Insects feature some of the most complex societies in the animal kingdom, but a historic
perception persists that such complexity emerges from interactions between individuals …

Remote sensing has revolutionised many aspects of ecological research, enabling
spatiotemporal data to be collected in an efficient and highly automated manner. The last …

Highlights•Ball rolling by bumble bees fulfils animal play criteria.•Ball rolling can act as an
unconditioned rewarding stimulus.•Younger bees rolled more balls, with age patterns …

The effects of environmental temperature on components of insect flight determine life‐
history traits, fitness, adaptability and, ultimately, organism ecosystem functional roles …

Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that
could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of …

Insects have important roles globally in ecology, economy, and health, yet our
understanding of their behavior remains limited. Bees, for example, use vision and a tiny …

Migration is a complex behavioural adaptation for survival that has evolved across the
animal kingdom from invertebrates to mammals. In some taxa, closely related migratory …

Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually
navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the …

When transitioning from in-nest duties to their foraging life outside the nest, ants perform a
series of highly choreo-graphed learning walks around the nest entrance, before leaving to …

Highlights•Studies in social bees have proposed various forms of sophisticated
cognition.•Bees display a variety of cognitive phenomena including attention, social learning …