Movie 3.

Deployment of a ladybird elytra with setae scraped off.

Inside the coupling of ladybird beetle elytra: elastic setae can facilitate swift deployment

Qiufeng Yuan, Le Zong, Jie Zhang, Jianing Wu, Yunqiang Yang, and Siqin Ge

Journal of Experimental Biology 2022. 225:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.244343