The honey bee's tremble dance stimulates additional bees to function as nectar receivers

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 419-427

  Seeley, Thomas D ^a   Kühnholz, Susanne ^b   Weidenmüller, Anja ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Division of labor; Honey bee; Task switching; Tremble dance

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0030467941     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050309     Document Type: Article

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