Experience-based interpretation of visual and chemical information at food sources in the stingless bee Scaptotrigona mexicana

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 407-414

  Sánchez, Daniel ^a   Nieh, James C ^b   Vandame, Rémy ^a,c  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UMR INNOVATION   (France)

Author keywords

odour mark; Scaptotrigona mexicana; social facilitation; stingless bee; visual local enhancement

Indexed keywords

BEE; CHEMICAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CUE;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; MELIPONINAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA MEXICANA;

EID: 47049114185     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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