... evasive roll manoeuvres to avoid collisions. Collision avoidance Flight control Insect flight Neuroethology Obstacle detection Spatial vision Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 EG82/19-1 2117...

... in hovering flight: they beat their wings faster and with larger amplitudes, without an impairment in tracking precision. Flight control Flower tracking Macroglossum stellatarum Insect Wing damage Insects are masters of flight – with their fragile chitinous wings they perform impressive...

... 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...

... of flying birds is presented and used to analyse the gliding flight of a barn owl and peregrine falcon. Bird flight Stereo-photogrammetry Flight dynamics Flight control Wing geometry Tyto alba Falco peregrinus Birds primarily generate the forces required to support and control...

..., 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...

... http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Measurement and characterisation of the dynamic flight response of fruit flies reveal that their flight controller weighs visual and wind stimuli approximately equally, to produce flight thrust and adjust the pitch of the abdomen...

... by the rotating surround, indicating the importance of optic flow for flight control, as well as stabilization of the visual input. Five female ruby-throated hummingbirds, Archilocus colubris , were trapped in Bedford, MA, USA, and studied in accordance with protocols approved by Harvard University's...

... of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: High-speed videography of free-flying Drosophila reveals their active control mechanism for counter-pitching perturbations, which is rapid, robust and consistent with linear control theory. Bio-locomotion Flight control Drosophila melanogaster Insect flight...

... of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: During flight, fruit flies track visual features more strongly if they dip below a visual horizon, consistent with using the horizon to judge distance. Vision Fly Depth cue Flight control To navigate with precision and speed, flying insects must...

... . Heide , G. ( 1983 ). Neural mechanisms of flight control in Diptera . In BIONA-Report 2 , (ed. W.   Nachtigall ), pp. 35 - 52 . Stuttgart : G. Fischer . Hengstenberg , R. ( 1991 ). Gaze control in the blowfly Calliphora: a multisensory, two-stage integration process . Semin...

... 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...

..., the basic mechanism for flight control exists in at least some members of the colony. Such flight control mechanisms depend on vision, sensing motion relative to air and/or sensing the rotation of the body in air ( Daniel et al., 2012 ). The question that arises is whether the remarkable aerial righting...

...), could provide mechanosensory information that is involved in flight control. Moreover, sensory information would be encoded by campaniform sensilla, similar to what has been found in previous studies of these sensory structures. Accordingly, we were able to show that the wings of M. sexta have...

... no competing financial interests. 18 10 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...

..., distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Fly vision Flight control Figure tracking Optomotor response A natural visual scene contains stimuli of varying salience and relevance, and animal visual systems must segregate these stimuli...

...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...

... forward flight tends to be strongest. * Author for correspondence ( roland.kern@uni-bielefeld.de ) 16 6 2011 23 3 2012 © 2012. 2012 insect saccade obstacle avoidance translation velocity flight control active vision A distinguishing behavioral feature of many...