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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in island and mainland populations of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris
   Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 193, no. 5, pp. 485–494, 2007
2. Social Learning in Insects — From Miniature Brains to Consensus Building
   Current Biology, vol. 17, no. 16, pp. R703–R713, 2007
3. The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
   Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 1789–1796, 2007
4. Are Autumn Foliage Colors Red Signals to Aphids?
   PLoS Biology, vol. 5, no. 8, p. e187, 2007
5. Facultative use of the repellent scent mark in foraging bumblebees: complex versus simple flowers
   Animal Behaviour, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 847–854, 2006
6. Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search?
   Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 209, no. 6, pp. 987–993, 2006
7. Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model
   Behavioral Ecology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 336–344, 2006
8. Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers?
   Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 38, no. 4-6, pp. 323–328, 2006
9. Social Learning: Ants and the Meaning of Teaching
   Current Biology, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. R323–R325, 2006
10. Animal Cognition: An Insect's Sense of Time?
    Current Biology, vol. 16, no. 19, pp. R851–R853, 2006
11. Traplining in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): a foraging strategy’s ontogeny and the importance of spatial reference memory in short-range foraging
    Oecologia, vol. 151, no. 4, pp. 719–730, 2006
12. Behavioural ecology: Bees associate warmth with floral colour
    Nature, vol. 442, no. 7102, Article ID 442525a, 1 pages, 2006
13. Pollen foraging: learning a complex motor skill by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 459–464, 2006
14. The importance of experience in the interpretation of conspecific chemical signals
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 215–220, 2006
15. Recognition of flowers by pollinators
    Current Opinion in Plant Biology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 428–435, 2006
16. Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 92, no. 8, pp. 371–374, 2005
17. Bumblebees, humble pollinators or assiduous invaders? A population comparison of foraging performance in Bombus terrestris
    Oecologia, vol. 144, no. 3, pp. 508–516, 2005
18. Social Learning: Public Information in Insects
    Current Biology, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. R869–R871, 2005
19. A new mode of information transfer in foraging bumblebees?
    Current Biology, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. R447–R448, 2005
20. The role of UV in crab spider signals: effects on perception by prey and predators
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 208, no. 20, pp. 3925–3931, 2005
21. Seeing the light: Illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 3852–3856, 2005
22. Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 661–666, 2005
23. Perception Space—The Final Frontier
    PLoS Biology, vol. 3, no. 4, p. e137, 2005
24. Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 208, no. 24, pp. 4709–4714, 2005
25. Colouration in crab spiders: substrate choice and prey attraction
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 208, no. 10, pp. 1785–1792, 2005
26. Dances as Windows into Insect Perception
    PLoS Biology, vol. 2, no. 7, p. e216, 2004
27. Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 207, no. 10, pp. 1683–1688, 2004
28. A receiver bias in the origin of three-spined stickleback mate choice
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 271, no. 1542, pp. 949–955, 2004
29. Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)
    Apidologie, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 183–192, 2004
30. Biological significance of distinguishing between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris ) as a case study
    Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, vol. 190, no. 2, pp. 105–114, 2004
31. Chance and adaptation in the evolution of island bumblebee behaviour
    Population Ecology, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 243–251, 2004
32. Why do honey bees dance?
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 395–401, 2004
33. Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 224–227, 2004
34. Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks
    Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 190, no. 9, 2004
35. Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals
    Nature, vol. 421, no. 6921, Article ID 421334a, 1 pages, 2003
36. Psychophysics: Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy
    Nature, vol. 424, no. 6947, Article ID 424388a, 1 pages, 2003
37. The spectral input to honeybee visual odometry
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 206, no. 14, pp. 2393–2397, 2003
38. Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 206, no. 19, pp. 3447–3453, 2003
39. Visual constraints in foraging bumblebees: Flower size and color affect search time and flight behavior
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 98, no. 7, pp. 3898–3903, 2001
40. Nature, vol. 411, no. 6838, pp. 653–653, 2001
41. Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 570–576, 2001
42. Flower Constancy, Insect Psychology, and Plant Evolution
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 86, no. 8, pp. 361–377, 1999
43. Bees travel novel homeward routes by integrating separately acquired vector memories
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 139–152, 1998
44. Nature, vol. 394, no. 6696, pp. 835–836, 1998
45. Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 239–249, 1997
46. Sensori-motor learning and its relevance for task specialization in bumble bees
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 385–398, 1997
47. Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why it Matters
    Ecology, vol. 77, no. 4, p. 1043, 1996
48. Why are there so many and so few white flowers?
    Trends in Plant Science, vol. 1, no. 8, pp. 252–252, 1996
49. Optimal Sets of Color Receptors and Color Opponent Systems for Coding of Natural Objects in Insect Vision
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 181, no. 2, pp. 179–196, 1996
50. The influences of landmarks on distance estimation of honey bees
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 23–31, 1995
51. The Significance of Landmarks for Path Integration in Homing Honeybee Foragers
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 82, no. 7, pp. 341–343, 1995
52. Can honey bees count landmarks?
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 159–164, 1995
53. Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of hymenoptera
    Vision Research, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1489–1508, 1994
54. The colour hexagon: a chromaticity diagram based on photoreceptor excitations as a generalized representation of colour opponency
    Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 170, no. 5, 1992
55. Opponent colour coding is a universal strategy to evaluate the photoreceptor inputs in Hymenoptera
    Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 170, no. 5, 1992
56. The evolutionary adaptation of flower colours and the insect pollinators' colour vision
    Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 171, no. 2, 1992