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❣️🪰LOVEBUGS GIF CHALLENGE 🪰❣️— Our new episode about lovebugs is live! Check it out! https://youtu.be/8XJYo3FuvFc?feature=...

Also known as honeymoon flies, lovebugs can spend anywhere from a half-hour to a couple of days attached to each other. As the female drags or carries the male from flower to flower, piggyback style, they pollinate cherries, apples and pears.

CHALLENGE: Is this a male or female lovebug and what gave it away?

Male lovebugs have holoptic eyes that meet at the top of his head!

➡️ ➡️The first 5 fans to give us the correct answer before 8am PST tomorrow will get a shout-out in the video description. Ready, set – GO!⏳

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🏖️ 🦀BEACH CRITTERS GIF CHALLENGE 🦀🏖️ — Our new special summer video about five tiny beach critters with surprising hidden lives is live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSIZP...

Life along the shoreline is waay wilder than you think if you are a sand dollar, digger bee, mole crab, beach hopper or horseshoe crab!

CHALLENGE: Which one of the animals mentioned above stores magnetite in specialized chambers of its gut? The answer is sand dollars.

➡️ ➡️The first 5 fans to give us the correct answer before 8am PST tomorrow will get a shout-out in the video description. Ready, set – GO!⏳

GIF 1: Beach hopper
GIF 2: Sand dollar
GIF 3: Mole crab
GIF 4: Horseshoe crab

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😈🐜RUTHLESS ANTS GIF CHALLENGE 😈🐜 — We hope you enjoy our new special video about four of the most ruthless and crafty ants we’ve filmed: https://youtu.be/RBqt5egv6go Fire ants have an excruciating bite and sting. Kidnapper ants steal other ants’ babies. Honeypot ants turn their sisters into living jugs of nectar. And Argentine ants act as bodyguards in exchange for strings of sugary candy.

CHALLENGE: Which of the four ants mentioned above uses its own larvae to build a raft to survive floods? And what part of the larvae helps the raft stay afloat?

Fire ants! As floodwater trickles into their underground tunnels, fire ants start a rescue mission and build a raft out of their colony's larvae and pupae, putting them at the bottom. Curved, forked hairs on the larvae trap air bubbles that help keep the raft afloat.

➡️ ➡️The first 5 fans to give us BOTH the correct answer before 8am PST tomorrow will get a shout-out in the video description. Ready, set – GO!⏳

GIF 1: Fire ant
GIF 2: Kidnapper ant
GIF 3: Honeypot ants
GIF 4: Argentine ants

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😱👚CLOTHES MOTHS VS. WASP IMAGE POLL👚😱 - What surprises you the most about clothes moths or their tiny nemesis, the Trichogramma wasp? In case you missed our new video, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VoW...

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📢PROTECT MY PUBLIC MEDIA📢 — Hey Deep Peeps! Deep Look’s stunning close-up wildlife videos are made by KQED, the nonprofit public media station in San Francisco, California. KQED, like other public media stations across the United States, is largely funded by viewers like you. But a foundational part of our support comes from the federal budget.

Currently there's a rescission bill being deliberated by the U.S. Senate that would clawback federal funding for public media previously approved by the U.S. Congress. Make no mistake, a reversal of this funding, which has been the funding bedrock of the U.S. public media system for fifty years, would have major implications for public media stations like KQED.

We need your help to protect the funding already approved for KQED and the 1,500 public media stations across the country that together provide the public safety backbone that helps keep our country safe, educate our youngest learners with free high-quality children's programming, and foster cultural connections by serving as a trusted source of information and facilitating community dialogue. The rescission vote represents the biggest national threat public media has ever faced.

We love making Deep Look, but the future of federal funding for public media and science programs like this one is at risk. If you live in the United States *Contact Your Senators Today* go to 👉 bit.ly/ProtectMyPublicMedia

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👚CLOTHES MOTHS GIF CHALLENGE👚— Our new episode about clothes moths is live: https://youtu.be/J9VoW0VKRwA Find out how they wreak holey havoc in your closet, how they got there and what you can do to get rid of them. There is a wasp that can take them down!

CHALLENGE: What two nutrients are clothes moth larvae after in your closet? Keratin, a protein in sheep’s wool and cashmere sweaters, and vitamin B from your sweat, oil, and the skin flakes you shed onto your clothes.

➡️ ➡️The first 5 fans to correctly list both nutrients before 8am PST tomorrow will get a shoutout in the video description. Ready, set – GO!⏳

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🏆 AND THE EMMY WINNER IS … 🏆 - Hey Deep Peeps! We have some great news! Our episode about burying beetles, “This Mite-y Beetle Buries the Dead to Start a Family,” won the Northern California Emmy in the Environment/Science - News or Short Form Content category. In our recent Emmy Nominees Poll, you voted this episode as your least favored to win…what do you think now? 😃

If you haven’t seen our winning episode yet, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_rR...

Check out the other videos that were in the running. Watch our 2025 NorCal Emmy Nominees Playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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🏆🏆🏆🏆EMMY AWARD NOMINEES POLL - Hey Deep Peeps! FOUR of our videos were nominated for Northern California Emmy Awards in the Environment - News or Short Form Content category! Which would YOU choose to win?

Vote for your favorite below and check out our 2025 Emmy Nominees Playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

P.S. The winners will be announced tomorrow night (6/14 - PST)! 🤞🤞

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🌎🌊Happy #WorldOceansDay! POLL🌊🌎 What’s YOUR favorite recent Deep Look ocean critter episode?

If you don’t see one you like, check out our Life Aquatic playlist and let us know your fave: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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🦟👂MOSQUITO BUZZING GIF CHALLENGE🦟👂— We have published our new episode about how that mosquito buzzing you find so annoying helps male mosquitoes track down a female and mate with astonishing aerial moves. Watch here: https://youtu.be/QezzlDcaBmY

CHALLENGE: A male mosquito can hear the difference between the sound of his beating wings and those of a female. He has thousands of specialized sensors at the base of his antennae that contribute to his exquisitely sensitive hearing. What is the name of the enclosure that houses these sensors, located at the base of each of his antennae? The answer we were looking for was pedicels. Each pedicel houses 16,000 sensors, in the case of a male mosquito. These sensors are part of what's known as the Johnston's organ. The sensors pick up vibrations from the mosquito's antennae and transmit information to the brain. That's how a mosquito hears.

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