When your X-ray subject has wings—peering inside insects with the advanced photon source
Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Slowly flapping its orange and black wings, a monarch butterfly sips liquid from a patch of mud. Its proboscis – the mouthpart that sucks up liquids – grazes the damp soil. For years, biologists knew that butterflies drew liquids up from surfaces with pores differently than they do from flowers. But they had no way to observe those differences.