Je nám velikou ctí, že se k podporovatelům soutěže ZLATÝ OPYLOVATEL připojil tak světově známý a uznávaný vědec LARS CHITTKA, MSc, PhD, Dr habil, FLS, FRES, FRSB, Professor in Sensory and Behavioural Ecology. Jeho knihy VČELÍ MYSL získají také někteří vítězové soutěže. 

Jeho Curriculum vitae (ŽIVOTOPIS) hovoří za vše.

LARS CHITTKA, MSc, PhD, Dr habil, FLS, FRES, FRSB

Professor in Sensory and Behavioural Ecology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End Road

London E1 4NS

POSITIONS:

2005-present: Professor in Sensory & Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London

2008-2012: Scientific Director, Research Centre for Psychology, QMUL

2003-2005: Reader in Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London

2002-2003: Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

2000-2002: Senior Lecturer, Würzburg University

1997-2000: Lecturer, Würzburg University

1994-1997: Postdoctoral fellow, SUNY Stony Brook

1994 Postdoctoral fellow, FU Berlin

HONORARY POSITIONS, AWARDS, NAMED LECTURES AND OFFERS:

2025

• Exemplar Award, Animal Behaviour Society (ABS)
• B.F. Skinner Lecturer, Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Annual

Convention, Washington, USA

• Shortlisted for Times Higher Education "Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year" (decision in November 2025)
• Distinguished Speaker, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried,

Germany

• Presenter of the 47th Annual Keynote Lectureship, AChemS (Association for Chemoreception Sciences), Bonita Springs, Florida, USA
• Best Actor Award, Amsterdam New Cinema Festival (for the lead role in the film The Last Bee)
• Member of the Tutoring Committee for the Master of Science program, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Unversidad National Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico (until 2030)

2024

• Founders' Memorial Award, Entomological Society of America, USA
• Perry Gilbert Lecture and Distinguished Visitor in Organismal Biology Award, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
• Gatsby Lecture, COSYNE Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• Taylor Memorial Lecture, Yale University (Psychology Department), New Haven, USA
• Alexander Lecture, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
• Leibniz Lecture, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg, Germany
• Vice Principal's Award for Research Excellence, Queen Mary University of London

2023

• Hilldale Award Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Von Frisch Lecture at the 50th Nobel Prize Anniversary in Ethology Colloquium (Vienna,

Austria)

• Pineapple Science Award, Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum, Hangzhou, China

2022

• Election as a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• George Knights Memorial Lecture BBKA Spring Convention, Harper Adams University, UK

2021

• Election as a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences
• Election to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
• Distinguished Speaker Lecture, Science of Intelligence, TU Berlin, Germany

2020

• Tinbergen Lecture, ASAB Winter Meeting, London, UK
• Baerends Lecture, Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology, Netherlands

2019

• Whitehead Lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• NEUReka! Seminar, King's College, London, UK

2017-18

• Fellowship of Institute of Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) Berlin

2017

• Media Star Award, Queen Mary University of London
• Faculty Research Contribution Award, Queen Mary University of London
• Heller Lecture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2016

• Tupper Lecture, Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Panama City, Panama
• Faculty member at Interdisciplinary College, Günne, Germany

2015

• John Emlen Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Celebrity Lecture, CIE and the International Year of Light, Manchester, UK
• Guest Professor, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China
• Faculty Research Performance Award, Queen Mary University of London

2014

• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award

2013

• Offer of Full Professorship at Imperial College, London (declined)

2011

• Member, Faculty Opinions (formerly Faculty of 1000; until 2022)

2009

• Charles Darwin Lecture (200th Anniversary), University of Glasgow

2008

• Verrall Lecture (and Award) at the Royal Entomological Society (Imperial College, London)
• Distinguished Biologist Lecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Lesley Goodman Award, Royal Entomological Society

2001

• Heisenberg Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)

1994-1997

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook

1997

• Guest Professor, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa

EDUCATION:

2000 Habilitation in Biology, University of Würzburg

1993 Ph.D. (summa cum laude – 1st class) in Biology at the Free University in Berlin

1991 Diploma (M.S.) of Biology at the Free University of Berlin (1st class)

PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, BOOKS AND PAPERS IN PRESS

2026

327. Chittka, L. (in press) More than attraction: what bees see in flowers. In: Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Eds: Bruce Jennings and Gavin Van Horn). Humans & Nature Press

2025

326. Chittka, L. (2025) How to train PhD Jedi. Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-train-phd-jedi

325. Chittka, L., Skeels, S., Dyakova, O., Janbon, M. (2025) The exploration of consciousness in insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 380: rstb.2024.0302. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0302

324. Davidson, A., Nanda, I. Lay Mun, A.O., Chittka, L., Versace, E. (2025)

Duration discrimination in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Biology Letters, 21: 20250440.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0440

323. Dissegna, A., Chittka, L., Chiandetti, C. (2025) Response-specific behavioral plasticity in habituation triggered by repeated visual looming stimuli in foraging bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, in press

322. Ghisbain, G., Chittka, L., Michez, D. (2025) Bumblebees. Current Biology, 35 (6): R206 - R211

321. Gibbons, M., Versace, E., Crump, A., Baran, B., Chittka, L. (2025) Reassessment confirms motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees. Animal Behaviour, in press

320. MaBouDi, H., Richter, J., Guiraud, M., Roper, M., Marshall, J.A.R., Chittka, L. (2025). Active vision of bees in a simple pattern discrimination task. eLife, 14:e106332;

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106332

319. MaBouDi, H., Roper, M., Guiraud, M., Juusola, M., Chittka, L. Marshall, J.A.R. (2025). A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees. eLife, 14:e89929; https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89929

318. Procenko, O., Bridges, A.D., Kowalewska, A. Juusola, M., Chittka, L. (2025) Bumblebee string-pulling spreads between colonies under open diffusion conditions. Animal Behaviour, in press

317. Takalo, J., Kemppainen, J., Haghighi, K.R., Scales, B., McManus, J., Bridges, A., MaBouDi, H., Chittka, L. (2025) Theory of morphodynamic information processing: linking sensing to behaviour. Vision Research, 227: 108537; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2024.108537

316. Tamietto, M., Orsenigo, D., Chittka, L. (2025) Bees, blindsight and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, in press

315. Wen, C., Dong, S., Guo, Y., Wang, C., Ding, W., Ge, J., Wen, J., Chittka, L. (2025)

Bumblebees prefer shorter over longer strings and connected over disconnected ones in string pulling tasks but prioritize connectivity over spatial proximity when the two are in conflict. Insect Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70113

314. Zhou, D., Dong, S., Ge, J., Wang, C., Chittka, L., Wen, C., Wen, J. (2025) 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, 32 (2): 675-686; https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13373

2024

313. Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Bazhydai, M., Brosnan, S., Byers-Heinlein, K., Call, J., Chittka, L., Elsherif, M., Espinosa, J., Freeman, M., Gjoneska, B., Güntürkün, O., Huber, L., Krasheninnikova, A., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Moreau, D., Nawroth, C., Pronizius, E., Ruiz-Fernández, S., Schwing, R., Šlipogor, V., Visser, I., Vonk, J., Yeager, J., Zettersten, M., Prétôt, L. (2024) Challenges and Promises of Big Team Comparative Cognition. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02081-6

312. Bridges, A.D., Royka, A., Wilson, T., Lockwood, C., Richter, J., Juusola, M., Chittka, L. (2024) Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone. Nature 627: 572-578; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07126-4

311. Gibbons, M., Pasquini, E., Kowalewska, A., Read, E. Gibson, S., Crump, A., Solvi, C., Versace, E., Chittka, L. (2024). Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees. iScience, 27 (8); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110440.

310. Lu, Y., Zhenwei, Z., Roper, M., Chittka, L., Solvi, C., Peng, F., Zhou, Y. (2024) Bumblebee social learning outcomes depend on their flower-facing behaviour. Animal Cognition, 27, 80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01918-x

309. Romero González, J.E., Solvi, C., Peng, F., Chittka, L. (2024) Behaviour of honeybees integrated into bumblebee nests and the response of their hosts. Apidologie, 55, 50 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-024-01086-4

308. Wen, C., Lu, Y., Solvi, C., Wang, C., Wen, X., Dong, S., Wen, J., Peng, F., Chittka, L. (2024) Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension? eLife 13:RP97018; https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97018.3

307. Zhou, Y., Ding, S., Liao, C., Wu., J., Chittka, L., Solvi, C., Peng, C. (2024) Bumblebees' food preferences are jointly shaped by rapid valuation of nectar sugar concentration and viscosity. Animal Behaviour 210: 419-427

306. Zhou, Y., MaBouDi, H., Peng, C., Galpayage Dona, H.S., Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S., Chittka, L., Solvi, C., Peng, F. (2024) Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 78, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-023-03414-7

2023

305. Bridges, A., Chittka, L. (2023) Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture. Physics of Life Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.008

304. Bridges, A.D., MaBouDi, H., Procenko, O., Lockwood, C., Mohammed, Y., Kowalewska, A., Romero González, J.E., Woodgate, J., Chittka, L. (2023) Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning. PLoS Biology, 21(3): e3002019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002019

303. Chittka, L. (2023) The doors of animal perception. American Scientist 111: 55-57

302. Chittka, L. (2023) The inner lives of insects. Scientific American 329(1): 26-33

This article also appeared in Italian as Chittka, L. (2023) La vita interiore degli insetti. Le

Scienze (Ottobre) 72-79.

301. Chittka, L., Rossi, N. (2023) Bees learn to dance. Science, 379: 985-986; DOI: 10.1126/science.adg7317

300. Crump, A., Gibbons, M., Barrett, M., Birch, J., Chittka, L. (2023) Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects' welfare? PLoS Biology 21(6): e3002138. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002138

299. Gallo, V., Bridges, A.D., Woodgate, J.L., Chittka, L. (2023) Sub-cell features govern the placement of new cells by honeybees during comb construction. Journal of Comparative Physiology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-023-01632-y

298. Iturbe, X., Abella, J., Alcaide, S., Beyne, E., Charles, H.-P., Chittka, L., Dávila, A., Dupret, Y., Erdmann, A., Fontanelli, A., Flich, J., Grosu, R., Carles Hernández, Hochmann, J., Ielmini, D., Isakovic, H., Isusquiza, E., Jackson, D., Kooli, M., Linares-Barranco, B., Laurent, E., Lindwer, M., Masařík, K., Mentens, N., Moreira, O., Noel, J.-P., Posch, C., Priller, P., Prikryl, Z., Rhodes, O., Stefanov, T., Taliercio, M., Ugarte, J., Van der Plas, G., Vianello, E. and Zaykov P. (2023) NimbleAI: Towards neuromorphic sensing - processing 3D-integrated chips. In Proceedings: 26th Int. Conf. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'23), Antwerp, Belgium, Apr. 17-19, 2023.

2022

297. Chittka, L. (2022) The Mind of a Bee. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA

296. Chittka, L. (2022) The mind of the bee - a journey into the alien mind of an insect.

Wellbeing International: https://wellbeingintl.org/the-mind-of-the-bee/

295. Chittka, L. (2022) The intelligent mind of an insect. Interalia Magazine (November 2022

issue "Other Minds")

294. Chittka, L. (2022) Bienen – Bewusstsein. Bienen und Natur, December 2022, 32-35

293. Chittka, L. (2022) The consciousness of bees. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/07/29/bee-cognition-insect-intelligence-research/

292. Chittka, L. (2022) "Personality" differences between bees. Natural History, 130(9), 17-23

291. Gibbons, M., Crump., A., Chittka, L. (2022) Insects may feel pain, says growing evidence

– here's what this means for animal welfare laws. The Conversation.

https://theconversation.com/insects-may-feel-pain-says-growing-evidence-heres-what-this-

means-for-animal-welfare-laws-195328

290. Chittka, L., Rossi, N. (2022) Social cognition in insects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26

(7): 578-592; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.001

289. Colgan, T.J., Arce, A.N., Gill, R.J., Ramos Rodrigues, A., Kanteh, A., Duncan, E.J., Li L.,

Chittka, L., Wurm, Y. (2022) Genomic signatures of recent adaptation in a wild bumblebee. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(2), msab366, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab366

288. Galpayage Dona, H. S., Solvi, C., Kowalewska, A., Mäkelä, K., MaBouDi, H, Chittka, L.,

(2022) Do bumble bees play? Animal Behaviour, 194: 239-251;

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.013

287. Gibbons, M., Chittka, L. (2022) A framework for evaluating evidence of pain in animals.

Animal Sentience, DOI 10.51291/2377-7478.1767

https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1767&context=animsent

286. Gibbons, M., Crump, A., Barrett, M., Sarlak, S., Birch, J., Chittka, L. (2022) Can insects

feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence. Advances in Insect Physiology, 63:

155-229

285. Gibbons, M., Sarlak, S., Chittka, L. (2022) Descending control of nociception in insects? Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B, 20220599;

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0599

284. Gibbons, M., Versace, E., Crump, A. Baran, B., Chittka, L. (2022) Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 119 No. 31 e2205821119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205821119

