Nesting cycle and homing in the digger wasp bembix rostrata (hymenoptera sphecidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-211

  Tengo J ^a   Schöne, Hermann ^b   Kuhme W D ^b   Schöne, Hedwig ^b   Kuhme L ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bembix; Digger wasp; Homing; Nesting behaviour; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BEMBIX; HYMENOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA SPHECIDAE; ROSTRATA; SPHECIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0029905166     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522930     Document Type: Article

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