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- Influence
The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation
- B. Heinrich
- Biology
- 1993
Bernd Heinrich's widely praised Bumblebee Economics (Harvard, 1979) set a high standard for scientifically accurate yet gracefully articulate writing about nature's ingenious patterns, specifically… Expand
THE FORAGING SPECIALIZATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL BUMBLEBEES
- B. Heinrich
- Biology
- 1 February 1976
Bumblebees of any one species in Maine forage for pollen and/or nectar from a large variety of morphologically diverse flowers, but individuals have limited foraging repertoires at any one time.… Expand
"Majoring" and "Minoring" by Foraging Bumblebees, Bombus Vagans: An Experimental Analysis
- B. Heinrich
- Biology
- 1 April 1979
On their first 2 foraging trips out of the hive, young Boinhus x'iwtcans workers visited, on the average, 4 or 5 different kinds of rewarding as well as unrewarding flowers, and few of each kind in… Expand
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF INSIGHT IN COMMON RAVENS (CORVUS CORAX)
- B. Heinrich
- Mathematics
- 1 October 1995
I presented four groups of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) with a problem that they had never encountered before. Could they demonstrate the solution to this problem without first practicing or learning… Expand
Winter foraging at carcasses by three sympatric corvids, with emphasis on recruitment by the raven, Corvus corax
- B. Heinrich
- Biology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 1 September 1988
SummaryLarge animal carcasses provide a highly clumped rich source of food for ravens that should be worth defending, yet in the forests of Maine and Vermont ravens commonly feed in groups. Ravens… Expand
Resource Partitioning Among Some Eusocial Insects: Bumblebees
- B. Heinrich
- Biology
- 1 August 1976
Four common species of bumblebees in central Maine each utilized the nectar from a great variety of both native and exotic flowers. The number of individuals that utilized a nectar resource was… Expand
Resource heterogeneity and patterns of movement in foraging bumblebees
- B. Heinrich
- Biology, Medicine
- Oecologia
- 2004
SummaryDifferences in the foraging behavior of B. terricola workers on white clover, Trifolium repens, were examined on previously unvisited (filled) and depleted flowers, and as a function of… Expand
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