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The problem of recording the daytime flight trajectories of insects in the field appears to have been first tackled by Sayer (1956) using multiple-exposure still photographs. Later, 16 mm cine cameras were used, with either normal frame rates (see references in Dahmen and Zeil, 1984), or with high-speed drives (Cooter and Baker, 1977; Baker et al., 1984). Successful night-time observations were also made with cine cameras fitted with electronic image intensifiers and by using infra-red illumination (Murlis and Bettany, 1977; Murlis et al., 1982), but both daylight and night-time cine methods required rather specialist expertise and equipment.
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Riley, J.R. (1994). Flying insects in the field. In: Wratten, S.D. (eds) Video Techniques in Animal Ecology and Behaviour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0699-3_1
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