыл бұрын

Where did you get your shirt!!?

@jhug111 9 жыл бұрын

Internet! It's my new favorite shirt. www.amazon.com/Rocket-Factory-Evolution-Hockey-t-shirt/dp/B0081GC346

@BonafideToolJunkie Жыл бұрын

Luna moths signify new beginnings as they represent a continuing quest for truth and knowledge, the gift of intuition, psychic perception and heightened awareness. Things that are associated with “seeing the light”

@morganthem 9 жыл бұрын

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that'sso cool.... I can see the moths with just enough tail dealio goin on to escape bats passing on their genes in a flurry of evolution... neato

@walterdennisclark 9 жыл бұрын

What if removing their tails keeps them from maneuvering out of the way faster? Nah. That theory is boring.

@alejandrinos 9 жыл бұрын

They don't need the tails to fly or maneuver. Even if they did the point is still moot because there's no escaping a bat once it detects the target, since they are bigger and faster. The only defense is stealth.

@walterdennisclark 9 жыл бұрын

It is well known in aerodynamics that an airplane with wings can out-maneuver a missile, but to do so the airplane must know when to do so and then pull a number of Gs which comes close to breaking the wings off. What counts is the radius of a maneuver not the speed. Speed only helps in that it is a surprise. Since a vehicle with normal wings can turn inside the radius of a vehicle with stubby wings all you have to do is pull a lot of Gs in an unpredictable direction just before impact.

@alejandrinos 9 жыл бұрын

Walter Clark Moths are slow enough that you can catch them with your hands There's no escape for them.

@walterdennisclark 9 жыл бұрын

good point alejandrinos. But still... Cutting off a tail and then counting how many were caught to prove that the tail makes them more invisible... I just don't like it. Maybe without a tail the flight trajectory is straighter and easier to intercept. I'm always suspicious of sexy explanations to interesting observations.

@alejandrinos 9 жыл бұрын

Walter Clark I agree that it sounds too good to be true, but I think it'd be really obvious if the moths had less maneverability with their tails cut, obvious enough to cancel the experiment and try something else.

@Sderrybugs 6 жыл бұрын

cute luna moth😊👍👍

@omarthedeadaziz6756 6 жыл бұрын

i 1st saw this butterfly on Zoosk when sum1 had a selfie, & my 1st thought was omg it looks like a miniature dragon from Avitar, then started googling it & got here

@asmonlacroix7175 9 жыл бұрын

The cane toad and all the other toad eating carnivores in Australia.

@rainernotes 9 жыл бұрын

Wasn't this just on the Reddit front page the other day

@HDhyper 9 жыл бұрын

Nice Pokemon reference

@mgmcd1 9 жыл бұрын

Beast with 8 wings. Each Luna moth already has 4 wings.

@PinkEctoplasm 9 жыл бұрын

My fav moth

@jacobclark89 8 ай бұрын

I just found one in my yard in Fl . I think a female , but it's yellow not green , very strange critter ! It looks like it has ears that look just like leaves with holes in them .I would watch for it when its the green catapiller cuz I think it packs a mean sting

@Rickiye 7 ай бұрын

I'd guess the 'ears that look like leaves' you saw are the antennae and they're shaped like that to catch their potential mates pheromones in the wind. Pretty cool design by nature.

@jacobclark89 7 ай бұрын

@@Rickiye dang ,that thing is so high tec ! Its got the largest legs of any moth I've ever seen .its kinda funny finding this thing at the same time as nasa brought back the space rocks and I just watched the movie evolution ! I thought I had a real space critter on my hands 😅😂🤣

@Fuckscreaming 9 жыл бұрын

"looks like porygon" lmfao

@LETSGOCOMMIES 4 жыл бұрын

I seen one!

@michaelpesavento8268 9 жыл бұрын

Hi, This is weird. The views are in the thousands and the comment count is a lonely 3. Even though there are obviously more than 3 comments.

@stiimuli 9 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah? Lets see it fire off some missiles! Take that, nature!

