The Extremely Fast Animals in Your Yard - Springtails

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those slow-mo jumps are poetic

worthless organism

I bet they make Super Mario 64 sounds when they jump..."Whoop! Woohooo! Hup! Whoop, woohoooo! 🤣

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Nature's little acrobats!😂✌️

Great update!!!thanks for sharing your love for insects 🐜

Lokix!

Do the Globular ones always do back flips?

Springtail flip

I want to know if they bite or sting. I’ve read conflicting things online stating that they don’t or do. But one thing I do know, we have a bunch in our backyard and every time my kids and I go swimming in their little pool, we get attacked by them. I’ll feel a little sting, look down, and see a bunch of these guys on us and the pool. Not fleas either, but springtails as we captured them and looked up close and I have dealt with fleas and ticks a handful of times

Thank you

80 g's that's insane! I guess since they use fluid hydraulics it is survivable,very cool!

Amazing creatures

Mesofauna é fantástico

It's currently storming and I found one on my computer screen. I lightly touched it and it disappeared. It gave me nostalgia about when I was younger and it rained, they would be in front of my sliding glass door in my house, and I'd lay down up close so I could see them. If I touched them lightly, they'd disappear. I called them glitch bugs, and years later today, because of this video I know what they're called!

They're cute. They're like little rabbit bugs.

How do the springtails tension the furcula? what's the mechanism to load the spring?

Having only seen them as little flecks that pop up, I've never realized that they don't tend to land on their feet. They are so wonderfully ridiculous and random. Thank you for another revelation (my other fav was seeing how wildly fly halteres can gyrate - didn't really know before your videos).

what is the purpose of this mode of movement for these creatures? surely they have no control of their trajectory and landing..?

If that first one is accelerating so fast why isn’t there a tiny sonic boom

The best aliens aren’t lightyears away, beyond the hubble telescope’s reach; they’re under our nose—a mere microscope’s distance from us. Thank you for showing us these delightful aliens.

so like do they backflip and land on their feet or just like FLOP roll over and flip again?

"Do a flip"
Springtails:

I live in NC, I need to visit this place lol

one evolved to jump faster, would be intersting to see the predator difference in their enviroments if any

Is it an insect?

Thank you for your hard work

I don't know springtails very well, but it seems like the elongated one despite the slower acceleration gets more distance out of it, the globular springtail seems to just do a flip.

The deadliest too!

plot twist: you don't have a backyard (aka me)

cool
i am interested in springtails because i keep tarantulas in terrariums and the springtails are beneficial organisms to have inside the terrarium

Evolution made them do backflips

Accelerating at 81 gs wow!! How can their organs withstand that acceleration?

Wow an insect I don't care about doing something that doesn't affect me in any way. Crazy!

These crazy high frame rate cameras must be such a revolutionary tool for this kind of research. They basically increase our resolution of time by orders of magnitude.

Aaaaaaweeeeeeeeeeee

i never knew these things existed. Thanks for showing us!

His mouth looks like Elon musk talking

You know following around that tiny thing and recording a video of it jumping was a pita.

Tiny gymnasts!

I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around 150,000 frames per second!

Please show the landing next time.

I did a bachelor thesis on saproxylic organisms in dead wood and gotta say, springtails were really abundant. Didnt think they look so cute whey they jump, considering they were already dead when i was inspecting them.

81g's, holy cow!

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Very nice work. Thank you for sharing.

Fantastic work!!