Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

Why do flies buzz around in circles when the air is still? And why does it matter? In a paper published online July 26, 2024 by the scientific journal Current Biology, University of Nevada, Reno ...

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Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied how fruit flies tune their development in response to environmental ...

"Text references and a list of the more important papers on the mechanism of insect flight": p. 420-421. Extract from: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the ...

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