Salience of multimodal flower cues manipulates initial responses and facilitates learning performance of bumblebees

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1587-1599

  Katzenberger, Tim D ^a   Lunau, Klaus ^a   Junker, Robert R ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Pigments; RFID; Valence; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; BEE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLOR; FLOWER; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; POLLINATION; VISUAL CUE;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84883793865     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1570-1     Document Type: Article

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