Individual and social foraging in social wasps

Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-80

  Jeanne, Robert L ^a   Taylor, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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