Hey, I’m not sure if you work with arachnids at all but I recently found a jumping spider outside and the way their jumps look almost instant made me really curious to see it in slow motion.
i agree! every time i see a jumping spider i love to watch it. their movements are jerky and precise but wow are they masters at perfectly timing jumps
I have been photographing insects and arachnids since 2010, exclusively natural photos on the living object. I can halfway understand how time-consuming and nerve-wracking it can be to get the film sequences as desired. Thank you for the great shots!
I've been taking pictures of bugs with my phone for the last few years, and when I was trying to get super slow motion shots of bugs is very hard. I have some 960fps grasshoppers jumping, and ladybugs with their wings unfurling, and dragonflies mid-flight. My stills collection is ever growing though, and capturing a good picture is like filling out an entry to my pokedex because reverse image searches make it a lot easier to find out facts about the things I managed to photograph. I wish I could afford a setup like this one so I could do some more science, but I also enjoy the challenge of trying to do so much with so little.
@@CeeJMantis thats really cool, I just started doing the same thing and thats why i just love going outside. unfortunately my phone does not have the greatest camera quality. I wanted to ask what phone do you use?
@@neobiagini8623 I currently use a Sony Xperia 1 II. It's a phone primarily designed around its camera. It's a few years old, and they're more recent ones have further expounded on this philosophy. Ideally, I would like to save some money and see what next year's pro version has to offer. I also keep my Xperia XZ2 Premium around for when I can catch something I want to later film in slow motion as it can do 960 FPS for extremely brief time frames. They are good, but they are expensive. I also know that the oppo find 3 has a 10x macro camera that has me intrigued too.
I used to be terrified of all bugs before I met my husband, who loves insects and spiders, and knows more about them than your average entymologist! I am still scared of larger bugs, but he has shown me that you shouldn't squash bugs just because they're there. I see the beauty in bugs because of him. So thanks for making up close bug videos, it helps people admire insects instead of being scared.
Your footage is amazing and so revealing. We get to see something in a way that we could never see it before. And with you doing your filming against a black background, it does really help those hidden colors to pop out. Which makes your footage of the insects all the more beautiful. And I'm so glad to hear that your channel is growing. I think you will get much bigger than this, just wait and see. Thank you for sharing all your hard work with us. 😊👍
I love the Mantis feet. Swinging back and forth as she flies like a little kid on a swing. Having the time of her life. So cute! And you def fulfilled your goal of making the most awesome bug flight videos. They are so fun to watch and so breathtakingly beautiful! WTG Sir!
I can't get enough of your videos, it's so interesting to see all the details and vibrant colors. You really put a lot of effort into this, it's not only science but art.
Your commentary really adds to the video, I really enjoyed the backgroud info about flightpatterns and springloaded knees and similarities between related groups.
It always amazes me just how fantastic nature's creatures are. I never knew just how intricate the flight function of these insects was until you filmed examples of said function with your techniques. Quite incredible.
I'm so happy you are over 100k subscribers! Well deserved recognition of the high quality of your videos. I always look forward to a new one, and rewatch some of your older ones because they are just so fascinating and well done. Oh, and educational as well!
I appreciate what you're doing, as an Entomology fan & student I'm happy to see more people are getting interested to capture this part of nature on video.
Fascinating footage and technically impressive. We have an interesting planthopper here in the UK (Issus coleoptratus), which I often photograph in the back garden, with a nymph stage whose rearmost leg pair are uniquely, mechanically geared to enable a very rapid jump. I bet these would make a great subject for a slowmo take-off.
I've got say, I've been loving arthropods since I was a little girl (spent many summer days and weekends chasing them around), but every video you put out just makes me fall deeper in love with them. It's amazing how something so tiny can be so magical and miraculous.
I love these videos because I love learning about insects they kinda fascinate me, they’re really cool and I’m thankful for your explaining on flight patterns and things like that
I am fascinated by how imperfect the movements and the flights are. These creatures are like little machines that are designed to just barely meet a minimum of performance, and no more!
