Exploratory behaviour of honeybees during orientation flights

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 102, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-57

  Degen, Jacqueline ^a   Kirbach, Andreas ^a   Reiter, Lutz ^a   Lehmann, Konstantin ^a   Norton, Philipp ^a   Storms, Mona ^a   Koblofsky, Miriam ^a   Winter, Sarah ^a   Georgieva, Petya B ^a   Nguyen, Hai ^a   Chamkhi, Hayfe ^a   Greggers, Uwe ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exploration; Foraging flight; Harmonic radar; Honeybee; Learning; Orientation flight; Scout bee

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; RADAR; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84922295530     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.12.030     Document Type: Article

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