Post Views: 2,898 For most people, insects are very small animals that run, fly or swim around us. Or, some species have sizes far exceeding
Year: 2015
Insect wings are also gyroscopes!
Post Views: 1,233 Insects have flying capabilities far beyond what robotics engineers can produce. However, the control of manoeuvres and posture during the flight remains
Sensory receptors in insects: mechanoreceptors – Part 1: cuticular mechanoreceptors
Post Views: 4,148 First part : cuticular mechanoreceptors Alike all arthropods, insects have an external skeleton, the exoskeleton, consisting of chitin and forming the cuticle
Revision of lepidopteran (butterfly) phylogeny
Post Views: 2,607 The discovery of a new lepidopteran family, unpublished since the 1970s, was made with the capture of a small butterfly on “Kangaroo
New evolutionary history of the European cicadas
Post Views: 3,492 The international team led by the Swiss Professor Peter Nagel and the doctoral student Thomas Hertach have just published in the journal
Presentation of my ant colonies
Post Views: 2,057 As you can read in my various articles, I have been breeding several species of insects for many years, including colonies of
The membracides, surprising little insects
Post Views: 2,470 Membersracides are small insects belonging to the super-family Membracoidea and to the order Hemiptera : aphids, leafhoppers and cicadas, characterized by an
Insect flight: aerodynamics, musculature and 2/2-way control system
Post Views: 2,153 Insects are the first organisms to have developed the ability to fly, 170 million years ago (lire article on phylogeny). The acquisition
Hatching of a gynandromorph butterfly (male/female)
Post Views: 2,646 At the Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Drexel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a strange butterfly of the species Lexias pardalis emerged