Seeing a new video uploaded from you always makes me smile. c: Your vids are so simple and informative but at the same time such good quality. You can really feel all the effort that goes into these videos and the passion you have for our cute little bug friends. Keep it up.
Your work is phenomenal. My daughter is fascinated by all kinds of insects and your videos provide such a valuable and entertaining insight into insects' life for her. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful! The black background makes the insects look even more stunning. I will happily watch all the bug videos you provide. I would subscribe twice if I could! 👍
Stephen Dalton - what a pioneer and, inspiration to so many people. I bought his book ‘Caught in Motion’ in (I think) the early 80’s and have been trying to mimic his results ever since. He’s still working at 85 and published a new book in 2020 titled ‘Capturing Motion : My Life in High Speed Nature Photography’. Your video is beautiful, thanks for posting it.
Your videos are the best thing ever. Much of my art work focuses on entomology. Being able to view your work helps me with color selection, wing and leg structure. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for your hard work and interest in these special critters. It really give me more of an appreciation to insects and more incentive to be careful around them. All Gods creatures deserve respect!
I love your videos. It's a relaxing healing moment to watch the beautiful insects and appreciate them with the nice music. I appreciate all the work you do on these videos
Thanks for your work, Dr. Adrian! Having grown up in Raleigh and spending my youth in the Museum of Natural Sciences your videos remind me so much of home. I am so fascinated by insect morphology and your work has got me curious about the mechanisms by which insects have evolved to fly, crawl, skitter, and stride. I always look forward to your videos.
I feel like you have opened a door to a formerly hidden realm of unexpected beauty with these humble bugs. It's so enjoyable. Thanks for sharing your work.
Thanks for sharing. I love seeing how you show all these different insects to us. And when you give us behind the scene details like where you got it from
Found one of those large black/yellow and white spiders had created a huge web sprawled across my brick outdoor grill. Grabbed a long coarse blade of grass and came up right underneath it and began to tickle it without damaging the web, stroking it gently sideways - not thru' the web itself; it immediately started jumping up/down but otherwise no movement. Its feet never left contact w/its web. The more I tickled it, the faster it went up and down and the web behaved like a gyrating trampoline; it was a hoot! Great fun! Several minutes of this was enjoyed by us both.
I'm so not surprised that you've reached the 100,000 sub milestone. You do extremely amazing work. I could watch all day. If I didn't have to work that is. 😊
It's amazing to me that you don't have hundreds of thousands of more subscribers. Not only is your camera footage phenomenal, but you give digestible information as well. This means that more people without an entomology background can easily understand the subject. Please continue with the great work you're doing! I can't wait to see more.
I just found your channel and I absolutely love it! I've always liked moths and beetles but your videos make me wanna found out more about other insects as well.
❤Thanks so much for the amazing shots and the interesting body mechanics, so helpful to my personal interest . Your videos are a unique education as well as sublimely beautiful.❤❤
Once while watching my hummingbird feeder hanging very close to the window , I noticed a green grasshopper hanging out near by. A wasp came to visit the feeder. As it took off the grasshopper sprang, latched on to the wasp and, I'm assuming, devoured it. ( they disappeared into the flowers. ) I was and still am awestruck. Amazing. I love bugs.... most bugs.
I would love to see a video like this but about isopods. Like the rubber ducky, lemon blue or ghost isopods.I know they don't fly or jump but they way they crawl is interesting. They're also pretty cute.
