Mosquito Flight
4,171 views · Published 30 March 2009 · 3:35 · Indexed 5 October 2026
Channel: Cornell University · 2009 · Science & Technology
Cornell physicist Itai Cohen and his graduate student, Leif Ristroph, have developed a way of taking very high speed video -- 8000 pictures per second or about 40 frames per wing beat -- of free-flying mosquitoes. In collaboration with Laura Harrington and Ronald Hoy they have analyzed how mosquitoes actually fly.
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