Biology professor Paul Garrity studies how these insects sense the world around them — from their sensory organs and neurons to their genes. Exactly how mosquitoes find water isn’t clear, but his lab ...

Over that time, scientists have discovered there is no one single cue that these insects rely on. Instead, they integrate ...

Stripping back the layers, they uncover ingenious body systems and finely tuned senses – a bug body plan that is the hidden blueprint behind insects’ global domination. And they discover how ...

at least in hairy insects.” Historically, electroreception has most widely been observed in aquatic animals, such as sharks, fish, and dolphins. A few terrestrial animals—including platypuses and ...

Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Supermoth!” Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the ...

Understanding how insects sense chemicals in their food and their environments, she says, could have tremendous ecological, economic and human health impacts — and could potentially lead to a way of ...

He argues, however, that it makes perfect sense to do so—for their nutritional value and sustainability advantages. “Insects offer an alternative to our agri-food system, which currently produces a ...