Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia,
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2014 Jun;200(6):563-73. doi: 10.1007/s00359-014-0902-6. Epub 2014 Apr 17.
Honeybees navigate to a food source using a sky-based compass to determine their travel direction, and an odometer to register how far they have travelled. The past 20 years have seen a renewed interest in understanding the nature of the odometer. Early work, pioneered by von Frisch and colleagues, hypothesized that travel distance is measured in terms of the energy that is consumed during the journey. More recent studies suggest that visual cues play a role as well. Specifically, bees appear to gauge travel distance by sensing the extent to which the image of the environment moves in the eye during the journey from the hive to the food source. Most of the evidence indicates that travel distance is measured during the outbound journey. Accumulation of odometric errors is restricted by resetting the odometer every time a prominent landmark is passed. When making detours around large obstacles, the odometer registers the total distance of the path that is flown to the destination, and not the "bee-line" distance. Finally, recent studies are revealing that bees can perform odometry in three dimensions.
蜜蜂利用基于天空的罗盘导航到食物源，以确定它们的行进方向，并使用里程表来记录它们已经行进了多远。在过去的 20 年中，人们重新产生了理解里程表本质的兴趣。早期的工作由 von Frisch 及其同事开创，假设旅行距离是根据旅途中消耗的能量来衡量的。最近的研究表明，视觉线索也起作用。具体来说，蜜蜂似乎通过感知在从蜂巢到食物源的旅途中，环境在眼睛中的移动程度来衡量旅行距离。大多数证据表明，在离开的旅程中测量旅行距离。每次经过一个突出的地标时，重置里程表可以限制里程表误差的积累。当绕过大型障碍物时，里程表记录的是飞往目的地的总路径距离，而不是“直线”距离。最后，最近的研究表明，蜜蜂可以在三维空间中进行里程测量。
