Copulation attempt of two Drosophila males in ozone-enriched air. Credit: Benjamin Fabian, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology High levels of ozone destroy the chemical…
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NeuroMechFly, the first accurate “digital twin” of the fly Drosophila melanogaster, offers a highly valuable testbed for studies that advance biomechanics and biorobotics. This could…
A virtual reality arena was coupled with in vivo fluorescence brain activity imaging to observe the neural dynamics of brain structures implicated in learning and…
A fly regurgitating digestive juices. Credit: Carlos Ruiz, CC BY-ND Imagine you’re at a picnic and just about to bite into your sandwich. Suddenly you…
The sound of an accelerating heartbeat can instantly send chills down your spine. You know that sound means trouble. We are so accustomed to the…
Killer flies. Credit: S.T. Fabian Killer flies can reach accelerations of over 3g when aerial diving to catch their prey — but at such high…
Hungry Fruit Flies Are Extreme Ultramarathon Fliers – Can Travel Six Million Times Their Body Length
Experiments to measure a fruit fly’s top speed involved releasing tens of thousands of fruit flies and luring them away with fragrant cocktails of fermenting…
Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands. On the small islands that lie halfway between Antarctica and…
A Tsetse fly. Credit: Wendy Gibson, University of Bristol Researchers at the Universities of Abuja and Nigeria, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have…