Honey bee stop-signal production: Temporal distribution and effect of feeder crowding

Apidologie

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-95

  Lau, Constantine W ^a   Nieh, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief piping signal; Crowding; Foraging; Negative feedback; Stop signal

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; NECTAR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SIGNALING;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 73449091507     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009052     Document Type: Article

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