... 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...

... brain region may play a general role in a wide variety of insect orientation behaviours. Lateral accessory lobe Insect navigation Orientation Motor control Central complex The behavioural repertoire of insects includes a variety of sensory-driven orientation behaviours ( Heinze, 2017...

... © 2019. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2019 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Ants choose the shortest path when they are tandem running nestmates to their new nest. Insect navigation Ant colony optimization Non-trail laying ants Diacamma indicum...

... and flowers during learning flights, but flights from each differ systematically even when nest, flower and immediate surrounds are made visually similar. Insect navigation Place learning Route learning Bees and wasps perform what are known as learning flights when they leave a location...

.... and T.S.C. designed and prepared figures. O.R. and T.S.C. drafted the text and it was revised by all authors. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 21 1 2014 8 5 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Insect...

... are quite variable, but embedded within this variability are stereotyped motifs that we analyse on the hypothesis that they are likely to be involved in information acquisition and storage. insect navigation learning nest-related views view-based homing © 2013. Published by The Company...

... ( Philippides et al., 2013 ). compass-based flight nest-based flight coordinating reference frame insect navigation learning flight © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 11 10 2012 20 11 2012 ‡ Present address: Department of Neuroscience, The Johns...

... terrain or not. How ants could switch between strategies and how their memories develop are discussed in turn. * Author for correspondence ( Wystrach@cict.fr ) 20 9 2011 © 2012. 2012 insect navigation skyline height comparison visual compass mismatch gradient descent route...

... ( oriabinina@gmail.com , t.s. collett@sussex.ac.uk ) * Present address: UCL Ear Institute, 332 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8EE, UK † These authors contributed equally to this work 20 5 2011 © 2011. 2011 wood ant insect navigation vision sequence learning chromatic...

...Andrew Philippides; Bart Baddeley; Ken Cheng; Paul Graham SUMMARY Studies of insect navigation have demonstrated that insects possess an interesting and sophisticated repertoire of visual navigation behaviours. Ongoing research seeks to help us understand how these behaviours are controlled...