🚁Hoverfly POLL🚁
What’s your favorite thing about hoverflies? If you don’t see an option you like, let us know in the comments.
You can find out more about hoverflies in our video, 2022-12-03 00:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sneak Peek: How Hoverflies Spawn Maggots that Sweeten Your Oranges
Oblique streaktail hoverflies zip from bloom to bloom wearing a wasp costume to avoid getting eaten. But it’s all show – they don’t even have stingers! Their fierce maggots, on the other hand, devour hundreds of insect pests. As they gorge, they help keep orange trees safe from disease.
We hope you enj...
2022-11-19 01:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post🏆🏆🏆DEEP LOOK WINS GOLD AAAS Kavli Award
Deep Look has won an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award in the “Video Spot News/Feature Reporting” category for our episodes about barnacles, giant water bugs and honeypot ants. This awa...
2022-11-11 02:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post🎃🧛👻Halloween Playlist🎃🧛👻
Boo! Happy Halloween from Deep Look!
Please enjoy this playlist of our team's favorite macabre, malodorous and menacing episodes, with flesh-eating beetles, pallid bats, turret spiders and more! <...
2022-10-31 15:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostSneak Peek: Yellowjackets Roll Tiny Meatballs For The Babies
Why is that yellowjacket crashing your BBQ? Well, she wants what you're having: burgers, hot dogs, fish and turkey. But she doesn't eat them herself. Her nest's larvae need that protein to develop. So she carves up your dinner and makes teeny-tiny meatballs for them.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our ...
2022-10-28 20:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post🦉Owl POLL:🦉
Hoo! Hoo! What’s your favorite, frightening fact about owls? If you don’t see one you like, then leave one in the comments.
If you haven’t seen Deep Look's owl videos, here they are:
🦇Bat POLL🦇
Happy #BatWeek! What’s your favorite “batty” fact? If you have a "batter" one, tell us in the comments.
Also, did you know pallid bats hunt on the ground? See them in all their creepy, crawly glory in this video from our archives: “T...
2022-10-25 01:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post🐦🖤🎃Crows POLL:🖤🎃
What’s your favorite feathery, freaky fact about crows? If you have a better one, tell us in the comments.
Our episode, “You've Heard...
2022-10-21 22:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post🍄Funky Fungus POLL🍄
What’s your favorite frightening fact about cage fungus?
Deep Look’s favorite holiday, Halloween, is fast approaching and it’s mushroom foraging season in California. So, we couldn’t resist highlighting our cag...
2022-10-20 02:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post🦋Monarch Butterfly🦋 POLL
What’s your favorite fact about monarchs? If you don’t see one you like let us know in the comments.
Also, it’s monarch butterfly migration season! Now’s the time to check what kind of milkweed you have in your garden. ...
2022-10-14 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Latinx Heritage Month from #DeepLook!
Enjoy this special playlist of videos that feature animals found in Latin America like hummingbirds, glasswing and morpho butterflies, Mexican jumping beans, axolotls, honeypot ants, and yes, kissing bugs. 🐦🦋...
2022-10-09 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostSneak Peek: This Nasty Parasite Is Ruining Monarch Butterfly Wings
Monarchs are locked in a battle with Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE), a parasite that can trap a butterfly in its own chrysalis and deform its beautiful wings. Turns out there is a right way, and a *wrong* way, for you to help these butterflies in your backyard.
We hope you enjoy this first look at...
2022-10-07 19:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post🏆DEEP LOOK WINS JACKSON WILD MEDIA AWARD!🏆
We have fantastic news! Deep Look’s Barnacles Go To Unbelievable Lengths To Hook Up won an award for best “Micro Movie” on September 29 at the international 2022-10-01 17:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sneak Peek: Fire Ants Turn Their Babies into a Stinging Life Raft
As flood water flows into their nest, red fire ants build a terrifying raft – out of their own interlocking bodies. And they put their babies on the bottom, like floaties. If you wade into this ant raft nightmare, you’ll likely get a vicious bite and sting.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest...
2022-09-23 21:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post🥳🎉2 Million Subscribers!🥳🎉
👀What do 2 million beach hoppers, fleas, grunion, ladybugs and plankton have in common with Deep Look?
🥁🥁 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS, that’s what! We are jumping for joy! Oh, and we also have close to 400 million video views on YouTube too!
🥳🎉Thanks to YOU, all of our fans for sub...
