Ladybug with Artificial Wing (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Ladybug with Artificial Wing

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Researchers transplanted a transparent artificial forewing, or elytron, onto a Coccinella septempunctata seven-spotted ladybug (left) to observe its wing-folding process in detail. The artificial wing is made of ultraviolet light-cured resin and constructed from a silicon impression of the elytron's undersurface.

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2017 Kazuya Saito.

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