"Now I have the answer," said Dickinson who conducted the study with Esther M and Abe M Zarem. He discovered the secret maneuvers after recording a number of threatened blow flies using a digital camera that can record the speed and high resolution.
They found that flies can recognize the threat based on location. Otanya will calculate how far the threat against him before deciding to flap his wings and fled.
After predicting the direction of the threat, his feet resting to fly in the opposite direction. All the preparation can be done to get away very quickly, just 100 milliseconds after it detects a hazard.
"It shows how quickly the fly brain to process sensory information into the appropriate response to the movement," said Dickinson. In fact, the flies manage to fit the threat posture.
That is, the flies have been well integrated with the visual information from the eyes and metasensorik information on his feet. These findings provide clues about the nervous system of flies and showed that in brain there is a threat to the position of the mapping system. "It's a transformation of stimulus into motion a little more complex and subsequent research to find parts of the brain that govern it," he said.
Of the system, Dickinson also can suggest the most effective way to hit a fly. According to him, the best time to hit a fly is not ready to fly when its position so that the time he needs to anticipate these threats are relatively longer. Certainly not easy to perform accurate movements of less than 100 milliseconds.
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