Movie S2.

Wing-folding motion of a ladybird beetle imaged with a high-speed camera. Ladybird beetles are known to use their elytra and abdomen for folding. The transplantation of the artificial acrylic elytron enables a detailed observation of these wing-folding techniques.

Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles by artificial elytron transplantation and microcomputed tomography

Kazuya Saito, Shuhei Nomura, Shuhei Yamamoto, Ryuma Niyama, and Yoji Okabe

PNAS. 2017. 114:5624-5628 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114