283. Guiraud, M., Roper, M., Wolf, S., Woodgate, J.L, Chittka, L. (2022) Discrimination of

edge orientation by bumblebees. PLoS ONE, 17(6): e0263198

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263198

282. Irwin, L.N., Chittka, L., Jablonka, E., Mallatt, J., (2022) Editorial: Comparative Animal Consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience . 16:998421.

doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.998421

281. Solvi, C., Zhou, Y., Feng, Y., Lu, Y., Roper, M., Sun, L., Reid, R.J., Chittka, L., Barron, A.B., Peng, F. (2022). Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings. eLife 11:e78525.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78525

2021

280. Brebner, J., Chittka, L. (2021) Animal Cognition: The self-image of a bumblebee. Current

Biology, 31, R207–R209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.027

279. Brebner, J., Makinson, J., Bates, O., Rossi, N., Lim, K., Pasquaretta, C. Dubois, T.,

Gomez-Moracho, T., Lihoreau, M., Chittka, L., Woodgate, J. (2021) Bumblebees strategically

use ground-level linear features in navigation. Animal Behaviour, 179: 147-160

doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.003

278. Gallo, V., Chittka, L. (2021) Stigmergy versus behavioral flexibility and planning in

honeybee comb construction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 118 (33) e2111310118;

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111310118

277. Li, L., Solvi, C., Zhang, F., Qi, Z., Chittka, L., Zhao, W. (2021). Gut microbiome drives

individual memory variation in bumblebees. Nature Communications,

12, 6588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26833-4

276. Nityananda, N., Chittka, L. (2021) Reward value is more important than physical saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets. Animal Cognition, 24: 803-814/ DOI: 10.1007/s10071-021-01479-3

275. Woodgate, J.L., Makinson, J.C., Rossi, N., Lim, K.S., Reynolds, A.M., Rawlings, C.J., Chittka, L. (2021) Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks. iScience, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102499

2020

274. Chittka, L. (2020) The secret life of bees as horticulturists? Science, 368: 824-825. DOI:

10.1126/science.abc2451

273. Galpayage Dona, S.G., Chittka, L. (2020) Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition.

Science, 370: 530-531. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd8754

272. Loukola, O., Gatto, E., Híjar-Islas, A.C., Chittka, L. (2020). Selective interspecific information use in the nest choice of solitary bees. Animal Biology 70, Issue 1:1-

11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15707563-20191233

271. MaBouDi, H., Galpayage, Dona, H.S., Gatto, E., Loukola, O.J., Buckley, E., Onoufriou, P.D., Skorupski, P., Chittka, L. (2020) Bumblebees use sequential scanning of countable items in visual patterns to solve numerosity tasks. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60: 929–942; https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa025

270. MaBouDi, H., Solvi, C., Chittka, L. (2020) Bumblebees learn a relational rule but switch to a win-stay/lose-switch heuristic after extensive training. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14(137): DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00137

269. Romero Gonzalez, E.R., Solvi, C., Chittka, L. (2020) Honeybees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics. Animal Behaviour, 170: 219-228; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.10.008

268. Solvi, C., Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S. & Chittka, L. (2020) Bumblebees display

cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses. Science, 367, 910-912. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay8064

2019

267. Arnold, S.E.J. & 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, 124(2): viii-ix. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz107

266. Bayne, T., Brainard, D., Byrne, R.W., Chittka, L., Clayton, N., Heyes, C., Mather, J.,

Ölveczky, B, Shadlen, M., Suddendorf, T., Webb, B. (2019) What is cognition? Current

Biology, 29(13): R608-R615. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.044

265. Chittka, L. (2020) Entomological rock music. Antenna 44(2):62-63

264. Chittka, L., Giurfa, M., Riffell, J. (2019) Editorial: The Mechanisms of Insect Cognition.

Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02751

263. Chittka, L. & Wilson, C. (2019) Expanding consciousness. American Scientist, 107: 364-

369. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1511/2019.107.6.364

262. Bridges, A., Chittka, L. (2019) Conformity and the beginnings of culture in an insect.

Current Biology, 29: R150–R172

261. Colgan, T.J., Fletcher, I.K., Arce, A.N., Gill, R.J., Ramos Rodrigues, A., Stolle, E.,

Chittka, L., Wurm, Y. (2019) Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide

exposure on gene expression in bumblebees. Molecular Ecology: 28:1964–1974

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15047

260. Guan, C., Egertová, M., Perry, C.J., Chittka, L., Chittka, A. (2019) Temporal correlation

of elevated PRMT1 gene expression with mushroom body neurogenesis during bumblebee brain development. Journal of Insect Physiology, 116: 57-69;

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.04.011

259. Makinson, J.C., Woodgate, J.L., Reynolds, A., Capaldi, E.A., Perry, C.J., Chittka, L. (2019) Harmonic radar tracking reveals random dispersal pattern of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queens after hibernation. Scientific Reports, 9:4651. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40355-6

258. Pasquaretta, C., Jeanson, R., Pansanel, J., Raine, N.E., Chittka, L., Lihoreau, M. (2019) A

spatial network analysis of resource partitioning between bumblebees foraging on artificial

flowers in a flight cage. Movement Ecology, 7:4; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-019-0150-z

257. Perry, C.J., Chittka, L. (2019) How foresight might support the behavioral flexibility of

arthropods. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 54: 171-177. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2018.10.014

256. Vasas, V., Chittka, L. (2019) Insect-inspired sequential inspection strategy enables an

artificial network of four neurons to estimate numerosity. iScience, 11: 85-92. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.12.009

255. Vasas, V., Peng, F., MaBouDi, H., Chittka, L. (2019) Randomly weighted receptor inputs

can explain the large diversity of colour-coding neurons in the bee visual system. Scientific

Reports, 9: 8330; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44375-0

2018

254. Avarguès-Weber, A., Lachlan, R., Chittka, L. (2018). Bumble bee social learning can lead

to suboptimal foraging choices. Animal Behaviour, 135: 209-214

253. Chittka, L. (2018) The past, present and future of the beasts that may have made our brains. A review of Buzz – The Nature and Necessity of Bees by T. Hanson. Current Biology, 28(13): R722–R723. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.091

252. Chittka, L. & Wilson, C. (2018) Bee-brained. Aeon (November 27, 2018): https://aeon.co/essays/inside-the-mind-of-a-bee-is-a-hive-of-sensory-activity (with a commentary in Nature)

251. Chittka, L. (2018) A bee as pet – a bee psychologist's perspective. Antenna 42(1): 4-5

250. Chittka, L. (2018) Intelligente Bienen. Deutsches Bienenjournal 26(2): 14-16.

249. Emberton, S., Chittka, L., Cavallaro, A. (2018) Underwater image and video dehazing with pure haze region segmentation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 168: 145-156; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2017.08.003

248. Gallo V. & Chittka L. (2018) Cognitive aspects of comb-building in the honeybee? Frontiers in Psychology, 9:900. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00900.

247. Guiraud M., Roper M. & 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, 9:1347. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01347.

246. Lawson D.A., Chittka L., Whitney H.M. & Rands S.A. (2018) Bumblebees distinguish floral scent patterns, and can transfer these to corresponding visual patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880): 20180661:. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0661.

245. Li, L., Su, S., Perry, C.J., Elphick, M., Chittka, L., Søvik, E. (2018) Large-scale transcriptome changes in the process of long-term visual memory formation in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Scientific Reports 8:534; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-18836-3

244. Matthews, T., Osorio, D.C., Cavallaro, A., Chittka, L. (2018) The importance of spatial visual scene parameters in predicting optimal cone sensitivities in routinely trichromatic frugivorous old-world primates. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12:15.

doi: 10.3389/fncom.2018.00015

243. Nieberding C, van Dyck H, Chittka, L. (2018) Adaptive learning in non-social insects: from theory to field work, and back. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 27: 75–81; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2018.03.008

242. Skorupski, P., MaBouDi, H., Galpayage Dona, S., Chittka, L. (2018) Counting Insects.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373: 20160513; DOI:

10.1098/rstb.2016.0513

241. Vasas, V., Brebner, J., Chittka, L. (2018) Colour discrimination is not just limited by

photoreceptor noise: a comment on Olsson et al. Behavioral Ecology, 29(2): 285–286. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx157

240. Wang, M.Y., Chittka, L., Ings, T.C. (2018) Bumblebees express consistent, but flexible, speed accuracy tactics under different levels of predation threat. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01601

239. Woodgate, J., Chittka, L. (2018) Central place foraging. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior; edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_881-1

2017

238. Baracchi D., Marples A., Jenkins A.J., Leitch A.R., Chittka L. (2017) Nicotine in floral

nectar pharmacologically influences bumblebee learning of floral features. Scientific Reports, 7:

1951; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01980-1

237. Buatois, A., Pichot, C., Schultheiss, P., Sandoz, J.C., Lazzari, C.R., Chittka, L., Avarguès-

Weber, A., Giurfa, M. (2017) Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment. Scientific Reports, 7: 12903; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-12631-w

236. Chittka, L. (2017) Bee cognition. Current Biology, 27(19): R1049-R1053

235. Chittka, L., Skorupski, P. (2017). Active vision: A broader comparative perspective is

needed. Constructivist Foundations 13(1): 512-513

234. Emberton, S., Chittka, L., Cavallaro, A. (2017) Underwater image and video dehazing with pure haze region segmentation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2017.08.003

233. Li, L., MaBouDi, H., Egertova, M., Elphick, M.R., Chittka, L., Perry, C.J. (2017) A possible structural correlate of learning performance on a colour discrimination task in the brain of the bumblebee. Proc Roy Soc Lond B, 20171323; https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1323

232. Loukola, O., Perry, C.J., Coscos, L., Chittka, L. (2017) Bumblebees show cognitive

flexibility by improving upon an observed complex behaviour. Science, 355: 833–836

231. MaBouDi, H., Shimazaki, H., Giurfa, M., 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 Computational

Biology, 13(6): e1005551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005551

230. Pasquaretta, C., Jeanson, R., Andalo, C., Chittka, L., Lihoreau, M. (2017) Analysing

plant-pollinator interactions with spatial movement networks. Ecological Entomology, 42(S1):

4–17

229. Peng, F. & Chittka, L. (2017) A simple computational model of the bee mushroom

body can explain seemingly complex forms of olfactory learning and memory. Current Biology,

27: 224-230

228. Perry, C.J., Barron, A., Chittka, L. (2017) The frontiers of insect cognition. Current

Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 16:111-118

227. Roper, M., Fernando, C., 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 Computational Biology, 13(2): e1005333. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005333

226. Vasas, V., Hanley, D., Kevan, P.G., Chittka, L. (2017) Multispectral images of flowers

reveal the adaptive significance of using green receptors for edge detection in bees. Journal of

Comparative Physiology 203: 301-311

225. Wang, M.-Y., Vasas, V., Chittka, L., Yen, S.H. (2017) Sheep in wolf's clothing:

multicomponent traits enhance the success of mimicry in spider-mimicking moths

(Lepidoptera, Choreutidae). Animal Behaviour, 127:219-224;

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.020

224. Woodgate, J., Makinson, J., Lim, K.S., Reynolds, A.M., Chittka, L. (2017) Continuous

radar tracking illustrates the development of multi-destination routes of bumblebees. Scientific

Reports, 7: Article number: 17323, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17553-1

2016

223. Alem, S., Perry, C.J., Zhu, X., Loukola, O.J., Ingraham, T. Søvik, E., Chittka, L. (2016) Associative mechanisms allow for social learning and cultural transmission of string pulling in an insect. PLoS Biology, 14(10): e1002564. doi:10.1371/journal. pbio.1002564

222. Baracchi, D., Turillazzi, S., Chittka, L. (2016) Facial patterns in a tropical social wasp correlate with colony membership. The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 103: 80. doi:10.1007/s00114-016-1406-8

221. Chittka, L. (2016) Molecular and neural mechanisms underpinning adaptive behaviour in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 15: vii-ix

220. Dawson, E.H., Chittka, L., Leadbeater, E. (2016) Alarm substances induce associative social learning in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Animal Behaviour, 122:17-22

219. Emberton, S., Chittka, L., Cavallaro, A., Wang, M. (2016) Sensor Capability and Atmospheric Correction in Ocean Colour Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 8(1), doi:10.3390/rs8010001

218. Lihoreau, M., Chittka, L., Raine, N. (2016) Monitoring flower visitation networks and interactions between pairs of bumble bees in a large outdoor flight cage. PLoS ONE, 11(3), e0150844. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150844.

