Attempts to relate brain size to behaviour and cognition have rarely integrated information
from insects with that from vertebrates. Many insects, however, demonstrate that highly …

Research in the honeybee has laid the foundations for our understanding of insect colour
vision. The trichromatic colour vision of honeybees shares fundamental properties with …

Mosquitoes track odors, locate hosts, and find mates visually. The color of a food resource,
such as a flower or warm-blooded host, can be dominated by long wavelengths of the visible …

In recent years, bumblebees have become a prominent insect model organism for a variety
of biological disciplines, particularly to investigate learning behaviors as well as visual …

The capacity to explore soft tissue structures in detail is important in understanding animal
physiology and how this determines features such as movement, behaviour and the impact …

Color vision is an important sensory capability that enhances the detection of contrast in
retinal images. Monochromatic animals exclusively detect temporal and spatial changes in …

Colour vision enables animals to detect and discriminate differences in chromatic cues
independent of brightness. How the bee visual system manages this task is of interest for …

Bees discriminate between many different colours of flower petals, but it is not well
understood how they perceive and learn patterns frequently found in flowers with colourful …

Free-flying bees learn efficiently to solve numerous visual tasks. Yet, the neural
underpinnings of this capacity remain unexplored. We used a 3D virtual reality (VR) …

Highlights•Insects perceive separately chromatic and achromatic aspects of colour
patterns.•Flowers present colour patterns as individual or shared displays.•Visual …