Insects have acquired excellent sensory information processing abilities in the process of
evolution. In addition, insects have developed communication schemes based on the …

Plant volatiles are important cues for many herbivorous insects when choosing a suitable
host plant and finding a mating partner. An appropriate behavioural response to sensory …

The simplicity and accessibility of the olfactory systems of insects underlie a body of
research essential to understanding not only olfactory function but also general principles of …

Fig. 1. Cladogram showing the independent origins and secondary losses of sociality in the
Hymenoptera (after refs. 6 and 20–24). For clarity, only a selection of the closest solitary …

Neuroethology utilizes a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to decipher neural
correlates of natural behaviors associated with an animal's ecological niche. By placing …

Natural olfactory stimuli typically are mixtures of which the identities, concentrations, and
ratios of chemical constituents are important for many odor-mediated behaviors. Despite …

A sophisticated form of nonelemental learning is provided by occasion setting. In this
paradigm, animals learn to disambiguate an uncertain conditioned stimulus using …

Highlights•We review complex multiattribute decision making in non-neuronal
organisms.•We outline research on the use of adaptive search strategies.•We discuss choice …

Among insects, Hymenoptera present a striking olfactory system with a clear neural
dichotomy from the periphery to higher order centers, based on two main tracts of second …

Multimodal GABA-immunoreactive feedback neurons in the honeybee brain connecting the
output region of the mushroom body with its input are expected to tune the input to the …