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The aerodynamics of flight in an insect flight-mill. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Predicting the dispersal of pest insects is important for pest management schemes. Flight-mills provide a simple way to evaluate the flight potential of insects, but there are several complications in relating tethered-flight to natural flight.
Gal Ribak, Shay Barkan, Victoria Soroker
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How insect flight steering muscles work. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2014 Insights into how exactly a fly powers and controls flight have been hindered by the need to unpick the dynamic complexity of the muscles involved. The wingbeats of insects are driven by two antagonistic groups of power muscles and the force is funneled ...
Anders Hedenström
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Remote radio control of insect flight [PDF]
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2009 We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free flight via an implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating system. The pronotum mounted system consisted of neural stimulators, muscular stimulators, a radio transceiver-equipped ...
Hirotaka Sato +9 more
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Surface tension dominates insect flight on fluid interfaces.
J Exp Biol, 2016 Flight on the two-dimensional air-water interface, with body weight supported by surface tension, is a unique locomotion strategy well adapted for the environmental niche on the surface of water.
Mukundarajan H +3 more
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Temperature and Morphology Affect the Performance and Cost of Flight in Spruce Budworm Females [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDispersal is a key process in the spatial and temporal dynamics of insect populations. Dispersal depends on the flight performance of individual insects, which is influenced by their environment, morphology, and physiological state.
Lucie Royer, Jacques Régnière
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Biological Characteristics and Energy Metabolism of Migrating Insects
Metabolites, 2023 Through long-distance migration, insects not only find suitable breeding locations and increase the survival space and opportunities for the population but also facilitate large-scale material, energy, and information flow between regions, which is ...
Xiaokang Li, Yan Zhou, Kongming Wu
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BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objective Insects are the most evolutionarily successful groups of organisms, and this success is largely due to their flight ability. Interestingly, some stick insects have lost their flight ability despite having wings.
Takuma Sakamoto +8 more
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A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 While engineers put lots of effort, resources, and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) that fly like insects, insects themselves are the real masters of flight. What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead?
T. Thang Vo-Doan +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Despite its deleterious impact on farming and agriculture, the physiology and energetics of insect migration is poorly understood due to our inability to track their individual movements in the field. Many insects, e.g.
Patil Jyothi +9 more
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Honeybees modify flight trajectories in turbulent wind
New Journal of Physics, 2022 In windy conditions, the air is turbulent. The strong and intermittent velocity variations of turbulence are invisible to flying animals. Nevertheless, flying animals, not much larger than the smallest scales of turbulence, manage to maneuver these ...
Bardia Hejazi +3 more
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