Researchers from the University of Konstanz have studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in ...

Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain. In a recent study published in the journal eLife, they traced dozens of neurons in the brains of fruit flies ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...

If insects could talk to us what would they tell us about consciousness? I love receiving information about what some might call "surprising" scientific discoveries. A recent essay called "If insects ...

Entomology students aren’t normally the ones under the microscope, but at the annual Linnaean Games, a national insect trivia competition, they are scrutinized as closely as their own six-legged ...