Reduction of visitation rates by honeybees (Apis mellifera) to individual inflorescences of lavender (Lavandula stoechas) upon removal of coloured accessory bracts (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 29, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 165-178

  Higginson, Andrew D ^a   Gilbert, Francis S ^a   Reader, Tom ^a   Barnard, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera (Linnaeus 1758); Crab spider; Display size; Pollination; Predation risk; Scent marking

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; ARANEAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENOPTERA; LAVANDULA; LAVANDULA STOECHAS; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 35848954524     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/29/2007/165     Document Type: Article

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