Contrasting responses of bumble bees to feeding conspecifics on their familiar and unfamiliar flowers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1626, 2007, Pages 2661-2667

  Kawaguchi, Lina G ^a   Ohashi, Kazuharu ^a   Toquenaga, Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombus diversus; Context dependent behaviour; Foraging; Inadvertent social information; Local enhancement; Plant animal interactions

Indexed keywords

BEE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; FAMILIARITY; FEEDING; FLOWER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING; FLOWER; FOOD; FORAGING; INFLORESCENCE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS DIVERSUS;

EID: 35048901887     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0860     Document Type: Article

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