You've got a unique gift man. Yup, it is amazing people watch this. It's the quality of your work. How many people can fascinate large groups of youtubers who might otherwise be viewing action movies? 😎
I liked your comment about the alien like appearance of the parasitic wasps. I took some amazing pictures of these outside my house at night, and I was struck by both how incredibly architecturally beautiful their structure is , and also the best candidates I've seen yet for an alien life movie:)
Great stuff thanks AL, most enjoyable. Here in the UK we only have the lacewing, the shield bug which I think you called a stink bug and a similarly shaped wasp with the long butt but more beautiful colours. I liked the tank of the air description which also applies to the bumblebee, how those 2 species gets airborne really is magic. Do you have any bumble footage please? One strange thing I heard was that there is no name for the back-end of the human knee yet the American bird grasshopper's is called the semi-lunar process, why didn't they just call it a hinged-knee-kick for example? In my work on old properties (lime putty plasterer) I'm often finding very long yellow millipede's which must have about 20 pairs of legs and a really ancient species called silverfish, both of which like to live in the dark recesses of a house or old stone wall, do you also have any footage of flightless speedy critters like them?
Thank you. I share these with my wing surfing students so they understand how to pump (flap) their wing in the air coordinated with pumping the hydrofoil wing in the water for more power.
Beautiful series of movement studies, and obviously an immense lot of work! Looking at Stephen Dalton's photos, I was wondering whether it might be worth adding some off-camera axis backlighting, in order to further separate the wings from the black background?
Hey, I’m not sure if you work with arachnids at all but I recently found a jumping spider outside and the way their jumps look almost instant made me really curious to see it in slow motion.
i agree! every time i see a jumping spider i love to watch it. their movements are jerky and precise but wow are they masters at perfectly timing jumps
I second that! I love these little fellas, it'd be awesome to see them in slo-mo
I hope he see this. Jumping Spider are fascinating.
yess I would love to see a video like this with jumping spiders! Their fangs come in so many different iridescent colors too!
I have been photographing insects and arachnids since 2010, exclusively natural photos on the living object.
I can halfway understand how time-consuming and nerve-wracking it can be to get the film sequences as desired. Thank you for the great shots!
I've been taking pictures of bugs with my phone for the last few years, and when I was trying to get super slow motion shots of bugs is very hard. I have some 960fps grasshoppers jumping, and ladybugs with their wings unfurling, and dragonflies mid-flight. My stills collection is ever growing though, and capturing a good picture is like filling out an entry to my pokedex because reverse image searches make it a lot easier to find out facts about the things I managed to photograph.
I wish I could afford a setup like this one so I could do some more science, but I also enjoy the challenge of trying to do so much with so little.
@@CeeJMantis thats really cool, I just started doing the same thing and thats why i just love going outside. unfortunately my phone does not have the greatest camera quality. I wanted to ask what phone do you use?
@@neobiagini8623 I currently use a Sony Xperia 1 II. It's a phone primarily designed around its camera. It's a few years old, and they're more recent ones have further expounded on this philosophy. Ideally, I would like to save some money and see what next year's pro version has to offer. I also keep my Xperia XZ2 Premium around for when I can catch something I want to later film in slow motion as it can do 960 FPS for extremely brief time frames.
They are good, but they are expensive.
I also know that the oppo find 3 has a 10x macro camera that has me intrigued too.
Agree... I did some DSLR macro in the past and had to stop because of neck problems. I still love it though.
Insects are so cute and their flight is some kind of art performance
True
I used to be terrified of all bugs before I met my husband, who loves insects and spiders, and knows more about them than your average entymologist! I am still scared of larger bugs, but he has shown me that you shouldn't squash bugs just because they're there. I see the beauty in bugs because of him. So thanks for making up close bug videos, it helps people admire insects instead of being scared.
Your footage is amazing and so revealing. We get to see something in a way that we could never see it before. And with you doing your filming against a black background, it does really help those hidden colors to pop out. Which makes your footage of the insects all the more beautiful. And I'm so glad to hear that your channel is growing. I think you will get much bigger than this, just wait and see. Thank you for sharing all your hard work with us. 😊👍
more bugs!! i love these videos so much, they're really interesting for art references too ^^
They look like flying dragons when put in slow motion
So beautiful and serene. These videos remind me of the beauty of the natural world and how inconsequential my problems and worries are
These are quite entrancing snippets of film. The critters have so much personality and style!
