Nocturnal insects use optic flow for flight control

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 499-501

  Baird, Emily ^a   Kreiss, Eva ^a,b   Wcislo, William ^c   Warrant, Eric ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Bumble bee; Flight; Insect vision; Megalopta; Optic flow

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FLIGHT; INSECT; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DARKNESS; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; DARKNESS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; VISION, OCULAR;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HALICTINAE; HEXAPODA; MEGALOPTA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS;

EID: 80051706188     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1205     Document Type: Article

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