The University of Florida has the fastest wing beat in the world.
C.W.The Department of Entomology is at the University of Florida.
Using a beat-frequency oscillator as well as personal auditory analysis, Sotavalta found that a midge of the genera Forcipomyia attained a wing beat Frequency of 1046 Hz.
The insects need a lot of energy to beat their wings.The amount of drag created during wing movement and the weight of the wings have been reduced by insects.The fastest recorded wing beat was achieved by a small ceratopogonid midge.
I used the University of Florida's computerized library catalog to find references to wing frequencies beat.The Biological Abstracts that I searched on CD-ROM were not helpful.Locating citations of primary literature in published books on insect flight was the most useful technique.
A Polish researcher published extensively on insect flight.Sotavalta found that a species of Chironomous had a wing beat Frequency between 650 and 700 Hz.A member of the genera Forcipomyia had most masterfully exploited its asynchronous muscle system by achieving a wing beat Frequency of 1046.The flight tones were recorded through the experiment of removing most of the wing area as well as exposing it to temperatures up to 37C.!
There are two groups of insect muscle systems.Because of delays in the transmission of motor nerve impulses and the activation of the contractile system of muscle fibers, most insects cannot produce muscle contractions greater than 100/s.There are currently two exceptions to the limit that insects don't read.The tymbal muscles are used in sound production in the cicada.Young and Josephson were both born in 1983.When singing, the cone-head Neoconocephalus robustus has thoracic muscle contractions.