Honeybee navigation: Following routes using polarized-light cues

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1565, 2011, Pages 703-708

  Kraft, P ^a,b   Evangelista, C ^a,b   Dacke, M ^a,b,c   Labhart, T ^b,d   Srinivasan, M V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Honeybee; Navigation; Orientation; Polarization vision

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; HONEYBEE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; POLARIZATION; TUNNEL; VISION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 79952346186     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0203     Document Type: Article

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