..., to return to previously visited food sites or to the nest. Here, we explore the navigational knowledge of the nocturnal bull ant Myrmecia midas by investigating differences in nestward homing after displacement of three forager groups based on similarities in the panoramas between the release site...

... the sky, an ability probably important to bees in their everyday navigation. Apis mellifera Panorama Navigation View-based navigation Ants and bees, the best-known navigators among the invertebrates, rely on two primary navigational strategies, path integration and view-based navigation...

.... and W.F.T. wrote the paper, and W.F.T. prepared the figure. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 29 1 2013 1 7 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 orientation sun compass learning panorama The waggle dances of honeybees...

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...William F. Towne; Heather Moscrip SUMMARY Honeybees connect the sun's daily pattern of azimuthal movement to some aspect of the landscape around their nests. In the present study, we ask what aspect of the landscape is used in this context – the entire landscape panorama or only sectors seen along...