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Insects and other terrestrial critters
Seaweeds and other marine life

Videos

High-speed video of mason bees Osmia lignaria expelling fluid from their abdomen.
Filmed at 5000 f.p.s Played back at 25 f.p.s.
High-speed video of a mason bee Osmia lignaria flying over a mound of glitter (showing air currents generated by the wings) and through falling glitter (showing collisions between the wing and the glitter)
Filmed at 5000 f.p.s. Played back at 25 f.p.s.
High-speed video of a Figeater Beetle Cotinis mutabilis flying through a narrow opening.
Filmed at 5000 f.p.s.  Played back at 50 f.p.s.
High-speed video of a mason bee Osmia lignaria flying over glitter.
Filmed at 5000 f.p.s.  Played back at 50 f.p.s.
High-speed video of a honeybee Apis mellifera transiting and colliding with moving obstacles in a wind tunnel.
From Burnett et al. 2020 (Link).
Filmed at 1500 f.p.s. Played back at 60 f.p.s.
Recent updates
  • October 26, 2022 - New pre-print: "Close encounters of three kinds: impacts of leg, wing, and body collisions on flight performance in carpenter bees" with Dr. Stacey Combes (Link)
  • August 25, 2022 - New publication: Burnett and Koehl (2022) Ecological biomechanics of damage to macroalgae. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:981904 (Open access link)
  • July 22, 2022 - New publication: Burnett et al. (2022) An evaluation of common methods for comparing the scaling of vertical force production in flying insects. Current Research in Insect Science 2: 100042. (Open access link)
  • March 31, 2022 - New publication: Burnett et al. (2022) A push for inclusive data collection in STEM organizations. Science 376(6588):37-39 (Link)
  • March 24, 2022 - New publication: Burnett et al. (2022) Wind and route choice affect performance of bees flying above versus within a cluttered obstacle field. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265911. (Link)
  • February 13, 2022 - New pre-print: "A critique of common methods for comparing the scaling of vertical force production in flying insects" with Emily Keliher and Dr. Stacey Combes (Link)
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