How do honey bees (Apis mellifera) fuel their water foraging flights?

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1089-1094

  Visscher, P Kirk ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^b   Sherman, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apis; Energetics; Excretion; Foraging; Isotopes; Water collection

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0030289639     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(96)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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