
If the waterlily beetle were the size of a human, it would fly along the surface of a pond at 500 kilometers an hour. Then again, if a waterlily beetle were human, it wouldn’t fly at all. The beetle is subject to, and able to take advantage of, forces we don’t even notice—and when scientists did notice, they realized the beetle was flying the way no other bug in the world does.
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, Studying These Bugs Led Researchers to Discover an Entirely New Mode of Insect Flight, 
If the waterlily beetle were the size of a human, it would fly along the surface of a pond at 500 kilometers an hour. Then again, if a waterlily beetle were human, it wouldn’t fly at all. The beetle is subject to, and able to take advantage of, forces we don’t even notice—and when scientists did notice, they realized the beetle was flying the way no other bug in the world does.
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, Studying These Bugs Led Researchers to Discover an Entirely New Mode of Insect Flight