Honeybee swarms: How do scouts guide a swarm of uninformed bees?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 349-358

  Janson, Stefan ^a   Middendorf, Martin ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; HONEYBEE; SWARMING;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 22144436273     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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