No Need for a Cognitive Map: Decentralized Memory for Insect Navigation
Figure 5
Flight path of a honey bee that is transported from the food source to a place about north of the feeder (dashed black arrow).
After being released, the simulated bee performs a straight flight following the path integrator, then performs a search flight (small dots) until the bee by chance meets a known route landmark. The catchment areas of the landmark elements home and the food source are shown by circles coloured in yellow and green, respectively. Catchment areas of route landmarks are shown in blue for inbound landmarks. Outbound trip is depicted by red squares, inbound trip by blue squares. For further explanations see text.