How do bumblebees first find flowers? Unlearned approach responses and habituation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 379-386

  Simonds, Virginia ^a   Plowright, C M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER VISITING; HABITAT SELECTION;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; HYMENOPTERA; IMPATIENS;

EID: 1542378323     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.03.020     Document Type: Article

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