... provided that the original work is properly attributed. Bee vision Bombus terrestris Insect flight Optic expansion Optic flow Sensory-motor control Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100021675 Dr. J.L...

... Gordon , S. and Dickinson , M. H. ( 2006 ). Role of calcium in the regulation of mechanical power in insect flight . Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103 , 4311 - 4315 . 10.1073/pnas.0510109103 Hedenström , A. ( 2014 ). How insect flight steering muscles work . PLoS Biol. 12...

... can still land precisely on artificial flowers, allowing them to be efficacious and robust pollinators in these adverse environmental conditions. Bombus terrestris Biomechanics Control theory Insect flight Maneuverability Sensorimotor control Nederlandse Organisatie voor...

...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...

... . Evolution 70 , 181 - 194 . 10.1111/evo.12842 Combes , S. A. and Dudley , R. ( 2009 ). Turbulence-driven instabilities limit insect flight performance . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 , 9105 - 9108 . 10.1073/pnas.0902186106 Crall , J. D. , Ravi , S...

... extensively used in several studies involving insect flight (e.g. Ravi et al., 2016 ) and is identical to that described in other studies (e.g. Doussot et al., 2021 ). Saccades were identified using the two-threshold method similar to Doussot et al. (2021) and Riabinina et al. (2014) where the yaw rate...

...-steady aerodynamic theory in insect flight links lift production to wing area and characteristic wing velocity. Previous studies suggested maximum lift production in insects of twice the body weight ( Lehmann and Dickinson, 1998 ; Marden, 1987 ). We thus predicted that an area loss of more than ∼50...

... 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...

... pteropod Cuvierina   atlantica generates thrust by using a novel cylindrical ‘overlap-and-fling’ maneuver twice during each wingstroke. Leading edge vortex Pteropod PIV Soft robotics Flexible Insect flight The aerodynamics of flapping flight by insects, birds and other organisms...

...; 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...

... mill, is controlled by body pitch and a collection of wing kinematic variables. Insect flight Flapping flight Calliphora Helicopter model Flies are eminent miniature flyers that exercise stable and agile flight over a large flight envelop ( Beatus et al., 2015 ; Fry et al., 2003...

... in flight by swinging the forelegs via a remote electrical stimulator. As the wings are the dominant mechanism for controlling insect flight ( Chapman et al., 2012 ), the present study indicates that the outstretched foreleg plays a supplemental role in steering during flight. References...

.... Miniaturization Biomechanics Asynchronous muscles Insect flight Gear box Clutch mechanism Mechanical linkages Insects are by far the most successful metazoan taxa and represent over 60% of all animals on earth ( Zhang, 2013a ). With nearly a million species already described and putative estimates...

...://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. * These authors contributed equally to this work ‡ Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests...