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A fly's wing
(right)

The resilin in insects' joints
stores energy generated through
expansion and contraction. As a result, some insects are
able to beat their wings up to 1,000 times a second.

ed onto it. Thanks to this, some 85% of the energy an insect expends
in raising its wing is used again when it lowers the wing. The in-

sect's chest walls and muscles have also been created to permit such
energy storage. This allows extraordinary energy to be released,
making it possible for insect wings to beat between 200 (for honey-
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bees) and even 1,000 times a second (in sand flies).
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE sect's thorax turned into wings. They must know how weak that
Evolutionists suggest that some of the chitin layers in the in-

claim is, because they also state that there is no fossil to verify this.

Various scenarios have also been produced to explain how insect
flight evolved. According to the so-called tracheal theory, when in-

222 sects living in water emerged onto land, they developed wings