Foraging bumblebees avoid flowers already visited by conspecifics or by other bumblebee species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 199-206

  Goulson, Dave ^a   Hawson, Sadie A ^a   Stout, Jane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUMBLEBEE; FLOWER VISITING; SCENT MARKING;

ENGLAND; UK;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS; BOMBUS PASCUORUM; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; SYMPHYTUM; SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 0031960359     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0570     Document Type: Article

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