They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male’s legs (close to the body), areas that hardly come in contact with the surface when spiders walk, capture preys or mate. This is ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

The study looked at two types of sensory hairs called sensilla on spiders: ones with a single pore at the tip, and others with lots of pores in the wall of the hair shaft. For the wasp spider ...

Butterflies and moths, with their vibrant colors and intricate patterns, are more than just enchanting creatures flitting ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...

Using a combination of research methods—identifying different volatiles in decaying plant substrates, measuring the response of individual sensilla on the flies' antennae to odors, and testing ...

Using a combination of research methods - identifying different volatiles in decaying plant substrates, measuring the response of individual sensilla on the flies' antennae to odors, and testing the ...

Mackie and colleagues present a valuable comparison of lateralized gustation in two well-studied nematodes. The evidence they present that ASEL/R lateralization exists and is achieved by different ...