Ambient air temperature does not predict whether small or large workers forage in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)

Psyche (London)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Couvillon, Margaret J ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, Ginny ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS;

EID: 84856962251     PISSN: 00332615     EISSN: 16877438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/536430     Document Type: Article

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