title: Polarization vision: how insects find their way by watching the sky.
abstract: Scientists have long studied how some animals exploit celestial cues to solve navigational tasks. Recent discoveries show how locusts obtain unambiguous information from time-dependent patterns of polarized and unpolarized light in the sky.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK. h.g.krapp@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Holger G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Krapp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D006110:Grasshoppers / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000502:physiology*; D016082:Solar System; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013472:Sunlight