Honeybees Use Celestial and/or Terrestrial Compass Cues for Inter-Patch Navigation

摘要: Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) are well known to fly straight from the hive, their primary hub, distal goals as between familiar feeding sites. More recently, it was shown that a site may be used secondary hub. If not fully satiated, foraging bee decide depart first in new compass direction one of many other sites (inter-patch foraging). Using recently developed recording method, we discovered chosen departure at hub can guided exclusively by either celestial or terrestrial cues. Given our data, draw two theoretical inferences. First, bees must capable learning and remembering multiple, spatially distinct, navigation vectors hive among multiple Second, this documented useful representation identified target locations logically implies composite place-vector mapping, stored long-term memory.