Flight fantastic

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Summer is the time to see insects on the wing. But how do these diverse and myriad

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FOSSIL EVIDENCE TELLS US THAT insects have put wings to good use in their domination of the planet for the past 325 million years. However, some of these insects have given up their various motile fla

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