To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Movie 1 High-speed video of the take-off of an unfed mosquito filmed from the side. The video was recorded at 13,500 frames per second, and play-back was slowed down 450 times. The video corresponds to the photo-montage of Fig. 2A. Escaping blood-fed malaria mosquitoes minimize tactile detection without compromising on take-off speed F. T. Muijres, S. W. Chang, W. G. van Veen, J. Spitzen, B. T. Biemans, M. A. R. Koehl, and R. Dudley Journal of Experimental Biology 2017. 220:3751-3762; doi: 10.1242/jeb.163402 Download Original Video