Sticky berries adhere with strength and ease
41. Lure tricks prey: bolas spider
"So called for their talent for producing a large, sticky, ball-shaped lure that is twirled around on the end of a silken rope, held by one of their eight legs, the cunning bolas spider coats the object with a special secretion that smells like th...
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Email42. Light helps capture insects: glow worms
"Before a short adult life as a gnat, larvae in the genus Arachnocampa spend months as carnivorous glowworms in caves or sheltered areas using light as a lure…a hungry New Zealand glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa, lays a trap. From its...
43. Humidity changes exoskeleton color: Hercules beetle
"The Hercules beetle, Dynastes Hercules [sic] L., can change the colour of its elytra—horny fore-wings—from black to greenish yellow and back again to black all within a few minutes. It does this in a way previously unknown among ...
44. Arctic diving with Mor-Fins otter-like
This shows a diver using bio-mimcry based fins in Arctic waters.
45. Fibers keep tall spikes upright: titan arum
"The tall grey spadix [of the titan arum], which is filled with cobweb-like support fibres, becomes flaccid, topples forward and droops over the margin of the spathe. The spathe itself contracts inwards and its upper margins start to twist round t...
46. Joint enables rapid wing flapping: insects
"There is a system in flies, honeybees, and wasps that transforms wing flaps into 'automatic' movements. The muscles that enable flight in these insects are not directly tied to the bones of the body. The wings are attached to the chest with a joi...
47. Baleen Filters water filters
The Baleen filter is a highly efficient, non-pressurized self-cleaning separation technology that offers reliable, trouble-free filtration to 25 microns without chemical assistance. Therefore there are o...
48. Glue fibers form underwater: caddisfly
"Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead [of] on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it...
49. Hairs change position quickly: sundew
"A few leaves, however, have been turned into active traps. Sundews grow in European bogs and marshes. Three-quarters of the family live in western Australia…The leaves of all are covered with hairs that on the outer margins may be half an ...
50. CAO and SKO design software
CAO (computer-aided optimization) and SKO (soft kill option) software was developed by Claus Mattheck at the Karlsruhe Research Centre in Germany. The CAO and SKO software works with FEM (Finite Element Model) used in engineering design. FEM is a ...
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