I love the Mantis feet. Swinging back and forth as she flies like a little kid on a swing. Having the time of her life. So cute! And you def fulfilled your goal of making the most awesome bug flight videos. They are so fun to watch and so breathtakingly beautiful! WTG Sir!
I can't get enough of your videos, it's so interesting to see all the details and vibrant colors. You really put a lot of effort into this, it's not only science but art.
I agree, love when science intersects with art (which happens often). They need each other to be complete.
My favorite insects to see in slow-motion like this are those with elytra, it's fun to see the wings unfold
Wonderful is the best word to discribe the incredible biodivesity of insects! How colourful, how complex!
Your therapeutic videos are underrated. I hope you get the exposure you deserve.
Your commentary really adds to the video, I really enjoyed the backgroud info about flightpatterns and springloaded knees and similarities between related groups.
You deserve so many more subscribers than mere 100.000. Your videos are fantastic!!!
I literally NEVER post a comment because I don't really care that much. THIS IS SUCH AN AMAZINGLY COOL video!
Love those stinkbugs. Really putting in all the effort to get going.
part of the 1% of the internet that deserves to exist and furthers human knowledge. Love these
It always amazes me just how fantastic nature's creatures are. I never knew just how intricate the flight function of these insects was until you filmed examples of said function with your techniques. Quite incredible.
The black background really lets you appreciate the stunning iridescence of their wings! Absolutely gorgeous!
I'm so happy you are over 100k subscribers! Well deserved recognition of the high quality of your videos. I always look forward to a new one, and rewatch some of your older ones because they are just so fascinating and well done. Oh, and educational as well!
I appreciate what you're doing, as an Entomology fan & student I'm happy to see more people are getting interested to capture this part of nature on video.
These insects are incredibly amazing! What a mystical sight you caught in every moment in this very video!
Professor you take the most amazing images of the insect. I just can’t tell you how much I appreciate all your work. Thank you
Fascinating footage and technically impressive. We have an interesting planthopper here in the UK (Issus coleoptratus), which I often photograph in the back garden, with a nymph stage whose rearmost leg pair are uniquely, mechanically geared to enable a very rapid jump. I bet these would make a great subject for a slowmo take-off.
I've got say, I've been loving arthropods since I was a little girl (spent many summer days and weekends chasing them around), but every video you put out just makes me fall deeper in love with them. It's amazing how something so tiny can be so magical and miraculous.
I love these videos because I love learning about insects they kinda fascinate me, they’re really cool and I’m thankful for your explaining on flight patterns and things like that
I am fascinated by how imperfect the movements and the flights are. These creatures are like little machines that are designed to just barely meet a minimum of performance, and no more!
Seeing a new video uploaded from you always makes me smile. c:
Your vids are so simple and informative but at the same time such good quality.
You can really feel all the effort that goes into these videos and the passion you
have for our cute little bug friends.
Keep it up.
I'm so happy someone is as fascinated as I am, and more willing to make these shots so beautiful. Don't stop, i love seeing more!
I used to chase the grasshoppers when I was a kid. Never knew they have a spring-loaded donkey kick! So cool! Thank you for these beautiful films. 🥰
the broad-headed sharpshooter was my favorite, it was so elegant and colorful, the bottom of their wings was beautiful as well.
Your work is phenomenal. My daughter is fascinated by all kinds of insects and your videos provide such a valuable and entertaining insight into insects' life for her. Thank you!
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.
I've always been obsessed with the micro world - as in -insects.
congrads with 100k sub, you are the best, thank you for showing us a different vision flying and jumping of insect!
These videos have really upped my appreciation for bugs
i love how you explained how a parasitoid wasp ejects their eggs into caterpillars with such calm music playing xD
Fantastic work ! Comparing the different flights during take-off will be so interesting, can't wait to read your future publications.
