The navigational strategies that are used by foraging ants and bees to reach a goal are
similar to those of birds and mammals. Species from all these groups use path integration …

Visual learning admits different levels of complexity, from the formation of a simple
associative link between a visual stimulus and its outcome, to more sophisticated …

By using harmonic radar, we report the complete flight paths of displaced bees. Test bees
forage at a feeder or are recruited by a waggle dance indicating the feeder. The flights are …

In this paper we propose a model of visually guided route navigation in ants that captures
the known properties of real behaviour whilst retaining mechanistic simplicity and thus …

This paper presents experimental research into the behavior of short circuit break arcs
ignited between opening contacts. The investigation is applied to arc chamber geometries …

Many insects display lateral oscillations while moving, but how these oscillations are
produced and participate in visual navigation remains unclear. Here, we show that visually …

Disparities in liquid-feeding performances of major ant taxa have likely been important to
resource partitioning among ants, to the nature and composition of ant partnerships with …

Spatial memory refers to the part of the memory system that encodes, stores, recognizes and
recalls spatial information about the environment and the agent's orientation within it. Such …

Insects can navigate efficiently in both novel and familiar environments, and this requires
flexiblity in how they are guided by sensory cues. A prominent landmark, for example, can …

Ants and other insects often follow fixed routes from their nest to a foraging site. The shape
of an ant's route is set, initially, by navigational strategies, such as path integration and the …