217. Lihoreau M., Ings T. C., Chittka L., & Reynolds A. M. (2016). Signatures of a globally optimal searching strategy in the three-dimensional foraging flights of bumblebees. Scientific Reports 6: 30401. DOI:10.1038/srep30401

216. Niven, J. & Chittka, L. (2016) Evolving understanding of nervous system evolution. Current Biology, 26: R937-R940.

215. Solvi, C., Baciadonna, L. Chittka, L. (2016) Unexpected rewards induce dopamine-dependent positive emotion-like state changes in bumblebees. Science, 353: 1529-1531

214. Smolla, M., Alem, S., Chittka, L., Shultz, S. (2016) Copy-when-uncertain: bumblebees rely on social information when rewards are highly variable. Biology Letters 12: 20160188; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0188

213. Whitney, H.M., Reed, A., Rands, S.A., Chittka, L., Glover, B.J. (2016) Flower iridescence increases object detection in the insect visual system without compromising object identity. Current Biology, 26: 802-808.

212. Wolf, S., Chittka, L. (2016) Male bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) perform equally well as workers in a serial colour learning task. Animal Behaviour, 111: 147-155

211. Woodgate J. L., Makinson J. C., Lim K. S., Reynolds A. M. & Chittka L. (2016) Life-Long Radar Tracking of Bumblebees. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160333. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0160333

2015

210. Baracchi, D., Brown, M.J.F, Chittka, L. (2015) Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees? F1000Research, 4:73 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6262.2)

209. Baracchi, D, Petrocelli, I., Chittka, L., Ricciardi, G., Turillazzi, S. (2015) Speed and accuracy in nestmate recognition: a hover wasp prioritises face recognition over colony odour cues to minimise intrusion by outsiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20142750

208. Emberton, S., Chittka, L., Cavallaro, A. (2015) Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing. In: Xie, X., Jones, M.W., Tam, G.K.L. (editors). Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages 125.1-125.12. BMVA Press, DOI: 10.5244/C.29.125; https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.29.125

207. Hunt, K. & Chittka, L. (2015) Merging of long-term memories in an insect. Current Biology, 25: 741-745

206. Jones, P. Ryan, M.J. Chittka, L. (2015) The influence of past experience with flower reward quality on social learning in bumblebees. Animal Behaviour, 101: 11-18

205. McCarthy, E.W., Arnold, S.E.J., Chittka, L., Le Comber, S.C., Verity, R., Dodsworth, S., Knapp, S. Kelly, L.J., Chase, MW, Baldwin, I.T., Kovařík, A., Mhiri, C., Taylor, L., Leitch, A.R. (2015) The effect of polyploidy and hybridisation on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae). Annals of Botany, 115: 1117-1131

204. Morawetz, L., Chittka, L. & Spaethe, J. (2015) Honeybees (Apis mellifera) exhibit flexible visual search strategies for vertical targets presented at various heights. F1000Research, 3:174 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4799.2)

203. Nityananda, V., Chittka, L. (2015) Modality-specific attention in foraging bumblebees. Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150324

202. Sadd, BM & 143 other authors including Chittka, L. in position 130 (2015) The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organisation. Genome Biology 16:76.

201. Wang, M.-Y., Brennan, C.H., Lachlan, R., Chittka, L. (2015) Speed-accuracy tradeoffs and individually consistent decision making by individuals and dyads of zebrafish in a colour discrimination task. Animal Behaviour, 103: 277-283.

200. Wolf, S., Roper, M., Chittka, L. (2015) Bumblebees utilize floral cues differently on vertically and horizontally arranged flowers. Behavioural Ecology, 26: 773-781

2014

199. Avarguès-Weber, A., Chittka, L. (2014) Local enhancement or stimulus enhancement? Bumblebee social learning results in a specific pattern of flower preference. Animal Behaviour 97: 185-191

198. Avarguès-Weber, A., Chittka, L. (2014) Observational conditioning in flower choice copying by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): Influence of observer distance and demonstrator movement. PLoS ONE, 9(2): e88415. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088415

197. Chittka, L., Faruq, S., Skorupski, P., Werner, A. (2014) Colour constancy in bees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200: 435–448

196. Chittka, L. & Raine, N.E. (2014) Bumblebee colour patterns and predation risk: a reply to

Owen. Journal of Zoology, 292: 133–135

195. Dawson, E. & Chittka, L. (2014) Bees use social information as an indicator of safety in dangerous environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 no. 1785 20133174

194. Hunt, K. & Chittka, L. (2014) False memory susceptibility is correlated with categorisation ability in humans. F1000 Research, 3:154 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4645.1)

193. Nityananda, V., Skorupski, P., Chittka, L. (2014) Can bees see at a glance? Journal of Experimental Biology, 217: 1933-1939 (with Dispatch in Current Biology)

2013

192. Avarguès-Weber, A., Dawson, E.H., Chittka, L. (2013) Mechanisms of social learning across species boundaries. Journal of Zoology, 290: 2-11

191. Clare, E.L., Schiestl, F., Leitch, A.R., Chittka, L. (2013) The promise of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions. Genome Biology, 14:207

190. Chittka, L., Peng, F. (2013) Caffeine boosts bees' memories. Science, 339: 1157-1159.

189. Chittka, L., Stelzer, R.J., Stanewsky R. (2013) Daily changes in UV light levels can synchronize the circadian clock of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Chronobiology International, 30: 434–442

188. Collett, M, Chittka, L., Collett, T.S. (2013) Spatial memory in insect navigation. Current Biology, 23: R789-R800

187. Dawson, E., Avarguès-Weber, A., Chittka, L., Leadbeater E. (2013) Learning by observation emerges from simple associations in an insect model. Current Biology, 23: 727-730

186. Faruq, S., McOwan, P., Chittka, L. (2013) The biological significance of colour constancy: an agent based model with bees foraging from flowers under varied illumination. Journal of Vision, 13(10):10, 1–14

185. Land, M., Chittka, L. (2013) Vision. In: The Insects: Structure and Function, 5th Edition (eds. Simpson, S. J. and Douglas, A. E.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 708-737.

184. Lihoreau, M., Raine, N.E., Reynolds, A.M. Stelzer, R.J., Lim, K.S. Smith, A.D., Osborne, J.L., Chittka, L. (2013) Unravelling the mechanisms of trapline foraging in bees. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 6:1, e22701

183. Papadopulos, A.S.T, Powell, MP, Pupulin, F., Warner, J., Hawkins, J.A. Salamin, N., Chittka, L., Williams, N.H., Whitten, W.M., Loader, D., Valente, L.M., Chase, M.W., Savolainen, V. (2013) Convergent evolution of floral signals underlies the success of Neotropical orchids. Proc R Soc Lond B, 280: 20130960; https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0960

182. Reynolds, A.M., Lihoreau, M., Chittka, L. (2013) A simple iterative model accurately captures complex trapline formation by bumblebees across spatial scales and flower arrangements. PLoS Computational Biology, 9(3): e1002938. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002938

181. van der Woude, E., Smid, H.M., Chittka, L., Huigens, M.E. (2013)Breaking Haller's rule: Brain-body size isometry in a minute parasitic wasp. Brain, Behavior & Evolution 81:86–92

180. Vukusic, P., Chittka, L. (2013). Visual signals: color and light production. In: The Insects: Structure and Function, 5th Edition (eds. Simpson, S. J. and Douglas, A. E.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 793-823)

179. Wang, M.Y., Ings, T.C., Proulx, M.J., Chittka, L. (2013) Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators? Animal Behaviour, 86: 859-866.

2012

178. Arnold, S.E.J., Chittka, L. (2012) Illumination preference, illumination constancy and colour discrimination by bumblebees in an environment with patchy light. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215, 2173-2180

177. Chittka, L., Rossiter, S.J., Skorupski, P., Fernando, C. (2012) What is comparable in comparative cognition? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 2677-2685

176. Chittka, A., Wurm, Y., Chittka, L. (2012) Epigenetics: the making of ant castes. Current Biology, 22, R835-838

175. Chittka, L., Dyer, A.G. (2012) Cognition: Your face looks familiar. Nature (News & Views), 481,154–155

174. Dawson, E., Chittka, L. (2012) Conspecific and heterospecific information use in bumblebees. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e31444. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031444

173. Ings, T.C., Yang M.-Y., Chittka, L. (2012) Colour-independent shape recognition of cryptic predators by bumblebees. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 66: 487–496

172. Lenz, F., Ings, T.C., Chittka, L., Chechkin, A.V., Klages, R. (2012) Spatio-temporal dynamics of bumblebees foraging under predation risk. Physical Review Letters, 108: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.098103

171. Lihoreau, M., Chittka, L., Le Comber, S., Raine, N.E. (2012) Bees do not use nearest-neighbour rules for optimization of multi-location routes. Biology Letters, 8: 13-16.

170. Lihoreau, M., Latty, T., Chittka, L. (2012) An exploration of the social brain hypothesis in insects. Frontiers in Physiology, 3:442. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00442

169. Lihoreau, M., Raine, N.E., Reynolds, A.M. Stelzer, R.J., Lim, K.S. Smith, A.D., Osborne, J.L., Chittka, L. (2012) Radar Tracking and Motion-sensitive Cameras on Flowers Reveal the Development of Pollinator Multi-Destination Routes over Large Spatial Scales. PLoS Biology, 10(9): e1001392. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001392

168. Muller, H. & Chittka, L. (2012) Consistent interindividual differences in discrimination performance by bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris) in colour, shape and odour learning tasks. Entomologia generalis, 34: 1-8

167. Przybyłowicz, T., Roessingh, P., Biesmeijer, K., Oostermeijer, G., Chittka, L. and Gravendeel, B. (2012) The role of scent in chemical mimicry of the European lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus). Contributions to Zoology, 81: 103-110

166. Raine, N.R. & Chittka, L. (2012) No Trade-Off between Learning Speed and Associative

Flexibility in Bumblebees: A Reversal Learning Test with Multiple Colonies. PLoS ONE, 7(9): e45096. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045096

2011

165. Chittka, L. & Jensen, K. (2011) Animal cognition: concepts from apes to bees. Current Biology, 21: R116-119.

164. Chittka, L. & Mesoudi, A. (2011) Insect Swarm Intelligence. A review of: Honeybee Democracy by T.D. Seeley. Science, 331: 401-402.

163. Chittka, L. & Skorupski, P. (2011) Information processing in miniature brains. Proc Royal Soc Lond B, 278: 885-888

162. Chittka, L. & Walker, J. (2011) Insects as art lovers. Artlink, 31: 46-48.

161. Doering, T., Chittka, L. (2011) How human are insects, and does it matter? Formosan Entomologist, 31: 85-99

160. Leadbeater, E, Chittka, L. (2011) Do inexperienced bumblebee foragers use scent marks as social information? Animal Cognition, 14:915–919

159. Lihoreau, M., Chittka, L., Raine, N.E. (2011) Trade-off between travel distance and prioritization of high-reward sites in traplining bumblebees. Functional Ecology, 25, 1284–1292

158. Mendl, M., Paul, E.S., Chittka, L. (2011) Animal Behaviour: Emotion in Invertebrates? Current Biology, 21: R463-465

157. Skorupski, P. & Chittka, L. (2011) Is colour cognitive? Optics and Laser Technology, 43: 251-260

156. Skorupski, P. & Chittka, L. (2011) Photoreceptor processing speed and changes in input

resistance during light adaptation correlate with spectral class in bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. PLoS One, 6(10): e25989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025989

155. Whitney, H.M., Bennett, K.M.V., Dorling, M., Sandbach, L., Prince, D., Chittka, L., Glover, B.J. (2011) Why do so many petals have conical epidermal cells? Annals of Botany, 108: 609–616

154. Whitney, H.M., Poetes, R., Steiner, U., Chittka, L., Glover, B.J. (2011) Determining the contribution of epidermal cell shape to petal wettability using isogenic Antirrhinum lines. PLoS ONE, 6: e17576. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017576

2010

153. Arnold, S.E.J, Faruq, S., Savolainen, V., McOwan, P.W., Chittka, L. (2010) FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database - a web portal for analyses of flower colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014287

152. Chittka, A. & Chittka, L. (2010) Epigenetics of royalty. PLoS Biology, 8(11):

e1000532. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000532

151. Chittka, L. (2010) Lars Chittka. Current Biology, 20: R1006-R1008

150. Ings, T.C., Ings, N., Chittka, L., Rasmont, P. (2010) A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France. Apidologie 41: 1-13

149. Kapustjansky, A., Chittka, L., Spaethe, J. (2010)Bees use three-dimensional information to improve target detection. Naturwissenschaften, 97: 229-233

148. Lihoreau M., Chittka, L., Raine, N.R. (2010). Travel Optimization by Foraging Bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations. American Naturalist, 176: 744-757

147. Muller H., Grossmann, H., Chittka, L. (2010). "Personality" in bumblebees: individual consistency in responses to novel colours? Animal Behaviour, 80: 1065-1074

146. Niven, J. & Chittka, L. (2010) Reuse of identified neurons in multiple neural circuits. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 33: 285-285

145. Skorupski, P. & Chittka, L. (2010) Differences in photoreceptor processing speed for chromatic and achromatic vision in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. Journal of Neuroscience, 30:3896 –3903

144. Skorupski, P. & Chittka, L. (2010) Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae). PLoS One, 5(8): e12049.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012049

