Go With the Flow (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
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Spittle Bugs - Can They Breathe the Atmospheric Oxygen?
A spittle bug is essentially a terrestrial air breath insect, but it produces this aquatic environment around itself. And so i was interested as to whether or not they could breathe the oxygen that's actually trapped within the tiny bubbles in the spittle mass. It turns out they preferentially snorkle. They breathe air, but they do so by sticking the tip of their abdomen. So essentially their butt they stick out of the foamy mass and they will breathe the atmospheric oxygen.
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