Timothy Yordy

My very first online video The Japanese Beetle Trap has surpassed 5,000 views on YouTube. I know that there are plenty of videos that get views into the millions but I’ll settle for 5,000 and counting for a low quality video about japanese beetles, it’s definitely a niche topic.

My two other more recent videos appear to have gotten lost somewhere in the bowels of YouTube however. A Valentine Song from back in February still has less than 20 views and Josh the Chicken only has 10 views. I don’t do enough in the field of online video to understand why one video gets lots of views and others never receive any. One thing I have noticed is that YouTube now pushes paying them to promote your video on their site. So that could explain why more recent videos seem to get lost if there’s nothing external to YouTube driving a lot traffic to the video. 

You can view all of my videos on the Videos page.

This video was in response to someone telling me I ought to bite the head off of a real chicken…obviously that’s not something I would do.

This is a song I wrote for my wife for Valentine’s Day. I hope you like it.

Last year I made a short video titled The Japanese Beetle Trap, in which I modified an ordinary japanese beetle trap to allow it to capture an exponentially larger amount of beetles. The results were amusing, disgusting, and informative. Well beetle season is almost upon us again so I thought it would be a good time to share the video on here. It’s the first and only video I’ve ever done and the quality is pretty poor but people seem to like it so far.



I’ve been thinking about making a higher quality trap that could hold far more than this one did but I don’t know if I’ll get the time before the beetles really show up. I have been itching to do more videos though so who knows.