These are springtails on the lid of my trash can.

这些是我垃圾桶盖子上的跳虫。

Totally at home amongst the glaciers of Everest, it scours the slopes for wind-borne prey such as springtails.

它们就在圣母峰的冰河间活动，它搜捕随风飘移的猎物，例如弹尾虫。

On land, the scientists flagged a mite, a springtail and several species of buttonweed plants as potential invaders.

在陆地，科学家将螨虫、跳虫和多种纽扣草族植物标注为潜在入侵者。

Springtails are tiny soil arthropods that launch themselves into the air to avoid predators, or in this case my finger.

跳虫是微小的土壤节肢动物，它们会将自己发射到空中以避开捕食者，或者在这种情况下是我的手指。

What's crazy is springtails aren't even close to the bug acceleration record.

疯狂的是跳伞甚至没有接近虫子的加速度记录。

Enough energy to send a springtail spinning at 374 flips per second–almost 40 times faster than a spinning helicopter rotor.

足够的能量使跳虫以每秒 374 次翻转的速度旋转——几乎比旋转的直升机旋翼快 40 倍。

On land, the scientists flagged a mite, a springtail and several species of buttonweed plants as potential invaders.

在陆地上，科学家们将一种螨虫、一种跳虫和几种纽扣草植物标记为潜在的入侵者。

But they just need to be fast enough to munch on these quick, jumpy insect-like creatures called springtails.

但它们只需要足够快就可以咀嚼这些被称为跳虫的快速、神经质的昆虫状生物。

A springtail's launching appendage is part of its exoskeleton, and it stores energy just like the spring on a mousetrap.

跳虫的发射附肢是其外骨骼的一部分，它像捕鼠器上的弹簧一样储存能量。

These springtails go really fast, really quickly, clocking an upwards acceleration of 700 meters per second squared, in a fraction of a second.

这些跳虫非常非常快，非常快，在几分之一秒内获得了每秒 700 米的向上加速度。

Springtail jumping hasn't been studied much so I collected those and brought them back here to the lab, to film them with this high-speed camera.

跳虫跳还没有怎么被被研究过，所以我收集了这些照片，并把它们带回实验室，用高速摄像机拍摄它们。

Filming them is a challenge, these springtails are tiny, so the best way to handle them is to push them around with a tiny paintbrush.

拍摄它们是一个挑战，这些跳虫很小，所以处理它们的最好方法是用小画笔推动它们。