Gadagkar, R (1993) My Vacation with Apis mellifera. In: IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter, 7 (1,2). pp. 3-4.
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Abstract
At the invitation of Dr. Bert Holldobler, I spent three months in the su mmcr of 1993 at the Thoedor-Boveri Institute for Biowissenchaften at Wurzburg in Germany. During this period Dr. Wolfgang Kirchner, who is famous for developing, along with Dr A. Michelsen of Denmark, a robot bee for studying the bee dance language, mentioned to me that while the ability of )Vorker honey bees to discriminate nestmate queens from non-nestmate queens and nestmate workers from non-nestmate workers is well known, whether worker honey bees can discriminate nestmate drones from non-nestmate drones is not well understood. However, there is something like a folk knowledge among bee keepers that drones freely move between one nest and another.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Publication: | IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter |
| Publisher: | IUSSI - Indian Chapter |
| Keywords: | Vacation, Apis mellifera, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Honey bees |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2021 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2021 09:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/67908 |
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