Object use in insects

Paving Behavior in Ants and Its Potential Application in Monitoring Two Urban Pest Ants, Solenopsis invicta and Tapinoma melanocephalum

(2023) Liming Shen et al.   Insects

Red imported fire ants cover the insecticide-treated surfaces with particles to reduce contact toxicity

(2022) Chao Wen et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Social cognition in insects

(2022) Lars Chittka et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Do bumble bees play?

(2022) Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy

(2022) Enrico Schifani et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Prior associations affect bumblebees’ generalization performance in a tool-selection task

(2022) Pizza Ka Yee Chow et al.   iScience

A survey of the tribe Ectinoderini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) of China, with the description of a new Ectinoderus species

(2022) Zhuo Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

Stigmergy versus behavioral flexibility and planning in honeybee comb construction

(2021) Vince Gallo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2021) Gábor Módra et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The drivers and functions of rock juggling in otters

(2020) Mari-Lisa Allison et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Ants adjust their tool use strategy in response to foraging risk

(2020) Aiming Zhou et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) cover inaccessible surfaces with particles to facilitate food search and transportation

(2020) Chao Wen et al.   Insect Science

Electrophysiological and behavioral responses of red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) to an essential balm and its components

(2020) Chao Wen et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Honey bees (Apis cerana) use animal feces as a tool to defend colonies against group attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror)

(2020) Heather R. Mattila et al.   PLoS One

A small number of workers with specific personality traits perform tool use in ants

(2020) István Maák et al.   eLife

Food-burying behavior in red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2019) Wenquan Qin et al.   PeerJ

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

How do groups of red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) feed on a droplet of sugar water?

(2017) Cai Wang et al.   Insect Science

Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior

(2017) Olli J. Loukola et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2017) Mark Roper et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Tree crickets optimize the acoustics of baffles to exaggerate their mate-attraction signal

(2017) Natasha Mhatre et al.   eLife

Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Using an Insect Mushroom Body Circuit to Encode Route Memory in Complex Natural Environments

(2016) Paul Ardin et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Play in the Peter Pan ape

(2015) Isabel Behncke   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Preference of antlion and wormlion larvae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae; Diptera: Vermileonidae) for substrates according to substrate particle sizes

(2015) Dusan DEVETAK et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Not-so-social learning strategies

(2015) C. Heyes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Foraging behavior of fire ant Solenopsis saevissima (Smith) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Felis catus Linnaeus (Carnivora, Felidae) carcass

(2015) Tatiane Tagliatti Maciel et al.   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Preference of antlion and wormlion larvae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae; Diptera: Vermileonidae) for substrates according to substrate particle sizes

(2015) Dusan DEVETAK et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Debris-Carrying in Larval Chrysopidae: Unraveling Its Evolutionary History

(2014) Catherine A. Tauber et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Substrate particle size-preference of wormlion Vermileo vermileo (Diptera: Vermileonidae) larvae and their interaction with antlions

(2014) Dusan DEVETAK   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

A Unique Nest-Protection Strategy in a New Species of Spider Wasp

(2014) Michael Staab et al.   PLoS One

Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)

(2014) A. M. I. Auersperg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insights from insects about adaptive social information use

(2014) Christoph Grüter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Learning by Observation Emerges from Simple Associations in an Insect Model

(2013) Erika H. Dawson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Do All Portable Cases Constructed by Caddisfly Larvae Function in Defense?

(2013) Emily E. Ferry et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

New Caledonian crows attend to multiple functional properties of complex tools

(2013) J. J. H. St Clair et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tool use as adaptation

(2013) D. Biro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Changing resonator geometry to boost sound power decouples size and song frequency in a small insect

(2012) N. Mhatre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tool use in fishes

(2011) Culum Brown   FISH AND FISHERIES

What's social about social learning?

(2011) Cecilia Heyes   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus)

(2011) S. Perry   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog

(2010) Vicki Bentley-Condit et al.   BEHAVIOUR

The development of pandanus tool manufacture in wild New Caledonian crows

(2010) Jennifer Holzhaider et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Multi-generational persistence of traditions in neighbouring meerkat groups

(2010) A. Thornton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Honey Bees as a Model for Vision, Perception, and Cognition

(2009) Mandyam V. Srinivasan   Annual Review of Entomology

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema

(2009) Lucilla Cardinali et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Selection of Effective Stone Tools by Wild Bearded Capuchin Monkeys

(2009) Elisabetta Visalberghi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Anti-predator Fan-blowing in Guard Bees, Apis mellifera capensis Esch

(2009) Minxian Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Revisiting the definition of animal tool use

(2008) Robert St Amant et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evidence for counting in insects

(2008) Marie Dacke et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Bionomics of Bagworms (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

(2008) Marc Rhainds et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini)

(2008) CAROLINE S. CHABOO et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY