Does parasitic infection impair the ability of bumblebees to learn flower-handling techniques?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 209-215

  Gegear, Robert J ^a   Otterstatter, Michael C ^a   Thomson, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEARNING;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; IMPATIENS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 20544470187     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.09.025     Document Type: Article

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