Knowing who's who: nestmate recognition in the facultatively social carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 563-570

  Peso, Marianne ^a   Richards, Miriam H ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

carpenter bee; circle tube; facultative sociality; nestmate recognition; Xylocopa virginica

Indexed keywords

BEE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FITNESS; NESTMATE RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; XYLOCOPA VIRGINICA; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 76449119216     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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