List of works by Lars Chittka

A Simple Computational Model of the Bee Mushroom Body Can Explain Seemingly Complex Forms of Olfactory Learning and Memory

scientific article published in June 2017

A Simple Computational Model of the Bee Mushroom Body Can Explain Seemingly Complex Forms of Olfactory Learning and Memory.

scientific article published on 18 December 2016

A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France

article

A new mode of information transfer in foraging bumblebees?

scientific article published in June 2005

A population comparison of the strength and persistence of innate colour preference and learning speed in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2009)

A possible structural correlate of learning performance on a colour discrimination task in the brain of the bumblebee.

scientific article published in October 2017

A receiver bias in the origin of three-spined stickleback mate choice.

scientific article published in May 2004

A simple iterative model accurately captures complex trapline formation by bumblebees across spatial scales and flower arrangements

scientific article

A spatial network analysis of resource partitioning between bumblebees foraging on artificial flowers in a flight cage

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior

Adaptive learning in non-social insects: from theory to field work, and back

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Alarm substances induce associative social learning in honeybees, Apis mellifera

An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects

scientific article

Analysis of pollen and nectar of Arbutus unedo as a food source for Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

scientific article published in June 2005

Animal Behaviour: Conformity and the Beginnings of Culture in an Insect

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Animal behaviour: emotion in invertebrates?

scientific article published in June 2011

Animal cognition: an insect's sense of time?

scientific article published on October 2006

Animal cognition: concepts from apes to bees.

scientific article published in February 2011

Animal personalities: the advantage of diversity.

scientific article published in October 2008

Are autumn foliage colors red signals to aphids?

scientific article

Are bigger brains better?

scientific article

Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

scientific article (publication date: 4 October 2016)

Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Bedazzled by flowers

scientific article published in Nature

Bee cognition.

scientific article published in October 2017

Bees do not use nearest-neighbour rules for optimization of multi-location routes.

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Bees travel novel homeward routes by integrating separately acquired vector memories

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Bees use three-dimensional information to improve target detection.

scientific article

Behavioural ecology: bees associate warmth with floral colour

scientific article

Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees?

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model

article

Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants

scientific article

Blütenstetigkeit und Gedächtnisdynamik bei Hummeln (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)

article

Breaking Haller's rule: brain-body size isometry in a minute parasitic wasp

scientific article published on 26 January 2013

Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots

scientific article published in 2005

Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland.

scientific article

Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Bumble-bees learn the value of social cues through experience.

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

Bumblebee foraging rhythms under the midnight sun measured with radiofrequency identification.

scientific article

Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light.

scientific article published in April 2004

Bumblebee social learning can lead to suboptimal foraging choices

Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks.

scientific article published on 13 August 2004

Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) use social information as an indicator of safety in dangerous environments.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Bumblebees Express Consistent, but Flexible, Speed-Accuracy Tactics Under Different Levels of Predation Threat

Bumblebees Learn a Relational Rule but Switch to a Win-Stay/Lose-Switch Heuristic After Extensive Training

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning

scientific article published in 2023

Bumblebees distinguish floral scent patterns, and can transfer these to corresponding visual patterns.

scientific article

Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior.

scientific article published in February 2017

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

scientific article published on 6 March 2024

Bumblebees use sequential scanning of countable items in visual patterns to solve numerosity tasks

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Bumblebees, humble pollinators or assiduous invaders? A population comparison of foraging performance in Bombus terrestris.

scientific article published in July 2005

Camouflage of Predatory Crab Spiders on Flowers and the Colour Perception of Bees (Aranida: Thomisidae / Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Can bees see at a glance?

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

article published in 2013

Can honey bees count landmarks?

Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees.

scientific article published on 6 March 2019

Chance and adaptation in the evolution of island bumblebee behaviour

scientific article published in 2004

Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees.

scientific article published in August 2005

Circadian foraging rhythms of bumblebees monitored by radio-frequency identification.

scientific article published in August 2010

Cognition: Your face looks familiar

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Cognitive Aspects of Comb-Building in the Honeybee?

scientific article

Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry

scientific article

Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry?

scientific article published in 2007

Colony nutritional status modulates worker responses to foraging recruitment pheromone in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

article

Color discrimination is not just limited by photoreceptor noise: a comment on Olsson et al

scientific article published in 2017

Colour constancy in insects.

