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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper gives an overview of behavioral studies on the color and polarization vision of
the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus. We focus on indoor experiments …

Flower colour is an important signal used by flowering plants to attract pollinators. Many
anthophilous insects have an innate colour preference that is displayed during their first …

Surprisingly, little is known about how the environment influences the production of the
iconic orange coloration of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Previous research …

True colour vision, in contrast to wavelength-specific behaviour, is defined as the ability to
discriminate colours based on the spectral composition of the stimuli, regardless of their …

Learning plays an important role in food acquisition for a wide range of insects and has
been demonstrated to be essential during flower foraging in taxa such as bees, parasitoid …