Varieties of visual navigation in insects

CA Freas, ML Spetch - Animal cognition, 2023 - Springer
The behaviours and cognitive mechanisms animals use to orient, navigate, and remember
spatial locations exemplify how cognitive abilities have evolved to suit a number of different …

A model of cue integration as vector summation in the insect brain

R Mitchell, S Shaverdian… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ball-rolling dung beetles are known to integrate multiple cues in order to facilitate their
straight-line orientation behaviour. Recent work has suggested that orientation cues are …

Vector navigation in walking bumblebees

RN Patel, J Kempenaers, S Heinze - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Path integration is a computational strategy that allows an animal to maintain an internal
estimate of its position relative to a point of origin. Many species use path integration to …

Mechanisms of spectral orientation in a diurnal dung beetle

A Yilmaz, B El Jundi, G Belušič… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ball rolling dung beetles use a wide range of cues to steer themselves along a fixed bearing,
including the spectral gradient of scattered skylight that spans the sky. Here, we define the …

Polarisation vision in the dark: green-sensitive photoreceptors in the nocturnal ball-rolling dung beetle Escarabaeus satyrus

A Yilmaz, G Belušič, JJ Foster… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Many insects utilise the polarisation pattern of the sky to adjust their travelling directions. The
extraction of directional information from this sky-wide cue is mediated by specialised …

Light orientation in the ball-rolling dung beetle, Gymnopleurus sturmi (MacLeay, 1821), in Morocco (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae: Gymnopleurini)

H Hajji, A Janati-Idrissi, Y el Fattouhi… - Annales de la Société …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The ball-rolling dung beetle, Gymnopleurus sturmi, is widely distributed in the
Mediterranean Sea Basin. Individuals aggregate to consume dung and only make dung …

Bumblebees navigate using path integration while walking

RN Patel, J Kempenaers, S Heinze - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Path integration is a computational strategy that allows an animal to maintain an internal
estimate of its position relative to a point of origin. Many species use path integration to …