Why background colour matters to bees and flowers

Plant Biology: Flower Orientation, Temperature Regulation and Pollinator Attraction

(2016) Casper J. van der Kooi   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Colour is more than hue: preferences for compiled colour traits in the stingless bees Melipona mondury and M. quadrifasciata

(2016) Sebastian Koethe et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Flower detection and acuity of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm.

(2016) Adrian G. Dyer et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Colour vision and background adaptation in a passerine bird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2016) Olle Lind   Royal Society Open Science

Does Fine Color Discrimination Learning in Free-Flying Honeybees Change Mushroom-Body Calyx Neuroarchitecture?

(2016) Frank M. J. Sommerlandt et al.   PLoS One

An Integrative Framework for the Appraisal of Coloration in Nature

(2015) Darrell J. Kemp et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Colour spaces in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2015) Julien P. Renoult et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bee reverse-learning behavior and intra-colony differences: Simulations based on behavioral experiments reveal benefits of diversity

(2014) A.G. Dyer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Behavioural evidence of colour vision in free flying stingless bees

(2014) J. Spaethe et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

A hundred years of color studies in insects: with thanks to Karl von Frisch and the workers he inspired

(2014) Adrian G. Dyer et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Multisensory integration of colors and scents: insights from bees and flowers

(2014) Anne S. Leonard et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Mechanisms, functions and ecology of colour vision in the honeybee

(2014) N. Hempel de Ibarra et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination

(2014) Aurore Avarguès-Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Color Difference and Memory Recall in Free-Flying Honeybees: Forget the Hard Problem

(2014) Adrian Dyer et al.   Insects

Blue colour preference in honeybees distracts visual attention for learning closed shapes

(2013) Linde Morawetz et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Flower colour and phylogeny along an altitudinal gradient in the Himalayas of Nepal

(2013) Mani Shrestha et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shades of red: bird-pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision

(2013) Mani Shrestha et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Linearisation of RGB Camera Responses for Quantitative Image Analysis of Visible and UV Photography: A Comparison of Two Techniques

(2013) Jair E. Garcia et al.   PLoS One

Visual attention in a complex search task differs between honeybees and bumblebees

(2012) L. Morawetz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Parallel evolution of angiosperm colour signals: common evolutionary pressures linked to hymenopteran vision

(2012) A. G. Dyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flowers help bees cope with uncertainty: signal detection and the function of floral complexity

(2010) A. S. Leonard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Background complexity affects colour preference in bumblebees

(2009) Jessica Forrest et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Comparative psychophysics of bumblebee and honeybee colour discrimination and object detection

(2008) Adrian G. Dyer et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detection of patches of coloured discs by bees

(2008) A. M. Wertlen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY