The use of scent marks by foraging bumble bees

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 251-260

  Goulson, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420075618     Document Type: Chapter

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