@sapphinese
“Eight year swarming schedule” is such a delightfully strange phrase, and if heard out of context, I wouldn’t be able to even begin trying to guess what it’s about
@bjornmu
It's nice of them to pick years divisible by 8 to make it easier for us to remember when they swarm 🙃
@emersonlamond1024
similar events happend in south australia with the portugese millipedes, the crushed milipedes created a slime that stopped the trains from stopping
@superkamehameha1744
Here before the same millipedes remove this video
@ryuuguu01
When I heard 8 years I thought that's Bizarre because 8 is not a prime number. Animals that swarm in multi-year cycles to avoid predators usually swarm on a prime number of years because it makes it harder for a predator to match the cycle. for example, an 8 year cycle can be partially matched by 2 or 4 preditor cycles but a 7 year cycle is only matched by a 7 year cycle.
@diane_princess
This is new for me. Where I live we've had problems with beavers (digging under the rails) and sometimes cows that escape from their fields. Most regular though are humans walking on the tracks, but that's obviously for a short amount of time.
@nariu7times328
I kept hearing "trained millipedes" and my dreams are going to be crazy
@GP30_Foamer
We had a similar story to this out in Colorado and New Mexico. Fair warning, it’s a bit disgusting. I was riding the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic railroad when one of the passengers told me a story about how millipedes stopped the train. A few years ago, a train was climbing the hill out of Chama New Mexico when it came upon an infestation of Millipedes along the track. The train tried to keep going, but it couldn’t get enough traction thanks to all the guts and pieces of the millipedes it squashed, so another locomotive had to be called to push the train up to the top of the hill.
@thesidneychan
It's a very interesting coincidence that in the Malaysian Chinese Hokkien dialect, millipedes are called 火車蟲, which directly translates to Train Worm. It's got segmented bodies like train compartments.
@neenajaydon9641
Having lived in Japan for several years, I was not surprised to hear this is in Japan, as mukade are a big deal there (which I thought were millipedes, but apparently are centipedes). Mukade have very nasty stings! This video sent me on an interesting Google adventure to see what the original Japanese is. These guys are apparently called kisha yasude, which is interesting because kisha is a rural word for train influenced by the fact rural trains are more often diesel (kidousha) whereas urban trains are generally electric (densha).
@mikamekaze
Man I'm not normally one to comment on the host but oh my god the coordination of the outfit today is INCREDIBLE, Sarah. The velvet blazer! The hair! I live for outfits this well put together
@sierrasicard4593
I bought that shirt faster than I've ever bought anything else. Its so adorable and the colors are perfect!
@origaminosferatu3357
Can we all just appreciate the incredible dedication to colour coordination in this episode?
@michaeleggimann106
I love that y’all always try to match the topic to your t-shirt.
@liamfoxy
I love that the auto subtitles call these 'trained millipedes' lol. Something about the phrase 'when the trained millipedes swarm again' sounds very mad scientist-y
@youravrggaymer
This ladys hair is making me the happiest nugget on the planet, i hope she likes green as much as me
@larrywalsh9939
"If I asked you to name an animal that could stop a train..." A Blue Whale. Definitely. The logistics of how to get it there is just a technical detail but I feel confident in the accuracy of my answer.
@Overfloable
Nature is ever so surprising. Brilliant video and presentation! I'm so glad you all showed up in my feed so I could sub ^_^.
@evilsharkey8954
“Think smaller. Think more legs.”
@BizarreBeasts