Effect of food location and quality on recruitment sounds and success in two stingless bees, Melipona mandacaia and Melipona bicolor

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-94

  Nieh, James C ^a   Contrera, Felipe A L ^b   Rangel, Juliana ^a   Imperatriz Fonseca, Vera L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Distance encoding; Food quality; Recruitment; Sound; Stingless bees

Indexed keywords

BEE; BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RECRUITMENT;

APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MELIPONA; MELIPONA BICOLOR; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 0242406694     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0680-6     Document Type: Article

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