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Colouration in crab spiders: substrate choice and prey attraction.

scientific article published in May 2005

Conical epidermal cells allow bees to grip flowers and increase foraging efficiency.

scientific article published on 14 May 2009

Conspecific and heterospecific information use in bumblebees

scientific article

Continuous Radar Tracking Illustrates the Development of Multi-destination Routes of Bumblebees

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Convergent evolution of floral signals underlies the success of Neotropical orchids.

scientific article published on 26 June 2013

Copy-when-uncertain: bumblebees rely on social information when rewards are highly variable

scientific article published on June 2016

Correction: Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect.

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Counting insects

scientific article published in February 2017

Daily changes in ultraviolet light levels can synchronize the circadian clock of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris).

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

Dances as windows into insect perception

scientific article

Descending control of nociception in insects?

scientific article published in 2022

Determining the contribution of epidermal cell shape to petal wettability using isogenic Antirrhinum lines

scientific article

Differences in photoreceptor processing speed for chromatic and achromatic vision in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in March 2010

Distinguishing signals and cues: bumblebees use general footprints to generate adaptive behaviour at flowers and nest

Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers?

Do bumble bees play? ⬇️

journal article from 'Animal Behaviour' published in 2022

Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search?

scientific article published in March 2006

Do inexperienced bumblebee foragers use scent marks as social information?

scientific article published on 4 June 2011

Editorial overview: Behavioural ecology-molecular and neural mechanisms underpinning adaptive behaviour in insects

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Editorial: The Mechanisms of Insect Cognition

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Epigenetics of Royalty ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2, 2010

Epigenetics: the making of ant castes.

scientific article published in October 2012

Evolutionary origins of bee dances

scientific article published in Nature

Evolving understanding of nervous system evolution.

scientific article published in October 2016

FReD: the floral reflectance database--a web portal for analyses of flower colour

scientific article

Facial patterns in a tropical social wasp correlate with colony membership.

scientific article published on 17 September 2016

Facultative use of the repellent scent mark in foraging bumblebees: complex versus simple flowers

article by Nehal Saleh et al published April 2006 in Animal Behaviour

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Bees prefer foods containing neonicotinoid pesticides

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for How Wasps Acquire and Use Views for Homing

False memory susceptibility is correlated with categorisation ability in humans

scientific article

Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees.

scientific article published on 27 February 2004

Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators.

scientific article published in January 2009

Flower Constancy, Insect Psychology, and Plant Evolution

article

Flower Iridescence Increases Object Detection in the Insect Visual System without Compromising Object Identity

scientific article

Flower color phenology in European grassland and woodland habitats, through the eyes of pollinators

article by Sarah E. J. Arnold et al published 23 November 2009 in Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

Flower colour diversity seen through the eyes of pollinators. A commentary on: 'Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities: it depends on who is looking'

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Flower colours along an alpine altitude gradient, seen through the eyes of fly and bee pollinators

article by Sarah E. J. Arnold et al published 17 February 2009 in Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications

scientific article published in 2001

Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species

article

Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why it Matters

scientific article (publication date: June 1996)

Genomic Signatures of Recent Adaptation in a Wild Bumblebee

scientific article published in 2022

Harmonic radar tracking reveals random dispersal pattern of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queens after hibernation

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

High-Speed Videography Reveals How Honeybees Can Turn a Spatial Concept Learning Task Into a Simple Discrimination Task by Stereotyped Flight Movements and Sequential Inspection of Pattern Elements

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces.

scientific article published in December 2005

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) exhibit flexible visual search strategies for vertical targets presented at various heights

How Human Are Insects, and Does it Matter? ⬇️

scholarly article in Formosan Entomologist, vol. 31 no. 2, 2011

How floral odours are learned inside the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nest.

