Ant Lab | Springtail Jumps Off Water and in Super Slow Motion! @AntLab | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Off-water jumps of the semi-aquatic collembola Sminthurides aquaticus and solid ground jumps of Dicyrtomina minuta captured in slow motion video, filming at speeds over 73,000 frames per second! These animals are fast and incredible!
Image of Sminthurides aquaticus by Andy Murray. Check out his amazing collembola photography here:
chaosofdelight.org
Here are a few of the few published studies describing and filming these jumps before my work:
Brackenbury & Hunt (1993) Jumping in springtails: mechanism and dynamics. J. Zool. Lond. 229: 217-236
Sudo et al. (2013) The Kinematics of Jumping of Globular Springtail. Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms 3:85-91
Sudo et al. (2015) Jumps of Water Springtail and Morphology of the Jumping Organ. Journal of JSEM s117-s124
Thanks to Andy Murray, Matt Bertone, and Aron Katz for fact-checking related to this video.
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Off-water jumps of the semi-aquatic collembola Sminthurides aquaticus and solid ground jumps of Dicyrtomina minuta captured in slow motion video, filming at speeds over 73,000 frames per second! These animals are fast and incredible!
Image of Sminthurides aquaticus by Andy Murray. Check out his amazing collembola photography here:
chaosofdelight.org
Here are a few of the few published studies describing and filming these jumps before my work:
Brackenbury & Hunt (1993) Jumping in springtails: mechanism and dynamics. J. Zool. Lond. 229: 217-236
Sudo et al. (2013) The Kinematics of Jumping of Globular Springtail. Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms 3:85-91
Sudo et al. (2015) Jumps of Water Springtail and Morphology of the Jumping Organ. Journal of JSEM s117-s124
Thanks to Andy Murray, Matt Bertone, and Aron Katz for fact-checking related to this video.
Music licensed from soundofpicture.com
Follow and connect more here:
Twitter: twitter.com/dradriansmith
Instagram: instagram.com/dradriansmith