Recognition and avoidance of contaminated flowers by foraging bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Fouks, Bertrand ^a   Lattorff, H Michael G ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; FORAGING; INSECT RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; ANIMAL; BEE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS;

EID: 80055032685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026328     Document Type: Article

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