Highlights•The individual behavior is affected by the social environment.•Social effects are
reflected in the neuronal substrates of behavior.•Social cues are integrated already in …

Honeybees protect their colony against vertebrates by mass stinging and they coordinate
their actions during this crucial event thanks to an alarm pheromone carried directly on the …

Locust swarms can extend over hundred kilometers, and starvation compels this ancient
pest to devour everything in its path. Theory suggests that gregarious behavior benefits …

Fish passage structures have been constructed to facilitate fish movement past barriers,
though the effectiveness of passage structures is highly variable. Designing fish passage …

In social species, decision-making is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the social
context. This reciprocal feedback introduces coupling across scales, from the neural basis of …

Many social species are able to perform collective decisions and reach consensus.
However, how the interplay between social interactions, the diversity of preferences among …

In collective decision-making, when confronted with different options, groups usually show a
more marked preference for one of the options than do isolated individuals. This results from …

Background Like many cockroaches, Argentinian wood roaches, Blaptica dubia, prefer
darker shelters over lighter shelters. In three experiments, we asked whether chemical cues …

Social groups often need to overcome differences in individual interests and knowledge to
reach consensus decisions. Here, we combine experiments and modeling to study conflict …

Gregarious arthropods are able to perform collective decision-making when having different
options. In this study, we investigate how the sexual group composition and the geometry of …