Insects in Flight

By:

Brackenbury, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Blandford Press 1995Description: 192p. 204 colour photographsISBN:

071372594X
071372594X
9780713725940

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DDC classification:

595.7 BRA

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Non Fiction	The Harden Library, King's Hospital	General	GEN 595.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R04718Y0499

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Covers all the major groups of insects and their flight sequence. It describes the mechanisms of insect flight - both scientifically and in photographs. It is based upon the special techniques developed by the author to capture, in flight, the methods of flying that insects employ. CONTENTS: Costs and benefits of flight; the machinery of flight; into flight; wing strength and flexibility; speed, power and flight control; forces out of ""thin"" air; galleons of the air; flight without wings.

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