Prof Lars Chittka

Lars Chittka
FRES, FRSB, FLS, Dr. habil.

Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
ResearcherID ORCID Google Scholar X

Research

animal cognition, sensory systems, pollination ecology, social insects, animal consciousness, animal welfare

Interests

Work in the Chittka lab is poised at the intersection between sensory physiology and learning psychology on the one hand, and evolutionary ecology on the other. Why do animals have the sensory systems they do? How do they use them in their natural foraging environment? How do cognitive-behavioural processes function in the economy of nature? Pollinator-plant interactions have been used as a model system to study these questions. Bees have been the organisms of choice in most of these studies, because their colonies can be easily kept, their experience can be readily controlled, they have a rich behavioural repertoire and amazing learning capacities. Members of the team have been particularly interested in mutual evolutionary and ecological influences of insect colour vision and flower colour signals, and insect learning and flower advertising. In addition, they have studied bee navigation, including the question of how bees use spatial memory to navigate among several rewarded sites. Recently, Chittka has also become interested in the question of consciousness in insects and its welfare implications. Work in the Chittka lab has made use of field studies, as well as experimental studies with computer-controlled behavioural tests, computer simulations, and phylogenetic analyses.

Publications

Relevant PublicationPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and Behaviour

2024

bullet iconWen C, Lu Y, Solvi C, Dong S, Wang C, Wen X, Xiao H, Wen J, Peng F and Chittka L (2024). Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension? Elife vol. 13 
18-09-2024
bullet iconRomero-González JE, Solvi C, Peng F and Chittka L (2024). Behaviour of honeybees integrated into bumblebee nests and the responses of their hosts. Apidologie, Springer Nature vol. 55 (4) 
09-07-2024
bullet iconGibbons M, Pasquini E, Kowalewska A, Read E, Gibson S, Crump A, Solvi C, Versace E and Chittka L (2024). Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees. iScience, Elsevier vol. 27 (8) 
02-07-2024
bullet iconZhou D, Dong S, Ge J, Chittka L, Wang C, Wen C and Wen J (2024). Bumblebees attend to both the properties of the string and the target in string‐pulling tasks, but prioritize the features of the string. Insect Science, Wiley 
01-05-2024
Relevant PublicationZhou Y, Ding S, Liao C, Wu J, Chittka L, Solvi C and Peng F (2024). Bumble bees’ food preferences are jointly shaped by rapid evaluation of nectar sugar concentration and viscosity. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 210, 419-427.  
01-04-2024
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Bridges A, Royka A, Wilson T, Lockwood C, Richter J and Juusola M (2024). Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone. Nature, Nature Research 
06-03-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationZhou Y, MaBouDi H, Peng C, Dona HSG, Al-Khudhairy SG, Chittka L, Solvi C and Peng F (2023). Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Springer Nature vol. 78 (1) 
27-12-2023
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2023). La vie intérieure des insectes. Pour la Science, CAIRN vol. N° 554 – décembre (12), 62-70.  
05-12-2023
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2023). Insect sentience. BSAVA Companion, British Small Animal Veterinary Association vol. 2023 (11), 24-25.  
01-11-2023
bullet iconChittka L (2023). The Inner Lives of Insects: Bees and other insects are far more cognitively complex than previously thought-a revelation that has wide-ranging ethical implications. Scientific American, Springer Nature vol. 329 (1) 
01-07-2023
Relevant PublicationCrump A, Gibbons M, Barrett M, Birch J and Chittka L (2023). Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare? PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 21 (6) 
01-06-2023
Relevant PublicationGallo V, Bridges AD, Woodgate JL and Chittka L (2023). Sub-cell scale features govern the placement of new cells by honeybees during comb construction. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 209 (5), 793-805.  
10-05-2023
Relevant PublicationIturbe X, Abderrahmane N, Abella J, Alcaide S, Beyne E, Charles H-P, Charpin-Nicolle C, Chittka L, Dávila A, Erdmann A, Estrada C, Fernández A, Fontanelli A, Flich J, Furano G, Gloriani AH, Isusquiza E, Grosu R, Hernández C, Ielmini D, et al. (2023). NimbleAI: Towards Neuromorphic Sensing-Processing 3D-integrated Chips. 2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
19-04-2023
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Rossi N (2023). Bees learn to dance. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science vol. 379 (6636), 985-986.  
09-03-2023
Relevant PublicationBridges AD, MaBouDi H, Procenko O, Lockwood C, Mohammed Y, Kowalewska A, González JER, Woodgate JL and Chittka L (2023). Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning. PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 21 (3) 
07-03-2023
Relevant PublicationBridges AD and Chittka L (2023). Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten. Physics of Life Reviews, Elsevier vol. 44, 267-269.  
02-02-2023
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2023). The Doors of Animal Perception. American Scientist, Sigma Xi vol. 111 (1) 
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2023). AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us. AMERICAN SCIENTIST vol. 111 (1), 55-57.  
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationDona HSG, Solvi C, Kowalewska A, Mäkelä K, MaBouDi H and Chittka L (2022). Do bumble bees play? Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 194, 239-251.  
01-12-2022
Relevant PublicationIrwin LN, Chittka L, Jablonka E and Mallatt J (2022). Editorial: Comparative animal consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Frontiers vol. 16 
19-10-2022
Relevant PublicationSolvi C, Zhou Y, Feng Y, Lu Y, Roper M, Sun L, Reid RJ, Chittka L, Barron AB and Peng F (2022). Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings. eLife, eLife vol. 11 
27-09-2022
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2022). The Mind of a Bee. 
26-07-2022
Relevant PublicationGibbons M, Versace E, Crump A, Baran B and Chittka L (2022). Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences vol. 119 (31) 
26-07-2022
Relevant PublicationGibbons M, Sarlak S and Chittka L (2022). Descending control of nociception in insects? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 289 (1978) 
06-07-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 4 “It’s Just Instinct”— or Is It? The Mind of a Bee  49-65.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 7 Learning about Flowers. The Mind of a Bee  100-121.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 9 The Brains Behind It All. The Mind of a Bee  143-164.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 10 “Personality” Differences between Bees. The Mind of a Bee  165-187.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 2 Seeing in Strange Colors. The Mind of a Bee  16-29.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 11 Do Bees Have Consciousness? The Mind of a Bee  188-209.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 6 Learning about Space. The Mind of a Bee  78-99.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Mind of a Bee  217-246.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 3 The Alien Sensory World of Bees. The Mind of a Bee  30-48.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 12 Afterword: What our Knowledge of Bees’ Minds Means for Their Conservation. The Mind of a Bee  210-214.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). ILLUSTRATION CREDITS. The Mind of a Bee  247-250.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 5 The Roots of Bee Intelligence and Communication. The Mind of a Bee  66-77.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 1 Introduction. The Mind of a Bee  1-15.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). 8 From Social Learning to “Swarm Intelligence”. The Mind of a Bee  122-142.  
27-06-2022
Relevant PublicationGuiraud M, Roper M, Wolf S, Woodgate JL and Chittka L (2022). Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees. PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 17 (6) 
16-06-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Rossi N (2022). Social cognition in insects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Elsevier vol. 26 (7), 578-592.  
12-05-2022
Relevant PublicationColgan TJ, Arce AN, Gill RJ, Ramos Rodrigues A, Kanteh A, Duncan EJ, Li L, Chittka L and Wurm Y (2022). Genomic Signatures of Recent Adaptation in a Wild Bumblebee. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Oxford University Press vol. 39 (2) 
01-02-2022
bullet iconChittka L (2022). THE MIND OF A BEE. 
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationWoodgate JL and Chittka L (2022). Central Place Foraging. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior  1149-1153.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2022). Personality Differences between Bees. NATURAL HISTORY vol. 130 (9), 16-23.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationGibbons M, Crump A, Barrett M, Sarlak S, Birch J and Chittka L (2022). Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence. Advances in Insect Physiology, Elsevier vol. 63, 155-229.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationGibbons M and Chittka L (2022). A framework for evaluating evidence of pain in animals. Animal Sentience, WellBeing International Publications vol. 7 (32) 
01-01-2022

