Globular springtails jump and spin faster than any animal on earth?!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Globular springtails have been out in big numbers this year, so we've been bringing them into the lab and filming their jumps in slow motion, describing how they might be jumping and spinning faster than any other animal on earth!
References:
- Leafhopper jump acceleration: jeb.biologists...
- flea jumps acceleration: jeb.biologists...
- Magnus effect video: • Backspin Basketball Fl...
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I have been studying Symphypleona springtails for the past 10 years (I am finishing my PhD). Seeing these images caused me very good emotions. Thank you.
Hi Diego, do you know where I can find or buy globular springtails? I am a beekeeper in New England and want some winter bugs I can enjoy. 🐝
hi i bet you know a lot about springtails then , i have them walking in mine and my neighbouts true windows into our houses and being everywhere in the house on my window sills. Is this a 1 tyear thing or am i going to be paranoid for the rest of my life? :)
@@saltwaterpurl you can usually buy them online for terrarium use.
Since you are an expert, do the furcas load again after jumping or can they used for just one jump?
Nice bless RUclips
One day i've been walking through the forest and I've found something like an car exhaust soot stain on the snow(it was in spring),
but the road was more like a footpath and I looked closer. The "soot" was tiny, jumping and numerous. Turned out to be springtails. And they have antifreeze proteins. That's why they feel ok jumping on the snow.
This is the cutest derpiest thing I have ever seen
The springtail's 'globular' shape -- like an acrobat... tucked inward -- should help with the spin. If the magnus effect is in play, the direction of rotation (as shown in the video) would tend to force the springtail downward; that would limit the little fellow's max altitude, which may also serve to limit its 'airtime' (read: visibility) as a target for hungry birds. Just guessing!
"You look like a pirate" lol
I love your videos. I think you made a wise choice for your technical assistants. Glad I found your channel.
I love springtails! very cool to see their jumps up close. I wonder what happens to their hemolymph with all that high-speed spinning?
I keep springtails and I'm very jealous that you have globular ones lol, they go pretty expensive in the hobby and are very cool
Love this. The footage of the springtail furca was particularly cool. Also, great cameraman.
By the way, FURCA is simply Latin for FORK which is neat: their spring-loaded appendages are indeed forked at the end.
I've never seen this variety of globular spring tail. They're the cutest I've seen.
I have a mixed species colony of red globular springtails and grey regular springtails living on the gravel of my pothos plant. They basically live their entire lives waiting for me to water the plant and some times I don't water it for up to a month. When i do it's always chlorinated water too! It amazes me they survive in such a hostile and specialized habitat.
Springtails be like : “wanna see something cool 😎”
So cool. They're great for tarantula enclosures that contain humidity as well!
Sweet video Adrian!
springtails are the right size for tiny spider food & I'm pretty sure they spin to deflect thrown webs and hooked grabbers of freshly hatched grass/wolf spiders. the rotation is crazy like jumping mice and kangaroo rats that don't actually know where they're going when they leap which works to their advantage because it's unpredictable for any critters trying to catch/eat them.
Spin seems to make objects more aerodynamic plus when they hit the ground they will hopefully bounce further away from the danger.
Thanks to TierZoo i found this channel, amazing work keep going !
Greating from Belgium :)
I have a culture with springtails, and they keep jumping out and now I know why.
These videos have increased my appreciation ad love for springtails. They are now one of my favorite animals. Thank you so much!
hey your videos are amazing ! i dont know anything about insects and your way of offering information is simply sweet =)
What a great and wonderful video! I got two samples from my friend and it's the first time I saw these animal. I watched your video to learn more and got great ideas from this video.
Very impressive, thanks for work
Fascinating little bugs!
Imagine if these things were the size of cars, that would be hell of a show to see
With that power and size in scale they would destroy themselves after 1 or 2 jumps.
The future of renewable energy! Well, maybe just the future of drag racing! 250 billion springtail boost is better than nitro! Only lasts for a 1/1000 of second before they all jump off though... but it might be the difference ;-)
Merci beaucoup pour cette belle vidéo.
C'est un excellent travail scientifique.
Vous avez réussi à mettre en évidence les secrets du déplacement de cette petite créature.
C'est impressionnant !!!
Bravo.
👍👍👍👍♥️
This channel should have 10 million subs
Would be interesting to see in slow motion on the moment the springtails impacts the ground from the flip
yeah, ouch thats gotta hurt!
Love this channel!
Thank you very much! Congratulations! You are 'lucky' to have springtail!
this is my fav video rn
Clearly springtails put a lot of evolution points into jumping and spinning.
Springtails: world's best backflips
Needs a spring "boing" or "tyunyunyun" sound effect...
And probably Goofy's scream sound effect...
Well, that was a facinatng watch. Videos about how weird and facinating insects are? Sign me up.
OMG they're adorable
I have nothing to do with insects or related research but I absolutely love your videos dude! keep it up! PLEASE!
P.S. your new camera guy is awesome!
Brilliant video! Do they have any predators with such crazy abilities?
Actually people think that the ant trap-jaws evolved to catch tiny arthropods like these that have fast escape mechanisms.
That would be a cool video, a trap-jaw catching a springtail.
I wouldn't want such a tail, personally. I could just see it now...
Me: Please don't walk up behind me and scare me, please don't walk up behind me and scare me.
