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High speed movie with images captured at 1000 s-1 and replayed at 10 s-1 of a male O. nobilis taking-off as viewed from the side.

Do the enlarged hind legs of male thick-legged flower beetles contribute to take-off or mating?

Malcolm Burrows

Journal of Experimental Biology 2020. 223:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.212670