Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades ...

When you spot a beautiful woodpecker that doesn’t act like one, there’s a good chance it is the agile and versatile Lewis’s ...

Because their rapid wing beats make a humming sound in flight ... but they feed more on tiny insects than anything else. Hummingbirds require a good bit of protein daily to fuel their high ...

Hummingbirds are on the move back to the United States after spending the winter in Mexico and Central America. Here's how ...

Up to 80% of their diet is small insects like mosquitoes ... according to Live Science. Hummingbird wings move at around 70 beats per second, or more than 4,000 beats per minute.

The tiniest, iridescent, hummingbird hovers nearby, wings a blur of 75 or more beats per second ... And even in protected primary forests, insect numbers, for example, are crashing due to climate ...

and had seen them before, flitting from flower to flower, wings blurred like iridescent ... They hunt minuscule insects like midges. They drink from the honeyed sap that leaks from trees. Their heart ...

For an animal or insect in flight, the Strouhal number ... while the frequency is the number of times the bird beats its wings each second. In that situation, it is the ratio of the animal ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...