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The leafhopper larva shook up the scientific world in 2013 because it was discovered at Cambridge University that these little guys use gears like those on a bike  or a grandfather clock.

The tiny leafhoppers have very small toothed gears sloped in one direction connecting their two jumping legs.  How big are the gears? 

The leafhopper larva accelerates at an astonishing 400g’s. This would break a person’s bones and burst all his blood vessels

The baby leafhopper is a little superman. It  jumps 30 times its body length which would be like us jumping 8 city blocks–half a mile–in single leap. 

Leafhopper larva do this so fast–in 30 thousandths of a second–that their nerves can’t synchronize their two back legs.

In 2013 scientists discovered that juvenile leafhoppers have the first observed gears found in nature.  (Juvenile leafhoppers are the same as leafhopper larva.)

Adult leafhoppers don’t have the gears. However, it’s believed that, like Olympians, they use what to gain the same effect? 

The legs lock into each other like a car’s automatic transmission and the teeth spin by each other at the blazing speed of how many teeth/second? 

The leafhopper larva can molt what and get snazzy new gears?

Scientists hope that by studying these bug biomechanics that they will one day be able to make incredibly sophisticated leaping robots.