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Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) mob wasps away from the nest by directed visual patterns

The open nesting behaviour of giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) accounts for the evolution of a series of defence strategies to protect the colonies from predation. In particular, the concerted action of shimmering behaviour is known to effectively confuse and repel predators. In shimmering, bees on th...

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Autores principales: Kastberger, Gerald, Weihmann, Frank, Zierler, Martina, Hötzl, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25169944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-014-1220-0