Scent-Marking of Flowers by Honeybees
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 22 (2) , 86-90
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1983.11100564
Abstract
Foraging honeybees visiting artificial flowers deposited on them a substance that attracted other foragers. As the substance was deposited even in the presence of a synthetic or a natural scent, and on rose petals, it is probably deposited on natural flowers. Unrewarding artificial flowers visited by foragers sometimes deterred other foragers and were therefore probably marked with a repellent.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Communication by Pheromones and other Means inApis FloreaColoniesJournal of Apicultural Research, 1979
- Production of a Forage-Marking Pheromone by the HoneybeeJournal of Apicultural Research, 1979
- Sammelbienen markieren versiegte Futterquellen durch DuftThe Science of Nature, 1967