A large volume of research on individually navigating ants has shown how path integration
and visually guided navigation form a major part of the ant navigation toolkit for many …

Wood ants are excellent navigators, using a combination of innate and learnt navigational
strategies to travel between their nest and feeding sites. Visual navigation in ants has been …

The aim of this study was to compare the speed of movement of 3 species of ants (Formica
rufa, F. polyctena, and Lasius fuliginosus) along trails with different types of substrates. The …

Many insects, including ants, are known to respond visually to conspicuous objects. In this
study, we compared orientation in an arena containing only a black target beacon as local …

Ants inhabit a vast range of ecosystems and exhibit wide morphology. They are expert
navigators employing a handful of well-understood navigational strategies. However, the …

Many animals exhibit innate behaviours, which are often interpreted as hard-wired, reflex-
like responses, particularly in insects. Among these behaviours, beacon-aiming—an …

Innate behaviors allow solitary animals to complete essential tasks in the absence of social
learning. However, we know little about the degree to which ecologically relevant innate …

Wood ants are excellent navigators using a combination of innate and learnt navigational
strategies to travel between their nest and feeding sites. Visual navigation in ants has been …

While previous studies on navigation behaviour in foraging ants are based on their ability to
learn and use new views (unfamiliar) associated with a positive stimulus, their ability to learn …

Wood ants thrive as expert navigators in the same cluttered, dynamic, light-variant
environments where most robot navigation algorithms fail [1, 2]. Virtual Reality (VR) is a …