Visual scanning in the honey bee

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公開日
1979-01-01
DOI
  • 10.1007/bf00611051
公開者
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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During shape discrimination experiments bees are seen to fly slowly around in front of a shape before landing. The significance of this behaviour was investigated by recording flight paths (Figs. 1, 5) and landing patterns during choice experiments. The analysis consisted of two steps. 1. To show that changing the shape changes the flight path of the bee in a related way (Figs. 2, 3): a. the overall pattern of flight traces out the form of the shape, b. the bee tends to fly to novel areas of a shape directly, c. the bee spends an increased amount of time flying directly in front of novel areas. 2. To show that different flight paths to the same shape are reliably associated with different frequencies of choosing the shape. Flight paths were divided into categories and it was demonstrated that the bees frequency of landing is related to the area of the shape it flies across, bees encountering novel areas having an altered frequency of landing (Table 1). This change results from a changed frequency in the novel area itself coupled with a tendency to fly away from the shape directly from these changed areas rather than going on to investigate other parts of the shape (Fig. 4).

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  • CRID
    1870865117804314496
  • DOI
    10.1007/bf00611051
  • ISSN
    14321351
    03407594
  • 本文言語コード
    en
  • データソース種別
    • OpenAIRE

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