Source. Earlier researchers had investigated how some of nature’s most prolific jumpers (such as the tiny froghopper, an insect that can jump 115 times its body length) manage to propel ...

is the fastest animal on Earth.

While the muscle in the human body is limited to about 100 watts per kilogram of power, insects use springs to bypass that limit. The springs in the legs of a froghopper can generate 65,000 watts per ...

The sugarcane industry is not exempt from challenges in the field. Smut and froghopper are threats to the industry which farmers largely have under control, but a fungal disease that has infected ...