2021

Relevant PublicationChittka L, Li L, Solvi C, Zhang F, Qi Z and Zhao W (2021). Gut microbiome drives individual memory variation in bumblebees. Nature Communications, Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) 
25-11-2021
Relevant PublicationGallo V and Chittka L (2021). Stigmergy versus behavioral flexibility and planning in honeybee comb construction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 118 (33) 
12-08-2021
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Woodgate J, Brebner J, Makinson J, Olivia B, Rossi N, Lim K, Dubois T, Gómez-Moracho T and Lihoreau M (2021). Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier Masson 
30-07-2021
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Woodgate J, Makinson J, Rossi N, Rawlings C, Ka L and Reynolds A (2021). Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate 2 between multiple aerial leks. iScience, Elsevier (Cell Press) 
20-05-2021
Relevant PublicationBrebner J and Chittka L (2021). Animal Cognition: The Self-Image of a Bumblebee. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 31 (4), r207-r209.  
01-02-2021
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Nityananda V (2021). Different Effects of Reward Value and Physical Saliency During Bumblebee Visual Search for Multiple Rewarding Targets. Animal Cognition, Springer (part of Springer Nature) 
30-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationRomero-González JE, Solvi C and Chittka L (2020). Honey bees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 170, 219-228.  
01-12-2020
Relevant PublicationGalpayage Dona HS and Chittka L (2020). Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) vol. 370 (6516), 530-531.  
29-10-2020
Relevant PublicationMaBouDi H, Solvi C and Chittka L (2020). Bumblebees Learn a Relational Rule but Switch to a Win-Stay/Lose-Switch Heuristic After Extensive Training. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers vol. 14 
12-08-2020
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2020). The secret lives of bees as horticulturists? Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) vol. 368 (6493), 824-825.  
22-05-2020
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2020). Bumblebees use sequential scanning of countable items in visual patterns to solve numerosity tasks. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Oxford University Press (OUP) 
05-05-2020
Relevant PublicationLoukola OJ, Gatto E, Híjar-Islas AC and Chittka L (2020). Selective interspecific information use in the nest choice of solitary bees. Animal Biology, Brill Academic Publishers vol. 70 (2), 215-225.  
06-04-2020
Relevant PublicationSolvi C, Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy S and Chittka L (2020). Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science vol. 367, 910-912.  
21-02-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationChittka L, Giurfa M and Riffell JA (2019). Editorial: The Mechanisms of Insect Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers vol. 10 
05-12-2019
Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ and Chittka L (2019). Flower colour diversity seen through the eyes of pollinators. A commentary on: ‘Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities: it depends on who is looking’. Annals of Botany, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 124 (2), viii-ix.  
24-09-2019
Relevant PublicationBayne T, Brainard D, Byrne RW, Chittka L, Clayton N, Heyes C, Mather J, Ölveczky B, Shadlen M, Suddendorf T and Webb B (2019). What is cognition? Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 29 (13), r608-r615.  
01-07-2019
Relevant PublicationVasas V, Peng F, MaBouDi H and Chittka L (2019). Randomly weighted receptor inputs can explain the large diversity of colour-coding neurons in the bee visual system. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 9 (1) 
06-06-2019
Relevant PublicationGuan C, Egertová M, Perry CJ, Chittka L and Chittka A (2019). Temporal correlation of elevated PRMT1 gene expression with mushroom body neurogenesis during bumblebee brain development. Journal of Insect Physiology, Elsevier vol. 116, 57-69.  
27-04-2019
Relevant PublicationMakinson JC, Woodgate JL, Reynolds A, Capaldi EA, Perry CJ and Chittka L (2019). Harmonic radar tracking reveals random dispersal pattern of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queens after hibernation. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 9 (1) 
20-03-2019
Relevant PublicationWURM Y and CHITTKA L (2019). Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees. Molecular Ecology, Wiley 
06-03-2019
Relevant PublicationBridges AD and Chittka L (2019). Animal Behaviour: Conformity and the Beginnings of Culture in an Insect. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 29 (5), r167-r169.  
01-03-2019
Relevant PublicationPasquaretta C, Jeanson R, Pansanel J, Raine NE, Chittka L and Lihoreau M (2019). A spatial network analysis of resource partitioning between bumblebees foraging on artificial flowers in a flight cage. Movement Ecology, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1) 
21-02-2019
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Wilson C (2019). Expanding Consciousness. American Scientist, Sigma Xi vol. 107 (6) 
01-01-2019

2018

Relevant PublicationVasas V and Chittka L (2018). Insect-Inspired Sequential Inspection Strategy Enables an Artificial Network of Four Neurons to Estimate Numerosity. iScience, Elsevier vol. 11, 85-92.  
14-12-2018
Relevant PublicationPerry CJ and Chittka L (2018). How foresight might support the behavioral flexibility of arthropods. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Elsevier vol. 54, 171-177.  
13-11-2018
Relevant PublicationWang M-Y, Chittka L and Ings TC (2018). Bumblebees Express Consistent, but Flexible, Speed-Accuracy Tactics Under Different Levels of Predation Threat. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media vol. 9, 1601-1601.  
03-09-2018
Relevant PublicationGuiraud M, Roper M and Chittka L (2018). High-Speed Videography Reveals How Honeybees Can Turn a Spatial Concept Learning Task Into a Simple Discrimination Task by Stereotyped Flight Movements and Sequential Inspection of Pattern Elements. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media vol. 9, 1347-1347.  
03-08-2018
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2018). The past, present and future of the beasts that may have made our brains Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees Thor Hanson (Basic Books, New York, NY; 2018) ISBN: 978-0-465-05261-5. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 28 (13), r722-r723.  
01-07-2018
Relevant PublicationLawson DA, Chittka L, Whitney HM and Rands SA (2018). Bumblebees distinguish floral scent patterns, and can transfer these to corresponding visual patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 285 (1880) 
13-06-2018
Relevant PublicationGallo V and Chittka L (2018). Cognitive Aspects of Comb-Building in the Honeybee? Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media vol. 9, 900-900.  
05-06-2018
Relevant PublicationNieberding CM, Van Dyck H and Chittka L (2018). Adaptive learning in non-social insects: from theory to field work, and back. Current Opinion in Insect Science, Elsevier vol. 27, 75-81.  
27-03-2018
Relevant PublicationMatthews T, Osorio D, Cavallaro A and Chittka L (2018). The Importance of Spatial Visual Scene Parameters in Predicting Optimal Cone Sensitivities in Routinely Trichromatic Frugivorous Old-World Primates. Front Comput Neurosci vol. 12, 15-15.  
27-03-2018
Relevant PublicationLi L, Su S, Perry CJ, Elphick MR, Chittka L and Søvik E (2018). Large-scale transcriptome changes in the process of long-term visual memory formation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. Sci Rep vol. 8 (1), 534-534.  
11-01-2018
Relevant PublicationAvarguès-Weber A, Lachlan R and Chittka L (2018). Bumblebee social learning can lead to suboptimal foraging choices. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 135, 209-214.  
01-01-2018
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P, MaBouDi H, Galpayage Dona HS and Chittka L (2018). Counting insects. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, Royal Society Publishing vol. 373 (1740) 
01-01-2018
Relevant PublicationWoodgate JL and Chittka L (2018). Central Place Foraging. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior  1-4.  
01-01-2018

2017

Relevant PublicationWoodgate JL, Makinson JC, Lim KS, Reynolds AM and Chittka L (2017). Continuous Radar Tracking Illustrates the Development of Multi-destination Routes of Bumblebees. Sci Rep, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17553-1 vol. 7 (1), 17323-17323.  
11-12-2017
Relevant PublicationVasas V, Brebner JS and Chittka L (2017). Color discrimination is not just limited by photoreceptor noise: a comment on Olsson et al. Behavioral Ecology, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 29 (2), 285-286.  
08-12-2017
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Skorupski P (2017). Active vision: A broader comparative perspective is needed. Constructivist Foundations vol. 13 (1), 128-129.  
15-11-2017
Relevant PublicationBuatois A, Pichot C, Schultheiss P, Sandoz J-C, Lazzari CR, Chittka L, Avarguès-Weber A and Giurfa M (2017). Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment. Sci Rep, Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature vol. 7 (1), 12903-12903.  
10-10-2017
Relevant PublicationLi L, MaBouDi H, Egertová M, Elphick MR, Chittka L and Perry CJ (2017). A possible structural correlate of learning performance on a colour discrimination task in the brain of the bumblebee. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 284 (1864) 
04-10-2017
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2017). Bee cognition. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 27 (19), r1049-r1053.  
01-10-2017
Relevant PublicationEMBERTON S, Chittka L and Cavallaro A (2017). Underwater image and video dehazing with pure haze region segmentation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier 
24-08-2017
Relevant PublicationPerry CJ, Barron AB and Chittka L (2017). The frontiers of insect cognition. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier vol. 16, 111-118.  
01-08-2017
Relevant PublicationPASQUARETTA C, JEANSON R, ANDALO C, CHITTKA L and LIHOREAU M (2017). Analysing plant–pollinator interactions with spatial movement networks. Ecological Entomology, Wiley vol. 42 (S1), 4-17.  
01-08-2017
Relevant PublicationMaBouDi H, Shimazaki H, Giurfa M and Chittka L (2017). Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: Spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities. PLoS Comput Biol, Public Library of Science vol. 13 (6), e1005551-e1005551.  
22-06-2017
Relevant PublicationPeng F and Chittka L (2017). A Simple Computational Model of the Bee Mushroom Body Can Explain Seemingly Complex Forms of Olfactory Learning and Memory. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 27 (11) 
01-06-2017
Relevant PublicationBaracchi D, Marples A, Jenkins AJ, Leitch AR and Chittka L (2017). Nicotine in floral nectar pharmacologically influences bumblebee learning of floral features. Sci Rep vol. 7 (1), 1951-1951.  
16-05-2017
Relevant PublicationWang M-Y, Vasas V, Chittka L and Yen S-H (2017). Sheep in wolf's clothing: multicomponent traits enhance the success of mimicry in spider-mimicking moths. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 127, 219-224.  
01-05-2017
Relevant PublicationVasas V, Hanley D, Kevan PG and Chittka L (2017). Multispectral images of flowers reveal the adaptive significance of using long-wavelength-sensitive receptors for edge detection in bees. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol vol. 203 (4), 301-311.  
17-03-2017
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L, Perry C, Loukola O and Coscos L (2017). Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving upon an observed complex behaviour. Science, aaas 
17-02-2017
Relevant PublicationRoper M, Fernando C and Chittka L (2017). Insect Bio-inspired Neural Network Provides New Evidence on How Simple Feature Detectors Can Enable Complex Visual Generalization and Stimulus Location Invariance in the Miniature Brain of Honeybees. PLoS Comput Biol vol. 13 (2), e1005333-e1005333.  
03-02-2017
Relevant PublicationGuiraud M, Maboudi H, Aniculaesei TC and Chittka L (2017). What Can Bee Scanning Tell Us About Visual Pattern Recognition. 
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2017). Primer Bee cognition. CURRENT BIOLOGY vol. 27 (19), R1049-R1053.  
01-01-2017

2016

Relevant PublicationAlem S, Perry CJ, Zhu X, Loukola OJ, Ingraham T, Søvik E and Chittka L (2016). Correction: Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect. PLoS Biol vol. 14 (12), e1002589-e1002589.  
29-12-2016
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2016). A simple computational model of the bee mushroom body can explain seemingly complex forms of olfactory learning and memory. Current Biology, Elsevier (Cell Press) vol. in press 
22-12-2016
Relevant PublicationDawson EH, Chittka L and Leadbeater E (2016). Alarm substances induce associative social learning in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Animal Behaviour vol. 122, 17-22.  
01-12-2016
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L, Perry CJ, Alem S, Loukola OJ, Xingfu Z, Sovik E and Ingraham T (2016). Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect. PLoS Biology, Public Library of Science 
04-10-2016
Relevant PublicationNiven JE and Chittka L (2016). Evolving understanding of nervous system evolution. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 26 (20), r937-r941.  
01-10-2016
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L, Perry CJ and Baciadonna L (2016). Unexpected rewards induce dopamine-dependent positive emotion–like state changes in bumblebees. Science, Science Magazine vol. 353 (6307), 1529-1531.  
30-09-2016
Relevant PublicationBaracchi D, Turillazzi S and Chittka L (2016). Facial patterns in a tropical social wasp correlate with colony membership. Naturwissenschaften, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 103 (9-10), 80-80.  
17-09-2016
Relevant PublicationWoodgate JL, Makinson JC, Lim KS, Reynolds AM and Chittka L (2016). Life-Long Radar Tracking of Bumblebees., Editors: Pratt SC. PLoS One, Public Library of Science vol. 11 (8), e0160333-e0160333.  
04-08-2016
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Ings TC, Chittka L and Reynolds AM (2016). Signatures of a globally optimal searching strategy in the three-dimensional foraging flights of bumblebees. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option C vol. 6, 30401-30401.  
27-07-2016
Relevant PublicationSmolla M, Alem S, Chittka L and Shultz S (2016). Copy-when-uncertain: bumblebees rely on social information when rewards are highly variable. Biology Letters, Royal Society, The vol. 12 (6), 20160188-20160188.  
01-06-2016
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2016). Editorial overview: Behavioural ecology—molecular and neural mechanisms underpinning adaptive behaviour in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, Elsevier vol. 15, vii-ix.  
10-05-2016
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Reed A, Rands SA, Chittka L and Glover BJ (2016). Flower Iridescence Increases Object Detection in the Insect Visual System without Compromising Object Identity. Curr Biol vol. 26 (6), 802-808.  
21-03-2016
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2016). Monitoring Flower Visitation Networks and Interactions between Pairs of Bumble Bees in a Large Outdoor Flight Cage. PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 11 (3) 
16-03-2016
Relevant PublicationWolf S and Chittka L (2016). Male bumblebees, Bombus terrestris, perform equally well as workers in a serial colour-learning task. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 111, 147-155.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationMaboudi H and Chittka L (2016). A Neural Network Model for the Dynamics of Orientation Selectivity Neurons in the Bee Visual System. PERCEPTION vol. 45 (6), 690-691.  
01-01-2016

2015

Relevant PublicationEmberton S, Chittka L, Cavallaro A and Wang M (2015). Sensor Capability and Atmospheric Correction in Ocean Colour Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, MDPI vol. 8 (1) 
22-12-2015
Relevant PublicationBaracchi D, Brown MJF and Chittka L (2015). Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees? F1000Research, F1000Research vol. 4 
29-10-2015
Relevant PublicationNityananda V and Chittka L (2015). Modality-specific attention in foraging bumblebees. Royal Society Open Science, The Royal Society vol. 2 (10) 
01-10-2015
Relevant PublicationMcCarthy EW, Arnold SEJ, Chittka L, Le Comber SC, Verity R, Dodsworth S, Knapp S, Kelly LJ, Chase MW, Baldwin IT, Kovařík A, Mhiri C, Taylor L and Leitch AR (2015). The effect of polyploidy and hybridization on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae). Annals of Botany, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 115 (7), 1117-1131.  
15-05-2015
Relevant PublicationWang M-Y, Brennan CH, Lachlan RF and Chittka L (2015). Speed–accuracy trade-offs and individually consistent decision making by individuals and dyads of zebrafish in a colour discrimination task. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 103, 277-283.  
01-05-2015
Relevant PublicationBaracchi D, Brown MJF and Chittka L (2015). Weak and contradictory effects of self-medication with nectar nicotine by parasitized bumblebees. F1000Research, F1000Research vol. 4 
19-03-2015
Relevant PublicationWolf S, Roper M and Chittka L (2015). Bumblebees utilize floral cues differently on vertically and horizontally arranged flowers. Behavioral Ecology, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 26 (3), 773-781.  
06-03-2015
Relevant PublicationJones PL, Ryan MJ and Chittka L (2015). The influence of past experience with flower reward quality on social learning in bumblebees. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 101, 11-18.  
01-03-2015
Relevant PublicationHunt KL and Chittka L (2015). Merging of Long-Term Memories in an Insect. Current Biology, Elsevier vol. 25 (6), 741-745.  
26-02-2015
Relevant PublicationMorawetz L, Chittka L and Spaethe J (2015). Honeybees ( Apis mellifera) exhibit flexible visual search strategies for vertical targets presented at various heights. F1000Research, F1000Research vol. 3 
12-02-2015
Relevant PublicationBaracchi D, Petrocelli I, Chittka L, Ricciardi G and Turillazzi S (2015). Speed and accuracy in nest-mate recognition: A hover wasp prioritizes face recognition over colony odour cues to minimize intrusion by outsiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 282 (1802) 
04-02-2015
Relevant PublicationSadd BM, Barribeau SM, Bloch G, de Graaf DC, Dearden P, Elsik CG, Gadau J, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Hasselmann M, Lozier JD, Robertson HM, Smagghe G, Stolle E, Van Vaerenbergh M, Waterhouse RM, Bornberg-Bauer E, Klasberg S, Bennett AK, Câmara F, Guigó R, et al. (2015). The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization. Genome Biology, Springer Nature vol. 16 (1) 
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationEmberton S, Chittka L and Cavallaro A (2015). Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing. Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2015
01-01-2015

