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☠️🟤🐕☠Brown Dog Tick POLL☠️🟤🐕☠

What’s the most *terrifying* thing about brown dog ticks? If you don’t see a choice you like, let us know in the comments below.

And, if you haven’t seen our video about brown dog ticks, 2023-12-05 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Dog Ticks Are Changing Their Diet. You’re On The Menu

Like their name suggests, brown dog ticks dine on dog blood. But as temperatures rise, they're more likely to feast on you, too. That's a problem, because the brown dog tick is a vector for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a disease that's deadly to ...

🍂❤️🙏🏼Thank You, Deep Look Patrons! 🍂❤️🙏🏼

We are so thankful to YOU, all of our wonderful ✨patrons✨on Patreon, for supporting us! We really can't thank you ...

🌰👃Acorn Weevil POLL👃🌰

Fear no weevil! These unusual beetles are not going to sting or bite you with their long snout. They’re after one thing -- nutritious acorns. What's your favorite, *unbeweevible* thing about them?

If you don’t see a choice you like, let ...

🟢💡Coming to Deep Look - CORAL SPAWNING!🟢💡

Good news! Deep Look has greenlit an episode about coral spawning. Got any questions for us?

Typically, a few days after a full moon, millions of tiny spheres float in the ocean. They are gametes of eggs and sperm released by coral polyps. T...

This Weevil Has Puppet Vibes But Drills Like a Power Tool

This fuzzy acorn weevil can’t crack open acorns like a woodpecker or chomp through them like a squirrel. Instead, she uses her incredibly long snout, called a rostrum, to power-drill through their tough and resilient shell. And it's not just lun...

☠️🍯🐝 Varroa Mites & Honeybees POLL

There’s nothing sweet about a varroa mite on a honeybee. What surprises (or infuriates!) you most about varroa mites?  

If you need another look at our episode, 2023-11-09 01:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post

🎃🧛👻Creepiest Episode POLL👻🧛🎃

Hey Deep Peeps - Halloween is Deep Look's *favorite* holiday! Which of these episodes below is the freakiest, the scariest, the most horrifying? Let us know in the comments if we missed your favorite.

And, here is a 2023-10-31 22:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post

🦇Happy #BatWeek POLL:🦇

You've probably heard that most carnivorous bats use echolocation (built-in sonar) to navigate and hunt for prey. But did you know others have a completely different way of hunting? They're called Whispering bats. Which of the frightening attribut...

Varroa Mites Are a Honeybee’s 8-Legged Nightmare

Every year, up to half the honeybee colonies in the U.S. die. Varroa mites, the bees’ ghastly parasites, are one of the main culprits. After hitching a ride into a hive, a mite mom hides in a honeycomb cell, where she and her offspring feed on a...

Watch Ladybugs Go From Goth to Glam

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don't start off that way. Also called ladybird beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for aphids. Once they've bulked up, they transfo...

🌊🦦Sea Otter POLL!🌊🦦

They aren't just cute -- they're vivid examples of living life on the edge. What’s your favorite, fascinating fact about them? If you don’t see one you like, let us know in the comments below.

You “otter” know more about them! 2023-10-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Cockroach vs. Hydraulic Press: Who Wins?

Do cockroaches -- those daring, disgusting disease vectors -- have anything at all to offer us? Scientists think so. They compressed American roaches with a hydraulic press, subjecting them to forces equivalent to nearly 900 times their b...

🤿🦟ALKALI FLY POLL 🤿🦟

The alkali fly is no ordinary fly! It’s an extremophile that has several unique adaptations that allow it to survive in the harsh waters of California’s Mono Lake. What’s your favorite fact about this fly? If you don’t see one you like, le...

👩📹Meet Rosa Tuirán, Deep Look’s New Producer!

Hey Deep Peeps! We have a talented new producer on our team thanks to the first Accelerator Fellowship for Diverse Voices from PBS. We are supe...

🦟MOSQUITO POLL🦟

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes make a meal of us around our homes. What’s your “favorite” alarming fact about this dangerous mosquito? If you need a refresher, watch o...

This Daring Fly Swims in a Shimmering Bubble Shield

Covered in a shiny bubble, the alkali fly scuba dives into the harsh waters of California’s Mono Lake. Thanks to an abundance of hair and water-repellent wax, this remarkable insect remains dry while embarking on a quest for tasty algae and a pl...

🏰🐝Bindweed Turret Bees POLL🏰🐝

Life for these bees can be violent and unfair. What’s your favorite fact about the female bindweed turret bee? If you don’t see one you like, let us know in the comments below.

If you haven’t seen our latest video about these incredibl...

This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bee’s Nest

A “bee fly” looks a bit like a bee, but it’s a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s hard work. The bees dig underground nests and fill them with pollen they collect in the form of stylish “pollen pants.” As the be...

LIVE EVENT: DEEP LOOK TRIVIA NIGHT!🌼🐛🦀

Hey Deep Peeps! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, join us and the California Academy of Sciences at KQED’s headquarters in San Francisco on July 18 at 7pm for a night of California nature knowledge hosted by Laura Klivan...

This Snail Goes Fishing with a Net Made of Slime

Most of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of: mucus!

We hope you enjoy this ...