Overview

This volume deals with fascinating aspects of sensory performance in insects, crustaceans and spiders. Arthropods use visual, olfactory, acoustical, vibratory and tactile clues for orientation, to recognize and pinpoint their target, their home-place, a feeding site, a prey or a mate. Many use celestial (skylight) and terrestrial (magnetic) compass clues for orientation, and some have been shown to develop, through experience, oriented behaviours on a variety of innate, hard-wired orientation mechanisms. In many cases, aspects of behaviour that are involved in orientation cannot be separated from inter- and intraspecific communication. This work brings to the fore the role of communication not only in social and sexual behaviours, but also in the context of oriented locomotion.

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Author:   Miriam Lehrer
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   84
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9783764356934

ISBN 10:   3764356936
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   18 November 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Tactic components in orientation.- The selection and use of landmarks by insects.- Course control and tracking: Orientation through image stabilization.- Visual control of honeybee flight.- Honeybees’ visual spatial orientation at the feeding site.- The ant’s celestial compass system: spectral and polarization channels.- Magnetic orientation and the magnetic sense in arthropods.- Chemo- and mechanosensory orientation by crustaceans in laminar and turbulent flows: From odour trails to vortex streets.- Vibratory communication in spiders: Adaptation and compromise at many levels.- Acoustical communication in social insects.- Acoustic communication and orientation in grasshoppers.- Pheromone-controlled anemotaxis in moths.- The evolution of communication and the communication of evolution: The case of the honey bee queen pheromone.

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