Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

Fly neuroscientist Mala Murthy and computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute wondered if they could use the images to make a map of the fruit fly brain ...

This image shows the complete fruit fly connectome: all 139,255 brain cells ... and connections of every brain cell, using 21 million images.

The Harvard team has harnessed behaviours that are so reliable they make animals act as robots while still maintaining their biological functions.