Learning in the Africanized honey bee: Apis mellifera L.

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 657-674

  Abramson, Charles I ^a   Aquino, Italo S ^a,b   Silva, Maurizete C ^b   Price, James M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bees; Beeswax; Killer bees; Learning; Pavlovian conditioning; Pseudoconditioning

Indexed keywords

CITRAL; GERANIOL; PROPOLIS; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030983810     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00194-7     Document Type: Article

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