Discrimination of flower colours in natural settings by the bumblebee species Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 257-268

  Dyer, Adrian G ^a,b,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris Linnaeus 1758; Bumblebees; Colour vision; Conditioning; Flower constancy; Illumination

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BAMBUS; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 33747589657     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/28/2006/257     Document Type: Article

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