Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

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Classification of insects and their wingbeat kinematics -- Wingbeats and vorticity -- Evolution of flight in the insect orders -- Problems of endopterygote insect wing functional morphology -- ...

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

In our research based in Kibale National Park, Uganda, chimpanzees have been seen applying insects to their own open wounds ...

Bats achieved true flight through unique evolutionary changes. A new study reveals how bats repurposed existing genes and ...