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Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second

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'Whose day isn't gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow
rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?'

You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get
drawn to your lamplight and love nothing more than gnawing through
your well-worn knitwear. However, as this video from the Evolutionary
Biology and Behavior Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of
Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University shows, they can
also be quite majestic - especially when captured on 'fancy science
cameras'. Shooting seven different moth species at a whopping 6,000
frames per second (fps) - compared with the standard 24 fps for film
and television - the biologist Adrian Smith, who heads the research
lab, guides viewers through the incredible biophysics of moth flight.

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Video by Ant Lab

7 October 2021

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