Optimal timing of the production of sexuals in bumblebee colonies

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-154

  Beekman, M ^a   Lingeman, R ^a   Kleijne, F M ^a   Sabelis, M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annual eusocial insects; Bombus terrestris; Colony development; Life cycle; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; INSECT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

APIDAE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031666809     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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