I honestly view insects as largely robotic, performing a limited set of specific tasks over and over without requiring any learning. Some of those tasks are imm

I honestly view insects as largely robotic, performing a limited set of specific tasks over and over without requiring any learning. Some of those tasks are immensely complex! But they do them with the determination of an automaton and with, presumably, fixed programming dictating the behaviors (since they require no teaching whatsoever for hunting or nesting or breeding or child-rearing, unlike other more 'advanced' animals). So no, I never considered insects to be "feeling" creatures. But research like this can certainly change my mind!