Drosera scorpioides with a beatle timelapse
3,966 views · Published 1 March 2010 · 0:18 · Indexed 17 October 2026
Channel: ThatNaturalistGuy · 2010 · Science & Technology
The life and death struggle of a small beatle on a pygmy sundew leaf. D scorpiodes has extremly sensitive tentacles which can detect insects touching them, they move to glue the insect in place. Several important things you should know: The battery ran out on the camera and the beatle got away! Photos taken over 35 minute's which is compressed into 17 seconds video by taking 1 frame around every 12 second's and turned into a video using Jordan Running's useful little program MakeAVI.
