This is a slow motion video from the folks (and bugs) of Ant Lab, featuring a bunch of different insects (spanning 8 different taxonomic orders — that’s the one between class and family) spreading their wings and taking to the sky, shot at 3,200 frames/second. Beautiful, wasn’t it? “Gross I
This is a video of an orchid mantis nymph (I’ve caught a bunch in Animal Crossing) eating a fly that was dumb enough to walk all over the mantis assuming it wasn’t a threat. I mean at one point you can actually see it sucking on the mantis’s arm and
This is a short video of a West Des Moines, Iowa man who discovered a hornet’s nest behind his car’s gas tank door when going to fill up his tank. In his own very colorful language: “I, uh, I was going to go to fill my gas tank up and…[trying
This is a video from researchers at the University Of Washington who have developed a tiny, pannable camera system capable of streaming live video that’s so small it can fit on the back of a beetle (or any other small insect). The entire system weighs only 248 milligrams in total.