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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 01-09-2006 13:50
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
LOL http://www.youtub...LG7NKBK98M Not scientific, just for fun.  How can they do get this?? Is it video manipulation? A very good manipulation. I saw with more care, and I think they use some kind of string. DO you agree? Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 01-09-2006 14:22 |
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| crex |
Posted on 01-09-2006 15:57
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Hehe, I don't know if that's for real. Looks like Tabanidae ...? |
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| conopid |
Posted on 01-09-2006 18:51
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Excelent! I don't know how they did it, but that is just brilliant!!
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 02-09-2006 19:23
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7193 Joined: 19.11.04 |
I haven't worked out how they get the tabanids to roll over (though I have a few ideas), but once on its back, there are a couple of ways to keep it there [a dab of quick-set glue, or a sticky tab]. Once it's stuck on its back, the ball-rolling is straightforward. All insects will hold a ball and walk "on" it (thus turning the ball round and round). No, it's getting them to roll over that's the tricky bit ... I think it may be to do with magnets... Please keep this thread going until we find the answer - I don't want to lie awake every night trying to work out how it's done! 
Edited by Tony Irwin on 02-09-2006 19:24 Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| mwkozlowski |
Posted on 25-10-2006 09:08
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 Member Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 751 Joined: 17.10.06 |
I photographed a tabanid doing the sam (laynig on its back), so it has got inclination to do that; but how to put this "spell" on it???
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 25-10-2006 12:35
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1799 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Hmm - I suspect this one is just drunk.
Susan |
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but don't see the image in the post.