Thermal behaviour of honeybees during aggressive interactions

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 995-1006

  Stabentheiner, Anton ^a   Kovac, Helmut ^a   Schmaranzer, Sigurd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; HONEYBEE; SEMIOCHEMICAL; THERMOREGULATION; WASP;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548861227     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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