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🗳️POLL: Giant Water Bug
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.
Sneak Peek: Don't Go Chasing Water Bugs
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!
🌞SUMMER POLL: TICKS!🕷️🕷️
It’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.
🏆AWARD WIN for DEEP LOOK!
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 our playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdKlciEDdCQDR-KONYesRT2IpVdlVg0UO)Mexican jumping bean’s signature movement comes from a tiny moth larv...
POLL: 🌊Happy World Oceans Day!🌊
What’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-
Sneak Peek: This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries
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. Thanks!
🐙🦑#CephalopodWeek EVENT JUNE 10🐙🦑
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 cuttlefish, nifty nautiluses, superb squid and outstanding octopuses! You’ll also meet: 🐙Josh Cassidy, our very own lead producer and cinematographer for Deep Look. He'll talk about his adventures filming octopuses and squid. 🐙Richard Ross, a cephalopod husbandry ex...
POLL: 🦦World Otter Day!🦦
Hi 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 )
🐢Happy World Turtle Day!🐢
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 threatened baby Western pond turtles raised in a zoo it’s an advantage: they can learn to catch crickets all by themselves. There’s a paradox, though.When they are ready to leave the nursery, there is little wilderness where they can make a home. ...
🔎How Deep Look Filmed Silkworms🐛🐛🔎
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 cinematographer Kevin Collins. (https://www.youtube.com/user/kevincollinsfilm)Mike had worked with Kevin before on our Mexican jumping bean vi...
POLL: 🐝Happy #WorldBeeDay from Deep Look! 🐝
Hey 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
Sneak Peek: Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom
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. Thanks!
🏆🏆 🏆 Deep Look Northern California Emmy Nominees
Hey 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) A female bumblebee-mimic digger bee enters its nest in a cliff overlooking a beach in Northern California. (Josh Cassidy/KQED) Tadpole shrimp are crustaceans that once lived in the sea, but now make the...
💐Happy Mother’s Day💐Insect POLL
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!
🔎Field Notes:🔎Barnacle Sex!
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’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center, Romberg Tiburon Campus.Josh films barnacles at the Romberg Tiburon Campus in Tiburon, California. (Jenny Oh/KQED)Josh ...
Sneak Peek: Barnacles Go To Unbelievable Lengths To Hook Up
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 on Tuesday, April 26 from YouTube. Thanks!
👀DEEP LOOK LIVESTREAM EVENT!! 👀 FRI, APRIL 29 @ 5PM PT!
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 event is free. Head over to our sign up page here: https://www.kqed....
👹Name that ANT Contest👹
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 Look T-Shirt and stickers. Deadline to respond is this Friday, April 8.Ready, set ...
Sneak Peek: Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters into Jugs of Nectar
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, April 5 from YouTube. Thanks!
🌊Deep Look in International Ocean Film Festival🌊
📢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 this screening for a Q&A.The long skinny tube feet at the end of a starfish’s arm are extra sensitive when it comes to touch and smell. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)“See Sea Slugs Scour Seagrass by the Sea Shore” screens S...
🔬Meet a Scientist: Jillian Cowles🔬
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 book called, 🕷️“Amazing Arachnids.” 🕷️Jillian was instrumental in advising Mike Seely, our producer, on the best way to capture slow motion...
🔎Field Notes: Vinegaroons! 🔎
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! 🥗Read on for some behind-the-scenes dirt on how we captured all of that stunning vinegaroon footage.Josh Cassidy, Deep Look’s lead producer and cinemato...
Sneak Peek: The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes
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 with other nature fans on Tuesday, March 15 from YouTube. Thanks!
It's International Women's Day!
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 blood. Deep Look coordinating producer Gabriela Quirós offers up her arm for a mosquito to bite. (Photo Credit: Josh Cassidy/KQED)For Gabriela’s 2016 episode, "How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood,” she attempted to get bit...
DEEP LOOK In-Person Event - March 4
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 Redwoods" on March 4 for special Deep Look screenings at 7pm and 8:30pm about banana🍌slugs, ladybugs🐞and newts🦎 -- animals found in redwood forests. You’ll also meet Deep Look producer Gabriela Quirós and @East Bay Regional Park District naturalists, Michael Charnof...
Field Notes: 🍄The Cage Fungus🍄
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=Bd6RESaCxc4Wondering 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/cinematographer Josh Cassidy worked with naturalist Damon Tighe to track down some seriously stinky mushrooms.Naturalist Damon Tighe estimates the size of the underground network of threads called the mycelium...
Deep Look Wins Society of Professional Journalists Award!
🎺🎺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:beach hoppers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8P8ig459gaphids - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzalLssomg&t=158sflies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Sneak Peek: This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death
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!
Happy Valentine's Day from Deep Look
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
Sneak Peek: Flying Termites Take a Dangerous Journey to a New Life
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, February 1 from YouTube. Thanks!
