VOSviewer
Courses
- PEBCEPPollination Ecology-Behavior, Cognition, & Ecology of Pollinators
- TBETopics in Behavioral Ecology
- MISMethods in Insect Science
- EPEcological Physiology
- ABAnimal Behavior
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
Grants
- Specialization By Bumble Bees and the Evolution of Nutritionally Diverse Floral Rewards
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$202.9K
- Flowers as Complex Signals: The Role of Signal Uncertainty
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$419.8K
News
- New UA Study Reveals the Evolution of Sonicating Bees
2018
- Scientists Use Big-Brother Technology to Spy on Bumblebees
2017
- To Buzz or to Scrabble? To Foraging Bees, That's the Question
2017
- Protection of Pollinator World Is Important to Agriculture
2016
- Study of Bees' Pollen-Foraging Habits Could Create a Buzz
2016
- Glow-in-the-Dark Millipede Says 'Stay Away'
2011
- Four UA Students Named Goldwater Scholars
2010
- Local Students Spend Their Summer in UA Labs
2005
- Bumblebee See, Bumblebee Do
2005
Publications (112)
Recent
- Nesting biology of Centris (Paracentris) burgdorfi (Apidae: Centridini)
2021
- Sex differences in the foraging behavior of a generalist hawkmoth
2020
- Sonicating bees demonstrate flexible pollen extraction without instrumental learning
2019
- Color alters thermoregulatory behavior in Battus philenor caterpillars by modifying the cue received
2018
- Molecular phylogeny, ecology and multispecies aggregation behaviour of bombardier beetles in Arizona
2018
- Multispecies aggregation behavior and molecular phylogeny of bombardier beetles Brachinus WEBER (Carabidae: Brachininae)
2018
- Division of labor of anthers in heterantherous plants: flexibility of bee pollen collection behavior may serve to keep plants honest
2017
- Examining salt puddling in Battus philenor: who, when and what
2016
- Effects of sodium-puddling on male mating success, courtship, and flight in a swallowtail butterfly
2016
- Why have multiple plastic responses? Interactions between color change and thermoregulatory behavior in Battus philenor larvae
2016
- Fitness effects of male salt puddling
2016
- Bumblebee patch departure at two spatial scales
2016
- Nutritional complexity and the structure of bee foraging bouts
2016
- Multiple floral rewards have asymmetric effects on bee learning
2016
- Foraging bumble bees weigh the reliability of personal and social information
2016
- Bees remember flowers for more than one reason: pollen mediates associative learning
2016
- Concealed floral rewards and the role of experience in floral sonication by bees
2016
- Artificial pollen dispensing flowers and feeders for bee behaviour experiments
2016
- White flowers finish last: Pollen-foraging bumble bees show biased learning in a floral color polymorphism
2016
- The value of information in floral cues: bumblebee learning of floral size cues
2015
- Big maggots dig deeper: size-dependent larval dispersal in flies
2015
- Bees learn preferences for plant species that offer only pollen as a reward
2015
- Effects of developmental change in body size on ectotherm body temperature and behavioral thermoregulation: caterpillars in a heat-stressed environment
2015
- Long frontal projections help Battus philenor (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) larvae find host plants
2015
- Colour learning when foraging for nectar and pollen: bees learn two colours at once
2015
- Passing the salt: Effects of salt puddling on reproductive and flight behaviour of a swallowtail butterfly
2015
- Above-water landmarks enable spatial learning and individual positioning in the whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus
2014
- Plasticity in learning causes immediate and trans-generational changes in allocation of resources
2013
- Plasticity of the worker bumblebee brain in relation to age and rearing environment
2013
- Floral nectar guide patterns discourage nectar robbing by bumble bees
2013
- Aggregative behavior is not explained by an Allee effect in the walnut infesting fly, Rhagoletis juglandis
2012
- Review: An Introduction to Animal Behaviour: An Integrative Approach, by Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski
2012
- Floral signal complexity as a possible adaptation to environmental variability: A test using nectar-foraging bumblebees, Bombus impatiens
2012
- Flowers help bees cope with uncertainty: signal detection and the function of floral complexity
2011
- Bioluminescent aposematism in millipedes
2011
- Forget-me-not: Complex floral displays, inter-signal interactions, and pollinator cognition
2011
- 'X' marks the spot: The possible benefits of nectar guides to bees and plants
2011
- Reproductive tradeoffs of learning in a butterfly
2011
- Resource quality or competition: Why increase resource acceptance in the presence of conspecifics?
2011
- Resource allocation to testes in walnut flies and implications for reproductive strategy
2010
- Functional and behavioural ecology of tree-fruit pests: The four Fs of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
2009
- Patterns of phenotypic plasticity in common and rare environments: a study of host use and color learning in the cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae
2009
- Big genomes facilitate the comparative identification of regulatory elements
2009
- Brain size: A global or induced cost of learning?
2009
- Learning
2009
- Multimodal signals enhance decision-making in foraging bumble-bees
2008
- Extreme weather change and the dynamics of oviposition behavior in the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor
2007
- Aposematic coloration, luminance contrast, and the benefits of conspicuousness
2007
- Memory flies sooner from flies that learn faster
2007
- Learning signals within sensory environments: Does host cue learning in butterflies depend on background?
