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If the researchers are right, it means the annoying bluebottle or wasp that will not leave you alone is choosing to be a pest.
Understanding the mechanisms involved may also lead to development of free-thinking robots, bringing science fiction to life.
But an international study of fruit flies has shown that cannot be the case - the flies tested appeared to make choices.