My friends: Boo!
Me: Boing, spin, spin, spin, spin....
Friends: Laughing
Me: After hitting ground and bouncing, Please, don't do that again.
Tail: resets itself for next time.
sick flip
Ok wow but like how have I not heard of these before?! I live in North Carolina but I have never seen one before despite having grown up playing with and learning about local arthropods..
One man's trash is RUclips treasure; thanks for sharing!
I've seen there creatures in Southern Brazil. I guess they are a localized species maybe? Interesting video!
springtails are almost everywhere on earth! many species, too.
I wonder if the rotation may be useful in escaping a partial grasp of whatever their major predators are (or at least were, evolutionarily speaking) -- i.e. maybe the momentum of the spin helps them twist out of the grasp of a predator in near-miss cases. This would accord with the fact that they don't actually go very far with their jumps, implying that the evasion isn't a reaction to larger creatures like amphibians, lizards, birds, etc, but rather other small arthropods. If you're an ant or spider trying to hold on to one of these things, maybe the spin makes it harder to keep your mandible/pincer/whatever hooked around their leg, etc.
Found you through professor Dave, definitely interesting videos, keep it up.
Fascinating.
Please for the love of the Internet, can someone edit the springtails with the forever spinning meme please. I NEED THIS.
Ok these things are adorable
I wish you were my best friend. I don’t have your wonderful brain, but I share many of your tech stuff. Meaning macro photography and bugs and plants. I even live close by in Raleigh. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Man, the cameraman killed it, great shots 👍
Trashcan Springtail was the name of my punk band in high school ;-)
why am I hearing dorime ameno when the springtail flew.
I once again screamed YEET at my screen an embarrassing amount of times.
Backflip glitch
This is a great video !! and very useful I was looking for some info because I found them in my tank ....and this is them alright 👍✌️ liked and subscribed
Very cool
Incredible videos! I love it. You could include credit for the editor and stuff - you deserve to be seen :)
Springtail went all B O I N G
These guys be backflipping to other dimensions
Muy interesante amigo
It would be interesting to see if their initial contact with the ground when they land is the same or when they launch can their "Spring" change their direction. Very Interesting, Thank You.
Military watching this: haha bug go helicopter
Very cool vids just found you and subbed keep up the great work you are a scary smart dude...lol
I want these for pets!
Super video & study .... BTW, that's 1,565.86 mph ... nano-tech!
He tried spinning, that was a good trick
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this must be one of the bugs because that looks like you'd be spinning to write that
I have an hypothesis for 'Why they spin that fast?' or Why they spin at all? or 'Is there any utility at all as evolutionary advantage?. Lets make a parellel with a bowling ball or a pool ball or any kind of projectile we use in slow moving sport [A bullet is part of fast sports and, form the bullet point of view, its spin is useful to stabilize the trajectory]... While turning, if springtails hit something, the trajectory will change in an almost unpredictible way... at least for a potential predator. I think I have said enough about this.
2:36 it jumps like holy grenade in worms
That's gotta be a ton of G forces both from the jump and the spin. Do they need special valves to prevent liquids from pooling in the extremities?
I saw this in balarama
Nobody springtails spiiiiiiinn spiinnnnnnnnn
Oh no, these things are hilarious
Amazing! How they reload their spring? Do they have to go on their back or sideways to reload?
Thank you!
I thought springtails were those minuscule white things you can barely see..? Are they just different species?
Ok, lucky can find this research, i'm going to hunt some of them for my terrarium now, i believe all any extreme act they do is to prevent them being catch by predator like jumping spider
What would the predator be. They're too small to be of interest to even the smallest birds that might come across them. I would think a predator is more likely to be something on the ground, like a frog, that may grab a bunch at a time on a sticky tongue.
Mostly other bugs. Especially ants, wasps and beetles. I heard small frogs will attempt to eat them, but it usually fails.
Sik video brother
A sawblade has that rpm 😯
Trashcan Springtails!
🤣❗
Un poco de todo alguien😀😀
*vinny speen voiceclip plays*
*S P E E N*
*S* *L* *I* *C* *K*
Do they get hurt when they land on their heads?
Anyone know the scientific name of these specific ones please?
where can I get these ? does anybody trade/sell them?
Tuff exo- skeleton!
How fast in MPH are these little guys spinning?
dédicace aux pass encoreeeee
¿UPTD 🐜?
I saw a “scientist” say that aliens wouldn’t be interested in humans because we would be like ants to them. I think this is the dumbest thing that a scientist has ever said. Clearly some humans find ants so interesting that they devote their whole lives to studying them. I’m sure even the most advanced species in the universe might find humans similarly interesting.
I was losing my shit watching this with a friend
He launched himself into the atmosphere
im pretty sure the convertion of rotational speed to travel speed is "x100" so if this is the case, this thing is faster than that garbage dracula ant.
Baby jumping spiders eat them
Would an ant break apart at that speed?
I wonder how many G's they experience in those jumps... But i'm so bad at maths.
I looked it up on a website that supposedly converts the 700 m/s^2.
71G's was the result. Thats incredible lol
@@randomdude8877 WOW. Imagine the mash if a man was ejected with such an acceleration... Amazing bugs!
I've got a few in the bathroom and they're not friendly.
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