SciShow's video: 5 Gross Gifts Animals Give Their Mates

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. We humans might think that flowers are pretty good gifts for a first date, but many insects have their own nuptial gifts, and well, flowers they ain't. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, Jason A Saslow, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Bryan Cloer, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Jeremy Mysliwiec, Alex Hackman, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams, Tom Mosner ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123942883000022 https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/toxic-talents-cyanide-moths.html https://rcannon992.com/2020/08/16/black-and-red-and-poisonous-burnet-moths/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099377/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/eight-weird-and-disgusting-presents-given-by-animals/ https://uwm.edu/field-station/red-velvet-mite/ https://www.macalester.edu/ordway/biodiversity/inventory/redvelvetmite/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/3496883?seq=1 _info_tab_contents https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/Z10-065 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123942883000022 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3496883?seq=1 _info_tab_contents https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/scorpionflies-and-hangingflies-mecoptera https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/scorpionfly/ https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-5-25 https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/being-stabbed-with-a-mucus-dagger-is-not-even-the-worst-part-of-snail-sex http://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.html?/gastropoda/morphology/love_dart.html https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/82/1/1/2460173 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.3063 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8871-love-darts-double-snails-chance-of-offspring/?ignored=irrelevant Images https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/male-red-backed-shrike-is-feeding-female-gm475548390-65998745 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/heart-shaped-box-with-heart-shaped-dark-and-light-chocolate-truffles-on-wooden-table-gm1066554826-285206047 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/various-chocolates-pralines-gm1263096171-369670804 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zyga-2011-07-04.ogv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Six-spot_Burnet_(Zygaena_filipendulae)_caterpillar.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/butterfly-pollination-02-gm1298563353-391398952 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_spotted_moths_1_(3745889925).jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-velvet-mite-gm517310449-48626644 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-spider-in-green-moss-gm1323888598-409406223 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-velvet-mite-gm1133607620-300926991 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carolina_Ground_Cricket_(Eunemobius_carolinus)_-_Gatineau_Park,_Quebec_2016-09-22_(01).jpg https://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-85/issue-2/0015-4040_2002_085_0317_TSFIGC_2.0.CO_2/TIBIAL-SPUR-FEEDING-IN-GROUND-CRICKETS--LARGER-MALES-CONTRIBUTE/10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085%5B0317:TSFIGC%5D2.0.CO;2.full?tab=ArticleLinkFigureTable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panorpa_communis_with_prey_Diogma_glabrata_glabrata.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panorpa_communis_2006-07-11.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/scorpion-fly-gm1144428307-307668019 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/snail-sex-two-snails-making-love-gm1288125555-384176491 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vineyard-snails-during-mating-gm687031748-126234471 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/snail-gm178281866-20023217 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/snails-mating-gm870060128-145666667