Behavioural features of a periodic form of massed flight activity in the giant honeybee Apis dorsata

Apidologie

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 381-395

  Kastberger, G ^a   Winder, O ^a   Hoetzl, T ^a   Raspotnig, G ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apis dorsata; image analysis; India; massed flight activity; orientation flight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; HONEYBEE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; TREE;

APIS DORSATA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0030425184     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19960506     Document Type: Article

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