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Mary Salcedo: About Those Insect Wings...

Have you ever marveled at the wings of a grasshopper? Postdoctoral research fellow and insect biomechanist Mary Salcedo of Virginia Tech has. She studies insect wings. Salcedo will present a seminar on "Hydraulics in an Insect Wing: How Venation...

This is a banded-wing grasshopper, family Acrididae. This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a banded-wing grasshopper, family Acrididae. This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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