Re: VRD - physics of butterfly wings

I went on the web to see what I could find and there is not a lot on the 
butterfly.  The current excitement is about insects with more rapid wing 
rotation than is characteristic of butterflies.

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There are loads of web references on the physics of insect flight, though I 
couldn?t find any specifically about butterfly flight.  For references in my 
search I used +flight +physics +insect   Using +butterfly +flight got me 
nothing.


The apparent hot item in insect flight is robofly, designed to mimic wing 
movements of a fruit fly.



http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Assign/topics/fly/


And other references.



http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/Insect_flight.htm



http://faculty.washington.edu/callis/Flight/Insect_Flight_A-99.htm
The following book reviews were found.



http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6881.html



http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-850089-0


The following may be deeper than what you had in mind and is similar to the 
first reference.



http://faculty.washington.edu/callis/Flight/Insect_Flight_A-99.htm