Brazilian singer Larissa de Macedo Machado, better known by her stage name Anitta is seen outside Schiaparelli during Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Fall Winter 2022 2023 – Day One on July 04, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo by Spread Pictures/The Mega Agency)

A person takes a photograph of a 60-foot-long balloon of Kim Kardashian to promote SKIMS Swimwear in Times Square in New York City, U.S., March 4, 2025. (Photo by Adam Gray/Reuters)

The scene in Star Lane, Dunmow, Essex, after a steam traction engine from Sussex on its way to the Saffron Walden Crank Up weekend steam show, crashed into a private dwelling on Friday, April 21, 2023. (Photo by Nicholas.T.Ansell/PA Images via Getty Images)

Ariana DeBose performs at the 76th Annual Tony Awards in New York City, U.S., June 11, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)

“Thunderstruck”. Summer stom. A super cell formed off the coast of New Zealand, intensified and swept across Christchurch and North Canterbury, February 23, 2014. Photo location: Christchurch, New Zealand. (Photo and caption by David Hardy/National Geographic Photo Contest)

Once upon a time a myth was born that insects, unlike animals, are just a machines that not capable of learning and survive only based on their instincts. That myth has become the widespread opinion. Of course, this opinion is indeed erroneous, like many other widespread opinions. Let us try to find out which part is a myth and which part is true.

An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One (VFA-151) emerges from a cloud created when it broke the sound barrier in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, July 7, 1999. (Photo by John Gay/US Navy)

A view of one of the dioramas contained inside iron boxes as part of the “S.A.C.R.E.D” installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei during a media preview at the cathedral in Cuenca, Spain, July 21, 2016. Ai Weiwei has reproduced scenes of his incarceration for a new art installation, a series of almost life-size dioramas – encased in steel boxes – showing his life in jail. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)