FLICKER AND THE REACTIONS OF BEES TO FLOWERS

Bees were conditioned to collect food on natural and artificial flower beds, parts of which could be set into rotation or side to side movement. Through the relative motion of the flowers the number of alternating stimuli upon the bee's eye is increased. Due to the fact that bees show a strong...

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Autores principales: Wolf, Ernst, Zerrahn-Wolf, Gertrud
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1937
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2141512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19873007
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description Bees were conditioned to collect food on natural and artificial flower beds, parts of which could be set into rotation or side to side movement. Through the relative motion of the flowers the number of alternating stimuli upon the bee's eye is increased. Due to the fact that bees show a strong reaction to intermittent optical stimulation, the proportion of bees settling on the moving section of the flower bed is increased. It seems probable therefore that the visual reaction of bees to flowers in nature is largely due to the flicker effect produced through the motion of the bees relative to the flowers.
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spelling pubmed-21415122008-04-23 FLICKER AND THE REACTIONS OF BEES TO FLOWERS Wolf, Ernst Zerrahn-Wolf, Gertrud J Gen Physiol Article Bees were conditioned to collect food on natural and artificial flower beds, parts of which could be set into rotation or side to side movement. Through the relative motion of the flowers the number of alternating stimuli upon the bee's eye is increased. Due to the fact that bees show a strong reaction to intermittent optical stimulation, the proportion of bees settling on the moving section of the flower bed is increased. It seems probable therefore that the visual reaction of bees to flowers in nature is largely due to the flicker effect produced through the motion of the bees relative to the flowers. The Rockefeller University Press 1937-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2141512/ /pubmed/19873007 Text en Copyright © Copyright, 1937, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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