Insects are the only group of invertebrates that have evolved wings and flight. Insects first flew in the Carboniferous, some 300 to 350 million years...
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invertebrates that can achieve sustained powered flight; insect flight evolved just once. Many insects are at least partly aquatic, and have larvae with...
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many orders of insects. Physically, some insects move their flight muscles directly, others indirectly. In insects with direct flight, the wing muscles...
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crustaceans. The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period one lineage of insects evolved flight, the first animals...
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kingdom, each of which requires a transformation into a different insect. "Flight of the Bumblebee" is recognizable for its frantic pace when played...
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insects can fly as adults. Insect flight makes use of either of two basic aerodynamic models: creating a leading edge vortex, found in most insects,...
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Flying and gliding animals (redirect from Animal flight)
in insect flight, making it even more complex and difficult to study than the flight of vertebrates. There are two basic aerodynamic models of insect flight...
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Torkel Weis-Fogh (section Insect flight)
contributions to the understanding of insect flight, especially the clap and fling mechanism used by very small insects. James Lighthill named this "the Weis-Fogh...
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Insect thermoregulation is the process whereby insects maintain body temperatures within certain boundaries. Insects have traditionally been considered...
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Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other...
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Antoine Magnan (section Insect flight)
the flight of insects and birds for possible lessons to apply to powered flight. He is best known for a remark in his 1934 book Le Vol des Insectes ("Insect...
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Coriolis force (section Insect flight)
appendages are detected within the rotating frame of reference of the insects' bodies. In the case of flies, their specialized appendages are dumbbell...
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Asynchronous muscles (section Insect flight)
asynchronous muscles respond slowly to neural stimulus. In the case of insect flight, electrical stimulation alone is too slow for muscle control. For Cotinus...
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nervous systems, as well as sensory organs, temperature control, flight and molting. An insect uses its digestive system to extract nutrients and other substances...
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Halteres (category Insect anatomy)
on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight. Insects of the large order Diptera (flies) have...
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Cyborg (redirect from Cyborg insect)
Microsystem Platform Inserted During Early Metamorphosis to Actuate Insect Flight Muscle. 20th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical...
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Bumblebee (category Insects in culture)
slowly as a bee in flight would be much less than the weight of a bee."Dickinson, M (2001). "Solving the mystery of insect flight". Scientific American...
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Thrips (category Agricultural pest insects)
and nonreproductive soldier castes. Most insects create lift by the stiff-winged mechanism of insect flight with steady state aerodynamics; this creates...
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Insectivore (redirect from Insect predator)
doi:10.1130/G31182.1. Dudley, Robert (2002). "Flight and the Pterygote Insecta". The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, function, evolution. Princeton University...
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CROSSBRIDGES FROM TOMOGRAMS OF INSECT FLIGHT MUSCLE 1o19: MOLECULAR MODELS OF AVERAGED RIGOR CROSSBRIDGES FROM TOMOGRAMS OF INSECT FLIGHT MUSCLE 1o1a: MOLECULAR...
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maneuvers such as 360-degree flips. One of its uses is in studying insect flight; mimicking the extremely fast escape maneuvers of fruit flies revealed...
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CROSSBRIDGES FROM TOMOGRAMS OF INSECT FLIGHT MUSCLE 1o19: MOLECULAR MODELS OF AVERAGED RIGOR CROSSBRIDGES FROM TOMOGRAMS OF INSECT FLIGHT MUSCLE 1o1a: MOLECULAR...
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Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms, "crickets"...
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Aerodynamics (redirect from Subsonic flight)
the ball using the "Magnus effect". Aeronautics Aerostatics Aviation Insect flight – how bugs fly List of aerospace engineering topics List of engineering...
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both flight's importance in avoiding predators and its extreme demand for energy. Birds portal Flight call Flying and gliding animals Insect flight List...
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Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insect)
as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...
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Insect traps are used to monitor or directly reduce populations of insects or other arthropods, by trapping individuals and killing them. They typically...
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Insects have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as "Blue-tailed Fly" and the folk song La Cucaracha...
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Butterfly (category Insects in culture)
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together...
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Wing coupling (category Insect anatomy)
as "functionally dipterous" (effectively two-winged) for efficient insect flight. All but the most basal forms exhibit this wing coupling.: 4266 The...
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