Visual detection of diminutive xoral guides in the bumblebee bombus terrestris and in the honeybee apis mellifera

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1121-1130

  Lunau, Klaus ^a   Unseld, Katrin ^a   Wolter, Franziska ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Colour pattern; Floral guide; Honeybee; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHEMORECEPTOR; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLOWER; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; COLOR VISION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOUCH;

EID: 77950496010     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0484-x     Document Type: Article

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