Minimum viewing angle for visually guided ground speed control in bumblebees

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1625-1632

  Baird, Emily ^a   Kornfeldt, Torill ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Flight control; Flight speed; Ground speed; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; FLYING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77951751183     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.038802     Document Type: Article

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