... their discovery to the present day. The first studies were conducted by skilled naturalists and then, over the following 50 years, by neuroethologists examining the insects’ learning behaviour in the context of experiments on insect navigation and its underlying neural mechanisms. The most important property...

... altered. Cataglyphis Desert ants Homing Navigation Insect memory Insect learning Solitary foraging desert ants are expert navigators that seek and retrieve food morsels under extreme heat conditions. When foragers locate a bountiful food source they will shuttle rapidly back and forth...

...-mail: [email protected] ) 10 2 2009 2009 PER classical conditioning colour vision honeybee insect learning Visual information is crucial for bees that leave their hive for foraging,exploring new nest sites or simply learning the general landscape. Colour is a particularly...

[email protected] ) 28 6 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 associative learning choice behaviour insect learning locust Schistocerca gregaria Invertebrates, particularly insects, are useful organisms for the study of associative learning because they have...