Extreme suction attachment performance from specialised insects living in mountain streams (Diptera: Blephariceridae).
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SUBMITTER: Kang V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565926 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
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Extreme suction attachment performance from specialised insects living in mountain streams (Diptera: Blephariceridae).
Kang Victor V White Robin T RT Chen Simon S Federle Walter W
eLife 20211103
Suction is widely used by animals for strong controllable underwater adhesion but is less well understood than adhesion of terrestrial climbing animals. Here we investigate the attachment of aquatic insect larvae (Blephariceridae), which cling to rocks in torrential streams using the only known muscle-actuated suction organs in insects. We measured their attachment forces on well-defined rough substrates and found that their adhesion was less reduced by micro-roughness than that of terrestrial c ...[more]
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