Spin the flying scene of microscopic insects

The research group from Wageningen University (Netherlands) was the first to implement high-speed camera footage of parasitic insects with wingspan of about 1mm.

The ultra-small insect film crew at a speed of 22,000 frames per second, 900 times faster than a TV screen can display. Between the time of transferring two images on the TV, the bees have flapped their wings up to 14 times.

Parasitic bees perch on a white cabbage butterfly.

This is the first time the flight of parasitic bees - used as a biological agent to protect trees, helps to kill the eggs of harmful moths - observed. So far, no one has ever seen the process of wasps accessible to butterflies.

The high-speed film shows that the process of parasitic wasp jumped into the air, flapped its wings around, and then grounded. New images also reveal, hornets can flap their wings 350 times in a second . The insect is estimated to weigh only about 1 / 40,000g, but they are not the smallest known insects. Parasites of Tanzania hornets are less than 0.3mm. So far, this is a very small insect that cannot be raised, so they can only be found and filmed in nature.

The film is made by researchers at Wageningen University, using a high-speed Phatom camera, equipped for those who will participate in the project Flight Artist . This project will carry out a series of films about the flight of birds, bats, insects and even seeds, noting the details that are not visible to the naked eye, invisible, too fast. or too small. So far, 54 students have been trained to carry out this special field.

The movie about the bees' flight process can be viewed here: