The use of heterospecific scent marks by the sweat bee Halictus aerarius

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1021-1024

  Yokoi, Tomoyuki ^a   Goulson, Dave ^b   Fujisaki, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floral resources; Foraging; Heterospecifics; Scent marks; Sweat bee

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

BEE; FLORA; FLOWER VISITING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NECTAR; OLFACTORY CUE; SCENT MARKING; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOWER; FORAGING; HALICTUS AERARIUS; JUSTICIA PROCUMBENS; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; BEES; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; JAPAN; ODORS; POLLEN; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HALICTINAE; JUSTICIA; JUSTICIA PROCUMBENS;

EID: 36349031140     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0285-4     Document Type: Article

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