Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Power requirements of butterflies in hovering flight.
Songtao Chu, Jianghao Wu, Yanlai Zhang
Published: 202610.1088/1748-3190/ae3eea
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that many insects frequently alternate between hovering and forward flight with comparable power expenditure. However, hovering is relatively rare in butterflies, raising the question of whether this behaviour entails high…
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