Discrimination of low-frequency magnetic fields by honeybees: biophysics and experimental tests.
Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: It has been shown repeatedly over the past 20 years that honeybees are able to detect \nweak, earth-strength magnetic fields. Table I shows a summary of these known \ngeomagnetic effects on honeybee behavior, as well as the independent attempts to \nreplicate them. We know of no attempts to replicate these effects that were not \neventually successful (some apparently took practice). Towne and Gould (1985) \nprovide a thorough and critical review of this literature prior to 1985 (effects 1-4 in \nTable I). Of these unconditioned responses, the horizontal dance experiment of \nLindauer and Martin (1972) and Martin and Lindauer (1977) (effect 2 in Table I) has \nproven to be particularly easy to replicate.
Source: PubMed
Authors: J L Kirschvink, T Kuwajima, S Ueno, S J Kirschvink, J Diaz-Ricci, A Morales, S Barwig, K J Quinn
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Biophysics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2120839448