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Bumblebee Homing: The Fine Structure of Head Turning Movements

Changes in flight direction in flying insects are largely due to roll, yaw and pitch rotations of their body. Head orientation is stabilized for most of the time by counter rotation. Here, we use high-speed video to analyse head- and body-movements of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris while approachin...

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Autores principales: Boeddeker, Norbert, Mertes, Marcel, Dittmar, Laura, Egelhaaf, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26352836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135020