A study of ladder-like silk foothold for the locomotion of bagworms

Abstract While walking on horizontal substrates, caterpillars skilfully engage all their legs, including three pairs of thoracic legs and a maximum of five pairs of prolegs, to move in a flexible wave-like motion. Such locomotory behaviours, represented by ‘crawling’ and ‘inching’ motions, have wide...

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Main Authors: Taiyo Yoshioka, Fumiko Yukuhiro, Tsunenori Kameda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95809-7

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