Assessing the benefits of cooperation in honeybee foraging: search costs, forage quality, and competitive ability

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 229-237

  Seeley, Thomas D ^a   Visscher, P Kirk ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; FORAGING; HONEYBEE;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0024195535     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00299837     Document Type: Article

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