Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of cues, from idiothetic information to input from sky compasses and visual information through to olfactory and other cues (e.g. gustatory, magnetic, anemotactic or thermal) it is no surprise to see multimodality in most aspects of navigation. In this review, we present the current knowledge of multimodal cue use during orientation and navigation in insects. Multimodal cue use is adapted to a species' sensory ecology and shapes navigation behaviour both during the learning of environmental cues and when performing complex foraging journeys. The simultaneous use of multiple cues is beneficial because it provides redundant navigational information, and in general, multimodality increases robustness, accuracy and overall foraging success. We use examples from sensorimotor behaviours in mosquitoes and flies as well as from large scale navigation in ants, bees and insects that migrate seasonally over large distances, asking at each stage how multiple cues are combined behaviourally and what insects gain from using different modalities.

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昆虫导航中的多峰相互作用。

穿越世界的动物会从多种感觉方式中获得输入信息，这可能对他们的旅程进行指导很重要。考虑到从线索信息到天空指南针和视觉信息的输入，再到嗅觉和其他线索（例如味觉，磁性，驱风或散热）的各种线索的可用性，在大多数导航方面看到多模态就不足为奇了。在这篇综述中，我们介绍了昆虫定向和导航过程中多峰提示使用的最新知识。多峰提示的使用适应物种的感官生态，并在学习环境提示时和进行复杂的觅食之旅时改变航行行为。同时使用多个提示是有益的，因为它提供了冗余的导航信息，并且通常，多模式提高了鲁棒性，准确性和整体觅食成功率。我们以蚊子和苍蝇的感觉运动行为为例，以及在远距离季节性迁移的蚂蚁，蜜蜂和昆虫的大规模航行中为例，在每个阶段询问如何通过行为方式组合多个线索以及通过使用不同的方式昆虫会得到什么。