... this variation relates to body length (BL) and its effects on aerodynamics remain unknown. We measured forewing images of 38 species of thrips and 21 species of fairyflies. Our phylogenetic comparative analyses showed that n and wingspan scaled positively and similarly with BL across both groups, whereas G / D...

...Arvind Santhanakrishnan; Alice K. Robinson; Shannon Jones; Audrey Ann Low; Sneha Gadi; Tyson L. Hedrick; Laura A. Miller The aerodynamics of flapping flight for the smallest insects such as thrips is often characterized by a ‘clap and fling’ of the wings at the end of the upstroke and the beginning...

...S. Sunada; H. Takashima; T. Hattori; K. Yasuda; K. Kawachi SUMMARY Thrips fly at a chord-based Reynolds number of approximately 10 using bristled rather than solid wings. We tested two dynamically scaled mechanical models of a thrips forewing. In the bristled design, cylindrical rods model...