Assessment of pattern preferences by flower-naïve bumblebees

Apidologie

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-224

  Séguin, François R ^a   Plowright, Catherine M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus; Bumblebee; Innate; Learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS;

EID: 42149088283     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2007056     Document Type: Article

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