I recently found a moth fried to death in my outdoor electrical lamp, it found its way into a space with loose wiring. Upon unscrewing the lamp from the wall, this moth fell to the ground but wouldn’t stop flapping it’s wings for the better part of an hour. I’m curious about the energy consumption of each wing flap and how it could go on for so long without the energy dissipating from the clearly dead insect.
In: Biology
I mean our brains send electrical signals to our ligaments to move in a matter of nanoseconds, and when we die there is still somewhat of brain activity for a short duration of time.
Perhaps part of the mosquitos brain was still “alive” enough to react to electricity? It’s just like putting a coke can inside of a “dead” fish, some fishes jaws will clamp on it, it’s either a reflex or there is just enough juice left in the brain for it to enact that reflex
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