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This is what a fly’s electric death looks like in slow motion

That one scene from A Bug’s Life isn’t so funny now, is it?

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Michelle Jaworski

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There are some things in nature that you don’t really need to see up close, like the death of a bug.

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Of course, if you’re like The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy, you’ll push past that gross factor for science, which is how they ended up placing a housefly next to an electric zapper. Their morbid curiosity overcomes all other impulses; they can’t stop watching what happens to the fly when he hits the zapper two separate times. Naturally, they caught it all in slow-mo fashion.

Poor Frederick never had a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJLgKkmllA

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Screengrab via The Slow Mo Guys/YouTube

 
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