started with 1,000 dormant mosquito eggs, added water… and within minutes they came to life.
What happened next turned into one of the craziest mosquito experiments ever recorded.
In this video, you’ll see:
🦟 Mosquito eggs hatching into larvae (wigglers)
🦟 How mosquito larvae grow day by day
🦟 What mosquito larvae eat
🦟 Light vs darkness experiment on mosquito behavior🦟 Mosquito pupae turning into adult mosquitoes (alien-like birth 😨)
🦟 Testing mosquito repellents on my own hand
🦟 Do sound apps really repel mosquitoes?
🦟 Mosquitoes vs real blood experiment
This video shows the complete mosquito life cycle, from egg → larva → pupa → flying mosquito.
Some of this footage is extremely rare and almost never captured on camera.IMPORTANT:
All experiments were done in a sealed containment system. No mosquitoes were released.
The colony was safely terminated after filming, as required by law.
This video is for educational and experimental purposes only.
If you enjoy science experiments, insect life cycles, creepy biology, and extreme challenges, make sure to LIKE & SUBSCRIB#Mosquitoes
#MosquitoAttack
#DeadlyMosquito
#KillerMosquito
#BloodSucking
#HorribleScene
#ScaryReality
#ShockingVideo#Terrifying
#HorrorThumbnail
#DisturbingContent
#DarkReality
#UnseenDanger
#RealHorror#HealthWarning
#DangerousInsects
#DiseaseAlert
#ViralThreat
#MustWatch
#TrendingVideo
What happened next turned into one of the craziest mosquito experiments ever recorded.
In this video, you’ll see:
🦟 Mosquito eggs hatching into larvae (wigglers)
🦟 How mosquito larvae grow day by day
🦟 What mosquito larvae eat
🦟 Light vs darkness experiment on mosquito behavior🦟 Mosquito pupae turning into adult mosquitoes (alien-like birth 😨)
🦟 Testing mosquito repellents on my own hand
🦟 Do sound apps really repel mosquitoes?
🦟 Mosquitoes vs real blood experiment
This video shows the complete mosquito life cycle, from egg → larva → pupa → flying mosquito.
Some of this footage is extremely rare and almost never captured on camera.IMPORTANT:
All experiments were done in a sealed containment system. No mosquitoes were released.
The colony was safely terminated after filming, as required by law.
This video is for educational and experimental purposes only.
If you enjoy science experiments, insect life cycles, creepy biology, and extreme challenges, make sure to LIKE & SUBSCRIB#Mosquitoes
#MosquitoAttack
#DeadlyMosquito
#KillerMosquito
#BloodSucking
#HorribleScene
#ScaryReality
#ShockingVideo#Terrifying
#HorrorThumbnail
#DisturbingContent
#DarkReality
#UnseenDanger
#RealHorror#HealthWarning
#DangerousInsects
#DiseaseAlert
#ViralThreat
#MustWatch
#TrendingVideo
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00:00This is 1,000 mosquito eggs, and in just a couple days, they're going to hatch into 1,000 actual flying mosquitoes
00:07that I'm going to be doing the most interesting experiments with, like feeding them a pool of blood.
00:12Anyways, right now, the mosquito eggs we have are dormant, but all they need to hatch is a bit of water.
00:16The second a dry mosquito egg touches water, the embryos inside absorb it and basically come to life.
00:22And literally within only a few minutes of adding in the water, check out this area right here.
00:26A tiny little white speck started to poke out from the top of this single egg.
00:31Everyone, this is a mosquito larva, also known as a wiggler.
00:35And yeah, you can probably tell why they're called wigglers based on how much they wiggle.
00:38But over the next few days, this will eat food and literally evolve into a fully grown mosquito.
00:44It will actually be one of the craziest things you'll ever see.
00:47Oh, but yeah, I almost forgot.
00:48We don't just have one.
00:49We have 1,000 mosquitoes that we're going to be raising.
00:52And only a minute later, another wiggler started to wiggle out, then another.
00:56And soon enough, this tank was starting to get overrun with our new pets.
01:01I have to be so careful in this video.
01:04Oh my gosh, this is so weird.
01:07Literally 1,000 mosquito larvae are right here.
01:10But if we want them to turn into real mosquitoes, there's a couple things we got to do to speed up their growth process.
