New Paper out by Lochlan in PNAS

We found that hawkmoths indeed show lateralization in how they position their proboscis while probing flowers. This resembles the variation of handedness commonly found in vertebrates, like us humans. We found that even naive animals exhibit lateralization that persisted over days. Surprisingly, we found that proboscis lateralization propagates into which visual feature (e.g. an edge) hawkmoths target on the pattern surface. We argue that this lateralization is something that each individual uniquely 'deals with' - given their own sensorimotor constraints and (neural) asymmetries, they use a strategy that works for them. Find out more in the article, as well as on the BlueSky thread.