Scientists observe wind-powered wheel locomotion in tiger beetle larvae (w/ video)
Monday, March 28, 2011 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted by Georgia Southern University associate professor of biology Alan Harvey, Ph.D. along with former Georgia Southern University biology graduate student Sarah Zukoff will be published in PLoS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Harvey and Zukoff recently documented the first case of wind-powered wheel locomotion in larvae of "one of the best-studied insects in North America," the Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle Cicindela dorsalis (subspecies media).