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Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered
grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."
According to wikipedia,
Their flight speed is up to 5 m / s.
According to TFA at about 9 minutes 30 seconds in
These little insects, the same ones we see out here,2 inches long, 5cm long, flying in millions, 400 miles across the ocean...
to India.
400 miles is about 640,000 meters .3 of a day.
That would be about 128,000 seconds
Which is about
Pretty damn impressive.
No, really, please label the link as a link to a video. It's a PITA for me to watch videos, so I usually don't. But I guess if all you want to do is get page views, by all means, continue misleading users.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"