Simple Summary There is a rising demand for food security in the face of threats posed by a
growing human population. Bees as an insect play a crucial role in crop pollination …

The ability to see colour at night is known only from a handful of animals. First discovered in
the elephant hawk moth Deilephila elpenor, nocturnal colour vision is now known from two …

Predicting insect responses to climate change is essential for preserving ecosystem services
and biodiversity. Due to high daytime temperatures and low humidity levels, nocturnal …

The giant honey bee Apis dorsata is unusual in being able to forage during both the day and
the night. To date, the extent of this unique nocturnal foraging behavior and the …

Multisensory integration is assumed to entail benefits for receivers across multiple
ecological contexts. However, signal integration effectiveness is constrained by features of …

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 …

Bees are typically diurnal but around 1% of described species have nocturnal activity.
Nocturnal bees are still poorly studied due to bias towards studying diurnal insects …

Bees exemplify flights under bright sunlight. A few species across bee families have evolved
nocturnality, displaying remarkable adaptations to overcome limitations of their daylight …

Geometric morphometrics is an approach widely used in biological research. For bees, wing
landmarks are applied to investigate several questions, such as species identification and …

Diel activity of diurnal pollinating insects declines well before the end of day, but a few
species, such as bumble bees, can continue foraging in the period before sunset, when light …