Hornets Can Fly at Night without Obvious Adaptations of Eyes and Ocelli

Hornets, the largest social wasps, have a reputation of being facultatively nocturnal. Here we confirm flight activity of hornet workers in dim twilight. We studied the eyes and ocelli of European hornets (Vespa crabro) and common wasps (Vespula vulgaris) with the goal to find the optical and anatom...

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Autores principales: Kelber, Almut, Jonsson, Fredrik, Wallén, Rita, Warrant, Eric, Kornfeldt, Torill, Baird, Emily
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21765923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021892

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21765923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021892

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