Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insectexoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindwings, respectively, though a few insects lack hindwings, even rudiments. The wings are strengthened by a number of longitudinal veins, which often have cross-connections that form closed "cells" in the membrane (extreme examples include Odonata and Neuroptera). The patterns resulting from the fusion and cross-connection of the wing veins are often diagnostic for different evolutionary lineages and can be used for identification to the family or even genus level in many orders of insects.
The physical dynamics of flight are composed of direct and indirect flight. Those species that employ direct flight have wing muscles directly attached to the wing base, so that a small downward movement of the wing base lifts the wing itself upward. However, insects with indirect flight have muscles that attach to the thorax and deform it; since the wings are extensions of the thoracic exoskeleton, the deformations of the thorax cause the wings to move as well.
Music Credit:
Für Elise by Beethoven
Image Credit:
https://www.thoughtco.com/insect-wing-venation-diagram-1968480
Veins:
Costa
Subcosta
SC1
SC2
Radius
R1
Radial sector
R2
R3
R4
R5
Media
M1
M2
M3
M4
Cubitus
CU1
CU1a
CU1b
CU2
A1
A2
A3
Cross Veins:
Humeral
Radial
Sectorial
Radio-medial
Medial
Medio-cubital
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published: 31 Aug 2017
5 Things You Didn't Know About Insect Wings
Here go 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about!
Here go my top 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about! From sexual dimorphism, the function of the pterostigma, the alula, nifty wing folding and hairy wings - I'm sure you will learn something about insects that you didn't know about already! Which was your favourite?
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A large number of images also came from Pixabay, Wikimedia commons (credited onscreen) and yours truly, as well as from scientific papers - cited bel...
published: 28 Mar 2019
First-Ever Look at the Intricate Way Ladybugs Fold Their Wings | National Geographic
For the first time, scientists are getting a view of the inner workings of ladybug wings.
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Their wings are flexible enough to fold intricately, yet strong enough to fly. Normally the folding process is shielded by their elytra, the cases that shield their wings and give them ...
published: 26 May 2017
Insect wings protect against antibiotic-resistant microbes - here's how!
Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have recently discovered the mechanism behind the anti-microbial properties of insect wings. Tiny nanopillars on the surface of the wing mechanically impale and destroy bacterial cells. The close proximity of the nanopillars also creates an air pocket, which prevents fungal cells from invading the wing surface. Replicating this nanostructure could instil surfaces with chemical-free anti-microbial properties resilient towards pathogen adaptation.
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published: 07 Apr 2022
Origami tricks learned from insect wings enable highly collapsible structures
Researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom have unraveled the design rules for the origami-like folding that gives earwigs the most compact wing folding of any insect. In this video, take a look at the design and software the researchers have developed to facilitate applying it to real world applications. This understanding also opens new methods for exploring wing evolution and predicting extinct forms.
Video created by Kazuya Saito of the Kyushu University Faculty of Design.
Learn more at the links below.
Related press release: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/154
Full research paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005769117
Kazuya Saito: https://ksaito-tech.wixsite.com/ksaito?lang=en
Kyushu University Faculty of Design: https://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
published: 14 Jul 2020
Insect wing| Fundamentals of entomology| Entomology class| English
This video will give cover almost all the aspects of insect Wing. Detailed view about insect venation and cross veins.
Mesothoracic wing = forewing
Metathoracic wing = hindwing
Wing veins and cells between veins are named according to the standard system.
Only one pair – true flies (house fly)
No wings (apterous) – silverfish, springtails
Secondarily wingless – Head louse & fleas
Deciduous wings – Termites & ants
Insect wing – 3 Angles, 3 margins & 3 regions
3 margins
Anterior costal margin
Outer apical margin
Posterior anal margin
Wing coupling:
Frenate: Male and female frenate
Amplexiform: Butterflies
Hamulate – Honey bees and wasps
Costal margin of hind wing – row of hooks, ‘hamuli’
Interlocks with thick anal margin of fore wing
#Insectwing #wingvenation #wingregion #remigium...
