I don't know how they knew setting this this to Ave Maria would be ten times funnier, but it is! [sound on, or watch once without sound and then turn on the sound, like I did]
Ah ha, one of my favourite garden friends paid a visit today: a hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) doing its best to illustrate the principles of convergent evolution 🙂
This is a 240fps slow-motion video: in real-time, it was flitting around like crazy, very briefly supping from each flower with its long probocis. Am happy the phone stayed in focus most of the time.
What #insect do you picture when you hear the word “#fly?” A few familiar species may come to mind, yet #flies represent one of the most biodiverse groups of animals on Earth. According to The Smithsonian, “there are more than 110,000 described species of flies in the world.”
“One family,” Dr. Adrian Smith notes, “the gall midges, which you’ll see a bit later, is thought to be home to a million undescribed species. But even this common housefly, when I see it flying at 8,000 frames per second, is astonishing.”
This was spontaneous recorded when I had some friends over for my birthday. The weather was very cold and cloudy but I really wanted to give my new camera a try and create some slow motion footage with the 200 FPS mode.
I also decided to utilise my dashcam for a second angle. That turned out surprisingly well and I’ll probably use a similiar setup again.
We had a lot of trouble with the cold. The water froze immediately. Even on the blade. That totally ruined the balance. It’s save to assume that people back then had the same trouble while fighting in the wintertime. We had to bring the sword inside for proper cleaning as the ice kept forming on the blade.