Bennet-Clark: described the idea that fleas might jump off their trochanters as ‘about as silly as saying you could jump out of a chair by clenching your buttocks’ - Courtesy of Kate Jones ...

Henry Bennet-Clark, who has died aged 90, was a zoologist of invertebrates and dedicated teacher who solved two great puzzles in insect biology: how fleas jump and how cicadas belt out songs so ...