🏜️❤️MEXICO BEHIND THE SCENES: COCHINEAL🏜️❤️
Thanks to generous support from YOU, our Patreon patrons, after many pandemic delays we recently packed up our gear and went on a filming expedition to Oaxaca, Mexico!
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Stingless Bees Guard Tasty Honey With Barricades, Bouncers and Bites
The honeybee that sweetens your tea isn’t the only kind of bee that makes honey. More than 600 bee species across Mexico, Central and South America, and other tropical regions worldwide, also make the sweet stuff. But they don’t have stingers ...
2024-05-24 21:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post💐🦋Happy Mother’s Day💐🦋!
Enjoy this special playlist of insect moms doing what they do best, building homes, giving birth and feeding their young. Some of our favorite insect moms are aphids, blue orchard bees, tsetse flies and web spinners. Who is YOUR FAVORITE Deep Look...
2024-05-12 18:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post🏜️🔴COCHINEAL POLL🔴🏜️
The cochineal is a tiny, cactus-loving insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico. After cochineals die, their legacy lives on. What fascinates you the most about this bug?
2024-05-11 03:35:00 +0000 UTC
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🎬🌊DEEP LOOK OCEAN FILM NIGHT🎬🌊
We have another local event coming up! Josh Cassidy, Deep Look’s award-winning lead producer and cinematographer will be at the San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center in Tiburon, California for a special screening ev...
2024-05-05 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMeet the Bug You Didn't Know You Were Eating
The cochineal is a tiny insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico. Female cochineals spend most of their lives with their heads buried in juicy cactus pads, eating and growing. After cochineals die, their legacy lives on in the brillia...
2024-05-03 17:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post❤️🌍HAPPY #EARTHDAY WEEK!❤️🌍
As you all know everyday is Earth Day for us! But we are doing something special this week. We’ll be at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, C...
2024-04-23 15:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post📢✴️LAST CALL: WEEVIL PINT GLASS🥛 📢✴️
Don’t miss your chance to drink your favorite beverage in unbeweevible style with our Deep Look pint glass! Support us on Patreon today at $10 a month and the glass is yours, and if you join at $5 a mo...
2024-04-14 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWatch Ferns Get Freaky
Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern sperm swim away, searching for an egg to fer...
2024-04-12 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post🔍 MEET ANDREW SAINTSING, DEEP LOOK’S NEW INTERN!🔍
Andrew Saintsing being interviewed and filmed in KQED’s Digital Production Studio by Mimi Schiffman, one of Deep Look’s producers. Apple box emp...
🎺✴️🥛Patreon Special Offers🎺✴️🥛
Hey Deep Look and Nature Fans! Check out our host, Laura, giving you all the intel on our new special offers on Patreon! For a limited time, you can get an ...
2024-03-30 00:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostThese Solar-Powered Carnivorous Flatworms Divide and Conquer
Tiny marine flatworms called acoels hunt for prey in coral reefs. They're referred to as “plant-animals” because they've got a partnership with photosynthetic algae that live inside of them. But this acoel's real super-power is their ability t...
2024-03-22 19:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post🌎♀️💐Happy International Women’s Day🌎♀️💐
To celebrate International Women's Day we are resharing Q & As from our archives with two of Deep Look’s talented producers, 2024-03-09 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
💥🦗🚀SHARPSHOOTER PEE POLL💥🦗🚀
Hey Deep Peeps! Sharpshooter insects love sucking down plant sap so much so they had to evolve a special way to let out all that juice! What surprises you the most about the unusual way these insects survive and thrive?
If you haven’t chec...
2024-03-01 23:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostSneak Preview: Sharpshooter Insects are Real Wizzes at Whizzing
Sharpshooters survive by guzzling a lot of plant sap. But drinking all of that liquid nutrition presents a problem for these tiny insects: how do you move it all out? They've perfected a super-propulsive urination technique using a special catapul...
2024-02-23 21:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post🤯FABULOUSLY FUN🍄 EVENT PHOTOS & VIDEO🤯
Hey Deep Peeps! Did you miss our mushroom event last month on January 24? We hope you enjoy these behind-the-scenes event photos and an exclusive video of ...
