Howdy bug lovers! Last episode, we started our discussion of insect locomotion by getting up close and personal with insect legs. Today, we'll be a little more airborne as we discuss insect wings. Insects are the only invertebrates with the power of flight and there have long been questions about the origin of insect wings in the evolutionary record. Tune in to hear about the multiple theories on the origin of wings, how wings help with insect identification, and just how bugs take flight. 

Show notes

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/244541v1 

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-insect-wings-evolved-legs-ancestral-crustacean 

https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/unearthing-the-evolutionary-origins-of-insect-wings-69845 

https://ag.arizona.edu/classes/ento596c/topic/session4.html

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/wings.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_wing

https://cronodon.com/BioTech/Insect_locomotion.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_flight

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