01:15Of course, starting with feeding them.
01:17And I don't even know what these things eat.
01:19I mean, they're practically microscopic at this stage.
01:22Yeah, I mean, I guess let me just search what the mosquito larvae eat.
01:26Enter.
01:26And it looks like they eat microscopic organic matter.
01:30Oh, I actually have an idea of how I could do this.
01:32This is fish food.
01:33Yeah, not super special.
01:35But for when the larvae are this small, it works perfectly to crush up into tiny little pieces.
01:40And immediately after dropping in some of this crushed food, it sank down to the bottom for the larvae to start eating.
01:45Since the larvae were just born about an hour ago, they're still so unbelievably small that it's just so hard to see.
01:51But you can kind of make out the shape of its mouth if you look very closely right here.
01:55It's insane how there's a brain and actual life in something this tiny.
01:59Anyways, you can see they tried to eat most of this food, but it's still a bit big.
02:02So once it dissolves into the water, it'll become even easier for these guys to eat it.
02:06But things get fun quickly because these wigglers more than double in size every 24 hours.
02:12So I have a feeling if we come back tomorrow, these guys are going to be a lot bigger.
02:18Good morning, Tara Greenus.
02:19I just woke up.
02:20The mosquitoes are probably bigger now.
02:22I haven't really checked, though.
02:23Wait, I haven't even zoomed in yet.
02:25And wait, you can literally see.
02:27Oh my gosh.
02:28Yeah, if you can't tell by this footage, the larvae are so much bigger now.
02:33And when I turned on my camera to record them in detail, I was amazed by how much they grew literally overnight.
02:38The day before, this was the most zoomed in footage I could get of these guys.
02:42But now, the larvae almost filled up the entire frame, and look at how much more detailed they are.
02:47This black bulb at the bottom is their heads.
02:49And they're so big already, we can make out their mouth a lot easier, and we can even see their tiny little eyes.
02:55These guys are so cool because you can literally see how their mouth works as a little boat motor, essentially.
03:00And they can just use it to slowly drift among the water surface.
03:03Sometimes, they'll even curl up and start sucking up microscopic food particles from the surface.
03:08Okay, well, this video is all about doing the funnest experiments with the mosquitoes.
03:12So next up, I want to test their light instincts.
03:15Because if you didn't know, adult flying mosquitoes are insanely attracted to light.
03:19I mean, they'll just swarm light at night.
03:21But I was wondering if that instinct starts when they are babies.
03:25Well, to figure it out, I turned off all the lights in my garage and watched what they did.
03:29Pretty quickly, the larvae actually started to rise to the surface way more.
03:33If you remember, most of the larvae were spending most of their time together, sort of near the bottom of the tanks when the lights were on.
03:38But yeah, with the lights off, they all like to be on the surface, apparently.
03:41Okay, that's pretty interesting.
03:42But now, what I want to do is take this super bright studio light and position it pointing right at the side of the enclosure.
03:50So that way, we can turn it on.
03:51Oh, there we go.
03:53And we can see what they did.
03:54Yeah, let's see.
03:55And literally, the second after turning on this light, like magic, the larvae started to migrate away from it.
04:01And they all started to gather up on the right side, as far away from the light as possible.
04:05Wait, so these guys are moving away from the light.
04:09Huh, that's interesting.
04:10The fully grown mosquitoes, they'll completely swarm lights.
04:13But when they're larvae, they will completely avoid it.
04:16So to confirm my theory, I turned off this light and moved it over to the right side.
04:20And immediately, the larvae did exactly what I thought they would.
04:23And they went back to the left side.
04:25Since I could kind of control where they were, I thought it'd be funny to kind of just swap the lights on and off on each side.
04:30And, you know, make them do some exercise.
04:33Listen, okay, I gotta train some strong, capable mosquitoes for when I put them up against a pile of blood.
04:38It's gonna be so interesting.
04:39Dang, that is actually so cool to watch how they do that.
04:42And apparently, they do this because they don't want to get eaten by fish, of course.
04:46And if they're in the darkness, then it's obviously harder for the fishes to see them.
04:49But actually, very interestingly, while I was doing that last test, if I go and stir the floor around like that and zoom in, you can see there's tons of what almost looks like just dead mosquito larvae that is just drifting around in the water.
