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List of works by Adrian G Dyer

A hundred years of color studies in insects: with thanks to Karl von Frisch and the workers he inspired

scientific article published on 3 May 2014

Achieving arithmetic learning in honeybees and examining how individuals learn

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Alarm Tones, Voice Warnings, and Musical Treatments: A Systematic Review of Auditory Countermeasures for Sleep Inertia in Abrupt and Casual Awakenings

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Alarm tones, music and their elements: Analysis of reported waking sounds to counteract sleep inertia

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Ambient temperature influences Australian native stingless bee (Trigona carbonaria) preference for warm nectar

scientific article (publication date: 9 August 2010)

An integrative framework for the appraisal of coloration in nature

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Assessing the ecological significance of bee visual detection and colour discrimination on the evolution of flower colours

Assessment of floral colour signals at a community through the eyes of the birds and bees

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Auditory Countermeasures for Sleep Inertia: Exploring the Effect of Melody and Rhythm in an Ecological Context

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Australian native flower colours: Does nectar reward drive bee pollinator flower preferences?

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Automated calculation of spectral-reflectance marker-points to enable analysis of plant colour-signalling to pollinators

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying honeybees.

scientific article

Bee Representations in Human Art and Culture through the Ages

scientific article published on 09 December 2021

Behavioural ecology: bees associate warmth with floral colour

scientific article

Blue colour preference in honeybees distracts visual attention for learning closed shapes.

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light.

scientific article published in April 2004

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

scientific article published on 13 August 2004

Bumblebees directly perceive variations in the spectral quality of illumination

scientific article published on 11 January 2006

Changing How Biologists View Flowers-Color as a Perception Not a Trait

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Characterization of digital cameras for reflected ultraviolet photography; implications for qualitative and quantitative image analysis during forensic examination

scientific article published on 3 October 2013

Climate is a strong predictor of near-infrared reflectance but a poor predictor of colour in butterflies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Color Difference and Memory Recall in Free-Flying Honeybees: Forget the Hard Problem

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Colour evolution within orchids depends on whether the pollinator is a bee or a fly

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Colour is more than hue: preferences for compiled colour traits in the stingless bees Melipona mondury and M. quadrifasciata

scientific article published in August 2016

Colour preferences of Tetragonula carbonaria Sm. stingless bees for colour morphs of the Australian native orchid Caladenia carnea

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Colour processing in complex environments: insights from the visual system of bees

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Community-wide integration of floral colour and scent in a Mediterranean scrubland

scientific article published on 04 September 2017

Comparative psychophysics of bumblebee and honeybee colour discrimination and object detection

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Comparative psychophysics of colour preferences in two species of non-eusocial Australian native halictid bees

scientific article

Conceptualization of above and below relationships by an insect.

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

Conceptualization of relative size by honeybees

scientific article

Conical flower cells reduce surface gloss and improve colour signal integrity for free-flying bumblebees

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Correction: Spatial Monitoring and Insect Behavioural Analysis Using Computer Vision for Precision Pollination

scientific article published in 2023

Different mechanisms underlie implicit visual statistical learning in honey bees and humans

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Differentiating Biological Colours with Few and Many Sensors: Spectral Reconstruction with RGB and Hyperspectral Cameras

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Disentangling the role of floral sensory stimuli in pollination networks

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Distinctive convergence in Australian floral colours seen through the eyes of Australian birds

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Diversity of speed-accuracy strategies benefits social insects.

scientific article published in October 2008

Does Fine Color Discrimination Learning in Free-Flying Honeybees Change Mushroom-Body Calyx Neuroarchitecture?

scientific article

Does Holistic Processing Require a Large Brain? Insights From Honeybees and Wasps in Fine Visual Recognition Tasks

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Erratum to: Flower detection and acuity of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Ethnography Through the Digital Eye: What Do We See When We Look?

scientific article published in 2017

Evaluating the spectral discrimination capabilities of different pollinators and their effect on the evolution of flower colors

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

False colour photography reveals the complexity of flower signalling. A Commentary on: ‘A bee’s eye view of remarkable floral colour patterns in the Southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot revealed by false colour photography’

scientific article published in 2021

Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees.

scientific article published on 27 February 2004

Floral Color Diversity: How Are Signals Shaped by Elevational Gradient on the Tropical-Subtropical Mountainous Island of Taiwan?

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities: it depends on who is looking

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Flower colour and phylogeny along an altitudinal gradient in the Himalayas of Nepal

scholarly article by Mani Shrestha et al published 26 November 2013 in Journal of Ecology

Flower colours through the lens: quantitative measurement with visible and ultraviolet digital photography

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Flower detection and acuity of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm.

scientific article

Flower signal variability overwhelms receptor-noise and requires plastic color learning in bees

article by Jair E Garcia et al published 1 October 2018 in Behavioral Ecology

Fluorescent Pan Traps Affect the Capture Rate of Insect Orders in Different Ways

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Fly pollination drives convergence of flower coloration

scientific article published on 30 August 2021

Flying in Complex Environments: Can Insects Bind Multiple Sensory Perceptions and What Could Be the Lessons for Machine Vision?

Fragmentary Blue: Resolving the Rarity Paradox in Flower Colors

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Free-flying honeybees extrapolate relational size rules to sort successively visited artificial flowers in a realistic foraging situation.

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Functional Significance of Labellum Pattern Variation in a Sexually Deceptive Orchid (Ophrys heldreichii): Evidence of Individual Signature Learning Effects

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

General principles in motion vision: color blindness of object motion depends on pattern velocity in honeybee and goldfish

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Generalised pollination of Diuris alba (Orchidaceae) by small bees and wasps

scientific article published in 2007

Ginger and the beetle: Evidence of primitive pollination system in a Himalayan endemic alpine ginger (Roscoea alpina, Zingiberaceae).

