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Open BiologyInvasive insects inflict global costs of more than 70 billion USD annually by destroying crops and spreading disease-causing pathogens. Sterile insect technique (SIT), an insect population control method, involves the irradiation or chemical ...
Paola Najera +4 more
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Automated flight-interception traps for interval sampling of insects.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Recent debates on insect decline require sound assessments on the relative drivers that may negatively impact insect populations. Often, baseline data rely on insect monitorings that integrate catches over long time periods.
Janine Bolliger +3 more
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Insect learning flights and walks [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Knowledge of where things are in one's habitual surroundings cannot be encoded genetically and must be acquired in those surroundings. Many ants, bees and wasps forage from a home base and before doing so learn where resources are to be found and how to return with them to their nest.
Collett, Thomas S., Zeil, Jochen
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Cytochrome c Oxidase at Full Thrust: Regulation and Biological Consequences to Flying Insects
Cells, 2021 Flight dispersal represents a key aspect of the evolutionary and ecological success of insects, allowing escape from predators, mating, and colonization of new niches.
Rafael D. Mesquita +7 more
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Odorant binding proteins promote flight activity in the migratory insect, Helicoverpa armigera
Molecular Ecology, 2020 Migratory insects are capable of actively sustaining powered flight for several hours. This extraordinary phenomenon requires a highly efficient transport system to cope with the energetic demands placed on the flight muscles.
Shang Wang +9 more
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Computational aerodynamics of insect flight using volume penalization
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 2022 The state-of-the-art of insect flight research using advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques on supercomputers is reviewed, focusing mostly on the work of the present authors.
Engels, Thomas +4 more
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Wing Design in Flies: Properties and Aerodynamic Function
Insects, 2020 The shape and function of insect wings tremendously vary between insect species. This review is engaged in how wing design determines the aerodynamic mechanisms with which wings produce an air momentum for body weight support and flight control.
Swathi Krishna +4 more
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A six-degree-of-freedom proportional-derivative control strategy for bumblebee flight stabilization
Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2021 Flying insects perform active flight control with flapping wings by continuously adjusting their wing kinematics in stabilizing the body posture to stay aloft under complex natural environment.
Xuefei CAI, Hao LIU
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Leading-edge vortices in insect flight
Nature, 1996 INSECTS cannot fly, according to the conventional laws of aerodynamics: during flapping flight, their wings produce more lift than during steady motion at the same velocities and angles of attack1–5.
C. Ellington +3 more
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Flight-Fecundity Trade-offs: A Possible Mechanistic Link in Plant–Herbivore–Pollinator Systems
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Plant–herbivore and plant–pollinator interactions are both well-studied, but largely independent of each other. It has become increasingly recognized, however, that pollination and herbivory interact extensively in nature, with consequences for plant ...
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