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Guaranteed Human.

Welcome to Creature Future production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology.

And today on this show, it's a buggy listener questions episode.

I got a bunch of questions about insects, and I thought I'd answer them all at once.

So I hope you enjoy.

Let's get right into it. Oh, and remember if you have a question that you would like

answered, you can write to me at creaturefeaturepot at gmail.com. Doesn't have to be about insects,

but it certainly can be. So let's get right into it. Hi, Katie. What do bugs see? Specifically,

what do insects see, especially the ones with large, elaborate

compound eyes? Is like a dragonflies individual eye segment directly connected to their brains?

Does eye size correlate with brain size and intelligence? Thanks, love the show, Juanito.

Also some additional context from Juanito. This question was prompted by reading Adrian

Chikovsky's Children of Time novel. In the book, A Species of Jumping Spider, Portia

La Biata, gets accidentally uplifted to sentience and technology developing level.

The author's description of the Arachnid Sensorium is fascinating, and you know what?

All those books I've read so far investigate crazy, interesting biology, invented the aliens

worlds or real, the cute little spider guys.

I just discovered Adrian Tricovsky this year, and I heartily recommend his books. He studied zoology

and psych before becoming an author. Wow, that sounds a lot like me, except I haven't written

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