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Askew, Graham, Senior, Emily and Tickle, Peter (2026) Insects select flight speeds that coincide with low metabolic energy expenditure - data. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1870

Dataset description

These data relate to an investigation into the energetic cost of flight across a range of airspeeds in four species of insects. The data are metabolic power (W) and metabolic cost of transport (J/kg/m) together with insect ID, body mass and airspeed.

Keywords:	insect, energetics, flight, behaviour, bumblebee, locust, blowfly, hawkmoth
Subjects:	B000 - Subjects allied to medicine > B100 - Anatomy, physiology & pathology > B120 - Physiology C000 - Biological sciences > C100 - Biology > C120 - Behavioural biology C000 - Biological sciences > C300 - Zoology > C340 - Entomology D000 - Veterinary sciences, agriculture & related subjects > D300 - Animal science > D320 - Animal health > D322 - Animal physiology
Divisions:	Faculty of Biological Sciences > School of Biomedical Sciences
Related resources:	Location Type https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/241208/ Publication
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	02 Sep 2026 14:59
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1630
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Askew, Graham https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-4439 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Senior, Emily University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Tickle, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-3580 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Research funders: BBSRC Grant numbers: BB/J000523/1, BB/R00109X/1 Publication date: 2026 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: g.n.askew@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 07 Sep 2026 11:00

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