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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| 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 |