Sociodemographic variation in foraging behavior and the adaptive significance of worker production in the facultatively social small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata
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DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2365-6
Abstract: Provisioning for young offspring is an archetypical form of parental investment. Ceratina calcarata bees provide extended maternal care to their young and demonstrate an unusual strategy of dual-phase pollen provisioning. Most bees first gather provisions… read more here.
Keywords: ceratina calcarata; investment; foraging behavior; significance ... See more keywords