Editing Click beetle (section)

=== Clicking ability ===
The ability of click beetles to "click" their bodies, sometimes launching themselves into the air, has been studied in detail.<ref name=":0" /> It has three stages -- the pre-jump stage, the takeoff stage, and the airborne stage.<ref name=":0" /> The beetle is supine, on its back, in the pre-jump stage, and over ~2-3s it rotates its [[prothorax]] (foremost section) down to touch the ground in a bracing position.<ref name=":0" /> In the takeoff phase the prothorax rotates rapidly upward in a "snap", launching the beetle off of the ground and ballistically into the air.<ref name=":0" /> Crucially, the beetle uses specialized mechanisms to hold itself in the bracing position while its muscles continue to contract, until it releases the tension in one "snap".<ref name=":0" />