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First published online October 7, 2008
Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 3287-3295 (2008)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2008
doi: 10.1242/jeb.018994
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The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees?

Kevin M. Schultz1,*, Kevin M. Passino1 and Thomas D. Seeley2

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
2 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA


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  		Fig. 1. Camera setup for swarm fly-by filming.

 

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  		Fig. 2. Screenshot of data acquisition process. Direction of swarm flight is given in {pi} rad.

 

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  		Fig. 3. Distribution of flight angles, for the swarm fly-by of 2 July. The dashed line indicates the direction of the new nest site (1.5{pi} rad), and the dash-dot line indicates the angle of the mean vector, Formula. N, sample size.

 

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  		Fig. 4. Flight speed vs flight angle for the swarm fly-by of 2 July. The dashed line indicates the direction of the new nest site (1.5{pi} rad), and the dash-dot line indicates the angle of the mean vector, Formula. In these plots, the inner quartile range is denoted by bold lines with a gap for the median, the outer quartile range by thin lines, and outliers by a +.

 

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  		Fig. 5. Schematic summary of velocity vectors.

 

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