Social and ecological contexts of trophallaxis in facultatively social sweat bees, Megalopta genalis and M. ecuadoria (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 220-225

  Wcislo, W T ^a,b   Gonzalez, V H ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b University of Kansas ^*

Author keywords

Halictidae; Megalopta; Ritualization; Sociality; Trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVORSHIP; TROPHALLAXIS;

APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HYMENOPTERA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS;

EID: 33745165262     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0861-6     Document Type: Article

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