The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms : subtle guides or streaker bees ? Kevin
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The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees?
When a honeybee swarm takes off to fly to its new home site, less than 5% of the bees in the swarm have visited the site and thereby know in what direction the swarm must fly. How does the small minority of informed bees indicate the swarm's flight direction to the large majority of uninformed bees? Previous simulation studies have suggested two possible mechanisms of visual flight guidance: th...
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تاریخ انتشار 2008