2014

Relevant PublicationAvarguès-Weber A and Chittka L (2014). Local enhancement or stimulus enhancement? Bumblebee social learning results in a specific pattern of flower preference. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 97, 185-191.  
01-11-2014
Relevant PublicationDawson EH and Chittka L (2014). Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) use social information as an indicator of safety in dangerous environments. Proc Biol Sci vol. 281 (1785) 
22-06-2014
Relevant PublicationHopwood PE, Moore AJ and Royle NJ (2014). Effects of resource variation during early life and adult social environment on contest outcomes in burying beetles: a context-dependent silver spoon strategy? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 281 (1785) 
22-06-2014
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Faruq S, Skorupski P and Werner A (2014). Colour constancy in insects. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol vol. 200 (6), 435-448.  
01-06-2014
Relevant PublicationNityananda V, Skorupski P and Chittka L (2014). Can bees see at a glance? J Exp Biol vol. 217 (Pt 11), 1933-1939.  
01-06-2014
Relevant PublicationAvarguès-Weber A and Chittka L (2014). Observational conditioning in flower choice copying by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): influence of observer distance and demonstrator movement. PLoS One vol. 9 (2) 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Raine NE (2014). Bumblebee colour patterns and predation risk: a reply to Owen (2014). JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY vol. 292 (2), 133-135.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationJones PL, Ryan MJ and Chittka L (2014). Interactions between innate color preferences, individual experience and social information in bumblebee foraging decisions. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationNityananda V, Skorupski P and Chittka L (2014). Can bees see at a glance? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY vol. 217 (11), 1933-1939.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationMorawetz L, Chittka L and Spaethe J (2014). Strategies of the honeybee Apis mellifera during visual search for vertical targets presented at various heights: a role for spatial attention? F1000Res vol. 3 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationHunt K and Chittka L (2014). False memory susceptibility is correlated with categorisation ability in humans. F1000Res vol. 3 
01-01-2014

2013

Relevant PublicationCollett M, Chittka L and Collett TS (2013). Spatial memory in insect navigation. Curr Biol vol. 23 (17), R789-R800.  
09-09-2013
Relevant PublicationPapadopulos AST, Powell MP, Pupulin F, Warner J, Hawkins JA, Salamin N, Chittka L, Williams NH, Whitten WM, Loader D, Valente LM, Chase MW and Savolainen V (2013). Convergent evolution of floral signals underlies the success of Neotropical orchids. Proc Biol Sci vol. 280 (1765) 
22-08-2013
Relevant PublicationFaruq S, McOwan PW and Chittka L (2013). The biological significance of color constancy: an agent-based model with bees foraging from flowers under varied illumination. J Vis vol. 13 (10) 
20-08-2013
Relevant PublicationClare EL, Schiestl FP, Leitch AR and Chittka L (2013). The promise of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions. Genome Biol vol. 14 (6) 
24-06-2013
Relevant PublicationClare EL, Schiestl FP, Leitch AR and Chittka L (2013). The promise of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions. Genome Biology 
17-06-2013
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Stelzer RJ and Stanewsky R (2013). Daily changes in ultraviolet light levels can synchronize the circadian clock of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Chronobiol Int vol. 30 (4), 434-442.  
01-05-2013
Relevant PublicationDawson EH, Avarguès-Weber A, Chittka L and Leadbeater E (2013). Learning by observation emerges from simple associations in an insect model. Curr Biol, CurrentBiology vol. 23 (8), 727-730.  
22-04-2013
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Peng F (2013). Neuroscience. Caffeine boosts bees' memories. Science vol. 339 (6124), 1157-1159.  
08-03-2013
Relevant Publicationvan der Woude E, Smid HM, Chittka L and Huigens ME (2013). Breaking Haller's rule: brain-body size isometry in a minute parasitic wasp. Brain Behav Evol vol. 81 (2), 86-92.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationReynolds AM, Lihoreau M and Chittka L (2013). A simple iterative model accurately captures complex trapline formation by bumblebees across spatial scales and flower arrangements. PLoS Comput Biol, PLoS Computational Biology vol. 9 (3) 
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationAvargues-Weber A, Dawson EH and Chittka L (2013). Mechanisms of social learning across species boundaries. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY vol. 290 (1), 1-11.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Raine NE, Reynolds AM, Stelzer RJ, Lim KS, Smith AD, Osborne JL and Chittka L (2013). Unravelling the mechanisms of trapline foraging in bees. Commun Integr Biol vol. 6 (1) 
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationWang M-Y, Ings TC, Proulx MJ and Chittka L (2013). Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators? ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR vol. 86 (4), 859-866.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationPapadopulos AST, Powell MP, Pupulin F, Warner J, Hawkins JA, Salamin N, Chittka L, Williams NH, Whitten WM, Loader D, Valente LM, Chase MW and Savolainen V (2013). Convergent evolution of floral signals underlies the success of neotropical orchids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 280 (1765) 
01-01-2013

2012

Relevant PublicationVukusic P and Chittka L (2012). Visual signals: color and light production. The Insects  793-823.  
12-11-2012
Relevant PublicationLand MF and Chittka L (2012). Vision. The Insects  708-737.  
12-11-2012
Relevant PublicationChittka A, Wurm Y and Chittka L (2012). Epigenetics: the making of ant castes. Curr Biol vol. 22 (19), R835-R838.  
09-10-2012
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Latty T and Chittka L (2012). An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects. Frontiers in Physiology vol. 3 NOV 
13-08-2012
Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ and Chittka L (2012). Illumination preference, illumination constancy and colour discrimination by bumblebees in an environment with patchy light. J Exp Biol vol. 215 (Pt 13), 2173-2180.  
01-07-2012
Relevant PublicationLenz F, Ings TC, Chittka L, Chechkin AV and Klages R (2012). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bumblebees Foraging under Predation Risk. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, American Physical Society vol. 108 (9), 098103-098108.  
01-03-2012
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Chittka L, Le Comber SC and Raine NE (2012). Bees do not use nearest-neighbour rules for optimization of multi-location routes. Biol Lett vol. 8 (1), 13-16.  
23-02-2012
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Dyer A (2012). Cognition: Your face looks familiar. Nature vol. 481 (7380), 154-155.  
11-01-2012
Relevant PublicationDawson EH and Chittka L (2012). Conspecific and heterospecific information use in bumblebees. PLoS One vol. 7 (2) 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Wang M-Y and Chittka L (2012). Colour-independent shape recognition of cryptic predators by bumblebees. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY vol. 66 (3), 487-496.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationChittka L, ROSSITER SJ, Skorupski P and Fernando C (2012). What is comparable in comparative cognition? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences vol. 367 (1603), 2677-2685.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationPrzybylowicz T, Roessingh P, Groot AT, Biesmeijer JCK, Oostermeijer JGBG, Chittka L and Gravendeel B (2012). Possible chemical mimicry of the European lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus). CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY vol. 81 (2), 103-110.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Raine NE, Reynolds AM, Stelzer RJ, Lim KS, Smith AD, Osborne JL and Chittka L (2012). Radar tracking and motion-sensitive cameras on flowers reveal the development of pollinator multi-destination routes over large spatial scales. PLoS Biol vol. 10 (9) 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2012). No trade-off between learning speed and associative flexibility in bumblebees: a reversal learning test with multiple colonies. PLoS One vol. 7 (9) 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Latty T and Chittka L (2012). An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects. Front Physiol vol. 3 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationMuller H and Chittka L (2012). Consistent Interindividual Differences in Discrimination Performance by Bumblebees in Colour, Shape and Odour Learning Tasks (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris). ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALIS vol. 34 (1-2), 1-8.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationLars C (2012). Merging of Long-Term Memories in an Insect. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers vol. 6 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationLars C (2012). VISUAL SEARCH AND ATTENTION IN BUMBLEBEES. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers vol. 6 
01-01-2012

2011

Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2011). Do inexperienced bumblebee foragers use scent marks as social information? Anim Cogn vol. 14 (6), 915-919.  
01-11-2011
Relevant PublicationWang M-Y and Chittka L (2011). Cross-Modal Learning between Visual and Vibration Signals in Zebrafish Danio Rerio. i-Perception, SAGE Publications vol. 2 (8), 847-847.  
01-10-2011
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Bennett KMV, Dorling M, Sandbach L, Prince D, Chittka L and Glover BJ (2011). Why do so many petals have conical epidermal cells? Ann Bot vol. 108 (4), 609-616.  
01-09-2011
Relevant PublicationMendl M, Paul ES and Chittka L (2011). Animal behaviour: emotion in invertebrates? Curr Biol vol. 21 (12), R463-R465.  
21-06-2011
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Skorupski P (2011). Information processing in miniature brains. Proc Biol Sci vol. 278 (1707), 885-888.  
22-03-2011
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Poetes R, Steiner U, Chittka L and Glover BJ (2011). Determining the contribution of epidermal cell shape to petal wettability using isogenic Antirrhinum lines. PLoS One vol. 6 (3) 
10-03-2011
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P and Chittka L (2011). Is colour cognitive? OPT LASER TECHNOL vol. 43 (2), 251-260.  
01-03-2011
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Jensen K (2011). Animal cognition: concepts from apes to bees. Curr Biol vol. 21 (3), R116-R119.  
08-02-2011
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Mesoudi A (2011). Honeybee Democracy. SCIENCE vol. 331 (6016), 401-402.  
28-01-2011
Relevant PublicationFaruq S, Chittka L and McOwan P (2011). Modelling the quantitative effects of colour vision applied to a foraging honey bee. PERCEPTION vol. 40 (1), 105-105.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P and Chittka L (2011). Photoreceptor processing speed and input resistance changes during light adaptation correlate with spectral class in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. PLoS One vol. 6 (10) 
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2011). Trade-off between travel distance and prioritization of high-reward sites in traplining bumblebees. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY vol. 25 (6), 1284-1292.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Walker J (2011). Insects as Art Lovers., Editors: Britton S. Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly vol. 31 (4), 46-48.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationFaruq S, Chittka L and Mcowan P (2011). Testing the biological significance of colour constancy in an agent based model with bees foraging from flowers under varied illumination. PERCEPTION vol. 40, 9-9.  
01-01-2011

2010

Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW and Chittka L (2010). FReD: the floral reflectance database--a web portal for analyses of flower colour. PLoS One vol. 5 (12) 
10-12-2010
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2010). Lars Chittka. CURR BIOL vol. 20 (23), R1006-R1008.  
07-12-2010
Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW and Chittka L (2010). FReD: the floral reflectance database--a web portal for analyses of flower colour. PloS one vol. 5 (12) 
01-12-2010
Relevant PublicationLihoreau M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2010). Travel optimization by foraging bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations. Am Nat vol. 176 (6), 744-757.  
01-12-2010
Relevant PublicationMuller H, Grossmann H and Chittka L (2010). 'Personality' in bumblebees: individual consistency in responses to novel colours? ANIM BEHAV vol. 80 (6), 1065-1074.  
01-12-2010
Relevant PublicationChittka A and Chittka L (2010). Epigenetics of royalty. PLoS Biol vol. 8 (11) 
02-11-2010
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ, Raine NE, Schmitt KD and Chittka L (2010). Effects of aposematic coloration on predation risk in bumblebees? A comparison between differently coloured populations, with consideration of the ultraviolet. J ZOOL vol. 282 (2), 75-83.  
01-10-2010
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P and Chittka L (2010). Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae). PLoS One vol. 5 (8) 
10-08-2010
Relevant PublicationJürgen Stelzer R, Stanewsky R and Chittka L (2010). Circadian foraging rhythms of bumblebees monitored by radio-frequency identification. J Biol Rhythms vol. 25 (4), 257-267.  
01-08-2010
Relevant PublicationNiven JE and Chittka L (2010). Reuse of identified neurons in multiple neural circuits. Behav Brain Sci vol. 33 (4) 
01-08-2010
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ and Chittka L (2010). Bumblebee foraging rhythms under the midnight sun measured with radiofrequency identification. BMC Biol vol. 8 
29-06-2010
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P and Chittka L (2010). Differences in photoreceptor processing speed for chromatic and achromatic vision in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. J Neurosci vol. 30 (11), 3896-3903.  
17-03-2010
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ, Chittka L, Carlton M and Ings TC (2010). Winter active bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) achieve high foraging rates in urban Britain. PLoS One vol. 5 (3) 
05-03-2010
Relevant PublicationKapustjansky A, Chittka L and Spaethe J (2010). Bees use three-dimensional information to improve target detection. Naturwissenschaften vol. 97 (2), 229-233.  
01-02-2010
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Ings NL, Chittka L and Rasmont P (2010). A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France. APIDOLOGIE vol. 41 (1), 1-13.  
01-01-2010

2009

Relevant PublicationChittka L and Niven J (2009). Are bigger brains better? Curr Biol vol. 19 (21), R995-R1008.  
17-11-2009
Relevant PublicationMolet M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2009). Potential application of the bumblebee foraging recruitment pheromone for commercial greenhouse pollination. APIDOLOGIE vol. 40 (6), 608-616.  
01-11-2009
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Kolle M, Andrew P, Chittka L, Steiner U and Glover BJ (2009). Response to Comment on Floral Iridescence, Produced by Diffractive Optics, Acts As a Cue for Animal Pollinators. SCIENCE vol. 325 (5944) 
28-08-2009
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Skorupski P and Raine NE (2009). Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making. Trends Ecol Evol vol. 24 (7), 400-407.  
01-07-2009
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2009). Bumble-bees learn the value of social cues through experience. Biol Lett vol. 5 (3), 310-312.  
23-06-2009
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Chittka L, Bruce TJA and Glover BJ (2009). Conical epidermal cells allow bees to grip flowers and increase foraging efficiency. Curr Biol vol. 19 (11), 948-953.  
09-06-2009
Relevant PublicationIngs TC and Chittka L (2009). Predator crypsis enhances behaviourally mediated indirect effects on plants by altering bumblebee foraging preferences. Proc Biol Sci vol. 276 (1664), 2031-2036.  
07-06-2009
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Raine NE and Chittka L (2009). A population comparison of the strength and persistence of innate colour preference and learning speed in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 63 (8), 1207-1218.  
01-06-2009
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Raine N (2009). Measuring the Adaptiveness of Social Insect Foraging Strategies. Food Exploitation By Social Insects  9-28.  
21-05-2009
Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ, Savolainen V and Chittka L (2009). Flower colours along an alpine altitude gradient, seen through the eyes of fly and bee pollinators. ARTHROPOD-PLANT INTE vol. 3 (1), 27-43.  
01-03-2009
Relevant PublicationDangles O, Irschick D, Chittka L and Casas J (2009). Variability in sensory ecology: expanding the bridge between physiology and evolutionary biology. Q Rev Biol vol. 84 (1), 51-74.  
01-03-2009
Relevant PublicationMolet M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2009). How floral odours are learned inside the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nest. Naturwissenschaften vol. 96 (2), 213-219.  
01-02-2009
Relevant PublicationOllerton J, Cranmer L, Stelzer RJ, Sullivan S and Chittka L (2009). Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants. Naturwissenschaften vol. 96 (2), 221-232.  
01-02-2009
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Kolle M, Andrew P, Chittka L, Steiner U and Glover BJ (2009). Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators. Science vol. 323 (5910), 130-133.  
02-01-2009
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Leadbeater E (2009). Social information use in foraging insects. Food exploitation by social insects: ecological, behavioral and theoretical approaches , Editors: Jaraus S and Hrncir M. 135-146.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationMolet M, Chittka L and Raine NE (2009). Bumblebee foraging pheromones. Bee Craft vol. July 2009, 20-20.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationRAINE NE and CHITTKA L (2009). Measuring the adaptiveness of social insect foraging strategies - an empirical approach. Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches , Editors: Hrncir M and Jarau S. 9-28.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationArnold SEJ, Le Comber SC and Chittka L (2009). Flower color phenology in European grassland and woodland habitats, through the eyes of pollinators. ISR J PLANT SCI vol. 57 (3), 211-230.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Muller H (2009). Learning, specialization, efficiency and task allocation in social insects. Commun Integr Biol vol. 2 (2), 151-154.  
01-01-2009