2022-09-22 20:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostHELP US REACH 🎈2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS🎈
Calling all Deep Peeps! Micronauts! Deep Lookers! Thank you for bugging out 🐞🐞with us with each and every episode. We are a few hundred subs away from our goal - YOU could be our 2 millionth subscriber.
Subscribe! youtube.c...
2022-09-20 01:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post🐛Millipede POLL🐛
Hi Deep Peeps! What are your favorite facts about millipedes?
Have you ever seen one before? Have you seen one in the dark? If you haven’t, check out this video from our archives, This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Re...
2022-09-16 02:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post🦋💡💚Ask us questions about MONARCH BUTTERFLIES💚💡🦋
Hey Deep Peeps! We’re producing a story about monarch butterflies and their old enemy called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha - O.E. for short - a sneaky protozoan which attacks them "inside the cocoon."
What questions do you have about monarchs? Or their enemies? Let us know in the comments below, and we...
2022-09-13 17:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post🌞CARNIVOROUS PLANT POLL-Cape Sundews:🌞
A hairy starthistle weevil is trapped on a Cape sundew carnivorous plant. (Photo Credit: Josh Cassidy/KQED)
What’s your favorite fact about these carnivorous plants? For inspiration, here is a video about them from our arc...
2022-09-10 01:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post🏊♂️🦟BACKSWIMMER BUG POLL🏊♂️🦟
What’s your favorite fact about backswimmers? If you haven’t seen our new episode, Backswimmer Insects Drag Prey to the Upside Down, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/gOnvsoObRjI
Have you ever seen backswimmer ...
2022-09-02 00:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostSneak Peek: Backswimmer Insects Drag Prey Into the Upside Down
They look like little rowboats, cruising belly up below the surface of a pond or gentle stream. But don't be fooled. Backswimmers are voracious predators, and when it's time to find a new home they know how to make a dramatic exit.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharin...
2022-08-26 19:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post👩📹Meet Mimi Shiffman, Deep Look’s New Producer!
Hi Deep Peeps! We have a new producer on our team who we’d like you to meet. We hope you enjoy finding out more about Mimi!
How’d you get here?
Last year I was a producer for PBS Digital’s show
📢Q&A: Maddie Sofia, Deep Look Guest Host!📢
Hey Deep Peeps! If you have watched Deep Look’s recent barn owls episode you might have noticed a different voice. That’s Maddie Sofia, Deep Look’ 2022-08-19 01:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🦉Barn Owl🦉POLL
Hey Deep Peeps! What’s your favorite cute - or deadly - fact about barn owls?
If you haven’t seen our episode yet, you can watch it here: Barn Owl Table Manners are Just...Different 2022-08-11 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sneak Peek: Barn Owl Table Manners are Just ... Different
Barn owls swoop down on rodents and swallow them whole – gophers, voles and mice, gone in a few gulps. But how do they keep down all that food? Well, they don’t. In a few stomach-turning steps, they transform the varmints into compact balls of fur and bones known as pellets.
We hope you enjoy this first ...
2022-08-05 22:54:24 +0000 UTC View Post🐝Giant Bees🐝 POLL
Hey Deep Peeps! What’s your favorite fact about fuzzy, sneaky carpenter bees? If you haven’t seen our episode yet, you can watch it here: Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers To Steal Their Nectar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
2022-07-23 00:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post🐍World Snake Day🐍POLL:
Hey Deep Peeps! It's World Snake Day!
What are your favorite facts about rattlesnakes? If you don’t see one you like, let us know your favorite in the comments below.
Also, please enjoy this short video from our archives: Look Inside a Rattlesnakes Rattle (2022-07-16 18:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sneak Peek: Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers To Steal Their Nectar
With their short tongues, Valley carpenter bees can't easily drink the nectar from tubular flowers. So they use powerful mandibles to slice into the blooms and steal it. It's called nectar robbing, since the plants don't get the benefit of being pollinated by the enormous bees.
We hope you enjoy this first l...
2022-07-15 17:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post💙🦈Shark Awareness Day🦈💙 POLL
It's Shark Awareness Day! What are your favorite facts about sharks? If you don’t see one you like, let us know your favorite in the comments below.
Also, please enjoy this short video from our archives: How do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey? (2022-07-15 00:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
🐙🦑CEPHALOPOD MOVIE NIGHT📽️
Science Friday ( @SciFri) and Deep Look teamed up to stream and discuss some fantastic cephalopod short films via @KQEDLive on June 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380X8n8A3uY
After each film, Danielle Dana, Science Friday's Executiv...
2022-07-05 23:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
