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Author:
Horridge, G. Adrian author.
Title:
The discovery of a visual system : the honeybee : light guides, optics, visual cues, optic flow, route finding / Adrian Horridge.
Publisher:
CABI,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xv, 274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subject:
Honeybee--Physiology.
Vision--Research.
Bees.
Vision, Ocular.
Honeybee--Physiology.
Vision--Research.
Biene--Gattung
Forschung
Visuelles System
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1789240891
9781789240894
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1073033710
LCCN:
2018049622
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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