Flight speed is positively correlated with body size in animals. However, miniature
featherwing beetles can fly at speeds and accelerations of insects three times their size …

Aerodynamic force generation capacity of the wing of a miniature beetle Paratuposa
placentis is evaluated using a combined experimental and numerical approach. The wing …

Insect wings are hybrid structures that are typically composed of veins and solid
membranes. In some of the smallest flying insects, however, the wing membrane is replaced …

Tiny flying insects of body lengths under 2 mm use the “clap-and-fling” mechanism with
bristled wings for lift augmentation and drag reduction at a chord-based Reynolds number …

In contrast to common continuous wings, microscopic flying insects such as fairyfly and
thrips possess extraordinary wings that comprise several bristles. In the low-Reynolds …

Smallest flying insects commonly have bristled wings and use novel aerodynamic
mechanisms to provide flight forces, such as the fling mechanism. In the fling motion, the left …

The smallest flying insects with body lengths under 2 mm show a marked preference for
wings consisting of a thin membrane with long bristles, and the use of clap and fling …

Some microscopic flying insects have evolved bristled wings. In the low-Reynolds-number
regime they reside in, these porous wings perform like membranous wings because the …

Several tiny insects have peculiar porous wings composed of many bristles and perform an
interesting passive flight known as parachuting. Despite numerous studies on the freefall of …

Inspired by the bristled wing configuration of tiny insects, we proposed a novel polyimide (PI)
cantilever-based differential pressure (DP) sensor. This bristled PI cantilever with a thin …