A multidisciplinary Purdue University research team is recreating mosquito antennae to better study their sensitivity to ...

New research uncovers the surprising role of plant scents in insect diets and evolution especially butterflies and moths.

A recent study from Purdue University reveals how mosquito antennae function as sophisticated sound detectors that could someday inspire sensors for earthquake detection and disaster response.

But because of the problems with the antennae and the legs we ended up needing to use eight cameras just to ensure that at any point in time we had enough camera views of the mosquito where we can ...

His team is recreating mosquito antennae to better study their sensitivity to vibrations, which may improve how natural disasters are monitored and detected.

These are expressed by neurons in the animals’ antennae and maxillary palps (small appendages ... in the antennal lobe of the mosquito’s brain. However, there had been inklings that mosquito olfaction ...

This CT scan is a close-up of the structural features of a male mosquito’s antennae. Purdue University researchers are studying these features to see if they could inform the design of acoustic ...

To analyze the mosquito’s flight navigation abilities ... length of their body--ahead of them by taking advantage of their antennae in the same way the human eardrum works.

NAGANO: Researchers at Shinshu University and another institution have developed an odour-detecting drone that uses antennae taken from living insects. The “insect drone” can autonomously find ...