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"So ...been doing anything?"

"Oh, just, y'know, brain scanning the fruit fly..."

According to Dr Mary O’Connell of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, who led the research, the brain cell loss that affects humans in conditions like Alzheimer's, also affects insects.

"In the autumn, bees and wasps often develop erratic behaviour before they die"

via Conscientious

The hills are alive...

A somewhat hallucinatory image:

Haselberg, Tyrol, photochrom print c. 1905, from the Library of Congress