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Nature 420, 615-618 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420615a
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Aerodynamics: Red admiral agility
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Zbikowski
Abstract
Our understanding of insect flight is hampered by the difficulty of obtaining data when the insects are flying freely. But such experiments can be carried out and show butterflies to be masters of flight control.
Over the past ten years there has been much progress in understanding insect flight1, 2, 3. The news keeps coming, and the latest instalment appears on page 660 of this issue4, where Srygley and Thomas describe aerodynamic observations made on free-flying red admiral butterflies.
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