Honey bee location- and time-linked memory use in novel foraging situations: Floral Color Dependency

Insects

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 243-269

  Amaya Márquez, Marisol ^a   Hill, Peggy S M ^b   Abramson, Charles I ^c   Wells, Harrington ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Bayesian; Context; Floral constancy; Foraging; Honey bee; Maximum likelihood; Search image

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894454394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/insects5010243     Document Type: Article

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