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Floral Sonication is an Innate Behaviour in Bumblebees that can be Fine-Tuned with Experience in Manipulating Flowers

Bumblebees demonstrate an extensive capacity for learning complex motor skills to maximise exploitation of floral rewards. This ability is well studied in nectar collection but its role in pollen foraging is less well understood. Floral sonication is used by bees to extract pollen from some plant sp...

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Autores principales: Morgan, Tan, Whitehorn, Penelope, Lye, Gillian C., Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-016-9553-5