moonbreams

Well granted they're solving quadratic equations, but neither are the adults.

For instance, if you expose larvae a rewarding stimulus like sugar along with an odour, they will later be attracted to that odour. That is by definition learning, simple learning, but we have to start somewhere i guess.

Interestingly there is some evidence that the memory lasts through to the adult stage, despite the fact that a lot of the brain is actually rewired during pupation.

larvae behave, they learn, they forage, they do have a brain.

The sell with this kind of research is that doing it will lead to order of magnitude gains in complexity - compare the time it took to sequence the first fruit fly genome with the time it takes today

That's a different paper announcing a large repository of genetic expression patterns. This is the link for the connectome announcement: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330