Short-amplitude high-frequency wing strokes determine the aerodynamics of honeybee flight

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 50, 2005, Pages 18213-18218

  Altshuler, Douglas L ^a   Dickson, William B ^a   Vance, Jason T ^b   Roberts, Stephen P ^b   Dickinson, Michael H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bee flight; Flight in heliox; Stroke amplitude; Unsteady mechanisms; Wingbeat kinematics

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BEE; FLIGHT; FLYING; FORELIMB; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HONEYBEE; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HELIUM; OXYGEN; VIDEO RECORDING; WING;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 29144509664     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506590102     Document Type: Article

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