ArticleInsectes sociaux2022
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts.
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- Extinction of Innate Floral Preferences in the Generalist Solitary Pollinator Eristalis tenax.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Innate visual attraction before, during and after escape from adverse substrates in carpenter ants.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Innate Nectar Plant Attraction Is Primarily Visually-Guided but Olfactory-Stimulated in North American Monarch Butterflies.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ants are expert navigators combining innate and learnt navigational strategies. Whereas we know that the ants' feeding state segregates visual-navigational memories in ants navigating along a learnt route, it is an open question if the motivational state also affects the ants' innate visual preferences. Wood ant foragers show an innate attraction to conspicuous visual cues. These foragers inhabit cluttered woodland habitat and feed on honeydew from aphids on trees. Hence, the attraction to 'tree-like' objects might be an ecologically relevant behavior that is tailored to the wood ants' foraging ecology. Foragers from other ant species with different foraging ecologies show very different innate attractions. We investigated here the innate visual response of wood ant foragers with different motivational states, i.e., unfed or fed, as well as males that show no foraging activity. Our results show that ants from all three groups orient toward a prominent visual cue, i.e., this intrinsic visuomotor response is not context-dependent, but a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00040-022-00867-3.
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