Weight of typical fly

Range ~10 μN
Organism Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Reference Dickinson MH, Götz KG. The wake dynamics and flight forces of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Biol. 1996 Sep199(Pt 9):2085-104. p.2099 right column bottom linePubMed ID8831148
Comments "The weight of a typical Drosophila melanogaster is about 10 µN." See BNID 102570
Entered by Uri M
ID 110030