A scientific note on the dynamics of labor devoted to nectar foraging in a honey bee colony: number of foragers versus individual foraging activity

Corinna Thom; Thomas Dyer Seeley; Jürgen Tautz

doi:doi:10.1051/apido:2000158

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Volume 31 / No 6 (November/December 2000)

Apidologie, 31 6 (2000) 737-738

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 6, November/December 2000


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DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000158

DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000158

Apidologie 31 (2000) 737-738

A scientific note on the dynamics of labor devoted to nectar foraging in a honey bee colony: number of foragers versus individual foraging activity

Corinna Thom^a,^b - Thomas Dyer Seeley^b - Jürgen Tautz^a

^aLehrstuhl für Verhaltensphysiologie und Soziobiologie, Zoologie II, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
^bDepartment for Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

(Received 6 June 2000; accepted 15 July 2000)

Keywords: Apis mellifera / division of labor / nectar foraging

Correspondence and reprints: Corinna Thom
thom@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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