Ant Lab | Extraordinary Portraits of Insects in Flight @AntLab | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 minutes ago.
A viewer sent me a copy of "Borne on the wind: The extraordinary world of insects in flight" which, in 1975, published photos of insects in mid-air flight. So, I filmed a bunch of insect flight sequences in a style inspired by the insect portraits in that book!

All of these sequences were filmed at 6,000 frames per second. Most play back at 30fps, but some are edited to play back faster. Multiple captures are edited together so that more than one insect appears on-screen at the same time.

00:00 - flatid planthopper
00:30 - intro
01:13 - Chinese mantis
01:42 - American bird grasshopper
02:21 - broad-headed sharpshooter
02:48 - stink bug
03:27 - ichneumonid wasp
03:57 - brown lacewing
04:40 - tiger moth

Music licensed from soundofpicture.com