Sensilla are specialised sensory organs that adorn the insect cuticle, and they play a critical role in mediating environmental interactions. These microstructures, distributed over various body parts ...

While humans feature a sophisticated sense of smell, insects have a much more basic olfactory system. Yet they depend upon smell to survive. Scientists have figured out how fruit flies use a simple ...

Female silkmoth (Bombyx mori) on the leaf of a mulberry tree, the only host plant for the offspring of these moths. The combed antennae, which act as the insect's "nose" to detect odors, are clearly ...

Mosquitoes with human-scent receptors removed from their antennae can still smell humans, which suggests their olfactory system has built-in redundancy. Female mosquitoes rely on the cocktail of ...

Our sense of smell seems to be the most complicated, and as such it’s the least understood. To help shed some light on the system, researchers at Rockefeller University have taken the first ...