ATIVESITE | Flying in miniature: Secrets of the featherwing beetle

Flying is a tricky business, but when you are less than half a millimetre long, things get even tougher. At such tiny scales the physics of flight changes, and yet insects have evolved strategies to fly in miniature. In this Nature video we zoom in on new research which is revealing the never-before-seen flight tactics of a bizarre feather-winged beetle.

Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04303-7

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