Chemical communication during food exploitation in stingless bees

Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-250

  Jarau, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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