Flight performance in night-flying sweat bees suffers at low light levels

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4034-4042

  Theobald, Jamie Carroll ^a,c   Coates, Melissa M ^a   Wcislo, William T ^b   Warrant, Eric J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apposition eye; Arthropoda; Flight; Insecta; Invertebrate; Nocturnal vision; Visual summation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DARKNESS; FLYING; HUMAN; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEES; DARKNESS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

APOIDEA; ARTHROPODA; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MEGALOPTA;

EID: 37249086593     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.003756     Document Type: Article

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