Insect-flight experts have long assumed that the smaller the insect, the faster it beats its wings; but in the case of honeybees, the creature -- technically known as Apis mellifera -- beats its ...

Winged insects have been around for nearly 400 million years, and the evolution of flight in different insect species influences things like how insects flap their wings, what makes some insects ...

They captured the wing motion of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) analyzing 72,000 recorded wing beats using a neural network to decode the role individual sclerites played in shaping insect ...

With their proportionately bulky bodies supported by puny wings, many flying insects look about as airworthy as a Mack truck. ... The secret of this kind of flight lies in rapid wing beats.

Different kinds of insects beat their wings at different frequencies, which helps identify what’s flying by the sensor at any given time—mosquitoes, for example, flap between 400 and 800 beats ...

When insect wings clap together and then peel apart between the up and down strokes, ... “It can hit and recover in two or three wing beats, which is phenomenal,” Vaneck says.

Scientists say Limacina helicina, which moves much like a fruit fly, represents a "remarkable" evolutionary convergence. Its ancestors and those of flying insects diverged some 550 million years ago.

The hinge enables insects to control their wing movements, but how it works is hard to study. Multidisciplinary research, using imaging and machine-learning methods, now sheds light on the ...

Transparent, thin and tough: Why don't insect wings break? Date: August 22, 2012 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: Researchers have shown that the wings of insects are not as fragile as they ...

Denmark's NKT Photonics and Lund University in Sweden have studied how a hyperspectral lidar platform can be used to count insects, measure the frequency of their wing beats, and resolve coherent ...

When you watch an insect fly in slow motion, you get a whole new perspective on the complexity of movement and engineering. ... It beats its wings really fast, and you can't even see that.