How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honeybee swarm as it flies to its new home?
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Experiments on honeybee swarms provide support for the vision hypothesis rather than the olfaction hypothesis with regard to scout navigation. Flights of unaltered swarms were compared with those for which the members' Nasanov glands were closed off, to rule out the effect of pheromones.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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Experimental evidence for a magnetic sense in Neotropical migrating butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
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Research on Aphrissa statira butterflies in Panama supports the hypothesis that the butterflies navigate via a magnetic compass. Experimental butterflies were exposed to a magnetic field, and results were compared with control butterflies; experiment details are provided.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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Compensation for fluctuations in crosswind drift without stationary landmarks in butterflies migrating over seas
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A new study investigates the ability of migratory butterflies to orient without stationary landmarks.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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