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Aseasonal, undirected migration in insects: 'Invisible' but common

iScience
Summary: Many insect pests are long-distance migrants, moving from lower latitudes where they overwinter to higher latitudes in spring to exploit superabundant, but seasonally ephemeral, host crops.
Thomas W. Sappington
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Bees with attitude: the effects of directed gusts on flight trajectories

Biology Open, 2018
Flight is a complicated task at the centimetre scale particularly due to unsteady air fluctuations which are ubiquitous in outdoor flight environments.
Timothy Jakobi, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Teruaki Ikeda, Simon Watkins, Alex Fisher, Hao Liu, Sridhar Ravi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gap junctions desynchronize a neural circuit to stabilize insect flight. [PDF]

Nature, 2023
Hürkey S, Niemeyer N, Schleimer JH, Ryglewski S, Schreiber S, Duch C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The irreversibility of complex trait loss has long been a tenet of evolutionary biology. However, this idea is increasingly at odds with the numerous documented exceptions across the Tree of Life. We synthesise this growing body of evidence across a diverse array of taxa and traits, exploring the evolutionary conditions that enable ...
Giobbe Forni, Giuseppe Fusco, Filippo Nicolini, Heather Bruce, Andrea Luchetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pruning deep neural networks generates a sparse, bio-inspired nonlinear controller for insect flight. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol, 2022
Zahn O, Bustamante J, Switzer C, Daniel TL, Kutz JN.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Genomewide transcriptional signatures of migratory flight activity in a globally invasive insect pest [PDF]

, 2015
Migration is a key life history strategy for many animals and requires a suite of behavioural, morphological and physiological adaptations which together form the migratory syndrome'.
Jones, C. M., Papanicolaou, Alexie, Singh, Kumar S., Papanicolaou, A., Mironidis, G. K., Jones, Christopher M., Bass, C., Yang, Y., Vontas, J., Vontas, John, Yang, Yihua, Bass, Christopher, Lim, K. S., Chapman, J. W., Oakeshott, J. G., Lim, Ka S., Bass, Chris, Oakeshott, John G., Chapman, Jason W., Mironidis, George K., Papanicolaou, Alexie (R18102)   +20 more
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A mosaic of microclimates: biodiversity outcomes and wildlife habitat potential in large‐scale solar facilities

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid global expansion of photovoltaic (PV) solar facilities, now comprising nearly 80% of the recent and projected growth of renewable electricity, represents one of the most significant land‐use changes of the 21st century. While PV facilities are critical for decarbonising energy systems, their large spatial footprint and infrastructure
Tom Armstrong, Caleb L. Loughran, Joshua R. Ennen, Kristoffer H. Wild, Eric J. Nordberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The imitating flapping behaviour of mosquito using flexible wing model

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2015
The mosquito's wing is deforming during flapping stroke and the pitching angle is changed. The motion called “feathering motion” is considered that the wing is deformed passively by the aerodynamic force. But it is not established yet. In this paper,
Atsushi KASE, Yuki KATOH, Naoyuki YOSHIDA, Tsutomu TAJIKAWA, Kiyoshi BANDO   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A semi-empirical model of the aerodynamics of manoeuvring insect flight. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2021
Walker SM, Taylor GK.
europepmc   +1 more source