...but these days they're hexapods. My "thing learnt today" from another excellent video by Ant Lab.
Globular springtails doing the fastest (vigintuple+) backflips in a single jump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlT4b6BCdw
Springtails used to be insects...
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Re: Springtails used to be insects...
Marvelous stuff, as always from Ant Lab!
I've been noticing technology this week, and in this video I was particularly struck by the XY tracking device used to keep the animals in frame and in focus.
It's shown in action from 1:47 through 1:52.
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I've been noticing technology this week, and in this video I was particularly struck by the XY tracking device used to keep the animals in frame and in focus.
It's shown in action from 1:47 through 1:52.
--Rik
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Re: Springtails used to be insects...
Good stuff!
I own a very old and well-worn copy of the earlier Insect field guide shown in the video, and lots of things in there are considered wrong now.
Insects are descended from Crustaceans (!). Butterflies are really moths. Tiger Beetles don't have their own family, but instead are within the Ground Beetle family. And what used to be the Homoptera order (Plant Hoppers, Aphids, and the like) are now within the Hemiptera order. There are others.
I own a very old and well-worn copy of the earlier Insect field guide shown in the video, and lots of things in there are considered wrong now.
Insects are descended from Crustaceans (!). Butterflies are really moths. Tiger Beetles don't have their own family, but instead are within the Ground Beetle family. And what used to be the Homoptera order (Plant Hoppers, Aphids, and the like) are now within the Hemiptera order. There are others.
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Re: Springtails used to be insects...
They got plutoed.Beatsy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 6:31 am...but these days they're hexapods. My "thing learnt today" from another excellent video by Ant Lab.
Globular springtails doing the fastest (vigintuple+) backflips in a single jump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlT4b6BCdw
Re: Springtails used to be insects...
They have always been Hexapods (6-legged), along with the insects.
Now Hexapods divided into Insecta and Entognatha (springtails etc.).
(trivia, just a problem of being an entomologist!)
Now Hexapods divided into Insecta and Entognatha (springtails etc.).
(trivia, just a problem of being an entomologist!)
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Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives