... 2 2014 30 3 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Flight control Manduca sexta Wings Abdominal deflection Sensorimotor processing Flying insects require mechanosensory information to reject environmental perturbations and execute maneuvers...

... the maximum abdominal deflection for each impulse. Impulses were selected for analysis only if the abdomen was contacted for a single frame. For trials measuring the passive properties of the joint, the (damped) natural frequency was calculated by measuring the time between subsequent peaks or troughs...