... movements of bumblebees freely flying in a cluttered environment shows they stabilize their head, which aids in obstacle detection, while their thorax performs evasive roll manoeuvres to avoid collisions. Collision avoidance Flight control Insect flight Neuroethology Obstacle detection Spatial...

... . 10.1093/icb/icu050 Dahake , A. , Stöckl , A. L. , Foster , J. J. , Sane , S. P. and Kelber , A. ( 2018 ). The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control . eLife 7 , e37606 . 10.7554/eLife.37606 Dakin , R. , Segre , P. S...

... this information. Flight tunnel experiments have been crucial for our understanding of how insects use optic flow for flight control in confined spaces. However, previous work mainly focused on species from two insect orders: Hymenoptera and Diptera. We therefore set out to investigate whether the previously...

... to compensate for these variations in order to maintain their flight path to their landing point. Geometric features such as wing asymmetry, which could contribute to flight control, were observed in flights of both the barn owl and peregrine falcon. The barn owl reconstructions revealed asymmetry in camber...

..., and angle and fan the tail. Aerodynamics Gust traversal Flight control Transit strategy Perturbation Stability Natural aerial environments are highly dynamic, with variable airflows deriving from vegetational interactions, wind shear and weather systems, and occurring on time scales...

... these properties are interdependent and vary non-uniformly, it is only possible to fully understand the limits of a specific visually guided behaviour when they are investigated in combination. To understand the visual limits of flight control in bees, which rely heavily on vision to control flight, and to explore...

.... 18 11 2016 4 8 2017 © 2017. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2017 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Asymmetric wing damage in hawkmoths is approximately twice as costly as symmetric damage. Flight control Metabolism Stability Wing wear...

... ). Flexible strategies for flight control: an active role for the abdomen . J. Exp. Biol.   216 , 1523 - 1536 . 10.1242/jeb.077644 Eberle , A. L. , Dickerson , B. H. , Reinhall , P. G. and Daniel , T. L. ( 2015 ). A new twist on gyroscopic sensing: body rotations lead to torsion...

... to use optic flow to stabilize flight, similar to insects, by rotating with and following projected moving patterns in a flight arena. Flight control Archilocus colubris Visuomotor delay Flight control is crucial to ecologically relevant behaviors such as predator–prey interactions...

... dipteran flight control muscles, b1 is unique in that it is active during every wingstroke ( Heide, 1983 ; Heide and Götz, 1996 ; Miyan and Ewing, 1985 ), which would allow for the wingbeat time scale pitch control that we observed. Moreover, b1 activity is strongly correlated with modulations of ventral...

... the horizon to judge distance. Vision Fly Depth cue Flight control To navigate with precision and speed, flying insects must approximate the distances of the visible features of their environment. But retinal images do not contain inherent distance information ( Land and Nilsson, 2012 ), so...

.... Halteres Multimodal sensing Vision Flight control When flying, the stability of flies is maintained in part by the integration of sensory information from reduced hindwings known as halteres. Halteres retain many of the cuticular mechanosensors that are present on the hindwings of other insects...

... reveal that the visual region over which bumblebees respond to optic flow cues for flight control is not dictated by a set viewing angle. Instead, bumblebees appear to use the maximum magnitude of translational optic flow experienced in the frontal visual field. This strategy ensures that bumblebees use...

... are remarkably stereotypic. Insect Biomechanics Flapping wing Aerodynamics Maneuvering flight Flight control Wingbeat kinematics When exploring a local environment, many species of fly exhibit a flight pattern consisting of straight segments interspersed with rapid turns called body saccades...

... and landing. Therefore, reflexes responsible for aerial righting might have evolved in arboreal insects prior to the development of flight, and could have served as the precursors for flight control mechanisms ( Dudley et al., 2007 ; Dudley and Yanoviak, 2011 ; Yanoviak et al., 2009 ). While reptiles...

... on their wings, but no magnetic field (P<0.05; repeated-measures ANOVA). This research was motivated by the notion that wings, as the evolutionary precursors to the gyroscopic sensory organs of Diptera (halteres), could provide mechanosensory information that is involved in flight control. Moreover...

... 2013 29 1 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Octopamine Drosophila Flight control Many animals modulate the properties of their neural networks according to behavioral state in order to increase their functionality ( Marder and Bucher, 2007...

... to stabilize wide-field ground motion. However, how do animals manage the optokinetic response while simultaneously tracking a figure that may be ethologically relevant, but composed of visual cues that are substantially smaller and weaker than the ground? Fly vision Flight control Figure tracking...

...Jonathan P. Dyhr; Kristi A. Morgansen; Thomas L. Daniel; Noah J. Cowan SUMMARY Moving animals orchestrate myriad motor systems in response to multimodal sensory inputs. Coordinating movement is particularly challenging in flight control, where animals deal with potential instability and multiple...

... velocity flight control active vision A distinguishing behavioral feature of many insects including flies is their saccadic flight style. It is characterized by periods where body orientation stays relatively constant and by brief saccadic turns where the animal reaches high rotation velocities...