Visual gaze control during peering flight manoeuvres in honeybees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1685, 2010, Pages 1209-1217

  Boeddeker, Norbert ^a,b   Hemmi, Jan M ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bee; Behaviour; Flight control; Gaze stabilization; Vision; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MOVEMENT; STABILIZATION; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA;

EID: 77951464599     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1928     Document Type: Article

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