Orientation and Communication in Arthropods

This volume deals with fascinating aspects of sensory performance in insects, crustaceans and spiders. Arthropods use visual, olfactory, acoustical, vibratory and tactile clues for orientation, to recognize and pinpoint their target, their home-place, a feeding site, a prey or a mate. Many use celestial (skylight) and terrestrial (magnetic) compass clues for orientation, and some have been shown to develop, through experience, oriented behaviours on a variety of innate, hard-wired orientation mechanisms. In many cases, aspects of behaviour that are involved in orientation cannot be separated from inter- and intraspecific communication. This work brings to the fore the role of communication not only in social and sexual behaviours, but also in the context of oriented locomotion.