Nocturnal Vision and Landmark Orientation in a Tropical Halictid Bee
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Nocturnal Vision and Landmark Orientation in a Tropical Halictid Bee
BACKGROUND Some bees and wasps have evolved nocturnal behavior, presumably to exploit night-flowering plants or avoid predators. Like their day-active relatives, they have apposition compound eyes, a design usually found in diurnal insects. The insensitive optics of apposition eyes are not well suited for nocturnal vision. How well then do nocturnal bees and wasps see? What optical and neural a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.057