2008

Relevant PublicationMuller H and Chittka L (2008). Animal personalities: the advantage of diversity. Curr Biol vol. 18 (20), R961-R963.  
28-10-2008
Relevant PublicationIngs TC and Chittka L (2008). Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs and False Alarms in Bee Responses to Cryptic Predators. CURR BIOL vol. 18 (19), 1520-1524.  
14-10-2008
Relevant PublicationMolet M, Chittka L, Stelzer RJ, Streit S and Raine NE (2008). Colony nutritional status modulates worker responses to foraging recruitment pheromone in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 62 (12), 1919-1926.  
01-10-2008
Relevant PublicationWhitney HM, Dyer A, Chittka L, Rands SA and Glover BJ (2008). The interaction of temperature and sucrose concentration on foraging preferences in bumblebees. NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN vol. 95 (9), 845-850.  
01-09-2008
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2008). Social transmission of nectar-robbing behaviour in bumble-bees. P R SOC B vol. 275 (1643), 1669-1674.  
22-07-2008
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2008). The correlation of learning speed and natural foraging success in bumble-bees. Proc Biol Sci vol. 275 (1636), 803-808.  
07-04-2008
Relevant PublicationDoering TF, Hardie J, Leather S and Spaethe J (2008). Can aphids play football? Antenna vol. 32, 146-148.  
01-01-2008

2007

Relevant PublicationChittka L and Osorio D (2007). Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry? PLOS BIOL vol. 5 (12), 2754-2758.  
01-12-2007
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2007). Mengen der Nektarerzeugung bei 75 von Hummeln besuchten Blumenarten in einem deutschen Pflanzenbestand (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris). Entomologia Generalis, Schweizerbart vol. 30 (2), 191-192.  
04-09-2007
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ, Ollerton J and Chittka L (2007). Kein Nachweis für Hummelbesuch der Kanarischen Vogelblumen (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologia Generalis, Schweizerbart vol. 30 (2), 153-154.  
04-09-2007
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2007). The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 61 (11), 1789-1796.  
01-09-2007
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2007). Social learning in insects - From miniature brains to consensus building. CURR BIOL vol. 17 (16), R703-R713.  
21-08-2007
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Döring TF (2007). Are autumn foliage colors red signals to aphids? PLoS Biol vol. 5 (8) 
01-08-2007
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2007). The adaptive significance of sensory bias in a foraging context: floral colour preferences in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. PLoS One vol. 2 (6) 
20-06-2007
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2007). Pollen foraging: learning a complex motor skill by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN vol. 94 (6), 459-464.  
01-06-2007
Relevant PublicationSaleh N, Scott AG, Bryning GP and Chittka L (2007). Distinguishing signals and cues: bumblebees use general footprints to generate adaptive behaviour at flowers and nest. ARTHROPOD-PLANT INTE vol. 1 (2), 119-127.  
01-06-2007
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P, Doring TF and Chittka L (2007). Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in island and mainland populations of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. J COMP PHYSIOL A vol. 193 (5), 485-494.  
01-05-2007
Relevant PublicationSaleh N and Chittka L (2007). Traplining in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): a foraging strategy's ontogeny and the importance of spatial reference memory in short-range foraging. Oecologia vol. 151 (4), 719-730.  
01-04-2007
Relevant PublicationDyer AG, Whitney HM, Arnold SEJ, Glover BJ and Chittka L (2007). Mutations perturbing petal cell shape and anthocyanin synthesis influence bumblebee perception of Antirrhinum majus flower colour. ARTHROPOD-PLANT INTE vol. 1 (1), 45-55.  
01-03-2007
Relevant PublicationDoring TF and Chittka L (2007). Visual ecology of aphids-a critical review on the role of colours in host finding. ARTHROPOD-PLANT INTE vol. 1 (1), 3-16.  
01-03-2007
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Spaethe J (2007). Visual search and the importance of time in complex decision making by bees. ARTHROPOD-PLANT INTE vol. 1 (1), 37-44.  
01-03-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2007). A review of: Bumblebees. Prys-Jones OE & Corbet SA. Entomologia generalis vol. 29, 123-123.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Whitney HM (2007). Warm flowers, happy pollinators. Biologist vol. 54, 154-159.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2007). Seeing red by accident? Planet Earth, Natural Environment Research Council vol. Autumn 2007, 30-31.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ, Ollerton J and Chittka L (2007). No evidence for a visit of bumblebees to the Canarian bird-flower (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologia Generalis vol. 30 (2), 153-154.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2007). A review of: Bumblebees – Behaviour and Ecology. Entomologia generalis vol. 29, 314-314.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2007). A review of: Letters from the Hive – An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind. Buchmann S & Banning R. Entomologia generalis vol. 29, 164-164.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2007). Flower constancy and memory dynamics in bumblebees (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 29 (2-4), 179-199.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2007). Nectar production rates of 75 bumblebee-visited flower species in a German flora (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus terrestris). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 30 (2), 191-192.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2007). A review of: Asian Honey Bees – Biology, Conservation, and Human Interactions. Oldroyd BP & Wongsiri S. Entomologia generalis vol. 29, 284-284.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationStelzer RJ, Ollerton J and Chittka L (2007). Bumblebee visit in canary birdflowers (Hymenoptera : Apidae). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 30 (2), 153-154.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2007). A review of: A Field Guide in Colour to Bees and Wasps. Zahradnik J & Severa F. Entomologia generalis vol. 29, 134-134.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Walker J (2007). Insects as art lovers - bees for Van Gogh. Antennae vol. 2 (3), 37-42.  
01-01-2007