published: 13 Jun 2021
Insect wing hamuli
Mounted this pair of insect wings a couple of years ago, but didn't label the slide--probably bee or wasp. I saw an interesting section of "hooks" on the edge of one wing, but didn't know what I was looking at. Only recently I found out they are called "hamuli" (sg. hamulus) and that they have an intriguing function. The 200x, 400x, and 600x images at the end were produced by using stacking software to combine a series of pictures, each taken at a slightly different depth of focus, into a single image.
published: 29 Jan 2023
The Evolution of Insect Flight
The evolution of powered flight is one of the rarest adaptations made in nature only being possessed by four groups of animals, the birds, bats, pterosaurs and earliest of all the insects. Because the insects evolved so early and because they are the only animals to evolve powered flight that aren't vertebrates the path they took to get airborne is very different. This video seeks to explain what is known about the evolution of the insect wing and how they made the transition.
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Butterfly 🦋 Cool Wings #ShortVideo1
published: 03 Aug 2024
Investigating the Secrets of Dragonfly Flight
The flight capabilities of flexible-winged insects are the subject of Professor Haibo Dong's research in the Flow Simulation Research Group at the University of Virginia. His team uses high speed video cameras and advanced computational systems to build 3-dimensional models of flying insects and the vortex structure of airflows created by their flight. The project's goal is to improve the design of small flying robots.
Music Credit:
Für Elise by Beethoven
Image Credit:
https://www.thoughtco.com/insect-wing-venation-diagram-1968480
Veins:
Costa
Subcosta
SC1
SC2
Radius
R1
R...
Music Credit:
Für Elise by Beethoven
Image Credit:
https://www.thoughtco.com/insect-wing-venation-diagram-1968480
Veins:
Costa
Subcosta
SC1
SC2
Radius
R1
Radial sector
R2
R3
R4
R5
Media
M1
M2
M3
M4
Cubitus
CU1
CU1a
CU1b
CU2
A1
A2
A3
Cross Veins:
Humeral
Radial
Sectorial
Radio-medial
Medial
Medio-cubital
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Here go 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about!
Here go my top 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about! From sexual dimorphis...
Here go 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about!
Here go my top 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about! From sexual dimorphism, the function of the pterostigma, the alula, nifty wing folding and hairy wings - I'm sure you will learn something about insects that you didn't know about already! Which was your favourite?
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References, credits and further reading:
References and image/footage credit
Some of the lovely stock footage present in this video came from BigStock - http://bit.ly/bigstock-videofreetrial (you can try them for free here)
A large number of images also came from Pixabay, Wikimedia commons (credited onscreen) and yours truly, as well as from scientific papers - cited below.
Scientific papers directly featured in this video (and some further reading):
Automated monitoring and analysis of social behaviour in Drosophila Dankert et al. 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679418/
Courtship song sound - my own recording
Dr. Nathan Bailey - Teleogryllus oceanicus
Evolution of sexual dimorphism of wing shape in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup Gidazewski 2009
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-9-110
Wikimedia Commons - Ormia
Ormia parasitoid fly reacting to Teleogryllus call
The cost of assuming the life history of a host: acoustic startle in the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea
Rosen et al 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784737/
Teleogryllus crickets:
Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets
Pascoal et al 2014
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)00524-7
Pterostigma:
Barkfly
Martin Cooper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-a-r-t-i-n/25813190236
The pterostigma of insect wings an inertial regulator of wing pitch
Norberg
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226952774_The_pterostigma_of_insect_wings_an_inertial_regulator_of_wing_pitch
Flutter Videos from NASA Langley Centre
More about Flutter: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960004074.pdf
Alula:
Operation of the alula as an indicator of gear change in hoverflies
Walker et al. 2012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22072452
Wing folding
Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles by artificial elytron transplantation and microcomputed tomography
Saito et al. 2017
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/22/5624
Asymmetric hindwing foldings in rove beetles
Saito et al. 2014
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246297/
Earwig Origami
Faber et al. 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6382/1386
Hairy wings
A Mathematical Model to Capture Complex Microstructure Orientation on Insect Wings
Polet et al. 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138282
How Micro/Nanoarchitecture Facilitates Anti-Wetting: An Elegant Hierarchical Design on the Termite Wing
Watson et al. 2010
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn900869b
Effect of microtrichia on the interlocking mechanism in the Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Sun et al. 2018
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852455/
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Here go 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about!