143. Stelzer, R.J., Chittka, L. (2010) Bumblebee foraging rhythms under the midnight sun, measured with radio-frequency identification. BMC Biology, 8:93 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-93

142. Stelzer, R.J., Chittka, L., Carlton, M., Ings, T.C. (2010) Winter active bumblebees achieve high foraging rates in urban Britain. PLoS One, 5(3): e9559. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009559

141. Stelzer, R.J., Raine, N.E., Schmitt, K.D., Chittka, L. (2010) Effects of aposematic colouration on predation risk in bumblebees? A comparison between differently coloured populations, with consideration of the ultraviolet. Journal of Zoology, 282: 75-83

140. Stelzer, R.J. Stanewsky, R., Chittka, L. (2010) Circadian Rhythms of Complete Forager Castes of Bumblebee Colonies Monitored by Radio-Frequency Identification. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 25: 257-267

2009

139. Arnold, S.E.J., Le Comber, S., Chittka, L. (2009) Flower colour phenology in European grassland and woodland habitats, through the eyes of pollinators. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, 57: 211-230

138. Arnold, S.E.J., Savolainen, V., Chittka, L. (2009) Flower colours along an alpine altitude gradient, seen through the eyes of fly and bee pollinators. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 3: 27-43

137. Chittka, L., Muller, H. (2009) Learning, specialization, efficiency and task allocation in social insects. Communicative and Integrative Biology 2: 151-154

136. Chittka, L., Niven, J.E. (2009) Are bigger brains better? Current Biology, 19: R995–R1008

135. Chittka, L., Skorupski, P., Raine, N.E., (2009) Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24: 400-407

134. Dangles, O., Irschick, D., Chittka, L. & Casas, J. (2009) Variability in sensory ecology: expanding the bridge between physiology and evolutionary biology. Quarterly Review of Biology, 84: 51-74

133. Ings, T.C., Chittka, L. (2009) Predator crypsis enhances behaviourally-mediated indirect effects on plants by altering bumblebee foraging preferences. Proc. Royal Soc. B, 276: 2031-2036

132. Ings, T.C., Raine, N.E., Chittka, L. (2009) A population comparison of the strength and persistence of innate colour preference and learning speed in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology, 63: 1207-1218.

131. Leadbeater, E.A., Chittka, L. (2009) Bumblebees learn the value of social information through experience. Biology Letters 5: 310-312

130. Leadbeater, E.A. & Chittka, L. (2009) Social information use in foraging insects. In: S. Jarau & M. Hrncir (eds.) Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches. CRC Press, pp 135-146.

129. Molet, M., Chittka, L., Raine, N.E. (2009) Bumblebee foraging pheromones. Bee Craft, July 2009, p.20.

128. Molet, M., Chittka, L. & Raine, N.E. (2009) Learning of floral odour inside the nest by bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) workers during recruitment. Naturwissenschaften, 96: 213-219.

127. Molet, M., Chittka, L. & Raine, N.E. (2009) Potential application of the bumblebee foraging recruitment pheromone for commercial greenhouse pollination. Apidologie, 40: 608-116.

126. Ollerton, J., Cranmer, L., Stelzer, R., Sullivan, S., & Chittka, L. (2009) Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants. Naturwissenschaften, 96: 221-232.

125. Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2009) Measuring the adaptiveness of social insect foraging strategies - an empirical approach. In: S. Jarau & M. Hrncir (eds.) Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches. CRC Press, pp 9-28

124. Whitney, H.M., Chittka, L., Bruce, T.J.A, Glover, B. (2009) Conical cells allow bees to grip flowers and increase foraging efficiency. Current Biology, 19: 948-953.

123. Whitney, H.M., Kolle, M., Andrew, P., Chittka, L., Steiner, U., Glover, B. (2009) Response to comment on "Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators" Science, 325, 1072-e; DOI: 10.1126/science.1173503

122. Whitney, H.M., Kolle, M., Andrew, P., Chittka, L., Steiner, U., Glover, B. (2009) Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators. Science, 332: 130-133.

2008

121. Doering, T.F., Hardie, J., Leather, S., Spaethe, J., Chittka, L. (2008) Can aphids play football? Antenna 32: 146-148.

120. Ings, T.C. & Chittka, L. (2008) Speed-accuracy tradeoffs and false alarms in bee responses to cryptic predators. Current Biology 18: 1520-1524.

119. Leadbeater, E.A. & Chittka, L. (2008) Social transmission of nectar-robbing behaviour in bumblebees. Proc Roy Soc Lond B, 275: 1669-1674

118. Molet, M., Chittka, L. Stelzer, R., Streit, S., Raine, N. (2008) Colony nutritional status modulates worker responses to foraging recruitment pheromone in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 62: 1919-1926.

117. Muller H & Chittka, L., (2008) Animal personalities: the advantage of diversity. Current Biology 18: R961-963.

116. Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2008) The correlation of learning speed and natural foraging success in bumblebees. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 275: 803-808

115. Whitney, H.M., Dyer, A.G., Chittka, L., Rands, S.A., Glover, B. (2008) The interaction of temperature and sucrose concentration on foraging preferences in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften, 95: 845-850

2007

114. Chittka, L. (2007) Seeing red by accident? Planet Earth, Autumn 2007, pp. 30-31.

113. Chittka, L. (2007) A review of: Letters from the Hive – An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind. Buchmann S & Banning R. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 164.

112. Chittka, L. (2007) A review of: Asian Honey Bees – Biology, Conservation, and Human Interactions. Oldroyd BP & Wongsiri S. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 284.

111. Chittka, L. (2007) A review of: A Field Guide in Colour to Bees and Wasps. Zahradnik J & Severa F. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 134.

110. Chittka, L. (2007) A review of: Bumblebees. Prys-Jones OE & Corbet SA. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 123.

109. Chittka, L. (2007) A review of: Bumblebees – Behaviour and Ecology. Goulson DG. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 314

108. Chittka, L. & Walker, J. (2007) Insects as art lovers: Bees for Van Gogh. Antennae, 2: 37-42.

107. Chittka, L. & Doering, T. (2007) Are autumn leaf colours red signals to aphids? PLoS Biology, 5: 1640-1644

106. Chittka, L. & Osorio, D.C. (2007) Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry? PLoS Biology 5: e339.

105. Chittka, L. & Spaethe, J. (2007) Visual search and the importance of time

in complex decision making by bees. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1: 37-44.

104. Döring, T., Chittka, L. (2007) Visual ecology of aphids - a critical review on the role of colours in host finding. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1: 3-16.

103. Döring, T.F. & Chittka, L. (2007) Lesley Goodman Award Public Lecture Series on Insect Vision. Antenna 31: 187-188.

102. Dyer, A.G., Whitney, H.M., Arnold, S. E.J., Glover, B.J., Chittka, L. (2007) Mutations perturbing petal cell shape and anthocyanin synthesis influence bumblebee perception of Antirrhinum majus flower colour. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1: 45-55.

101. Leadbeater, E. & Chittka, L. (2007) Social learning in insects – from miniature brains to consensus building. Current Biology, R703-R713

100. Leadbeater, E. & Chittka, L. (2007) The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61:1789-1796.

99. Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2007) Flower constancy and memory dynamics in bumblebees. Entomologia Generalis, 29: 179-199

98.Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2007) Learning a complex motor skill: bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) and pollen foraging. Naturwissenschaften, 94: 459-464 (with cover page)

97.Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2007) Nectar Production Rates of 75 Bumblebee-visited Flower Species in a German Flora (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris). Entomologia generalis 30: 191-192

96.Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2007) The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris. PLoS One, 2 : e556. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000556.

95.Saleh, N. & 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, 151: 719-730.

94. Saleh, N., Scott, A.G., Bryning, G.P., & Chittka, L. (2007). Distinguishing signals and cues: Bumblebees use general footprints to generate adaptive behaviour at flowers and nest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1: 119-127

93. Skorupski P., Doering, T., Chittka, L. (2007) Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in island and mainland populations of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. Journal of Comparative Physiology 193: 485-494.

92. Stelzer, R., Ollerton, J., Chittka, L. (2007) Kein Nachweis für Hummelbesuch der Kanarischen Vogelblumen (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologia generalis, 30: 153-154.

91. Whitney, H.M. & Chittka, L. (2007) Warm flowers, happy pollinators. Biologist 54, 154-159.

2006

90. Chittka, L. & Raine, N.E. (2006) Recognition of flowers by pollinators. Current Opinion in Plant Science, 9: 428-435

89. Chittka, L. & Walker, J. (2006) Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers? Optics and Laser Technology 38: 323-328 (with coverage on BBC and ABC news, Science, New Scientist, Art Monthly, The Times, and multiple radio stations)

88. Dornhaus, A., Klügl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., & Chittka, L. (2006) Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: ecology and colony size in an individual-based model. Behavioral Ecology 17, 336-344

87. Dyer, A.G., Whitney, H.M., Arnold, S.E.J., Glover, B.J. & Chittka, L. (2006) Bees associate warmth with flower colour. Nature, 442: 525-525.

86. Ings, T.C., Ward, N.L. & Chittka, L. (2006) Can commercially imported bumblebees out-compete their native conspecifics? Journal of Applied Ecology, 43, 940-948 (with cover page)

85. Leadbeater, E., Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2006) Social learning: ants and the meaning of teaching. Current Biology 16, 323-325

84. Raine, N.E., Ings, T.C., Dornhaus, A, Saleh, N. & Chittka, L. (2006) Adaptation, chance, and history in the evolution of bee foraging behavior. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 36: 305- 354

83. Raine, N.E., Ings, T.C., Ramos-Rodriguez, O. & Chittka, L. (2006) Intercolony variation in learning performance of a wild British bumblebee population (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris audax). Entomologia generalis, 28: 241-256

82. Saleh, N. & Chittka, L. (2006) The importance of experience in the interpretation of conspecific chemical signals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61: 215-220

81. Saleh, N., Ohashi, K., Thomson, J.D., Chittka, L. (2006) Facultative use of repellent scent marking in foraging bumblebees: complex versus simple flowers. Animal Behaviour 71, 847-854

80. Skorupski, P., Chittka, L. (2006) Animal Cognition: an Insect's Sense of Time? Current Biology, 16: R851-R853

79. Skorupski, P., Spaethe, J., Chittka, L. (2006) Visual Search and Decision Making in Bees:

Time, Speed and Accuracy. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 19, 342-357

78. Spaethe, J., Tautz, J., Chittka, L. (2006) Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search? Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 987-993.

2005

77. Chittka, L. & Brockmann, A. (2005) Perception space, the final frontier. PLoS Biology, 3: 545-549.

76. Chittka, L. & Leadbeater, E. (2005) Social learning: public information in insects. Current Biology, 15: R869-R871.

75. Chittka, L. & Kevan, P.G.(2005) Flower colour as advertisement. In Dafni, A., Kevan, P.G., Husband, B.C. (eds.) Practical Pollination Biology. Enviroquest Ltd., Cambridge, ON, Canada, pp. 157 - 196

74. Dornhaus, A. & Chittka, L. (2005) Bumble bees store both food and information in honeypots. Behavioral Ecology, 16: 667-673

73. Dyer, A., Neumeyer, C., Chittka, L. (2005) Honeybees (Apis mellifera) can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 4709-4714 (with cover page, and coverage in New Scientist)

72. Heiling, A.M., Cheng, K., Chittka, L., Goeth, A. & Herberstein, M.E. (2005) The role of UV in crab spider signals: effects on perception by prey and predators. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 3925-3931

71. Heiling, A.M., Chittka, L., Cheng, K. & Herberstein, M.E. (2005) Colouration in crab spiders – substrate choice and prey attraction. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 1785-1792

70. Ings, T., Schikora, J. & Chittka, L. (2005) Bumblebees, humble pollinators or assiduous
invaders? A population comparison of foraging performance in Bombus terrestris. Oecologia, 144: 508-516

69. Ings, T., Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2005) Mating Preference of Commercially Imported Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) in Britain (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologia generalis, 28: 233-238

68. Leadbeater, E. & Chittka, L. (2005) A new mode of information transfer in bumblebees. Current Biology, 15: 447-448. (with commentary in Nature, Science News, and The Guardian)

67. Lotto, R.B. & Chittka, L. (2005) Seeing the light: Illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102: 3852-3856

66. Mena Granero, A., Guerra Sanz, J.M., Egea Gonzalez FJ, Martinez Vidal, JL, Dornhaus, A. Ghani, J., Roldán Serrano, A., Chittka, L. (2005) Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften, 92: 371-374.

65. Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2005) Comparison of flower constancy and foraging performance in three bumblebee species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Entomologia generalis, 28: 81-89.

64. Raine, N.E. & Chittka, L. (2005) Colour preferences in relation to the foraging performance and fitness of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Uludag Bee Journal, 5: 145-150 (with cover page).

