Survivorship of foraging honey bees

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-5

  Visscher, P K ^a   Dukas, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficiency; foraging behaviour; honey bees; survivorship

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 8244225177     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050017     Document Type: Article

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