To determine to which type of activity the exoskeletons of insect legs are best adapted, Parle and colleagues investigated the biomechanics of tibias from three insects -- desert locust ...

Insect legs could help engineers improve the safety ... In particular, they help resist a particular type of buckling called elastic buckling. This shows how material properties and geometry ...

Similar to mammals, the “knee joint” of insect legs, the femur-tibia joint ... mechanisms by which nervous systems combine different types of proprioceptive signals to form a coherent internal ...

No legs? Not a problem. Some pudgy insect larvae can still jump up to 36 ... suggesting that the tiny projections might stick together as type of latch. Such structures could inspire new types ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Tokyo.

People’s proud invention of gears was preceded by mindless evolution: The tiny points on the legs of juvenile planthopper insects move like intermeshing cogs. Those cogs in young Issus ...

The image above is an extreme close-up of a common British insect called a planthopper. You’re looking at it from below, at the point where its two hind legs connect to its body. In the middle ...

The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears (magnified above with an electron microscope) to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. All images ...