A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Insect wings, however, have no muscles or nerves. They are instead controlled by muscles located inside the body that operate a system of marionette-like pulleys within a complex hinge at the base ...

the team describe the difficulty of filming Culex Mosquitos which flap their wings through an arc of around 40 degrees at a rate of nearly 800 beats per second, 4 times faster than many insects of ...

Elena Ivanova of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology and colleagues found that the nanopillars do not puncture the bacteria. The structures look more like blunted spikes when viewed on the ...

Related: 8 of the weirdest robots in the world right now Wing flexure is the ability of an aircraft’s wing (in this case, the "bug-bots") to bend or flex. The team had to ensure that the wings of an ...

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at MIT have designed insect-sized aerial bots with a reimagined wing system that can fly for up to 1,000 seconds – 100 times more than any ...

or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one pair of antennae, and (usually) one or two pairs of wings. Insects live in nearly every habitat ...

Flying insects are the large dragonflies (meganeura). At the top centre of the image is a Homoioptera with a pair of long tails. In the front of the pair of wings, it has a of pair flap-like ...

If you look closely at any insect, they all have six legs. Insects also have wings which some of them use to fly with. Look at this pretty butterfly flapping its wings and flying along.