Background Flower coloration is a key enabler for pollinator attraction. Floral visual signals
comprise several components that are generated by specific anatomical structures and …

Research in the honeybee has laid the foundations for our understanding of insect colour
vision. The trichromatic colour vision of honeybees shares fundamental properties with …

Flowering plants in Australia have been geographically isolated for more than 34 million
years. In the Northern Hemisphere, previous work has revealed a close fit between the …

Colour signals are a major cue in putative pollination syndromes. There is evidence that the
reflectance spectra of many flowers target the distinctive visual discrimination abilities of …

Background Learning and perception of visual stimuli by free-flying honeybees has been
shown to vary dramatically depending on the way insects are trained. Fine color …

Colour signals are the main floral trait for plant–pollinator communication. Owing to visual
specificities, flower visitors exert different selective pressures on flower colour signals of …

The quality of visual information that is available to an animal is limited by the size of its
eyes. Differences in eye size can be observed even between closely related individuals, yet …

Colour vision enables animals to detect and discriminate differences in chromatic cues
independent of brightness. How the bee visual system manages this task is of interest for …

Under the superorganism concept, insect societies are so tightly integrated that they
possess features analogous to those of single organisms, including collective cognition. If …

Wild bees are important pollinators and monitoring their abundance and diversity is
necessary to develop conservation protocols. It is imperative to understand differences in …