Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees

• 1 February 2004
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Springer Nature in Insectes Sociaux
• Vol. 51  (1) , 12-16
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-003-0698-9

Abstract

Keywords

• APIS MELLIFERA
• NESTMATE RECOGNITION
• FREE FATTY ACIDS
• ACCEPTANCE PHEROMONE
• PRE-EMERGENCE LABEL