Absolutely beautiful! The black background makes the insects look even more stunning. I will happily watch all the bug videos you provide. I would subscribe twice if I could! 👍
A lot of work, science, patience and arts all in your work together.
Thank you for presenting such interesting and nice work.
I don't think the good doctor gets enough credit for his subtly-brilliant choice of music for his videos.
You and your lab deserve every subscriber you get! You all work your asses off and make intriguing content
Stephen Dalton - what a pioneer and, inspiration to so many people. I bought his book ‘Caught in Motion’ in (I think) the early 80’s and have been trying to mimic his results ever since. He’s still working at 85 and published a new book in 2020 titled ‘Capturing Motion : My Life in High Speed Nature Photography’. Your video is beautiful, thanks for posting it.
Your videos are the best thing ever. Much of my art work focuses on entomology. Being able to view your work helps me with color selection, wing and leg structure. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for your hard work and interest in these special critters. It really give me more of an appreciation to insects and more incentive to be careful around them. All Gods creatures deserve respect!
I love your videos. It's a relaxing healing moment to watch the beautiful insects and appreciate them with the nice music. I appreciate all the work you do on these videos
Congrats on passing 100K Subs. Always enjoy seeing these videos pop up on my feed.
As an artist, I feel so inspired by these bug videos!! Truly some fantastic designs out in nature
I could watch an entire disk of these creatures. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely adore your channel! Thank you so much for sharing all of that beauty with us!
Thanks for your work, Dr. Adrian! Having grown up in Raleigh and spending my youth in the Museum of Natural Sciences your videos remind me so much of home. I am so fascinated by insect morphology and your work has got me curious about the mechanisms by which insects have evolved to fly, crawl, skitter, and stride. I always look forward to your videos.
I'm so happy youtube recommended me this channel long ago. Congrats for the 100k
Amazing footage. These insects are true living art in flight.
Your all videos are magnifiscent, this one is no exception!
Thanks a lot for bringing such a marvel to us..
Thank you so much for taking us to the insect World. You can rarely see this kind of videos
I feel like you have opened a door to a formerly hidden realm of unexpected beauty with these humble bugs. It's so enjoyable. Thanks for sharing your work.
Thanks for sharing. I love seeing how you show all these different insects to us. And when you give us behind the scene details like where you got it from
Found one of those large black/yellow and white spiders had created a huge web sprawled across my brick outdoor grill. Grabbed a long coarse blade of grass and came up right underneath it and began to tickle it without damaging the web, stroking it gently sideways - not thru' the web itself; it immediately started jumping up/down but otherwise no movement. Its feet never left contact w/its web. The more I tickled it, the faster it went up and down and the web behaved like a gyrating trampoline; it was a hoot! Great fun! Several minutes of this was enjoyed by us both.
You have very quickly moved into my favorite TH-cam channel of all time
I'm so not surprised that you've reached the 100,000 sub milestone. You do extremely amazing work. I could watch all day. If I didn't have to work that is. 😊
Thank you so much for your work, its fabulous ! Its amazing, explanation, insects, music. Merci, its amazing. J’adore !
this footage is amazing, so breathtakingly beautiful, I adore this, and hope to see much more of this quality of content in the future!
It's amazing to me that you don't have hundreds of thousands of more subscribers. Not only is your camera footage phenomenal, but you give digestible information as well. This means that more people without an entomology background can easily understand the subject. Please continue with the great work you're doing! I can't wait to see more.
That's so sweet someone sent you that book!!! Bridging generations
I just found your channel, and have been binge watching your amazing insect flight videos. They are all fascinating.
Borne in the wind ... What beautiful illustrations
Grats on 100k subs! Thank you for all the bug videos :)
I just found your channel and I absolutely love it! I've always liked moths and beetles but your videos make me wanna found out more about other insects as well.
