Honeybee navigation en route to the goal: Visual flight control and odometry

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-244

  Srinivasan, M V ^a   Zhang, S W ^a   Lehrer, M ^b   Collett, T S ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compound eye; Honeybee; Insect; Movement perception; Odometry; Optic flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000878056     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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