Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1575, 2005, Pages 1923-1928

  Farina, Walter M ^a   Grüater, Christoph ^a,b   Díaz, Paula C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Information transfer; Proboscis extension response; Social learning; Trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; LEARNING; ODOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

EID: 26244460339     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3172     Document Type: Article

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