Science Shack: Walking on the Ceiling

Synopsis: In this edition of the science series, Adam Hart-Davis and an Australian team investigate the fly’s ability to walk upside down on the ceiling. The programme features the first-ever film to capture flies in this position, and the efforts of the team to build contraptions that would enable humans to walk upside down too.
The programme explains that flies have feet covered in hooks, similar to Velcro, which allow the insect to walk upside down. In this programme Adam Hart-Davis tests suggestions given by members of the public to explain how insects can walk on ceilings.
Series: Science Shack, Xs006
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2001
Year of production: 2001
Subjects: Science
Keywords: flies; gravity; inventions

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