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2025-10-09 18:31:29 +0000 UTC View PostPick Your Player: Dragonfly vs Damselfly
Dragonflies and damselflies may look alike, but these expert hunters have distinct strategies. Dragonflies rule the open skies, while damselflies hover like tiny helicopters through dense vegetatio...
2025-10-03 16:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostTiger Beetles Bite First, Ask Questions Never | Deep Look
Tiger beetles are lightning-fast hunters, sprinting so quickly they momentarily outrun their own vision. Watch how these tiny but ferocious predators use blistering speed to chase down prey and fin...
2025-09-12 21:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostThese Lovebugs Have Attachment Issues | Deep Look (200th Episode!)
You know those couples that do everything together? Lovebugs, also known as honeymoon flies, can spend anywhere from a half-hour to a couple of days attached to each other. As the female drags or c...
2025-08-22 16:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostBeach Day? These 5 Surprising Creatures Are Hanging Out Too | Deep Look
Do you really know who you’re sharing the beach with? Purple sand dollars gobble bits of metal to stay grounded in turbulent waters. Mole crabs move sand like a conveyor belt. Hardworking bees sc...
2025-08-02 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe 4 Most Ruthless Ants We’ve Ever Filmed
Fire ants bite and sting! They also use their own young to build a terrifying raft during floods. Kidnapper ants steal other ants’ babies. Honeypot ants turn their sisters into living jugs of nec...
2025-07-12 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post😱👚CLOTHES MOTHS VS. WASP POLL👚😱
Hey Deep Peeps! What surprises you the most about clothes moths or their tiny nemesis, the Trichogramma wasp? Vote in our poll below and lets us know about your experiences with clothes moths.
... 2025-07-01 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post📢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 ...
2025-06-26 23:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post📹Behind the Scenes #1: Filming Parasitic Wasps & Clothes Moths at UC Berkeley🔬
Hi Deep Peeps! Here's a sneak peek at our behind-the-scenes video about how we filmed Trichogramma wasps parasitizing the egg of a clothes moth in our new video,2025-06-25 21:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
🏆 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 ...
2025-06-21 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostClothes Moths Got Your Sweater? There’s a Wasp for That
Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to help – they lay their eggs inside the moth’s eggs so you can say b...
2025-06-21 00:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post🏆🏆🏆🏆EMMY AWARD NOMINEES POLL
🌎🌊Happy #WorldOceansDay!🌊🌎
Hey Deep Peeps! What’s YOUR favorite recent Deep Look ocean critter episode? If you don’t see one you like, check out our 2025-06-08 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
🦟👂Behind-the-Scenes: Filming Mosquitoes Buzzing in Your Ear 👂🦟
Hey Deep Peeps! We thought you'd like to know what went into getting all that ear buzzing footage in our latest mosquito episode produced by 2025-06-06 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Your Ear
The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. He follows the sound of a female mosquito’s beating wings to find a mate. It turns out, male mosquit...
2025-05-30 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post🔊👩Q&A with Margaret Katcher, Deep Look’s New Host!🔊
Hi Deep Peeps! We have a new host! We are thrilled to work with audio producer and reporter Margaret Katcher. Margaret is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused...
2025-05-14 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThese Spiders Hook Up With Enormous Jaws
For long-jawed orb weaver spiders, love is a battlefield. In order to mate, a male hooks his huge jaws into those of a larger female. If he doesn’t get it right, he risks becoming her next meal.<...
2025-05-10 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBehind-the-Scenes: Webspinners + More Marvelous Insect Moms
Hi Deep Peeps! It’s Mother’s Day this weekend and we’ve got insects that are marvelous moms on our minds, like webspinners. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at filming webspinners by Je...
2025-05-09 22:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post📹🐟Behind The Scenes: Hagfish Slime🐟📹
Hey Deep Peeps! Meet Karl Menard, aquatic resources manager at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, California. In the video above, he examines hagfish slime, which is a mix of mucu...
2025-04-29 21:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post🔍Behind the Scenes with Jumping Spiders #3: Who's That Spider in the Mirror? 🔍
Hey Deep Peeps! - We have one more jumping spider behind-the-scenes video for you! University of California, Berkeley PhD candidate Trinity Walls explains what happens when a male regal jumping spi...
2025-04-28 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post🕷️❤️🕷️Behind the Scenes with Jumping Spiders#2: Courtship Explained
Hey Deep Peeps! - You met one of the scientists that helped us with our recent jumping spider episode, Trinity Walls in a previous post. She’s a PhD candidate at the University of California, Ber...
2025-04-25 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post🕷️Behind the Scenes with Jumping Spiders #1: Arachnophobia🕷️
Hey Deep Peeps! - Meet Trinity Walls, originally from North Carolina and a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the mating behavior and hybridization in two species ...
2025-04-23 17:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostThis Jumping Spider Trains Itself to Kill
Regal jumping spiders train themselves from a young age to become masterful hunters. From the day they leave mom's silk nest, the tiny spiderlings practice, practice, practice, using some of the be...
2025-04-19 00:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post🌊⭐Ocean Film Festival POLL⭐🌊
Ahoy Deep Peeps! Vote for your favorite Deep Look ocean films selected to screen at the International Ocean Film Festival. Our...
2025-04-11 02:03:05 +0000 UTC View Post🛏️🩸BEHIND THE SCENES: FILMING BED BUGS🛏️🩸
🌊📷PHOTOS: DEEP LOOK AT OCEANS NIGHTLIFE📷🌊
Hey Deep Peeps! We had a great turnout for our Deep Look screening, featuring our nudibranchs, corals, barnacles and jellyfish videos, at the California Academy of Scien...
2025-03-29 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post🏴🌾RICE WEEVIL POLL🌾🏴
Hey Deep Peeps! If you've seen our video about rice weevils, you know that they are stowaways, entering your pantry hidden inside a grain of rice. What’s your "favorite" troublesome thing about t...
2025-03-29 01:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post5 of the Grossest House Pests We’ve Ever Filmed
We hope your spring cleaning doesn’t uncover bed bugs, dust mites, termites, drain flies or cockroaches.
And no foolin' ... we hope you enjoy this first look at...
2025-03-28 21:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post🌊EVENT - March 20: Deep Look Screening at Nightlife, California Academy of Sciences🌊
Hey Deep Peeps! Join Deep Look’s lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy and producer Rosa Tuirán for a special screening featuring tiny ocean wonders as a part of 2025-03-17 03:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post