The Tiger Beetle
Bonus clip from our episode "How To Pin An Insect" - enjoy the lil' tiger beetle! See the full episode here: http://youtu.be/MT5VGlSCtg4 ---------------------------------------- NEW BLOG!...
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- Alright, no broken legs! They're really the ninjas of the beetle world. You can find them in a lot of sandy forests, or around here you can find them in the Indiana Dunes. You really just have to make a little bit of a fool of yourself, sometimes, if you want to catch one 'cause they run really fast. They have really long legs, and they also fly pretty well. And so they'll run and then have spurts of flight. And you just have to scramble to try and catch one. - They can run like 5 and a half miles an hour, which is insane. That's an equivalent of a human trying to run 480 miles an hour. - And both the adults and the larvae are predatory. So the adults are obviously great at hunting, and the larvae are as well. They burrow themselves with just...
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- Alright, no broken legs! They're really the ninjas of the beetle world. You can find them in a lot of sandy forests, or around here you can find them in the Indiana Dunes. You really just have to make a little bit of a fool of yourself, sometimes, if you want to catch one 'cause they run really fast. They have really long legs, and they also fly pretty well. And so they'll run and then have spurts of flight. And you just have to scramble to try and catch one. - They can run like 5 and a half miles an hour, which is insane. That's an equivalent of a human trying to run 480 miles an hour. - And both the adults and the larvae are predatory. So the adults are obviously great at hunting, and the larvae are as well. They burrow themselves with just...
