Trophallactic activities in the honeybee brood nest - Heaters get supplied with high performance fuel

Zoology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 433-441

  Basile, Rebecca ^a   Pirk, Christian W W ^b   Tautz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Brood heating; Food exchange; Trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEAT; HONEY; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEY; HOT TEMPERATURE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 50349102618     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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