Springtails do the fastest backflip on earth!

[@frostlips22]

This remains, by far, my favorite channel on KZbin. Serious scientific research about interesting and photogenic topics, presented with incredible cinematography, narration, and production. I can't think of a way to make these videos better other than having more of them. Thank you for creating such awesome content for so many years!

[@AntLab]

Thanks for watching!

[@ingriddurden3929]

this is what children should get in school ! and to know that they can see this for real in their own yard, or in the park ! would make for a whole lot more interesting stuff than what they usually have I suppose.

[@ryuuguu01]

I just saw a review of the paper and thought this would be a great Ant Lab video, not realizing it was your paper.

[@dangerfly]

There are sooo many insect adaptations that deserve this level of analysis.

[@Marco_______]

I wish more researchers explained their research in this way. This was such an interesting way to explain your publication

[@temporaladvisor3958]

Your videos never fail to educate and entertain.

[@andromedabeetle1586]

The other video is one of my favorite videos ever. I love rewatching it and it never ceases to fascinate me. This showing up on my youtube was a very pleasant surprise!!!

[@kokroucz]

IMO this is on par with "Journey to microcosmos" channel, it's my comfort zone. Textbook education through fun. Greetings from Poland

[@gus473]

From your lab bench to CT scans and SEM views, the images are fantastic! Thanks and congratulations on your publication! 😎✌️

[@BerryLovesBugs]

Your work and content are so phenomenal. I always look forward to seeing your posts, they're inspiring to me with my bug hobby.

[@nezumishrimp]

I'm so glad I found this channel a while ago. I love your videos, they are so interesting!

[@Dumpleyy]

Deserve gold medal for that gymnastics movement

[@ryguyryguyryguy]

I wish you were the guy narrator of the nature documentaries I watch

[@AsioEntomo]

Borror and Delong's Intro to the Study of Insects! That's the textbook we used in my entomology class in college, but we were on the 7th edition. Still recognized it immediately from the font and page layout, I've spent so much time with that book. I still use it often! I'd also like to add that I'm incredibly thankful that you added real captions. Auto-generated ones are awful, and it's great to see you take the time to add real captions in. Keep up the excellent work!

[@bugjewce]

this was super educational and engaging, as well as thoroughly entertaining to see these little acrobats backflip in slow-mo! i am so intrigued on how you got into this occupational field, i would love to do something like this for a living someday as well! very inspiring channel and fantastic work as always :-)

[@Funnyfish66]

Never seen these little guys before this vid!

[@akiraic]

they are everywhere, including your house!

[@JanetStarChild]

Every time I see those little critters flip, I imagine them exuberantly squeaking out _"Wheeee!"_

[@bushigongzuomayi]

Great Video. I am impressed of insects and their behavior. This year a wasp made me rescue some of her collegues. I could not believe it as I thought they are dead. Drowned in a sweet liquid and not moving. The only one surviving showed me what I must do. And it worked out. Only one was really dead.

[@mailgaga4330]

Oh, how I love this channel! Good vibes. Thank you very much.

[@hodor3024]

I love globular springtails! They're so cute.

[@christinereilly5293]

So cool!

[@robertmacpherson9044]

I'm sure you are on to it already, but just in case..... I think the reason that the aquatic springtails launch forward is because they push off of the surface film, which has been depressed by the release of the furculum. The jump is probably "backward" with respect to the deformed surface film of the water.

[@bartplugers]

Beautiful images! And great research. I love the fact that they are everywhere on earth, even on Antarctica!

[@BIGplanetLife]

Man..I love these videos!!! Great work Dr. Adrian Smith!!!

