Condition-dependent timing of comb construction by honeybee colonies: How do workers know when to start building?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 603-610

  Pratt, Stephen C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HONEYBEE;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032167809     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0811     Document Type: Article

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