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

Drosophila melanogaster has long served as a premier model for elucidating the neural basis of behaviour. Its accessible nervous system, combined with the power of genetic manipulation, provides a ...

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 ...

Their findings are “the most detailed example to date” of what happens to the brain of an insect undergoing metamorphosis, said Deniz Erezyilmaz, a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of ...

Like most animals, insects rely on eyesight for orientation. In order for them to get the best possible picture of their surroundings, input from photoreceptors in the eye must be processed afterwards ...