It would be great if real life could be like the films of Hayao Miyazaki, with food that looks just as delicious.
We absolutely adore the bugs that look like the ones in "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away."
The little guys are having the time of their lives in an insect dance-off.
Someone please tell me what they are, that's all I need. There was only one leaf on the path.
We're not making this up, the bugs are called beechboogie woogie aphids, and they were determined by the internet sleuths.
The partying fluffballs are a species of woolly beech aphid that feed off the sap of trees and can be found under the leaves. They are not thought to be harmful to their hosts, but they do leave behind a black, soot-like fungi on a tree's branches.
"So these are basically the white little spirits in 'Princess Mononoke,'" said one astute comment on the video.
The video shows the aphids shaking their derrieres to the air when they are disturbed by a predator.
The boogie woogie aphid's rear-end is only performed by its nymph siblings, according to a decade-old Scientific American article. The insects are very aggressive, and one 2001 study shows that.
That makes the dancing "less sweet fairy jig and more menacing war dance performed by children" funnier.
Don't let that get in the way of the good feelings.
The inventor of the cockroach says it will only be used for good.
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