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

How foresight might support the behavioral flexibility of arthropods

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Illumination preference, illumination constancy and colour discrimination by bumblebees in an environment with patchy light.

scientific article published in July 2012

Influence of Intermittent Rewards in Learning to Handle Flowers in Bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus impatiens)

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)

Insect Bio-inspired Neural Network Provides New Evidence on How Simple Feature Detectors Can Enable Complex Visual Generalization and Stimulus Location Invariance in the Miniature Brain of Honeybees

scientific article

Insect Swarm Intelligence

scientific article published in Science

Insect-Inspired Sequential Inspection Strategy Enables an Artificial Network of Four Neurons to Estimate Numerosity

article

Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees.

scientific article published in October 2003

Is colour cognitive?

Large-scale transcriptome changes in the process of long-term visual memory formation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Lars Chittka

biographical article published in 2010

Learning by observation emerges from simple associations in an insect model.

scientific article published on 4 April 2013

Learning, specialization, efficiency and task allocation in social insects

scientific article published on January 2009

Life-Long Radar Tracking of Bumblebees

scientific article

Local enhancement or stimulus enhancement? Bumblebee social learning results in a specific pattern of flower preference

article published in 2014

Male bumblebees, Bombus terrestris, perform equally well as workers in a serial colour-learning task.

scientific article

Measuring the Adaptiveness of Social Insect Foraging Strategies

scholarly article published 21 May 2009

Merging of Long-Term Memories in an Insect

article by Kathryn L. Hunt & Lars Chittka published March 2015 in Current Biology

Merging of long-term memories in an insect

scientific article

Modality-specific attention in foraging bumblebees

scientific article

Monitoring Flower Visitation Networks and Interactions between Pairs of Bumble Bees in a Large Outdoor Flight Cage

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Multispectral images of flowers reveal the adaptive significance of using long-wavelength-sensitive receptors for edge detection in bees

scientific article

Mutations perturbing petal cell shape and anthocyanin synthesis influence bumblebee perception of Antirrhinum majus flower colour

Neuroscience. Caffeine boosts bees' memories.

scientific article

Nicotine in floral nectar pharmacologically influences bumblebee learning of floral features

scientific article

No trade-off between learning speed and associative flexibility in bumblebees: a reversal learning test with multiple colonies

scientific article

Observational conditioning in flower choice copying by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): influence of observer distance and demonstrator movement

scientific article

Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: Spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities

scientific article

Optimal Sets of Color Receptors and Color Opponent Systems for Coding of Natural Objects in Insect Vision

scholarly article by Lars Chittka published July 1996 in Journal of Theoretical Biology

Perception space--the final frontier

scientific article

Photoreceptor processing speed and input resistance changes during light adaptation correlate with spectral class in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens

scientific article

Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in island and mainland populations of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

scientific article published on 27 February 2007

Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

scientific article

Pollen foraging: learning a complex motor skill by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris).

scientific article published on 6 December 2006

Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals.

scientific article published in January 2003

Possible chemical mimicry of the European lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus)

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Potential application of the bumblebee foraging recruitment pheromone for commercial greenhouse pollination

Predator crypsis enhances behaviourally mediated indirect effects on plants by altering bumblebee foraging preferences.

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy.

scientific article published in July 2003

Radar tracking and motion-sensitive cameras on flowers reveal the development of pollinator multi-destination routes over large spatial scales

scientific article

Randomly weighted receptor inputs can explain the large diversity of colour-coding neurons in the bee visual system

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Recognition of flowers by pollinators.

scientific article

Reuse of identified neurons in multiple neural circuits

Seeing the light: illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees

scientific article

Sensor Capability and Atmospheric Correction in Ocean Colour Remote Sensing

Sensori-motor learning and its relevance for task specialization in bumble bees

scientific article published in 1997

Sheep in wolf's clothing: multicomponent traits enhance the success of mimicry in spider-mimicking moths

article by Mu-Yun Wang et al published May 2017 in Animal Behaviour

Signatures of a globally optimal searching strategy in the three-dimensional foraging flights of bumblebees

scientific article

Social cognition in insects

scientific article published in 2022

Social learning in insects--from miniature brains to consensus building.

