Looking all around: Honeybees use different cues in different eye regions

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3275-3292

  Lehrer, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Behaviour; Colour discrimination; Eye region specific learning; Eye regional specialization; Honeybee; Motion detection; Navigation; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032441121     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.201.24.3275     Document Type: Review

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