File:Drosera Capensis eating a fruit fly.webm
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English: Cape Sundew (Drosera Capensis) eating a fruit fly - time lapse. Here's a common carnivorous plant doing its thing with a fruit fly. Time-lapse HD video shot in macro at 1 frame per 90 seconds, over approximately six hours.
Français : Rossolis du Cap (Drosera Capensis) attrapant une mouche du fruit. Vidéo macro haute-définition à intervalles prise à la vitesse d'une image toutes les 90 seconds environ.
Deutsch: Kap-Sonnentau (Drosera capensis) bei der Erbeutung einer Fruchtfliege (Ceratitis capitata). Hochauflösende Zeitraffer-Aufnahme mit einem Makro etwa alle 90 Sekunden. |
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0i3A1Rnlng – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today with Youtube Creative Commons license Earlier versions at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/4472075464/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNNj_KNq-o |
| Author | Scott Schiller |
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This file was selected as the media of the day for 11 March 2016. It was captioned as follows:
English: Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) eating a fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). Time-lapse HD video shot in macro at 1 frame every ~90 seconds.
Other languages
Čeština: Masožravá rostlina rosnatka kapská (Drosera capensis) požírá hmyz vrtuli velkohlavou (Ceratitis capitata). Časosběrné HD video - jeden snímek přibližně každých 90 s. Deutsch: Kap-Sonnentau (Drosera capensis) bei der Erbeutung einer Fruchtfliege (Ceratitis capitata). Hochauflösende Zeitraffer-Aufnahme mit einem Makro etwa alle 90 Sekunden. English: Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) eating a fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). Time-lapse HD video shot in macro at 1 frame every ~90 seconds. Français : Rossolis du Cap (Drosera Capensis) attrapant une mouche du fruit. Vidéo macro haute-définition à intervalles prise à la vitesse d'une image toutes les 90 seconds environ. Македонски: Забрзана снимка на капска росилка (Drosera capensis) како јаде овошна мушичка (Ceratitis capitata).
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| current | 18:53, 9 July 2023 | 8.1 s, 3,264 × 1,832 (10.92 MB) | Bammesk | higher resolution, imported from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0i3A1Rnlng | |
| 18:30, 3 February 2016 | 8.1 s, 1,280 × 720 (2.29 MB) | Yann | Imported media from https://www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=4472075464 |
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