Multiple unloadings by nectar foragers in honey bees: A matter of information improvement or crop fullness?

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 330-339

  Huang, M H ^a   Seeley, T D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Honey bees; Information improvement; Nectar unloading; Trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; NECTAR; TROPHALLAXIS;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0347531618     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-003-0682-4     Document Type: Article

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