Comment by fullstop

When I think of insects, I see them as tiny microcontrollers. In my head bees have a little shift register to measure time.

While ants have control over each limb, they mostly move by rotating two tripods one at a time. It's like they turn on an output for three legs, turn off the output, and then turn on the output for the other three legs.

Ants can walk backward, though, so perhaps it is more like a half-bridge rectifier with multiple channels.

They're like little organic ICs.