ReviewAnimal cognition2020
Multimodal interactions in insect navigation.
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50 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Latent learning improves foraging efficiency in ants.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2026Article
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- Restriction of pedicel-flagellum joint in the antennae negatively impacts recruitment but not exploration in ants.Movement ecology · 2026Article
- Updating an allocentric goal from lateralised egocentric visual memories.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Combining social and private information: How ants use pheromones and learnt cues to navigate.Learning & behavior · 2026Review
- Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task.Science advances · 2026Article
- Insect-inspired micro-optical antenna enables ultrasensitive multisensory perception.Science advances · 2025Article
- A Vector-Based Computational Model of Multimodal Insect Learning Walks.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Phobic responses of bull ants (Myrmecia midas) to odours introduced on their foraging route.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Comparative use of a polarized light compass for twilight and moonlight navigation in diurnal and nocturnal bull ants.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Navigating in clutter: how bumblebees optimize flight behaviour through experience.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Bumblebees locate goals in 3D with absolute height estimation from ventral optic flow.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Bumblebees increase their learning flight altitude in dense environments.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Coming home: how visually navigating ants (Myrmecia spp.) pinpoint their nest.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- I2Bot: an open-source tool for multi-modal and embodied simulation of insect navigation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Drosophila require both green and UV wavelengths for sun orientation but lack a time-compensated sun compass.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Restricted antennal movement impacts the tandem running dynamics in a ponerine ant.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- C. elegans foraging as a model for understanding the neuronal basis of decision-making.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Review
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Abstract
Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of cues, from idiothetic information to input from sky compasses and visual information through to olfactory and other cues (e.g. gustatory, magnetic, anemotactic or thermal) it is no surprise to see multimodality in most aspects of navigation. In this review, we present the current knowledge of multimodal cue use during orientation and navigation in insects. Multimodal cue use is adapted to a species' sensory ecology and shapes navigation behaviour both during the learning of environmental cues and when performing complex foraging journeys. The simultaneous use of multiple cues is beneficial because it provides redundant navigational information, and in general, multimodality increases robustness, accuracy and overall foraging success. We use examples from sensorimotor behaviours in mosquitoes and flies as well as from large scale navigation in ants, bees and insects that migrate seasonally over large distances, asking at each stage how multiple cues are combined behaviourally and what insects gain from using different modalities.
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