Sociochemical alteration of honeybee hoarding behavior
1Bee Breeding and Stock Center Laboratory, ARS, USDA, 70808, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
|January 14, 2014
Abstract:
Hoarding experiments were conducted with honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) in cages containing comb treated with either 2-heptanone, isopentyl acetate, citral, or geraniol. 2-Heptanone increased hoarding rates; isopentyl acetate decreased hoarding rates; citral and geraniol had no observed effect.