63. Rasmont, P., Regali, A., Ings, T.C., Lognay, G., Baudart, E., Marlier, M., Delcarte, E., Viville, P., Marot, C., Falmagne, P., Verhaeghe, J.-C. & Chittka, L. (2005). Analysis of the pollen and nectar of Arbutus unedo as a food source for Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 98: 656-663

2004

62. Chittka, L. (2004) Dances as windows into insect perception. PLoS Biology 2: 898-900.

61. Chittka, L., Ings, T. & Raine, N.E. (2004) Chance and adaptation in the evolution of island bumblebee behaviour. Population Ecology 46: 243-251

60.Chittka, L., Wells, H. (2004) Color vision in bees: mechanisms, ecology and evolution. In: Prete, F.R.: Complex Worlds from simpler nervous systems; MIT Press, Boston pp. 165-191.

59. Dornhaus, A, & Chittka, L. (2004) Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp). Apidologie 35: 183-192.

58. Dornhaus, A. & Chittka, L. (2004) Why do honeybees dance? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 395-401.

57. Dyer, AG. & Chittka, L. (2004) Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to learn difficult colour discrimination tasks. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 190: 759-763.

56. Dyer, AG. & Chittka, L. (2004) Biological significance of discriminating between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees as a study case. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 190: 105-114.

55. Dyer, AG. & Chittka, L. (2004) Bumblebee search times without ultraviolet light. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207: 1683-1688.

54. Dyer, AG. & Chittka, L. (2004) Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften, 91: 224-227.

53.Smith, C., Barber, I., Wootton, R.J.& Chittka, L. (2004) A receiver bias in the origin of threespine stickleback mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B, 271: 949-955.

2003

52. Chittka, L. (2003) Plants and animals, forever entangled. A review of: "Plant-Animal Interactions". C. Herrera & O. Pellmyr (eds.) Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18: 12-13.

51. Chittka, L., Dyer, A.G., Bock, F. & Dornhaus, A. (2003)Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy. Nature, 424: 388-388.

50. Chittka, L. & Tautz, J (2003) The spectral input to honeybee visual odometry. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206: 2393-2397.

49. Dornhaus, A., Brockmann, A. & Chittka, L. (2003) Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 189: 47-51.

48. Heiling, A. M., Herberstein, M. E. & Chittka, L. (2003) Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals. Nature, 421: 334-334.

47. Spaethe, J. & Chittka, L. (2003) Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206: 3447-3453.

2002

46. Chittka, L. (2002) The influence of intermittent rewards on learning to handle flowers in bumblebees. Entomologia generalis 26: 85-91.

2001

45. Briscoe, A. & Chittka, L. (2001) The evolution of colour vision in insects. Annual Review of Entomology 46, 471-510.

44. Chittka, L. (2001)Camouflage of Predatory Crab Spiders on Flowers, and the Colour Perception of Bees.Entomologia generalis 25, 181-187.

43. Chittka, L., Briscoe, A.(2001)Why sensory ecology needs to become more evolutionary – insect color vision as a case in point. In Barth, F.G., Schmid, A. (ed.) Ecology of Sensing, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp.19-38

42. Chittka, L., Schürkens S. (2001) Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature 411, 653-653.

41. Chittka, L. and Thomson, J.D. (eds.) 2001 Cognitive Ecology of Pollination - Animal Behavior and Floral Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 423pp including Preface: Chittka, L. & Thomson, J.D. (2001) Cognitive Ecology – Preface (pp. x-xiii).

40. Chittka, L., Spaethe, J., Schmidt, A., Hickelsberger, A.(2001) Adaptation, constraint, and chance in the evolution of flower color and pollinator color vision. In: Chittka, L. & Thomson, J.D. (eds.) Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 106-126

39. Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L. (2001). Food alert in bumblebees: possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50: 570-576.

38. Kevan, P.G., Chittka, L., Dyer, A. (2001) Limits to the salience of ultraviolet – lessons from color vision in bees and birds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 204: 2571-2580.

37.Schürkens, S., Chittka, L. (2001) The significance of the invasive Crucifer species Bunias orientalis (Brassicaceae) as a nectar source for central European insects. Entomologia generalis 25: 115-120.

36. Spaethe, J., Tautz, J., Chittka, L. (2001) Visual constraints in foraging bumble bees: flower size and colour affect search time and flight behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98: 3898-3903.

35.Thomson, J.D. & Chittka, L. (2001)Pollinator individuality: when does it matter? In: Chittka, L. & Thomson, J.D. (eds.) Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 191-213

1999

34. Chittka, L. (1999) Bees, white flowers, and the color hexagon – a reassessment? No, not yet. Naturwissenschaften 86, 595-597.

33. Chittka, L. (1999) Spatial Representation in Animals. Sue Healy (ed.) Animal Behaviour 57: 735-736

32. Chittka, L. (1999) Learning and Adaptation. A review of: "Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making". Reuven Dukas (ed.) Quarterly Review of Biology, 74: 326-327

31. Chittka, L. & Dornhaus, A. (1999) Comparisons in physiology and evolution, and why

bees can do the things they do. Ciencia al Dia International 2 (2): 1-17 (electronic publication)

https://www.ciencia.cl/CienciaAlDia/volumen2/numero2/articulos/articulo5.html

30. Chittka, L., Thomson, J.D. Waser, N.M (1999) Flower constancy, insect psychology, and plant evolution. Naturwissenschaften 86: 361-377.

29. Chittka, L., Williams, N., Rasmussen, H., Thomson, J.D. (1999). Navigation without vision –bumble bee orientation in complete darkness. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B, 266: 45-50. (with commentary in Science News)

28. Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L. (1999) Evolutionary origins of bee dances. Nature 401: 38-38.

27. Gumbert, A., Kunze, J. Chittka, L. (1999) Flower color diversity in plant communities, bee color space, and a null model. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series B, 266:1711-1716.

1998

26. Chittka, L. (1998) Sensori-motor learning in bumble bees: long term retention and reversal training. Journal of Experimental Biology 201: 515-524 (with commentary in New Scientist)

25. Menzel, R., Geiger, K., Mueller, U., Joerges, J. and Chittka, L. (1998) Bees travel novel homeward routes by integrating separately acquired vector memories. Animal Behaviour,

55: 139-152

24. Waser, N.M. & Chittka, L. (1998) Bedazzled by flowers. Nature 394: 835-836

1997

23. Chittka, L. (1997) Bee color vision is optimal for coding flower colors, but flower colors are not optimal for being coded - why? Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 45: 115-127

22. Chittka, L., Gumbert, A., and Kunze, J. (1997) Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species. Behavioral Ecology 8: 239-249

21. Chittka, L., Schorn, J., de Souza, J.M., Ventura, D.F., and Camargo, J.M.F. (1997) The nest entrance signal of the Amazonian bees Partamona pearsoni - a case where insects design their own flight targets. In: Kipyatkov, V.E. (ed.) Proceedings of the Colloquia on Social Insects, Volume 3-4, pp.107-116

20. Chittka, L. and Thomson, J.D (1997) Sensori-motor learning and its relevance for task specialization in bumble bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41: 385-398

19. Chittka, L. & Waser, N.M. (1997) Why red flowers are not invisible for bees. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 45: 169-183 (with commentary in TREE)

1996

18. Chittka, L. (1996). Optimal sets of colour receptors and opponent processes for coding of natural objects in insect vision. Journal of Theoretical Biology 181: 179-196

17. Chittka, L. (1996). Does bee colour vision predate the evolution of flower colour? Naturwissenschaften, 83: 136-138. (with commentary in Discover Magazine)

16. Kevan, P.G., Giurfa, M., and Chittka, L. (1996). Why are there so many and so few white flowers? Trends in Plant Sciences, 1:280-284.

15. Lunau, K., Wacht, S., and Chittka, L. (1996) Colour choices of naive bumble bees and their implications for colour perception. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 178: 477-489.

14. Menzel, R., Geiger, K., Chittka, L., Joerges, J., Kunze, J., and Mueller, U. (1996) The knowledge base of bee navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology 199:141-146.

13. Waser, N.M., Chittka, L., Price, M.V., Williams, N., and Ollerton, J. (1996) Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters. Ecology 77: 1043-1060.

1995

12. Chittka, L. and Geiger, K. (1995) Can honeybees count landmarks? Animal Behaviour 49:159-164 (with commentary in New Scientist)

11. Chittka, L. and Geiger, K. (1995) Honeybee long-distance orientation in a controlled environment. Ethology 99:117-126.

10. Chittka, L., Kunze, J., and Geiger, K. (1995) The influences of landmarks on distance estimation of honeybees. Animal Behaviour 50:23-31.

9. Chittka, L., Kunze, J., Shipman, C., and Buchmann, S.L. (1995) The significance of landmarks for path integration of homing honey bee foragers. Naturwissenschaften 82:341-343.

8. Giurfa, M., Nunez, J., Chittka, L., and Menzel, R. (1995) Colour preferences of flower-naive honeybees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 177:247-259.

1994

7. Chittka, L., Shmida, A., Troje, N., and Menzel, R. (1994) Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of Hymenoptera. Vision Research 34:1489-1508.

1993

6. Chittka, L. (1993) The colour perception of Hymenoptera, the colours of flowers, and their evolutionary and ecological relationship. PhD Dissertation, Free University of Berlin.

5. Chittka, L., Vorobyev, M., Shmida, A., and Menzel, R. (1993) Bee colour vision - the optimal system for the discrimination of flower colours with three spectral photoreceptor types? In: Sensory Systems of Arthropods, edited by Wiese, K., Gribakin, F.G., Popov, A.V., and Renninger, G.Basel/Switzerland:Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 211-218.

1992

4. Chittka, L. (1992) The color hexagon: a chromaticity diagram based on photoreceptor excitations as a generalized representation of colour opponency. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 170:533-543.

3. Chittka, 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 170:545-563.

2. Chittka, L. and Menzel, R. (1992) The evolutionary adaptation of flower colors and the insect pollinators' color vision systems. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 171:171-181.

1990

1. Menzel, 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 45c:723-726.

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE

2024 Le Monde (France; "Lars Chittka, une vie vouée au bourdon" Aug 31, 2024) https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/08/31/lars-chittka-une-vie-vouee-au-bourdon_6300402_1650684.html

2023 Article in leading German news magazine Der Spiegel: Biologe Lars Chittka: Der Herr der Bienen 24/2/2023 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/biologe-lars-chittka-der-herr-der-bienen-a-127e39ad-634c-46cb-bed5-757702f3a314

Article about my work in Greenpeace Magazin (Ausgabe 6.23 "Tierintelligenz").; Das große Knobeln.

Was Insekten alles können – Laborbesuch in London

2022 Article about my work on insect sentience and intelligence in the journal Newsweek:

https://www.newsweek.com/do-insects-have-brains-1683193

Article in the Observer / The Guardian (16/7/22): 'Bees are really highly intelligent': the insect IQ tests causing a buzz among scientists: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/16/bees-are-really-highly-intelligent-the-insect-iq-tests-causing-a-buzz-among-scientists

2021 7-page print article about me and my team's work in Dutch popular scientific journal KIJK about the

intelligence of bees. Published November 2021, entitled: Bijenonderzoeker Lars Chittka: Ik wil dat meer

mensen weten dat bijen een rijk mentaal leven hebben (I wish that more people were aware that bees

have a rich mental life). https://tijdschriftnu.nl/products/kijk-editie-11-2021

2020 Interview on Big Biology podcast "Smarthropods – Cognition in Insects" (37 minutes;

https://www.bigbiology.org/podcast)

Interview in BYU Radio "Constant Wonder: Smart Bees" (aired 30/3/2020; 50 minutes)

https://byuradiostage.byu.edu/episode/bd8dc260-e7b0-44ce-a3bb-a7d613d49c55/constant-wonder-

smart-bees?autoplay=true

2019 Portrait in BBC Wildlife Magazine "Meet the Scientist" (November 2019 issue; p.28

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bbc-wildlife-magazine/20191024/282664689156186)

Reuters Video clip about my music album Strange Flowers: "Sex, death, rock 'n' roll: the life of a bee"

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/sex-death-rock-n-roll-152856137.html

2018 TV Interview with Alexander Kluge "Der Geist der Bienen" (dctp, RTL and SRF; 14/02/2018; 24

minutes); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAr8vd_EZCw

Portrait in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Das geistige Leben der Bienen" 13/6/2018

Portrait in Tagesspiegel (Berlin) "Maximum im Minihirn" 25/5/2018

2016 The Guardian – Facebook page 19/10/2016 Video about my team's bumblebee work "Bees can learn

mad skills: https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/577812755739825 - viewed 24 Million times

(as of Oct 2020)

2010 Interview on Mongabay (with Jeremy Hance) "Uncovering the intelligence of insects, an interview with

Lars Chittka" https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/uncovering-the-intelligence-of-insects-an-interview-with-lars-chittka/

RESEARCH GRANTS

45. EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (2025-2027) Fellowship to host Dr Daniela Scaccabarozzi: "Precision vision: Hyperacuity in bee flower detection and its effects on the evolution of plant signalling. £276.187.92

44. Open Philanthropy / Good Ventures Foundation (2024-2026) Addressing key evidence gaps in the science of insect sentience; £760,184

43. Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science – JSPS (2022-2024) Postdoctoral fellowship to Dr Mai Morimoto to work in the Chittka team; £81,000

42. Horizon Europe Framework Programme (2022-2025) NimbleAI - Ultra energy-efficient and secure neuromorphic sensing and processing at the endpoint. Total: €9,999,433; Queen Mary contribution €187,603

41. European Research Council (ERC; 2019-2024) Foundations of Animal Sentience – ASENT (with PI Jonathan Birch at LSE). Total: €1,499,864; Queen Mary Contribution: €14,563

40. Fyssen Foundation (2020-2022) The interface between chemical and spatial use of bumble bee male premating behaviour €60,000

39. Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Study (2017-2018) Housing allowance plus replacement lectureship: €79,649

38. The Leverhulme Trust: Artist in Residence: Dr Robert Hudson 2016-AIR-037 (2017) £13,028

37. EPSRC Program Grant: Brains on Board: Neuromorphic Control of Flying Robots EP/P006094/1 (2017-2022, jointly with collaborators in Sussex and Sheffield); total: £4,816,675 Queen Mary contribution: £ 1,085,942

36. 'Large Award' by Queen Mary's Centre for Public Engagement: Observing bees in East London – Pollinator-friendly Gardens (2015-2016) £18,019

35. HFSP Program Grant: RGP0022/2014 - A neural circuit approach to cognition and its limits in microbrains – with Martin Giurfa (U Toulouse) and Jeff Riffell (U Washington) (2014-2018) USD $ 1,050,000 – QMUL contribution $350,000

34. NERC: Behavioural and molecular responses to pesticide exposure in bumblebees – with PI Yannick Wurm, QMUL (2014-2017) £515,549

33. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2014-2019) £50,000

32. European Research Council (ERC): SpaceRadarPollinator (339347) Space use by bees– radar tracking of spatial movement patterns of key pollinators (2014-2019) €3,435,922

31. Host for postdoc Dr Sylvain Alem: Could learned mate choice pave the way to speciation in fruit flies?

Fyssen Foundation (2013-2015) €48,000

30. Host for postdoc Dr Stephan Wolf funded by German Research Foundation (DFG): Bumblebee males and queens as a model to understand the mating-foraging trade-off in animals (2013-2015) ca £ 100,000

29. Host for postdoc Dr Vera Vasas funded by Human Frontiers Science Program: Evolving models of visual category learning in bees (2011-2017) £101,880

28. European Commission: Host for postdoc Dr Clint Perry funded by Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship: Smart foraging: neuronal complexity, cognition and foraging in honey bees (2013-2015) €299,558

27. European Commission: Host for postdoc Dr David Baracchi funded by Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: Colony Personality and Pace-of-Life Syndrome in Bumblebees (2013-2015) €221,606

26. Australian Research Council: Pollination in a new climate: Evolutionary simulation of bee and flower interactions for predicting impacts of climate change on pollination (2012-2015; jointly with PI Alan Dorin and Adrian Dyer) $300k AUD

25. CEE (Centre for Ecology and Evolution): Honeybees and honeywasps: stealing information from competitors? (2012-2013) £4,642

24. Host for postdoc Dr Vivek Nityananda funded by Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship: Visual Search in Bumblebees (2011-2013) £ 142,210.

23. Host for postdoc Dr Aurore Avergues-Weber funded by Fyssen Foundation: Social learning in pollinators (2011-2012) €50,000

22. Host for postdoc funded by Human Frontiers Science Program: The Psychophysics of Attention in Insects (2010-2013) £ 97,780

21. Discipline Bridging Award QMUL/EPSRC/MRC (2009)

Statistical physical analysis of the dynamics of foraging bumblebees (with P.I. R. Klages)

£ 7,000

20. NERC (NE/F523342/1; 2007-2008)

Application of the bumblebee foraging pheromone for commercial greenhouse pollination

£ 98,149.40

19. Wellcome Trust, BBSRC and EPSRC Cognitive Systems Foresight Project (BB/F52765X/1; 2007-2010)

Bees and the travelling salesman problem: how tiny brains solve complex cognitive tasks

£ 372,745.06

18. NERC (2006-2009) NE/D012813/1

Quantifying the dynamics of predator avoidance learning: bumblebees as a model

£ 334,418.11

17. The Leverhulme Trust (2005-2008)

Elucidating the ecological basis of invertebrate colour processing and perception

(with P.I. Beau Lotto at UCL London, and collaborators A. Sillito (UCL) and D. Osorio (U Sussex)

£ 207,426.00

16. NERC (2005-2008)

Dissecting the interaction between pollinator behaviour and a single plant gene controlling floral morphology

(with P.I. Beverley Glover, University of Cambridge)

£ 188,207.23

15. Central Research Fund, University of London (2004)

Intracellular recordings from bee photoreceptors

£ 5,251

14. NERC (2004-2005)

Pollination of the Canary Island "bird flowers" – a new experimental approach to generalist vs. specialist tradeoffs

£ 31,052.04

13. NERC (NER/A/S/2003/00469; 2004-2007)

The evolution of learning – bumblebees as a model

£ 332,520.37

12. British Ecological Society (2003)

The invasion of introduced commercial bumblebees into non-native areas

£ 995

11. Australian Research Council (2003-2006)

Deceptive signals in spiders

(with PI ME Herberstein and K Cheng, Macquarie University, Australia)

£ 86,611

10. NERC (2003-2004)

Island populations as a source for sensory innovation – bumblebee colour vision as a model

£ 29,801

9. The Wellcome Trust (2003-2005)

Empirical vision: investigating the role of experience in shaping colour constancy behaviour

(with PI Beau Lotto, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College, London)

£ 94,425

8. Central Research Fund, University of London (2003)

Visual search in bumblebees

£ 7,000

7. University of Würzburg Travel Fund (2002)

Behaviour of Sardinian bumblebee populations

£ 1,850

6. University of Würzburg Travel Fund (2001)

Measuring floral spectral reflectance in Sardinia

£ 1,800

5. Universitätsbund Würzburg 00-26 (2000)

The evolution of colour preferences in bumblebees

£ 3,400

4. DFG Ch 147/3-1 (2001-2002)

Heisenberg Award

£ 87,000

3. DFG SFB 554 Project B5 (1999-2002)

Memory dynamics and foraging in bumblebees

£ 90,000

2. DFG Ch 147/2-1 (1998-2000)

Flower constancy of bumblebees

£ 40,000

1. DFG Postdoctoral Stipend (1994-1997)

Foraging strategies of bees on flowers

£ 50,400

EDITORIAL WORK

Member, Editorial Board, PLoS Biology (2004-present)

Guest Editor, PNAS (2023)

Member, Editorial Board, Communicative & Integrative Biology (2008-present)

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, special volume on Comparative Animal Consciousness (2021-22)

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Psychology, special volume on The Frontiers of Insect Cognition (2018)

Guest Editor, Current Opinion in Insect Science, special volume on

Molecular and neural mechanisms underpinning adaptive behaviour in insects (2016)

Associate Editor, Proc Royal Soc Lond B (2010-2012)

Member, Editorial Board, Uludag Bee Journal (2002; 2006-2014)

Member, Editorial Board, Psyche (2007-2010)

Member, Editorial Board, Entomologia generalis (2006-2009)

Member, Editorial Board, Arthropod-Plant Interactions (2006-2015)

Member, Advisory Board, Quarterly Review of Biology (2004-2010)

FUNDING AGENCY PANEL MEMBERSHIP

• Romanian National Research Council (CNCS, Biology & Ecology panel member LS5.7) 2024
• Research Council of Finland (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Panel member, 2024
• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. (FCT, Portugal)

Evaluation of the R&D Units Multiannual Funding Program (Biological Sciences, Biodiversity and Ecosystems Panel) 2024

Biological Sciences Panel, 2023

• MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Postdoctoral Fellowships Evaluator, 2022
• Monitor of the H2020 project: 773921 - "PoshBee", 2022
• Bulgarian National Science Fund BNSF

Panel Chair (VIHREN Call – ERC style grants), 2019

Panel Member (VIHREN Call – ERC style grants), 2021

Evaluator of research projects submitted for Implementation of Investment BG-RRP-

2.004 - "Establishment of a network of research universities in Bulgaria" 2022

• European Research Council (ERC)

Synergy Grants, external panel member, 2020

Synergy Grants, panel member SyG3A, 2019

Consolidator Grants, Shadow panel chairman LS8, 2012, 2014

Consolidator Grants, Panel chairman LS8, 2011, 2013

Starting Grants, Panel member (deputy chairman in 2010) LS8, 2007-2010

• Royal Society Research Grants, Panel member, Board H 2008-2011

EXTERNAL EXAMINING etc

• PhD Thesis, University of Sussex, UK (2018)
• PhD Thesis, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK (2015)
• Evaluation of nomination to the Australian Academy of Sciences (2015)
• PhD Thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2015)
• PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, UK (2015)
• External Evaluation of nomination for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (most prestigious award of the German Research Foundation – DFG; 2015)
• PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther University Halle – Wittenberg (2014)
• PhD Thesis, Royal Holloway University of London (2014)
• REF (Research Excellence Framework) 'dry run' for Anglia Ruskin University (2013)
• PhD Thesis, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2013)
• Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et des établissements d'Enseignement Supérieur (AERES) – Evaluation of LEEC (Laboratory of Comparative Experimental Ethology, University of Paris - 13) (2013)
• MSc Thesis, University of Sussex, UK (2012)
• PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, UK (2010)
• PhD Thesis, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2009)
• PhD Thesis, University of Toulouse, France (2009)
• 2005-2008 External examiner for Physiology/Behaviour/Ecology undergraduate courses; University of Sussex, UK
• PhD Thesis, University of Bern, Switzerland (2008)
• PhD Thesis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008)
• PhD Thesis, University of Toulouse, France (2007)
• Habilitation Dissertation, University of Tours, France (2007)
• Ph.D. thesis, David Booth, University of Sussex, UK (2004)
• Ph.D. thesis, Roselle Chapman, UC London, UK (2004)
• MSc thesis, Christine Harbig, Würzburg University, Germany (2003)
• Ph.D. thesis, Andreas Keller, Würzburg University, Germany (2002)
• Ph.D. thesis, Adrian Geoffrey Dyer, Monash University, Australia (2000)

FEEDBACK ON PROMOTIONS AND RECRUITMENTS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS

• 2025 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
• 2025 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Botswana, Botswana
• 2025 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, Univerzita Hradec Kralove, Czechia
• 2024 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, Princeton University, USA
• 2024 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Rochester, USA
• 2024 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2022 Evaluation of Promotion to Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex, UK
• 2021 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, Haifa University, Israel
• 2021 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 2020 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• 2020 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Trento, Italy
• 2020 Evaluation of Promotion to Reader, NCBI, Tata Institute Bangalore, India
• 2019 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Sussex, UK
• 2018 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis, US
• 2018 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Sussex, UK
• 2017 Evaluation of Promotion to Associate Professor, Rockefeller University, US
• 2017 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, Ben Gurion University, Israel
• 2016 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• 2016 Evaluation of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 2015 Performance Evaluation for Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Panama
• 2015 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• 2015 Evaluation of promotion to Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• 2015 Evaluation of retention offer, University College, Cork, Ireland
• 2014 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of Texas, Austin, USA
• 2014 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of Cincinnati, USA
• 2014 Evaluation of promotion of Researcher from Band E to F (Rothamsted Research, UK)
• 2013 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, RHUL, UK
• 2013 Evaluation of promotion to Professor Haver, University of Haifa, Israel
• 2012 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2012 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of St Andrews, UK
• 2012 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, McMaster University, Canada
• 2011 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of California, Irvine
• 2011 Evaluation of recruitment at Assoc. Prof. level, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan
• 2011 Evaluation of promotion to Assoc. Prof., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• 2011 Evaluation of promotion to Reader, RHUL, UK
• 2011 Recruitment to Assistant Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
• 2010 Recruitment to Assistant Professor, NCBS, Bangalore, India
• 2009 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of California, San Diego
• 2009 Evaluation of promotion to Assoc. Prof., University of Texas, Austin, USA
• 2009 Evaluation of promotion to Full Prof., Australian Natl. University, Canberra
• 2008 Evaluation of promotion to Professor, UCL, UK
• 2007 Evaluation of promotion to IM Level 3, BBSRC Rothamsted, UK
• 2007 Evaluation of promotion to Reader, Imperial College, UK
• 2007 Recruitment at Senior Lecturer Level, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• 2006 Evaluation of promotion to Associate Professor, McMaster University, Canada
• 2005 Evaluation of promotion to Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
• 2004 Evaluation of promotion to Full Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson
• 2004 Evaluation of promotion to Senior Lecturer, University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2000 Recruitment to Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, USA

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; elected fellow since 2022)
• Entomological Society of America (ESA; since 2022)
• German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina; elected member since 2021)
• Royal Society of Biology (I am an elected Fellow – FRSB – since 2009)

