Visual marks learned by the solitary bee Megachile rotundata for localizing its nest

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 523-530

  Fauria, Karine ^a   Campan, Raymond ^a,b   Grimal, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NEST; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MEGACHILE; MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA;

EID: 1542318432     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.06.002     Document Type: Article

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