05:05Now, I got worried for a second.
05:06I thought something was going around, uh, killing all the mosquitoes.
05:08But don't worry.
05:08I actually figured out that these are not dead mosquito larvae.
05:12You see, what these are are actually the old skin of our current larvae.
05:16You see, these guys apparently shed off their old skin four times before becoming a flying mosquito.
05:21Basically, just like how other animals will molt their skin off when it's time to grow bigger.
05:26So, of course, now that I know that, for the next experiment, I'm going to see if I can capture on camera a shot of them molting.
05:32Basically, what I'm going to do is go and move my lights back to the, you know, the back of the enclosure.
05:37And basically, that's going to cause all the larvae to go and swim to the front.
05:41And then I can just leave my camera running for like 24 hours.
05:44And surely, I could capture at least one of these guys molting to get that shot for you guys.
05:48And so, yeah, I recorded this for like two hours.
05:50And after thoroughly reviewing all of the footage, none of the larvae actually shed their skin, unfortunately.
05:55But obviously, I was not going to give up.
05:57So, I spent hours actively recording with my camera, watching every single larvae at the water's surface.
06:03Apparently, they only molt out their skin when they're hanging upside down from the top.
06:06And after about two hours, I found this larvae.
06:09You can tell he was about to molt by the fact that he was hanging upside down for a pretty long time without moving.
06:14And every now and then, he would try and twitch to squeeze out of his old skin.
06:18If you look very closely right here, you can see his old skin starting to slide up and off.
06:23And this white part right here is his new skin underneath.
06:26But after watching this guy for like another hour, all of a sudden, he just started to float down.
06:32And he fell all the way to the floor and completely stopped moving.
06:35Yeah, apparently, the molting process is actually really grueling for mosquitoes.
06:39And there's a chance that they can use all their energy while doing it and die.
06:43Which, I guess, just happened to this guy.
06:45Rest in peace, bro.
06:46But, of course, this was not going to stop me because I kept recording for longer and longer until I eventually caught this footage.
06:51Keep in mind, this is literally the first footage on the internet of a mosquito larvae molting because of how hard it is to catch.
06:57So, you can't complain about how trash this footage quality is.
06:59But anyways, you can see it started to shake violently and it started to slide out of its old skin.
07:05This dark part is his new skin.
07:06And eventually, he was able to fully slide out and only his molt was left behind.
07:10It's so cool to watch this happen and after it does, the new larvae swims away and leaves the old skin behind.
07:16Which, that skin will probably get eaten by another larvae very soon for some protein.
07:20Let's go! I'm so happy we just got to see that.
07:23But, in fact, I just spent so long trying to get that shot that almost all of our larvae now are pretty much fully grown.
07:29Meaning, yes, we're about to have a thousand mosquitoes hatching in just a matter of days.
07:34Um, and about that, it would be extremely illegal and just really bad if a mosquito escaped, let alone 1,000 mosquitoes.
07:43So, I have a feeling it's time we build some sort of containment system.
07:46Oh, man.
07:47Now, thankfully, I had this big tank sitting in my garage, which would actually be a perfect fit to put over our current tank.
07:53So, when the mosquitoes hatch, they won't be able to just fly away.
07:55But, obviously, there's a big opening on the bottom, which would be bad if we had to move this.
07:59All the mosquitoes would get out.
08:00So, what I did was put our current tank in here while the big one was sideways.
08:04And then, I got this piece of clear acrylic that I'm going to be able to attach to the front.
08:08And when I attach this piece of acrylic, it's going to make sure no mosquitoes can get out.
08:11But, you're probably wondering why I got all these massive holes right here.
08:14Well, what I'm going to do is this.
08:16And as you can see, I just put mash in each of the corners.
08:19So, you know, there can, air can get in.
08:21But, I left this hole open in the middle.
08:23So, I can put a little door here.
08:24So, we'll be able to put stuff in, but mosquitoes won't be able to get out.
08:27It's pretty simple to make, though, because all we've got to do is attach this little sleeve contraption I made and put a clamp on the end.
08:33Basically, how it works is if you want to put your arm inside, you go ahead and take off the safety clamp like that.
08:39And, basically, what you do is while you're holding it still, you've got to carefully stretch your arm inside.
