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A Numerical Analysis of Dynamic Flight Stability of Hawkmoth Hovering
Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2009 A numerical analysis of dynamic flight stability of a hovering hawkmoth is presented. A computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method is used to simulate the unsteady flow about a realistic hawkmoth model and to compute the aerodynamic derivatives of the ...
Na GAO, Hikaru AONO, Hao LIU
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Achromatic Cues Are Important for Flower Visibility to Hawkmoths and Other Insects
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Studies on animal colour vision typically focus on the chromatic aspect of colour, which is related to the spectral distribution, and disregard the achromatic aspect, which is related to the intensity (“brightness”) of a stimulus.
Casper J. van der Kooi, Almut Kelber
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A new Ypsilopus (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) from Zimbabwe and notes on the parallel evolution of extreme column exsertion in African angraecoids [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Background and aims – A preliminary review of hawkmoth-pollinated angraecoids from Africa unveiled a remarkable case of parallel evolution of extreme column exsertion between the two species formerly classified in in the defunct genus Barombia.
João Farminhão, Phillip J. Cribb
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Discovering useful parts for pose estimation in sparsely annotated datasets [PDF]
, 2016 Our work introduces a novel way to increase pose estimation accuracy by discovering parts from unannotated regions of training images. Discovered parts are used to generate more accurate appearance likelihoods for traditional part-based models like ...
Betke, Margrit +3 more
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Schlieren photography on freely flying hawkmoth [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2018 The aerodynamic force on flying insects results from the vortical flow structures that vary both spatially and temporally throughout flight. Due to these complexities and the inherent difficulties in studying flying insects in a natural setting, a complete picture of the vortical flow has been difficult to obtain experimentally.
Yun Liu +3 more
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Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) Collected in Grand Traverse and Adjacent Counties, Michigan [PDF]
, 2018 Thirty-two (32) species of hawkmoths (Sphingidae) are reported from Grand Traverse and adjacent counties, Michigan, based on collecting carried out in 1979-1997 and an inventory of museum ...
Douglass, Andrew W +2 more
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Tomato Hornworm Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
EDIS, 2018 The tomato hornworm, Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth), is a common garden pest that feeds on plants in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family including tomato, peppers, eggplant, and potato.
Morgan A. Byron +1 more
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Sex- and tissue-specific expression of chemosensory receptor genes in a hawkmoth
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 For the nocturnal hawkmoth Manduca sexta, olfactory and gustatory cues are essential for finding partners, food, and oviposition sites. Three chemosensory receptor families, odorant receptors (ORs), ionotropic receptors (IRs), and gustatory receptors ...
Megha Treesa Tom +4 more
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Evolution and loss of long-fringed petals [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The Cucurbitaceae genus Trichosanthes comprises 90–100 species that occur from India to Japan and southeast to Australia and Fiji. Most species have large white or pale yellow petals with conspicuously fringed margins, the fringes sometimes ...
de Boer, Hugo J. +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2015 Vanda falcata is a species of orchid native to China, Korea and Japan. While it is arguably one of the most celebrated orchids in Japan there is no information on its pollinators. Although most species of the subtribe Aeridinae, to which V.
Kenji SUETSUGU +3 more
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