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A developmental switch from capillary rectification to elastic catapult enables honeydew ejection in the spotted lanternfly
Nami Ha, Elio J. Challita, Jacob S. Harrison +4
Plant sap-feeding insects must dispose of excess fluid, yet at millimeter scales droplet release is constrained by capillary adhesion and contact-line pinning. How phloem-feeding i…
Fluid ejections in nature
Elio J. Challita, Pankaj Rohilla, M. Saad Bhamla
From microscopic fungi to colossal whales, fluidic ejections are a universal and intricate phenomenon in biology, serving vital functions such as animal excretion, venom spraying,…
Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails
Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez, Elio J. Challita, Baekgyeom Kim +4
Springtails (Collembola) have been traditionally portrayed as explosive jumpers with incipient directional takeoff and uncontrolled landing. However, for these collembolans who liv…
Slingshot spiders build tensed underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts
Elio J. Challita, Symone Alexander, Sarah Han +4
We develop a mathematical model to capture the web dynamics of slingshot spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae), which utilize a tension line to deform their orb webs into conical sp…