How might individual honeybees measure massive volumes?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Franks, Nigel R ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; House hunting; Nest choice; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HONEYBEE; NEST SITE; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HONEYBEE; INSECT SOCIETY; MEASUREMENT; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0242658900     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0047     Document Type: Article

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