Sanjay P. Sane

This study tests the gearbox hypothesis for insect flight control by ablating the pleural wing process in freely flying houseflies and finds no significant difference in wingbeat amplitude modulation during turns.

This study investigates how nymphal praying mantises estimate distance and elevation angle for targeted jumps using distinct behavioral strategies.

This study examines how black soldier flies adjust their flight in response to headwind gusts, revealing key kinematic strategies that could inform the design of more stable micro aerial vehicles.

This study investigates how termites use soil as a medium for communication through caste-specific responses to volatile and non-volatile pheromones.

This study investigates mound repair behavior in termites by creating breaches and observing repair dynamics, identifying light as a systemic cue that triggers repair through an extraocular mechanism.

This study investigates how JO neurons in hawkmoths encode angular position and velocity of the antennal flagellum through intracellular recordings and ramp-and-hold stimuli.

The paper characterizes the morphology and anatomy of the femoral chordotonal organ in the hawkmoth Daphnis nerii and proposes a mechanical model of its function.

This study shows that hawkmoths use mechanosensory cephalic bristles to rapidly initiate flight without pre-warming, bypassing the need for shivering and enabling quick escape from predators.

The paper investigates the motor apparatus for head movements in the Oleander hawkmoth, focusing on anatomical structures and proposing hypotheses about their function in gaze stabilization.

The paper shows that small-amplitude head oscillations in hawkmoths result from the dynamic interaction of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback in a multimodal stabilization reflex.

This study investigates how hawkmoths use antennal mechanosensory feedback and vision for flight control, finding that antennae mediate fast maneuvers while vision handles slower ones.