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Insects in Flight

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Blandford Press 1995Description: 192p. 204 colour photographsISBN:
  • 071372594X
  • 071372594X
  • 9780713725940
Subject(s): 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

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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