of crickets and grasshoppers …
By Rhiannonw
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Hear the little cricket ‘sing’,
using teeth upon its wing
(raised to help acoustically),
‘heard’ by membrane on its knee.
Grasshoppers upon a farm –
most do good or little harm.
Locusts sometimes swarm, then drop
devastating useful crop.
Locusts fly so easily,
– well designed their wings must be.
How come their working's so proficient?
– we want robots this efficient.
Flying studied: wing complexity,
vein arrangement, flexibility
varying shape so drag decreases
– lowered food-needs, range increases.
Engineers want to copy
wings controllable and floppy:
robotic aircraft to search places
dangerous, and tiny spaces.
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Wow fun and technical.
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I really like the way from
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Hi Rhiannon
Hi Rhiannon
I think this is one of the earliest of your poems that I have read. Again it tells a little story, and would appeal in a book of short stories from children with illustrations.
Jean
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