2024-02-17 22:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post💘🩹💍WILD VALENTINE'S POLL💘🩹💍
Hello Deep Peeps! As you know, we’ve featured some rather bizarre mating behaviors in our show. Which animal's love life is most fascinating to you? If you don’t see one you like, put your own fave in the comments.
<... 2024-02-14 19:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post☀️🪸 CORAL SPAWNING POLL🪸 ☀️
Do you love the vibrant underwater worlds of warm-water reefs? Well, thank a coral! These marine animals (they're not plants!) have perfectly-timed spawning events that happen across thousands of kilometers, lasting only a few minutes. What ...
2024-02-10 03:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo Survive, Corals Turn the Ocean Into a Giant Snow Globe
When the moon, sun and ocean temperatures all align, an underwater "snowstorm" occurs. Corals put on a massive spawning spectacle by sending tiny white spheres floating up the water column all at once.
We hope you enjoy this firs...
2024-02-02 22:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post🩸🍄👣KQED LIVESTREAM - 7PM PST + COLORFUL MUSHROOM POLL#2 🩸🍄👣
Hey Deep Peeps! Deep Look’s host Laura Klivans and coordinating producer Gabriela Quirós will be participating in tonight’s streamed in-person KQED Live mushroom event at 7pm PST. Watch he...
2024-01-24 20:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post🍄🔫COLORFUL MUSHROOM POLL#1🍄🔫
Hey Deep Peeps! As you all know, we are wild about mushrooms! Which mushroom below would inspire your wardrobe the most? If you don’t see one you like, let us know in the comments below.
Also, we’re preparing for a mushroom ...
2024-01-20 19:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post💦🦟DRAIN FLY POLL🦟💦
Ever found a tiny, fuzzy fly in your bathroom? You might have thought that was a miniature moth , but they are actually tough little flies that breed in your drains. Vote for your favorite drain fly survival skill below, and tell us about your dra...
2024-01-20 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post🍄📹FUNKY FUNGUS POLL🍄📹
Hey Deep Peeps! What’s your favorite Deep Look mushroom video? We’re featuring these videos and more at a KQED Live event, A Deep Look at Mushrooms: Fantastical, Fun and Functional on Weds., J...
2024-01-19 04:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostA Drain Fly’s Happy Place Is Down Your Pipes
Ever wonder how those tiny, jumpy flies got onto your bathroom wall? Well, they came out of your sink drain after growing up down in the pipes. A goofy, long “mustache,” fuzzy wings and some aquabatics help them survive in that soggy environme...
2024-01-12 22:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post🧨🎇2023 FAVORITE VIDEO POLL 🧨🎇
Hey Macronauts! What’s your favorite video from our 2023 season? If you need to rewatch them to decide, here’s our playlist of our top five most viewed videos.
If you don’t see your fave below, make you...
2024-01-01 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post😍🌰SUPPORT DEEP LOOK ON PATREON🌰😍
Hey Deep Look fans! 2023 is almost in the history books! If you love Deep Look as much as we love making it for you, consider supporting us on Patreon a...
2023-12-28 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post✨HAPPY HOLIDAYS✨
Hey Deep Peeps! If you get tired of those delightfully cheesy😁 🧀 holiday films, here’s our wild winter playlist to watch with family and friends.
It's got…Glowing. Dancing. Decorating. &...
2023-12-23 21:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post🌙🎐 MOON JELLIES POLL🌙🎐
Hi Deep Peeps! Moon jellies go through several distinct - and strange - phases before reaching their final form. Which stage are you? Tell us about your answer in the comments.
Mom, Where Do Baby Jellyfish Come From?
When grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging tentacles. But their best trick is when they ...
2023-12-15 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post🌟👕☕New Patreon Tiers and Merch🌟👕☕
Hey Deep Peeps! Guess what this acorn weevil is drinking out of? Yes, that’s right! It’s new, 🔥Deep Look mug! Where can you find on...
2023-12-13 18:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post