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It would be really helpful to see an animated model of the wing stroke. It's rather difficult to visualize for someone (like me) unfamiliar with the language of this specialty.

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There are several videos at the end of the article under section Supplementary Information, for example:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

I'm lazy. I'll wait for this guy's video.

https://www.youtube.com/c/AntLab

These beetles are smaller than the eyes of most of the bugs in that vid. He would need better equipment to get these.

Some of the videos are impressive. This guys are really small and filmed at very high velocity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeSnWY6DNc

That is really amazing. For 10,863 fps to be just too damn too slow, so you need to go to 73,510 fps to pick up what an insect is doing, is wacky.

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