Recruitment and communication of food source location in three species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

Apidologie

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-324

  Aguilar, Ingrid ^a   Fonseca, Alicia ^a   Biesmeijer, Jacobus C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Pilot flights; Plebeia; Recruitment; Stingless bees; Trigona

Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNICATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; RECRUITMENT;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; PLEBEIA; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA; TETRAGONISCA ANGUSTULA; TRIGONA; TRIGONA ANGUSTULA; TRIGONA CORVINA;

EID: 24944503059     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2005005     Document Type: Article

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