video: High-speed video recording of an example longitudinal-body-swing-dominated landing. A fly lands upside down using a large longitudinal leg-assisted body swing. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 23rd, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Liu at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA, and colleagues was titled, "Flies land upside down on a ceiling using rapid visually mediated rotational maneuvers." view more
Credit: Bo Cheng and Pan Liu, the Pennsylvania State University