Highlights•The Western honeybee and the buff-tailed bumblebee are popular models of
insect vision and visual ecology, while tropical bees are little investigated.•Spatio-temporal …

Several interesting facets of bee behaviour have fascinated the human mind since historical
times. Prominent amongst them is their interaction with flowers, symbolising the mutualistic …

Studies on animal colour vision typically focus on the chromatic aspect of colour, which is
related to the spectral distribution, and disregard the achromatic aspect, which is related to …

Stingless bees are important pollinators in the tropics. The tremendous variation in body size
makes them an excellent group to study how miniaturization affects vision and visual …

Giant honeybees, including the open-nesting Asian giant honeybee Apis dorsata, display a
spectacular collective defence behaviour–known as 'shimmering'–against predators, which …

Due to the absence of physical barriers, the open-nesting giant honeybee Apis dorsata has
evolved a spectacular collective defence behaviour–known as “shimmering”–against …