2006

Relevant PublicationSaleh N and Chittka L (2006). The importance of experience in the interpretation of conspecific chemical signals. BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 61 (2), 215-220.  
01-12-2006
Relevant PublicationSkorupski P and Chittka L (2006). Animal cognition: An insect's sense of time? CURR BIOL vol. 16 (19), R851-R853.  
10-10-2006
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Ward NL and Chittka L (2006). Can commercially imported bumble bees out-compete their native conspecifics? J APPL ECOL vol. 43 (5), 940-948.  
01-10-2006
Relevant PublicationDyer AG, Whitney HM, Arnold SEJ, Glover BJ and Chittka L (2006). Bees associate warmth with floral colour. NATURE vol. 442 (7102), 525-525.  
03-08-2006
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Raine NE (2006). Recognition of flowers by pollinators. CURR OPIN PLANT BIOL vol. 9 (4), 428-435.  
01-08-2006
Relevant PublicationSpaethe J, Chittka L and Skorupski P (2006). Visual search and decision making in bees: time, speed and accuracy. International Journal of Comparative Psychology vol. 19, 342-357.  
01-07-2006
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Walker J (2006). Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers? 
01-06-2006
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E, Raine NE and Chittka L (2006). Social learning: Ants and the meaning of teaching. CURR BIOL vol. 16 (9), R323-R325.  
09-05-2006
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A, Klugl F, Oechslein C, Puppe F and Chittka L (2006). Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model. BEHAV ECOL vol. 17 (3), 336-344.  
01-05-2006
Relevant PublicationSaleh N, Ohashi K, Thomson JD and Chittka L (2006). Facultative use of the repellent scent mark in foraging bumblebees: complex versus simple flowers. ANIM BEHAV vol. 71, 847-854.  
01-04-2006
Relevant PublicationSpaethe J, Tautz J and Chittka L (2006). Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search? J Exp Biol vol. 209 (Pt 6), 987-993.  
01-03-2006
Relevant PublicationRaine NE, Ings TC, Dornhaus A, Saleh N and Chittka L (2006). Adaptation, genetic drift, pleiotropy, and history in the evolution of bee foraging behavior. ADV STUD BEHAV vol. 36, 305-354.  
01-01-2006
Relevant PublicationRaine NE, Ings TC, Ramos-Rodriguez O and Chittka L (2006). Intercolony variation in learning performance of a wild British bumblebee population (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus terrestris audax). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 28 (4), 241-256.  
01-01-2006

2005

Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2005). Comparison of flower constancy and foraging performance in three bumblebee species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Entomologia Generalis vol. 28 (2), 081-089.  
19-12-2005
Relevant PublicationDyer AG, Neumeyer C and Chittka L (2005). Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces. J EXP BIOL vol. 208 (24), 4709-4714.  
01-12-2005
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Leadbeater E (2005). Social learning: Public information in insects. CURR BIOL vol. 15 (21), R869-R871.  
08-11-2005
Relevant PublicationHeiling AM, Cheng K, Chittka L, Goeth A and Herberstein ME (2005). The role of UV in crab spider signals: effects on perception by prey and predators. J Exp Biol vol. 208 (Pt 20), 3925-3931.  
01-10-2005
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2005). Vergleich der Blütenstetigkeit und Sammelleistung von drei Hummel-Arten (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Entomologia Generalis, Schweizerbart vol. 28 (2), 81-89.  
01-09-2005
Relevant PublicationGranero AM, Sanz JMG, Gonzalez FJE, Vidal JLM, Dornhaus A, Ghani J, Serrano AR and Chittka L (2005). Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften vol. 92 (8), 371-374.  
01-08-2005
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Schikora J and Chittka L (2005). Bumblebees, humble pollinators or assiduous invaders? A population comparison of foraging performance in Bombus terrestris. Oecologia vol. 144 (3), 508-516.  
01-07-2005
Relevant PublicationLeadbeater E and Chittka L (2005). A new mode of information transfer in foraging bumblebees? CURR BIOL vol. 15 (12), R447-R448.  
21-06-2005
Relevant PublicationRasmont P, Regali A, Ings TC, Lognay G, Baudart E, Marlier M, Delcarte E, Viville P, Marot C, Falmagne P, Verhaeghe JC and Chittka L (2005). Analysis of pollen and nectar of Arbutus unedo as a food source for Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera : Apidae). J ECON ENTOMOL vol. 98 (3), 656-663.  
01-06-2005
Relevant PublicationHeiling AM, Chittka L, Cheng K and Herberstein ME (2005). Colouration in crab spiders: substrate choice and prey attraction. J EXP BIOL vol. 208 (10), 1785-1792.  
01-05-2005
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A and Chittka L (2005). Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots. BEHAV ECOL vol. 16 (3), 661-666.  
01-05-2005
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Brockmann A (2005). Perception space--the final frontier. PLoS biology. vol. 3 (4) 
01-04-2005
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Brockmann A (2005). Perception space - The final frontier. PLOS BIOL vol. 3 (4), 564-568.  
01-04-2005
Relevant PublicationLotto RB and Chittka L (2005). Seeing the light: illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A vol. 102 (10), 3852-3856.  
08-03-2005
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Kevan PG (2005). Flower colors as advertisement. Practical Pollination Biology , Editors: Dafni A, Kevan PG and Husband B. 157-206.  
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationIngs TC, Raine NE and Chittka L (2005). Mating preference in the commercially imported bumblebee species Bombus terrestris in Britain (Hymenoptera : Apidae). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 28 (3), 233-238.  
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Raine NE (2005). Colour preferences in relation to the foraging performance and fitness of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Uludag Bee Journal vol. 5 (4), 145-150.  
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationRaine NE and Chittka L (2005). Comparison of flower constancy and foraging performance in three bumblebee species (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 28 (2), 81-89.  
01-01-2005

2004

Relevant PublicationChittka L, Ings TC and Raine NE (2004). Chance and adaptation in the evolution of island bumblebee behaviour. POPULATION ECOLOGY vol. 46 (3), 243-251.  
01-12-2004
Relevant PublicationDyer AG and Chittka L (2004). Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol vol. 190 (9), 759-763.  
01-09-2004
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2004). Dances as windows into insect perception. PLoS Biol vol. 2 (7) 
01-07-2004
Relevant PublicationSmith C, Barber I, Wootton RJ and Chittka L (2004). A receiver bias in the origin of three-spined stickleback mate choice. P ROY SOC B-BIOL SCI vol. 271 (1542), 949-955.  
07-05-2004
Relevant PublicationDyer AG and Chittka L (2004). Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften vol. 91 (5), 224-227.  
01-05-2004
Relevant PublicationDyer AG and Chittka L (2004). Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light. J Exp Biol vol. 207 (Pt 10), 1683-1688.  
01-04-2004
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A and Chittka L (2004). Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.). APIDOLOGIE vol. 35 (2), 183-192.  
01-03-2004
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A and Chittka L (2004). Why do honey bees dance? BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 55 (4), 395-401.  
01-02-2004
Relevant PublicationDyer AG and Chittka L (2004). Biological significance of distinguishing between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) as a case study. J COMP PHYSIOL A vol. 190 (2), 105-114.  
01-02-2004
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Wells H (2004). Color vision in bees: mechanisms, ecology and evolution. Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems , Editors: Prete FR. 165-192.  
01-01-2004

2003

Relevant PublicationSpaethe J and Chittka L (2003). Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees. J EXP BIOL vol. 206 (19), 3447-3453.  
01-10-2003
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Dyer AG, Bock F and Dornhaus A (2003). Psychophysics - Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy. NATURE vol. 424 (6947), 388-388.  
24-07-2003
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Tautz J (2003). The spectral input to honeybee visual odometry. J EXP BIOL vol. 206 (14), 2393-2397.  
01-07-2003
Relevant PublicationHeiling AM, Herberstein ME and Chittka L (2003). Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals. Nature vol. 421 (6921) 
23-01-2003
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A, Brockman A and Chittka L (2003). Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland. J COMP PHYSIOL A vol. 189 (1), 47-51.  
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L (2003). Plants and animals, forever entangled: Plant–Animal Interactions – An Evolutionary Approach edited by C.M. Herrera and O. Pellmyr. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. vol. 18 (1), 12-13.  
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2003). Plants and animals, forever entangled Plant–Animal Interactions – An Evolutionary Approach edited by C.M. Herrera and O. Pellmyr. Blackwell Science, 2002. £35.00 pbk (xi+313 pages) ISBN 0 632 05267 8. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Elsevier vol. 18 (1), 12-13.  
01-01-2003

2002

Relevant PublicationChittka L (2002). Influence of intermittent rewards in learning to handle flowers in bumblebees (Hymenoptera : Apidae : Bombus impatiens). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 26 (2), 85-91.  
01-01-2002

