"A basic organ, such as the locust antenna ... discern various types of Scotch whiskey. "A comparison with standard measuring devices showed that the sensitivity of the insect's nose in our ...

“This may be a new type for insect antennae,” says Bao-Jie Du at Nankai University in China. She says she got a shock when she first examined the 99-million-year-old specimen in 2018. Amber ...

Saha and his colleagues then inserted electrodes into lobes of the brain that receive signals from the insects’ antennae, which they use to sense odors. The team also grew three different types ...

Insects use their antennae for smelling and thus for locating ... each expressed in a specific type of neuron coupled to a corresponding glomerulus in the brain, whereas females have 70 of these ...

The findings could also explain why certain types of insecticides work ... to figure out what sort of material insects were cleaning off their antennae, where this material was coming from ...