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 and image/footage credit
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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 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/arti...
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...
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/arti...


Teleogryllus crickets:

Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets
Pascoal et al 2014
https://www.cell.com/currentbiology/...


Pterostigma:

Barkfly
Martin Cooper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mart...


The pterostigma of insect wings an inertial regulator of wing pitch
Norberg
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Flutter Videos from NASA Langley Centre
More about Flutter: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...

Alula:
Operation of the alula as an indicator of gear change in hoverflies
Walker et al. 2012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

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/arti...

Earwig Origami
Faber et al. 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content...

Hairy wings
A Mathematical Model to Capture Complex Microstructure Orientation on Insect Wings
Polet et al. 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

How Micro/Nanoarchitecture Facilitates AntiWetting: An Elegant Hierarchical Design on the Termite Wing
Watson et al. 2010
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/...


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/arti...

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