Watch How Fruit Flies Avoid Attack by Banking Like Fighter Jets

Researchers have recorded a remarkable flight behavior in the fruit fly species Drosophila hydei, they report today in Science. When threatened by a predator, the spry critters can change course in just one one-hundredth of a second, rolling on their sides and banking hard. Normally flapping their wings 200 times a second, the flies accomplish this in almost a single wing beat.

Watch How Fruit Flies Avoid Attack by Banking Like Fighter Jets