Flower symmetry preferences in honeybees and their crab spider predators

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 510-518

  Wignall, Anne E ^a   Heiling, Astrid M ^a   Cheng, Ken ^a   Herberstein, Marie E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CRAB; HONEYBEE; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATOR; SPIDER;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARANEAE; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUTESCENS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); THOMISIDAE; THOMISUS SPECTABILIS;

EID: 33645863747     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01199.x     Document Type: Article

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