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Record Nr.

UNINA9910627291003321

Autore

Horridge G. Adrian

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78924-090-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

595.799

Soggetti

Honeybee - Physiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.