Drifting of workers in nest aggregations of the giant honeybee Apis dorsata

Apidologie

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 553-561

  Paar, Jürgen ^a,b   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a   Huettinger, Ernst ^c   Kastberger, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c BFL Institute of Apiculture   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apis dorsata; Colony aggregation; Drifting; Honeybee

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; COLONY; HONEYBEE; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

APIDAE; APIS; APIS DORSATA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HETEROPTERA;

EID: 0036862365     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2002040     Document Type: Article

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