Social transmission of nectar-robbing behaviour in bumble-bees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1643, 2008, Pages 1669-1674

  Leadbeater, Ellouise ^a,b   Chittka, Lars ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nectar robbing; Social information; Social transmission

Indexed keywords

BEE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NECTARIVORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NECTAR; POLLINATOR; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44949148132     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0270     Document Type: Article

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