Springtail Jumps Off Water and in Super Slow Motion!

Off-water jumps of the semi-aquatic collembola Sminthurides aquaticus and solid ground jumps of Dicyrtomina minuta captured in slow motion video, filming at speeds over 73,000 frames per second! These animals are fast and incredible! Image of Sminthurides aquaticus by Andy Murray. Check out his amazing collembola photography here: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/ Here are a few of the few published studies describing and filming these jumps before my work: Brackenbury & Hunt (1993) Jumping in springtails: mechanism and dynamics. J. Zool. Lond. 229: 217-236 Sudo et al. (2013) The Kinematics of Jumping of Globular Springtail. Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms 3:85-91 Sudo et al. (2015) Jumps of Water Springtail and Morphology of the Jumping Organ. Journal of JSEM s117-s124 Thanks to Andy Murray, Matt Bertone, and Aron Katz for fact-checking related to this video. Music licensed from https://www.soundofpicture.com/ Follow and connect more here: Twitter:   / dradriansmith   Instagram:   / dradriansmith