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1st complete map of an insect’s brain contains 3,016 neurons
Home News This image shows the complete set of neurons in a larval fruit fly brain, which were reconstructed using electron microscopy. (Image credit: Johns Hopkins University/University of Cambridge) Scientists have unveiled the first complete map of an insect's brain. The comprehensive map, called a connectome, took 12 years of meticulous work to construct, and shows
Sharpshooter Insects Use ‘Superpropulsion’ to Catapult Their Pee
Sharpshooter insects use a physics phenomenon called superpropulsion to efficiently fling away droplets of pee at extremely high speedsA sharpshooter insect with a pee droplet on its anal stylus. Credit: Bhamla Lab, Georgia TechFew threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters. The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural
‘Insects the new sushi’: Ÿnsect sees Japan and Korea as attractive markets for mealworm protein
The firm was founded in 2011, and breeds Buffalo and Molitor mealworms for protein applications in human food and supplements, fish feed, pet food, as well as plant fertiliser.It currently operates a factory in France for its animal nutrition and fertiliser business and another facility in the Netherlands for human nutrition.“We focus on mealworm because…