It is not uncommon to wonder how animals see the world around them – a dog holding his head outside the window of the car, or a horse sailing over a jump. But what about insects like bees, which can travel miles away from their cell? How do they know where to go, then they move home?
It turns out that the bees only have two eyes – they have thousands.
“Bee eyes are completely different from the eyes of humans”, ” George ColleseusA highly studied student in the Department of Biology at the University of Constance Popular science. “It consists of thousands of simple, smaller eyes, which are called ommatidia, and therefore indicated as complex or complex eyes.”
in Ticket Recently published in Biology messagesKolyfetis and his colleagues in ommatidia have achieved honey and bee bees. Aomedia of dorsal bees in their highest eyes and always directed in the sky. they The realization of the differences in attracting light In the sky that humans cannot see. Kolyfetis says that bees and other insects use these patterns in the sky to mobilize efficiently.
It is interesting, dorsal Aomedia cells detect light less sensitive than other AomediaProtecting bees from the sun’s rays granted to the sky, but also hide their details. Simply put, it specializes in perception of polarization patterns on a large scale.
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The team found that “some of these smooths facing the sky in some way whenever one responds to a visual signal, its neighbors are also receiving this information,” explains Kolyfetis. “Our suggestion is that by” collecting “information across several Aomadia, bees can calm the disorders (for example due to clouds) and obtain more accurate representation of the polarization of the bracelet.”
In other words, this connection gives bees a less detailed but more accurate vision of the polarized light of the sky.
Understand how bee works can be applied to drones and self -driving cars. In the future, human bee eyes can enhance autonomous navigation systems. According to researchers, some scientists “are actively trying to imitate and improve the characteristics of their visual systems to improve current technologies.”
Besides highlighting –once again-Kolyfetis indicates the capabilities of nature -inspired techniques that studying the vision of insects sheds light on the global view of the “most abundant and successful group of animals that have lived at all.”