Tag: insects
Static Electricity Helps Parasitic Nematodes Leap onto Insects
Watch These Parasitic Worms Use Static Electricity as a Tractor Beam For microscopic worms, physical laws we seldom notice take on life-or-death importance By Cody Cottier edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Flows of tracer particles show the attractive force of a positively charged fruit fly. Parasitic nematodes use this static charge to leap onto the…
Nanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious Camouflage
Nanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious Camouflage Artificial versions of nanoscale soccer-ball-like structures called brochosomes might be used to make new forms of military camouflage, self-cleaning surfaces or hydrogen fuel By Ivan Amato edited by Gary Stix Brochosomes “Our group first became intrigued by brochosomes around 2015, drawn…