The use of field-based social information in eusocial foragers: Local enhancement among nestmates and heterospecifics in stingless bees

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-379

  Slaa, E Judith ^a,b   Wassenberg, Jacoba ^a   Biesmeijer, Jacobus C ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual decision making; Local enhancement; Social foraging; Stingless bee

Indexed keywords

BEE; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MELIPONINAE; OXYTRIGONA; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA; TRIGONA AMALTHEA;

EID: 0038686010     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2003.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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