Insect Collision
The 10th-place winner, taken by Murat Öztürk in Ankara, Turkey. Though it might be hard to tell, this shows a fly nestled under the chin of a tiger beetle. One species of tiger beetle, the Australian tiger beetle (Cicindela hudsoni) is considered the fastest known insect, clocking in with a max speed of 5.5 miles per hour, or at a relative speed as high as 171 body lengths per second. Put another way, if a human could match that many body lengths per second, they’d be close to breaking the speed of sound.
