Fig. 1. (A) Line drawing showing the dorsal (mirror) view of a moth feeding from
the robotic flower. All axes of motion are defined relative to the moth's
perspective. The two axes illustrated are the horizontal axis (H),
the moth's left and right, and the looming axis (L), approach-recede.
The vertical axis (V, dotted line), is coming out of the page and is
up-down for the moth. (B) A schematic showing how we determined the feeding
time used for calculating feeding rates. The thick black line shows distance
between the moth's head and the base of the flower (MFD). The broken
line across the graph represents the maximum distance from the flower at which
the moth's proboscis could contact nectar (calculated based on average
proboscis length of the colony). Feed time was defined as (the last time
MFD < broken line) - (the first time MFD < broken
line). The feeding rates were calculated as (amount of nectar consumed)/(feed
time).