Flowers attract and guide pollinators via a wide array of sensory stimuli, including colors,
odors, textures, and even sounds. Bees are known to respond to and learn multimodal and …

The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is well known for its intimate association with
milkweed plants and its incredible multi-generational trans-continental migrations. However …

Here we examine the ability of butterflies to learn colour cues in two different behavioural
contexts, nectar foraging and oviposition, more or less simultaneously. We first trained …

Learning ability allows insects to respond to a variable environment, and to adjust their
behaviors in response to positive or negative experiences. Pollinating insects readily learn …

Spontaneous colour preferences have been extensively studied in flower-visiting insects
and such preferences exhibited by inexperienced flower-visiting insects are proposed to be …

The food acquisition behaviour of many phytophagous insects involves learning (reviewed
in Papaj & Prokopy, 1989). In contrast to innate or inflexible responses, learning is thought to …

I examined the ability of the southern monarch butterfly (Danaus erippus) to associate
colours with rewards, the consistency of individual learning abilities, and the potential trade …

Floral color has been shown to influence flower selection by butterflies, but few studies have
investigated the role of floral scent. In this study, adults of Heliconius melpomene …

Search strategies can have profound fitness-effects for plant-feeding insects. Here I focus on
the potential conflict between searching for nectar plants and for larval food plants. I test if …

Innate colour preferences in insects were long considered to be a non-flexible
representation of a floral 'search image'guiding them to flowers during initial foraging trips …