Perception of the pollen need by foragers in a honeybee colony

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-96

  Dreller, Claudia ^a   Tarpy, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033961665     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1303     Document Type: Article

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