Insect Flight
- ISBN-10
- 1351082035
- ISBN-13
- 9781351082037
- Series
- Insect Flight
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 383
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-01
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Author
- Graham J. Goldsworthy
Description
Insects are the most numerous class of animals or earth, both in terms of their number and their variety. There are 800,000 recognized species, with between 1 and 10 million estimated species yet to be classified. This book will discuss, mechanics of flight, Wing structure, Hovering flight, flight in smaller and larger insects and wing polars.
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