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The discovery of a visual system : the honeybee : light guides, optics, visual cues, optic low, route finding /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horridge, G. Adrian (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2019]
Subjects:
Honeybee > Physiology.
Vision > Research.
Bees.
Vision, Ocular.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The difficult birth of honeybee colour vision
  • No way to untie the spell
  • Innovation, deep thought and hard work
  • The fundamentals of the insect compound eye
  • How bees distinguish colours and modulation
  • Feature detectors, cues resolution, preferences and coincidences
  • Symmetry and asymmetry: signposts in route finding
  • Bee vision is not adapted for pattern or shape
  • The visual control of flight
  • The route to the goal and back again
  • What was not mentioned
  • What we learned.