Worker piping in honey bees (Apis mellifera): The behavior of piping nectar foragers

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 199-205

  Thom, Corinna ^a,c   Gilley, David C ^b   Tautz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ARL Division of Neurobiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Honey bees; Nectar foragers; Stop signal; Tremble dance; Worker piping

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; NECTAR; SIGNALING;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0037790704     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0567-y     Document Type: Article

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