waterlily beetles
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Studying These Bugs Led Researchers To Discover An Entirely New Mode Of Insect Flight
If the waterlily beetle were the size of a human, it would fly along the surface of a pond at 500km/h. Then again, if a waterlily beetle were human, it wouldn’t fly at all. The beetle is subject to, and able to take advantage of, forces we don’t even notice — and when scientists did…