{"id":1361,"date":"2018-11-20T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:34:47","slug":"earwigs-on-the-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Earwigs On The Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earwigs, those entirely harmless yet unduly reviled members of the insect world, are dear to my heart, and are the unofficial mascot of the Endless-Swarm. So it&#8217;s always a joy to find other articles appreciating them. This article from National Geographic titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2018\/11\/earwig-origami-wings-how-they-work-insect-flight\/\">An ode to earwig wings, which break the standard laws of origami<\/a>, comes with a lovely video by Fumihiko Hirai and Amy Rankin showing Japanese earwigs taking flight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1362\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1362\" class=\"wp-image-1362 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing1-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing1-1024x510.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earwig Wing. image courtesy of Julia Deiters, Wojciech Kowalczyk, Tobias Seidl<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The article highlights scientists Andres Arrieta, who co-authored\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6382\/1386\">Bioinspired spring origami<\/a>\u00a0on ScienceMag, and Julia Deiters,\u00a0 co-author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bio.biologists.org\/content\/5\/5\/638?ijkey=ce6eac2036a33d547fe1cd73e5d9b465617c29df&amp;keytype2=tf_ipsecsha\">Simultaneous optimisation of earwig hindwings for flight and folding<\/a> , which has the added delight of not being behind a paywall. Check it out!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-681\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\" alt=\"z end\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1363\" style=\"width: 1161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"wp-image-1363 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1151\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing2.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing2-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing2-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/earwig_labia_minor_wing2-921x1024.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earwig Wing. image courtesy of Julia Deiters, Wojciech Kowalczyk, Tobias Seidl<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earwigs, those entirely harmless yet unduly reviled members of the insect world, are dear to my heart, and are the unofficial mascot of the Endless-Swarm. So it&#8217;s always a joy to find other articles appreciating them. This article from National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=1361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insect","category-science","tag-earwig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}