It's not a bug, it's a feature: functional materials in insects

TBH Schroeder, J Houghtaling, BD Wilts… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views

J Zeil - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2023 - Springer
Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually
navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the …

The learning walks of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

J Zeil, PN Fleischmann - Myrmecological News, 2019 - biotaxa.org
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 …

From skylight input to behavioural output: a computational model of the insect polarised light compass

E Gkanias, B Risse, M Mangan… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many insects navigate by integrating the distances and directions travelled on an outward
path, allowing direct return to the starting point. Fundamental to the reliability of this process …

The View from the Trees: Nocturnal Bull Ants, Myrmecia midas, Use the Surrounding Panorama While Descending from Trees

CA Freas, A Wystrach, A Narendra, K Cheng - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Solitary foraging ants commonly use visual cues from their environment for navigation.
Foragers are known to store visual scenes from the surrounding panorama for later …

How to navigate in different environments and situations: lessons from ants

CA Freas, P Schultheiss - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Ants are a globally distributed insect family whose members have adapted to live in a wide
range of different environments and ecological niches. Foraging ants everywhere face the …

Subtle changes in the landmark panorama disrupt visual navigation in a nocturnal bull ant

A Narendra… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability of ants to navigate when the visual landmark information is altered has often
been tested by creating large and artificial discrepancies in their visual environment. Here …

Moving in dim light: behavioral and visual adaptations in nocturnal ants

A Narendra, JF Kamhi, Y Ogawa - Integrative and Comparative …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Visual navigation is a benchmark information processing task that can be used to identify the
consequence of being active in dim-light environments. Visual navigational information that …

Rotation invariant visual processing for spatial memory in insects

T Stone, M Mangan, A Wystrach… - Interface focus, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Visual memory is crucial to navigation in many animals, including insects. Here, we focus on
the problem of visual homing, that is, using comparison of the view at a current location with …

Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths

P Chatterjee, AD Prusty, U Mohan, SP Sane - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
During flight maneuvers, insects exhibit compensatory head movements which are essential
for stabilizing the visual field on their retina, reducing motion blur, and supporting visual self …