Ant Lab | Cockroaches Can Jump & Fly?! In slow mo, it's AWESOME @AntLab | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
A new research project focusing on cockroach jumping and flight behaviors captured by filming at 6,000 frames per second. Three common household pest species are featured here:
American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
German cockroach (Blattella germanica)
Smokybrown cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa)

Thanks to Prof. Coby Schal & Rick Rick Santangelo for supplying some of the roaches! Thanks to Nicolás Galvez for assistance on this research project.

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