Social foraging by honeybees: how colonies allocate foragers among patches of flowers

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 343-354

  Seeley, Thomas D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000014919     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00295707     Document Type: Article

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