Lobecke, Anne: Local homing of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. 2018
Inhalt
- Summary
- Introduction
- Taking a goal-centred dynamic snapshot as a possibility for local homing in intitially naïve bumblebees
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Description of the overall flight structure
- Leaving direction from the nest hole
- Asymmetry of flight around nest hole
- Turn-back-and-look behaviour – retinal position of the nest hole
- Sideward and forward components of flight
- Changes in turn-direction (CTD) of the body
- Discussion
- References
- Homing ability of initially naïve bumblebees and the development of flights with experience
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Animals and experimental setup
- Recording procedure
- Training and test procedure
- Data analysis
- Naming of flight phases
- Results
- Homing performance of homing-naïve bumblebees during their first inbound flight
- Development of outbound and inbound flights with potentially increasing experience
- Consequences of cylinder displacement
- Discussion
- Overall flight structure of first inbound flights of homing-naïve bumblebees
- Comparison of first outbound and subsequent inbound flight
- Is there a learning progress in consecutive outbound and inbound flights?
- Relevance of landmarks
- Possible reasons for spatio-temporally complex local homing behaviour
- References
- Conclusion
- Danksagung