Diurnal behavioural differences in forager and nurse honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollm)

Apidologie

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Crailsheim, K ^a   Hrassnigg, N ^a   Stabentheiner, A ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

day and night; division of labour; social behaviour; trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA CARNICA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030479091     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19960406     Document Type: Article

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