2006
- Flower choice and learning in foraging bumblebees: Effects of variation in nectar volume and concentration
2006
- A within-species warning function for an aposematic signal
2005
- Complex signal function: Developing a framework of testable hypotheses
2005
- Learning in two contexts: The effects of interference and body size in bumblebees
2005
- Peak shift discrimination learning as a mechanism of signal evolution
2005
- Effects of reproductive state and host resource experience on mating decisions in a walnut fly
2005
- Ovarian dynamics in relation to host quality in the Walnut-infesting Fly, Rhagoletis juglandis
2005
- Flower choice copying in bumblebees
2005
- Superparasitism of larval hosts by the walnut fly, Rhagoletis juglandis, and its implications for female and offspring performance
2004
- Host-marking behaviour as a quantitative signal of competition in the walnut fly Rhagoletis juglandis
2004
- The effect of octopamine on behavioral responses of free-foraging bumblebees to a change in food source profitability
2003
- Colour learning in two behavioural contexts: How much can a butterfly keep in mind?
2003
- Effect of host stimuli on ovariole development in the walnut fly, Rhagoletis juglandis (Diptera, Tephritidae)
2001
- Host marking behavior in phytophagous insects and parasitoids
2001
- Egg laying behavior of Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): Is social facilitation important?
2001
- Effects of age, diet, female density, and the host resource on egg load in Anastrepha ludens and Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae)
2001
- Acoustic component and social context of the wing display of the walnut fly Rhagoletis juglandis
2000
- Host utilization by the walnut fly, Rhagoletis juglandis (Diptera: Tephritidae)
2000
- Ovarian dynamics and host use
2000
- Role of host fruit color in the behavior of the walnut fly Rhagoletis juglandis
1999
- Resource presence and operational sex ratio as determinants of copulation duration in the fly Rhagoletis juglandis
1999
- Role of colour and shape stimuli in host-enhanced oogenesis in the walnut fly, Rhagoletis juglandis
1998
- The effect of complete versus incomplete information on odour discrimination in a parasitic wasp
1998
- Asymmetries in physiological state as a possible cause of resident advantage in contests
1998
- Why walnut flies superparasitize: Time savings as a possible explanation
1997
- Learning of leaf shape by pipevine swallowtail butterflies: A test using artificial leaf models
1996
- Operational sex ratio versus gender density as determinants of copulation duration in the walnut fly, Rhagoletis juglandis (Diptera: Tephritidae)
1996
- Marking of host fruit by male Rhagoletis boycei Cresson flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and its effect on egg-laying
1996
- Patterns of egg load in the walnut fly Rhagoletis juglandis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in nature and their possible significance for distribution of sexes
1996
- Functional shifts in the use of parasitized host by a tephritid fly: The role of host quality
1996
- Unrewarding experiences and their effect on foraging in the parasitic wasp Leptopilina heterotoma (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae)
1994
- Oviposition site guarding by male walnut flies and its possible consequences for mating success
1994
- Temporal dynamics of host-marking in the tropical tephritid fly, Anastrepha ludens
1993
- How well can relative specialist Rhagoletis flies learn to discriminate fruit for oviposition?
1993
- Host-marking pheromone and use of previously established oviposition sites by the mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)
1992
- Effects of experience on parasitoid movement in odour plumes
1992
- d-(+)-Pinitol, an oviposition stimulant for the pipevine swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor
1992
- Behavioral responses of Ceratitis capitata flies to bait spray droplets and natural food
1992
- Interference with learning in pipevine swallowtail butterflies: behavioural constraint or possible adaptation?
1991
- Sex differences in movement between natural feeding and mating sites and tradeoffs between food consumption, mating success and predator evasion in Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
1991
- Fruit size and clutch size in wild Ceratitis capitata
1990
- A variable-response model for parasitoid foraging behavior
1990
- Effect of marking pheromone on clutch size in the Mediterranean fruit fly
1990
- Odor learning and foraging success in the parasitoid, Leptopilina heterotoma
1990
- Ecological and evolutionary aspects of learning in phytophagous insects
1989
- Serial effects of host infestation on egg allocation by the Mediterranean fruit fly: a rule of thumb and its functional significance
1989
- Cross-induction of fruit acceptance by the medfly Ceratitis capitata: The role of fruit size and chemistry
1989
- Use of fruit wounds in oviposition by Mediterranean fruit flies
1989
- The effect of prior adult experience on components of habitat preference in the apple maggot fly (Rhagoletis pomonella)
1988
- Learning of apple fruit biotypes by apple maggot flies
1988
- Components of conspecific host discrimination behavior in the butterfly Battus philenor.
1987
- Genetic differences and phenotypic plasticity as causes of variation in oviposition preference in Battus philenor
1987
- Intra-tree foraging behavior of Ceratitis capitata flies in relation to host fruit density and quality
1987
- Differences in learning between wild and laboratory Ceratitis capitata flies
1987
- Leaf buds, a factor in host selection by Battus philenor butterflies.
1986
- Phytochemical basis of learning in Rhagoletis pomonella and other herbivorous insects
1986
- Interpopulation differences in host preference and the evolution of learning in the butterfly, Battus philenor.
1986
- Shifts in foraging behavior by a Battus philenor population: field evidence for switching by individual butterflies
1986
- On the nature of learning in oviposition site acceptance by apple maggot flies
1986
- Conditioning of leaf-shape discrimination by chemical cues in the butterfly, Battus philenor
1986
- Host plant selection by Battus philenor butterflies: Evidence for individual differences in foraging behaviour
1983
- Demographic consequences of discrimination among conspecific host plants by Battus philenor butterflies.
1983