Pollen foraging: Learning a complex motor skill by bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 459-464

  Raine, Nigel E ^a   Chittka, Lars ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bumble bee; Floral morphology; Flower handling skills; Learning behaviour; Pollen collection rate

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; IMPRINTING; POLLEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; FORAGING; GREENHOUSE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PAPAVER RHOEAS; POLLEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAPAVER; POLLEN; TIME FACTORS;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; PAPAVER; PAPAVER RHOEAS;

EID: 34248400343     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0184-0     Document Type: Article

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