A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

A fearsome-looking insect commonly referred to as “ winged wētā ” may look like a flying wētā, but it is not a wētā at all.

making these wings straightforward to understand as other similar animals have analogous bones and musculature. Insect wings, however, have no muscles or nerves. They are instead controlled by ...

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed insect-sized aerial ... feature flapping wings that not only allow for extended ...

So normally to record an insect you need at least two cameras ... camera views of the mosquito where we can actually see its wings clearly," said Dr Simon Walker at the University of Oxford's ...

Each member of the robotic insect swarm weighs less than a paperclip ... By reducing mechanical stress on the wings and actuators, the researchers say they’ve increased both flight duration ...