While airborne, globular springtails can reach a spin rate of 368 rotations per second, high-speed camera footage shows.
. Blink and you’ll miss this super-flipper, though, as its jump lasts just 161 milliseconds, on average.
To see exactly how globular springtails do backflips, researchers had to use a high-speed camera. What they found was astounding: When a springtail lifts off, it travels as fast as 1.5 meters per second and can spin up to 29 times in the blink of an eye. ). That thump propels the arthropods backward as fast as 1.5 meters per second, on average, the researchers found. While airborne, the globs spin anywhere from 14 to 29 times.
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