This Bug Has One Weird Thing in Common with Sharks

Check out Manta Sleep here https://tinyurl.com/54xsxtt4 and make sure to use bizarrebeasts for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap! Treehoppers are insects that live on trees and are good at jumping. They are also known for the incredibly weird shapes that come out of their backs that make them look like everything from tree thorns to tiny helicopters. Some of these adaptations might be for a very special kind of almost-metaphysical sensory perception. Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/biza... This month's pin is designed by Lucyola Langi. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://lucyola.myportfolio.com/home You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com Wondering if we used AI to create graphics (or thumbnails or scripts!) for this video? Nope! Every Complexly video is lovingly, painstakingly human-made. Find the full Ant Lab video here!    • Jumping Hoppers in SLOW MOTION!   Follow us on socials: Instagram:   / bizarrebeastsshow   Facebook:   / bizarrebeastsshow   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrebeast... #BizarreBeasts #treehoppers ----- Sources: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/anima... https://www.cell.com/current-biology/... https://www.australiangeographic.com.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreas... https://thesmallermajority.com/2014/1... https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/strang... https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/... https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcolle... https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.078741 https://www.si.edu/stories/beautiful-... http://treehoppers.insectmuseum.org/p... https://karubianlab.com/wp-content/up... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://communities.springernature.co... https://archive.org/details/generains... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9158... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155... https://doi.org/10.14411/EJE.2025.005 https://sicb.org/abstracts/sources-of... https://www.popsci.com/natural-select... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... https://www.nature.com/articles/21212... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d... https://wildcolumbia.org/wildlife-gui... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... ------ Images: Thumb images: https://www.inaturalist.org/observati...    • Is That a Helicopter or a Treehopper?   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y...