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The smásjá skordýrum Heimurinn er mjög mismunandi eitt af okkar og við sjaldan eru gefin fagurt inn í það. Takk hluta til glæsilegs Phantom myndavél kerfi og að Flug Listamenn verkefni hafa vísindamenn kvikmyndaði mínútu (1mm!) Trichogramma Holugeitungur (Chalcidoidea) á flugi. Þessi skordýr eru egg sníkjudýr af Lepidoptera (meðal annarra hópa eflaust) and can be used as effective biocontrol agents. As you’ll see in the video it’s been long understood that these wasps hitchhike on adult Lepidoptera waiting for fresh eggs, but it wasn’t know how they got there and if they were even flying onto the adult hosts. Stunningly, this wasp flaps its wings at ~350 times per second to achieve some astounding feats of movement. The biomechanics of this wing mechanism must be fascinating.
Scroll ahead to 1:07 and watch the interaction of the two wasps – the one that flips off to the left of the screen moves in such a bizarre way it looks like bad CGI. I sure hope they record more species of minute flying insects!
