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Failure to take into account this dual function of insect wings led to the famous
miscalculation proving that bees could not fly. The bee had been analyzed as a
helicopter. So it is with the fly. To stay airborne and move forward, the fly must
beat ...
Failure to take into account this dual function of insect wings led to the famous
miscalculation proving that bees could not fly. The bee had been analyzed as a
helicopter. So it is with the fly. To stay airborne and move forward, the fly must
beat ...
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The first fruitful experimental approach to this problem began less than fifty years
ago with a very shrewd observation; namely, that flies (and bees and butterflies)
walked about in their food and constantly stuck out their tongues. The next time ...
The first fruitful experimental approach to this problem began less than fifty years
ago with a very shrewd observation; namely, that flies (and bees and butterflies)
walked about in their food and constantly stuck out their tongues. The next time ...
Page 102
Ants can be taught to run mazes, bees can be conditioned to certain colors. The
famous ant of Professor Wheeler of Harvard learned to wait for the good
professor to lift her up to the stage of his microscope, where there was food,
instead of ...
Ants can be taught to run mazes, bees can be conditioned to certain colors. The
famous ant of Professor Wheeler of Harvard learned to wait for the good
professor to lift her up to the stage of his microscope, where there was food,
instead of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | To know a fly |
| Author | Vincent Gaston Dethier |
| Publisher | Holden-Day, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 119 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biological research Biology Flies Insects Nature / Insects & Spiders Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology |
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