Here go my top 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about! From sexual dimorphism, the function of the pterostigma, the alula, nifty wing folding and hairy wings - I'm sure you will learn something about insects that you didn't know about already! Which was your favourite?
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References, credits and further reading:
References and image/footage credit
Some of the lovely stock footage present in this video came from BigStock - http://bit.ly/bigstock-videofreetrial (you can try them for free here)
A large number of images also came from Pixabay, Wikimedia commons (credited onscreen) and yours truly, as well as from scientific papers - cited below.
Scientific papers directly featured in this video (and some further reading):
Automated monitoring and analysis of social behaviour in Drosophila Dankert et al. 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679418/
Courtship song sound - my own recording
Dr. Nathan Bailey - Teleogryllus oceanicus
Evolution of sexual dimorphism of wing shape in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup Gidazewski 2009
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-9-110
Wikimedia Commons - Ormia
Ormia parasitoid fly reacting to Teleogryllus call
The cost of assuming the life history of a host: acoustic startle in the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea
Rosen et al 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784737/
Teleogryllus crickets:
Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets
Pascoal et al 2014
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)00524-7
Pterostigma:
Barkfly
Martin Cooper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-a-r-t-i-n/25813190236
The pterostigma of insect wings an inertial regulator of wing pitch
Norberg
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226952774_The_pterostigma_of_insect_wings_an_inertial_regulator_of_wing_pitch
Flutter Videos from NASA Langley Centre
More about Flutter: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960004074.pdf
Alula:
Operation of the alula as an indicator of gear change in hoverflies
Walker et al. 2012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22072452
Wing folding
Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles by artificial elytron transplantation and microcomputed tomography
Saito et al. 2017
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/22/5624
Asymmetric hindwing foldings in rove beetles
Saito et al. 2014
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246297/
Earwig Origami
Faber et al. 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6382/1386
Hairy wings
A Mathematical Model to Capture Complex Microstructure Orientation on Insect Wings
Polet et al. 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138282
How Micro/Nanoarchitecture Facilitates Anti-Wetting: An Elegant Hierarchical Design on the Termite Wing
Watson et al. 2010
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn900869b
Effect of microtrichia on the interlocking mechanism in the Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Sun et al. 2018
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852455/
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http://epidemicsound.com/drawcuriosity
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https://soundcloud.com/cryosleepkitten
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Their wings are flexible enough to fold intricately, yet strong enough to fly. Normally the folding process is shielded by their elytra, the cases that shield their wings and give them their iconic red and black coloring. Scientists created artificial transparent elytra and grafted them onto the bugs revealing the folding process in stunning detail. Studying their design may lead to improvements in human engineering science.
First-Ever Look at the Intricate Way Ladybugs Fold Their Wings | National Geographic
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Their wings are flexible enough to fold intricately, yet strong enough to fly. Normally the folding process is shielded by their elytra, the cases that shield their wings and give them their iconic red and black coloring. Scientists created artificial transparent elytra and grafted them onto the bugs revealing the folding process in stunning detail. Studying their design may lead to improvements in human engineering science.
First-Ever Look at the Intricate Way Ladybugs Fold Their Wings | National Geographic
https://youtu.be/WyM-2BkQom8
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Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have recently discovered the mechanism behind the anti-microbial properties of insect wings. Tiny nanopil...
Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have recently discovered the mechanism behind the anti-microbial properties of insect wings. Tiny nanopillars on the surface of the wing mechanically impale and destroy bacterial cells. The close proximity of the nanopillars also creates an air pocket, which prevents fungal cells from invading the wing surface. Replicating this nanostructure could instil surfaces with chemical-free anti-microbial properties resilient towards pathogen adaptation.
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Researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom have unraveled the design rules for the origami-like folding that gives earwigs the most compact wing folding of any...
Researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom have unraveled the design rules for the origami-like folding that gives earwigs the most compact wing folding of any insect. In this video, take a look at the design and software the researchers have developed to facilitate applying it to real world applications. This understanding also opens new methods for exploring wing evolution and predicting extinct forms.
Video created by Kazuya Saito of the Kyushu University Faculty of Design.
Learn more at the links below.
Related press release: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/154
Full research paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005769117
Kazuya Saito: https://ksaito-tech.wixsite.com/ksaito?lang=en
Kyushu University Faculty of Design: https://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
Researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom have unraveled the design rules for the origami-like folding that gives earwigs the most compact wing folding of any insect. In this video, take a look at the design and software the researchers have developed to facilitate applying it to real world applications. This understanding also opens new methods for exploring wing evolution and predicting extinct forms.
Video created by Kazuya Saito of the Kyushu University Faculty of Design.
Learn more at the links below.
Related press release: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/154
Full research paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005769117
Kazuya Saito: https://ksaito-tech.wixsite.com/ksaito?lang=en
Kyushu University Faculty of Design: https://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
This video will give cover almost all the aspects of insect Wing. Detailed view about insect venation and cross veins.
Mesothoracic wing = forewing
Metathor...
This video will give cover almost all the aspects of insect Wing. Detailed view about insect venation and cross veins.
Mesothoracic wing = forewing
Metathoracic wing = hindwing
Wing veins and cells between veins are named according to the standard system.
Only one pair – true flies (house fly)
No wings (apterous) – silverfish, springtails
Secondarily wingless – Head louse & fleas
Deciduous wings – Termites & ants
Insect wing – 3 Angles, 3 margins & 3 regions
3 margins
Anterior costal margin
Outer apical margin
Posterior anal margin
Wing coupling:
Frenate: Male and female frenate
Amplexiform: Butterflies
Hamulate – Honey bees and wasps
Costal margin of hind wing – row of hooks, ‘hamuli’
Interlocks with thick anal margin of fore wing
#Insectwing #wingvenation #wingregion #remigium #vennus #typesofinsectwing #costasubcosta #Articularsclerites #jugum #Fundamentalsofentomology
This video will give cover almost all the aspects of insect Wing. Detailed view about insect venation and cross veins.
Mesothoracic wing = forewing
Metathoracic wing = hindwing
Wing veins and cells between veins are named according to the standard system.
Only one pair – true flies (house fly)
No wings (apterous) – silverfish, springtails
Secondarily wingless – Head louse & fleas
Deciduous wings – Termites & ants
Insect wing – 3 Angles, 3 margins & 3 regions
3 margins
Anterior costal margin
Outer apical margin
Posterior anal margin
Wing coupling:
Frenate: Male and female frenate
Amplexiform: Butterflies
Hamulate – Honey bees and wasps
Costal margin of hind wing – row of hooks, ‘hamuli’
Interlocks with thick anal margin of fore wing
#Insectwing #wingvenation #wingregion #remigium #vennus #typesofinsectwing #costasubcosta #Articularsclerites #jugum #Fundamentalsofentomology
Mounted this pair of insect wings a couple of years ago, but didn't label the slide--probably bee or wasp. I saw an interesting section of "hooks" on the edge o...
Mounted this pair of insect wings a couple of years ago, but didn't label the slide--probably bee or wasp. I saw an interesting section of "hooks" on the edge of one wing, but didn't know what I was looking at. Only recently I found out they are called "hamuli" (sg. hamulus) and that they have an intriguing function. The 200x, 400x, and 600x images at the end were produced by using stacking software to combine a series of pictures, each taken at a slightly different depth of focus, into a single image.
Mounted this pair of insect wings a couple of years ago, but didn't label the slide--probably bee or wasp. I saw an interesting section of "hooks" on the edge of one wing, but didn't know what I was looking at. Only recently I found out they are called "hamuli" (sg. hamulus) and that they have an intriguing function. The 200x, 400x, and 600x images at the end were produced by using stacking software to combine a series of pictures, each taken at a slightly different depth of focus, into a single image.
