Floral colours represent a highly diverse communication signal mainly involved in flower
visitors' attraction and guidance, but also flower discrimination, filtering non‐pollinators and …

Flower color and scent, crucial qualitative characteristics of ornamental plants, display
extensive variation. These distinct pigments and scents play a key role in attracting specific …

In the early 1900s, Erwin Baur established Antirrhinum majus as a model system, identifying
and characterising numerous flower colour variants. This included Picturatum/Eluta, which …

Increasing empirical evidence suggests that many terrestrial arthropods, such as bees,
spiders, and caterpillars, sense electric fields in their environments. This relatively newly …

Reaching and inspecting objects is an intricate part of human life, which is shared by a
diversity of animals across phyla. In addition to appendages like legs and antennae, some …

Artificial vision systems pervade our daily lives as a foremost sensing apparatus in various
digital technologies, from smartphones to autonomous cars and robotics. The broad range of …

In uncertain environments, animals often face the challenge of deciding whether to stay with
their current foraging option or leave to pursue the next opportunity. The voluntary decision …

Digitalis purpurea (foxglove) is a widely distributed ornamental plant and the producer of the
biomedical compound digoxin. Here, we present a long read sequencing-based genome …

Bumblebees have become model organisms for cognitive ecology and social learning.
Quantifying the foraging behavior of free-flying bees, however, remains a methodological …

When animals and humans make decisions based on their sensory input, they often rely on
multiple cues at once. These provide complementary sources of information, which can help …