For Flight, Bees Rely on a Familiar Mechanism (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

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Movie of the wing-beat of a bumblebee, containing a whole wing-beat cycle. The yellow dot indicates the wing position determined by software. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 22 August, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Iwamoto and N. Yagi, at SPring-8, JASRI in Hyogo, Japan, was titled, " The Molecular Trigger for High-Speed Wing Beats in a Bee."

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