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Goldilocks’ quarter-hectare urban farm: An agent-based model for improved pollination of community gardens and small-holder farms

scientific article published on 15 July 2022

Good with faces

scientific article

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

scientific article published in December 2005

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) learn color discriminations via differential conditioning independent of long wavelength (green) photoreceptor modulation.

scientific article

Honeybees can recognise images of complex natural scenes for use as potential landmarks.

scientific article published in April 2008

Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

How biotic and abiotic effects colour flowers in a land Down Under

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Improved color constancy in honey bees enabled by parallel visual projections from dorsal ocelli

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Innate colour preference, individual learning and memory retention in the ant Camponotus blandus

scientific article published in September 2017

Innate colour preferences of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Insect brains use image interpolation mechanisms to recognise rotated objects

scientific article

Insects in the City: Does Remnant Native Habitat Influence Insect Order Distributions?

scientific article published on 30 March 2021

Intrafloral patterns of color and scent in <i>Capparis spinosa</i> L. and the ghosts of its selection past

scientific article published in 2022

Iridescence and hydrophobicity have no clear delineation that explains flower petal micro-surface

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time

scientific article published on 10 May 2022

Is floral iridescence a biologically relevant cue in plant-pollinator signaling?

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Learning context modulates aversive taste strength in honey bees.

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Learning to navigate in a three-dimensional world: from bees to primates

scientific article published in October 2013

Linearisation of RGB camera responses for quantitative image analysis of visible and UV photography: a comparison of two techniques

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Mapping species distributions with social media geo-tagged images: Case studies of bees and flowering plants in Australia

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Mimicking orchids lure bees from afar with exaggerated ultraviolet signals

scientific article published in 2023

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

Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction

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Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees

scientific article published in Science

Numerosity Categorization by Parity in an Insect and Simple Neural Network

scientific article published on 29 April 2022

Out of Africa: evidence of the obligate mutualism between long corolla tubed plant and long-tongued fly in the Himalayas

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Parallel evolution of angiosperm colour signals: common evolutionary pressures linked to hymenopteran vision

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2012)

Perception of contextual size illusions by honeybees in restricted and unrestricted viewing conditions

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Pollination in a new climate: Assessing the potential influence of flower temperature variation on insect pollinator behaviour

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Pollination of Diuris maculata (Orchidaceae) by male Trichocolletes venustus bees

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Psychophysics of the hoverfly: categorical or continuous color discrimination?

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy.

scientific article published in July 2003

Related but not alike: not all Hemiptera are attracted to yellow

article by Kevin Farnier et al published 22 October 2014 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Reply to comment on Howard et al. (2019): 'Nothing to dance about: unclear evidence for symbolic representations and numerical competence in honeybees'

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Reproductive isolation in alpine gingers: How do coexisting Roscoea (R. purpurea and R. tumjensis ) conserve species integrity?

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Rewardlessness in orchids: how frequent and how rewardless?

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Seeing near and seeing far; behavioural evidence for dual mechanisms of pattern vision in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published in February 2012

Shades of red: bird-pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision.

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Signal or cue: the role of structural colors in flower pollination

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Simultaneous and successive colour discrimination in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 4 May 2005

Simultaneous mastering of two abstract concepts by the miniature brain of bees

scientific article

Spatial Monitoring and Insect Behavioural Analysis Using Computer Vision for Precision Pollination

scientific article published in 2022

Spontaneous choices for insect-pollinated flower shapes by wild non-eusocial halictid bees

scientific article published on 28 July 2021

Spontaneous quantity discrimination of artificial flowers by foraging honeybees

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive-aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Symbolic representation of numerosity by honeybees ( Apis mellifera): matching characters to small quantities

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

TRACES: Mobile Eye Tracking Captures User Sensory Experience in an Outdoor Walking Tour Environment

The answer is blowing in the wind: free-flying honeybees can integrate visual and mechano-sensory inputs for making complex foraging decisions.

scientific article published on 2 September 2016

The colorful language of Australian flowers.

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The ecological significance of time sense in animals

scientific article published on 08 November 2020

The effect of elevational gradient on alpine gingers (Roscoea alpina and R. purpurea) in the Himalayas

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

The forest or the trees: preference for global over local image processing is reversed by prior experience in honeybees.

scientific article published in January 2015

The mysterious cognitive abilities of bees: why models of visual processing need to consider experience and individual differences in animal performance

scientific article published on February 2012

The path to colour discrimination is S-shaped: behaviour determines the interpretation of colour models

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Towards precision apiculture: Traditional and technological insect monitoring methods in strawberry and raspberry crop polytunnels tell different pollination stories

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

Tracking individual honeybees among wildflower clusters with computer vision-facilitated pollinator monitoring

Trade-off between camouflage and sexual dimorphism revealed by UV digital imaging: the case of Australian Mallee dragons (Ctenophorus fordi).

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Use of temporal and colour cueing in a symbolic delayed matching task by honey bees

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Visual acuity trade-offs and microhabitat-driven adaptation of searching behaviour in psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Aphalaridae)

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

Visual acuity trade-offs and microhabitat-driven adaptation of searching behaviour in psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Aphalaridae).

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Why Variation in Flower Color May Help Reproductive Success in the Endangered Australian Orchid <i><i>Caladenia fulva</i></i>

scientific article published on 09 February 2021

Why background colour matters to bees and flowers.

scientific article published on 6 May 2017

Why do animals want what they like?

scientific article published on 29 April 2022