Physics of sliding on water explains morphological and behavioural allometry across a wide range of body sizes in water striders (Gerridae)
Woojoo Kim, Jae Hong Lee, Thai Hong Pham, Anh Duc Tran, Jungmoon Ha, Sang Yun Bang, Jeongseop Lee, Piotr G. Jablonski, Ho-Young Kim, Sang-im Lee · 2024
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Woojoo Kim and nine co-authors study how water striders glide across ponds in a 2024 physics paper. These insects row with their middle legs and then slide on the surface. The rowing stroke is well understood, but the slide that follows it had not been studied, so the team asked how body size shapes that glide.
They built a model of floating and drag during the slide and checked it against insects of many sizes. The model says heavy striders cannot hold their front body up on their front legs alone while both middle legs recover. Large species cope with longer front legs or an uneven gait. Mid-sized ones switch gaits in ways that cut drag.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Woojoo Kim, Jae Hong Lee, Thai Hong Pham, Anh Duc Tran, Jungmoon Ha, Sang Yun Bang, Jeongseop Lee, Piotr G. Jablonski, Ho-Young Kim, Sang-im Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |