Norm MacDonald's moth joke is pretty much OT but then again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD3pT8C9-A
Moths in slow motion [video]
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#62I don't know what it is, but I get a weird, visceral, wincing reaction seeing bugs up close like this. Bugs are a real weakness for me. I don't get put off by blood at all. I can handle (and in fact enjoy) gore in movies, horror movies, etc. But man, I don't know what it is with insects. Their tiny spindly legs, weird beady eyes, the wings, their hair, their antennae. Can't stand looking at it. Fascinating creatures,…
When I was young, I was also afraid of insects, especially flying ones. But I've read somewhere that you are afraid of animals if you don't see what they are thinking. Take for example dogs or cats, you can easily see what they are "thinking", by their movement, ears, tails... Insects are so small that you can't see that, you don't know where they are looking, or if they are afraid or not. Looking at macro photograph…
I have something similar with cows. I can't read their intentions. If I am walking in a field with them it just seems like they are always 'mildly annoyed by my presence' and yet they will amble straight at you. And they are big and heavy enough to do damage if they need to.
Horses on the other hand, are a lot more nervous, but I can read them and I can 'manipulate' them. They are probably more dangerous, but they are less scary to me.
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#63This made me feel so much better about moths. With the video so close up they looked super cute and snuggly. Something I have never associated with a moth before. 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…
Don't even look at bees landings in slow-motion :)
Re: Moths in slow motion [video]
#64I don't know what it is, but I get a weird, visceral, wincing reaction seeing bugs up close like this. Bugs are a real weakness for me. I don't get put off by blood at all. I can handle (and in fact enjoy) gore in movies, horror movies, etc. But man, I don't know what it is with insects. Their tiny spindly legs, weird beady eyes, the wings, their hair, their antennae. Can't stand looking at it. Fascinating creatures,…
I really don't like moths and their unpredictable flight patterns.
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#65This made me feel so much better about moths. With the video so close up they looked super cute and snuggly. Something I have never associated with a moth before. 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…
There were videos floating on the webs of bugs taking flight—looked way messier than this, pretty much jumbling around with legs swinging this and that way, until finally going in the air.
This vid, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iV4ISAY5U
Better than I remembered, but those legs are funny.
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#66It looks like a lot of effort for not very much aerodynamic return. How far do these moths fly? How often, and what for?
IIRC most moths can't even eat, so their only purpose in that stage of life is to mate and lay eggs.
Yeah, Richard Dawkins finally cleared it up for me that the primary stage of insects like butterfly is the larva. The larva sits around eating stuff and generally having a good time, whereas after turning into the butterfly it's gonna just mate and die.
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#67This made me feel so much better about moths. With the video so close up they looked super cute and snuggly. Something I have never associated with a moth before. 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…
> I found it pretty cool to see how their flight wasn't as controlled as I had thought of. 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.
Heh, TIL this connection, it never occurred to me before. In Czech it is motýl and to motal means to walk as if you are drunk :)
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#68They look like tiny dragons :)
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#70This is mind-boggling, to think how the flight is almost perfect, I could not even imagine how evolution could work such wonders considering this is a 6000 fps shot. This is some insane level optimization for my brain to understand
Absolutely lovely!