... attributed. Summary:   Vespula germanica and Vespula vulgaris have eyes of high spatial resolution that are well suited to their ecological needs. Insect vision Social hymenopteran Visual cues Visual field Visual acuity Interommatidial angle Vetenskapsrådet http://dx.doi.org...

... to that of the attraction of adults to light. Visual ecology Insect vision Spectral sensitivity Phototaxis Nymph Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Mayflies are semi-aquatic insects mostly known for their extremely short adult lifespan ( Sartori and Brittain, 2015...

... ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, suggesting that the duplicated UV opsin genes in Heliconius function to improve UV color vision. Visual system Wavelength discrimination Ultraviolet Insect vision Behavior U.S. Department of Education http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000138 PA200A120144...

...)00262-4 Warrant , E. J . ( 2008 ). Seeing in the dark: vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal bees and wasps . J. Exp. Biol. 211 , 1737 - 1746 . 10.1242/jeb.015396 Warrant , E. J . ( 2017 ). The remarkable visual capacities of nocturnal insects: vision at the limits...

.../user-licence-1-1/ Editor's choice:   Pieris rapae females process and interpret polarization reflections dependent on both their color and intensity and in ways different from other polarization-sensitive taxa. Butterfly Insect vision Polarization vision Degree of linear...

... Wiederman , S. D. , Fabian , J. M. , Dunbier , J. R. and O'Carroll , D. C. ( 2017 ). A predictive focus of gain modulation encodes target trajectories in insect vision . eLife   6 , e26478 . 10.7554/eLife.26478 Zanker , J. ( 1994 ). Modelling human motion perception. II...

...-licence-1-1/ Summary: LMCs in the visual system of Papilio xuthus use two information-coding strategies: a graded coding and a mixed coding involving action-potential like spikes. Use of spikes depends on light level. Lamina monopolar cells Insect vision Japanese yellow swallowtail...

... integration Insect vision Head–body coordination During locomotion, many animals aim to keep their visual systems aligned with an external frame of reference. Insects, having immobile eyes in their head capsule, achieve this by choosing and maintaining an appropriate head orientation. The frame...

...Francismeire J. Telles; Almut Kelber; Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés ABSTRACT Despite the strong relationship between insect vision and the spectral properties of flowers, the visual system has been studied in detail in only a few insect pollinator species. For instance, wavelength discrimination...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Active vision Bombus terrestris Insect vision Rapid feature extraction Visual processing Do bigger brains confer advanced sensory or behavioural capabilities? Larger brains could provide increased representational capacity of objects and greater...

... of straight flight segments and collision-avoidance saccades when flies fly freely within an open circular arena. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 4 5 2012 26 10 2012 © 2013. 2013 elementary motion detector insect vision navigation visual expansion...

... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 27 4 2009 2009 insect vision color contrast Apis mellifera Nephila pilipes It is well known that many spiders have conspicuous body colorations. Under different circumstances these colorful markings may function as a prey attractant...

... 2009 2009 insect vision compound eyes eye shine spectral heterogeneity When viewed with an epi-illumination microscope, butterfly eyes commonly exhibit colourful reflections, the so-called eye shine, whose colour varies between ommatidia ( Bernard and Miller,1970 ; Stavenga et al...

... and O'Carroll,2006 ). While both properties are consistent with correlation-type EMDs, we have not yet directly tested other predictions of this model, as has been used in analysis of LPTCs ( Egelhaaf et al., 1989 ; Haag et al.,2004 ). During the past five decades, our understanding of insect vision has...

..., University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006, USA (e-mail: [email protected] ) † Present address: Mount Sinai Medical School, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA 6 9 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 depth perception insect vision flat world...

... Institute of Technology, Bioengineering, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA (e-mail: [email protected] ) 29 8 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 insect vision motion detection sexual dimorphism From the first published drawing of a magnified fly's head( Hooke, 1665...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 pursuit control system visuomotor control behaviour computational neuroethology computer simulation insect vision blowfly When cruising around in an exploratory manner, flies typically change their flight direction and concomitantly...

... ; Bernard and Remington, 1991 ; White et al . 1994 ). In three species of butterfly, the spectral sensitivity of feeding behavior shows a peak in the blue–violet with a secondary maximum at longer wavelengths ( Scherer and Kolb, 1987 a , b ). Manduca sexta Sphingidae photoreceptors insect...

... 1991 flow-field motion-sensitive descending neurone insect vision Apis mellifera The present investigation studied the responses of descending neurones in Apis mellifera using two large visual patterns (each subtending an angle of 120°), mounted on each side of the head...

... al . 1984 ; Goodman et al . 1987 ). Neurones exhibiting this type of response can report course deviations to the thoracic motor centres and thus may contribute to visually mediated course control ( Reichert and Rowell, 1985 ; Reichert et al . 1985 ). insect vision motion-sensitive...