India, Aug. 1 -- You have written many papers on insect behaviour, such as on how praying mantises detect prey. Could you talk about your research and its potential applications?

In my work on insects, the focus has broadly been on vision and decision-making. In praying mantises, we've been studying stereo or 3D vision. We put 3D glasses on them and showed them images on a screen to figure out how they process stimuli to calculate depth. We also researched how they search for prey and how bumblebees search for flowers, as well as what visual responses and attention look like in these contexts. More recently, we've been studying insect welfare: how stress affects, say, bees and impacts their decision-making and responses to ambiguous stim...