The buzz-run: how honeybees signal 'Time to go!'

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-197

  Rittschof, Clare C ^a   Seeley, Thomas D ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; buzz run; centralized control; group movement; honeybee; ritualization; swarm

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; NEST SITE; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 37349027958     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.026     Document Type: Article

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