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.
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Bridging two insect flight modes in evolution, physiology and robophysics. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Since taking flight, insects have undergone repeated evolutionary transitions between two seemingly distinct flight modes^ 1 – 3 . Some insects neurally activate their muscles synchronously with each wingstroke.
Gau J +5 more
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Gap junctions desynchronize a neural circuit to stabilize insect flight. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Insect asynchronous flight is one of the most prevalent forms of animal locomotion used by more than 600,000 species. Despite profound insights into the motor patterns^ 1 , biomechanics^ 2 , 3 and aerodynamics underlying asynchronous flight^ 4 , 5 , the ...
Hürkey S +5 more
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A semi-empirical model of the aerodynamics of manoeuvring insect flight. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2021 Blade element modelling provides a quick analytical method for estimating the aerodynamic forces produced during insect flight, but such models have yet to be tested rigorously using kinematic data recorded from free-flying insects.
Walker SM, Taylor GK.
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A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight [PDF]
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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Insect Flight Energetics and the Evolution of Size, Form, and Function. [PDF]
Integr Comp BiolSynopsis Flying insects vary greatly in body size and wing proportions, significantly impacting their flight energetics. Generally, the larger the insect, the slower its flight wingbeat frequency.
Darveau CA.
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Temperature, not net primary productivity, drives continental-scale variation in insect flight activity. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciThe amount of energy available in a system constrains large-scale patterns of abundance. Here, we test the role of temperature and net primary productivity as drivers of flying insect abundance using a novel continental-scale data source: weather ...
Tielens EK, Kelly J.
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Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Diffraction Techniques Applied to Insect Flight Muscle. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2018 X-ray fiber diffraction is a powerful tool used for investigating the molecular structure of muscle and its dynamics during contraction. This technique has been successfully applied not only to skeletal and cardiac muscles of vertebrates but also to ...
Iwamoto H.
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Predicting forest insect flight activity: A Bayesian network approach. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 Daily flight activity patterns of forest insects are influenced by temporal and meteorological conditions. Temperature and time of day are frequently cited as key drivers of activity; however, complex interactions between multiple contributing factors ...
Pawson SM, Marcot BG, Woodberry OG.
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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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