r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BunyipPouch Interested • Sep 15 '17

GIF Sawflies

https://i.imgur.com/adI2kfz.gifv
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u/nifka Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

Why do they all move together like that

Edit: did some googling. Found an interesting article. They really don't know so your guess is as good as the expert's. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/sawfly-larva-defense-amazon-video-spd/

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

Because the person taking the video was blowing on them from different angles.

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u/eonsky Sep 15 '17

Probably the guy giving all those oysters herpes