You can also see the nerve that stimulates these muscles in red. The blue-fronted dancer damselfly is found around ponds and other bodies of water. The insect’s flight apparatus consists of two pairs ...

You’d never guess it, but caterpillars have more body muscles than you think. Each insect has 4,000 muscles that it uses to move, with each segment having 70 muscles alone. When a caterpillar ...

This membrane can form a basket or pouch to help catch and hold insects captured in flight. Most of the flight muscles controlling the wing beat are attached to the shoulder blades, unlike birds, ...

These improvements protect the robot's delicate piezoelectric actuators—energy-dense "muscles" deployed for flight that are easily fractured by ... The RoboBee's diminutive size and insect-like flight ...