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Jumping Plant Lice: The Fastest Front-Flipping Insects
169 views / 0 likes - addedJumping plant lice, or psyllids, are the fastest front-flipping insects, but not many people know about how amazing they are! I set out to film the high-flying flips of these plant-feeding, often thought of as pest, insects. They are hemipterans in the su
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What Butterfly Flight Looks like in Slow Motion!
213 views / 0 likes - addedI filmed slow motion flight and time-lapse eclosion sequences of tropical butterflies, and give a behind-the-scenes tour of our museum's walk-in tropical rainforest exhibit.Check out https://naturalsciences.org/ for info about when to visit our museum and
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7 Spectacular Moths in Slow Motion!
212 views / 0 likes - addedTake off flight sequences captured at 6,000 fps! All the moths in this video were collected and filmed in Cornish, NH between July 12 - 16. All moths were released after filming. 00:00 - Rosy maple moth01:01 - Polyphemus moth02:01 - Dark marathyssa02:45 -
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Insects in flight | 11 incredible species in SLOW MOTION
216 views / 0 likes - addedTakeoff and flight sequences of insects spanning 5 different taxonomic orders captured at 3,200 fps!00:00 - weevils01:44 - katydids03:02 - bark lice04:00 - march fly04:59 - assassin bug06:02 - katydidTaxonomic info:nut/acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)broad-nos
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Insect Flight | Capturing Takeoff & Flying at 3,200 FPS
302 views / 0 likes - addedTakeoff and flight sequences of insects spanning 8 different taxonomic orders captured at 3,200 fps!00:00 - intro01:17 - plume moth01:20 - firefly02:32 - painted lichen moth03:14 - leafroller moth03:31 - rosy maple moth04:00 - stonefly (see comment for co
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How do trap-jaw ants perfectly time their snaps?
329 views / 1 likes - addedWhen trap-jaw ants are dropped, before they hit the ground they snap their jaws and fling themselves back up into the air! How do they manage to perfectly time their snaps to do that? Why do they do it? It's all thanks to 4 little hairs that stick out of
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JUMPING MAGGOT! The lance fly, Dasiops vibrissata
337 views / 0 likes - addedWe pealed back the bark on a dead oak tree and found something amazing: Lance fly maggots that jump! Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BertonemyiaRead more about the jumping gall midge study: https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/15/jeb210336Mu
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How do leafcutter ants cut leaves off of trees? #TeamTrees
393 views / 0 likes - addedVisit https://teamtrees.org to dontate to #TeamTreesSpecial thanks to Leaf House Scientific (https://www.leafhousescientific.com/) for supplying the ants and to Dr. Fred Larabee (https://twitter.com/bugbiter) for the microCT images of Atta internal head m
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Moros intrepidus: North America's Tiny Tyrannosaur
316 views / 0 likes - addedDiminutive, fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil recordPublished in Communications Biology21 Feb 2019DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0308-7Authors: Lindsay Zanno, Terry Gates, Aurore Canoville, Haviv Avrahami, N
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The Unseen Incredibleness of Mealworms
268 views / 1 likes - addedWatch the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, transform through its many life stages.Video by Adrian SmithTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrAdrianSmithFilming assistance by Omar Halawani: https://twitter.com/HalawanidaeScore by http://www.soundofpicture.com/[
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The Fastest Animal on Earth: the Snap-Jaw Ant
250 views / 0 likes - addedFind the original research paper here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181447Press release: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/727667"Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium c
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Jumping Hoppers in SLOW MOTION!
341 views / 0 likes - addedLeafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and froghoppers are all insects in the order Hemiptera that are some of the fastest jumping animals on earth! They are also super-common, so I collected a bunch and filmed their jumps in slow-motion!References (Prof
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Incredible Slime-Eating Insects: Slime Flux BioBlitz
328 views / 1 likes - addedAn inventory of insects that showed up in a 6-day, 46hr timelapse of a tree oozing slime flux. 15 species appeared and some really neat predator-prey encounters were captured on film!Subttulos en Espaol por Magda Argueta: http://thebeebiologist.com/Insect
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Globular springtails jump and spin faster than any animal on earth?!
286 views / 0 likes - addedGlobular springtails have been out in big numbers this year, so we've been bringing them into the lab and filming their jumps in slow motion, describing how they might be jumping and spinning faster than any other animal on earth!References:- Leafhopper j
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Venom Injection: How Ant Stingers Work!
356 views / 0 likes - addedAnt venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus ruginodis.Filmed by Adrian Smit
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Does the snap of a trap-jaw ant hurt?
564 views / 0 likes - addedWe captured what a trap-jaw ant mandible strike against a finger looks like in super slow-motion! It doesn't hurt, don't worry. We explain why in the video!Source for the speed & force measurements: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/211/14/2358Video by &
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Flying Ants Up-Close & in Slow Motion
402 views / 0 likes - addedAnt take-offs and flights filmed at 1,500 & 3,200 frames per second. Featuring male Odontomachus and Aphaenogaster ants. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrAdrianSmith Fire ant tethered flight study: https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/10/1/19
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