Highlights•Insects perceive separately chromatic and achromatic aspects of colour
patterns.•Flowers present colour patterns as individual or shared displays.•Visual …

Night vision is ultimately about extracting information from a noisy visual input. Several
species of nocturnal insects exhibit complex visually guided behaviour in conditions where …

Insect pollination, and in particular pollination by bees, is a highly valued ecosystem service
that ensures plant reproduction and the production of high-quality crops. Bee activity is …

Most of the world's animals are active in dim light and depend on good vision for the tasks of
daily life. Many have evolved visual adaptations that permit a performance superior to that of …

In recent years, the compound eye imaging system has attracted great attention due to its
fascinating optical features such as large field of view (FOV), small volume and high acuity to …

Neonicotinoids have been implicated in the large declines observed in insects such as
bumblebees, an important group of pollinators. Neonicotinoids are agonists of nicotinic …

Visual small target motion detection finds successful applications in varied scenarios.
However, dim-light conditions, such as the tunnel scenes and nighttime environments …

The global decline of pollinators has become a major concern for the scientific community,
policymakers, and the general public. Among the main drivers of diminishing bee …

Flight control in insects is heavily dependent on vision. Thus, in dim light, the decreased
reliability of visual signal detection also prompts consequences for insect flight. We have an …

We discovered nocturnal colour vision in the Asian giant honeybee Apis dorsata—a
facultatively nocturnal species—at mesopic light intensities, down to half-moon light levels …