Amazing Earwig Wings in Action

Earwigs and 10 other insect species captured flying in slow motion at 6, 000 frames per second. 00:00 Shore earwig Labidura riparia 01:47 Tree cricket Oecanthus sp. 02:12 Northern Caddisfly family Limnephilidae 02:39 Giant Casemaker Caddisfly family Phryganeidae 03:00 Oak Treehopper Platycotis vittate 03:15 green Treehopper Archasia belfragei 04:05 wheel bug Arilus cristatus 04:47 Hairyeyed Crane Fly Pedicia sp. 05:25 Yellowcollared Scape Moth Cisseps fulvicollis 05:59 Roadside Sallow Moth Metaxaglaea viatical 06:33 Brachonid wasp subfamily Cheloninae Diagram of earwig wing folding is modified from: Haas, Gorb, Wootton. 2000. Elastic joints in dermapteran hind wings: materials and wing folding. Arthropod Structure Development, 29: 2, 137146. Music licensed from