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Journal of Experimental Biology 54,575-585 (1971)
Published by Company of Biologists 1971

Directional Change in a Flying Beetle

ALEXANDER J. BURTON 1

1 Department of Animal Biology, University of Natal Durban, Natal

1. Stroboscopic photographs of tethered rhinoceros beetles executing yawing rotations show that yaw is achieved chiefly by a unilateral increase in amplitude of the wing stroke.

2. This change in amplitude is brought about by an increase in the frequency of the nervous input to all the fibrillar flight muscles of the appropriate side.

Submitted on October 19, 1970




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