A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. 'Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles.' DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114. pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas#nature #photography #science

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@wonderofscience I would be interested in the folding back process again.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience @pbeyssac Cette vidéo ne s'affiche pas sur mast.eu.org, alors qu'elle est pleinement fonctionnelle sur le serveur d'origine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience mesmerizing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Are you Team Asterix, Team Obelix, or Team Idefix?Or ... Team Ceasar?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience Got to love how it does them one at a time!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience How impressive, especially that this process takes place in less than 100 milliseconds. - Nature is full of wonders.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience Beautiful

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @wonderofscience the folding of beetle wings fascinates me. I assume it's done by pumping fluids in and out of vascular canals in the wings, but the deployment part is easy. Engineering the wings so that they will fit precisely under the (much smaller) wing cases strikes me as a much harder problem. And yet all the species of beetle, with all their differently shaped wing cases, do it apparently reliably. Evolution is astonishing!

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