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A four-part parasite documentary joins jumping-spider courtship and heart-shaped damselfly pairings in a three-upload week.
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These Four Animals Are Living a Real-Life Horror Movie | Deep Look
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- 0:32A fungus makes infected fruit flies climb and attach themselves high up before releasing spores.
- 4:36Horsehair worms developing inside crickets induce them to enter water, where the worms emerge.
- 8:42Varroa mites feed on honeybees' fat body tissue and transmit deformed wing virus.
- 9:00Researchers demonstrate sugar-shake mite detection and efforts to breed bees that bite mites.
- 14:42OE parasites weaken monarch butterflies and can disrupt their transformation into adults.
- 18:20The monarch segment explains how tropical milkweed can disrupt migration and worsen parasite transmission.
Deep Look turns a fruit fly's final climb into the opening act of "These Four Animals Are Living a Real-Life Horror Movie | Deep Look". Infected by a fungus, the fly attaches itself high up, where spores can spread outward. The documentary then moves to hairworms steering crickets toward water, mites feeding on honeybees and parasites disrupting monarch metamorphosis. No invented monster required.
The compilation has reached about 119,000 views and is the channel's busiest video right now. Its close-ups come with laboratory detective work: Carolyn Elya's research explores how the fungus controls fly neurons. There is reassurance amid the unsettling biology, too. Narrator Lauren Sommer says, "The fungus can't hurt humans."
Viewers are discussing the bees that bite mites, the implications of planting tropical milkweed and the hairworm segment's unusually alien sound effects. That last detail suits a series where getting very close to something small can make it seem like an entirely different world.
The week's two Shorts offer a less sinister view of insect and arachnid life. A male jumping spider dances for a potential mate, while San Francisco forktail damselflies link their bodies into a heart shape. Courtship has its own complications, but it makes a striking change from the compilation's body snatchers.
Across the channel, weekly viewing approached 786,000 views, with subscribers unchanged. Daily viewing is running modestly above its usual level. Nearby science channels had mixed weeks: Dr Ben Miles gained subscribers, while Captain Disillusion and Cody'sLab were quieter in viewing.
Deep Look's older transformation compilation, "This Fly's Face Does WHAT? | Deep Look", also remains active. And the hissing-cockroach Short supplies a useful counterpoint to those honeybee parasites: some mites are a cleaning crew, not a catastrophe.
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cricket: gives birth to a creature 3 times its size
cricket right after: well back to business@TheCow-j1lSee it on YouTubethe sfx for hairworm really had that spooky and alien vibes to it which is somewhat hypnotizing lol
@aspopulvera9130See it on YouTubeGood to know about the tropical milkweeds. I've always heard the tropical milkweeds help monarchs passing through on their way south in the fall.
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Fungi are the most terrifying thing
@munaq-jpSee it on YouTubeAy... AYO! I was not ready for this 😅😅 I'm only 2 mins in
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- Channel
- Deep Look
- Subscribers
- 2,400,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 786,089
- Videos published this week
- 3
- Video published
- October 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 119,433
- Views on its first day
- 46,568
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What shape do the paired damselflies form in Deep Look's new Short?
The San Francisco forktail damselflies link their bodies into a heart shape during mating.