DARPA’s MAV project has accelerated a lot of studies on insect flights to gain insights for flapping MAV development [1]. In particular, the insects adept at hovering have become major subjects of these investigations [2–3]. Due to the great contributions by pioneers, we are now able to well explain how the insects produce the enhanced aerodynamic forces in the hovering flight at intricate flow regime [4].

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