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/current-biology/...


Pterostigma:

Barkfly
Martin Cooper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-a-r-t...


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 Anti-Wetting: 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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