...Henja-Niniane Wehmann; Lars Heepe; Stanislav N. Gorb; Thomas Engels; Fritz-Olaf Lehmann ABSTRACT Mechanical properties of insect wings are essential for insect flight aerodynamics. During wing flapping, wings may undergo tremendous deformations, depending on the wings’ spatial stiffness...

... the course of individual development in pupae and adult insects, in order to understand at what stage of development the centrioles change their structure. Plotting and calculation of the standard deviation and t -test analysis to statistically assess the reliability of differences in size between...

... methods for control of insect pests such as bed bugs. Low-vacuum scanning electron microscope (LV-SEM) imaging was performed on a Quanta 3D FEG Dual Beam SEM (FEI, Hillsboro, OR, USA) at 0.6 mbar and 5 kV. Bed bugs examined in LV-SEM were glued onto SEM stubs with an acrylic mounting system (VariDur...

... Gromphadorhina portentosa . The attachment of the non-manipulated adhesive organs was compared with that of manipulated ones (depletion or substitution by artificial secretions). From measurements of the friction on a centrifuge, it can be concluded that on nanorough surfaces, the insect appears to benefit from...

...Lucas F. Bianchini; Chris M. Wood; Harold L. Bergman; Ora E. Johannsson; Pierre Laurent; Claudine Chevalier; Mosiany L. Kisipan; Geraldine D. Kavembe; Michael B. Papah; Kevin V. Brix; Gudrun De Boeck; John N. Maina; Rodi O. Ojoo; Adalto Bianchini ABSTRACT Insect larvae are reported to be a major...

...Yuji Matsuoka; Tetsuya Bando; Takahito Watanabe; Yoshiyasu Ishimaru; Sumihare Noji; Aleksandar Popadić; Taro Mito In insect species that undergo long germ segmentation, such as Drosophila , all segments are specified simultaneously at the early blastoderm stage. As embryogenesis progresses...

...Kristen A. Panfilio; Georg Oberhofer; Siegfried Roth Summary Insect embryos complete the outer form of the body via dorsal closure (DC) of the epidermal flanks, replacing the transient extraembryonic (EE) tissue. Cell shape changes and morphogenetic behavior are well characterized for DC...