Wright says many of the chemicals in our brains are highly conserved – they were invented hundreds of millions of years ago. So an insect's emotional experiences could be more familiar than you would think. "So from that perspective, yes, they [the brain chemicals] may have diverged a little bit in terms of what they signal in which animal lineage, but it's quite interesting," she says. Found in South American rainforests, these insects can reach up to nine inches in length. They have a camouflage coloration that helps them blend in with their surroundings.

These creepy crawlies are active during the night. They primarily eat insects but also prey on small rodents or lizards as well. #14 – Hercules Beetle

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Publication Dates [ ] Last Issue [ ] InSEXts #12: 19 Jul 2017 Current Issue [ ] InSEXts #13: 13 Sep 2017 Next Issue [ ] none scheduled Status [ ] InSEXts, vol. 1 - Collects #1-7. "At the dusk of a century, a pair of vengeful Victorian vixens discover a horrifying power that transforms them into rich and strange new creatures. Armed with their dark, evolving forms, they descend into a world of the cultured and occult, with new senses and new sensuality, to forge a life for themselves and the child of their love." - WorldCat - ISBN 9781935002970 Found in tropical regions, these worms are typically in light/honey color, with 1 to 5 dark dorsal stripes and a dark collar on the posterior end. The worm’s body is “snake-like,” growing to be up to 15 inches long (typically 8 to 12 inches) and extremely narrow. If the thought of slithering worms makes your skin crawl, wait until you hear about the Antarctic Scale Worm. Image credit: Matthew Brown / NIWA ( https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/) You see plants that produce big trees and small shrub-like things. You might have families that have annuals and long-lived perennials. You might have groups that are adapted to hot and cold climates in the same family.'

Marguerite Bennett: Good questions! The answer genuinely goes issue by issue. The art and action of those eras—the global conflicts, the empires, the social changes for each echelon and community, the aesthetic, the fashion, the values, the relationships to sexuality, race, gender and technology—are vibrant and distinct (though, I suppose, this can be said of any era). In InSEXts, I wanted to specifically tell a story that didn’t look like Masterpiece Theatre. London in the Victorian era was a tremendously diverse place, and queer people were not invented in the 1980s. I wanted to corrupt the imperialist narrative. When Scott Waddell, professor of neurobiology at the University of Oxford, first started working on emotions in fruit flies, he had a favourite running joke – "…that, you know, I wasn't intending on studying ambition", he says. Perhaps one reason we don't tend to think of insects as emotional is that it would be overwhelming.Digger wasps are solitary wasps that build their nests by burrowing into the ground. They are in the same family as mud daubers. They are not very aggressive and tend to mind their own business. 18. Dung Beetle Dung Beetle | Image by Dr. Georg Wietschorke from Pixabay