This Insect Jumps Like Nothing Else on Earth!

We found some beetle larvae under the bark of a dead tree that perform very unusual spring-loaded jumps! It was so weird that we ended up doing a whole study on them and just submitted it for publication as a peer-reviewed science journal article. You can check out the pre-print (the version that is currently under review) of that research study here: Update Jan 19, 2022: this research is now out in a peer-reviewed journal article!: This wasn’t work just done by me! It is a collaborative study done with several scientists, who you can find and follow on twitter and elsewhere: Matt Bertone: Josh Gibson: Ainsley Seago: Takahiro Yoshida: Still images in this video by Matt Bertone & music licensed from