Revolutionizing invasive alien species control using behavioural economics and animal cognition

Project Information

COGNITIVE CONTROL

Grant agreement ID: 948181

DOI

10.3030/948181

EC signature date 29 October 2020

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 451 805,00

EU contribution

€ 1 451 805,00

Coordinated by

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Germany

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Open Research Data plan

The project will produce data for circa 12 deliverables scientific publications These data will originate from primary empirical research Sample sizes will be on the order of tens or hundreds of datapoints not big data Data will be numerical formatted following the TIDY framework Data will be uploaded onto a open data sharing platform such as Figshare Prepeer reviewed manuscripts will be uploaded to biorXiv accompanied by their data

Publications

Other (8)

A high-throughput and sensitive method for food preference assays in walking insects

Author(s): Thomas Wagner, Henrique Galante, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor
DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.10.588882

Bees differentiate sucrose solution from water at a distance

Author(s): Melina Kienitz, Tomer J. Czaczkes, Massimo De Agrò
Published in: biorXiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.20.492611

No decoy effect in bees: rewardless flowers do not increase bumblebees’ preference for neighbouring flowers

Author(s): Mélissa Armand, Leonhard Herrnberger, Clara Jung, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.24.644861

Three-dimensional body reconstruction enables quantification of liquid consumption in small invertebrates

Author(s): Henrique Galante, Tomer J. Czaczkes, Massimo De Agrò
Published in: biorXiv, 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.14.599002

Invasive ants fed spinosad collectively recruit to known food faster yet individually abandon food earlier

Author(s): Henrique Galante, Moritz Forster, Cosmina Werneke, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.20.599949

Interindividual variability in flower pickiness by foraging bumblebees

Author(s): Mélissa Armand, Christoph Beckenbauer, Aurore Avarguès-Weber, Mathieu Lihoreau, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.19.629386

Testing the peak-end rule in bumblebees: lack of preference for a higher-reward sequence when the final reward is disappointing

Author(s): Melissa Armand, Pauline Riemer, Sophia Hagn, Jana Schweiger, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.25.623196

Bumblebees do not prefer consistent floral scents over variable ones

Author(s): Mélissa Armand, Lisa Zeilmann, Christian Weinzettl, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: biorXiv, 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.15.643418

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Corpse‐associated odours elicit avoidance in invasive ants

Author(s): Thomas Wagner, Tomer Czaczkes
Published in: Pest Management Science, 2023, ISSN 2049-3630
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ps.7916

Ants evade harmful food by active abandonment.

Author(s): Zanola, D., Czaczkes, T.J. & Josens, R.
Published in: Communications Biology, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05729-7

Acute exposure to caffeine improves foraging in an invasive ant

Author(s): Henrique Galante, Massimo De Agrò, Alexandra Koch, Stefanie Kau, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: iScience, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 109935, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109935

Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals

Author(s): Henrique Galante, Tomer Czaczkes
Published in: Current zoology, 2023, ISSN 2396-9814
Publisher: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad001

Palatability of insecticides and protein in sugar solutions to Argentine ants

Author(s): Thomas Wagner, Moana Vorjans, Elias Garsi, Cosmina Werneke, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Published in: Journal of Pest Science, 2025, ISSN 1612-4758
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10340-025-01870-w

A systematic examination of learning in the invasive ant Linepithema humile reveals very rapid development of short and long-term memories

Author(s): Thomas Wagner, Henrique Galante, Roxana Josens, Tomer J. Czackes
Published in: Animal Behaviour, 2023, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.06.012