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Before cataloguing current knowledge on the relevant aspects of stinging behaviour of honeybees in Africa (Chapter 9), it is obviously necessary to ask for what purposes this weaponry has evolved. In this way it may be possible to shed some light on the development of pheromones in relation to categories of behavioural responses of honeybees to a spectrum of natural enemies. Taking the natural enemies as stimuli, one can catalogue them and attempt some sort of synthesis of the responses they evoke. The enemies of honeybees in Africa are legion and extend from microbes to man.
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Hepburn, H.R., Radloff, S.E. (1998). Intraspecific and Interspecific Conflicts. In: Honeybees of Africa. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03604-4_8
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