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The selection and use of landmarks by insects

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Orientation and Communication in Arthropods

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Advanced hymenoptera rely heavily on visual landmarks for finding their way between familiar places. We discuss the selection, learning, and use of landmarks, both for pinpointing a location and for route guidance. We emphasise that landmark guidance involves several distinct navigational strategies and that different strategies may best be served by different kinds of landmarks which need to be learnt in different ways.

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  1. Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK

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  2. Centre for Visual Sciences, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

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Collett, T.S., Zeil, J. (1997). The selection and use of landmarks by insects. In: Lehrer, M. (eds) Orientation and Communication in Arthropods. EXS, vol 84. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8878-3_2

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