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Science 24 August 1962:
Vol. 137. no. 3530, pp. 609 - 610
DOI: 10.1126/science.137.3530.609
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Flight Behavior of a Fly Alighting on a Ceiling

William G. Hyzer 1

1 300 West Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wisconsin

Salient features in the maneuvers executed by a house fly (Musca domestica) in ascending to land on the underside of a horizontal surface have been observed in photographs exposed in a continuous-writing high-speed framing camera. Details of the action and the instrumentation required to record it are described.

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