... of object-tracking behavior, segregated by motion-detection circuitry. Feature detection Motion vision Visual behavior Tethered flight Fly flight Owing to robust behavioral reactions to salient objects by flying flies ( Reichardt and Wenking, 1969 ; Wehner, 1972 ), early work posited...

... where insects have been tethered. To address this issue, oxygen consumption was measured during tethered flight in adult locusts Locusta migratoria , some of which had a weight attached to each wing (totalling 30–45% of body mass). Mass-specific metabolic rate increased from 28±2 μmol O 2 g −1 h −1...