Insect flight in glorious slow motion!
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s ANT Lab, as part of the Evolutionay Biology & Behaviour Research Lab, has made a spectacular video about insect flight. It’s filmed in juicy slow motion and features orthopteran, coleopterans, dipterans, a hemipteran, and even some psocoptera which are little proto-hemipteran like critters.
The full species, in order of appearance:
nut/acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)
broad-nosed weevil (Asiatic oak weevil Cyrtepistomus castaneus)
Hook-faced Conehead katydid (Pyrgocorypha uncinata)
bush katydid (Scuddderia sp.)
Lesser Angle-wing (Microcentrum retinerve)
Mouse-like Barklouse (Lichenomima sp.)
common barklouse 1 (subfamily: Psocinae)
common barklouse 2 (subfamily: Psocinae)
common barklouse (Cerastipsocus venosus)
March fly (Penthetria heteropteran)
Spined Assassin Bug (Sinea sp.)
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i promise, i am not an acorn
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