scientific article published on August 2007

Social learning: ants and the meaning of teaching.

scientific article published in May 2006

Social learning: public information in insects.

scientific article

Social transmission of nectar-robbing behaviour in bumble-bees.

scientific article published in July 2008

Spatial memory in insect navigation.

scientific article published on September 2013

Spatiotemporal dynamics of bumblebees foraging under predation risk

scientific article published in March 2012

Speed and accuracy in nest-mate recognition: a hover wasp prioritizes face recognition over colony odour cues to minimize intrusion by outsiders

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2015)

Speed-accuracy tradeoffs and false alarms in bee responses to cryptic predators.

scientific article published on 4 September 2008

Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making.

scientific article published on 04 May 2009

Speed–accuracy trade-offs and individually consistent decision making by individuals and dyads of zebrafish in a colour discrimination task

article

Stigmergy versus behavioral flexibility and planning in honeybee comb construction

scientific article published on 12 August 2021

Strategies of the honeybee Apis mellifera during visual search for vertical targets presented at various heights: a role for spatial attention?

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Successful invasion of a floral market.

scientific article published in June 2001

Temporal correlation of elevated PRMT1 gene expression with mushroom body neurogenesis during bumblebee brain development

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

The Importance of Spatial Visual Scene Parameters in Predicting Optimal Cone Sensitivities in Routinely Trichromatic Frugivorous Old-World Primates.

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

The Sign ificance of the Invasive Crucifer Species Bunias orientalis (Brassicaceae) as a Nectar Source for Central European Insects

scientific article

The adaptive significance of sensory bias in a foraging context: floral colour preferences in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

scientific article

The biological significance of color constancy: an agent-based model with bees foraging from flowers under varied illumination.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

The correlation of learning speed and natural foraging success in bumble-bees.

scientific article published in April 2008

The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

article

The effect of polyploidy and hybridization on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae).

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

The evolution of color vision in insects.

scientific article

The frontiers of insect cognition

article by Clint J Perry et al published August 2017 in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization ⬇️

scientific article

The importance of experience in the interpretation of conspecific chemical signals

article by Nehal Saleh & Lars Chittka published 5 September 2006 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The influence of past experience with flower reward quality on social learning in bumblebees

article published in 2015

The interaction of temperature and sucrose concentration on foraging preferences in bumblebees.

scientific article

The promise of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions.

scientific article

The role of UV in crab spider signals: effects on perception by prey and predators

scientific article published in October 2005

The secret lives of bees as horticulturists?

scientific article

The spectral input to honeybee visual odometry.

scientific article published in July 2003

Trade-off between travel distance and prioritization of high-reward sites in traplining bumblebees.

scientific article

Traplining in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): a foraging strategy's ontogeny and the importance of spatial reference memory in short-range foraging

scientific article

Travel optimization by foraging bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations.

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of Hymenoptera.

scientific article published in June 1994

Underwater image and video dehazing with pure haze region segmentation

scholarly article by Simon Emberton et al published March 2018 in Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Unexpected rewards induce dopamine-dependent positive emotion-like state changes in bumblebees

scientific article

Unravelling the mechanisms of trapline foraging in bees

scientific article

Variability in sensory ecology: expanding the bridge between physiology and evolutionary biology

scientific article published on March 2009

Visual constraints in foraging bumblebees: flower size and color affect search time and flight behavior.

scientific article

Visual ecology of aphids—a critical review on the role of colours in host finding

article

Visual search and the importance of time in complex decision making by bees

What is cognition?

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

What is comparable in comparative cognition?

scientific article (publication date: 5 October 2012)

Why do honey bees dance?

scientific article published in 2004

Why do so many petals have conical epidermal cells?

scientific article published on 05 April 2011

Winter active bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) achieve high foraging rates in urban Britain

scientific article

‘Personality’ in bumblebees: individual consistency in responses to novel colours?

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