Variation in and Responses to Brood Pheromone of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Brood pheromone of the honey bee, (Apis mellifera) has been shown to elicit a wide array of primer and releaser effects on non‐foragers and foragers leading to the regulation of nursing, pollen foraging, and behavioral development such that the behavior of the colony may be regulated by the amount a...

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Main Author: Metz, Bradley N.
Other Authors: Pankiw, Tanya
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7386