• The Linnean Society of London (I am an elected Fellow – FLS – since 2004)
• The Royal Entomological Society (I am an elected Fellow – FRES – since 2004)

• ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour; lifetime member)
• Colour Group, Britain

• Associate, BBS (Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
• IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects), Britain

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Dr. Daniela Scaccabarozzi (2025-present)
• Dr. Peng Ren (2025)
• Dr. Zhe Chen (2024-present)
• Dr. Gaoying Gu (2024-present)
• Dr. Olga Dyakova (2024-present)
• Dr. Sarah Skeels (2024-present)
• Dr. Priscila Teixeira Tunes (2024-2025; now postdoc, USP, Brazil)
• Dr. Mai Morimoto (2022-2024; now postdoc, Imperial College, London)
• Dr. Jouni Takalo (2022-2023, now postdoc, University of Sheffield)
• Dr. Natacha Rossi (2019-2022, now postdoc, University of Sussex)
• Dr. Hadi MaBouDi (2015-2018; now postdoc, University of Sheffield)
• Dr. Zhu Xing-Fu (2015-2016; now Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Dr. Olli Loukola (2015-2017; now Assistant Professor, University of Oulu)
• Dr. Joseph Woodgate (2014-2022; now postdoc, University of Sheffield)
• Dr. James Makinson (2014-2019; now Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University)
• Dr. Cwyn Solvi (2014-2021, now Professor, Southern Medical University, China)
• Dr. Vera Vasas (2013-2019, now postdoc, University of Sussex)
• Dr. Sylvain Alem (2013-2016; Research Project Manager at the Government Office for Science, UK)
• Dr. David Baracchi (2013-2015; now Professor, University of Florence (Firenze), Italy)
• Dr. Stephan Wolf (2013-2015; now secondary school teacher, Halle, Germany)
• Dr. Aurore Avergues-Weber (2011-2012; now CRNS fellow, University of Toulouse)
• Dr. Vivek Nityananda (2010-2013; now postdoctoral fellow, Newcastle, UK)
• Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau (2009-2010; now CNRS fellow, Toulouse, France)
• Dr. Mathieu Molet (2007-2008; now Lecturer at the University of Paris)
• Dr. Tom Ings (2006-2009; now Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK))
• Dr. Thomas Doering (2005-2009; now Full Professor, University of Bonn, Germany)
• Dr. Heather Whitney (2006-2009, co-supervised with Prof Beverley Glover, Cambridge); now Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
• Dr. Louise Cranmer (2005)
• Dr. Nigel E. Raine (2004-2009; now Professor and Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation, University of Guelph, Canada)
• Dr. Adrian G. Dyer (2002; 2006; now QEII Research Fellow at Monash University, and Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia)
• Dr. Johannes Spaethe (2002;now Privatdozent / Senior Lecturer, University of Wuerzburg)

PHD STUDENTS

• Jasmin Richter (2024-present)
• Maxime Janbon (2023-present)
• Chao Wen (visiting PhD student 2021-2022)
• Oluwaseun Sunday (visiting PhD student 2021-2022)
• Yonghe Zhou (2020-2024; now postdoc, Southern Medical University, China)
• Matilda Gibbons (2019-2023, now postdoc, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Vince Gallo (2017-2022, now professional beekeeper)
• Joanna Brebner (2017-2021, now postdoctoral fellow, University of Sheffield)
• Samadi Galpayage Dona (2017-2022, now postdoctoral fellow, University of Trento, Italy)
• Alice Bridges (2017-2022, now postdoctoral fellow, University of Sheffield)
• José Eric Romero González (2015-2019; now postdoctoral fellow, Southern Medical University, China)
• Marie Guiraud (2015-2019, now postdoctoral fellow,Macquarie University, Australia)
• Cui Guan (2014-2018; now postdoctoral fellow, Aston University, UK)
• Li Li (2013-2017; now Associate Professor, Jiangnan University, China)
• Tristan Matthews (2013-2017; co-supervised with A. Cavallaro; now data specialist, Springer Nature, UK)
• Simon Emberton (2012-2016; co-supervised with A. Cavallaro; now Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England, Bristol)
• Mark Roper (2012-2016, now Drone Development Lab, Ben Thorns Ltd, Colchester, UK)
• Fei Peng (2012-2016; now Full Professor, Southern Medical University, China)
• Erika Dawson (2010-2014; now postdoc, Sorbonne, Paris, France)
• Kathryn Hunt (2009-2013; now civil service)
• Friedrich Lenz (2009-2013; co-supervised with Dr Rainer Klages)
• Mu-Yun Wang (2009-2013; now postdoc, University of Tokyo)
• Samia Faruq (2008-2012; co-supervised with Prof Peter McOwan)
• Helene Muller (2007-2011; school teacher, London, UK)
• Ralph Stelzer (2006-2010)
• Sarah Arnold (2006-2010; now Senior Lecturer, Greenwich University)
• Ellouise Leadbeater (2004-2007; now Professor, Royal Holloway University of London)
• Tom Ings (2003-2006; now Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
• Nehal Saleh (2003-2006; President of Explore Science, Langley BC, Canada)
• Anna Dornhaus (1999-2002; now Full Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson)
• Johannes Spaethe (1998-2001; now Associate Professor (Privatdozent, University of Würzburg)

MSc STUDENTS

• Kemi Lawrence (2025)
• Maia Edmunds (2025)
• Naomi Williams (2025)
• James Clee (2025)
• Emily Ind (2025)
• Macy Guerri-Garrett (2024)
• Vidhi Ganpat Jain (2024)
• Vrushali Milind Dhotre (2024)
• Navin Ramnani (2024)
• Ella Brasher (2024)
• Ikaros Savva (2022)
• Stephan Balancy (2022)
• Elisa Pasquini (2021, Erasmus student)
• Yuyi Lu (2020-2021)
• Jennifer Law (2020)
• Dorothy Dunne (2020)
• Charlotte Lockwood (2020)
• Yuval Omer (2020)
• Kaarle Mäkelä (2020, Erasmus student)
• Amanda Royka (2019)
• Tara Wilson (2019-2020)
• Olga Procenko (2018)
• Jacqueline Bond (2018)
• Ana Cecilia Islas (2018)
• Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona (2016)
• Alice Marples (2015)
• Martina Zoli (2013, Erasmus student)
• Erika Dawson (2010)
• Ralph Stelzer (2005)
• Annette Schmidt (2002)
• Petra Frauenstein (2002)
• Juliette Schikora (2001)
• Kristina Stüber (2001)
• Anja Hickelsberger (2000)
• Steffen Schürkens (2000)
• Aphilnna Dornhaus (1999)

Sabbatical Visitors Hosted

• Prof Tamar Keasar (University of Haifa, Israel; 2021)
• Prof Franceso Nazzi (University of Udine, Italy; 2019)
• Prof Blandina Viana (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil; 2018-2019)
• Prof Angelo Bisazza (University of Padova, Italy; 2017)
• Prof Elizabeth Capaldi (Bucknell College, USA; 2016- 2017)
• Prof Caroline Nieberding (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2016)
• Prof Gidi Ne'eman (University of Haifa, Israel; 2011-2012)

SYMPOSIA ORGANISED

2022 XXVI International Congress of Entomology, Helsinki, Finland (Scientific organizing team for

Section Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution)

2016 Behaviour Symposium at EurBee Conference, Cluj Napoca, Romania

2014 Neural Circuits Underpinning Insect Cognition: Queen Mary University of London

2007 IBRA International Conference (Finland); Symposium on non-Apis bees

2006 Eurbee Conference, Prague, Symposia on bee learning and physiology (co-hosted with M. Giurfa)

2005 IUSSI Winter meeting at Queen Mary, University of London

2004 CEE workshop on "The evolution of visual signals and receivers", UCL, London, UK

2001 Plant-Insect Interactions, IUSSI Berlin, Germany

1999 Behavioral dimensions of pollinator service, International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, USA

INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (those not listed under named lectures higher up)

2025 International Course - Biological Basis of Behaviour, Morelia, Mexico (plenary lecture)

3rd International Conference in Bee Health, FAFU, Fuzhou, China (online)

Neuroscience School / Neuroplasticity, Learning & Memory, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (online)

Flexible Minds: Situated and Comparative Perspectives, KogWiss 2025, Bochum, Germany (2

lectures including a plenary)

Natural Consciousness Conference, Quito and Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (2 presentations)

Apimondia (International Federation of Beekeepers' Association Concference) Copenhagen,

Denmark, plenary lecture

Neuroethology Gordon Research Conference, Il Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy

Bioland Imkertagung (Beekeepers' Congress), Bad Boll, Germany (plenary lecture, online)

Ulster Beekeepers Association annual conference (Antrim, UK, 2 lectures)

2024 European IUSSI Congress 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland (plenary lecture)

NeuroFly Biennial European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference (plenary lecture)

New York Declaration of Consciousness Meeting, NYU, New York, USA

Copernicus Festival, Krakow, Poland (plenary lecture)

BrainBar ("Europe's largest annual future festival"); Budapest, Hungary

Oxford Literature Festival, UK

Schirach-Imker-Convent, Bautzen, Germany

West Sussex Beekeepers Association Convention, Pulborough, UK

Chester County Beekeepers Association Annual Virtual Conference, USA

Stadtbienen Berlin 10-year anniversary conference, Berlin, Germany

Decentring the Human Lecture Series, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Fachtagung für Imker 2024, Laendliches Fortbildungsinstitut Kaernten, Villach, Austria

2023 New Mexico Beekeepers Association Virtual Winter Conference, USA

Derbyshire Beekeepers' Association Pre-Season Annual Conference, UK

Insects as Mini-Livestock / Animal Welfare Research Network (UK; online lecture)

Middlesex Beekeepers' Day / Enfield and District Beekeepers' Association, London, UK

Gloucestershire Beekeepers' Association Spring Lecture Day, Cirencester, UK

Individualisation Symposium, University of Bielefeld, Germany (online)

Pari Center – Incredible Minds Lecture Series (online)

Animal Consciousness Conference, Dharamshala, India

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) conference; Keynote lecture (online)

EPRI Pollinator Power Party, USA and global (online)

Science Foo Camp, San Francisco, USA

Jahreskonferenz der AG für wesensgemaesse Bienenhaltung AGNI, Switzerland

3rd AsiaEvo Conference, Singapore (online)

2022 Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG - Keynote lecture), Bonn,

Germany

BBKA Spring Convention, Harper Adams University, UK (2 lectures)

IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London UK (Keynote

lecture)

Brain Awareness Week - University of Silesia and Jagiellonian University, Katowice, Poland

(main lecture - online)

Comparative Neurobiology of Higher Cognitive Functions workshop, Erice, Italy

Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences) Induction Ceremony, main evening

lecture (Halle, Germany)

Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition, Paris, France

York Festival of Ideas, UK (online)

Scottish Beekeepers' Annual Convention, Kinross, UK (2 lectures)

Weimarer Bienen-Symposium

Sheffield Beekeeper Association

Entomological Society of America (Symposium on Insect Welfare in Farmed, Wild, and

Research Contexts) Vancouver, Canada

Neurobiology of Changing Ecosystems - The Kavli Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

Biological Basis of Behavior International Course, UNAM Morelia (online), Mexico

Saskatchewan Beekeepers Annual General Meeting (online; keynote lecture), Canada

Presidential Symposium, International Congress of Neuroethology, Lisbon, Portugal

2021 Interspecies Conversation Conference (online), symposium chaired by musician Peter Gabriel

Invertebrate Animal Sentience Webinar conference (online)

2020 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, Texas, USA

2019 EUREKA Symposium, University of Würzburg, Germany

Animal Consciousness Symposium, ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway

CogEvo 2019, Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto, Italy

Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (opening plenary

lecture)

2018 The Other Minds Problem conference, Montreal, Canada

Varieties of Mind Conference, Cambridge, UK

Symposium to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Psychology Dept at QMUL,

London,UK

Cognition symposium, HHMI Janelia Farm, USA

Berliner Bienenkonferenz, French Embassy, Berlin, Germany

2017 Royal Society 'Origins of numerical abilities' London, UK

BOMBUSS Conference, Logan, Utah, USA (plenary speaker)

Origins of Consciousness, London School of Economics, UK

Rational Animals, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

The Thinking Animal, University of Lund, Sweden

Entomological Networks: Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle, UK (plenary speaker)

IUSSI Conference, York, UK (plenary speaker)

2016 The role of sensory ecology and cognition in social decisions Workshop, Arolla, Switzerland

Plenary lecture: Behaviour Adaptations Conference, Toulouse, France

HFSP Symposium, Aspet, France

Interdisciplinary College, Günne, Germany

Plenary Lecture: Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society, University of Goettingen,

Germany

2015 Annual Sideer Graduate Symposium, Ben Gurion University, Israel

(Opening lecture, plenary evening lecture, and workshop)

