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Tiny Amphibious Insects Use Tripod Gait for Traversal on Land, Water, and Duckweed.
Integr Comp Biol
September 2024
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0340, USA.
Insects exhibit remarkable adaptability in their locomotive strategies in diverse environments, a crucial trait for foraging, survival, and predator avoidance. Microvelia americana, tiny 2-3 mm insects that adeptly walk on water surfaces, exemplify this adaptability by using the alternating tripod gait in both aquatic and terrestrial terrains. These insects commonly inhabit low-flow ponds and streams cluttered with natural debris like leaves, twigs, and duckweed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTiny amphibious insects use tripod gait for seamless transition across land, water, and duckweed.
bioRxiv
April 2024
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Insects exhibit remarkable adaptability in their locomotive strategies across diverse environments, a crucial trait for foraging, survival, and predator avoidance. , tiny 2-3 mm insects that adeptly walk on water surfaces, exemplify this adaptability by using the alternating tripod gait in both aquatic and terrestrial terrains. These insects commonly inhabit low-flow ponds and streams cluttered with natural debris like leaves, twigs, and duckweed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cocktail boat.
Integr Comp Biol
December 2014
*Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
We describe the inspiration, development, and deployment of a novel cocktail device modeled after a class of water-walking insects. Semi-aquatic insects like Microvelia and Velia evade predators by releasing a surfactant that quickly propels them across the water. We exploit an analogous propulsion mechanism in the design of an edible cocktail boat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeteropteran insects as mosquito predators in water jars in southern Vietnam.
J Vector Ecol
June 2011
Department of Vector Ecology & Environment, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Residents of Vietnam living in areas with water shortages and/or poor tap water maintain water storage containers, such as jars, in and around their domiciles in order to store water used in daily life. Although these water jars are known to be important breeding sources of the Aedes mosquito, use of chemical larvicides in such containers is legally prohibited in Vietnam. In this study, we identified the dominant mosquito insect predators in water jars in and around residences located in Tan Chanh, Long An, southern Vietnam.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPredation of Microvelia pulchella (Hemiptera: Veliidae) on mosquito larvae.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc
March 1988
Mosquito Research Laboratory, Kearney Agricultural Center, University of California, Parlier 93648.
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