A wide variety of insects use spatial memories in behaviours like holding a position in air or
flowing water, in returning to a place of safety, and in foraging. The Hymenoptera, in …

Bees and angiosperms have shared a long and intertwined evolutionary history and their
interactions have resulted in remarkable adaptations. Yet, at a time when the “pollination …

Among the so-called simpler organisms, the honey bee is one of the few examples of an
animal with a highly evolved social structure, a rich behavioral repertoire, an exquisite …

Karl von Frisch's studies of bees' color vision and chemical senses opened a window into
the perceptual world of a species other than our own. A century of subsequent research on …

Ten distinct eye designs have been identified in the animal kingdom. Whereas vertebrates
possess only one, invertebrates possess all ten, from simple assemblies of photoreceptors …

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance is one of the most intriguing animal
communication signals. A dancing bee communicates the location of a profitable food …

This review focuses on critical milestones in the development path for the use of bees,
mainly honey bees and bumble bees, as sentinels and biosensors. These keystone species …

This book is like a dream project putting together metabolic aspect of complex biological
processes like pollination, symbiosis, herbivory by insects, and volatiles released by plants …

This review provides evidence for the enormous richness of insect behavior, its high
flexibility, and the cross-talk between different behavioral routines. The memory structure …

The remarkable navigational abilities of social insects are proof that small brains can
produce exquisitely efficient, robust navigation in complex environments. Because social …