Social complexity and learning foraging tasks in bees

Caldasia

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 469-477

  Amaya Márquez, Marisol ^a   Wells, Harrington ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Central place foraging; Foraging; Learning in solitary and social bees; Osmia lignaria; Social complexity model

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; OSMIA LIGNARIA;

EID: 60849087075     PISSN: 03665232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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