The link below points to an interesting and grounding info-graphic of the biomass of all different major lifeforms on Earth. Marine arthropods add up to more than 15 times the total weight of living matter compared to all the humans on the planet. However, and to our peril, we are catching up.
📌 Visualizing the Biomass of Life
But this time of year, just before they disappear, the terrestrial arthropods (insects, spiders) are congregating and roiling in the air in huge numbers, largely unseen. They become visible and important, in the right kind of light. And thought.
📌 Read The Biota of Visible Space where I share my thoughts.
NOTE: We talked here before about made-up words. Far as I know, many years ago and in this same fall changing of the guard, I used the made-up word, aeroplankton, to describe the insects so tiny they were buoyed up by the air, like water supports phytoplankton in the seas. And so it was not a one-off use. The word came immediately to mind, a part now of my odd vocabulary of experience, whimsy and sheer laziness to find a better existing word.
Your telescope video and the biomass graphics were both very interesting.