Foraging costs in bumblebees: Field conditions cause large individual differences

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-295

  Wolf, T J ^a   Ellington, C P ^a   Begley, I S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bumblebees; Doubly labelled water; Flight energetics; Foraging behaviour; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

BEE; ENERGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

APIDAE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032811434     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050148     Document Type: Article

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