Watch How Fruit Flies Avoid Attack by Banking Like Fighter Jets

researchers have recorded a remarkable flight behavior in the fruit fly species Drosophila hydei, they report in tomorrow’s issue of Science. When threatened by a predator, the spry critters can change course in just one one-hundredth of a second, rolling on their sides and banking hard. Normally flapping their wings 200 times a second, the flies accomplish this in almost a single wing beat.

















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