Use of artificial arenas to predict the social organisation of halictine bees: Data for fourteen species from Chile

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-315

  Packer, L ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communal; Halictidae; Reproductive division of labour; Social behaviour; Solitary

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

APOIDEA; CAENOHALICTUS; CORYNURA CHLORIS; PENAPIS TOROI; PSEUDAGAPOSTEMON; RUIZANTHEDA MUTABILIS; RUIZANTHEDA PROXIMA;

EID: 33746572722     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-006-0873-x     Document Type: Article

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