High bee traffic disrupts transfer of directional information in flying honeybee swarms

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-121

  Latty, Tanya ^a   Duncan, Michael ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; conflicting information; European honeybee; navigation; swarm; vision hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BEE; HONEYBEE; MIMICRY; NEST SITE; VISUAL CUE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 67349109114     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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