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Honey bees (Apis cerana) use animal feces as a tool to defend colonies against group attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror)
Honey bees (genus Apis) are well known for the impressive suite of nest defenses they have evolved to protect their abundant stockpiles of food and the large colonies they sustain. In Asia, honey bees have evolved under tremendous predatory pressure from social wasps in the genus Vespa, the most for...
Autores principales: | Mattila, Heather R., Otis, Gard W., Nguyen, Lien T. P., Pham, Hanh D., Knight, Olivia M., Phan, Ngoc T. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725375/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33296376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242668 |
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