Chinmay Hemant Joshi

Frequent errors are the worst: robustness to individual failures in collective foraging

This study examines how individual errors affect collective foraging in social insects and finds that communication enhances exploration and mitigates error impacts.

Persist or Give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don't know how to find it

This study shows that fire ants rely on pheromone trails to find food and abandon resources when trails are disrupted, but persist more with high-quality food.