The automatic pilot of honeybees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1532, 2003, Pages 2421-2424

  Riley, J R ^a   Greggers, U ^b   Smith, A D ^a   Stach, S ^b   Reynolds, D R ^c   Stollhoff, N ^b   Brandt, R ^b   Schaupp, F ^b   Menzel, R ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harmonic radar; Honeybee; Navigation; Vector flight; Wind compensation

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT; HONEYBEE; NAVIGATION;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEEDING; FLIGHT; HARMONIC RADAR; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; TELECOMMUNICATION; VECTOR FLIGHT; WIND;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0345491331     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2542     Document Type: Article

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