The evolution of powered flight is one of the rarest adaptations made in nature only being possessed by four groups of animals, the birds, bats, pterosaurs and ...
The evolution of powered flight is one of the rarest adaptations made in nature only being possessed by four groups of animals, the birds, bats, pterosaurs and earliest of all the insects. Because the insects evolved so early and because they are the only animals to evolve powered flight that aren't vertebrates the path they took to get airborne is very different. This video seeks to explain what is known about the evolution of the insect wing and how they made the transition.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9024659/#:~:text=We%20have%20isolated%20crustacean%20homologues,of%20both%20crustaceans%20and%20insects.
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The evolution of powered flight is one of the rarest adaptations made in nature only being possessed by four groups of animals, the birds, bats, pterosaurs and earliest of all the insects. Because the insects evolved so early and because they are the only animals to evolve powered flight that aren't vertebrates the path they took to get airborne is very different. This video seeks to explain what is known about the evolution of the insect wing and how they made the transition.
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https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/95/5/382/2187547
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216314610
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z83-218
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9024659/#:~:text=We%20have%20isolated%20crustacean%20homologues,of%20both%20crustaceans%20and%20insects.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190460
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221631346X
The flight capabilities of flexible-winged insects are the subject of Professor Haibo Dong's research in the Flow Simulation Research Group at the University of...
The flight capabilities of flexible-winged insects are the subject of Professor Haibo Dong's research in the Flow Simulation Research Group at the University of Virginia. His team uses high speed video cameras and advanced computational systems to build 3-dimensional models of flying insects and the vortex structure of airflows created by their flight. The project's goal is to improve the design of small flying robots.
The flight capabilities of flexible-winged insects are the subject of Professor Haibo Dong's research in the Flow Simulation Research Group at the University of Virginia. His team uses high speed video cameras and advanced computational systems to build 3-dimensional models of flying insects and the vortex structure of airflows created by their flight. The project's goal is to improve the design of small flying robots.
Here go 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about!
Here go my top 5 Insect Wing facts that you hopefully didn't know about! From sexual dimorphism, the function of the pterostigma, the alula, nifty wing folding and hairy wings - I'm sure you will learn something about insects that you didn't know about already! Which was your favourite?
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Scientific papers directly featured in this video (and some further reading):
Automated monitoring and analysis of social behaviour in Drosophila Dankert et al. 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679418/
Courtship song sound - my own recording
Dr. Nathan Bailey - Teleogryllus oceanicus
Evolution of sexual dimorphism of wing shape in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup Gidazewski 2009
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-9-110
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Ormia parasitoid fly reacting to Teleogryllus call
The cost of assuming the life history of a host: acoustic startle in the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea
Rosen et al 2009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784737/
Teleogryllus crickets:
Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets
Pascoal et al 2014
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)00524-7
Pterostigma:
Barkfly
Martin Cooper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-a-r-t-i-n/25813190236
The pterostigma of insect wings an inertial regulator of wing pitch
Norberg
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226952774_The_pterostigma_of_insect_wings_an_inertial_regulator_of_wing_pitch
Flutter Videos from NASA Langley Centre
More about Flutter: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960004074.pdf
Alula:
Operation of the alula as an indicator of gear change in hoverflies
Walker et al. 2012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22072452
Wing folding
Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles by artificial elytron transplantation and microcomputed tomography
Saito et al. 2017
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/22/5624
Asymmetric hindwing foldings in rove beetles
Saito et al. 2014
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246297/
Earwig Origami
Faber et al. 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6382/1386
Hairy wings
A Mathematical Model to Capture Complex Microstructure Orientation on Insect Wings
Polet et al. 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138282
How Micro/Nanoarchitecture Facilitates Anti-Wetting: An Elegant Hierarchical Design on the Termite Wing
Watson et al. 2010
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn900869b
Effect of microtrichia on the interlocking mechanism in the Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Sun et al. 2018
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852455/
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Their wings are flexible enough to fold intricately, yet strong enough to fly. Normally the folding process is shielded by their elytra, the cases that shield their wings and give them their iconic red and black coloring. Scientists created artificial transparent elytra and grafted them onto the bugs revealing the folding process in stunning detail. Studying their design may lead to improvements in human engineering science.
