This week, journalist Katarina Zimmer published an outstanding and detailed report in Undark magazine on the ethics of using insects in research, agriculture and food production. Recent studies suggest bees have affective states similar to pain, and closely paralleling the findings from our own lab on pain experience in octopuses. PI Robyn Crook was quoted in the article discussing the regulatory and welfare landscape for invertebrate animals used in research, and the possibility that pain and suffering may be widespread capabilities of diverse brains, not just those of vertebrate animals.