Casas J. auteur aut IRD Dangles Olivier auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access Terrestrial and aquatic arthropods sense fluid flow in many behavioral and ecological contexts, using dedicated, highly sensitive mechanosensory hairs, which are often abundant. Strong similarities exist in the biomechanics of flow sensors and in the sensor v ecology of insects, arachnids, and crustaceans in their respective fluid environments. We extend these considerations to flow in sand and its implications for flow sensing by arthropods inhabiting this granular medium. Finally, we highlight the need to merge the various findings of studies that have focused on different arthropods in different fluids. This could be achieved using the unique combination, for sensory ecology, of both a workable and well-accepted mathematical model for hair-based flow sensing, both in air and water, and microelectronic mechanical systems microtechnology to tinker with physical models. specialized sensory ecology hairs mechanosensors sand flow biomimetic MEMS viscous flow 080 55 505-520 2010 0066-4170 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010080107 10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085342 0066-4170 [F B010080107] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010080107 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers21-02/010080107.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2010-03-10 2021-03-11 fdi:010080107 fre