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8 days ago

Flying insects depend on grappling hooks and sticky pads on their feet for successful landings, but it turns out that the grappling hooks are key for convergent lady beetle landings on vertical surfaces

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A photo of a convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens) hanging upside down from a piece of smooth plastic. Photo credit: Alyssa Hernandez.

Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social

8 days ago

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A screenshot of the first page of the PDF of Get a grip: evaluating the importance of different beetle tarsal structures in landing attachment, by Alyssa M. Hernandez and Brian D. Farrell. The publishing details state: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb249823. doi:10.1242/jeb.249823. The first sentence of the Abstract says, To successfully locomote across leaf surfaces, which vary in roughness and inclination, beetles evolved tarsal structures (setae and claws) that allow attachment.

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