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Researchers have detailed the jumping mechanics of globular springtails, small hexapods that perform rapid, spinning backflips to avoid predators.
Globular springtails are tiny, usually only a couple of millimeters in body length. They don’t fly, bite, or sting. But they can jump. In fact, jumping is their go-to plan for avoiding predators. And they excel at it – to the naked eye, it seems as though they vanish entirely when they take off.
Smith solved that problem by using cameras that shoot 40,000 frames per second. He urged the springtails to jump by shining a light on them or lightly prodding them with an artist’s paintbrush. Then he looked at how they took off, how fast and far they went, and how they landed. A video explanation of this research can be found here:
The springtails were also able to launch themselves over 60 millimeters into the air – more than 60 times their own height. And in most cases, they went backward.
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