Effective communication is essential in animal life to allow fundamental behavioral
processes and survival. Communicating by surface-borne vibrations is likely the most …

Species traits and environmental conditions determine the occurrence and strength of
trophic interactions. If we understand the relationship between these factors and trophic …

Highlights•The quantification of the fitness benefits of learning remains in its
infancy.•Knowledge in neurobiology on memory and learning mechanisms needs to be …

A behavioural ecological approach to the relationship between pit-digging larval antlions
and their common prey, ants, provides yet another example of how the specific ecological …

Central-place foragers need to explore their immediate habitat in order to reach food. We let
colonies of the individually foraging desert ant Cataglyphis niger search for a food reward in …

The interaction of antlions and ants is postulated to be a predator-prey interaction in which
the involved parties coevolve. Here, we investigated two issues of potential significance in …

Brain lateralization is hypothesized to improve the efficiency of information processing. Here,
we found that some Myrmeleon bore antlion larvae showed individual asymmetry in righting …

Many species of ants fall prey to pit-digging larval antlions (Myrmeleon spp.), extremely
sedentary predators that wait, nearly motionless at the bottom of their pit traps, for prey to …

Larvae of pit-building antlions are expected to be more efficient at capturing prey than those
of non-pit-builders. To test this prediction, feeding behaviors were compared in the same …

Some sit-and-wait predators, such as antlion larvae, construct traps to capture passing prey.
The location of these traps depends on many abiotic and biotic factors, including …