08:43And then, boom, when it's around your arm, it's very airtight.
08:46And you can go ahead and put your arm inside.
08:48And you see, I have access to here.
08:49And the mosquitoes won't be able to get out.
08:51And it's very easy to go and take my arm out, keep it shut.
08:54And then, I can go and put the clamp back on.
08:56And after I had my dad silicone the acrylic on, boom, this containment system is done.
09:00But, guys, there's actually something I didn't tell you about these mosquitoes.
09:04In their life cycles, there's a whole other stage of life before becoming mosquitoes that lasts about a day.
09:09And when I came back the next day to my tank, I noticed they were already entering it.
09:14Oh, my gosh, guys.
09:15Look at what I just saw.
09:16Take a look at the larvae in here.
09:18You see these little circular things swimming around next to the actual larvae?
09:23Those are the pupae, and that means they're about to hatch.
09:26You see, these pupae are also called tumblers because, well, they tumble down when they sense potential danger nearby.
09:31But the coolest thing is how these guys look.
09:34They got these weird, scary-looking eyes.
09:36They got little horns that act as snorkels for oxygen.
09:39And, of course, they look way different from a larva with that cool shrimp-shaped body.
09:43And if you're wondering how it looks when a larva turns into a pupae, well, this awesome footage from Backyard Bug shows it.
09:50Basically, the skin splits out the thorax area.
09:52And very similarly to how the larvae molts, the new pupae will slide out.
09:57And, yeah, it's pretty amazing.
09:59Yes, sir.
09:59These guys are so cool.
10:01But we haven't even caught to see the coolest part where they literally crawl out the pupae.
10:06And it's like an alien movie.
10:07It's crazy.
10:07But, yeah, I don't think that shot's going to be too hard to get.
10:09Because we're on, like, day 8, and check what has just started to hatch.
10:14Yep, that is a mosquito.
10:16Meaning there's, like, three mosquitoes in here right now.
10:18So it shouldn't be long until we have much, much more.
10:20You see the pupae get darker and darker as they get closer to turning into a mosquito.
10:25So since this pupae is bright white, I know he won't be hatching anytime soon.
10:28But these pupae here are extremely dark.
10:31Meaning the mosquito is right under that skin, ready to crawl out.
10:35So to make the shot even easier to get,
10:36I'm going to suck all the darkest pupae up into this little pipette
10:40and put them in this container to make it easier to record.
10:43Now, since the mosquitoes have already started to hatch,
10:45I actually had to use the door I made to get my hand inside so they wouldn't escape.
10:49And I used my little pipette to start sucking up as many of the dark pupae as I could.
10:53Then I put them into a temporary container and I started to film.
10:57Thankfully, the pupae hatched within only a few hours of turning black.
11:00So it was literally only about an hour of recording till I caught this on camera.
11:04Out of nowhere, this pupae here started to straighten out its tail.
11:08This makes a little tunnel here for the head of the mosquito to start squeezing out.
11:12It's so nasty, but you can see how this area here just keeps inflating.
11:17The mosquito is literally being born in front of our eyes.
11:19And you can see how it's leaving the clear pupae skin behind.
11:22All of a sudden, his little mouth pops out here that they use to suck blood.
11:26And soon after, you can see his wings popped out as well.
11:28Oh my gosh, guys, this is insane.
11:31Wait, this is happening right now.
11:33Oh, finally, the legs stop sticking to the body.
11:37And bada bing, bada boom, that's how a mosquito is born.
11:40They'll basically stand here for like half an hour while they wait for their body and wings to harden up.
11:44Unfortunately, I am not allowed to just let this guy fly out.
11:47Yeah, when you have mosquitoes in your house, it is just illegal to let them escape.
11:51So I'm going to try and move them into this tank.
11:53But if I can't do it, I do have this here.
11:56But thankfully, I didn't have to use that since it was super easy to just grab it with tweezers
11:59and let it loose in the containment system.
12:01W Mosquitoes Pro, that was one of the coolest things I have seen.
12:05Well, guys, it's been another few days and I'm proud to say we have 100 plus mosquitoes now.
12:10I mean, we got tons just flying around.
12:13We got even more just sitting all over the glass.
12:16And that's not even to mention all the mosquitoes just hiding around.
