In recent years, small celestial bodies (SCBs) exploration missions have attracted extensive
attention. For the purposes of space resource exploitation and earth defense, revealing the …

Adult female desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) dig underground to lay their eggs,
ensuring optimal conditions for successful hatching. Digging is performed using the two …

Investigating nature's ingenious designs and systems has become a cornerstone of
innovation, influencing fields from robotics, biomechanics, and physics to material sciences …

The female locust lays its eggs deep within soft substrate to protect them from predators and
provide optimal conditions for successful development and hatching. During oviposition …

Abstract Miniature, sharped-edge, curved-shape biomechanical elements appear in various
biological systems and grant them diverse functional capabilities, such as mechanical …

The exoskeleton of spiders is the primary structure that interacts with the external
mechanical stimuli, thus playing a crucial role in spider life. In particular, fangs, legs, and …

Background The female locust is equipped with unique digging tools, namely two pairs of
valves—a dorsal and a ventral—utilized for excavating an underground hole in which she …

Simple Summary Female moths display a rhythmic motor pattern, a “calling behaviour”, to
release sex pheromones and attract of conspecific males for mating. Pheromone release …

When digging in the ground during egg laying the female locust extends her abdomen to 2-3
times of its original length. How the abdominal nervous system accommodates such extreme …

The female locust lays its eggs deep within soft substrate to protect them from predators and
provide optimal conditions for successful hatching. During oviposition digging, the female …