BVI Young Researchers Colloquium, keynote lecture, Bristol, UK

Convergent Minds Conference, University of Boston, USA

Microbrain Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

IDEEV, Gif-sur-Yvette (annual conference, plenary evening lecture), France

Organisation for Computational Neuroscience, Prague, Czech Republic

2014 President's Symposium, Animal Behavior Society, Princeton, USA

Janelia Farm Insect Learning and Memory Conference, USA

Colour Group (GB) Awards Meeting, London, UK

2013 IUSSI French section, Paris – Villetaneuse, France (plenary speaker)

ESCON Experts Meeting (Distributed Cognition), Lisbon, Portugal

'Intelligent Sensing' Summer School, London, UK

Symposium of the International Max Planck Research School, Seewiesen (keynote speaker)

BBSRC Animal Welfare Workshop, Birmingham, UK

2012 Centre for Behaviour and Evolution Annual Conference, Newcastle (plenary speaker)

14th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Lund, Sweden (plenary speaker)

Royal Society discussion meeting; The Future of Comparative Cognition, London, UK

Eurbee Conference, Halle Germany (plenary speaker)

2011International Symposium on Communication in Social Insects (Taipei, Taiwan)

Physical Cognition and Problem Solving, Birmingham, UK

Gordon Research Conference (Neuroethology), Stone Hill College, USA

Welcome Day Speaker, University of Trento, Italy

2010 IUSSI, Copenhagen (Keynote speaker)

Evolution of Cognition symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Social cognition symposium, Birkbeck, London

2009 Biology of Decision Making, Bordeaux, France

Insect Learning and Memory, Roscoff, France

2008 Royal Entomological Society Pollination Meeting (Harpenden UK)

Gatsby Symposium, Simpler Cognitive Systems (London, UK)

Benelux Congress of Zoology, Liège, Belgium (Keynote speaker)

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Animal Interactions (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

Royal Entomological Society (Rothamsted; Keynote speaker)

2007 Colour Design & Engineering (Linnean Soc and IMechE, London)

Visual Processing in Insects (HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA)

Royal Entomological Society (Newcastle, UK)

2006 Eurbee Conference, Prague (invited talks at 2 symposia, one as plenary speaker)

FENS (Forum for European Neuroscience, Vienna, Austria)

London Evolutionary Research Network (Plenary Speaker)

Animal Behaviour Society Winter Meeting (Keynote Lecture)

2004 Royal Entomological Society, Pollination Meeting, London

Island Biogeography Conference, Aarhus, Denmark

International Conference of the Society of Population Biology, Tsukuba, Japan (Keynote

lecture)

2003 Evolvability and Interaction Symposium, London, UK (Keynote lecture)

Meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology (Keynote lecture)

Symposium on Conservation and biology of bumble bees; Zoological Society of London

Symposium on Colour Vision, College of Ophthalmology, London

Central Association of Beekeepers, Spring Conference, Imperial College, London

2002 European Meeting of IBRA, Cardiff, UK

2001 Symposium on Colour Vision, College of Ophthalmology, London

1999 Symposium on Sensory Ecology, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1998 Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Symposium on Sensory Ecology

1996 Symposium: Rules of Spatial Memory Organisation, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1995 International Congress of Neuroethology (Cambridge, UK)

1993 Sprengel Symposium (Berlin-Spandau, Germany)

1992 Symposium on the perception of ultraviolet light at the Annual meeting of the American Society

of Zoologists (Vancouver, Canada).

OTHER INVITED SEMINARS (those not listed under named lectures higher up)

2025 University of Warwick, UK

EntoLIVE Webinar (Biological Recording Company, online seminar)

Winchester Beekeepers' Association, Itchen Abbas, UK

Long Beach Beekeepers' Association, California, USA (online presentation)

Sacramento Area Beekeepers Association, California, USA (online presentation)

LitEifel Literaturfestival, Mechernich, Germany

2024 Opening Speech at Nature the Artist "The Colony" Exhibition, Kings Cross, London, UK

Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

CIMEC Center for Mind / Brain Sciences, Trento, Italy (online)

Interdisciplinary Forum on Mind-Brain Forefronts, Fudan University and Chinese Academy of

Science, China (plenary lecture, online)

Westerham Beekeepers Association, Kent, UK

Cuautitlán Faculty of Higher Studies of the UNAM, 50th anniversary celebration, Mexico

Bishops Stortfood Beekeepers, UK

West Suffolk Beekeepers' Association, Bury St. Edmunds, UK

Inn on Boltwood, public lecture, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Arizona State University, course on "Writing about science for a general audience" USA (online)

Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Main-Taunus, Germany (online)

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberger Life Science Lab, Germany (online)

Maine State Beekeepers Association, USA (online)

2023 UNAM Morelia, Mexico

UNAM Juriquilla/Queretaro, Mexico

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK

Dunwoody Beekeepers, Georgia, USA (online)

London Beekeepers' Association (LBKA), UK (online)

University of Wageningen, Netherlands

Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA (online)

Central Maryland Beekeepers Association, USA (online)

Free the Bees, Switzerland / international (online)

Nottinghamshire Beekeepers' Association (NBKA, online)

University College London (UCL) CDB Seminar, London, UK

University of Lund, Sweden

University of Toulouse, France

Sorbonne University / Paris Nord, Paris, France

Backyard Beekeepers, Connecticut, USA

University of Arizona (Tucson), Cognitive Science Seminar Series (online), USA

Harvard University, Quantitative Ethology Seminar (online), USA

University College London, Social Neuroscience lecture series, London, UK

Insect Welfare Research Society (online), USA and international

Interspecies Internet Lecture Series (online), UK and international

Volkshochschulen Deutschland, Wissensreihe vhs.wissen live (online), Germany

RSPCA Lay Members Forum, London, UK

2022 Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

King's College, London, UK

BeeCraft lecture (jointly with Somerset Beekeepers), UK (online)

CINVESTAV, Departamento de Fisiologia, Biofisica y Neurociencias, Mexico City, Mexico

Israel Institute of Advanced Study, Jerusalem, Israel

Cambridge Beekeepers' Association, UK (online)

University of Cincinnati, USA

Arboreal Apiculture Salon, USA and international (online)

Massachusetts Bee Club, USA (online)

UC Santa Barbara (GRT Study Group) USA (online)

Spirit of the Senses Salon, Phoenix, AZ, USA (online)

Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK

Hastings and Rother Beekeepers winter meeting, UK (online)

North London Beekeeper's winter meeting, UK (online)

Hampstead Scientific Society, London, UK

2021 Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, UK (online)

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Groningen, Netherlands (online)

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal, Lisbon

2020 Somerset Beekeepers Association, UK

University of Bedforshire, UK (online)

2019 Science Society at Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK

2018 UNAM-Institute of Ecology-Mexico City, Mexico

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute of Advanced Study, Germany

University of Cork, Ireland

University of Reading, UK

University of St Andrews, UK

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Celle, Germany

2017 University of Oxford, UK

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute of Advanced Study, Germany

University of Sussex, UK

London School of Economics, UK

University of Haifa – Oranim, Israel

Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK

Canterbury Beekeepers, Canterbury, UK

2016 Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Panama City, Panama

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Bristol, UK

2015 University College London (cross-departmental Vision@UCL seminar series), UK

Brunel University, London, UK

University of Leeds, UK

2014 Royal Holloway University of London, UK

University College, London, UK

Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

Champalimaud Centre, Lisbon ('Nano Course' – 3h Lecture for PhD students)

Champalimaud Centre, Lisbon ('SeminAR' – Public Lecture)

Champalimaud Centre, Lisbon (Research talk)

2013 University of Würzburg, Germany

University of Düsseldorf, Germany

University of Edinburgh, UK

Imperial College, London, UK

2012 University of Sussex, UK

Keele University, UK

Universität Zürich, Switzerland

2011 National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

University of Toulouse, France

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Imperial College, London, UK

2010 University of Freiburg, Germany

University of Lyon, France

Royal London Hospital, UK

2009 University of Vienna, Austria

University of St. Andrews, UK

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

William Harvey Research Institute, London

2008 Central Association of Beekeepers, London

University of Manchester, UK

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

University of Bern, Switzerland

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Institute of Biology, London, UK

2007 Bromley Beekeepers, London, UK

National Science & Engineering Week (Queen Mary, UK)

National Science & Engineering Week (London Zoo, UK)

University of Tours, France

2006 University of Frankfurt, Germany

Imperial College Silwood Park, London, UK

University of Würzburg, Germany

2005 University of Oxford, UK

University of Bremen, Germany

Free University of Berlin, Germany

2004 Royal Holloway College (Dept. of Psychology), London, UK

University of Northampton, UK

University of Newcastle, UK

2003 IACR Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Bristol, UK

City University, London, UK

University of Sheffield, UK

University of Toulouse, France

University of Toronto, Canada

University of Tsukuba, Japan

University of Yokohama, Japan

2002 Universität Hamburg, Germany

2001 University of Sussex, UK

Konrad-Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioral Research, Vienna, Austria

Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

University College, London, UK

2000 University of Vienna, Austria

Universität Göttingen, Germany

Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Würzburg, Germany

1999 Universität Bonn, Germany

1998 University of Erlangen, Germany

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Free University of Berlin

1997 University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Washington DC, National Zoo, USA

QM College, University of London, UK

1996 Universität Würzburg, Germany

QM College, University of London, UK

University of Bristol, UK

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Oxford, UK

Yale University, USA

1994 University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

University of Massachussetts, Boston, USA

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

1993 New York University, USA

Universität Freiburg, Germany

Universität Regensburg, Germany

1991 Universität Bonn, Germany

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

At Queen Mary, University of London

2002 – present Module Organiser for 1st year Evolution and 3rd year Behavioural Ecology

Lectures & Practicals in Evolution (1st year)

Tutorials in Essential Skills for Biologists (1st year)

Lectures & Practicals in Decoding DNA (2nd year)

Lectures & Practicals in Animal Physiology (2nd year)

Lectures & Practicals in Genes & Bioinformatics (2nd year)

Lectures & Practicals in The Invertebrates (2nd year)

Lectures in Evolutionary Genetics (2nd year)

Tutorials in Integrative Studies in Biology (2nd and 3rd year)

Lectures & Practicals in Behavioural Ecology (3rd year)

Lectures in Neuroscience (3rd year)

Lectures and Practicals in Comparative Psychology (2nd year)

At Würzburg University

1997 – 2002 Lectures in Animal Physiology for undergraduates (3rd year)

Lectures in Animal Behaviour (2nd year psychology students)

Tutorials in Arthropod Behaviour (4th and 5th year)

Tutorials in Bee Biology (4th and 5th year)

Practicals in Physiology, Neurobiology and Behavioral ecology (2nd, 3rd and 4th year)

1997 Workshop: Frontiers in Biology - University of Tulsa, Oklahoma

At the Free University of Berlin:

1991 - 1993 Foraging strategies of insects on plants (4th year)

Insect orientation (4th year)

BASIC programming (3rd year)

EXTERNAL REFEREE FOR JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS

American Naturalist; Animal Behaviour; Animal Cognition; Annales de la Société Entomologique de France; Annals of Botany; Apidologie; Behavioral & Brain Sciences; Behavioral Ecology; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology; Biological Cybernetics; Biotropica; Biology Letters; Botanica Acta; Brain, Behaviour and Evolution; Canadian Entomologist; Current Biology; Ecography; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Ecological Entomology; Ecological Monographs; Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata; Entomologia generalis; Ethology; Ethology, Ecology & Evolution; Heredity; Insectes Sociaux; International Journal of Comparative Psychology; International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis; Israel Journal of Plant Sciences; Journal of Biosciences; Journal of Comparative Physiology; Journal of Experimental Biology; Journal of Insect Behavior; Journal of Insect Physiology; Journal of Pollination Ecology; Journal of Theoretical Biology; Myrmecological News; Nature; Nature Communications; Naturwissenschaften; Oecologia; Oikos; Oxford University Press; Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; Physiological Entomology; Physiology & Behavior; Planta; Plant Biology; Plant Systematics and Evolution; PLoS Biology; PLoS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Proceedings of the Royal Society; Psyche; Psychological Science; Quarterly Review of Biology; Science; Trends in Ecology and Evolution; Vision Research

EXTERNAL REFEREE FOR FUNDING AGENCIES

Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR), France

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA

Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK

Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, United States – Israel

Binational Science Foundation, United States – Israel

British Ecological Society

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, Germany)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)

European Research Council (ERC, Belgium)

Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Vienna, Austria)

Human Frontiers Science Program

Israel Science Foundation

Leverhulme Trust (UK)

MacArthur Fellows Program (USA)

National Science Foundation (NSF) USA

Nature and Environment Research Council (NERC), UK

Science Foundation Ireland

The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Italy

CONSULTING REPORTS

• For Nutopia Limited / National Geographic Channel (2020), Filming bee larval development
• for Ginegar Smart Cover Solutions (2017), Effects of optical properties of greenhouse covers on bee foraging
• for BASF (2005), on effects of UV-protective covering for commercial greenhouses, and effects on crop pollination
• for Central Networks / E.ON (2004) on the colour scheme of outdoors work wear, to avoid insect attacks
• for Koppert Biological Systems (2004), on methods to improve greenhouse pollination of tomato plants by bumblebees