12:19Now, I can test these guys with my last two mosquito experiments,
12:23starting with sticking my hand inside of the tank of mosquitoes.
12:27But in addition to my hand going in there, I've also got a couple kinds of mosquito repellent.
12:32So we can test if these things actually work.
12:35I am definitely about to get bit.
12:36So I started to apply the first mosquito repellent to my arm by spraying it.
12:40You see, mosquitoes are insanely attracted to the scent and heat of human skin.
12:44But somehow, the spray stuff completely blocks all of those and messes with the mosquito senses.
12:50Theoretically, when I stick my hand in there, I shouldn't get bit.
12:53Well, I guess let's just do this.
12:55And as I stuck my hand in, I got very nervous.
12:58I hate mosquito bites.
13:00Um, they're flying very close.
13:02But yeah, I don't think they can even sense that this is a hand right now.
13:05Yeah, I literally left my hand in there another 30 seconds and not a single mosquito even landed on it.
13:11But normally, they would definitely be swarming it.
13:13Dang, this stuff works good.
13:15If you need some mosquito repellent, I recommend this brand.
13:17It's not sponsored or anything, but it's pretty good.
13:19But now the second mosquito repellent I want to test.
13:22Well, you see this app right here?
13:24This app claims to literally make a sound that will repel mosquitoes.
13:28Oh, do you hear that?
13:29It's like a high-pitched buzz.
13:31Okay, well, let's see if this works.
13:32Now, I've heard these apps are myths.
13:34But as I put my hand inside, the mosquitoes weren't instantly swarming it.
13:38In fact, they were acting kind of similar to earlier when I was testing the spray stuff,
13:41even though I had thoroughly washed it all off my hand.
13:44Maybe these apps actually do work.
13:46That was until I found this when I took my hand out.
13:49Okay, for a second, I thought this app actually worked.
13:52Let me turn off this ear-piercing sound.
13:54But then I realized I actually got bit, like, right there.
13:57I can definitely feel it.
13:58It's starting to itch and stuff.
14:00Don't use these apps, guys.
14:01I can assure you they're fake.
14:02But I guess this stuff kind of does work.
14:04Anyways, now it's time for the moment we've all been waiting for.
14:08Mosquitoes versus blood.
14:09And yes, I actually have a jar of blood from a cow.
14:14Oh my gosh.
14:15Now, in order to make this have a chance to work,
14:17I had to fill up this little container with a bunch of blood.
14:20And then I put some saran wrap on top.
14:22This way, the mosquitoes could stick their little mouthpiece through it
14:24and get filled up with blood if they're hungry.
14:27Finally, I just warmed it up in the microwave
14:28so it would recreate the temperature that mosquitoes like.
14:31And I put it inside the tank.
14:32Let's see what these mosquitoes do.
14:34Now, for the first, like, 20 minutes,
14:36pretty much none of the 100 mosquitoes were interested.
14:39They were kind of just hiding around and not moving much.
14:41So I kept trying tons of new stuff, like dimming the lights
14:44because apparently mosquitoes don't like to eat under the bright light.
14:47And after trying so much stuff and recording for hours,
14:50not a singular mosquito tried to eat this blood.
14:53In this cool footage, you can see mosquitoes literally only take a couple seconds
14:57to land on an arm and get completely filled up with blood.
15:00But for some reason, they only like to drink blood from arms
15:04and not just liquid blood, apparently, like we have here.
15:07Literally, all the mosquitoes had gathered up on the other side of the enclosure to avoid it.
15:11Yeah, I literally just tried to record this for two days.
15:13None of the mosquitoes were interested.
15:15I didn't want to have to not upload the video just because the last experiment failed.
15:19The whole point of the channel is to get crazy animal ideas and see if they're actually possible.
15:23Unfortunately, this one wasn't.
15:25But all the other experiments were, and we got to learn all about the mosquito life cycle,
15:30which was just so interesting to watch.
15:31So I had to upload this.
15:32Hopefully, you guys learned something new and were entertained.
15:35And about these mosquitoes, I had to buy this massive freezer to terminate the colony
15:39because that's just legally required after filming with mosquitoes to ensure none of them escape.
15:44So I'm going to get to doing that, guys.
15:45But I guess see you later.
15:47Goodbye.
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