A new way to snoop on insect swoops and swirls

From Science Magazine.

Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adm7689

0:00 Current approaches to capturing insect flight
1:14 How the new tracking system works
2:42 Recording locusts and bees in the field
3:40 Mounting the tracking system onto a drone
4:58 Insects to observe in the future

Other research featured in the video:
Dragonfly loop-the-loops: https://www.science.org/content/article/absolutely-insane-dragonfly-s-extreme-loop-loops-are-unparalleled-nature
Bode Oke et al., Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0102
Serrano et al., Science Robotics, 2025:
Kim et al., Science Robotics 2025
Fabian et al., Nature Communications 2024: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0102
Phan et al., Nature 2024: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07755-9#Sec17
Phan et al., Science 2020: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd3285
Woodgate et al., Scientific Reports 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17553-1
Vo-Doan et al., Cyborg and Bionic Systems 2020: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2022/9780504#supplementary-materials