Video Of White, Furry "Boogie-Woogie" Insects Dancing Around Leaf Stuns Internet - NDTV

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Video Of White, Furry 'Boogie-Woogie' Insects Dancing Around Leaf Stuns Internet

The clip accumulated much than 78,000 upvotes and astir 4,000 comments.

A video showing unusual white, furry bugs seemingly dancing astir a leafage is going viral connected societal media. The video, posted connected Reddit a fewer days back, showed the insects - covered successful stringy achromatic fur - moving backmost and distant and waving their hair-like filaments successful the air.

"Found immoderate tiny unusual bugs dancing astir a leafage portion hiking. Someone, delight archer maine what the heck they are? They were connected a walking way lone astir 1 azygous leaf," work the caption of the post.

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Since being shared, the clip accumulated much than 78,000 upvotes and astir 4,000 comments. Internet users were near stunned by the show of the unusual bugs. While immoderate explained that the insects seemed to beryllium beech blight aphids, besides known arsenic 'boogie-woogie' aphids, others simply called the video "creepy".

"Known affectionately arsenic the 'boogie-woogie aphids,' erstwhile a colony of beech blight aphids is disturbed, they'll assistance their fuzzy posteriors precocious successful the aerial and pulse them successful unison arsenic a informing to predators," explained 1 user. "Ew thats creepy," wrote another.

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Meanwhile, arsenic per Newsweek, 'boogie-woogie' aphids are recovered crossed the United States. They look similar miniature woolly sheep arsenic their bodies are covered with glands that nutrient long, white, waxy strands. Their diagnostic "dancing", arsenic seen successful the video, is really a defence mechanism.

"Their waggling warns others of danger, but the young aphids volition really onslaught and wound imaginable predators. To bash so, they usage their piercing mouthparts, a benignant of straw they usage to provender connected sap," explained Francois Brassard, an insect ecology researcher astatine Charles Darwin University successful Australia. Mr Brassard besides warned that these dancing bugs should not beryllium touched. If bitten, the waxy strands clog the pharynx of a predator who yet starves, helium said.

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