[@Operation3Sixty]

This stuff is incredibly fascinating. Coupled with your narration, it's elite level content

[@dust1274]

I'm so glad you make these videos cause it's always fascinating

[@Aderon]

My hunch on why aquatic ones leap forward where terrestrial ones leap back is that due to the surface tension of the water, they can't accelerate as quickly off of it, and in the one clip in this video with both the leap and landing on water, I clocked it at an average of 226.66 flips per second, so in this clip at least, the water launches don't seem to spin as fast and the land ones. I believe that when they take off from the water, because it has that little bit of give to it, instead of their acceleration beginning as soon as the strike the surface, their furcula pushes into the surface of the water, meaning that instead of levering them back, their furcula instead pushes across the surface of the water before finally making enough purchase for takeoff.

[@malcontender6319]

5:32 Utterly wild, gooey drag chutes.

[@WoutervanWilligen]

You have made it to the Dutch daily paper "De Volkskrant". After reading the article on page 2, I just had to come to YT. What great research and filming!!

[@JustMakinProgress]

Oh a new Ant Lab! Ok let me press thumbs up and then the play button.

[@joekelly7505]

Incredible work studying an incredible little bug!

[@sandorpap]

Mi élőlények csodálatosak vagyunk 👍

[@daleduncan7611]

Thank-you for your breataking photography

[@osmia]

I absolutely love how many of these bugs you collect yourself and how many are just from your yard

[@ulrikchristiansen]

This channel insanely interesting 😊. Thanks!

[@elytron6758]

That colophore sticky landing is so cool!

[@oneshotme]

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@ALDANIELLEFLOREN]

spectacular display of skills! kudos to the springtail. thanks for sharing us your knowledge ant lab, fine works.

[@akiraic]

skill? they literally just YOLO it for life, and they can't control where to go, apparently 😂

[@jannetteberends8730]

Never knew they were so adorable in a close up.

[@killsalot78]

every vid this guy makes is a banger

[@justincase5002]

Who would've thought that the closest relatives of insects are Remipedia crustaceans. These little guys are so primitive they never evolved wings, but they went unrecognizably far from their ancestors.

[@uppityglivestockian]

A French Olympic pole vaulter wants some tips.

[@karonmalingo5798]

Thank you for showing us the miracle of the tiniest of creatures.

[@Tecnologiaparacoaches]

Now we know where are gymnastics athletes evolve from :D Long way guys!

[@ЕленаСмелова-ю5с]

😁

[@Oswaldfiveo]

So cool! And gives the term ferk off new meaning!

[@mohammedalzubaidi4559]

great info - fantastic content - incredible footage - enlightening commentary. what are we waiting for ? support this channel with all your might🤩

[@Avabees]

So cool!

[@insecta75]

Nice video❤

[@thartwig]

I've had that book for almost 20 years! edit: You could also deduce theyre designed to jump backwards because the serrations on the furcum is opposite of what it should be if they wanted to create friction for forward movement.

[@uncalatorsprecer]

"they're designed" You're right! They are designed. I don't see any evolution here.

[@thartwig]

@@uncalatorsprecer not sure what your point is. but if you want to argue about semantics I will indulge you in this one response. Evolution is the cause for biological form. All living things are designed to perform tasks and those designs are optimized by evolution. If you thought there was creationist subtext in my first comment, well, there wasnt, it exists in your head.

[@uncalatorsprecer]

​@thartwig , i don't want to argue. Creation is a fact. Man can not create life out of nothing. I didn't see a rock turning into a snail shell. I'm sure that the device you're writing on was designed by a company. It is ridiculous to think that throwing the components of a laptop will assemble themselves into one.

[@f.c.debeer748]

Considering the energy enabling these miraculous jumps points to a field in biology that is hard to investigate. This challenges a scientific rock-solid notion of an axon regeneration speed of 1 mm a day. It is likely to appreciate that this speed may rise tenfold in developing organisms, like all vertebrates. Demonstrating such a phenomenon is as hard as this fine piece of scientific art.

[@mumumaaaah]

Those flipping insects are incredibly awesome that the way they flip in the air

[@Doomchild2XL]

I kinda think, if you could get one of those springtails to jump off of water, it would jump forwards as well.