❤Thanks so much for the amazing shots and the interesting body mechanics, so helpful to my personal interest . Your videos are a unique education as well as sublimely beautiful.❤❤
Once while watching my hummingbird feeder hanging very close to the window , I noticed a green grasshopper hanging out near by. A wasp came to visit the feeder. As it took off the grasshopper sprang, latched on to the wasp and, I'm assuming, devoured it. ( they disappeared into the flowers. )
I was and still am awestruck. Amazing.
I love bugs.... most bugs.
I would love to see a video like this but about isopods. Like the rubber ducky, lemon blue or ghost isopods.I know they don't fly or jump but they way they crawl is interesting.
They're also pretty cute.
Congrats to 100k subsribers! Great videos, I love it!
would you ever consider making longer cuts available on patreon or somethin? I love these so much, I could watch them all day
Thank you for making this video! It’s amazing to see how beautiful bugs are. Now I want to go on a walk looking for some insects 😃🦗🐝🦋
Fantastic channel! So glad you are getting traction, love your work!
the colors the wings It’s so beautiful
Not a fan of bugs, but they are so freaking fascinating
You've got a unique gift man.
Yup, it is amazing people watch this. It's the quality of your work. How many people can fascinate large groups of youtubers who might otherwise be viewing action movies? 😎
Amazing, as always. Your videos are both mesmerizing and meditative.
From your friends in Fuquay-Varina, keep up the Great work.
thanks for sharing these beautiful videos, i dont think theres many videos like this out there. please keep up the amazing work
it's 10 am and bugs are making me feel things, this is beautiful and life is great
I'm autistic with heavy focus on insects, thank you very much for this channel, this is just amazing to me😁
I love the way the wasp splays its legs out, just fun to look at
fantastic. The world of this small animals looks perfect
I just realized that they are swimming. So beautiful
I love watching these videos so much, you are such an inspiration
I love watching bug videos with you!
Thank you for your mesmerizing videos. Wonderful!
I love what you do It has inspired me to go outside more and find these insane incests and more.
4:35 Unbelievable? Your videos are amazing, informative and best of all..free. You are headed for a million subs for sure.
thanks for making these videos. they're much appreciated ❣️
Fascinating video as usual. Thank you for sharing!
I liked your comment about the alien like appearance of the parasitic wasps. I took some amazing pictures of these outside my house at night, and I was struck by both how incredibly architecturally beautiful their structure is , and also the best candidates I've seen yet for an alien life movie:)
I would love to see you film earwigs in flight! They have an unusual wing folding technique, and most people don't even know that they CAN fly.
THEY FLY????
@@cryptidkisser4276 not often, but they do indeed.
Unbelievable my ass, I love insects and also your slo mo vids of them preforming. Thank you man.
Great stuff thanks AL, most enjoyable.
Here in the UK we only have the lacewing, the shield bug which I think you called a stink bug and a similarly shaped wasp with the long butt but more beautiful colours.
I liked the tank of the air description which also applies to the bumblebee, how those 2 species gets airborne really is magic. Do you have any bumble footage please?
One strange thing I heard was that there is no name for the back-end of the human knee yet the American bird grasshopper's is called the semi-lunar process, why didn't they just call it a hinged-knee-kick for example?
In my work on old properties (lime putty plasterer) I'm often finding very long yellow millipede's which must have about 20 pairs of legs and a really ancient species called silverfish, both of which like to live in the dark recesses of a house or old stone wall, do you also have any footage of flightless speedy critters like them?
Just great to see. Thank you so much for sharing. Wish you the best. 😙
Thank you. I share these with my wing surfing students so they understand how to pump (flap) their wing in the air coordinated with pumping the hydrofoil wing in the water for more power.
Beautiful series of movement studies, and obviously an immense lot of work! Looking at Stephen Dalton's photos, I was wondering whether it might be worth adding some off-camera axis backlighting, in order to further separate the wings from the black background?