Secondly, I found it pretty cool to see how their flight wasn't as controlled as I had thought of. It looked like a bit of a mess on take off. Again, just disarmed me from the moths I've grown to despise flying around the house.
Very cool to see them from a different perspective.
I had the same reaction, and it reminded me of other slo-mo videos of insects crawling -- it looked like they are falling all over themselves, with none of the gracefulness that I see in mammals (cheetah running, for example). I wonder if it has to do with insects having much smaller mass, hence they are more easily jerked around by things like airflow.
When the slow the windup of a baseball pitcher it also looks ungraceful.
I think their flight is a good representation of Douglas Adams' description of flight being falling without hitting the ground.
Such a great channel and good start to the day.
It seems like moths, and many other insects, throw themselves at everything and just miss most of the time.
In Polish the word for butterfly is "motyl" which comes from "motać" = to move around randomly, to struggle or to move in circles :)
BTW I always found it suspicious that "moth" is so similar to "motyl" yet it's apparently unrelated.
> BTW I always found it suspicious that "moth" is so similar to "motyl" yet it's apparently unrelated.
By the way, the phenomenon is called "false cognates": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognate
This vid, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iV4ISAY5U
Better than I remembered, but those legs are funny.
If we are pointing out random anecdotal examples, ice cubes melt slowly, and don't appear huge to the observer.
In the case of the avalanche, the force at work is the same (gravity) it's just that we are zooming way out and so crossing the same distance takes much more time.