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Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have recently discovered the mechanism behind the anti-microbial properties of insect wings. Tiny nanopillars on the surface of the wing mechanically impale and destroy bacterial cells. The close proximity of the nanopillars also creates an air pocket, which prevents fungal cells from invading the wing surface. Replicating this nanostructure could instil surfaces with chemical-free anti-microbial properties resilient towards pathogen adaptation.
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Researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom have unraveled the design rules for the origami-like folding that gives earwigs the most compact wing folding of any insect. In this video, take a look at the design and software the researchers have developed to facilitate applying it to real world applications. This understanding also opens new methods for exploring wing evolution and predicting extinct forms.
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This video will give cover almost all the aspects of insect Wing. Detailed view about insect venation and cross veins.
Mesothoracic wing = forewing
Metathoracic wing = hindwing
Wing veins and cells between veins are named according to the standard system.
Only one pair – true flies (house fly)
No wings (apterous) – silverfish, springtails
Secondarily wingless – Head louse & fleas
Deciduous wings – Termites & ants
Insect wing – 3 Angles, 3 margins & 3 regions
3 margins
Anterior costal margin
Outer apical margin
Posterior anal margin
Wing coupling:
Frenate: Male and female frenate
Amplexiform: Butterflies
Hamulate – Honey bees and wasps
Costal margin of hind wing – row of hooks, ‘hamuli’
Interlocks with thick anal margin of fore wing
#Insectwing #wingvenation #wingregion #remigium #vennus #typesofinsectwing #costasubcosta #Articularsclerites #jugum #Fundamentalsofentomology
Mounted this pair of insect wings a couple of years ago, but didn't label the slide--probably bee or wasp. I saw an interesting section of "hooks" on the edge of one wing, but didn't know what I was looking at. Only recently I found out they are called "hamuli" (sg. hamulus) and that they have an intriguing function. The 200x, 400x, and 600x images at the end were produced by using stacking software to combine a series of pictures, each taken at a slightly different depth of focus, into a single image.
The evolution of powered flight is one of the rarest adaptations made in nature only being possessed by four groups of animals, the birds, bats, pterosaurs and earliest of all the insects. Because the insects evolved so early and because they are the only animals to evolve powered flight that aren't vertebrates the path they took to get airborne is very different. This video seeks to explain what is known about the evolution of the insect wing and how they made the transition.
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If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made.
Sources:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29169955/
https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/95/5/382/2187547
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216314610
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z83-218
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9024659/#:~:text=We%20have%20isolated%20crustacean%20homologues,of%20both%20crustaceans%20and%20insects.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190460
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221631346X
The flight capabilities of flexible-winged insects are the subject of Professor Haibo Dong's research in the Flow Simulation Research Group at the University of Virginia. His team uses high speed video cameras and advanced computational systems to build 3-dimensional models of flying insects and the vortex structure of airflows created by their flight. The project's goal is to improve the design of small flying robots.
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insectexoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindwings, respectively, though a few insects lack hindwings, even rudiments. The wings are strengthened by a number of longitudinal veins, which often have cross-connections that form closed "cells" in the membrane (extreme examples include Odonata and Neuroptera). The patterns resulting from the fusion and cross-connection of the wing veins are often diagnostic for different evolutionary lineages and can be used for identification to the family or even genus level in many orders of insects.
The physical dynamics of flight are composed of direct and indirect flight. Those species that employ direct flight have wing muscles directly attached to the wing base, so that a small downward movement of the wing base lifts the wing itself upward. However, insects with indirect flight have muscles that attach to the thorax and deform it; since the wings are extensions of the thoracic exoskeleton, the deformations of the thorax cause the wings to move as well.
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The mahogany trees Cedro and Caoba (Cedrela odorata and Swietenia macrophylla) affect the right-forewing of ... But at the same time, these trees affect the size and form of the pest moth's right-forewing.