2001

Relevant PublicationDornhaus A and Chittka L (2001). Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications. BEHAV ECOL SOCIOBIOL vol. 50 (6), 570-576.  
01-11-2001
Relevant PublicationKevan PG, Chittka L and Dyer AG (2001). Limits to the salience of ultraviolet: Lessons from colour vision in bees and birds. 
01-07-2001
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Schürkens S (2001). Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature vol. 411 (6838) 
07-06-2001
Relevant PublicationSpaethe J, Tautz J and Chittka L (2001). Visual constraints in foraging bumblebees: flower size and color affect search time and flight behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A vol. 98 (7), 3898-3903.  
27-03-2001
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Briscoe A (2001). Why sensory ecology needs to become more evolutionary - insect color vision as a case in point. Ecology of sensing , Editors: Barth FG and Schmid A. 19-38.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationChittka L (2001). Camouflage of predatory crab spiders on flowers and the colour perception of bees (Aranida : Thomisidae/Hymenoptera : Apidae). ENTOMOL GEN vol. 25 (3), 181-187.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Thomson JD (2001). Pollinator individuality: when does it matter? Cognitive ecology of pollination : animal behavior and floral evolution , Editors: Chittka L and Thomson JD. 191-213.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and Thompson JD (2001). Cognitive ecology of pollination : animal behavior and floral evolution. 
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationSpaethe J, Schmidt A, Hickelsberger A and Chittka L (2001). Adaptation, constraint, and chance in the evolution of flower color and pollinator color vision. Cognitive ecology of pollination : animal behavior and floral evolution , Editors: Thomson JD and Chittka L. 106-126.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationSchurkens S and Chittka L (2001). The significance of the invasive crucifer species Bunias orientalis (Brassicaceae) as a nectar source for central European insects. ENTOMOL GEN vol. 25 (2), 115-120.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationBriscoe AD and Chittka L (2001). The evolution of color vision in insects. Annu Rev Entomol vol. 46, 471-510.  
01-01-2001

1999

Relevant PublicationChittka L (1999). Bees, White Flowers, and the Color Hexagon – A Reassessment? No, Not Yet Comments on the contribution by Vorobyev et al. The Science of Nature, Springer Nature vol. 86 (12), 595-597.  
01-12-1999
Relevant PublicationDornhaus A and Chittka L (1999). Evolutionary origins of bee dances. Nature, Springer Nature vol. 401 (6748), 38-38.  
01-09-1999
Relevant PublicationGumbert A, Kunze J and Chittka L (1999). Floral colour diversity in plant communities, bee colour space and a null model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 266 (1429), 1711-1716.  
22-08-1999
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Thomson JD and Waser NM (1999). Flower Constancy, Insect Psychology, and Plant Evolution. The Science of Nature, Springer Nature vol. 86 (8), 361-377.  
01-08-1999
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Williams NM, Rasmussen H and Thomson JD (1999). Navigation without vision: bumblebee orientation in complete darkness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 266 (1414), 45-50.  
07-01-1999

1998

Relevant PublicationWaser N and Chittka L (1998). Bedazzled by flowers. Nature, Springer Nature vol. 394 (6696), 835-836.  
01-08-1998
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1998). Sensorimotor learning in bumblebees: Long-term retention and reversal training. Journal of Experimental Biology vol. 201 (4), 515-524.  
01-02-1998
Relevant PublicationMENZEL R, GEIGER K, JOERGES J, MÜLLER U and CHITTKA L (1998). Bees travel novel homeward routes by integrating separately acquired vector memories. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 55 (1), 139-152.  
01-01-1998

1997

Relevant PublicationChittka L and Thomson JD (1997). Sensori-motor learning and its relevance for task specialization in bumble bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Springer Nature vol. 41 (6), 385-398.  
01-12-1997
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Waser NM (1997). WHY RED FLOWERS ARE NOT INVISIBLE TO BEES. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, Brill Academic Publishers vol. 45 (2-3), 169-183.  
13-05-1997
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1997). BEE COLOR VISION IS OPTIMAL FOR CODING FLOWER COLOR, BUT FLOWER COLORS ARE NOT OPTIMAL FOR BEING CODEDWHY? Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, Brill Academic Publishers vol. 45 (2-3), 115-127.  
13-05-1997
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Gumbert A and Kunze J (1997). Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species. Behavioral Ecology, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 8 (3), 239-249.  
01-01-1997

1996

Relevant PublicationKevan P, Giurfa M and Chittka L (1996). Why are there so many and so few white flowers? Trends in Plant Science, Elsevier vol. 1 (8) 
01-08-1996
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1996). Optimal Sets of Color Receptors and Color Opponent Systems for Coding of Natural Objects in Insect Vision. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Elsevier vol. 181 (2), 179-196.  
01-07-1996
Relevant PublicationWaser NM, Chittka L, Price MV, Williams NM and Ollerton J (1996). Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why it Matters. Ecology, Wiley vol. 77 (4), 1043-1060.  
01-06-1996
Relevant PublicationLunau K, Wacht S and Chittka L (1996). Colour choices of naive bumble bees and their implications for colour perception. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 178 (4), 477-489.  
01-04-1996
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1996). Does bee color vision predate the evolution of flower color? The Science of Nature, Springer Nature vol. 83 (3), 136-138.  
01-03-1996
Relevant PublicationMenzel R, Geiger K, Chittka L, Joerges J, Kunze J and Müller U (1996). The Knowledge Base of Bee Navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology, The Company of Biologists vol. 199 (1), 141-146.  
01-01-1996
Relevant PublicationKevan P, Giurfa M and Chittka L (1996). Why are there so many and so few white flowers? TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE vol. 1 (8), 280-284.  
01-01-1996
Relevant PublicationMenzel R, Geiger K, Chittka L, Joerges J, Kunze J and Müller U (1996). The knowledge base of bee navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology vol. 199 (1), 141-146.  
01-01-1996

1995

Relevant PublicationGiurfa M, Núñez J, Chittka L and Menzel R (1995). Colour preferences of flower-naive honeybees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 177 (3), 247-259.  
01-09-1995
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Kunze J, Shipman C and Buchmann SL (1995). The significance of landmarks for path integration in homing honeybee foragers. The Science of Nature, Springer Nature vol. 82 (7), 341-343.  
01-07-1995
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L, GEIGER K and KUNZE J (1995). The influences of landmarks on distance estimation of honey bees. Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 50 (1), 23-31.  
01-07-1995
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Geiger K (1995). Honeybee Long‐distance Orientation in a Controlled Environment. Ethology, Wiley vol. 99 (1‐2), 117-126.  
12-01-1995
Relevant PublicationCHITTKA L and GEIGER K (1995). HONEYBEE LONG-DISTANCE ORIENTATION IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. ETHOLOGY vol. 99 (2), 117-126.  
01-01-1995
Relevant PublicationChittka L and Geiger K (1995). Can honey bees count landmarks? Animal Behaviour, Elsevier vol. 49 (1), 159-164.  
01-01-1995
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1995). The influences of landmarks and distance estimation of honey bees (vol 50, pg 23, 1995). ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR vol. 50, 1709-1710.  
01-01-1995

1994

Relevant PublicationChittka L, Shmida A, Troje N and Menzel R (1994). Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of hymenoptera. Vision Research, Elsevier vol. 34 (11), 1489-1508.  
01-06-1994

1992

Relevant PublicationChittka L and Menzel R (1992). The evolutionary adaptation of flower colours and the insect pollinators' colour vision. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 171 (2), 171-181.  
01-09-1992
Relevant PublicationChittka L (1992). The colour hexagon: a chromaticity diagram based on photoreceptor excitations as a generalized representation of colour opponency. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 170 (5), 533-543.  
01-06-1992
Relevant PublicationChittka L, Beier W, Hertel H, Steinmann E and Menzel R (1992). Opponent colour coding is a universal strategy to evaluate the photoreceptor inputs in Hymenoptera. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Springer Nature vol. 170 (5), 545-563.  
01-06-1992

1990

Relevant PublicationMenzel R, Chittka L, Eichmüller S, Geiger K, Peitsch D and Knoll P (1990). Dominance of Celestial Cues over Landmarks Disproves Map-Like Orientation in Honey Bees. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C, De Gruyter vol. 45 (6), 723-726.  
01-06-1990

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and Behaviour
solid heart iconAddressing key evidence gaps in the science of insect sentience
Lars Chittka
£719,449 Good Ventures Foundation (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026)
solid heart iconNimblaAI - PI: Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka
£160,852 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025)
solid heart iconFoundations of Animal Sentience
Lars Chittka
£11,651 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-01-2020 - 31-12-2024)