These are the forces that keep the insect airborne and moving forwards (see right).
The insect population that swells in August is no joy in a dropped top.
The scientists tethered the moth inside an arena that simulated the environment around the insect moving up and down.
In response to this movement, as the super slow-motion footage revealed, the insect pivoted its abdomen up and down.
With this simulation, the scientists were able to make the insect perceive that it was tumbling forwards or backwards.
Researchers there have been offering an insight into how the insect is playing a big part in medical science.
Each eyelet would appear to produce an inverted image that the insect's neural set-up must then process and correct.
To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.
The insect harvests moisture from the air by first getting it to condense on its back and then storing the water.
This adjusted the airflow to the insect's wings, in turn adjusting the direction of the lift and thrust that the wings produced.
As a connected car, the Insect naturally ties in with entertainment and navigation services (in this case, via Toyota's Smart Center).
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The volunteer was then supposed to record, using a press-button counter, the number of times he perceived the insect moving on his skin.
However, the eighth seed asked for the insect to be removed and continued her domination, revealing afterwards she had experimented with tactics during the match.
The Food and Drug Administration was concerned that the insect-killing protein that had been inserted into the corn might provoke an allergic reaction in people.
Increasing trade with China is putting the trees of many countries at risk, and the insect has become well established in Chicago and New York.
It is part of an initiative run by local bee keepers and the Channel Islands Cooperative Society to educate people about the importance of the insect.
The end of each coil extended out to touch a hardened part of the insect's body close to its wing base where it could pick up energy.
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The gut wall then changes from a protective layer to an open sieve, allowing pathogens normally contained in the gut and then excreted to enter the insect's body.
They would tell him, falsely, that the insect was dangerous.
Instead, from his bizarre point of departure, Kafka constructs a credible, logical chain of events, beginning with the detailed, realistic description of the insect after the first astonishing sentence.
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Another oddity is that although it is humans who are vaccinated, the vaccine has its impact inside the gut of a mosquito, after the insect has taken its meal.
Dr. THOMAS: In fact, you see the insect arriving from the forest and now jumping into the water, and then a huge worm emerging, and then the worm swim, searching for a sexual partner.
One form causes disease in humans, another is swallowed by mosquitoes, still another form reproduces, others move through the insect's intestines, and yet another enters the salivary gland of the mosquito and infects people.
Getting a good bearing is important because unless the insect rolls a direct course, it risks turning back towards the dung pile where another beetle will almost certainly try to steal its prized ball.
Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.
He can sense when a moth is blowing a raspberry by attaching a wire to the muscle that controls the insect's tongue, and using it to transmit a signal via one of Dr Hildebrand's tiny electronic backpacks.
In these cases, selection is probably acting on the cost in materials and energy of making the products of the introduced genes (in other words, the protein that bypasses the herbicide, or the poison that protects against the insect).
Researchers at the University of Texas are warning that the invasive species from South America has the potential to change the ecological balance in the southeastern United States, largely because the ants can wipe out colonies of what's been widely considered the insect villain of the region, the fire ant.
Because when you look at the wing of an insect, the wing is nearly inert.
The first clue came from studies of the geneticists' pet insect, the humble fruit fly.
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