[@kmonnier]

These structures are impossibly stunning 🤩

[@RiedlerMusics]

4:34 well I'd imagine it's because the springy bit goes into the water, the reaction force being perpendicular to the angle of the …springy bit…, it can launch them more forwards. Now what I'd *really* be curious about is whether they can control it and if so to what degree. Intuition says backwards jumps have to be weaker because water isn't solid enough to stay flat at full force, if they can do it on command at all.

[@MahdeAlhajjar]

سبحان الخالق العظيم خلق فأبدع

[@gelvy-q2f]

OVER 22000RPM‽ The physics of life is quite different at these scales. Spin a human around their centre of mass and limbs would detach easily at 1/100th the RPM. Thank you for creating and sharing such remarkable insights.

[@joaogilberto3637]

a sooo well done video as always

[@Syntox94]

2:02 i wonder how fast the appendage/furga is when releasing it, and how fast it is from releasing and touching the ground

[@vickiferko23]

Thanks for noticing !! ❤

[@mscir]

That's a crazy evolutionary development.

[@Gillian-xl7wb]

"BOOOOOING" 😊👍

[@Domzdream]

I miss your great videos.

[@dianahellman9254]

Wow, how big was that CT scanner??

[@randolfjones1024]

Fascinating they seemed to spring away from the threat each time

[@dogf421]

do they have any way of righting themselves if they land on their back or are they just screwed?

[@stelley08]

really interesting! 👍🙂

[@tetra3ne56scur3]

But these type of springtails are different than temperate white springtails By the way where can I purchase these books? Because I’m keeping a bioactive substrate along with Dairy Cow Isopods and Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. And I want to learn more about them. @AntLab

[@skybluskyblueify]

Since they are very small and jump quickly, have there been any escapees?

[@TransistorBased]

I'm still stepping on it

[@redacap]

thank you for sharing

[@dagoodboy6424]

Now we must find the fastest springtail

[@localboys7449]

Could you film a jumping spider please?

[@BlackReaper0]

Awesome!

[@dkelban]

Nature is amazing

[@ЕленаСмелова-ю5с]

❤❤❤

[@MRblazedBEANS]

What kind of g forces are their bodies feeling?

[@akiraic]

Irrelevant. G force doesn't affect insects much on that scale due to their little mass.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

A lost opportunity to name them Yeetus Yeetus.

[@alexmijo]

awesome

[@kincso1855]

Gömböc ugróka!

[@ritahorvath8207]

aranyossak ♡

[@JohannVonVorst]

New fact just dropped

[@martinkrijnen]

tnx man :)

[@rafdes]

Globular springtails = round, bouncy bois 'n girls

[@dawnmichelle4403]

Wonderful research! The Creator is amazing 🙌🏻

[@shooter505]

How would the height translate to a human doing the same thing?

[@henrikmanitski1061]

108 meters or 354 feet

[@LionelKoang]

dang

[@LilQuackus]

So does Saturn have some bug that can flip faster???

[@hadz8671]

I didn't know that there are hexapods that aren't insects.

[@GubGubGubbins]

9/10. Need to stick the landing. Otherwise good form.

[@willcookmakeup]

369 flips per second?! Omfg bahaha. That's absolutely ridiculous

[@wraithdefend]

That like a basket ball player jumping and touching the ceiling of gym of stadium

[@BIGplanetLife]

More like a person jumping over a 2 story building

[@pear7777]

And the reason for this is? Fleeing from predators I guess?

[@БиревИван]

👍💪

[@atlas16198]

buge :)

[@norskrom]

Dem mechanics

[@oddsman01]

Bunch of little show offs if you ask me.

[@riccardosolinas3256]

Hey man! i appreciate your contents on youtube! Could you suggest to me camera traps that films insects with accuracy?

[@shanebep3135]

They are placed in our terrarium they know their place and do not leave 🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