The answer to the “what flies without wings” riddle is “time”.
The only known species of flightless bird in which wings completely disappeared was the gigantic, herbivorous moa of New Zealand, hunted to extinction by humans by the 15th century. In moa, the entire pectoral girdle is reduced to a paired scapulocoracoid, which is the size of a finger.
Cloud . Figuratively speaking, Cloud lives in heaven or sky like pigeons, vultures, kites, eagles, hawks, etc. It has no wings but flies (driven by wind). The rain or the drops of rain can be likened to tears.
talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but. never sleeps? Answer: A River!
An echo speaks without a mouth and hears without ears. It comes alive with wind. Hence, 'An echo' is the required answer to this riddle.
The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have.
Fleas, lice, silverfish, and firebrats are the only truly wingless insect groups that most of us are familiar with. Most adult insects have two pairs of wings, but they're not always visible. Often they're hidden, shortened, or nonfunctional.
Of course, not all insects have developed wings, these including such groups as spring-tails and silverfish. Some parasitic groups are believed to have lost their wings through evolution. When wings are present in insects, they commonly consist of two pairs.
The midge — the only insect endemic to Antarctica — is a small, wingless fly that spends most of its two-year larval stage frozen in the Antarctic ice. Upon adulthood, the insects spend seven to ten days mating and laying eggs, and then they die.
The two pairs of grasshopper wings differ in shape, structure, and function (Fig. 7). The front pair, or tegmina, are leathery and narrow with the sides nearly parallel. The hind wings are membranous and fan-shaped.
Spiders don't have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk.
Solider Fly
The female of this species of soldier fly, Boreoides subulatus, is wingless. This fly is often referred to as a "walk", due to its lack of wings. The adult males do have wings but they are much smaller than the females. They start their lives in compost and soil, emerging as adults when autumn rains come.
The “flying” possum known as a sugar glider have soft membranes between their wrists and ankles that allow them to glide from tree to tree. The gliding gecko has webbed feet, a flattened tail, and skin flaps on the sides of its body to help it travel through the forest on air.
The kiwi is much more than just a native New Zealand bird, it's an iconic symbol of the nation. Although the kiwi is a bird, kiwi are not able to fly. This isn't unusual in New Zealand, which is home to more species of flightless birds than anywhere else in the world.
Apterygota is a subclass of small, agile insects which in their present and evolutionary history, differ from other insects due to their lack of wings.
Flightless fruit flies (Order Diptera) encompass a variety of different species of fly, such as Drosophila melanogaster, Bactrocera cucurbitae, Bactrocera dorsalis, and Drosophila hydei, with genetic mutations that cause them to be flightless.
Humans are not physically designed to fly. We cannot create enough lift to overcome the force of gravity (or our weight). It's not only wings that allow birds to fly. Their light frame and hollow bones make it easier to counteract gravity.
Unlike most other invertebrates, spiders - like humans - have more centralised organs such as the heart and the brain.
Such ballooning events aren't unique to Australia. They also occur in the Northern Hemisphere—ballooning spiders have been spotted in the United States and Britain, for instance—but are still "relatively rare and random," Bennett says. The spiders pose "no danger to people.
The researchers found that the smaller the spider, the bigger its brain relative to its body size. In some spiders, the central nervous system took up nearly 80 percent of the space in their bodies, sometimes even spilling into their legs.
Insects like silverfish and springtails are called “primitively wingless” because neither they nor their ancestors ever had wings. They do have 6 legs and 3 body parts and segmented bodies, and although their status has been debated for a long time, they are generally considered to be a primitive insect.
Is a dragonfly an insect or a bug? A dragonfly falls under the classification of insect. Dragonflies have 6 legs and two pairs of wings. These are just two of the characteristics that qualify it as an insect.
House crickets are fully winged and can fly; however, they usually prefer to crawl or hop.
The most common cricket in Australia is the Black Field Cricket (Teleogryllus commodus). It grows to about 2.5 cm long. Their body and wings are brown, and their heads, long antennas and hind legs are all black.
cockroaches. Often times crickets found in the home end up in some of the same places as cockroaches. People see the dark black or brown bodies of the crickets and assume they're cockroaches. However, they are entirely different species of insect and generally pose much less of a risk than a cockroach infestation.