Specialist Bombus vestalis and generalist Bombus bohemicus use different odour cues to find their host Bombus terrestris

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-302

  Kreuter, Kirsten ^a   Twele, Robert ^b   Francke, Wittko ^b   Ayasse, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical analysis; Cuckoo bumblebee; Ester; Footprint cue; Fractionation; Generalist; Host nest recognition; Hydrocarbon; Odour composition; Specialist

Indexed keywords

BEE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CUE; COLONY; ESTER; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOTPRINT; FRACTIONATION; GENERALIST; HIBERNATION; HOST LOCATION; HYDROCARBON; ODOR; SIGNAL; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SPECIALIST;

BOMBUS BOHEMICUS; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BOMBUS VESTALIS; PSITHYRUS;

EID: 77954757904     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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