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‘Special agents’ trigger social waves in giant honeybees (Apis dorsata)

Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) nest in the open and have therefore evolved a variety of defence strategies. Against predatory wasps, they produce highly coordinated Mexican wavelike cascades termed ‘shimmering’, whereby hundreds of bees flip their abdomens upwards. Although it is well known that shi...

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Autores principales: Schmelzer, Evelyn, Kastberger, Gerald
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19756461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-009-0605-y