@warjri9956 3 жыл бұрын

I have moon moth its yellow in color.. i want to show u

@Ok-in6dm 5 жыл бұрын

I once saw a Luna moth

@Mattteus 9 жыл бұрын

wait, shouldn't that be 'the beast with eight wings'?

@SgtMantis 9 жыл бұрын

Peregrine falcons versus doves. A million year evolution of who could be the fastest in open prairies.

@tramsgar 9 жыл бұрын

Strangely detailed childhood trauma, Julian...?

@arjet16 9 жыл бұрын

Hi DNews i love ur show but can u do an episode about brainwaves and binaural beats Tons of info on google I'm really curious how and when to use em

@sk.tahmidahmed3680 4 жыл бұрын

I thought they only exist in Skyrim.

@isiahaguilar 9 жыл бұрын

Why do dogs and cats hate each other?

@WilliamCollier 9 жыл бұрын

Blood and kyrip. (Correct me if I spelled it wrong, I probably did!)

@Alusnovalotus 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a cruel experiment 🔬

@miss0jode 9 жыл бұрын

so it developed a high tech radar technique but couldn't develop any form of a digestive system ? ... cool

@SnipeRespect 9 жыл бұрын

"makes them look like porygon" was that a pokemon reference? XD

@LandOfSigh 9 жыл бұрын

Zangoose and Serviper.

@confusedkitten2341 7 жыл бұрын

there's one in my backyard

@RomeoCo 9 жыл бұрын

Ichy and Scratchy

@Stealth 9 жыл бұрын

did someone say stealth??

@raffarajasa4183 3 жыл бұрын

no, piss off

@braianr.7 9 жыл бұрын

That bat looks like me... ugly! :p

@gangstashanksta 9 жыл бұрын

Apocalyps and Cable

@angelicaantezana9114 5 жыл бұрын

Praying mantis vs any prey insect.

@ReaperofMind 9 жыл бұрын

PORYGON!!

@falondonahue8457 2 жыл бұрын

Quick get the pokéball before it uses the Tri-Attack move on your Pikachu!

@rahimuddinansari4878 7 ай бұрын

I have this

@DraeganDraconis 9 жыл бұрын

...Porygon. :D

@LunaTheStars 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! It’s me

@billcipher5302 3 жыл бұрын

Hello cute moth

@LunaTheStars 3 жыл бұрын

@@billcipher5302 yooo silky how’s it hanging

@AlfredoATA 9 жыл бұрын

How can people watch this video and think this just evolved. The mechanics of this moth literally scream that a creator made it. I really don't understand some people

@Cheesus-Sliced 8 жыл бұрын

infinity pool The same way the peppered moth evolved. Something rare and obscure doesnt quite suggest that it was designed.

@ReconGhostKiller 7 жыл бұрын

Bud, he clearly explains the completely conceivable (to logical human beings) concept behind evolution. It not only makes sense, it makes more sense than saying a magical being just decided to put it on this planet, because, why the heck not? Just because it's beautiful, doesn't mean it was created by a god. It's beautiful in its own right, because it took thousands of years to change minutely from generation to generation to get to this fantastic point.

@rahimuddinansari4878 7 ай бұрын

just saw today

@D34DK1TT3H 9 жыл бұрын

When I was little I caught one of those in a jar

@klattalexis 9 жыл бұрын

Intelligent design or mindless evolution?

@TrevorJrHotkiss11 9 жыл бұрын

Cat and dog?

@hy3579 9 жыл бұрын

I will freaking scream and run away in fear if i every see this moth... in hate insects especially moth. Just disgusting

@ethanlaudato8731 9 жыл бұрын

Tshirt win

@vksepe 9 жыл бұрын

Humans vs microbes!

@hackman669 9 жыл бұрын

War of the Worlds right?

@TheRR334 9 жыл бұрын

Wait so these moths don't have digestive tracks? Soooo they don't eat food? If that's true does that mean they are just born with enough fat to hopefully mate with another then die?

@AudoricArt 9 жыл бұрын

Well no. Like all moths and butterflies, they eat during their larval stage. There the luna instinctively gorges themselves with enough food so when they develop into an adult they'll have enough energy to last them that full week.