On Heels and Toes: How Ants Climb with Adhesive Pads and Tarsal Friction Hair Arrays

Surface contact and design of fibrillar 'friction pads' in stick insects (Carausius morosus): mechanisms for large friction coefficients and negligible adhesion

(2014) D. Labonte et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Functionally Different Pads on the Same Foot Allow Control of Attachment: Stick Insects Have Load-Sensitive “Heel” Pads for Friction and Shear-Sensitive “Toe” Pads for Adhesion

(2013) David Labonte et al.   PLoS One

Friction ridges in cockroach climbing pads: anisotropy of shear stress measured on transparent, microstructured substrates

(2009) Christofer J. Clemente et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Division of labour and sex differences between fibrillar, tarsal adhesive pads in beetles: effective elastic modulus and attachment performance

(2009) J. M. R. Bullock et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Comparison of smooth and hairy attachment pads in insects: friction, adhesion and mechanisms for direction-dependence

(2008) J. M. R. Bullock et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Pushing versus pulling: division of labour between tarsal attachment pads in cockroaches

(2008) C. J Clemente et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary scenarios for unusual attachment devices of Phasmatodea and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta)

(2008) ROLF G. BEUTEL et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Frictional and elastic energy in gecko adhesive detachment

(2007) N. Gravish et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface