Dandelions are everywhere this time of year
And usually the last thing you want to do is blow them and spread the seeds
Unless you're a kid
But as it turns out dandelions are one of the most
Vital early spring nectar sources for a wide host of pollinators
Including bees
And if you are in a pinch they are edible
What this means is from the time bees and other insects
Are coming out of their overwintering
Until the flowers bloom
Dandelions fill that Gap
When they are looking for nectar sources as fuel
When they are flying around exploring
Think of it as like a fuel stop
And kids love them
We're here at the lakefront today
Is it cold a little bit 52 degree water
And there are dandelions everywhere
The other day I was on a nature walk
And I saw somebody pick and blow a dandelion
I thought to myself well that would look really cool in slow motion
Especially if we got really really close
It's as simple as that
first thing I'm going to do before pulling out the heavy equipment
Is have my little assistant Nancy
Blow and dandelion while I do a quick slow motion video
With my cell phone to give you an idea just how fast this happens
This one looks really good look its super fluffy
Right there oh pick that one
let me get a second I have to focus stay right there
Go
The price of high-speed cameras has been justified
That wasn't that easy to film the phone was having a hard time focusing
And it just look okay
But looking at the slow-motion footage of the phone and gives us an idea
Just how fast this happens
Because as amazing as it looked being a cell phone
It still happened way too fast
So it's time for me to bust out the high speed camera
Get it all set up and film some dandelions in 4k slow motion
Let's see if I can make it look amazing
And you're going to blow it this way okay you got it.
Here you ready? here we go
Okay go
Wow that was fantastic yeah that looked good give me five.
all right so that looked, that looked pretty good
Even at a thousand frames per second it still happened pretty fast
So I'm going to do this one more time just closer and slower
and see if we can see how the actual seeds are coming off of the
I don't know what this is called whatever this is called here
But I though that looked pretty cool and then we're going to move on
Well there you go that was a little bit slower and a little bit closer
I thought it looked pretty cool
and that's what dandelions filmed in 4k slow motion looks like
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