{"id":778,"date":"2003-08-05T04:09:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T04:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"fleas-dethroned-as-jumping-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"fleas dethroned as jumping champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the Insect Olympics, the froghopper, also known  as the spittlebug, has just set the world record for the high jump. The  tiny, thumbtack-sized insect can reach heights of 70 centimeters (more  than 2 feet), equivalent to a man leaping 700 feet, reports Malcolm  Burrows of University of Cambridge in England in the July 31 <em>Nature.<\/em> Burrows used a high-speed camera to study the bug&#8217;s jumping mechanism.  In hopping, the insect can accelerate to more than 400 times the force  of gravity as its immensely powerful hind legs explosively release  stored energy, catapulting it into the air. These legs are used  exclusively for jumping and are merely dragged along the ground during  walking. According to Burrows, the froghoppers exceed &#8220;the height jumped  by the flea relative to body length,&#8221; accelerate four times faster than  fleas, and exert triple the force in jumping. &#8220;Fleas are considered to  be the champion jumpers, but here I show that froghoppers are in fact  the real champions,&#8221; he writes. Go froghoppers! <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/05\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Insect Olympics, the froghopper, also known as the spittlebug, has just set the world record for the high jump. The tiny, thumbtack-sized insect can reach heights of 70 centimeters (more than 2 feet), equivalent to a man leaping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=778\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}