Dancing with the stars?
No! Bees dance with the sun, but only if it is made of bright UV or green light 🐝🌞🕺
New research by @jjfosterlab.bsky.social 👇👇
Visual Insect Neuroethology Group
Work conducted with Johannes Spaethe at Würzburg University, the bee-witchers of bumblebees Selma Hutzenthaler, Alexander Dietz, and Karl Gehrig, and statistic wizard @jjfosterlab.bsky.social. Big thanks to everyone for the great collaboration, and to everyone who supported this study!!
New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠
I am thrilled to share my second PhD manuscript! We modelled bee polarisation vision and tested two navigational models. Many thanks to @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and all our collaborators (@egkanias.bsky.social,@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social,@insectlabsu.bsky.social) for such a productive collaboration!
Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social
We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...
During their search for food, most insects head specifically for the flowers that promise the highest reward. Researchers from the #UniKonstanz and the @uni-wuerzburg.de have now studied how bumblebees process information about their food sources. Full story: t1p.de/mndcd
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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group
Visual Insect Neuroethology Group
Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.
