Dragonflies Captured Catching Fruit Flies in Mid-Air With High Speed Cameras

Posted on October 3, 2011

Stacey Combes, a Harvard University biomechanist, and her team are using high speed cameras to study how dragonflies pull off complicated aerial feats that include hunting and mating in mid-air. The dragonflies capture fruit flies with their feet in mid-air and return to their perch in about a second. Dragonflies have great vision as eyes make up almost their entire heads. They dragonflies caught about 90% to 95% of the fruit flies released by the researchers. Take a look:

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