Scientists found earlier unknown jumping behavior in larvae of insects

The group of researchers of Clinic diseases of plants and insects Universities the State of North Carolina found absolutely new to larvae of insects a way of jumps, and there are proofs of that it meets at a number of types – simply we did not notice it earlier. Work was published in the PLOS magazine. It is reported that at larvae of one of types of flat bark beetles (Laemophloeus biguttatus) not registered behavior was revealed earlier. In particular, larvae are capable to jump in air, and each larva at a jump forward is displaced in a loop. Uniqueness of these jumps consists in...