Results from the exercise on arthropod locomotion


Name Species of arthropod Mass (gm) Length (mm) Velocity (cm/sec) Length of Appendage (mm)
Bickford
Daigle
Davenport
DenHartog
Dexter
Fisher
Gibbons
Haskell centipede 0.071 30 1
Hebert spider 0.010 4 5 1
Hennessy centipede 0.075 310 1 1
Horan beetle 0.038 10 3 4
Johnson spider 0.9 5 2
Kellerman millipede 0.045 23.5 1 0
Knight
Langlais
LeClaire
Louis
Means centipede 0.019 14.8 3 1
Olisky beetle 0.038 10 3 4
Packard spider 0.070 9.5 4 10
Paul spider 0.002 2 5 2
Penni
Planz beetle 0.060 12 9 5
Sawyer millipede 0.035 11 1 1
Schmidt
Scrafford centipede 0.039 24 0
St. Pierre
Thompson millipede 0.039 150 0
Walling
West spider 0.050 6.5 3 39
Wojcik ant 0.022 3 4

Last Update: 11/30/96

Name: Larry T. Spencer

Email: lts@plymouth.edu