10.7554/eLife.40613.001 The quality of visual information that is available to an animal is
limited by the size of its eyes. Differences in eye size can be observed even between closely …

Local coexistence of bees has been explained by flower resource partitioning, but
coexisting bumblebee species often have strongly overlapping diets. We investigated if light …

Quantifying distributed information processing is crucial to understanding collective motion
in animal groups. Recent studies have begun to apply rigorous methods based on …

Moving animal groups such as schools of fishes or flocks of birds often undergo sudden
collective changes of their travelling direction as a consequence of stochastic fluctuations in …

By combining functional, ecological and evolutionary perspectives, neuroecology can provide
key insights into understanding how behaviour and the underlying sensory and neural …

To land, flying animals must simultaneously reduce speed and control their path to the target.
While the control of approach speed has been studied in many different animals, little is …

Most flying animals rely primarily on visual cues to coordinate and control their trajectory
when landing. Studies of visually guided landing typically involve animals that decrease their …

Stingless bees are important pollinators in the tropics. The tremendous variation in body
size makes them an excellent group to study how miniaturization affects vision and visual …

Many insects have triplets of camera type eyes, called ocelli, whose function remains unclear
for most species. Here, we investigate the ocelli of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, using …

Biological invasions represent a growing threat to islands and their biodiversity across the
world. The isolated sub‐Antarctic island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean is a …