{"id":13378,"date":"2015-04-26T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13378"},"modified":"2015-04-26T06:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:41:21","slug":"halteres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13378","title":{"rendered":"Halteres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rockets have them; drones have them; cruise ships have them; space telescopes have\u00a0them; smart phones have them; and some insects have them. They are\u00a0gyroscopes, rapidly spinning or vibrating devices that, by maintaining orientation in space, can assist navigation by monitoring changes in direction.<\/p>\n<p>The insects with gyro-stabilized flight are found in Diptera, the order comprising true flies.\u00a0The ancestors of Diptera, which means two wings, had four wings. The two hind wings evolved to become the halteres, rapidly vibrating organs that assist in inertial navigation and look like twirlers&#8217; batons.<\/p>\n<p>While a characteristic of all flies, the halteres are especially\u00a0visible\u00a0on a crane fly. They are the two rods, terminated with a ball, located just behind the wings. The halteres are set at right angles to each other, ideal for detecting changes in orientation about two axes.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13379\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cranefly150416s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rockets have them; drones have them; cruise ships have them; space telescopes have\u00a0them; smart phones have them; and some insects have them. They are\u00a0gyroscopes, rapidly spinning or vibrating devices that, by maintaining orientation in space, can assist navigation by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13378"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13398,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions\/13398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}