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Bee navigation: the eyes have it. (photoreceptors in bee's eyes used to navigate)
From:
Science News
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October 4, 1986| Author:
Kleist, Trina
| COPYRIGHT 1986 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Bee navigation: The eyes have it
Entomologists have long known that bees use polarized sunlight to navigate. Two Swiss scientists now say that a bee's navigational "map" lies embedded in special photoreceptors in its eyes. According to Samuel Rossel and Rudiger Wehner of the University of Zurich, "... the array of receptors [in the bee's eyes] forms a template which the bee uses to scan and match the polarization patterns in the sky."
In the 1940s, Nobel laure...
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