Aphids: Weird Poop, Weirder Babies

When you poop sugar, clone yourself and give birth to pregnant babies, you know your survival skills are off the hook...and that you must be an aphid. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Coda Buchanan, Lucy McGlasson, Accalia Elementia, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Saul, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Christopher Collins, Thomas J., charles george, Andreas Heydeck, Patrick D. Ashmore, Justin Lentz, Will and Sonja Marple, Ed Shelley, Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.britannica.com/animal/aphid http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/R... http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/D... http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Aphi... http://insects.about.com/od/truebugs/... http://insects.about.com/od/truebugs/... http://www.biology-resources.com/aphi... http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/par... http://www.britannica.com/science/pae... http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNO... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17... http://insects.about.com/od/coolandun... https://books.google.com/books?id=BjI... https://books.google.com/books?id=47r... Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Comments

1. nice info, almost no visual which made me downvote
2. Actually vascular tissues are made up of xylem and phloem which probably are cells.
3. Probably the greatest channel on Youtube TBH this shit can be Golden but also Sciency and stuff too so it's like a damn playground for me I love it
4. grrr they my nemesis 😠😠😠 aphids
5. Tribbles!
6. Aphids actually give birth to young that are in eggs, but the eggs hatch in the process of being birthed
7. it's like chinese production
8. aphids are amazing! #teamaphid
9. If any of you have read the novel Darwin's Radio I'm 99% sure this is where greg bear got the idea for it. It's so similar it's almost uncanny.
10. There are aphids without wings? O.o
11. 1:32 I'm completely traumatized
12. They infested our lettuce crops. Didn't notice until I had a home made salad on my plate. Gone was my apatite. :(
13. Hey look a channel that deserves more subs than pewdiepie
14. probably the best episode yet. I laughed way too hard with amazement
15. Very impressive insect
16. kind of disturbing how disposable most of the offspring are. but it explains why they are so dam hard to kill.
17. Aphids can suck you dry, don't go near 'em.
18. pregnantception
19. Has anyone heard of the game ant nation? I want aphid nation now
20. parasite bug