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Many experiments, both training and optomotoric, can demonstrate how many insects, especially bees, are able to utilize the information of polarized light. Many concrete facts about this can be found in the book by Frisch (1965).
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Järvilehto, M., Moring, J. (1976). Spectral and Polarization Sensitivity of Identified Retinal Cells of the Fly. In: Zettler, F., Weiler, R. (eds) Neural Principles in Vision. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66432-8_13
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