When to bee social: Interactions among environmental constraints, incentives, guarding, and relatedness in a facultatively social carpenter bee

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-424

  Dunn, Tyler ^a   Richards, Miriam H ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carpenter bees; Colony founding; Relatedness; Sociality; Xylocopa pubescens

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL ORGANISM; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APOIDEA; XYLOCOPA PUBESCENS; XYLOCOPA VIRGINICA; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 0038661681     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.3.417     Document Type: Article

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