... to be efficacious and robust pollinators in these adverse environmental conditions. Bombus terrestris Biomechanics Control theory Insect flight Maneuverability Sensorimotor control Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003246 NWO/TTW.15039...

...Roni Maya; Noam Lerner; Omri Ben-Dov; Arion Pons; Tsevi Beatus ABSTRACT Understanding the mechanisms of insect flight requires high-quality data of free-flight kinematics, e.g. for comparative studies or genetic screens. Although recent improvements in high-speed videography allow us to acquire...

.... Summary: Honeybees use a modular vision-based control strategy to land robustly and precisely. This resembles the landing strategy of bumblebees, and might thus be commonly used by flying insects. Apis mellifera Insect flight Landing strategy Sensory-motor flight control Optical expansion...

... that abdomen flexion can inertially redirect the thorax to add constructively to wing steering efforts. Our work argues for considering the role of the abdomen in tethered insect flight experiments that use force/torque sensors . Taken together, the hawkmoth abdomen can regulate wing torques in free flight...

... of climbing flight kinematics among closely related butterfly species living in different strata reveals contrasted climbing flight ability, probably resulting from divergent flight behaviour and morphology. Animal locomotion Evasive manoeuvres Ecological specialisation Insect flight Wingbeat...

... evasive roll manoeuvres to avoid collisions. Collision avoidance Flight control Insect flight Neuroethology Obstacle detection Spatial vision Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 EG82/19-1 2117...

... damage in house flies progresses according to a logistic function, albeit with large inter-individual differences; animals can still fly with two-thirds of wing area remaining. Insect flight Loss of wing area Locomotor capacity Musca domestica Agence Nationale de la Recherche http...

... for steering. Insect flight Polarization vision Dorsal rim area Polarotaxis Navigation As a result of sunlight scattering in the atmosphere, the skylight is partially plane polarized and the celestial e-vectors are arranged in a concentric pattern around the sun ( Strutt, 1871 ; Wehner, 1997...

.../icb/36.6.537 Dickinson , M. H. , Lehmann , F. O. and Sane , S. ( 1999 ). Wing rotation and the aerodynamic basis of insect flight . Science   284 , 1954 - 1960 . 10.1126/science.284.5422.1954 Ellington , C. P. ( 1984 ). The aerodynamics of flapping animal flight...

...; reorientation is achieved within 6 wingbeats and hoverfly head rotation follows that of their body after a time lag of 16 ms. Syrphidae Episyrphus balteatus Insect flight Body orientation Halteres The righting reflex in animals has been investigated in a long series of experiments...

...-licence-1-1/ Summary: When flying in a flight mill, flies with constrained body pitch compensate external visual perturbations applied to their retinal slip by changing their flight speed. Visual control Optic flow Insect flight Locomotor constraint Flying insects rely heavily...

... knockdown in locust flight muscle prevents extended flight activity. RNAi Fatty acid binding protein Insect flight Lipid transport For many centuries, locusts have inflicted severe damage to human populations in African and Asian countries. Every few years, when weather conditions...

.... Biochem. Physiol. A Physiol.   116 , 223 - 238 . 10.1016/S0300-9629(96)00162-4 Dudley , R. ( 2002 ). The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution . Princeton University Press . Dudley , T. R. and Ellington , C. P. ( 1990 ). Mechanics of forward flight...

... found to voluntarily swing to assist with flight yaw rotation. Remote control of left–right turnings by inducing leg swings was demonstrated via a wireless electrical stimulator. Insect flight Neuromuscular stimulation Leg swing Remote radio control Physiology Electromyography...

... . J. Exp. Biol.   47 , 59 - 67 . Boettiger , E. G. and Furshpan , E. ( 1952 ). The mechanics of flight movements in Diptera . Biol. Bull.   102 , 200 - 211 . 10.2307/1538368 Bullard , B. and Pastore , A. ( 2011 ). Regulating the contraction of insect flight muscle...

...://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Highlighted Article: Long bristles on the wings of the smallest insects reduce the force required to ‘fling’ the wings apart while still maintaining lift. Insect flight Biomechanics Clap and fling Intermediate Reynolds numbers Computational fluid dynamics...

.... ( 2009 ). Wind tunnel tests for a flapping wing model with a changeable camber using macro-fiber composite actuators . Smart Mater. Struct.   18 , 024008 . 10.1088/0964-1726/18/2/024008 Miller , L. A. and Peskin , C. S. ( 2009 ). Flexible clap and fling in tiny insect flight .   J...

... influence on insect landing behavior and performance, with important implications for the design of micro aerial vehicles and the ecomechanics of insect flight. In still air, the landing angle changed significantly with flower orientation; bees approaching a perpendicularly oriented flower shifted...

...’ underwater using many of the same fluid dynamic ‘tricks’ that very small insects use to fly in air. Pteropods Zooplankton Swimming Weis-Fogh mechanism Insect flight Convergent evolution Zooplankton swim to find food and mates and to escape from and avoid predators. Indeed, in what...

...Samuel C. Whitehead; Tsevi Beatus; Luca Canale; Itai Cohen ABSTRACT Flapping insect flight is a complex and beautiful phenomenon that relies on fast, active control mechanisms to counter aerodynamic instability. To directly investigate how freely flying Drosophila melanogaster control their body...