Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 1 February 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4430, pp. 545 - 547
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4430.545
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Sun Compensation by Bees

JAMES L. GOULD 1

1 Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

In both their navigation and dance communication, bees are able to compensate for the sun's movement. When foragers are prevented from seeing the sun for 2 hours, they compensate by extrapolation, using the sun's rate of movement when last observed. These and other data suggest a time-averaging processing strategy in honey bee orientation.

Submitted on July 5, 1979
Revised on August 31, 1979


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Does swarming cause honey bees to update their solar ephemerides?.
W. F. Towne, C. M. Baer, S. J. Fabiny, and L. M. Shinn (2005)
J. Exp. Biol. 208, 4049-4061
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sun-compass orientation in homing pigeons: compensation for different rates of change in azimuth?.
R Wiltschko, M Walker, and W Wiltschko (2000)
J. Exp. Biol. 203, 889-894
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)