After a heated probe touched one of its antennae, a cricket did something researchers hadn’t quite expected: it kept coming back to that exact spot. Again and again, it groomed the affected antenna — ...
Can crickets feel pain? New research suggests these ubiquitous bugs may experience “pain-like” sensations, adding to the growing list of nonhuman species that seem to feel lingering discomfort. Until ...
To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in ACS’ ...