First report of hovering guard bees of the Paleotropical stingless bee Tetrigona apicalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Michael Burgett, Panuphan Sangjaroen, Janjira Yavilat, Bajaree Chuttong
• التنسيق: دورية
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85075922729&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/68178
• المؤسسة: Chiang Mai University

© 2019, INRA, DIB and Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature. For eusocial bees, colony defense is paramount. An uncommon strategy is the deployment of hovering guard bees, which has been previously described for only a few species of Neotropical meliponines. This report describes the u...