Honeybee foragers increase the use of waggle dance information when private information becomes unrewarding

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 949-954

  Grüter, Christoph ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Communication; Honeybee; Private information; Route memory; Social information; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HONEYBEE; PRIORITIZATION; SOCIAL INSECT; SUCROSE;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79953305416     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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